El Tri Fantasy Football, Week 6 Power Rankings

Daniel benched Drake Maye, a New England Patriot, for 23.8 points, and still won by 30.42. For a man whose draft board has historically been a Foxborough depth chart with a price tag stapled to it, leaving the Patriot on the pine counts as a personality transplant. Everything else worked anyway: Tre Tucker turned an 8.59 projection into 24.20, Kyle Pitts Sr. went for 20.50 on a 7.16 projection because of course Daniel's annual comeback-season bet finally cashed, and Kenneth Walker III added 26.90 to the $50 buy that has now returned 131.00 points. MarShawn Lloyd contributed 1.00 point against a 10.06 projection, which is the price of doing business with a guy who buys hype by the pound. Chase Brown at $52 has produced 53.00 season points, two dollars more than Walker for a quarter of the output. The scary part for the rest of you: his worst week of the season is 105.52, the highest floor in the league, and he has $2 of drafted money sitting on his bench. ESPN gives him a 97.37% shot at the playoffs and 38.91% at the one seed. Jason comes next, holding an 11-13 edge over Daniel from 2013 through 2025, so expect the trade offer in the chat by Thursday, the one with three injured backups for Jonathan Taylor, framed as a favor.

Mickle named the team after Courtland Sutton and Courtland Sutton rewarded him with 2.90 points on a 7.04 projection, which is the kind of marriage this league loves to watch. Week 6 was his worst managed game of anyone's: 84.83% lineup efficiency, dead last in the league for the week measured against the best lineup visible after the fact, with C.J. Stroud and his 22.98 parked behind Caleb Williams and his 16.50. He won by 17.18 anyway, over his own brother, which should carry him through Thanksgiving. D'Andre Swift at $22 keeps paying, 21.00 last week and 94.80 on the season, and Jeremiyah Love at $31 for 45.60 is the closest thing to a mistake on a roster where 12 drafted players remain and $189 of the original spend is still in the building. Mike has made 5 transactions, fewest in the league, and spent $0 of FAAB, which tracks for a guy who complains about his roster nonstop and then refuses to do anything about it. His ceiling of 156.57 leads the league and his week-to-week swing of 28.47 points is the wildest here, so he is either the best team in this thing or the one that scores 91 again. Eric is next, and Mike owns a 1-0 all-time record against him from 2025, a sample size he will cite as though it were scripture.

Eric leads the league in points with 770.80, leads the league in all-play at .682, and has an expected-wins figure of 4.09 that sits first in the league. His record is 3-3. The "why always me" bit has stopped being a bit and become a documented condition: his luck delta ranks 11th of 12. Week 6 he put 104.48 on the board and lost by 26.88 because Brandon Aubrey, a kicker, scored 1.00 against a 10.15 projection, Juwan Johnson scored 0.00, and Jameis Winston produced 6.48 on a 17.78 projection. Christian McCaffrey's 26.20 and Jaxon Smith-Njigba's 19.40 could not drag that corpse up the hill. He is the best lineup manager in the league at 95.47% season efficiency and has left the fewest points available to a perfect hindsight lineup, 36.60 all year. Jaxon Smith-Njigba at $55 has returned 140.36 points and his worst buy, Lamar Jackson at $13 for 79.08, is a fine piece of business at that price. Two weeks as the league's top scorer, and he still owns the biggest blowout of the season, a 75.66-point execution of the Snakes in week 4. Mike is next, holding the entire all-time ledger between them at 1-0 from last season, which Eric will spend the week calling a fluke.

Max is the best record in the league and the fifth-most points, which is the fantasy football equivalent of winning a hand you never looked at. His luck delta of +0.212 is the highest in the league. Week 6 he set a lineup that was 100% hindsight-optimal, meaning there was no better arrangement of his roster available, and that perfect lineup produced 96.70 points. Luke still lost by 7.42. The Texans D/ST scored negative two. Nick Folk scored 1.0 against a 9.49 projection, and kicker is his worst position on the roster. Go big or go home, indeed. Josh Allen at $27 has returned 160.76, the best money on his roster. Colston Loveland at $19 has returned 33.0 for the season, though his 15.5 last week was the best outperformance on the team. Max leads the league with 24 transactions, which is the churn of a man who knows his 5-1 is held together with tape, and he is still living down week 4, when he started Chris Bell for zero points over Kyle Monangai's 27.5. Week 7 brings Omeed and Drew, and he owns a 14-9 edge over that team's managers from 2013 through 2025.

Mero owns the strongest roster in the league by a mile, 142.28 against a league average of 124.65, and the softest schedule anyone has faced, 602.82 points against, lowest of all twelve. He is 3-3. Split the G on that one. Week 6 was a 12.04-point loss to Bryan where Kyren Williams produced 8.20 on a 19.17 projection, Brock Bowers managed 9.00, Keaton Mitchell contributed 0.40, and kicker Tyler Loop chipped in 3.00. The 86.74 total is his season low, and Stefon Diggs sat on the bench for 13.40 while all that happened. The man who drafts solid teams keeps drafting solid teams: Christian Watson at $11 has produced 104.30 points, a steal at that price, while Jadarian Price at $15 has 12.00 and got a week 3 start for 0.70 points with Luther Burden III and his 16.30 on the bench. His 166.58 in week 5 is the highest single score anyone has posted this season, and his week-to-week swing of 26.89 explains why that number sits next to an 86.74. Two injured starters heading into next week does not help. Luke is next, a man Mero trails 5-8 against across 2018 through 2025, which is the sort of record that should bother a guy with this roster more than it apparently does.

The commissioner has absorbed 774.62 points against, most in the league, and faced the toughest slate of opponents at 129.10 per week, also most in the league. Run a poll on whether that is fair. Run a poll on whether to run the poll. His three wins have come by a combined 15.12 points, last in the league by a distance, so Bryan has turned the nicest-guy-in-the-league routine into a scoring philosophy: take what you need and leave the rest. Week 6 he beat Mero by 12.04 with James Cook III going 22.80 and Matt Gay kicking 12.00, while Mark Andrews produced 0.90 and Davante Adams, his best buy at $15 for 87.00 season points, managed 5.40. Tight end is a crater on this roster, 5.39 points below replacement, the worst position group he owns. Jayden Daniels scored 21.00 from the bench behind Matthew Stafford's 16.88. The week 5 masterpiece still stands, though: he started the Raiders D/ST for negative six while the Seahawks D/ST scored 11.00 on his bench, a 17-point decision he has yet to put to a vote. Jacob is next, a 1-5 team Bryan leads 11-9 all-time across 2011, 2012 and 2017 through 2025, so this is the week to discuss a trade for forty minutes and then not make one.

Vincent spent $66 on Bijan Robinson, watched him score 6.3 against a 21.34 projection, and won anyway because Tyler Bass kicked 17.0. That is the whole Vince experience in one box score. The 131.36 he hung on Eric was built by Tyler Shough going 26.96, Germie Bernard turning a 7.79 projection into 20.2, and Isaiah Likely adding 20.9, which means the biggest win of his season came from a $1 quarterback, a waiver-wire receiver and the tight end his team name is built around. Bijan, his best money at 118.5 season points, watched. Rashee Rice at $34 has returned 31.5. Depth was never the plan here, and it shows in the ledger: $75 of FAAB torched, 22 transactions, second-most in the league, all of it a man refreshing the wire at midnight looking for the roster he declined to draft. Even now there is $52 of drafted money he would leave on his bench if the lineup locked today, which for a team with this little behind the starters is a feat of mismanagement. Tight end is his one genuine strength, 4.99 above replacement, and the flex is a sinkhole at 2.88 below. Andrew is next, a series Vince trails 14-15 across 2011 through 2025, which is one game. One. Fifteen seasons of this and he cannot close the gap on a guy who folds every hand.

A.J. Brown cost Jason $40 and has produced 8.30 points this season. Eight point three. The Mario Kart side league has a website, the golf handicap gets maintained, and the $40 wide receiver gets 4.20 points in a win and nobody at Weenie Hut discusses it. The win was real, 122.54 to 94.52 over Jacob, built on Trevor Lawrence beating his projection by 9.68 for 27.34, Chuba Hubbard adding 18.60 and Jonathan Taylor, the $60 anchor, going 20.10 on his way to 111.00 for the year. Marvin Harrison Jr. started and scored 4.90 against a 2.98 projection, which is its own sad commentary on what the projection system thinks of this roster. The underwhelming-players tendency shows up in the ledger: 153.58 points from acquired players, last in the league, and $51 of drafted money sitting outside today's starting lineup. Three wins, three losses, and a 17.13% playoff number, with the ninth seed as his single most likely landing spot at 25.60%. Daniel is next, and Jason actually owns him 13-11 across 2013 through 2025, which is the one head-to-head record in this post that favors a team ranked eighth. Make it count before the hype man figures out how to buy his way out.

Andrew is 4-2 with the worst roster in the league, 108.78 against a 124.65 average, which is the fantasy version of pushing all-in and then folding into a 30.42-point loss to Daniel. His draft produced 467.90 points from the players he still holds, 11th of twelve; his waiver pickups have produced 389.76, second in the league. The team is held together by scraps and a schedule that has handed him the second-friendliest luck delta here. Week 6 Derrick Henry, his $55 headliner and still his best buy at 112.30 points, gave him 4.50 against a 17.60 projection, Terry McLaurin managed 3.20, and DeMario Douglas sat on the bench for 16.10, the worst start/sit call of Andrew's season and it happened last Sunday. Travis Etienne Jr. at $34 for 25.40 points rounds out a draft that has aged like gas station sushi. The drafting-the-same-guys-every-year routine has a ceiling, and his is 125.19, tenth in the league; his best single week all season is 126.94, 11th. Nobody here scores less when they win. Vince is next, a 15-14 all-time series across 2011 through 2025, and Vince would trade his entire season for Andrew's record without blinking.

Nobody in this chat has ever worked out what Luke's team names mean, and this year he picked a probability puzzle about picking the wrong door, then spent six weeks picking the wrong door. His drafted roster has produced 734.26 points, second in the league. His season lineup efficiency is 83.39%, dead last, and a perfect hindsight lineup would have added 125.82 points to his season, also dead last. The talent is there. Luke keeps leaving it in the garage. Week 6 he lost to Max by 7.42 while Carnell Tate scored 16.00 on the bench, Patrick Mahomes managed 10.48 against an 18.77 projection, Bucky Irving went 5.90 and Rhamondre Stevenson 3.60. In week 3 he started David Montgomery for 5.80 with Drake London and his 23.90 on the bench. The budget-blown-early approach left him with 13 drafted players still rostered and $195 of the original spend intact, and he has since made 6 transactions and spent $0 of FAAB, treating the waiver wire like a government shutdown. His playoff odds sit at 4.41%. Mero is next, a man Luke leads 8-5 across 2018 through 2025, which would matter more if Luke could get his own best players onto the field.

Drew's brother beat them by 17.18, which means Omeed has been silent since Sunday and Drew has been in the transaction log at 2 a.m. The auction is a crime scene: Justin Jefferson cost $53 and has returned 54.20 points, six of their drafted players remain on the roster, $143 of the original spend survives, and the team they still hold returns 1.719 points per dollar paid out, worst in the league. Omeed runs point on draft strategy the way a man runs point on a surgery he is watching on YouTube. Drew, meanwhile, has salvaged 529.38 points from acquisitions, most in the league by a hundred, and week 6 he squeezed 97.84% of the available points out of a 90.62, third-best management in a week where Cam Skattebo scored 0.00 and the Jaguars D/ST scored negative two. Two weeks as the lowest scorer in the league, a 75.66-point annihilation by Eric in week 4, and three injured starters heading into the week. Max is next, Omeed's rival and a 5-1 team, and the all-time ledger says 9-14 across 2013 through 2025. Drew will do the work. Omeed will do the tweeting.

The cruelest week of the season: Jacob set a lineup that was 100% hindsight-optimal, perfect, nothing on his bench that would have helped, and lost to Jason 94.52 to 122.54. Malik Nabers went for 22.5 on a 14.6 projection. The roster still is not good enough, and that is the whole problem. He has scored 554.26 points, last in the league, his average week of 92.38 is last, his ceiling of 109.27 is last, and his 64.64 in week 3 is the lowest score anyone has posted this season. His six losses total 217.20 points of margin, the most in the league by 75.12. He has spent all $100 of FAAB, the only manager in the league to drain the tank, and the model gives him an 88.89% chance of finishing dead last. The still-rostered highlights are both $26 buys: Nabers at 81.9 points and Tetairoa McMillan at 73.1, and he has traded his way into Omarion Hampton, who produced 5.9 last week. Week 5 he started the Jaguars D/ST for 4.0 over the 49ers D/ST and their 20.0. Week 7 is Bryan, a series Jacob trails 9-11 across the archived seasons. The team name was supposed to be a joke.