WELCOME
Welcome to the Relegation Fantasy League’s Week 1 results. If this is your first time here, consider this your opportunity to see how things are shaping up across the three divisions of the relegation league and where you stack up amongst our 36 teams. As a reminder, the tiers are as follows: Legacy is our D1, Mettle D2, and Bedrock D3.
APPROPRIATE REACTIONS
Normally, Week 1 is the perfect time to overact to our fantasy teams - an opportunity to freak out about our favorite draft picks only seeing 3 snaps in the first week, or deciding that a Week 1 injury is going to undo the entire season.
But we’re seasoned vets here, right? We’re not going to overreact in the first week. We know it’s in our best interest to go ahead and cancel our trade proposals and close the app. We’ll be responsible. We will.
That said, being appropriately alarmed is still allowed. And while I won’t overreact to your Week 1s, there are a few of you that I will appropriately react to:
Old fandom dies hard, huh? U Digg It? 7-11 (Legacy - RD Gallant) - Started 4 Cowboys this week. Guess how that went?
>125 point clubs aren’t that good. Ok, Not Your Average Joe (Bedrock - Joe Acosta) might be. But, do you know what the common thread was between EACH of the top league scorers in each league last week? Zay Flowers. So, yeah Derrick Henry is elite, Woody on my Johnson (Legacy - Alex DiCarolo), and yeah, Justin Fields looked shockingly good, Kyler’s Splendid Team (Mettle - Kyler Stock), and, yeah maybe your team is just stacked Not Your Average Joe, but I’d bet my left nut Zay Flowers isn’t keeping that type of production up every week. Zay Flowers owners across the three divisions averaged 129 points. How much do you trust the guy?
<71 point clubs aren’t that bad. Bo Nix Fan Club (Legacy - Cody Morford) got a whopping 15 points from Bo Nix, AJ Brown, Terry McLaurin and Mark Andrews. And, granted, Joey’s Marvelous Team (Bedrock - Joey Eugene) forgot to play a kicker, but it wouldn’t have mattered as their decent-on-paper team wet the bed and scored less than half as many points as their opponent Not Your Average Joe.
Promotees came to play. Our three new D1s and three new D2s went 4-2 in their debuts. Heck, even our six brand-new-to-the-league D3 folks went 3-3.
Drafting for upside backfires early. In Week 1, Monnier (Mettle - Dan Monnier) started two rookies, two sophomores, two old “good value” vets, and Drake London, who fantasy gurus have salivated over for the better part of two years while somehow ignoring that he’s on the Falcons. That upside may pan out down the road, but Week 1 was tough sledding for Monnier, who found himself with the fewest points in Mettle Division heading into Week 2.
FULL LEAGUE RESULTS
