Here’s the part where I tell you “I stand corrected”. I woke up this morning to a GroupMe message from our Commish stating that he though this was the worst season ever for The League through six weeks. I’m thinking to myself, “I’m doing pretty well so far, Herbert didn’t get me as much as I would have liked this week but I still beat Brent. What’s this guy talking about?” I went on to reply with a hilarious GIF from the movie Billy Madison, oh my God that is funny, implying I thought my former roommate was wrong. I crunched the numbers, and it turns out that I’M the one who was wrong. Take a look:
As you can see, we are in fact in the worst season so far, not even cracking 7,000 total points through 6 weeks. What makes it worse is that 2021 was the highest scoring first 6 weeks, so we’re seeing a huge year-to-year drop off. Hopefully this is fixed soon. I wonder how this compares to the NFL total points, will I dive back in for some more research? Stay tuned to find out. If not, the Wire soon come…
EDIT: I crunched the numbers again, thanks to pro-football-reference.com and found that there does happen to be a bit of a correlation here:
The only season out of place is 2020 with the most points through Week 6 and the third-most fantasy points for The League. How fitting, perhaps nearly a year in lockdown made the boys’ brains a little mushy and we weren’t scoring like we should have been, perhaps the points scored were across a wider range of NFL players due to last-minute COVID list substitutions, perhaps more of these points were scored by kickers with less fantasy value. Regardless, I think it’s safe to say that it’s not The League’s owners’ fault that our scores have been so low. It’s the fault of the National Football League, as is most things. Thanks for reading, Go League!
Must Be Sunday 