Season 8 · Week 3
Every final on the record, and every pick the Gazette has to live with.
Ike is coming off 158.98 and Henry and Achane are healthy. TEAM ROCKET scored 93.02 last week with the injury list growing. Chase can win any single week by himself, but Dontonio needs enough bodies to field a lineup first.
LeProcess against the Bandwagon. Allen and Lamb put up 76.12 combined last week, and TLP's 287.58 points for is the most in the East. Billy is 2-0 on the back of 42.5 from JSN, and the rest of that lineup has been ordinary. We lean toward the higher weekly floor.
Dad Strength has 200.2 points through two weeks, and no roster in the league underachieves more. LONG DAK STYLE has 313.26 and Jeanty. Barry's Daniels-and-Barkley core is too good to stay at 0-2 forever, but Week 3 is a lot to ask.
Faith meets three rings. Yahweh leads the league with 316.38 points and Jonathan Taylor keeps delivering. 3RINGZ finally looked alive at 141.38 with Amon-Ra and Goff, but the Gazette isn't picking against the Lord right now.
The champ against the team whose 14-0 season he ended last December. Motion Man has scored 145-plus in both weeks. Ralphs has Lamar and plenty of motive, but the Walker-and-Gibbs backfield keeps going.
Two teams. Zero wins. Someone leaves 0-3. ND3 has the lowest points total in the league, but Burrow, Bijan and that receiver room have too much talent to keep scoring in the 70s. Aziz has Jefferson and very little else.
Week 3 finals. The prediction desk went 4-2, missing only Booz Cruz over TEAM ROCKET and LONG DAK STYLE over Dad Strength. Weekly high: TEAM ROCKET, 165.8. Weekly low: Crashout Billy, 81.2. Motion Man and Yahweh's Champ are the last unbeatens at 3-0; TunchieFit is the only winless team at 0-3.
Week 2 finals. No predictions were filed for this slate. Weekly low: ND 3hunnid, 78.3. Crashout Billy, Yahweh's Champ and Motion Man are the league's last unbeatens.
Game of the week: three rings against the two-time champ. Hurts plus Gibbs is the highest floor in the league, and Greiner's flex spots lean on rookies who need a week to find snaps. 3RINGZ has the receiver room to steal it, but the champ's ceiling wins the opener.
Josh Allen with Lamb, Waddle and Evans in a full-PPR two-flex build is a matchup problem in Week 1. TEAM ROCKET has the best single weapon on the board in Chase, but Caleb Williams and a Stevenson/Tuten backfield make the rest of the lineup volatile early.
Achane and Henry is the sturdiest opening-week backfield in the league, and Ike's flex options actually catch passes. Scarlett counters with McCaffrey and Jeanty, so this swings entirely on whether Nix outscores Prescott. Slight edge to the deeper receiving corps.
The two best rosters in the West drawn against each other in Week 1, which is exactly the league's sense of humor. Daniels and Barkley is the most reliable one-two punch on any roster; Crashout Billy needs McConkey and Smith-Njigba to both go off to keep pace.
Jefferson is the tiebreaker. Aziz's draft got picked apart in the rumor mill, but Cook and Judkins give him two starting backs with real volume, and Stafford at least throws it. Yahweh's has the better backfield names — Hall and Taylor — and the shakier passing game.
The only matchup on the board that isn't close. Burrow with Higgins, Pickens and Metcalf is a full-PPR cheat code, and Bijan anchors it. Lamar keeps Ralphs alive by himself, but Skattebo and Kyren carrying two RB spots in Week 1 is asking a lot.
Final Week 1 record for the prediction desk: 1-5. The only hit was Motion Man over 3RINGZ PAPITO FC. Predictions are the Gazette's own, based on drafted rosters and full-PPR scoring with 1QB / 2RB / 2WR / 1TE / 2FLEX / D-ST / K. Projected totals are estimates, not gospel — and they are already being quoted back at us.