2026 Season

Jaxon Smith-Njigba went for 39.00 out of the flex, the highest single-player score of the season, and Alex barely needed the rest. Kenneth Walker added 21.80 and Dalton Kincaid 19.00. Alex left 23.50 on the bench and still ran at 99.6% efficiency, because almost everything he owned was already in the lineup.

Evan has no case to answer. Saucy Move evan scored 59.06, the lowest total of the season, from a 97.4% efficient lineup with 3.10 points sitting on the bench. Jalen Hurts managed 18.16, Josh Downs 10.70, and nothing else reached eight. Nico Collins went out and returned 0.00 from the flex. There was no better team available to him.

A week after his bench outscored his starters, Connor won a shootout. Amon-Ra St. Brown went for 30.70 on 142 yards and two scores, Tyler Shough followed his 410-yard week with 22.38, Jaylen Waddle added 17.80 and Brandon Aubrey kicked 16.00. He still benched Jake Ferguson (18.30) and Bhayshul Tuten (13.20) and ran at 88.8%, which is his best week of the year by a distance.

Sam had the better individual performance and lost. Davante Adams put up 36.50 on 138 receiving yards and Brock Purdy added 28.48, but the middle of the roster gave nothing: Chase Brown 9.70, Mike Evans 6.90, Jeremiyah Love 6.00. At 97.1% efficiency the best available swap was worth 3.70, well short of the 7.50 he needed. This one was not winnable from the bench.

Austin renamed the franchise and immediately won with it. CeeDee Lamb 32.30, Jared Goff 30.78, and the Patriots defense 24.00 did most of the work. He was still only 85.1% efficient, with Stefon Diggs scoring 19.20 on the bench, but the margin made it academic.

August West fell from 185.66 to 72.22, a 113.44 collapse in seven days and the worst managed week of the season at 65.9%. Kyle Pitts started for 2.00 while Dalton Schultz scored 20.00 on the bench. Romeo Doubs went for 11.10 on the bench while DJ Moore started for −0.10. Even the perfect lineup, 109.52, loses this game.

Josh Allen scored 40.82, the highest single score of the week, and Ja’Marr Chase finally showed up with 23.00 after his twelve-yard opener. DeVonta Smith added 22.70. Zac won comfortably despite an 86.3% week that left Matthew Stafford (28.98) and TreVeyon Henderson (13.60) on the bench, and despite starting Colston Loveland for 0.80 and a just-signed Mack Hollins for 2.80.

Brooks was projected at 14.31 before kickoff and got a lineup in on time, which is progress. He still scored 79.32 and is 0–2. Omarion Hampton 16.50 and Sam LaPorta 14.20 led it; Drake Maye managed 9.02. He started the Buccaneers defense for 5.00 with the Rams defense scoring 12.50 on his bench, and left Jonah Coleman (13.30) and Jalen Coker (10.60) there too.

Calvin played a perfect lineup and lost. No Suh For You scored 109.18 of a possible 109.18, the only flawless week anyone has managed this season. Jonathan Taylor went for 27.20 and Travis Kelce 20.60. His Lions defense returned −0.50 and there was no alternative on the roster. Nothing he could have done differently changed the result.

Foster was almost as sharp at 99.7%, one bench swap worth 0.30 away from perfect himself. Dak Prescott 29.76 and James Cook 21.40 carried it, and his waiver work paid immediately: Xavier Hutchinson, signed off free agency four days earlier, started and returned 5.20. He is 2–0 and top of the table.

Cody is quietly 2–0 with the best defence in the league, having allowed just 147.84 across two weeks. Christian McCaffrey 20.60, Derrick Henry 16.20 and Chuba Hubbard 13.40 did the damage. He was 92.4% efficient, with Denzel Boston’s 18.00 the main thing he missed.

Kozel benched Patrick Mahomes for the second week running. Mahomes scored 29.98 in street clothes while Lamar Jackson started for 15.80, having done exactly the same thing in week 1 with Mahomes at 22.66. Antonio Banderas is 0–2 and last in the league in points scored. Even so, the perfect lineup only reaches 90.48 and still loses this game by nineteen.

Kozel started the right quarterback for the first time this season and immediately won. Lamar Jackson went for 20.44 with Patrick Mahomes scoring 16.94 on the bench, a reversal of weeks 1 and 2 where the gap ran the other way. Bijan Robinson did the heavy lifting with 35.30, Brock Bowers added 22.60 out of the flex and Kyren Williams 18.80. It was still only an 89.8% week, with Jordan Addison’s 17.50 left out, but it is his first win.

Sam scored 131.88, the second-most in the league this week, and lost. Brock Purdy 31.28, Drake London 24.90 and George Kittle 23.20 all delivered. The bench did not: Jeremiyah Love 19.40 and Deebo Samuel 15.40 sat while Chase Brown started for 7.90. The optimal lineup is 147.88, which wins this game by four. The new Packers defense, claimed three days earlier in place of the Ravens, returned 0.50.

Alex played a perfect lineup: 136.84 of a possible 136.84, not a point left anywhere on the roster, and used it to end Foster’s unbeaten start. Jaxon Smith-Njigba went for 30.36 out of the flex, Trevor Lawrence 20.78, Kenneth Walker 20.30 and the Vikings defense 20.00. His season efficiency is now 99.2% and he leads the league in scoring by 73.44, with a 2–1 record to show for it.

Foster had the worse day of his season at 83.6%. James Cook 20.40 and the Broncos defense 18.00 kept it respectable, but Jordan Love scored 20.48, Jakobi Meyers 15.90 and Zay Flowers 12.90, all on the bench, while Brian Thomas Jr. started for 1.30. Meyers is the receiver he claimed off waivers for nothing eight days earlier. The optimal lineup, 139.38, wins the game.

Calvin bounced back from his perfect-lineup defeat with a scruffier 84.7% and a comfortable win. Joe Burrow 22.58, Terry McLaurin 16.70 and a 16.00 week from Will Reichard at kicker carried it, with Juwan Johnson’s 19.30 and Wan’Dale Robinson’s 15.20 unused on the bench. He is 2–1.

Zac’s unbeaten run ended at 80.36, his lowest of the season. Ja’Marr Chase managed 20.30 and Josh Allen 18.96, and then very little. For the third consecutive week Matthew Stafford outscored the quarterback Zac actually started, 23.90 to 18.96, from the bench. Even the optimal 95.40 loses this one.

Austin’s best week of the season at 97.7% efficiency, and a second straight win. Jared Goff 19.36, Jaylen Warren 20.10, Christian Watson 19.10 and CeeDee Lamb 16.70 all landed, and only Travis Etienne’s 8.00 was left out. The rename is aging badly.

Connor lost a game his bench would have won. Tyler Shough went for 24.80 and Garrett Wilson 21.70, but he started De’Von Achane, who is on injured reserve, for 1.70, and Kyle Monangai for 3.10. Bo Nix scored 25.14, Bhayshul Tuten 16.00 and Tony Pollard 11.60, all on the bench. The optimal lineup is 110.54 and wins. He has now left 213.96 points unplayed in three weeks.

Cody is 3–0 and the only unbeaten team left. Derrick Henry 21.40, Christian McCaffrey 19.60 and Tee Higgins 18.00 made it routine. He has conceded 204.00 across three weeks, sixty fewer than anyone else in the league.

Brooks scored 56.16, the lowest total anyone has posted this season, and his highest scorer was a kicker he had signed two days earlier: Spencer Shrader, 17.00. Justin Jefferson gave him 4.20, Drake Maye 5.76 and Jadarian Price 0.70. Luther Burden’s 16.30 and C.J. Stroud’s 11.68 watched from the bench. He has spent the most FAB in the league and made the most moves, and he is 0–3.

Cook won a football game while getting 0.00 from his quarterback. Caleb Williams was ruled out, so he signed Drew Lock off free agency on the Wednesday, started him, and collected nothing. Jahmyr Gibbs’s 37.90, the top score of the week, covered it. Kyle Pitts started for the third straight week and has now produced 3.00 points across the three.

Evan lost by 10.78 with two players in his lineup who were ruled out before kickoff. Nico Collins 0.00 and Puka Nacua 0.00, two empty slots by choice, while Matthew Golden scored 18.50 and Josh Downs 10.20 on the bench. Harold Fannin’s 20.60 and the Jaguars defense’s 16.00 nearly rescued it anyway. The optimal lineup, 111.52, wins comfortably. He is 0–3.

Cody played a perfect lineup and is 4–0. 163.76 of a possible 163.76, with Tetairoa McMillan going for 39.20, the top single score of the week, Chuba Hubbard 26.40 out of the flex and Tee Higgins 22.20. He has conceded 322.02 all season, a hundred fewer than anyone else, and has not touched the waiver wire since week 2.

Calvin had the opposite kind of day at 82.2%. Joe Burrow 28.72 and Jonathan Taylor 22.20 were fine; Brian Robinson scored 25.20 on the bench while Bucky Irving started for 6.10, and Travis Kelce managed 2.50 with Juwan Johnson’s 8.90 unused. Even the optimal 143.52 loses this by twenty.

Kozel has won two straight and started the correct quarterback for the second week running, Lamar Jackson 18.88 with Mahomes at 17.00 on the bench. Kyren Williams 31.70 and Bijan Robinson 28.20 did the rest. He is 2–2 and 91.3% for the season, which nobody saw coming after he benched Mahomes twice in the opening fortnight.

Connor benched Kyle Monangai, who scored 28.50, for the second time in three weeks, and started Garrett Wilson for 4.20 in the flex. He got the quarterback call right for once, Shough 15.94 over Nix 13.56, which is cold comfort. Season total left on the bench: 280.62 points, ninety more than anyone else in the league.

Evan played a perfect lineup to win his first game, 140.62 of 140.62, one week after starting two players who had already been ruled out. Nico Collins 27.30, Puka Nacua 23.20 out of the flex, Malik Nabers 20.20 and Rhamondre Stevenson 16.90. From 0–3 and the lowest score of the season to flawless in seven days.

Austin’s week deserves its own monument. He spent $80 of waiver budget on Ollie Gordon II on the Tuesday, then left him on the bench, where Gordon scored 18.00 while Saquon Barkley started for 1.50. Devaughn Vele added another 14.40 in reserve. CeeDee Lamb’s 33.80 kept it close. And it would not have mattered: his perfect lineup is 140.58, which loses to Evan by 0.04.

Foster is 3–1 and back to tidy work at 94.9%. Javonte Williams went for 28.80, Zay Flowers 21.80 and Quinshon Judkins 18.60 from the flex. Only Emeka Egbuka’s 2.30 let it down, with Brian Thomas Jr.’s 8.70 the obvious swap.

Cook finally benched Kyle Pitts and was promptly punished by the universe: Pitts scored 6.20 in reserve while Dalton Schultz started for 1.90. Romeo Doubs added 20.80 on the bench and DJ Moore started for 2.20. Sam Darnold, bought for $2 to replace the Drew Lock experiment, returned 14.32. Optimal 117.52, which still loses.

Sam is 2–2 and won while leaving 50.66 on the bench, including Bryce Young’s 22.46 behind Brock Purdy’s 19.62 and Deebo Samuel’s 15.50. The Tyreek Hill pickup contributed a clean 0.00 in reserve. George Kittle 15.00 and Cam Little’s 14.00 at kicker got it done.

Brooks is 0–4 and this is the one that will sting. He paid $35 for Matthew Stafford on the Friday and started him for 12.68, while Drake Maye scored 27.16 on his bench. Alvin Kamara added 20.30 in reserve. He also paid $35 for Braelon Allen, who started for 7.70. The optimal lineup is 127.66 and wins by 25. He has spent more on waivers than anyone and has the worst record and the fewest points.

Alex won with the worst week of his season by a distance, 74.3%, after three straight at 98.3, 99.6 and a perfect 100.0. Kenneth Walker’s 31.40 was most of it. Emanuel Wilson scored 25.50 on the bench, Rashee Rice started for 0.00 and Dalton Kincaid for 1.20. He is 3–1 and still leads the league in scoring.

Zac posted 65.62, the lowest total anyone has managed this season. Ja’Marr Chase gave him 4.20, Kenyon Sadiq started at flex for 0.00, and three of his bench players were ruled out. The detail that will follow him around: he dropped Matthew Stafford on 30 September for nothing. Brooks paid $35 for him three days later. Stafford had outscored Zac’s starting quarterback three weeks running.

Austin posted 185.34, 0.32 short of the season record, and did it by finally starting Ollie Gordon II, the $80 waiver claim he benched a week earlier. Gordon returned 14.80. Jaylen Warren 34.80, Christian Watson 29.30, Isaiah Likely 26.90 and Jared Goff 28.94 did the rest, and the Jets defense he picked up for nothing added 21.00. A 98.1% week.

Kozel has the cruellest line of the season. He played a perfect lineup, 124.98 of 124.98, and lost by 60.36. Lamar Jackson, Jordan Addison and Rico Dowdle were all ruled out and Mahomes was on bye, so he grabbed Jacoby Brissett off free agency and got 25.78 from him. There was nothing else on the roster. Nothing he could have done.

Alex played his second perfect lineup in three weeks, 138.34 of 138.34, and it was worth exactly the margin. Parker Washington 27.40, Trevor Lawrence 23.74, Jaxon Smith-Njigba 20.30. He is 4–1, top of the table, leads the league in scoring and has left just 114.50 on his bench all season, the least of anyone.

Cody’s first defeat was his own fault. Jayden Daniels went for 33.26 and Jason Myers kicked 23.00, but Hunter Henry scored 11.90 on the bench while Tee Higgins started for 3.20. The optimal lineup is 143.94, which wins this game by 5.60. He still concedes sixty-eight fewer points than anyone in the league.

Calvin ran at 98.6% and barely had to think about it. Bucky Irving 31.50, George Pickens 23.50, Joe Burrow 24.60 and Will Reichard 16.00 at kicker. He is 3–2 and has still not made a single waiver move all season, which is starting to look less like neglect and more like a philosophy.

Sam had the worst managed week in the league at 77.2%. Mike Evans scored 22.80 and Blake Corum 14.70 on the bench while George Kittle started for 4.90 and Jeremiyah Love for 2.20. The Packers defense did deliver 22.00. Optimal was 130.56; the loss was 36.94, so it would not have mattered, which is the only comfort available.

Brooks is on the board. Matthew Stafford, the $35 claim, delivered 28.32, Spencer Shrader kicked 21.00 and Braelon Allen added 19.10. And yet: Drake Maye scored 40.46 on his bench, the highest single score of the week, for the second consecutive week he has left Maye out. Tyler Warren’s 17.90 also sat. An 80.1% win, and $10 left in the budget.

Connor managed his best efficiency of the season, 87.3%, and still scored 76.14. Tyler Shough returned 1.84. The $26 Mike Gesicki gave him 6.90 at tight end. He is 1–4, on a three-game slide, and has now left 304.44 points unplayed this season, eighty-eight more than anyone else.

Foster is 4–1 and won comfortably at 91.7%, with James Cook 23.30, the Broncos defense 18.00 and Trey McBride 17.10. Jordan Love scored 26.28 on the bench while Dak Prescott started for 15.64, which is the one blemish and did not matter.

Evan’s perfect week did not repeat. Puka Nacua 29.20 and Malik Nabers 23.60 were good; Cairo Santos returned 0.00 at kicker and Harold Fannin 0.90 at tight end. Matthew Golden’s 17.30 and Kyler Murray’s 18.26 watched from the bench. 84.8%, and back to 1–4.

Jahmyr Gibbs went for 36.20 and Aaron Jones 18.20, and Cook is 3–2. The tight end saga reached its natural conclusion: he started Kyle Pitts and Pitts delivered 12.70, his best week of the year, one week after Cook benched him and he scored 6.20. The universe has stopped punishing him and he may never know why.

Zac is on a three-game slide. Josh Allen’s 32.50 was most of his afternoon; J.K. Dobbins scored 14.40 on the bench while RJ Harvey started for 0.70. And the flex experiment ended badly again: Kenyon Sadiq, the tight end he picked up to replace Matthew Stafford, scored −0.70. Negative. From the bench this time.

Alex is 5–1 on a five-game winning streak and ran at 99.2%, leaving 7.20 on the bench. Trevor Lawrence 29.34, Kenneth Walker 27.90, D’Andre Swift 21.00 and Jaxon Smith-Njigba 19.40. For the season he has wasted 121.70 points, less than half what any other team has left unplayed.

Sam had the worst managed week in the league for the second time in a row, 84.4%. Cam Skattebo started for 0.00, Tyler Allgeier — a $16 waiver claim made two days earlier — started for 5.30, and Blake Corum scored 13.00 on the bench with Bryce Young’s 19.84 beside him. St. Dorothy Mantooth has now conceded 732.28, the most in the league.

Zac ended a three-game slide at 94.0%, his best managed week of the season. Josh Allen 18.30, DeVonta Smith 17.00, Colston Loveland 15.50 and the Steelers 15.50. Kenyon Sadiq, the tight end who has scored 0.00 and −0.70 in previous weeks, managed 1.70 from the bench, which counts as progress.

Evan started Jalen Hurts, who is on injured reserve, for 0.00. In fairness he had no choice: Kyler Murray was on bye and the roster had no third quarterback, so his optimal lineup also carries a zero at the position. 59.30 is the lowest score of the week. He is 1–5.

Foster is 5–1 and has won three straight. James Cook 22.80, Emeka Egbuka 14.30 and the Broncos 14.50 did the work. Jordan Love scored 21.24 on the bench behind Dak Prescott’s 13.02, the third time this season Love has outscored the starter from reserve. He also started a kicker who is on injured reserve and got 4.00 out of him, which is the sort of thing that happens when you are 5–1.

Austin came down from 185.34 to 100.82, which was always coming with Goff, Gordon and Jameson Williams all on bye. Isaiah Likely’s 20.90 led it. He is 3–3 with $15 left and fourteen moves made.

Cody is back to winning at 5–1, with Christian McCaffrey 26.20, Jayden Daniels 22.00 and Chuba Hubbard 19.60. He left 41.86 on the bench at 88.3%, and benched Hunter Henry for the second week running, 12.80 against Tucker Kraft’s 6.20. He still concedes the fewest points in the league by seventy-five.

The Kyle Pitts saga reached its climax. Cook started him and got 20.50, Pitts’s best week of the year. That is 0.00, 2.00, 1.00, a benched 6.20, 12.70 and now 20.50. Cook also started Romeo Doubs from injured reserve for 10.70 and left Caleb Williams’s 17.50 on the bench behind Sam Darnold’s 13.02.

Connor posted his best managed week of the season at 94.3% and it bought him a win. Tyler Shough 26.96, Bhayshul Tuten 22.70, Chiefs defense 18.00. He has still left 322.12 points unplayed this season, sixty-six more than anyone else, but the trend is finally the right way.

Calvin ended his zero-waiver-move streak at five weeks, picking up Kirk Cousins, Trey Smack and the 49ers for nothing, and then lost by 3.34. Carnell Tate scored 16.00 on the bench while Terry McLaurin started for 3.20. The optimal lineup, 108.22, wins the game by nine. Five weeks of doing nothing, one week of doing something, and this is the thanks he gets.

Brooks has won two in a row and is 2–4. He did it, for the third consecutive week, while benching Drake Maye. Maye scored 23.80; the $35 Matthew Stafford started for 16.88. Across the last three weeks Maye has produced 91.42 points from the bench. Alvin Kamara added 13.90 in reserve. He has $5 left and has made fifteen moves, the most in the league.

Kozel ran at 97.7%, the second-best figure of the week, and scored 79.88. Patrick Mahomes gave him 11.48, DK Metcalf 14.80, the Texans defence 1.50. There was nothing on the bench worth having and he still lost. Two straight defeats, 2–4, and the second-best season efficiency in the league at 93.5%.

A third of a point separates them, the tightest line anyone has been given this year. Both are coming off defeats, both are bye-ravaged, and both have spent the season mismanaging the same position: Sam has left a better quarterback on the bench twice, Cook three times. Sam is 2–4 having conceded the most points in the league; Cook is 3–3 with the second-most conceded. Whoever has a functioning flex probably wins.

Alex is 5–1, has won five straight, leads the league in scoring and has the best lineup efficiency anyone has recorded. He is also projected for 66.91, the lowest figure on the board, because the byes have finally caught him. Connor has won one, just posted his best managed week of the season at 94.3%, and is favoured by 17.48. If there is going to be an upset this year, this is the week it is signposted.

Cody is 5–1 and concedes seventy-five fewer points than anyone else, which is the single most durable advantage in the league. Evan is 1–5 and just started a quarterback from injured reserve because he had nobody else, with Kyler Murray on bye. He gets his roster back this week, and the 93.65 projection says he should be competitive. He has also played a perfect lineup this season, which is more than most.

Two bye-stricken rosters producing a projected 149.23 between them, the thinnest game on the board. Foster is 5–1 and has now left Jordan Love on the bench three times while Dak Prescott has outscored him once. Zac snapped a three-game slide with his best managed week of the season, 94.0%, and has the fewest points conceded in the league at 548.84.

Brooks has won two straight, which nobody saw coming, and has done it while benching Drake Maye three weeks running for a combined 91.42 wasted points. He has $5 left and has made fifteen moves. Austin is 3–3 with $15 and fourteen moves. Between them they have spent $180 of waiver budget and have five wins.

Kozel has the best projection on the board and the second-best season efficiency in the league at 93.5%, and is 2–4, which is simply unfair. He has played a perfect lineup and lost by 60, and a 97.7% week and lost by 6.70. Calvin broke his five-week waiver fast and immediately lost by 3.34 with 16.00 on his bench. Both men deserve better records than they have.