FFWC High-Stakes Recap: Week 6
Approaching the half-mile pole, of the 2023 Fulltime Fantasy Football regular season, Week 6 is now in the books. Despite just two teams being on a BYE, plus reflecting the 11-3 record that UNDER game total bets posted, we had our lowest scoring week since Week 1. As a result, the FFWC High-Stakes Recap: Week 6 reviews the many changes. Here is a look at the Top 20 Leaderboards across the four Major FTF Tournaments. FFWC XI World Championship Tournament For the first time this season, the top three teams remain unchanged in the race to claim the $150K FFWC XI Grand Prize. Seven new teams joined the FTF World Championship Top 20 Leaderboard following Week 6 action. Rolling along, Team Just(in) Time (5-1) continues as the FFWC XI overall leader for a fifth straight week. Simeon Yarbrough and Brian Marzorini regained their early-season form as they posted 190.45 points. That was the fourth-highest Week 6 WC total and increased their lead from 21.30 to 27.40 points. Mr Yellow Stickers (5-1) remains in second place overall for the second straight week. Racking up another big total, Mike Schlissberg’s WC Circa Hybrid squad scored 184.35 points. That was the 11th-highest Week 6 WC score. Mike increased his second-place lead from 0.25 to 42.15 points. Team Zefurs IV (5-1) fell from the unbeaten ranks but was still able to retain third place overall. Let down by his dynamic Kittle/LaPorta TE duo, who scored 8.7 combined points, KJ Duke’s squad posted 142.45 points. The good news is that Zefurs IV still leads the WC 9/3 9 PM ET league by 83.45 points. Moving up one position, Team Schinker jumped from fifth to fourth overall. Chris Schinker’s squad posted 166.90 points during Week 6 action. Consistency is key to making the playoffs, and Team Schinker is averaging 169.61 points per week. The 2022 FFWC X overall leader, after 14 weeks last season, averaged 167.47 points per week. Making a big jump, Team Honeycutt moved from 30th overall to fifth. Steve Honeycutt‘s FFWC Online 8/22 9 PM ET squad posted 182.60 points. Steve’s team was sitting 208th, after Week 2 action, but has steadily climbed the leaderboard by averaging 178.68 points over the past four weeks. Our FFWC XI “Shout Out of the Week” goes to Team Mr O. Brian Schrieber’s FFWC SLOW 1 squad scored a Week 6 high 194.10 points. Every move has to start somewhere, and Brian’s squad jumped from 480th to 273rd overall. He also moved to within 56.54 points of the fourth playoff qualifying position in his league. For the first time since Week 1, no team reached the 200-point plateau. Down from 30 teams, that had a 5-0 record after Week 5 action, just 17 FFWC XI squads still own a perfect 6-0 record. Only three of those teams are in the current Top 20 overall. Week 6, during FFWC X action last year, was similar to this season on a few levels. That includes it being a low-scoring week, plus exactly five WC teams reached the 1,000-point plateau. We also sent out this modified heads-up: Navigating injuries, plus BYE weeks, is challenging for everyone. On the injury front, some have been more fortunate than others. That said, every team is looking to add new weapons. Bid wisely, during the first Week 7 FAAB waiver run at 11:00 PM ET on Wednesday, 10/18/23. Teams on a Week 7 BYE: Bengals, Cowboys, Titans, Jets, Panthers, and Texans. Circa Las Vegas Fantasy Championship Scoring also dropped in our inaugural FullTime Fantasy Circa LVFC Tournament. After Owners in the Top 20 scored 3638.50 combined points during Week 5, that number dropped to 3245.60 (-392.90) during Week 6 action. Setting a season-low, just five new teams entered the Top 20 list. For the sixth straight week, we have a new FTF Circa LVFC leader as Team 2 Bros DP (5-1) moved from second to first overall. Robert Dinges followed his 196.4 Week 5 outburst with 194.0 points. That is the fourth-highest Week 6 total. Robert now leads the Circa LVFC SLOW 5 league by 193.6 points. Slipping one position, Team LOB dropped from first to second overall. Mark Deming’s Circa LVFC 7/16 10:00 PM ET squad posted 162.55 points. Mark’s squad still managed to move to 6-0 and sits just 8.6 points out of the top spot. Team Leave It In (4-2) jumped into fourth to third place overall. Mike Moore and Michael Scherneck’s Circa LVFC 9/6 10 PM ET squad posted 192.8 points. With 182.85 as the low, scored back in Week 3, that team has now averaged 188.57 points over the last five weeks. That’s a great recovery after posting 125.30 points in Week 1. Moving down one position, Team Miller slipped from third to fourth place. Jason Miller’s squad posted 154.35 points and has now spent the last four weeks in the LVFC top six overall. Team Miller moved to 6-0 and leads the Circa LVFC 8/27 5 PM ET league by 136.50 points. Entering the Top 5, for the first time this season, The Godfather jumped from eighth to fifth place overall. Tony Colavita’s Circa LVFC 5/27 10:30 PM ET team posted 161.61 points and now has a 5-1 record. This team is a perfect example of “never quit grinding” as Tony was 666th overall after Week 1 action. Our FTF Circa LVFC “Shout Out of the Week” is split between Team Ronis (207.80), Dingos Dreamteam SLOW II (205.45), and Jax Car Salesman (200.55), who were the only players to top 200 points this week. Three teams topping 200 points is down from 20 teams last week. After 40 teams entered Week 5 with a perfect 5-0 record, just 22 of the 1,056 Circa LVFC teams are still undefeated. After Matthew Lyons was the only Owner with two Top 20 teams last week, Sean Cruzen joined him this week. One of Sean’s squads jumped from 23rd to tenth, while the other moved from 26th to 15th overall. Dynasty
Manic Monday: Week 6
I love late October. Around here, there are only about two weeks during the year where I can open the windows and let the air in. It’s generally the last two weeks of October when the plants are all still blooming and I’m not quite yet having to climb up a ladder and clean out my gutters daily. Of course, the local air show is also usually taking place on one of those open-air weekends, which has its own ups and downs. Backup Bonanza Speaking of ups and downs, Week 6 had plenty of them. A lot of the ups came from backup running backs. I think backup backs scored the first four touchdowns of the slate. And how about the Baltimore backup backs…not one, not two, but three different Ravens’ reserve runners punched in scores, and these weren’t even normal backups. None of these guys were even on the roster this summer. There’s just something heroic about a player normally spending his time on the bench coming in and making a heroic play. As impressive as Baltimore’s feat was, they still have nothing on my guy Jon Moxon, the greatest backup performance in football history. Mox was really dedicated to his team. Not only did he lead the revolt against Bud Kilmer’s tyranny, but he was also so loyal to Lance that he turned down the whip cream bikini. I’ve always wondered why football movies are so bad. Don’t get me wrong, some are serious and well done, but mostly there’s a goofy comedy approach to football films. Baseball movies are almost always better. I guess it’s the history of that sport or that there’s so much downtime in a game that it’s easier to write a believable love story. Football movies almost always have zany lineman or whacky antics that make it hard to take the film seriously. For every Love of the Game there are 2-3 The Replacements or The Waterboy. I wonder if an NFL club found a gig for Shane Falco? As a backup, of course. Where We Were Right Our tight end projections overall were very good. We like Mike Gesicki as a top-5 option and were much higher than the consensus on Noah Fant, Hunter Henry, and Mo-Alie Cox. We also had Zach Ertz as our No. 9 tight end for the week, and that’s precisely where he stands. Once it was confirmed that Damien Williams would miss Week 6, we boosted Khalil Herbert into RB1 territory and Herbert delivered. He was the only Chicago running back to touch the ball against Green Bay and currently stands as the RB10 heading into Monday. In all, Herbert turned 21 touhces into 112 yards and a score. We were cool on the Vikings traveling to Carolina, with mixed results. One that hit was Justin Jefferson, who we had all the way down at WR22. Jefferson currently stands as the WR20 after only corraling 8-of-14 targets for 80 scoreless yards. Where We Were Wrong Other than Ertz, that Eagles game was rough. We were way too high on Philly’s offense. As bad as Jalen Hurts was for real, he had a decent fantasy outing thanks to a pair of rushing scores. But 115 passing yards isn’t going to get it done any week. DeVonta Smith took the biggest brunt of that performance, and we took it on the chin. Should have known that we’d see the Chargers drop off quite a bit but we weren’t expecting THAT bad of a performance. Justin Herbert was poised to shred a Ravens’ secondary that just submitted 402 passing yards to Carson Wentz six days ago. Nope. Herbert was ineffective, which led to a lousy outing not just for him, but for Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, and Austin Ekeler who we pegged as out RB4. I personally listed Ekeler as my RB1. I struck out worse than Sam Tuttle with that one….that was a hidden baseball movie reference. No team had allowed more points than Kansas City, so we were expecting Washington to light up the scoreboard. With that, Terry McLaurin topped out wideout projections but that isn’t exactly how things played out. McLaurin had his worst game of the season and the Football Team just couldn’t keep up with the Chiefs. Maybe things will improve if/when Ryan Fitzpatrick returns and sends Taylor Heinicke back to the bench. Potential movie idea… The 2021 NFL season is well underway but it’s not too late to get access to the best help out there! All FullTime Fantasy members get exclusive access to our 24/7 Chat Room on Discord! All morning on Sunday, Senior Analyst Jody Smith will be standing by to answer all your crucial start/sit and keep you updated with all the latest news and injury updates. JOIN OUR MAILING LIST! GET THE LATEST ARTICLES & UPDATES Subscribe to our FREE newsletter – Breaking Fantasy news & site updates! Like and share our new Facebook page! Be sure to pay attention to our giveaways for your shot at some sweet prizes!