The Sportsballers

We’ve played seven weeks, and after this week we’ll have seven weeks to go. Thus, this marks the midpoint of the 2022 fantasy season. Four managers have separated themselves from the field. Sean Kennedy and Alex Mayo are fighting for AFL East supremacy, tied at 6-1 and with a three-game cushion in both the division and on all wild card contenders. Cory Puffett and Brandon Saunders are each 5-2, lead the AFL Central and AFL West divisions, respectively, and have two-game cushions on their division rivals.   Things can still change, and we’ll have a little more clarity on the playoff picture after Week 9 when every manager will face the lone division opponent they have yet to face. But there will still be plenty of opportunity for that playoff bracket to change over the final six weeks as we play three more non-division games and then our divisional round robin to close things out.   This week the Kansas City Chiefs and the LA Chargers are on bye, and that figures to hurt Brando...

Week 7 was a get-right week for the hosts. All three went 9-5 against the spread and once again have sole possession of the Top 3 spots in our contest with fans of the show. Congrats to  Kyle Germann  who won this week’s fan contest and tied our hosts with nine wins against the spread. That’ll help him make up some ground on the rest of the fans after he missed the Week 2 and Week 4 contests.  James Dailey  still leads the fan contest, five points ahead of  Sean Kennedy   but two points behind our third-place host. You can compete against us, too! Email us at  thesportsballers@gmail.com  or DM us on  Facebook  or  Twitter  with your email address  and we’ll enter you in our fan contest. You’ll receive a ballot every week after our Wednesday live show so you can submit your picks against the same spread as us before the Thursday night game. Play against us week-by-week or across the whole season! Let’s get to our Week 8 pic...

Weeks 4 and 5 felt like the ship of this fantasy season was righting itself. Scoring was back up to where we typically expect it to be; our per-team average in Week 4 was about six points higher than we saw through the 2020 and 2021 seasons while Week 5 was virtually right in line with each of the past two years. It also seemed like the players you would expect to do well were turning in fantasy-relevant performances as opposed to this hodge-podge of uncertainty we’re starting to become accustomed to.   These past two weeks, though, have been brutal. In Week 6 our 12 managers averaged less than 97 points per game, an absurdly low number even with the scoring adjustments we made this past offseason.   This past week our league totaled 1,241.19 points, which ranks 90th in our league’s 132-week regular season history. It was almost 7 points per team per game higher than Week 6, but still dropped our season-long average to under 108 points per game; we’re currently about five poin...