Bad beat of the week · Kenny, Zombie Sonics
0 for 6at the line
Precious Achiuwa, Kenny's $6 pickup, took six free throws on Sunday in Sacramento and missed every one of them. The last went begging with 1:10 left.
Zombie Sonics finished at .803 from the line. Voss Angeles Lukas finished at .807. One make from six and Kenny wins FT% and the matchup 5-4. Instead Justin takes it 5-4 with the fewest points in the league.
Every matchup
Category totals for the full week as Yahoo has them, with the winner of each category highlighted. Stat corrections land Monday US time and could still move a decimal.
Decided by .004 of free-throw percentage
| Category | Justin | Kenny |
|---|---|---|
| FG% | .438 | .410 |
| FT% | .807 | .803 |
| 3PM | 54 | 45 |
| PTS | 379 | 469 |
| REB | 141 | 210 |
| AST | 103 | 108 |
| ST | 25 | 45 |
| BLK | 20 | 18 |
| TO | 67 | 80 |
Match winnerLuka Doncic: 103 points, 24 assists and 15 threes in three games. He also turned it over 21 times.
Where it was lostPrecious Achiuwa went 0 for 6 at the line on Sunday. One make and Kenny takes FT% and the week.
William wins on threes, points and ball security
| Category | Ron | William |
|---|---|---|
| FG% | .475 | .472 |
| FT% | .778 | .816 |
| 3PM | 43 | 51 |
| PTS | 413 | 441 |
| REB | 177 | 144 |
| AST | 78 | 88 |
| ST | 40 | 31 |
| BLK | 33 | 16 |
| TO | 61 | 50 |
Match winnerAustin Reaves: 80 points, 19 assists, 26 of 29 from the line. Duncan Robinson, a $0 pickup, hit five threes in every game.
Where it was lostTake Robinson's 15 threes and 59 points away and Ron wins 3PM, PTS and the week. Ron's own $3 add, Anfernee Simons, shot 3 of 17.
Jono's bigs ran the glass and the rim
| Category | Frank | Jono |
|---|---|---|
| FG% | .500 | .456 |
| FT% | .780 | .753 |
| 3PM | 37 | 57 |
| PTS | 395 | 479 |
| REB | 119 | 189 |
| AST | 82 | 96 |
| ST | 18 | 36 |
| BLK | 20 | 38 |
| TO | 56 | 61 |
Match winnerWalker Kessler shot 23 of 28 with 9 blocks. Wemby added 33 boards and 12 blocks, and Herro hit 10 threes.
Where it was lostFrank's team managed 18 steals and 119 rebounds, both bottom two in the league, with Knueppel and Tobias Harris on IL.
Tied: TO
Steals by one, turnovers dead level at 63
| Category | Aaron | David |
|---|---|---|
| FG% | .428 | .464 |
| FT% | .733 | .763 |
| 3PM | 52 | 48 |
| PTS | 426 | 512 |
| REB | 151 | 139 |
| AST | 108 | 124 |
| ST | 31 | 30 |
| BLK | 17 | 22 |
| TO | 63 | 63 |
Match winnerShai: 83 points, 5 steals, 5 blocks and only 4 turnovers. Davion Mitchell dished 26 assists.
Where it was lostMikal Bridges went 5 of 23 with zero threes in three games. Collin Gillespie shot 4 of 15 and 1 of 4 at the line.
Dan beat everyone this week, not just Kevin
| Category | Dan | Kevin |
|---|---|---|
| FG% | .487 | .400 |
| FT% | .761 | .873 |
| 3PM | 67 | 46 |
| PTS | 612 | 466 |
| REB | 196 | 178 |
| AST | 110 | 88 |
| ST | 41 | 40 |
| BLK | 21 | 15 |
| TO | 71 | 59 |
Match winnerTy Jerome, the 104th pick, scored 104 points on 36 of 64. Ant hit 13 threes and Dyson Daniels had 13 steals.
Where it was lostMaxey was the best player in fantasy and Kevin still lost 7-2. Raynaud, Steven Adams and Porzingis gave him nothing, and Kevin has not made a move.
The DNP derby, decided by nine points
| Category | Jing | Wilson |
|---|---|---|
| FG% | .457 | .482 |
| FT% | .688 | .719 |
| 3PM | 51 | 41 |
| PTS | 479 | 488 |
| REB | 164 | 158 |
| AST | 136 | 128 |
| ST | 30 | 36 |
| BLK | 13 | 12 |
| TO | 71 | 67 |
Match winnerHaliburton: 65 points and 29 assists. Siakam scored 74 and Zion had 8 steals.
Where it was lostDarius Garland turned it over 18 times in three games and Jing lost TO by four. Josh Giddey shot 7 of 26.
Tied: 3PM
Plus 100 on the boards
| Category | Eric | Kim-Meng |
|---|---|---|
| FG% | .472 | .466 |
| FT% | .759 | .814 |
| 3PM | 32 | 32 |
| PTS | 466 | 383 |
| REB | 245 | 145 |
| AST | 120 | 89 |
| ST | 36 | 16 |
| BLK | 17 | 15 |
| TO | 60 | 65 |
Match winnerJalen Johnson averaged a triple-double: 65 points, 30 rebounds, 30 assists. Amen grabbed 31 boards.
Where it was lostKim-Meng had two empty roster spots after Lively and Claxton went to IL, and took the fewest shots in the league.
Tim takes turnovers by two and the week
| Category | Tim | Darren |
|---|---|---|
| FG% | .533 | .463 |
| FT% | .752 | .822 |
| 3PM | 38 | 66 |
| PTS | 515 | 573 |
| REB | 193 | 154 |
| AST | 130 | 100 |
| ST | 62 | 39 |
| BLK | 16 | 18 |
| TO | 67 | 69 |
Match winnerSabonis pulled 52 rebounds in three games on 21 of 26 shooting. Tim's team racked up 62 steals.
Where it was lostGG Jackson, added on Friday, went 1 of 7 with three turnovers. Without those three, Darren wins TO 66-67 and the week, and LaVine's 87 points count for something.
Bad beats and near misses
Darren · At the Turn
Darren put up the third-best week in the league: 573 points and 66 threes. He drew the second-best week in Tim, and lost TO 67-69. GG Jackson, his Friday pickup, had three of those turnovers on 1 of 7 shooting.
Jing · B2b dnps
Jing lost PTS 479-488 and TO 71-67. Darius Garland alone turned it over 18 times in three games, more than a quarter of the team's total. Trim five of those and Jing wins the DNP derby.
Kevin · KePang
Kevin had the best player of the week and a winning all-play record. He drew the one team that would have beaten everybody, and lost 7-2 with three roster spots that never scored.
Uncle's corner · William, White Boy Summer
Sacramento trailed by 11 with 1:19 left. Darius Acuff Jr. pulled up for a 24-foot step-back three and missed. Before that shot William led FG% .4752 to .4747. After it, Ron led .4747 to .4737, and that's where it finished.
He got one chance to win it back. Down 13 with 8.3 seconds left, the young man could have dribbled out the clock. He let fly from 27 feet instead and missed. If that one drops, William takes FG% and wins the week 6-3, not 5-4.
Acuff was born in November 2006. When this league held its first draft in 2012, he was five. Seventh pick, nineteen years old, game over, and he still thinks he's got the green light from 27 feet. Nobody dribbles out the clock any more. Nobody thinks about the people who drafted them. Somebody's uncle needs to have a word, and there are 16 of us.
Every Acuff shot against Memphis, plotted from ESPN's shot locations
Both fourth-quarter makes came from 10 to 12 feet, just off the lane. Most of the misses came from the corner or 25 feet out. His second-quarter miss at 0:24 was a Jerami Grant block.
Fourth quarter in order: 2 of 10, 0 of 5 from three, last six all missed
1:19 flipped FG% to Ron0:08 the shot that could have flipped it backSame game: Ty Jerome 14 of 14 at the line, Achiuwa 0 of 6
Decided by a hair
Awards
Player awards use nine-category value over the full week on Yahoo's numbers, with FG% and FT% weighted by volume.
Performer of the week
KePang · 4 games · 115 pts · 9 3PM · 19 ast · 8 stl · 4 blk · 24 of 28 FT
Number one on the board for the week, and it was not close. His team lost 7-2.
Dud of the week
B2b dnps · pick 27 · 3 games · 17 pts on 7 of 26 · 1 stl · 0 blk
The 25 assists and 19 boards keep this from being a total write-off. He still finished outside the top 200 for the week.
Dishonourable mentions: Mikal Bridges (Aaron, pick 95) 10 points on 5 of 23 with zero threes. James Harden (Kim-Meng, pick 46) 6 of 20 and 10 turnovers in two games.
Steal of the draft, so far
Daniel's Dyson Daniels · pick 104 · 104 pts · 36 of 64 · 23 of 26 FT
The 104th pick scored 104 points in three games and finished second on the week's board.
Team of the week
612 pts · 67 3PM · 41 stl · 15-0 all-play
League highs in points and threes. Dan's category totals would have beaten all 15 teams.
Waiver hero
White Boy Summer · $0 on 18 Oct · 59 pts · 5, 5 and 5 threes
Five threes in every game. Take his line away and Ron wins 3PM, PTS and the matchup.
Waiver dud
ChetGPT · $3 on 23 Oct · 9 pts on 3 of 17
Ron dropped Kevin Porter Jr. for this. Runner-up: GG Jackson, $0, three points and three turnovers that cost Darren the week.
The boomerang
Dropped 21 Oct · 51 pts · 10 3PM · 18 of 31 while unowned · re-added 25 Oct for $3
William cut him before his first game, watched all three of his games from the outside, then paid to get him back once Atlanta's week was done. De'Andre Hunter went the other way: dropped, re-added and dropped again in ten days.
Turnover king
Voss Angeles Lukas · 21 turnovers in 3 games
Seven a night, and Justin still won TO by 13 because Kenny's team coughed it up 80 times, the most in the league. Garland was second with 18.
Glass eater
Tim's Terrific Team · 52 reb in 3 games · 21 of 26 FG
Seventeen boards a night at 81 per cent shooting. Honourable mention to Jalen Johnson, who averaged a triple-double: 30 rebounds and 30 assists over three games.
Luck check
All-play puts each team's week against all 15 others. It shows who would have won almost any matchup and who won only the one they got. Grade is the preseason report card.
Dan's week would have beaten all 15 teams, and Kevin had a winning all-play record but drew him. Justin beat two teams on totals and happened to play one of them. Report card check after one week: Tim (B-) went 14-1, Darren (C) 12-3, and Wheelin (B+, the preseason model's favourite) 4-10-1. Lucky means a win with six or fewer all-play wins. Robbed means a loss with seven or more.
Category extremes
| Cat | Best | Worst |
|---|---|---|
| FG% | Tim's Terrific Team .533 | KePang .400 |
| FT% | KePang .873 | B2b dnps .688 |
| 3PM | Daniel's Dyson Daniels 67 | Hart and Harper, KHANNNNNN 32 |
| PTS | Daniel's Dyson Daniels 612 | Voss Angeles Lukas 379 |
| REB | Hart and Harper 245 | Lift Small Bunt Ball 119 |
| AST | B2b dnps 136 | ChetGPT - Activated 78 |
| ST | Tim's Terrific Team 62 | KHANNNNNN 16 |
| BLK | Massimobanyama 38 | Speaker For The DNP 12 |
| TO | White Boy Summer 50 | Zombie Sonics 80 |
Hart and Harper
Plus 100 on Kim-Meng and 35 clear of anyone else in the league. Amen, Jalen Johnson, Josh Hart, Jaquez and Zubac all grabbed 26 or more.
Voss Angeles Lukas
Fewest in the league, on 290 shots, with Duren hurt mid-week and two bench spots empty on Sunday. Still 5-4.
KHANNNNNN
Fewest attempts and fewest steals in the league. Two roster spots sat empty.
Injury ward
Status as of Monday afternoon Adelaide time. No diagnosis was out for the Sunday injuries when this went up.
Stretchered off with 1:14 left in Oklahoma City's win over the Clippers after landing on his left leg while being fouled on a drive. Kris Dunn was given a flagrant 1. The Thunder covered the leg with towels, SGA teared up in his post-game interview, and coverage compared it to the Gordon Hayward and Paul George injuries.
The Thunder said they would be briefed Monday morning. Plan for a long absence. Aaron lost his second-round pick on the same night he lost the matchup.
Also missed Sunday: Ausar Thompson (Justin, right ankle), VJ Edgecombe (Kevin, abdominal contusion), Keegan Murray (Jono, ankle). Isaiah Joe (Wilson) left after four minutes. Still on the shelf: Coby White (Jing, calf), Kon Knueppel and Tobias Harris (Frank), Dereck Lively and Nic Claxton (Kim-Meng), Brandon Ingram and Jusuf Nurkic (David).
The wire
What each add actually put on the board in Week 1, counting only games in an active slot. Sunday adds had one day to contribute.
| Player | Team | Bid | Week 1 for his new team | Dropped |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duncan Robinson18 Oct | White Boy Summer | $0 | 59 pts, 15 3PM, 7 ast. Won William the week | None shown |
| Precious Achiuwa21 Oct | Zombie Sonics | $6 | 41 pts, 21 reb, 6 stl, 3 blk. Also 4 of 11 FT | Hugo Gonzalez |
| Kyle Kuzma18 Oct | Zombie Sonics | $1 | 33 pts, 27 reb, 10 ast. Justin's drop | Nique Clifford |
| Dennis Schröder23 Oct | Massimobanyama | $12 | 25 pts, 4 ast, 0 stl, 4 TO | Bennedict Mathurin |
| Cam Spencer21 Oct | WTJ | $0 | 24 pts, 6 3PM on 56 per cent | None |
| Brayden Burries18 Oct | Voss Angeles Lukas | $7 | 22 pts, 10 reb, 3 3PM before being cut | Charles Bassey |
| Kasparas Jakucionis23 Oct | Zombie Sonics | $1 | 19 pts, 7 ast, 4 stl | Kingston Flemings |
| Scoot Henderson21 Oct | Lift Small Bunt Ball | $1 | 19 pts on 8 of 21 | None |
| Tristan da Silva25 Oct | B2b dnps | $3 | 19 pts, 5 3PM on Sunday alone | Isaiah Stewart |
| Charles Bassey21 Oct | Tim's Terrific Team | $0 | 10 pts, 7 reb, 2 blk, 4 of 4 | Deandre Ayton |
| Wendell Carter Jr.25 Oct | Hart and Harper | $21 | 9 pts, 10 reb on Sunday | Mitchell Robinson |
| Moussa Diabate21 Oct | Daniel's Dyson Daniels | $4 | 9 pts, 13 reb, 3 stl. Justin's drop | Wendell Carter Jr. |
| Jaxson Hayes25 Oct | Daniel's Dyson Daniels | $0 | 9 pts, 5 reb on Sunday | Sam Merrill |
| Anfernee Simons23 Oct | ChetGPT | $3 | 9 pts on 3 of 17 | Kevin Porter Jr. |
| Andre Drummond21 Oct | White Boy Summer | $1 | 6 pts, 5 reb | Aaron Wiggins |
| GG Jackson23 Oct | At the Turn | $0 | 3 pts on 1 of 7, 3 TO. Cost Darren the week | Nikola Vucevic |
| Naji Marshall25 Oct | Voss Angeles Lukas | $21 | Out ill Sunday. Nothing yet | Brayden Burries |
Sunday adds with no game: Trevon Brazile ($15) and Herb Jones ($1) for Frank, Max Christie ($5) for David, Aaron Wiggins ($3) for William. Wheelin cut Ben Simmons on 23 Oct with no add.
FAB left of $100
Market report
The market woke up on Sunday: Justin paid $21 for Naji Marshall and Eric paid $21 for Wendell Carter Jr., with Justin's $15 the runner-up bid on Carter. Before that the top winning bid was Jono's $12 for Schröder, where Justin was second at $8.
Jing
Jing has bid on eight contested players and landed two, Robert Williams III and Tristan da Silva. Most of the others went in at $0.
Wilson, Kim-Meng, Kevin
Three managers have not touched the wire. Wilson won anyway. Kim-Meng and Kevin went a combined 3-14-1.
Odds and ends
Justin's all-play record. His team beat exactly two of the 15 others on totals, and one of them was Kenny.
All-play wins for KHANNNNNN. The only team Kim-Meng would have beaten was Justin's.
Free throws made by Naz Reid in three games (0 of 1), alongside 12 threes and 60 points.
Walker Kessler's field-goal percentage on 23 of 28, with 9 blocks. Wemby beside him shot 37 per cent and blocked 12.
Rudy Gobert's rebounds for Wilson, along with 7 of 16 at the line.
Steals for Dyson Daniels in three games. Kim-Meng's entire team managed 16 all week.
Turnovers by Zombie Sonics, the most in the league. Kyshawn George had 15 of them.
Free throws made by Ty Jerome on 14 attempts in Sacramento on Sunday. Precious Achiuwa took six in the same game and made none.
Brook Lopez's points for Frank as the 122nd pick, with six threes and five blocks on 20 of 31.
Standings
Category record, pending stat corrections.
| # | Team | W-L-T |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hart and HarperEric | 7-1-1 |
| 2 | Daniel's Dyson DanielsDan | 7-2-0 |
| 3 | MassimobanyamaJono | 6-3-0 |
| 4 | WTJ curse of the Big ManDavid | 5-3-1 |
| T5 | Voss Angeles Lukas, White Boy Summer, Speaker For The DNP, Tim's Terrific TeamJustin, William, Wilson, Tim | 5-4-0 |
| T9 | Zombie Sonics, ChetGPT, B2b dnps, At the TurnKenny, Ron, Jing, Darren | 4-5-0 |
| 13 | Wheelin & DealinAaron | 3-5-1 |
| 14 | Lift Small Bunt BallFrank | 3-6-0 |
| 15 | KePangKevin | 2-7-0 |
| 16 | KHANNNNNNKim-Meng | 1-7-1 |
Week 2
Monday 26 Oct to Sunday 1 Nov. Week 1 all-play record in brackets.