Everyone Is 1-1 Or Nobody Is

Orvieto put up 180.80. Dinsky put up 189.36, the 49th-best score in eighteen years. They now play each other, which is the schedule doing you a favour.

It is also a fixture with previous. In week nine of 2019 Orvieto beat Dinsky 180.42 to 54.60 — a margin of 125.82, still the second-widest in league history and standing for seven years now. Nothing since has come close to it.

Both men have moved people, in opposite directions. Dinsky has finally benched Kyle Pitts, who returned 0.00 from the tight end slot in a 189-point week, for Hunter Henry. Orvieto has benched Zay Flowers, who scored 26.00, along with Chris Godwin, and promoted Malik Nabers and Stefon Diggs from a bench where they had gone 12.90 and 15.50 without being asked.

Hart won week one by 43.98 and managed the worst lineup in the league doing it. His two highest-scoring players never took the field. Jalen Coker caught eight of nine for 138 and two scores — 33.80, more than anybody on his roster — and Brock Purdy put up 27.10 at quarterback, while Bo Nix started, fumbled three times and returned 4.44. Optimal eleven: 197.10. He started 135.84 of it, 68.9% efficiency, in a week where every other manager in the league cleared 86%.

Both of them start this week. Nix sits, Courtland Sutton's 4.10 and RJ Harvey's 8.10 go with him, and Blake Corum takes the flex. The projection has noticed: 148.41, the highest figure in the league and ten points clear of anyone else.

Yim has moved one man. She scored 176.46 without a single starter reaching 25 — eight of eleven in double figures, a defense that scored a touchdown, a tight end who caught two more — which is the most repeatable line anybody produced. DK Metcalf's 8.00 is the only thing she saw a reason to change, and Deebo Samuel takes the slot.

Schmidt's first game in the League of Champions was the second-closest ever played. His second is another pairing with no history at all — nobody has worn the Nashville Nights colours against the Jabronis before.

He is 1-0 and went 3-8 on the all-play getting there, which is the most fortunate possible start. Javier is 1-0 having actually earned it: 155.56, fourth-best in the league, and the second-best managed lineup of the week at 93.9%.

Both are sitting on a quarterback problem and neither has touched it. Javier started Lamar Jackson for 25.96 and left Jaxson Dart's 31.60 and Jordan Love's 22.48 on his bench; all three are exactly where they were. Schmidt has Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes, can play one, and has again chosen Allen — who gave him 38.66 while Mahomes scored 25.66 sitting down.

Dave C leads Zoz 8-7. They have traded the last four — Dave C, Zoz, Zoz, Dave C — and the closest of the fifteen was decided by 0.90, in a series where the widest either has ever managed is 61.

Both lost in week one, and both lost to somebody who scored a lot: Dave C ran into Dinsky's 189.36, Zoz into Orvieto's 180.80. Between them they scored 269.52 and went 0-2, which is the schedule being rude.

Zoz has responded by promoting the two men who outscored his own starters from the bench: Devaughn Vele's 19.90 and Matthew Golden's 15.50 come in for A.J. Brown's 5.60 and Jordan Mason's 11.90. Dave C has responded by starting Drake Maye again. Maye threw three interceptions for 11.82 while Tyler Shough put up 27.20 on his bench, and Shough is still sitting there.

Gosling lost by 0.14, the second-closest result in eighteen years, and the margin came out of the two slots nobody thinks about. Harrison Mevis kicked for 1.00. The Chargers defense gave him 1.00. Both are gone: Evan McPherson kicks this week and San Francisco plays defense.

That is two of four changes, and four is more than anyone else in the league has made — Michael Wilson's 10.60 and Sherwood's 4.00 are out as well. Across twelve clubs only nineteen of 132 starting slots have moved at all, and Gosling owns four of them.

Drew has changed nothing, and has an argument. He managed the best lineup in the league in week one — 94.8% efficiency, which is another way of saying there was nothing on his bench worth starting — and lost by 25 anyway, because Matthew Stafford returned 4.10 at quarterback. Stafford starts again.

260.70 combined, the smallest number of the week and twenty-two points below the Hart–Yim game. Ghost scored 124.86 in week one and went 1-10 on the all-play. Geenen scored 91.86 and went 0-11.

Geenen has changed nothing. Not one of his eleven. That includes the Houston defense, which gave up 36 points and finished on minus one, and Ja'Marr Chase, who caught two of four targets for twelve yards. The only other manager who left his lineup alone is Drew, and Drew managed the best-run lineup in the league. Geenen managed the lowest score in it.

Ghost has made two changes, neither at a position that actually hurt him. Jordan Addison's 0.00 becomes Cooper Kupp, and Travis Hunter's 3.10 becomes Josiah Trotter at IDP. Gibbs, Kyren Williams, Judkins and Irving are all still there. He was ranked first post-draft and is still looking for his first win.