Timothy needed 28.19 from Bijan Robinson on Monday night and got 27.70. The Tomato Heads beat Bijan Mustard 88.98 to 88.50, the nineteenth-closest result of the 1,727 games played in this league since 2010 and the second-closest of the season, after Kevin’s 0.42 over John P. in Week 1. Two numbers explain the margin and neither is Bijan’s. mike dropped the 49ers defense on Saturday night for the Bills and never moved the Bills into his lineup; the slot was empty, the Bills scored 4.0 on his bench, and he won anyway. Timothy started Saquon Barkley, who scored 1.0, with Alvin Kamara on his bench, who scored 22.8 in the same Monday game Bijan did. Timothy’s first loss of the year came with 49.98 unused points. mike’s first win came with 62.20 — Emanuel Wilson, claimed Thursday, scored 26.0 behind Bucky Irving’s 6.1 and David Montgomery’s 4.3. mike had started 0-3 three times before, in 2012, 2015 and 2021, and lost in Week 4 all three times. This is the first time he has not. The series is 11-7 mike.

Sean scored 167.42, the 22nd-highest total of the 3,440 team-weeks in league history and the second-best of his 253 games, behind only the 169.94 he scored in the 2023 championship game. CeeDee Lamb 41.3, Brock Purdy 21.62, Chris Olave 19.6 on Monday, and 8.8 on the bench, the least unused scoring in the league. Josh scored 134.72 against it — Tee Higgins 26.7, Chuba Hubbard 25.9, T.J. Hockenson 24.9, Carnell Tate 20.5, and 0.0 from Ladd McConkey — and lost by 32.70. It is the sixteenth-highest losing score in league history, one place above Nick’s 133.88 from Week 2; this season has produced three of the top seventeen in four weeks. Sean is 4-0 for the third time, after 2020 and 2024, and leads the league with 557.18 points, the second-most any manager has scored through four weeks (Kevin, 570.86 in 2020). A series that stood 7-7 is 8-7 Sean.

The 0-4 club

Nick and John E. have played thirty-two seasons between them and neither had ever started 0-4. Both have now, in the same week, and both were 0-3 for the first time in the same season, 2020. Only one previous season has produced two winless teams through four weeks: 2015, when mike, John P. and Kevin all did it. Nick lost 150.62 to 64.38 to Owen — the margin, 86.24, is the widest of the season and the eighteenth-widest ever — and his four opponents have now scored 141.16, 156.48, 173.34 and 150.62, a total of 621.60 points against, the most any team has absorbed through four weeks in league history (the previous high: mike, 571.74, 2021). His 419.56 points for are seventh in the league. Kyler Murray, starting over Jared Goff, scored 7.48; Goff scored 19.48 on the bench, DK Metcalf 16.5. Owen’s 150.62 is the sixth-best of his 228 games, built on Javonte Williams (31.3), Nico Collins (30.8) and Zay Flowers (25.8), and he left Brian Robinson, signed Saturday night, on the bench for 25.7. The series is 8-4 Nick.

John E. lost 91.72 to 73.34 to Jeff in the week’s only true Monday-night coin flip. Drake London scored 14.6 for Jeff; Tyler Shough scored 13.94 for John E., who needed 17.73 more than London. John E.’s 73.34 is the 23rd-lowest of his 253 games; Ja’Marr Chase scored 5.7, DJ Moore 2.7, and George Holani, signed Thursday night, 3.0. Spencer Shrader, the kicker he signed Thursday morning, led the team with 14. Jeff won with Dalton Kincaid (1.7) and Travis Kelce (3.5) in his lineup and Romeo Doubs (23.8) and Tony Pollard (13.0) out of it. John E. still leads the series 12-7.

The week

Fourteen teams scored 1,571.42 points, an average of 112.24 — the 39th-highest of the 264 weeks the league has played and the second-highest of this season behind Week 1’s 117.98. Only Nick finished under 70. Tetairoa McMillan’s 44.2 for Anthony is the best single line by any starter this year, past Jaxon Smith-Njigba’s 42.5 in Week 2.

Anthony 138.76, Jonathan 91.38. The game Thursday’s preview was built around went the way the preview’s numbers said it would. Anthony, who had scored 64.38 and 61.54, scored the 23rd-best game of his 250: McMillan 44.2, Malik Nabers 23.2, Chase Brown 19.1. Jonathan got 21.08 from C.J. Stroud, signed Thursday morning, and 0.0 from Kenyon Sadiq at tight end with Tucker Kraft (16.5) on the bench. Jonathan has started 3-0 four times — 2012, 2016, 2021, 2026 — and lost the fourth game every time. Anthony leads the series 14-9.

Michael 140.70, Kevin 107.26. Michael has scored 156.48, 149.14 and 140.70 in consecutive weeks and is 3-1 for the first time since 2022; his 545.66 points are second in the league. Kenneth Walker 30.9, Rhamondre Stevenson 18.4 from the flex. Devaughn Vele gave Kevin 17.4 on Monday against a 50.85 deficit. The series is 10-6 Michael.

Tim 124.38, John P. 109.26. Kyle Monangai scored 28.0 from Tim’s flex, Quinshon Judkins 21.6, Brock Bowers 20.6. John P. got 36.7 from Kyren Williams and 22.4 from Sam LaPorta and 0.0 from Rashee Rice; Kirk Cousins scored 22.6 on his bench. Tim is 3-1 for the third time (2016, 2023) and leads a series that was level 7-6.

Standings

Sean is the league’s only unbeaten team. The Smith House has four teams at 3-1 or better — Sean, Michael, Jeff and Timothy — and has outscored the Magic Castle 3,321.42 to 2,891.24, a gap of 430.18 points, or more than 61 per team. The Magic Castle’s two 3-1 teams are Jonathan and Tim, who have the fifth- and thirteenth-most points in the league.

Magic Castle

Smith House

Records and streaks

Sean’s 167.42 is the 22nd-highest score in league history and his second-best. Owen’s 86.24-point margin is the eighteenth-widest ever and the season’s widest. mike’s 0.48 is the season’s second-closest. Nick’s 621.60 points against through four weeks is a league record. Sean’s 557.18 points for is the second-highest four-week total ever. Nick and John E. are 0-4 for the first time; Sean is 4-0 for the third time; Timothy’s run of 3-0 starts that reached 4-0 ends at three of six. Josh’s 134.72 is the sixteenth-highest losing score ever recorded.

Transactions

Eleven moves since last Tuesday, none of them trades. John E. made four: a kicker swap Thursday morning (Shrader for Cam Little, which produced 14), Jaylen Wright for Pat Bryant Thursday evening, Holani for Wright two and a half hours later, and Alec Pierce released Sunday night, eleven days after being acquired from Kevin. Jonathan signed Stroud at 10:00 Thursday morning and started him. Anthony released Tyreek Hill on Friday, five days after signing him and without having started him. mike’s waiver claim, Emanuel Wilson, outscored both of his starting running backs combined from the bench. Kevin released Kaleb Johnson at 7:54 this morning.

Power ranking

Market value, not results: 70 percent the FantasyCalc value of each roster’s best legal lineup, 30 percent the whole roster. Sean climbs four places to first, his best-lineup value (26,839) now ten points ahead of Jeff’s, who drops to second after a week in which the market repriced his starters down by 1,924. John E., 0-4, is fourth; Nick, 0-4, falls two to eighth. Tim, 3-1, is thirteenth for the second straight ranking, and Josh is fourteenth; the two have swapped the last two places since the draft. The bottom five did not move.

Values from FantasyCalc redraft, 14-team, 1QB, full PPR, pulled Tuesday morning. Best lineup = QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, TE, FLEX by value; kickers and defenses carry no market value. Last week = the Week 3 recap’s ranking; Draft = the post-draft ranking of September 9.