Kevin beat Timothy 95.18 to 94.26, the third-closest result of the season behind Kevin’s own 0.42 over John P. in Week 1 and mike’s 0.48 over Timothy in Week 4, and it was Kevin’s 90th regular-season win. Timothy needed 18.73 net from Saquon Barkley and Darius Cooper on Monday night against Kevin’s Jake Ferguson, and got 17.80 to Ferguson’s 0.0 — 0.93 short. Dak Prescott, in the same Cowboys–Eagles game, scored 23.28 on Timothy’s bench while Jordan Love scored 15.96 in his lineup; Alvin Kamara scored 13.2 on the bench beside him. Timothy has now lost two games this season by less than a point, and in both he left a player with more than 22 points on the bench. Bo Nix scored 26.28 for Kevin, one week after 2.48, and Kevin finished 12.45 under his projection anyway; he has beaten his projection once in seven weeks and sits 78.63 below it for the season, the most in the league. The series is 9-7 Timothy.

John E. 146.98, Sean 129.52. The week’s high score came from the manager who made the most moves. Between Thursday morning and Sunday noon John E. signed Geno Smith, Kyle Pitts, Jonah Coleman and the Titans defense; released the Browns defense he had won on waivers two days earlier; traded Omar Cooper, whom he had also won on waivers Thursday, to mike for Rachaad White on Saturday night; traded White back to mike for Cooper on Sunday morning, adding his 2027 thirteenth-round pick for mike’s fifteenth; and at 11:34 traded Jordyn Tyson, on injured reserve, to Anthony for Blake Corum. Then Geno Smith scored 21.48, Cooper 22.5, Corum 17.1, Trey McBride 27.1 and Luther Burden 23.7, and John E. beat his projection by 49.09. Sean scored 129.52 — CeeDee Lamb 24.4, Ashton Jeanty 21.6, Josh Jacobs 20.1 — which is the fourth-highest losing score of the season, and left Caleb Douglas (21.0) and Caleb Williams (19.12) on his bench. Sean has lost three in a row; John E. is 2-5 and leads the series 16-6.

Anthony 100.54, Michael 97.40. Third straight week: James Cook, on a bye, started, 0.0; Davante Adams, on injured reserve, started, 0.0. Michael needed 16.85 from Mahomes and Kenneth Walker in Seattle and got 13.7, and lost by 3.14 with Tre Tucker’s 21.3 on his bench — the second straight week Tucker has out-scored the margin from the bench. Michael’s record in games with dead lineup slots is 1-2. Anthony’s 131st regular-season win came on Drake Maye’s 25.44 and Braelon Allen’s 19.4, with Blake Corum, traded that morning, scoring 17.1 for John E. The series is 14-9 Anthony. Michael falls four places in the power ranking, the largest drop of the week.

The week

Fourteen teams scored 1,476.78 points, an average of 105.48, up from the season-low 93.90. No team finished under 70; Tim’s 73.60 was the low for the second straight week, again with Lamar Jackson started while listed Out. Four of the seven winners scored under 108.

Josh 136.28, Jonathan 106.62. Josh, who had three bye-week starters in his lineup on Thursday morning, had none by Sunday: Joe Burrow 27.88, Tee Higgins 26.8, Colston Loveland 19.9, T.J. Hockenson 13.5 in the flex, 31.24 over projection. Jonathan got 31.3 from Jaxon Smith-Njigba on Sunday night and 24.2 from Amon-Ra St. Brown and 1.3 from Roschon Johnson; Cam Skattebo scored 19.1 on the bench a week after his 0.0 in the lineup. Jonathan is 5-2, still alone atop the Magic Castle; the series is 13-7.

Nick 107.62, John P. 79.22. John P. carried the week’s second-highest projection, 122.42, and finished 43.20 under it, the largest miss of the week: Bryce Young 2.42 with Kirk Cousins at 18.4 on the bench, Sam LaPorta 2.8, the Texans defense 3. Nick dropped Michael Penix on Sunday morning, started Jared Goff (16.02), and got 23.2 from KC Concepcion in the flex. The series is 18-8 Nick, his widest over anyone.

Jeff 102.68, Tim 73.60. Tony Pollard scored 36.5, the week’s top line and 21.83 over his projection, the week’s largest beat; Sam Darnold, starting for Josh Allen, and Travis Kelce added 22.38 between them on Sunday night. Jeff is 5-2 and leads the Smith House on record. Tim started Lamar Jackson (Out, 0.0) and Brian Thomas (bye, 0.0) and got 23.4 from Quinshon Judkins; he stays on 74 career wins. The series is 8-4 Jeff.

mike 111.40, Owen 95.48. Bucky Irving 23.0, Puka Nacua 21.8, Ollie Gordon 17.3; Javonte Williams scored 21.5 for Owen on Monday and Zay Flowers 27.7 on Sunday, while Nico Collins scored 2.6 against a 17.07 projection, the week’s largest individual miss. mike is 4-3; Owen is 2-5 and still leads the series 12-7.

Standings

Jonathan (787.62) and Jeff (819.64) lead the two conferences at 5-2. Behind Jonathan, mike, Anthony and Kevin are 4-3; behind Jeff, Sean, Timothy and Michael are 4-3, and Sean’s 843.50 points are the most in the league, at 4-3. John E., 2-5, has scored 766.78, more than every Magic Castle team except Jonathan and mike, and has allowed 869.36, the most in the league. The Smith House leads the conference scoring 5,528.78 to 5,078.50.

Magic Castle

Smith House

Records and streaks

Kevin–Timothy, 0.92, is the season’s third-closest game. John E.’s 146.98 is his season high, by 20.28, and the league’s highest total since mike’s 187.72 in Week 5. Sean’s 129.52 is the fourth-highest losing score of the year. Kevin reached 90 regular-season wins and Anthony 131; John P. and Tim stay on 109 and 74. Sean has lost three straight after a 4-0 start. Michael has played three straight games with at least two dead lineup slots.

Projections and injuries

The projected favorite went 3-4 and is 29-20 for the season, 59 percent. Both of the week’s largest team-level beats were underdogs who won — John E. (+49.09) and Josh (+31.24) — and both of the largest misses were favorites who lost: John P. (−43.20) and Timothy (−33.73). Among starters: Tony Pollard +21.83, Jameson Williams +13.60, KC Concepcion +13.50 and Omar Cooper +13.11 on the high side; Nico Collins −14.47, Jalen Coker −13.72, Bryce Young −12.68 and Garrett Wilson −12.13 on the low. Four starters carried projections of zero into the week and scored zero: Michael’s Cook and Adams, Tim’s Jackson and Thomas. For Sunday: Emeka Egbuka (Timothy, concussion), DeVonta Smith (Nick, hamstring), Brian Robinson and Rashid Shaheed (Owen), Dontayvion Wicks (Kevin, ankle) and Zach Charbonnet (John E., knee, now listed as a torn ACL) are Out; Lamar Jackson (Tim, ankle) remains Out; Mike Evans (Anthony, Achilles) remains Out; Davante Adams (Michael) remains on injured reserve, now with a hamstring listed.

Transactions

Seventeen moves since last Tuesday, including the first three trades since Week 3 — all involving John E., who made eight of the seventeen. The Thursday waiver run gave John E. Omar Cooper and the Browns defense, mike the Jets defense and Zonovan Knight, Jonathan Harrison Butker and John P. Ryan Flournoy; John E. then lost a claim on Knight on priority, and the same morning signed Pitts and Geno Smith. Saturday’s waiver run gave Owen Emanuel Wilson (releasing Jalen Hurts, on injured reserve) and Jonathan the Chiefs defense; Jeff signed Dominic Zvada to kick for Cameron Dicker on his bye; Timothy signed Darius Cooper Saturday night and started him in the flex for 2.7. The Cooper–White trade went through at 6:57 Sunday morning and was reversed, with the pick swap, at 8:27; the Corum–Tyson trade cleared at 11:34.

Power ranking

Market value, not results: 70 percent the FantasyCalc value of each roster’s best legal lineup, 30 percent the whole roster. Anthony stays first, with a roster value of 32,756 that is more than 2,700 ahead of anyone else. Jeff climbs two to second and Jonathan three to third, the week’s largest rise, on a best-lineup value up 932. Sean and Timothy each fall two. John E. climbs two to sixth after a week of trading; his roster value, 29,715, is now third in the league. Michael falls four to ninth, his best-lineup value down 1,740. The bottom four — Kevin, Owen, Josh, Tim — are unchanged for the second straight week.

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 6 recap’s ranking; Draft = the post-draft ranking of September 9. Projections are Sleeper’s pre-game player projections scored with this league’s settings; injury designations are Sleeper’s as of Tuesday morning. All-time rankings this week are against the league record lists (top ten scores, top five margins, each manager’s career high and low).