A Full Breakdown Of The Worst Fantasy Football Weekly Score Perhaps Ever Recorded (1.22 Points)
I think we have a winner for worst fantasy football output of all time. If this is real. I'm choosing to believe it is and based on the tweet I saw it from I didn't see anyone debunk it, so that's good enough for me.
Let's have a little fun and break this down.
What's crazy here is that you probably couldn't have gotten a worse Week 6 team if you hand picked the worst performing relevant players yourself. I know this because I have a computer automate the worst possible team just about every week for lulz. My only stipulation to make the team realistic looking is that each player must have been started in at least 30% of ESPN leagues. For instance here were a couple automated teams from earlier this season:
And here was Week 6:
For those not scoring at home 7/9 started players from Jack Attack appear on my automated sad team. However, his scoring has the Cowboy's at -7 vs my -1. And since Tyler Bass wasn't started in 30% of leagues, he wasn't considered realistic enough to be qualifying.
It's particularly impressive that Jack Attack beat the computer in finding the worst possible team. Let's review some notes on how he did positionally:
- 13 quarterbacks were started in 30% of leagues or more in Week 6 of which Dak came in 13th place
- 31 wide receivers were started in 30% of leagues or more and all three he played came in 29th, 30, and 31st.
- Out of 26 tight ends started in 1% of leagues or more Dallas Goedert was the only one to fail to score. Dead last. 26/26
- Things get weird with running backs because Ezekiel Elliott was only started in 7.8% of leagues making him an especially odd choice. But out of 48 running backs started in at least 1% of leagues, Etienne came in 47th place, and Elliott in 39th.
Let's forget about running backs for a moment and figure the odds of playing the worst semi-realistic quarterback, tight end, and three receivers. Given the pools of each position, we can simply multiply 31 * 30 * 29 (for the three receivers) * 13 (quarterback pool) * 26 (tight end pool) which works out to a 1 in 9,115,860 chance. Again - that doesn't include the running backs who are very much not great either.
There's only one thing left to do here. Jack Attack did a good John Henry impression in beating the machine to a worse fantasy football score, but what happens when I set aside the "realistic" safeguards by not caring what percent of leagues players were started in?
Total Score: -6.56
So while things could technically have gone worse for Jack (or even funnier, his opponent the Green Machine) I still think it's fair to say that's never happened before.