Welcome to Week 4! To kick things off, let’s see who the biggest fuckup in Week 3 was (Spoiler, it’s Trigger!).
Congrats on the league as a whole, we really cleaned things up this week – after averaging 20 errors through the first two weeks, we saw a total of only 14 in W3. This resulted in some outrageously high-scoring games and several blowouts. Probably especially hard for the Commish, who dropped over 2100 and still lost, when 1900 has been enough to get it done more often than not.
We also came back to Earth on the Coaching Losses this week, after 50% of the first twelve games were decided by Marty Mornhinweg-esque decisions, W3 saw only one catastrophic misstep – The Dutchmen. Trigger, who lost the closest game of the week during MNF, left Kyle Hamilton on the Bench to the tune of 435 points, instead starting the Cowboys’ Donovan Wilson, who scored 65. The game was decided by less than 100 points.
| Coaching Losses | |||
| Year | Losses | Weeks | % |
| 2019 | 10 | 13 | 12.82% |
| 2020 | 4 | 13 | 5.13% |
| 2021 | 12 | 14 | 14.29% |
| 2022 | 15 | 14 | 17.86% |
| 2023 | 7 | 3 | 38.89% |
So, how has this affected the season rankings?
| Rank | Prev | Coach | Loss | 50-99 | 100-199 | 200-299 | 300+ | Total | Points |
| 1 | 2 | Dave | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |||
| 2 | 3 | Josh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 5 | Ryan | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | ||
| 4 | 3 | Matt | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | |||
| 4 | 5 | Kyle | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | |||
| 6 | 7 | Steve | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 18 | ||
| 7 | 8 | Kronner | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 20 | |
| 8 | 1 | Trigger | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 21 | |
| 8 | 9 | Kaiser | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 21 | ||
| 10 | 9 | Chris | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 23 | |
| 11 | 11 | Tim | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 28 |
| 12 | 12 | Jones | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 29 |
As Trigger plummeted down the board from the top spot all the way down to an 8th place tie with Mork, we see a lot of shakeups here, with Jones and McLeod the only managers who stood pat this week.
Despite an impressive showing for DUMP OF THE WEEK, Kasier had only one paltry 50-point lineup mishap this week, which seems to indicate his GM has done a pretty shit job thus far, and he’ll need to look outside, rather than to his bench for help in W4.
For Dave, not only is his team top-two in the standings, but he’s also first here. Traditionally, this has not been in Dave’s wheelhouse, so those coaching seminars at the Y really must have paid off this summer.
The Skippers continue to prove a dominant roster-builder, saddled with ham-fisted coaching, we’ll see if their powerhouse roster can put it all together this week and repeat their showing from W3.
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