Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Top 25 from Week 9

Previous Top 25's for reference:
Top 25 from Week 7
Top 25 from Week 8

Week 9 ended with the Bears rallying in the fourth quarter against the struggling Eagles on Monday Night Football. The Top 25 points scorers in a standard Yahoo! Public League has a few surprises, highlighted by the strong numbers from some of the non-elite quarterbacks. Here's the the list:



Week 9 Yahoo! Public League
Top 25 Scoring
Player
Fantasy Points
Vincent Jackson
32.1
Aaron Rodgers
31.08
Julio Jones
28.4
Willis McGahee
28.3
Philip Rivers
28.3
Tim Tebow
24.76
Carson Palmer
22.58
Matt Moore
22.06
Matt Ryan
22
Andy Dalton
21.08
Arian Foster
21
Tony Romo
20.46
Marshawn Lynch
20.3
Mike Tolbert
20.2
Reggie Bush
20.2
Drew Brees
19.32
Matt Hasselbeck
19.18
Michael Bush
18.9
DeMarco Murray
18.6
Tom Brady
18.18
Eli Manning
18.1
LeSean McCoy
17.7
Ben Tate
17.5
Ben Roethlisberger
17.5
John Skelton
16.68


The stranglehold that running backs had on the top spot was finally broken this week and it was not a by quarterback. This week's top scorer was a wide receiver, Vincent Jackson who was followed by Aaron Rodgers, Julio Jones, Willis McGahee and Philip Rivers. Jackson being the top scorer is surprising due to his numbers this season being below preseason expectations, but not unexpected. Unlike Week 8 when 4 running backs were in the top 5, this week only 1 made and it was not a elite one in McGahee. Jones was the major surprise in this group, but only in that he made it so high in the list, not in that he had a great breakout game (see Week 9 Start/ Sit Part 3: WRs for why a breakout game was expected).

The rest of the major surprises of Week 9 are Carson Palmer, Matt Moore, Andy Dalton, Marshawn Lynch,  Reggie Bush and John Skelton #7, #8, #10, #13, #15 and #25 respectively. All of them had unexpected good games out of nowhere with the exception of Andy Dalton who is turning out to be a great pick for the Bengals. None of them should be expected to be on this list consistently at all just as the surprises in Week 8 (Laurent Robinson, Curtis Painter, Scott Chandler, Brent Celek and Curtis Brinkley) did not make it into this week's list.

As usual for Yahoo! leagues, quarterbacks have a large presence at the top thanks to the scoring format and everybody should keep this in mind when looking at the numbers from some of the quarterbacks in the bottom range.


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