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Fantasy Football Week 9 Takeaways: Surprises & Disappointments (2022)

Fantasy Football Week 9 Takeaways: Surprises & Disappointments (2022)

If you’re like me, you spend a good portion of your week staring at your fantasy lineup, stewing over who to start/sit and gaming out your odds of victory. But sometimes, none of that planning and obsessing ends up mattering in the slightest. Sometimes, you’re facing Joe Mixon.

Mixon’s slate-breaking Week 9 highlights one of the main complaints with fantasy football’s standard head-to-head matchups format. It doesn’t matter how good your team is if your opponent has one player who completely goes off.

Thankfully, there are some steps you — or your commissioner — can take to transform your league into more of a meritocracy. One idea is to award the final playoff spot to the team with the most points, rather than the best record. Another option is to have a second weekly “matchup” against the median score in your league, a la the Scott Fish Bowl. You could even do both.

But enough about league rules. That’s something to figure out in the cold, dark days of January when the fantasy season is over. Let’s get back to that incredible Mixon performance, shall we?

Top 5 Surprises

Joe Mixon’s 5-TD day shows the power of positive regression 
Mixon entered Week 9 ranking second among running backs in expected fantasy points per game (PPR), but just 17th in actual fantasy points per game. In other words, he was getting great usage in a high-end offense, it just wasn’t translating to big numbers. That is the kind of data point that made Mixon a terrific buy-low candidate, but it’s safe to say the buying window slammed shut on Sunday.

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