Cali DFS: a ten-dollar flex bought the $55, and four hundredths saved Jon
Week 4 is final. vu-INAL took the $55 at 139.96 with two strikes still in the pocket. gary-41TUQ and sjslacker took the stamps. Jon-12N2G7 survived by 0.04.
By Skip Krump, Senior Columnist, Unlicensed League Psychiatrist
Week 4 is final. Every lineup is at zero minutes remaining, and the scores have stopped moving. vu-INAL won the weekly $55 on 139.96 Yahoo DFS points. The two strikes, the Week 4 quota, went to gary-41TUQ at 88.22 and sjslacker at 90.78. Jon-12N2G7 finished at 90.82 and survived by four hundredths of a point. vu-INAL still has two strikes. One bad week ends the season-pot run. Nobody has three. Nobody is out.
The luck that paid the rent
vu-INAL's box score looks like a plan after the fact, which is how luck always introduces itself. Nico Collins scored 27.30. Emanuel Wilson, a $10 flex, scored 25.50. Malik Nabers added 20.20 and Bryce Young 21.46. That is the weekly prize, sitting in four names. Dalton Kincaid scored 1.20. The hole did not matter, because the cheap running back and the wideouts had already bought the penthouse. The $55 is real. So is the fact that vu-INAL walked in with two strikes and walked out with the cash and the same two strikes.
hieu-3S3PB finished second at 128.36. Drake Maye scored 27.16 and Javonte Williams 28.80, a convincing argument that stops one spot short of the money. Twomp took third at 126.12, carried by Tetairoa McMillan's 38.20, the biggest single number on the slate, and still could not catch the two-strike winner. VoBster finished fourth at 123.38 with the same McMillan explosion and another 25.50 from Emanuel Wilson. Ja'Marr Chase scored 4.20. Fourth place is a nice view of someone else's check.
Daniel-1A2JAF finished seventh at 102.56 with the same Bryce Young and the same Nico Collins the winner had, and a much quieter rest of the card. Same names. Different week. KaeptainMICHAEL landed fifth at 105.42. More on that quarterback below.
The final board
Four hundredths, and two new stamps
gary-41TUQ is last at 88.22 and takes a first strike. Deshaun Watson scored 13.92, Derrick Henry 14.90, Aaron Jones Sr. 14.80. Nothing broke the game open. A whole salary cap, and the week still ended in the basement. That is the stamp.
sjslacker takes the other stamp at 90.78, also a first strike. Jahmyr Gibbs was in the flex and scored 15.70. Drake London scored 12.10. Kyler Murray scored 11.48. The lineup was alive and still finished tenth, four hundredths behind Jon-12N2G7. Jon already carried a Week 3 strike into this contest and did not add another. 90.82 is not a moral victory. It is a fingernail on the windowsill. steven-4MF6E finished eighth at 91.44, clear of the second strike by 0.66, with Jonathan Taylor's 22.20 doing the heavy lifting and Marcus Mariota scoring 5.34. Close enough to sweat. Not close enough for the stamp.
dan-8EDQG finished sixth at 104.22 and stayed at one strike, the Week 1 stamp. Bijan Robinson scored 27.20 and Brian Robinson 25.20. Those two covered a pair of zeros.
The bad luck that was not a decision
Caleb Williams is out with a hamstring. Ben Johnson said Monday that Williams will not practice in Week 5 and is still week-to-week, not day-to-day. He was not in any of the 11 lineups. KaeptainMICHAEL had Tyson Bagent instead, and Bagent scored 9.82 in the Bears' win. That is the quarterback the card got. Jayden Daniels is out with a left elbow. Dan Quinn said Monday the Commanders are aiming for a full practice week and a start against the Giants. That is a hope, not a date. steven-4MF6E's lineup had Marcus Mariota, who played and scored 5.34. Monday, the club said Mariota has a sprained MCL and the timeline is not set. Jayden Reed is on injured reserve with a neck injury and did not appear in a contest lineup. On dan-8EDQG's card, Yahoo listed Keenan Allen and Terry McLaurin Out. Both scored zero. ESPN lists Allen Out with no public diagnosis in the table, and lists McLaurin Out with a hamstring while the Commanders sort out Wednesday's practice. The zeros were bad luck. Sixth place was the rest of the card doing the work.
The sheet, and the strike count
House math, because somebody will ask. $10 in. $55 to vu-INAL. $55 to the season pot. Eliminated teams can still hunt the weekly. Nobody is eliminated yet. vu-INAL just proved the weekly door stays open on the way to the exit. The next bad week is the one that matters.
