2017 Fantasy Football Eliminator Challenge: Week 3

Welcome to the Week 3 update of the Fake Teams Fantasy Football Eliminator Challenge!

Week 2 saw incredible games and incredible fantasy football performances. Let’s take a look at how our entries did in Week 2:

Heath Capps won a very tight week 2 with a total of 100 points. The average score this week was 91 points. It is obviously a small sample but both week 1 and week 2 winner have been the only entries to hit triple digits. Capps set himself apart from the other entries by using Rob Gronkowski. The TE selections this week were mostly bad with the exception of the 2 owners who picked Gronk. Gronkowski(17) joined Ty Montgomery(22) as the leading scorers for the winning team. Capps was also super consistent with his performances. No player scored less than 7 points for him.

Under the rules of this contest all 7 entries who competed in week 1 & 2 will be without the 16 players they selected going forward. A reminder of players that are ineligible to select for Week 3 are:

For those new to the challenge, here are a few ground rules. The format is basic enough; construct a lineup using the following roster setup: 1QB, 2RB, 2WR, 1TE, 1DST, & 1K. We will use standard ESPN scoring which is can be found here. This is NON PPR where a 5 catch for 32 yard day equals 3 fantasy points. Passing touchdowns are 4 points. There isn’t even a salary cap when setting the lineup!

The challenge is you can only select each player ONCE per season! That means if you pick Aaron Rodgers in Week 1, you CANNOT choose him again Weeks 2-17. Matchups play a HUGE part in this game, but so do injuries. Wait too long on using Rob Gronkowski and he could suffer an injury which leaves him unusable in your available player pool for the rest of the season. We are using 2RBs and 2WRs per week to make it even more difficult.

For those joining us in Week 3, you have the entire pool of players at your disposal! We will have new winners each week! In addition to that, we will also have a season long total and a weekly average leaderboard.

Please post your lineups in the comments below. I will update this weekly (most likely Wednesday) with the leaderboard and you will put next week’s lineup in that post! Feel free to ask any questions in the comments below as well. Thanks for the read and please share this post to grow this challenge and the Fake Teams community!

There is still time to enter! Enter the contest before the 1st slate of games on Sunday. Entries at this point cannot use players from Thursday's Rams/49ers game.