With the Chicago Bears on the bye week, it felt like a good time to update anyone who has been following the series of articles on the WCG Dynasty Fantasy Football League.
We did a series of articles over the summer that included an introduction, grading the draft, and analyzing each team’s roster (If you search “Dynasty” in the search bar, all the articles will pop up for you).
Let’s take a look at how the league has developed 9 weeks into the season.
At the top of the standings is Mason West. We said
that Mason was going to contend for a championship this year. The concern was how it was going to look after this year with an aging roster. Does it matter? Mason is undefeated at 9-0 and putting up a monstrous 311 PPG.
For reference, scoring over 300 is a huge week; Mason is averaging doing it on a weekly basis. 280 to 299 is an excellent week. 260 to 279 I would call a good week. 240 to 259 is decent. 220 to 239 ain’t great. If you are scoring below 220, it’s a brutal week. If you are below 200, just go ahead and quit.
Mason can hit you from multiple directions, whether it’s Patrick Mahomes, a running back trio, or some elite WRs and a solid defense; the key on these teams is having enough talent that if a couple of players have a rough week, you have plenty of players able to pick up the slack.
While Mason is 9-0, he has some company. Jeff Berckes also sits at 9-0. Before the season started, JB took a big swing and traded away a pile of draft capital for Bijan Robinson. We thought JB was a playoff team before Bijan; we were worried about his depth. With Bijan, his team is clearly the 2nd best team in the league. He’s scoring around 290 PPG, which is also quite a hefty number. There is still definitely a depth concern with JB’s team, but he’s rolling out Joe Burrow, Bijan Robinson, and JSN. That trio is going to push you towards a lot of victories, which has clearly been the case so far.
After the top two, things really start getting cluttered. Lester Wiltfong sits in 3rd place, but he was 6-1 and has currently dropped 2 straight. The other issue for Lester is that, while his record is strong, he’s averaging 249 PPG. That puts him 8th (out of 14 teams) in scoring. Lester’s scoring output would make you think that his record should be closer to 4-5, not 6-3, but he’s pulled out some victories and is a couple more wins away from most likely securing a playoff spot. Lester has a solid defense and a nice running back duo with D’Andre Swift and Jonathan Taylor, but his receivers are just not generating enough points right now.
There are three teams tied at 5-4. Adam Hess, Brandon Robinson, and Will Ingalls. Poor Will. One of the few guys in the league who is rebuilding and not trying to win, but somehow he keeps putting up Ws. He’s only averaging 237 per game, which is the 2nd lowest output in the league. Making the playoffs would seem like a great Cinderella season, but Will would almost certainly be outmatched by the likes of JB and Mason, and with the 2027 draft looking pretty strong, Will is definitely going to want a top 3 or 4 pick and not be 9th thanks to an early playoff exit.
Adam and Brandon are both roughly where they should be. Their scoring outputs are both in the top half in the league, and they are both just above .500. We expected Brandon to battle for a playoff spot, but we thought Adam had a couple of holes to fill before he was ready to compete, specifically at running back. Before the season, he was trotting out Ashton Jeanty and a hope and a prayer. After a couple of trades, he now runs out Jeanty, Christian McCaffrey, and Bucky Irving. He has some young WRs playing well and a couple of big scorers on defense; this team can definitely make the playoffs and make a deep run.
Brandon will most likely make the playoffs thanks to a nice RB duo, a solid defense, and a couple of WRs that can put up points, but his QB room is disastrous. His best QB is Sam Darnold, and what’s more alarming than that is that his 2nd-best QB is probably JJ McCarthy. This team can make the playoffs but would be surprising if it can win a playoff game.
Our two hard-luck teams are Redacted and Dan Meehan. Redacted is 4-5, Meehan is 3-6. Both of them hold the 3rd and 4th most points per game in the league, but have been on the unfortunate side of some big opponent outputs. Redacted could use his WRs to start putting up some more points, but the talent is there to make the playoffs. He could flirt with a little roster construction and trade away some depth at certain positions to help out with some weaker ones, but I expect this team to make the playoffs, though they probably don’t have a championship pedigree.
Meehan has been frustrated with his bad luck and has made some moves to try and reimagine the roster and see if that can help him for this season and the future. There’s talent on the roster, and a lot of it is pretty young. If he can get some scoring out of his defensive line, the playoffs this season are possible if he can get hot.
We do have another pair of 4-5 teams with Quinten Krzysko and Kev H. I think both these teams are in the rebuilding stage and probably not headed for the playoffs this year, but both have decent records at this point. Looking at Q’s roster, he has a lot of pretty good players, but he doesn’t have a lot of top-end talent. He’s going to need to secure some if he’s going to push his team into the top tier of the league.
Kev is in a bit of trouble. Due to injuries, his 2 QBs are Daniel Jones and Carson Beck. He has a deeper team, but his starters have similar point totals to his bench. Some of his bigger point scorers are on the injured list, but this is another team that’s lacking in elite point scorers. Kev has been working on restructuring his roster, but I fear he has more to do.
Next we have a pair of 3-6 teams that are both in the midst of losing streaks. Myself, I’ve lost three straight, and Ron Luce has been in the wrong column for 4 straight weeks. Ron has a foundation but needs to build out the rest of his team. Lamar Jackson’s injury certainly hasn’t helped, but he has plenty of scorers on defense and Jahmyr Gibbs on offense. But his highest-scoring WR is… KALIF RAYMOND?!? Dear God.
I was curious if my team was ready to try and make a playoff push or if it needed another year of adding talent. My running back room was razor thin, and after injuries to RJ Harvey and Jeremiyah Love, there’s nothing left in the cupboard. We are officially a year away from hopefully working our way back into the playoffs.
There are two teams bringing up the rear: Jacob Infante, who sits at 2-7. If you read the articles over the summer, Jacob inherited a dumpster fire of a team that had Bijan Robinson and nothing else. A king’s ransom was had, and he traded away Bijan, but he is going to need a couple of years of shrewd drafting to get this team turned around.
Last place is pretty stunning with Tyler Volz. Tyler was a solid playoff team last year, and we thought he was going to contend again this year. But he sits at 1-8 in last place. There are quite a few Chargers and Eagles on the roster in key spots, and that’s going to doom you pretty quickly in 2026. It’ll be curious to see if Tyler tries to run it back next year and hope for some better luck, or if he feels he needs to rip it down to the studs.
At this point in the season, it’s clear Mason and JB are headed to the playoffs, but I think the other 4 spots are up for grabs. I’ll give you a prediction, and we will see how things shake out later in the season. I think Adam Hess and Redacted make it. I think Lester will struggle down the stretch, but I think he has enough to grab a playoff spot. I think the final playoff spot goes to Brandon.
We certainly look like we are headed towards a JB vs Mason championship, but if one team ousts one of them, my money is on Adam Hess.
