MikeBosh just set the league record and Joewald3 is still 5-0. ryanjenn356 is 0-5 and the Shamp index has already made up its mind.
Week 5 median was 162.97, and the week belonged to MikeBosh, who dropped 223.74 — the highest single week in the Sleeper era, breaking a record book that stretches back through 424 matchups. tfalasz answered with 189.86 and lost by 33.88, which is the closest game of the week and also the cruelest. Elsewhere, sdoebler buried gaberios 183.84-135.44, Joewald3 ran to 5-0 by hanging 65.36 on GKrum, and ryanjenn356 fell to 0-5. One team is undefeated. One team has not won a game. Neither was on anyone's preseason list.
THE RECORD WEEK THAT COST SOMEBODY A GAME
MikeBosh's 223.74 is now the best week in the Sleeper era, and the man it landed on is tfalasz, who scored 189.86 — a number that beats every other winning score in Week 5 and still went in the loss column. That is the whole tfalasz experience in one line. He sits 1-4 with 754.1 points for and 900.8 against, the worst points-against figure in the league by 67.2. All-time he is 35-40 with a minus-1 luckWins, so the schedule is not conspiring against him historically. It is just conspiring against him right now, with enthusiasm. MikeBosh, meanwhile, leads the grudge 6-4.
The defense: MikeBosh is the reigning 2025 champion and has an all-time all-play of 46.7 percent, meaning the record week is an outlier on a resume built from average. Posting 223.74 once does not convert a 38-37 career into a dynasty. tfalasz can take comfort that his 189.86 would have beaten everyone else in the league this week.
JOEWALD3 AT 5-0 AND THE 29-41 PROBLEM
Joewald3 is 5-0 with 840.96 points for and 624.18 against — the best mark in the league on both ends. This is the manager who went 29-41 across 2021-2025, dead last in five-year wins, and who owns exactly one title, 2021, which the league has treated as a historical accident ever since. He is 34-41 all time with a 48.3 percent all-play. Now he is the only undefeated team, he just handed GKrum the biggest blowout of the week at 65.36, and his points against are 110.08 lower than anyone else's problem. Five weeks does not erase five years, but it is a start.
The rebuttal: 624.18 points against in five weeks is a schedule, not a skill. Joewald3's career playoff record is 4-1, so the man does know how to finish, but the regular season has never been where he lives. Siks78 at 4-1 has scored 821.18 and is one soft week behind him.
GABERIOS IS 2-3 AND THE GOAT CASE IS STILL FINE
sdoebler hung 183.84 on gaberios and won by 48.4, dropping the two-time champion to 2-3 with 796.6 points against. Let the record show the context: gaberios is 52-23 all time, a 69.3 winning percentage, 59.3 percent all-play, 144.81 per game, 7-2 in the playoffs, titles in 2023 and 2024, runner-up in 2022 and 2025. He is also plus-6 in luckWins, which is the one crack in the case. sdoebler leads the league in career points with 10876.46 and points per game at 145.02, and gaberios still leads that head-to-head 5-2.
The rebuttal: sdoebler is minus-6 in luckWins with a 47-28 vs-median record and zero Sleeper-era titles against two pre-2021 trophies from 2016 and 2019. He has been the better scorer for six years and gaberios has the rings. Week 5 was a receipt, not a reversal.
THE SHAMP RACE
ryanjenn356 is the Shamp favorite at 55.1 percent, and it is not close. He is 0-5 with 584.46 points for — 124.68 behind the next-worst team — after losing to HogCityDog 174.58-132.46, a grudge HogCityDog now leads 7-3. His history offers no alibi: 35-40 all time, 44.1 percent all-play, 134.8 per game, 31-44 against the median, plus-4 luckWins. GKrum is second at 12.3 percent after the week's low score of 98.78, which is bleak but he is 3-2. tfalasz is third at 9.6 percent despite 137.42 per game. The basis is 36 percent this season, 64 percent league history, which is the Gazette's own index and leans hard on six years of ryanjenn356 being exactly this.
The defense: a 64 percent history weighting means the number is mostly about 2021 through 2025, not about Week 5. GKrum at 12.3 percent is 3-2 with the worst score of the week, and tfalasz at 9.6 percent has outscored both of them per game for six years. The index is slow. ryanjenn356 is faster at losing.
record book notes
- Best week, Sleeper era: MikeBosh, 223.74, 2026 Week 5 — new entry
- Worst week: GKrum, 63.16, 2025 Week 8 — he came within 35.62 of revisiting it
- Biggest blowout: GKrum over earios by 106.84, 2023 Week 4
- Narrowest game: gaberios over GKrum by 0.24, 2022 Week 11
- Most career points: sdoebler, 10876.46
grudges that moved
- HogCityDog leads ryanjenn356 7-3 after Week 5
- MikeBosh leads tfalasz 6-4 after the record night
- gaberios leads sdoebler 5-2 despite losing by 48.4
- Siks78 leads earios 5-4 after winning 161.8-123.18
- Joewald3 trails GKrum 3-4 but took the 65.36 beating back
The all-time table
| 1 | gaberios | 52-23 | 10,861.1 |
| 2 | sdoebler | 41-34 | 10,876.5 |
| 3 | MikeBosh | 38-37 | 10,283.6 |
| 4 | Siks78 | 37-38 | 10,526.2 |
| 5 | HogCityDog | 36-39 | 10,113.2 |
| 6 | tfalasz | 35-40 | 10,306.5 |
| 7 | ryanjenn356 | 35-40 | 10,110.3 |
| 8 | Joewald3 | 34-41 | 10,241.7 |
| 9 | GKrum | 34-41 | 10,002.3 |
| 10 | earios | 33-42 | 10,657.6 |
Week 6: Joewald3 tries to stay perfect, and ryanjenn356 tries to score 150 for the first time this year.