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2024 · Commissioner's Championship
Cousins filled starts, but the benchmark stayed ahead
Kirk Cousins covered five quarterback starts for Crixus07 from a waiver acquisition, but the scoring trailed the league benchmark. His 15.1 points per start compared with the other teams' 18.3 average weekly starting-QB median over those exact weeks. Only one of the five appearances cleared that weekly median.
- QBKirk Cousins
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Acquisition totals include only starts with a stable ownership spell across the historical game-date window. Unknown origins remain separate; these totals are not ranked against peers.
Supporting facts
- 27 successful regular-window claims; free-agent adds and failed bids are excluded. Other-13 claim median: 14.
- Kirk Cousins: 5 attributed starts / 75.3 points.
- Drake Maye: 3 attributed starts / 53.9 points.
- Deshaun Watson: 4 attributed starts / 52.5 points.
- All attributed waiver starts: 54 / 462.5 points. Total roster scoring: 1,485.3.
- Known zero-dollar successful bids: 16; missing bid amounts: 0. The season budget was 100; no remaining-budget claim is inferred.
- Above the weekly median in 1 of 5 starts.
- Week 6: Kirk Cousins 12.5; other starting QBs' median 21.
- Week 7: Kirk Cousins 9.2; other starting QBs' median 16.8.
- Week 8: Kirk Cousins 27.6; other starting QBs' median 19.2.
- Week 9: Kirk Cousins 16.8; other starting QBs' median 18.
- Week 10: Kirk Cousins 9.2; other starting QBs' median 16.5.
- Rationale: the five-start contribution is 75.34 points. The benchmark averages the other 13 teams' occupied-QB medians over Cousins' actual 2024 start weeks, rather than all-season player production.
Comparison and window
Same 2024 league and scoring, only weeks 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Compute the median of the other 13 teams' occupied QB starters each week, then average those weekly medians. Rank compares cumulative QB-slot scoring for all teams over those identical weeks, including different starting quarterbacks on peer teams. Ties share a rank. This is not an NFL-wide quarterback rank. The average weekly median and the ranking of team totals are different comparisons. Starter-level means at least within one point per start below that benchmark, not proof of a bargain or an improvement over the previous starter.
Coverage limits
- 2 weekly roster arrays have no exact within-window replay state; snapshot timing is unresolved.
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