WaiversSeason story
2024 · Commissioner's Championship
Tagovailoa brought a short-run scoring edge
Tua Tagovailoa's five starts for Toflmao were more than short-term coverage. The waiver pickup averaged 21.8 points against the other teams' 18.4 weekly starting-QB median and beat that benchmark in four of those starts. His 108.9 points ranked third among the fourteen teams' QB-slot totals over those identical weeks.
- QBTua Tagovailoa
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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
- 13 successful regular-window claims; free-agent adds and failed bids are excluded. Other-13 claim median: 16.
- Tua Tagovailoa: 5 attributed starts / 108.9 points.
- Austin Seibert: 6 attributed starts / 71.6 points.
- Minnesota Vikings: 8 attributed starts / 70 points.
- All attributed waiver starts: 29 / 371.2 points. Total roster scoring: 1,437.2.
- Known zero-dollar successful bids: 4; missing bid amounts: 0. The season budget was 100; no remaining-budget claim is inferred.
- Above the weekly median in 4 of 5 starts.
- Week 10: Tua Tagovailoa 9.2; other starting QBs' median 16.5.
- Week 11: Tua Tagovailoa 22.5; other starting QBs' median 19.
- Week 12: Tua Tagovailoa 28.5; other starting QBs' median 16.6.
- Week 13: Tua Tagovailoa 25.2; other starting QBs' median 19.
- Week 14: Tua Tagovailoa 23.5; other starting QBs' median 20.8.
- Rationale: both the matched weekly benchmark and the identical-week team QB-slot totals support a five-start scoring edge. This is not an NFL or individual-player season rank, a cost-efficiency claim or an assumed improvement over the incumbent.
Comparison and window
Same 2024 league and scoring, only weeks 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. 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
- 3 starts (6.4 known points) have uncertain acquisition origin.
- 1 weekly roster arrays have no exact within-window replay state; snapshot timing is unresolved.
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