Stray Doug said:
Well maybe as a start we could do it just based on bye week? I'm definitely curious how many $ teams have on bye this week (amongst the remaining 1000).
Okay, here's what I've done. I've tagged all players who are on IR, who are listed as "out" or "doubtful" as of this morning (there weren't any doubtfuls in the pool), who are retired (Luck and Gronk), who are free agents (here's where it's possible I've missed a signing or a cutting), and who are on bye this week. I only looked at living teams.
Our old friend solgrun, Entry 106155, who I prematurely declared dead a couple weeks ago, leads the pack with 11 players unavailable this week (Rivers, Stafford, Mack, Ekeler, Thompson, Kirk, Fitzgerald, Hardman, Benjamin, Hogan (still on IR as far as I can tell), Gonzalez).
Feldy (Entry 106876) is missing only 7 players, but they amount to a whopping $131 of salary. Rostering Cousins, Cook, Ekeler, K. Allen, Thielen and Kirk probably should've sent up some red flags before the season started. Hooper just adds, well, injury to injury.
On the flip side, there are 8 teams who go into this week with their entire rosters available. The champion here is Entry 109546, who has a 25-player roster.
The average team has 3.80 players unavailable this week and $51.90 of wasted salary. I'm a bit worse than average: 4 unavailable players and $69 (nice) of wasted salary.
If we go by Woody Allen's maxim that 90% of success is just showing up, the 500th team by unavailable players is at 4, and the 500th team by wasted money is at $51, so if you're above those numbers, you could be in trouble.