The outcome of Week 2 of Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball highlights the impact of the league’s revised captain selection process, as going by the weekly Leaderboard, rather than the season-long Leaderboard, resulted in a different foursome claiming the captaincies for Week 3.
While Odyssey Sims and Maddy Siegrist would have earned the top two captain positions regardless of method, the prioritization of weekly points allowed Isabelle Harrison and Maya Caldwell to take the last two slots. On the season-long Leaderboard, Ty Harris and Crystal Bradford, both of whom were Week 2 captains, are in third and fourth place, meaning they would have remained as captains under the former selection process.
All of four Week 3 captains played for Team Siegrist in Week 2, a testament to the squad’s absolute dominance of the AU action. Team Siegrist went undefeated, netting wins by 18 points, 21 points and 10 points. Now, we’ll see if Siegrist herself again has drafted a superior squad, or if her now-former teammates will compile groups capable of going undefeated for the week.
Week 3 tips off on Wednesday, Feb. 19 when Team Harrison meets Team Siegrist (6 p.m. ET) and Team Sims faces Team Caldwell (8:30 p.m. ET). Both games will be available through the WNBA App or FanDuel…
