Through six weeks of the 2026 season, LFSP owners have combined for sixteen shotgun-triggering performances — a 0-or-negative scoring output from a starting lineup slot, per the league's founding bylaw. Twelve of those have been paid. The remaining four, from Week 6, are still outstanding. This is, by any measure, a remarkably consistent output, and it deserves the same statistical attention this publication gives win-loss records.

The distribution tells its own story. Courtney Stevens leads the league with three shotguns, a figure made more notable by the fact that two came from empty lineup slots in a single Week 5 outing — a league ruling confirmed that nothing counts as nobody, and the zero stands. Four other owners — Alan Costanzi, Chad Acevedo, Tanner Darrell, and Chris Stevens — sit at two apiece, each with one still unpaid from Week 6.

The worst single performance of the season belongs to Tony Dapontes, whose Week 5 start of Tyler Shough produced a historic −0.66 — the only shotgun performance this season to finish in negative territory on a true skill-position player, and the current league record. Chad Acevedo's Week 6 Jaguars defense, which finished at −0.12 and still won its matchup by 38 points, is the rare example of a shotgun-triggering score that had precisely zero impact on the actual result.

Zoom out, and a pattern emerges: the Shotgun Rule, designed as a punishment for roster negligence, has become something closer to a universal tax. Every team of substance has paid it at least once. It is not a marker of bad ownership so much as a predictable cost of doing business across seventeen weeks of starting lineups, bye weeks, and the occasional kicker who simply does not show up.

Through five weeks of close calls, six players have finished within 1.5 points of a shotgun without triggering one — a reminder that the gap between "fine" and "filmed, publicly, before next Sunday" is often a single late-game garbage-time target. The shotgun economy shows no sign of slowing as the season moves into its second half.