Scott Fish Bowl 16 Scoring Upgrades: Trey McBride, A.J. Brown & More

Monday, July 7th marked the annual slow-draft kickoff to the biggest fantasy football charity tournament of the season—Scott Fish Bowl 16.

Never void of an entertaining scoring system, the SFB16 scoring brings us back to prioritizing players that put up video-game-like numbers.

With slow drafts kicking off, I wanted to highlight players I am upgrading in my SFB16 draft room that cater to the scoring system in place. We’ll go piece-by-piece through the nuances of the scoring system to highlight who you should be moving up your SFB draft boards.

As a reminder, you can track your SFB16 draft and every other league with the official SFB16 tool.

Players To Upgrade In SFB16 Scoring

Big plays are the name of the game in SFB16, with point bonuses being awarded for 40-plus-yard passing and rushing plays (+10), 20-plus-yard receptions (+10), as well as first-down bonuses (+0.5 for every first down—rush/rec—and an extra point for a TE first down).

To help sift through who benefits from the aforementioned bonuses, I took a look at the TruMedia database from 2025, outlined below (excluding QBs).

From a macro-level, below are how often each bonus occurred in 2025 (via TruMedia):

Rushing First Downs (3,667)
Receiving First Downs (5,871)
100-yard Rushing Games (95)
100-yard Receiving Games (152)
40-yard Rushes (78)
20-Yard Receptions (1,557)

Based on the above data, it's crystal clear that pass catchers should be your top priority in SFB16.

Big-Play Receiving Upside

Below is a list of the 2025 leaders in first-down receptions.

The biggest callout here is easily Trey McBride, who, as a tight end, finishes top-six in first downs among all pass catchers. His 63 first downs in 2026 would result in an additional 94.5 fantasy points, whereas every player ranking above him would get an additional 71-80 points. McBride is the biggest upgrade on the board when strictly looking at first-down upside.

While McBride gets a significant upgrade in SFB16 scoring, he only had 12 receptions of 20+ yards last season. With each 20-plus-yard reception netting you an additional 10 points, you’ll want to target big-play wideouts more than arguably any other position/profile, especially with their propensity to record 100-plus-yard games (another bonus in SFB16).

Below are 2025’s leaders in 20-plus-yard receptions.

Five notable upgrades in this format for players outside of the traditional first round in redraft:

George Pickens (22 receptions of 20-plus yards)
Emeka Egbuka (20)
Zay Flowers (19)
Parker Washington (17)
Tetairoa McMillan (17)

The other element of big-play bonuses that you get rewarded for in SFB16 is the 100-yard bonuses. Below are the leaders from 2025 in 100-receiving-yard games.

Despite the poor QB play and run-first focus of the Eagles offense in 2025, A.J. Brown continued to show his big-play ability, notching five separate 100-yard receiving games. With a gunslinger at QB in New England, I’m banking on Brown hitting on more splash plays than he did last year, making him an elite upgrade in SFB16, especially considering New England’s WR1 from last season—Stefon Diggs—ranked top-10 in 20-yard receptions (17) and top-five in 100-yard games (5).

Big-Play Rushing Upside

Jonathan Taylor's 84 first-down rushes led the NFL last season, and his 4 rushes of at least 40 yards ranked second among all rushers behind only Jahmyr Gibbs (6).

From a running back perspective, Taylor may have an argument to be the RB2 in SFB16 behind Gibbs and leapfrog Bijan Robinson. Both offenses have question marks, but Taylor was able to clear Robinson in first-down rush rate (85.8% to 80.6%), first-down rushes (84 to 63) and 40-plus-yard rushes (4 to 2). The one place where Robinson edges out Taylor is in the receiving game, where he logged 34 first-down receptions (2nd among RBs behind Christian McCaffrey).

Speaking of McCaffrey, he’s a bulletproof option in this format given his involvement in both the rushing and receiving game. In 2025, he recorded 48 first-down receptions, 6 catches of at least 20 yards, 4 100-plus-rushing-yard games and a whopping 71 first downs via rushing.

I briefly hit on it above, but 100-yard games are also a lucrative milestone to chase in SFB16’s scoring. While TruMedia doesn’t track 100-plus-yard games of the rushing plus receiving variety, let’s take a look at the leaders in 100-yard rushing games in 2025:

I don’t mean to continue to beat a dead horse, here, but have I mentioned the upgrade that Jonathan Taylor should get in this format? While he may not have the same upside as a dual-threat RB like Jahmyr Gibbs, there is simply no more game-breaking running back in the NFL from a rushing perspective.

Two more running backs to upgrade based on the SFB16 scoring:

Derrick Henry (BAL): 79 first downs (2nd), 8 100+ rush games (2nd), 4 40+ yard rushes (T2nd)
Breece Hall (NYJ): 57 first downs (9th), 4 100+ rush games (T5th)