Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Yes Chef!
Coach Jord
156.18 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Zach’s Barn of Horrors
Coach Drew
Rico Dowdle - 36.9 pts (BACK TO BACK WEEKS)
While we did have some spicy finishes this week, our Game of the Week wasn’t one of them, as Austin and BiJanShulShonRobnSonSonSo lost their joust with the Pineview Knights 78-113. Amazingly, 55.5 of Austin’s points came from his two best players, Jayden Daniels and league winner Bijan Robinson. Scallon got a little more all-around production from his team but did enjoy another 30-burger from George Pickens. Austin puts his first game in the L column on the season, and Scallon gets back to .500, while doing his newly found Papa Jord’s division a favor, keeping the division leader at just a two game lead.
Staying with Papa Jord’s, Papa Jord himself had a coming out party, showing his former landlord Qualley that the 2024 champ isn’t going to just roll over this season, cooking up an 8-course meal, and walloping the Des Moines Football Team 156-103. Of course Jord got off to a piping hot start with the Skattebo hat trick in TNF, but 7 of his 8 starters had 17.65 or more points and that’s just a bit too spicy for most people’s palates. These two even up at 3-3, joining Scallon and TC, who would get stomped by Nick this week 78-117.
Nick’s team has kind of gone under the radar in recent weeks, after falling from #2 in the pre-season power rankings all the way to #9 in Week 5, his team has quietly won three in a row, and now sits at 5-1 with the 4th best PPG in the league, and maintain their one game lead in the Cul-de-Sack.
The team a game back in the CdS - Can’t Bench These Vibes had a unbelievable win over the Course Rangers, in a game where both teams combined for just 129 points, Chris would win 69-60. It’s the worst score from both coaches all season, but for Ewoldt, it’s the lowest score of any team through 6 weeks.
Now to the nailbiters. We had Brady, and his reliance on James Cook, story of his season, to outscore Nelson’s Kyle Pitts in MNF by 4 points, a feat that despite the bizarre throttling the Bills received by the Falcons, James Cook pulled off and Brady would climb to 2-4 with a 81-79 victory.
Then there was my sorry team, who were sitting pretty needing just 22 points from my 3 remaining players to put Curtis and Last Ride in the dirt. But unlike Brady, the stupid Bills’ anemic offense severely impacted the most embarrassing WR1 in the league, Keon Coleman and the ancient kicker GOAT Matt Prater, who would combine for just 5.85 points. No problem, though, as my rookie phenom Jacory Croskey-Merritt went for 28 points last week and 16 points for him is child’s play, surely. I knew I was cooked when he fumbled on like his very first carry. He would finish with just 6.3 points, and Curtis would get his second win of the season, scoring more than 100 points for just the second time this year. Curtis’ Last Ride ain’t over yet.
But my favorite loss this week, by far, was Drew’s, who despite having like a 95% chance to win headed into MNF, choked it away to the Doc, whose Drake London 30-deuce and 16 more from DJ Moore and Buffalo DST were more than enough to outpace Josh Allen’s sorry quarterback play as the reigning MVP, who could only muster 12.4 points, throwing two picks and fumbling twice. Imagine drafting him in the second round, am I right? Oh yeah, if there’s one thing that will get me through this week, it’s thinking about Drew pissing this one away. The Doc climbs to 4-2 despite a 45-57 all play record - that’s a two-time champion for you. And yet he remains two games back in X-IA, because Hunt did it again.
6-0. Now the highest scoring team in the league, and the most consistent, the Groovers put up 122 points despite Emeka Egbuka exiting his game early with an injury. The lightning and thunder duo of De’Von Achane (RB4) and Jonathan Taylor (RB1) has been a brutal one to face, and Father Daddy, who put on a valiant effort from SNF to MNF (60 points from Mahomes and Swift) would lose 112-122. Hunt remains perfect as Daddy falls to 2-4.
X-IA has a big week closes the gap between them and Papa Jord’s, while sending Cul-de-Sack further in the hole.
Chris is the only picker to correctly predict Jord over Qualley this week and goes perfect to boot, sending him into second place, one back from the Commish’.
