Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Groovers
Coach Hunt
148.79 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Zach’s Barn of Horrors
Coach Drew
Rico Dowdle - 34.4 pts
Our game of the week was the spiciest one yet, as the rising Pineview Knights kicked off the week with a slam dunk from CMC, 27 points, fresh off the controversial trade mishap between Scallon and Drew. Guess CMC decided to show Scallon why he should remain a Knight. Despite the all-around effort from the rest of his team and a total of 131 points this week, which was good enough for 3rd highest score in the league, Hunt’s Groovers were just that much better, posting two 30-burgers, from Jonathan Taylor and the electric Emeka Egbuka. Hunt’s rookie sensation is currently WR3 on the season, and helped lead Hunt to a $15 high score performance, extending his all-play record 71-14 and most importantly, a perfect 5-0 start, maintaining his two-game lead in X-IA. Scallon falls to 2-3 in Papa Jord’s.
Our other perfect team, Austin’s BiJanShulShonRobnSonSonSo, was able to remain so against Chris and the surging Can’t Bench These Vibes this week, thanks to two stellar Jets? performances, which is a sentence you don’t say every day. Garrett Wilson has produced all season as the current WR5 but rookie Mason Taylor has seen a increasing target share every week and posted his first 20 burger in the loss vs Dallas. Austin will get his team namesake back off bye next week and look to keep things rolling, but remains at 2-game advantage in Papa Jord’s. Chris falls to 3-2, losing his co-lead with Nick in the Cul-de-Sack.
Hunt and Austin’s 5-0 start makes them the 7th and 8th teams to ever pull that off in the IFL. As you might expect, they have had the two easiest schedules in the league, though even the disparity between the two of them is significant. Hunt’s opponents have averaged 94.6 PPG while Austin’s have averaged just 82.9 PPG. Nevertheless, first and third in all-play record, respectively, speaks for itself, and 5-0 is 5-0.
Our other division leader, Nick, and Alexa, Draft My Team, who has had a wild up and down season, sends division rival and league returnee Joe to 0-5, re-grabbing the Cul-de-Sack division lead and a 4-1 start. Nick had 3 near thirty-burgers from Dak, Chase and Javonte Williams, and 134 points put them firmly over Joe’s 114 point game. Nick has the highest standard deviation of any team this season, posting a roller coaster score line of 82 - 152 - 82 - 106 - 134 and somehow only losing in week 3 thus far, a true wildcard team. Joe, at 0-5, still has had the 7th best all-play record in the league at 46-39, and if you’re wondering, only the 2nd toughest schedule this season, facing an average PPG of 118.8 thus far, nearly 36 PPG more than Austin’s faced. But with two PPG playoff bids up for grabs, his season’s certainly not over yet.
Oh and the toughest schedule this season? Why that honor belongs to the Commish’, of course, who faces a Superbowl performance week in and week out, opponents averaging 123 PPG. But despite Jesse’s Meet MY Kids reversing their negative scoring trend this week, Breaking Veg was able to hold on to their Sunday lead, winning 108-103, and clawing their way to 2-3. Jesse falls to 3-2 in back-to-back losses.
Qualley remains the hottest coach in the league over the last 4 weeks (135 PPG), standing on business this week over the coldest coach in the league over the last 4 weeks (82 PPG) and on the season (87 PPG), Curtis, winning 116-93. Qualley wins his third game in a row and continues his impressive turnaround after is 0-2 start. Curtis falls to 1-4, but will look to turn things around in Week 6 against a bye-laden Breaking Veg.
Of course, there are more embarrassing ways to arrive at 1-4 than losing to the hottest team in the league. How about losing to a team with 4 players on bye, all of whom are undroppable, in a 3-bench league. That means that Jack and the Pronto Stache were playing not only without 3 of their stud players this week, they were playing without a TE period. Just 7 guys started in a 8-guy game. Am I painting the picture clearly enough? Despite the Doc literally playing with one arm tied behind his back, his squads 87 points were more than enough to crush Brady’s ALL-TIME D, who mustered a mere 80 points with a full 8-man starting block, and I’ll also point out, no byes to contend with. The worst loss I’ve seen in all my years as Commish’ and I’ve seen Brady lose twice to become IFL Loser of the Year.
Man I love fantasy football.
Papa Jord’s extends their lead by a couple more games, and X-IA has a solid week, separating from the CdS a bit.
Drew and TC post perfect weeks, putting Drew into a tie with the Commish’ at the top, and TC a game back.
