Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Groovers
Coach Hunt (3rd time this season)
171.24 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Meet MY Kids
Coach Jesse
Jahmyr Gibbs - 39.7 pts
(Hunt had the highest and 2nd highest scoring players this week, but can’t win both weekly awards, so it falls to #3 Jahmyr this week!)
I mean, very easily this entire recap could be about Hunt’s team. Despite starting his second consecutive game without a kicker, his Groovers score the most points in the league this week, decimating Chris and Can’t Bench These Vibes 171-91, the third highest point total by any team all season, with 52.1 points from Jonathan Taylor. JT’s performance is the best by any player all season, edging out the previous best of 45.3 points from Brock Bowers last week. It also ties Dalvin Cook’s 2020 Week 8 performance for the 8th best in IFL history!
Of course, with the win the Groovers are now the first ever team to start the season 10-0, and Hunt now owns the longest and third longest single season win streaks in IFL history. There’s also the matter of his scoring, which is also historically high. If the season ended today, his 131.79 PPG would be the third highest of any team in IFL history, adjusted, only beaten by Jord’s 2018 133.7 PPG Momma Cat and TC’s 2019 132.7 PPG Don’t Mess with the Zoquon squads. And then there’s point differential - which at 26.32% higher than the league average this season would actually make the Groovers the most dominant team in IFL history if that were to hold, besting TC’s same Zoquon squad of 24.13%.
Lastly, before I shut up about Hunt, his Groovers is also only the second team in IFL history to win his division and clinch the playoffs with 4 weeks left in the regular season, following fellow X-IA coach Jesse and his 2019 team 3-2-1 Spike. That’s right, the Groovers are your 2025 X-IA champ, and that leads us to taking a look at the current playoff standings. If the playoffs started today, here’s where we’d be:
CURRENT PLAYOFF STANDINGS
Hunt’s Groovers (10-0) [X-IA CHAMP] *Clinched Playoffs
John’s Pineview Knights (7-3) [PJ Leader]
Nick’s Alexa, Draft My Team (6-4) [CdS Leader]
Drew’s Zach’s Barn of Horrors (6-4) [Wildcard Leader] X-IA
Jack’s Pronto Stache (6-4) [Wildcard Leader] X-IA
Jesse’s Meet MY Kids (6-4) [Wildcard Leader] X-IA
Qualley’s Des Moines Football Team (5-5) [PPG Leader - 118 PPG] PJ
Jord’s Yes Chef! (6-4) [PPG Leader - 108 PPG] PJ
X-IA, who has been the most dominant division this season, would grab all three wildcard bids, and notably all three of those current wildcard slots would win this week, Drew’s Zach’s Barn of Horrors knocking off Qualley 106-95, Jack’s Pronto Stache beating Nick’s Alexa, Draft My Team 112-100, and Jesse’s Meet MY Kids going full Ivan Ooze on TC 160-71. Jesse, whose team has seen a resurgence in the second half of the season, has actually averaged the second most points in the league over the last four weeks with 135 PPG second only to Hunt. Spikey hot!
Papa Jord’s, who remains to be led by Scallon and his Pineview Knights, who would win their 5th consecutive game, this week against Father Dady 97-87, also have two bonus entries to the current playoff standings, Qualley, and Jord’s Yes Chef!, who as as it stands would earn the two outstanding PPG bids.
Of course, with four weeks to go, and a bevy of 5-5 teams, the playoff teams will assuredly change, and even a team like Joe’s, who did see their second victory of the season and back-to-back, smoking Brady 134-115, could snatch a PPG bid, sitting at 102 PPG on the year, just 6 shy from Jord’s average.
Finally, although he’s still active duty, I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank Curtis for his service on this week of Veteran’s Day, and point out that he has quietly resurrected his team from the brink of irrelevancy, winning his third straight game this week, beating Austin 100-88, and clawing his way back to 5-5 and threatening Nick’s lead of the division in what may be his final season. Salute to you, sir!
X-IA gives itself a little breathing room, and CdS digs themselves out of their hole, but it may be too little too late.
Well, I forgot to pick the first three games this week, thought I’d give you all a chance to catch up a bit, and Drew and Jord at least, take advantage.
