Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Zach’s Barn of Horrors
Coach Drew (2nd time this season)
141.44 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Last Seen at Brady’s
Coach Joe
Brock Bowers - 45.3 pts
You might think that the IFL wouldn’t get any spicier than Rivalry Week, but Week 9 did just that. Four games were decided in MNF, and six of our nine matchups were decided by 10 or less points, including one that was decided on one of the last plays of the game last night.
But first, our Game of the Week. Despite architecting his dream team via the historic 6-way trade, and 9 out of 10 pickers preferring Jord and Yes Chef! over Drew and Zach’s Barn of Horrors, and Jord getting a near 40-burger from Caleb Williams in the completely ridiculous Bengals / Bears game, Drew’s team just refused to go away, with Josh Allen and Rico Dowdle both putting up 30, and really his whole team contributing, and that put Jord down about 14 going into MNF. But his RB1, Javonte Williams had a quiet night, and Drew would upset Jord 141-131. Both teams move to 5-4.
For Drew, he still remains four games back in X-IA, as division leader Hunt and the Groovers would win their 9th consecutive game this week, 118-112 over Jack and Pronto Stache. Hunt got a little help from the fantasy gods on this one, as Jack lost two players mid-game, CJ Stroud with a concussion, and Tucker Kraft with an ACL tear. The latter of which is a huge blow for Jack, as Kraft has been a top 4 TE this season. Jack falls to 5-4 with about half the league, and Hunt’s 9-0 start makes him the first ever 9-0 team in IFL history, and just the fourth team to ever go on a 9-game win streak in a single season. Hunt did coach one of the previous three teams that had a 9-game win streak, his 2021 Groovers team, who would actually go on to win 13 in a row, the all-time single season record, which is to say, he’s likely not done yet.
For Jord, he falls back a game in Papa Jord’s, as Papa Jord newcomer Scallon and his Pineview Knights break out of the 3-way tie with their fourth consecutive win, this week just narrowly coming bac and beating Jesse and Meet MY Kids 103-101, thanks to 21 points from George Pickens and Jake Ferguson last night. As Jesse falls into a 3-way tie at 5-4 for 2nd place in X-IA with the aforementioned Jack and Drew, Scallon climbs into a one-game lead in Papa Jord’s.
Jord remains hot on Scallon’s heels, but so does Qualley, who would deliver Austin his 4th consecutive loss this week, in a devastating 118-116 defeat. Remember that roller coaster meme about Austin’s teams from a couple years ago? Yeah, that still checks out. Devastating to lose another game, and that close, but mainly devastating because Austin’s Jayden Daniels suffered a brutal dislocated elbow in the Seahawks game, which may knock him out for the remainder of the season, though X-rays were negative, and the exact timetable remains to be announced. Qualley and Austin would even up at 5-4 with Jord, desperately chasing Scallon down.
Making our way to X-IA, we had our wildest finish of the week, Daddy vs Nick, a matchup that only required about 16 points from Dak Prescott to give Nick the comeback victory, and a feat he had accomplished in 5 of 8 games this season, and a feat that he would accomplish last night against the Cardinals, as prior to the very last snap of the Cowboys/Cardinals game last night, Dak had earned 17.9 points, and Nick led by a point. But in a desperation 4th and mile, Dak would throw an interception, and flip the game back to Daddy’s favor, and Nick would lose 76-78, a crushing defeat for Nick and an epic win for Daddy. Father Daddy is keeping the division in play for the rest of the Cul-de-Sack, as Nick’s lead is cut to just a single game, and with Chris’ team sleepwalking their way to victory over my horrendous Breaking Veg 103-85, Daddy and Chris are now just a game back.
Lastly, huge shoutout to the other fellow league returnee Joe, who with the return of the chosen one, Brock Bowers, and a ridonkulous 45.3 points, finally gets to put a one in the W column, putting the hurt on TC 137-104, and ending his 8 game losing streak.
Papa Jord’s closes the gap between them and X-IA, as the CdS is soon to be relegated to the shadow realm.
Drew goes perfect in pick ‘em, as the only picker to believe he had a chance against Jord.
