Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Groovers
Coach Hunt
150.11 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Pineview Knights
Coach John
Christian McCaffrey - 41.6 pts
We’ll get to the sick-o snoozefest our Game of the Week was, but first thing’s first, let’s hype up Hunt’s team so that we inevitably jynx them in their matchup next week, and don’t worry about who that matchup is, it’s not important.
Hunt would cruise to 7-0 this week, slaying rival Broncos fan Curtis 150-111 behind one of the more bizarre 40-burger performances we’ve ever seen in fantasy football by Bo Nix. The Broncos, as you may know, trailed 0-19 headed into the fourth and Bo had maybe 1 or 2 points, but proceeded to deliver 174 passing yards, 2 passing touchdowns, 48 rushing yards and 2 rushing touchdowns in the fourth quarter to not only give the Broncos the comeback win, but gave the Groovers the highest score of any team this week, and Hunt’s second $15 award this season.
So let’s put 7-0 into some context. In our 12 seasons & 190 teams, the IFL has seen five 7-0 teams, three of whom have gone on to 8-0. Already in elite territory. Let’s look at those five 7-0 teams and how they finished the season:
2015 Daddy’s Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory (12-3) - 2nd Place
2016 Brady’s Twenty Deuce (12-3) - Superbowl Champ
2019 Jesse’s 3-2-1 Spike (9-6) - 4th Place
2021 Drew’s (F) Shak (10-7) - 4th Place
2023 Ewoldt’s The Course Rangers (9-8) - 8th Place
Interestingly, those five teams had a combined Week 8 and beyond record of 27-27, but the crucial fact for Hunt is that all five teams made the playoffs. Another tidbit, only one of those five 7-0 teams led the league in scoring through 7 weeks, and that was Brady’s 2016 Superbowl Champs, which certainly bodes well for Hunt. And Hunt even has a higher point differential compared to the league average than Brady’s team that year 22.1% vs 15.7%. Which makes sense given that Hunt currently rosters the highest scoring player in the league Jonathan Taylor, but also the RB6 Achane, the QB7 Nix, the WR7 Egbuka, and the WR10 Sutton. The guy is coming for it all.
Okay, now that we’ve thoroughly put the bad juju on Hunt with no ulterior motives whatsoever, let’s look at our Game of the Week, where despite Jord’s Yes Chef! crashing back to earth with literally less than half the points the scored the previous week with 75, their season low, they would get their third straight win, as Chris’ Can’t Bench These Vibes put up an even lower season low of 64 points. Jord climbs to 4-3 as Chris falls to 4-3.
Elsewhere Nelson does Jord a favor, as he scores his season high with 127 points, delivering Austin his second consecutive loss after starting 5-0, and his lead of the Papa Jord’s divisions falls to just a game. Qualley and Scallon both take advantage as well, crushing TC 127-65 and giving Joe an unbelievable 0-7 start 122-104, respectively. Both Qualley and Scallon climb to 4-3 with Jord, and all continue to chase Austin.
Joe, like the yin to Hunt’s yang, at 0-7 is just the 5th team to ever pull off that feat, even rarer territory than Hunt. While we’re in the history books, let’s take a look at the four 0-7 teams and how they finished:
2017 TC’s Dirty Mike and the Boys (3-12) - 15th Place
2020 Drew’s DrewBot (2-12) - 15th Place
2023 Chris’ Scrantonicity All-Stars (6-11) - 11th Place
2024 Nick’s Curtis’s Bronco Coat (5-12) - 13th Place
Good news for you, Joe, three of the those teams would win in Week 8. TC would go on to lose two more before finally winning in Week 10.
Finally, since the IFL is two-thirds Class of 2010, I’d like to shoutout the reunion attendees we had!
It was really cool to see all these beautiful faces we grew up with again, and it was weirdly like we never left. I am going to personally see to it that the 20 Year is bigger and better and I hope we get Nelson-esque perfect attendance for it.
Rivalry Week next week, gents! Previews to come. Good luck.
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