Week 9 Recap

Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Hunt
Coach Hunt
140.89 pts

Highest Scoring Player ($7)
No Nonsense Nelson
Coach Aaron
Kenneth Walker - 36.8 pts

Week 9’s Game of the Week shook up the standings, alas, as John’s Pineview Knights easily dispatched Oarling Haaldand’s Boat Club 104-88, his 6th straight win. John is now the owner of the longest win streak in the league. Meanwhile, Doc’s On-Call Killers gave Drew a prostate check, and was pretty rough about it, winning 127-77. That sets up a 3-way tie at the top, with Jack currently at #1 with best PPG. If playoffs started today, John would actually grab the #1 seed, due to head-to-head tiebreakers, but fortunately, they don’t, and as fate would have it John and Jack will play each other next week for what will be a HOT matchup between two HOT coaches. For now all three 7-2 teams lead their respective divisions, but only Jack has a two-game cushion.

John was finally able to shake the tie he had been in with Daddy, who would lose to Clay this week 102-119 and fall to 6-3, but he is still well positioned for the playoffs. Clay would climb to 6-3, and after winning three in a row, is now just a game back in the Cul-de-Sack.

The Cul-de-Sack and Papa Jord’s have a two-headed giant thing going on, but X-IA is bit different. Ewoldt and Jesse would both lose this week, while Aaron would win, and that puts them all at 5-4 and all two games back off Jack. If the playoffs ended today; however, only one of them would get in.

Hunt once again displayed a flash of his high power ranking, posting a league high 141 points (6th most by any team this season), sending TC on yet another Odyssey, who would score 98. Hunt has scored 140+ points in 3 of the last 5 weeks, but also has a 60 pt and a 89 pt score mixed in there, so wildly inconsistent. Still, I’d rather lean toward not playing him if I could. At 3-6, he’s still a ways from a wildcard bid, but if continues to up his PPG like this, he’ll have a got shot at that entry point.

Joe, on the other hand, is not quite living up to expectations, as his 87 points against Nelson’s 119 were good for his second loss in a row, and falling to a 3-6 record. It also comes with a Stevenson injury, which he looks to be without for a few weeks. Despite his issues, he still has the second highest PPG in the league, so it’s not like the sky if falling exactly.

Aaron and Austin both snapped two games skids this week, shoutout, but Brady finally stopped digging his way to the center of the earth, beating fellow future father Ewoldt 97-70 and snapping his 4 game losing streak. Brady is now 2-7 and back in a tie with Drew, who guess what…? LOST THIS WEEK. 🤣 The race to the bottom of this league could not get more desperate and sad and I just absolutely love it.

Not much doing here, save the Cul-de-Sack falling further behind.

The Commish’ narrowly holds onto his lead as TC remains on his heels.

[Highlight] Corgi goes rogue at halftime of Panthers game
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The Commissioner

Week 8 Recap

Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Hunt
Coach Hunt
143.8 pts

Highest Scoring Player ($7)
On-Call Killers
Coach Jack
Tee Higgins - 38.5 pts

This update is going to be short and sweet, because I’m busy, okay! Gosh. But honestly, for the most part, Rivalry Week turned out to be a snoozefest, with blow outs all around and only a single game fell within 15 points of each other. That game was my own Oarling Haaland’s Boat Club was a doozy, as Nick seemingly had the game in check all the way until I fell asleep late in the third quarter of SNF. When I awoke, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Commanders defense continued to put the beatdown on the Eagles and Rachaad White would score a late touchdown that would flip the game, and give me my 6th consecutive win; while Nick would fall to 3-5. Better luck next year, NikeNick.

Now I usually would never do this, and maybe results of the election have me too much on cloud nine, but Drew won this week, snapping his 5 game losing streak. Not only that, but he beat Brady, who now becomes the de facto worst team in the league and falls to 1-7. Don’t get me wrong, at 2-6 and a 42-94 all-play record, Drew’s team is absolutely god awful. But you know what, maybe it’s just for this one week, but good for you, Drew. You beat the worst coach in the league.

Funnily enough, Brady’s 72 points this week had him worried prior to the final tally that he might go for the record of lowest score of all-time, which at 45.37 points by Daddy in 2019, I assured him he was safe, but then along came Qualley. His Des Moines Football Team made history this week, posting a unbelievable 40.24 points, blow the record out of the water. For posterity, here is his roster’s performance this week:

Aaron Rodgers — 3.88
Jordan Mason — 3.00
Ryan Flournoy — 13.61
Sam LaPorta — 7.50
Omarion Hampton — 3.70
Emanuel Wilson — 0.00
Will Reichard — 0.75
Denver Broncos DEF — 7.80

To have 5 players score under 4 points, and just a single player over 8 is truly unheard of, and I shudder to think of the team that could ever surpass such a feat. As you might expect his Week 8 rival won handily, 107-40, and Jack’s On-Call Killers would climb to 6-2. Qualley falls to 4-4.

That’s it for this week, like I said, short and sweet. See you next!

X-IA gets back on track and shores up their lead.

An impressive showing from TC and Joe, who both went 7/9, helps TC close the gap to just a single pick off the leader, as Joe climbs into 9th.

[Highlight] Amon-Ra lines up 20 yards back, gets the reception for a first down on 3rd and 8
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The Commissioner

Rivalry Week 2026

The Iowa Fantasy League’s 4th annual rivalry week is here. Winners of their respective rivalry will receive $10 FAAB.

Let’s take a look at the matchups:

TWIN DADDIES

What are the odds that two league members would have twins within a year of each other? With 1.5% of all pregnancies resulting in twins, a roughly 8-year window of nearly 20 children among the league, AI says 1 in 175 or 0.57% chance. Now what about guys that typically throw one pass and score two touchdowns? Considerably higher, one would have to guess. Real talk, Ewoldt & Chris, vasectomies are in your best interest.

The Twin Daddies enter on equal footing at 4-3 on the season, but Ewoldt has had the much stronger season beneath the surface, averaging 112 PPG to Chris’s 105 and sitting near the top of the league in all-play. Chris has the better power ranking at #5 and comes in on a two-game winning streak, while Ewoldt just rebounded with 117 points behind 32.55 from Jaxon Smith-Njigba. Ewoldt has dominated this series 8-2; however Chris did win most recently last year.

Richards Bros

How can you compete against little brother? No matter what they do, they’re always beloved. In Jord’s case, it’s really tough. Austin’s got a better beard, better Photoshop skills, and a greater appreciation for good names, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Jord will always have experience on his side, looks GOOD in a tank, and has recently forged himself into a superior golfer. Who’s better at Magic though? Well, that’s kind of a inconsequential, as they’re both terrible.

At 2-5 apiece, this year’s Richards Bowl carries considerably more family pride than playoff prestige, but the loser gets the particularly unpleasant distinction of falling to 2-6 at his brother’s hands. Jord has been the hotter Richards lately, averaging 108 over his last four and getting 26.5 from Bucky Irving and 20.8 from Puka Nacua last week. Austin sits slightly higher at #7 in the power rankings, but enters off just 87 points and now has to prove the experts know something the standings don’t. This series has flipped with Austin winning back-to-back meetings, and now leading 3-2.

scenic view drive basement wars

When I first moved to Iowa Falls, Nick’s house was a revelation. A finished basement. Virtually zero parental supervision. A fully stocked fridge and pantry. A kid’s dream. But as time went on, so too was my own basement finished. A space of my own, sure, but a space that could compete as THE spot to hang out. Nick’s basement has a bar? My basement gets a bar. Nick’s basement has a pool table? My basement gets a pool table. Run of the mill CRT at Nick’s? How about the world’s heaviest 4:3 big screen TV at Zach’s that would shortly upon it’s arrival get wax spilled down the inside of the screen, staining it permanently. The basement wars went on and on like this for some years, with Nick’s largely winning due to the aforementioned lack of supervision, but at their peak there was a truly unusual peace treaty between the basements that is still storied to this day. It was the fabled Halo 2 1v1s era, where so as to completely avoid screen cheating in any way and have the ultimate one-sided viewing experience, we would have one combatant play from my basement and one from Nick’s. I’m telling you the Scallon versus Nate 1v1s have fed and will continue to feed us for generations. While Nick ultimately won the war by default, as I moved away, the rivalry is continued anew in the IFL.

The Commish’ enters 6-1, riding a five-game winning streak and ranked #4, while Nick sits 3-4 at #13 with the league’s 16th-ranked scoring offense. The Commish’ has averaged a scorching 120 points over the last four weeks and just got 29 from Trey McBride and 27 from Drake Maye, though Nick did finally snap a four-game skid last week. This is one the IFL’s two most storied rivalries, as these two Cul-de-Sack foes have had 13 meetings, and Zach leads 9 to 4, with Nick winning most recently.

CYCLONES VS HAWKEYES

Scallon is the most sensible person I know. Despite being one of the biggest Cyclone fans in the country, he always holds himself to reason, and will adhere to its logic. TC is beyond a stan of the Hawkeyes, he is closer to a religious zealot or a freedom fighter, who will hear no slander against anyone or anything even tangentially related to the Hawkeyes, and will respond vulgarly and violently if he does. Unfortunately for Scallon, the battle between logic and blind passion is one that can’t really be won.

John has quietly ripped off four straight wins to reach 5-2 and #6 in the rankings, while TC has dropped two straight and fallen to #11 despite still averaging 112 PPG with one of the league’s best all-play records. TC’s offense showed signs of life again with 113.10 last week, but John’s steady 105 PPG and league-low scoring variance have made the Pineview Knights one of the IFL’s most reliable teams. TC has dominated this matchup, leading the series 6-2; however Scallon has won back-to-back meetings.

most interesting
men in the world

Cuba imports cigars from them.
Mosquitos refuse to bite them purely out of respect.
In museums, they are allowed to touch the art.
Even their enemies list them as their emergency contact number.
They bowl overhand.
They can identify UFOs.
They gave their fathers “the talk”.
They once went to a pyschic to warn the psychic.
Their blood smells like cologne.

They’re polymaths, Renaissance men, Übermensch. Jack, the doctor, the scholar, the philosopher, father, runner, mustard/tuna/sardine connoisseur. Qualley, the auditor, the patron, the cosmopolitan, father, runner, hunter/hiker/fishermen. Only one of them can win their respective rivalry, but they’ll both walk away better for it.

Jack enters 5-2, ranked #2, leading the league at 115 PPG, and owns the second-best all-play record in the IFL; Qualley is 4-3 but sits all the way down at #17 and averages 96. Jack’s five-game winning streak ended last week despite another 113 points, while Qualley won his second straight despite scoring only 75.22. Conventional statistics favor Jack heavily, but conventional statistics have never adequately measured either of these men. Qualley leads this series 4-3, and both coaches are looking to build upon their winning records this season.

SOUTH AMERICAN CONQUISTADORS

Long before Jesse and Tanner ever tangoed in the IFL, these two toiled over a hotly contested realm in the illustrious board game Risk. While they never housed as many of Linda’s Doritos as Jack, or downed as many cream sodas as I did, they did obsess over one thing, a specific geographical region in fact - South America. While it wasn’t as easily defensible as Australia, controlling South America gave you access to two crucial continents, from which you could launch your campaign, and whether it was the strategy of it, or just the exotic nature of the land, they would typically ensue in a 1v1 for the ground until one or the other was spent. It was most often to their detriment, as the winner would typically be weakened and easily destroyed by another adjacent opponent who the pair had previously just ignored. And here they are, battling it out again.

Few matchups better illustrate the absurdity of the power rankings. Hunt is 1-6 but somehow still #3, while Jesse is 5-2 and somehow #15. To make matters even stranger, they produced the two lowest scores in the entire league last week - Hunt at 59.66 and Jesse at 58.09. Jesse has the vastly superior season résumé, but if history has taught him anything in this rivalry, it’s that controlling more territory doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to win the war. This series is all knotted up 6-6, but incredibly Hunt has won 5 straight.

BACHELOR PARTY ABSENTEES

A friendship as old as time. One forged by being mutually manhandled by Rick and mutually loved by Becky. A storied friendship filled with fishing, terrible bands, and Halo. A friendship frayed by Brady’s moving to the desert, but one that persevered anyway, and still landed Brady as a groomsmen at Drew’s wedding. Drew’s bachelor party was optional for Brady, as he lived 1,500 miles away, but his absence was a scar that never faded on Drew’s psyche, a hurt that he would hold onto for four hard years. For when Brady’s bachelor party was explicitly scheduled in close proximity to Drew’s residence, as he was a groomsmen after all, Drew cashed in on his long held grudge, and returned the favor, no showing Brady’s multi-day celebration. Sometimes the best of rivalries were once the best of friendships.

There may not be playoff implications here, but there is something arguably more important: avoiding the absolute bottom of the barrel. Brady and Drew are both 1-6, both average exactly 87 PPG, and occupy the bottom three of the power rankings at #16 and #18. Brady has lost three straight, Drew five straight, and they scored 71.22 and 68.22 respectively last week. Brady leads this series 6-3, and has won their last 4 out of 5 meetings.

LEGITIMATE RIVALS

I don’t know how many of our rival pairings have physically fought each other, I know Nick and I did in an illegal backyard UFC match and a Socker Boppers boxing deathmatch, but Clay and Joe certainly have. Their rivalry began at Joe’s birth and was made worse over basement basketball 1v1s with big bro, pullups in the backyard, state championship baseball teams, Gameboys, Pokemon cards, you name it, they fought over it. But that’s just brothers for you. You hate, you love, you love to hate. And now, they have the IFL Rivalry Week to fight over. You’re welcome, boys.

With Clay being a rookie, this is their first ever meeting!

cedar valley government employees

You wouldn’t think Daddy and Aaron have much in common, in fact, many would say they have exactly zero things in common, but that’s not true. They both enjoy living in obscurity in Cedar Falls, when they could easily live in Des Moines among their friends. They both enjoy sucking the government’s ample tit dry. And they both have a son. Aaron’s son may be 32 years old and still living with him, but hey, at least he pays rent.

This might be the most evenly matched rivalry game of the week. Daddy holds the edge in the standings at 5-2 to Aaron’s 4-3, but they’re separated by only three points in scoring average, and their all-play records are nearly identical. Daddy comes in off a 110-point win powered by Tony Pollard’s enormous 37-points, while Aaron stumbled to 85.41 despite getting 25.4 from Quinshon Judkins. Aaron leads this series 3-2 all-time.

Week 7 Recap

Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Brady liked it that way
Coach Joe
145.57 pts

Highest Scoring Player ($7)
The Rehm Team
Coach Daddy
Tony Pollard - 37 pts

After starting Carnell Tate (9 pts) over Jameson Williams (26 pts) this week, I thought I was screwed against in the Game of the Week versus the wagon that is Jack’s On-Call Killers, who just refused to go away, quickly deleting the lead I had amassed from TNF, and then built a lead of their own, going up 43 points into the afternoon games. But the middling Ashton Jeanty was good for 18 points and McJesus performed yet another miracle, hanging 29 points on the Killers, and stealing one from him, to give the Oarling Haaland Boat Club their 5th consecutive win and the top record in the league. Don’t look now but your reigning champion Commissioner is quietly building themselves up to championship form, scoring 120 PPG over the last four weeks (2nd best in the league), with the 5th best all-play record on the season at 71-48.

Luckily for the Doc, fellow X-Iowan Jesse would also snap their streak this week, though in sadder fashion, scoring the fewest points by any team this week and losing a truly winnable affair 58-75 against Qualley. Jesse falls to 5-2, and remains in a tie for division lead in X-IA. Qualley climbs to 4-3 despite his 48-71 all-play record, and keeps himself competitive in Papa Jord’s.

While there were a couple absolute poundings this weekend: Joe’s runaway freight train doubling up on Brady, who did indeed Like It That Way, 146-71; and Clay whooping Hunt’s pretender team 107-60, they were quite a few nailbiters. Ewoldt and the Devil’s Duo slipped one past TC’s Odyssey behind 33 from JSN, winning 117-113. Both teams move to 4-3 and are now a game back in their divisions. Despite, 27 from Bucky Irving, 22 from Omar Copper Jr. (who is that?) and 21 from War Daddy, Jord would still lose to the real Daddy 109-110, who got clapped on by Tony Pollard’s 37 bomb. Daddy remains in a first place tie in Papa Jord’s at 5-2 with Scallon, who casually won his 4th consecutive game this week. Do I even need to say who Scallon beat at this point? I do. It was Drew. Drew lost again. LOL. That’s 5 straight losses. 1-6 record. LOL. Jord falls to 2-5 despite his recent surge in points. Then there was Nick and Austin, who battled it out in MNF, with the former coming out on top 90-87. Nick moves to 3-4 as Austin falls to 2-5.

And that’s a wrap on week 7, officially completing first half of the regular season, which has seemingly flown by. We’ll commence the second half of the season with Rivalry Week! Stay tuned for the matchup breakdowns.

X-IA flounders a bit, allowing PJ and CdS to make up some ground.

A tough week for pick ‘em, as only Chris gets more than one right.

[Highlight] Aaron Rodgers and rest of Steelers QB room arriving at Stade de France
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The Commissioner

Week 6 Recap

Highest Scoring Team ($15)
On-Call Killers
Coach Jack
138.98 pts

Highest Scoring Player ($7)
No Nonsense Nelson
Coach Aaron
Kenneth Walker - 29.9 pts

Week 6 was a defense wins championships type week, with the average team score being 93.9 points, a full 12.3 points lower than the season average through 5 weeks. Only 5 teams surpassed 100 points this week, and not surprisingly, they all won.

That was true for Jesse’s Meet My Kids, who easily brushed off Daddy and the Rehm Team this week 108-77. Daddy’s team has been the most volatile in the league, currently sitting at league high standard deviation of 30 points, you just truly can’t predict what his team is going to bring to the table each week, and weirdly, I think that’s how he probably likes it. Despite the loss, he remains 4-2 on the season and in a share of the lead of Papa Jord’s. For Jesse’s part, his team just stays winning, with this being the 4th win in a row, and he now has the #1 all-play record in the league at 69-33. He’s also the most consistent team in the league with SD of just 9 points. He climbs to 5-1 and remains in a share of the lead in X-IA. This is Jesse’s best start since his 3-2-1 Spike! days, back in 2019, when he when 6-0 to start the season, but sputtered out, and finished 9-6. But looking at that team that was only 6th in all-play and 6th in scoring, I’d be more worried about his current iteration.

Elsewhere in X-IA, Jack would also climb to 5-1, performing on Joe what they in the business call “a routine medical exam”, but also one where Joe feels quite violated and wondering if was just happened was “medically necessary”. Jack would win 139-94 behind four 20+ point performances, scoring the most in the league by an 19 point margin. With TC faltering this week, it is now Jack’s On-Call Killers that is our league’s highest scoring team at 115 PPG, which is nearly 12 points above the league average for the season. Joe, who finally got his QB Caleb Williams back, did have one hand tied behind his back with Gibbs on bye; however, and despite his 2-4 record, I really wouldn’t be worried about him.

Speaking of TC, he had another down week, and fell out of the one-loss team club, losing this week to Chris 82-88. It’s a big win for Chris, who did so without his MVP Amon-Ra St. Brown, and gets back to .500 on the season.

Despite a 10-0 vote for Hunt this week in pick ‘em, which may be a record one-sided vote, Nelson would win 96-89, behind another monster game from Kenneth Walker, who is currently RB2 on the season by the way. Nelson climbs to 4-2, and has the 3rd best all-play record in the league, and remains just a game back in X-IA, which is shaping up to be a monster division. Unfortunately for Hunt, despite his two-week running #1 power-rank, he falls to 1-5 on the season, which is going to be hard to overcome from a playoff standpoint; however, if he can rehabilitate his PPG, there’s always a path there.

Before I leave you this week, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the most hilarious outcome of the season, Qualley beating Drew 89.98 - 88.37. For Qualley, he climbs to 3-3 and is now just a game back in Papa Jord’s, so hats off to him for staying the mix. For Drew, his 1-5 record is his worst start since his 2020 0-6 campaign. And it’s extra hilarious because he inexplicably started some guy named Cyrus Allen, who played just 9 snaps this week, and he would have won had he just started Chris Godwin, like any non-idiotic person would have. Classic.

X-IA continues to separate themselves as the dominate division, as the CdS falls further behind.

Jack has the best week of the bunch, but it’s status quo at the top.

[Mic'd Up] Drew Brees shares the story of his jersey swap with Justin Jefferson in 2020
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The Commissioner

Week 5 Recap

Highest Scoring Team ($15)

Hunt

Coach Hunt

149.13 pts

Highest Scoring Player ($7)

Brady liked it that way

Coach Joe

Jahmyr Gibbs - 39.7 pts

Our Game of the Week did turn out to be as hotly contested as advertised, with TC and his Odyssey pulling off the narrow upset against Clay and YourMom’sMailMan 95-92, after Clay’s streak of increasing performances finally came to a close, in part due to Deebo Samuel’s inevitable injury that came this week. With him being out for a few weeks, Clay’s production will have to come elsewhere. TC, who is once again carried by his Vikings DEF, continues to get some love from Aaron Jones, who has been hot in back to back weeks. TC has the highest scoring team in the league this season, at 118 PPG, the highest scoring DEF in the league at 19 PPG (next highest Joe’s Jags at 13.4 PPG), and the highest scoring #3, #4, & #5 players (Javonte Williams, Dak Prescott & Juwan Johnson). So while he does have Jonathan Taylor, his production has been wider than any other team by far. Scary stuff.

Elsewhere, Hunt’s freshly power-ranked #1 0-4 squad did live up to their new rank, scoring the most points by any team this season, and stomping Chris 149-112. Hunt has 22+ points from four different players this week and nobody scored less than 13. Crazy production. Perhaps some of the latent scoring and subsequent revival has to do with Hunt finally firing his offensive coordinator, as this was only the second week he’s played Matthew Golden, who is currently the WR9. Between him, King Henry and Brock Bowers, that is just not a team I would like to play moving forward. Chris falls to 2-3, but certainly needs to be respected, as he actually has the 3rd highest scoring over the last 4 weeks.

Our meeting between the two 3-1 coaches, Ewoldt and Jesse wasn’t super close, as the wheels continue to come off the Hype Train, just as well all knew they would, and Jesse would win 112-98. Jesse is top 5 in scoring, top 5 in all-play record, and has the best standard deviation of any team in the top 8 of scoring. High scoring and consistency wins you games, and at 4-1, his team is certainly poised to make a deep playoff run.

Puka’s returned last week, and Jord finally returned this week as The Cadets of Nightmares and their captain went off for 133 points and without a kicker no less, their most of the season, and first time scoring over 100 since week 1. Jameis Winston and Bucky Irving BUSTED for 59 to go with Puka’s 38, and the Cadets put the belt to Nelson’s heinie, who only mustered 63. Nelson’s performance is a head scratcher, after he’s fresh off posting 144 points last week. But that’s the IFL for you.

That’s all for this week, folks. Oh wait… I’m forgetting something, aren’t I? What is it? Hmm… Oh yeah, Drew lost. LOL

The Cul-de-Sack falls down a peg this week, as X-IA begin to separate themselves as a tier above.

The Commish’ rights the ship and remains ahead of the pack.

[Highlight] Mike Evans turns around Diggs to see who he is, Diggs gives him a shot after being embarrassed
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The Commissioner

Week 4 Recap

Highest Scoring Team ($15)

No Nonsense Nelson

Coach Aaron

143.84 pts

Highest Scoring Player ($7)

YourMomsMailMan

Coach Clay

CeeDee Lamb - 42.05 pts

Despite Drake Maye’s QB2 rank last year, and him carrying me to my 2nd IFL Superbowl victory, a feat Drew could only dream of, Drew’s been running his mouth about Drake Maye for the better part of a year now. As you can imagine, May putting up 24 points on Drew Sunday was pretty cathartic. But sweeter than that? How about doubling Drew’s score? His pathetic AI slop team mustered just 67 points this week, having just two players surpass 10 points, while my sleeper build Oarling Haaland’s Boat Club put together their best performance of the season, 136 points, with all 8 players going for 10+. Ahhhhh, sweet sweet karma, Drew. I won’t forget this win for the rest of my life. And to add insult to injury, Drew’s hair brained trade with Daddy, where he thought it was a good idea to get rid of white savior Josh Allen, went to crap immediately, as his end of the deal, Saquon Barkley, got hurt immediately in the Rams game, and will likely miss week 5. Talk about a real IDIOT.

All right, with that out of the way, let’s get to our Game of the Week. Joe and Jesse’s matchup didn’t end up being close, really, but not in the way most expected. Jesse got huge production from Nico Collins and Kamara, and despite 25 points from Zay Flowers for Joe, Kenyon Sadiq and Jaylen Wright combined for just 4.6 points, and Jesse ran away with it, 121-97. Jesse climbs to 3-1, and Joe falls to 2-2.

The biggest upset this week came curtesy of Nelson, whose league best 144 points (highest by any team this season), knocked the headphones off the Doc and his On-Call Killers, who were good for 114. Nelson had 6 players score 15+, including 32 from Kenneth Walker, who is currently RB2 behind only Gibbs. Despite his low power ranking (14th), Nelson currently fields the 3rd highest scoring team on the season, and owns the 2nd best all-play record of 52-16. He moves up to 3-1, as Jack falls there, breaking his perfect start to the season.

Elsewhere, Daddy’s 3-0 team would put up much less of a fight than Jack, as his newly minted Josh Allen would be the lone bright spot in his match against Scallon, putting up 17 points. His other 7 players combined for just 43, and the Rehm Team’s 60.31 points are the lowest by any team this season. Not that the Pineview Knights needed to do much, but they nearly doubled Daddy’s output, scoring 119.82, with a 35-bomb from Kyren Williams this week. Scallon climbs up into the volley of 2-2 teams, as Daddy falls to 3-1.

There’s a lot more we could discuss this week: Hunt, Austin and Jord all starting off 0-4, TC looking like a freight train, Clay winning three in a row as our new #1, but alas, duty calls. Until next time!

X-IA takes command once again, but the race remains tight.

TC and Jesse both go 3 for 4 this week, as the Commish’ stumbles, and TC’s within 1.

The Commissioner

Week 3 Recap

Highest Scoring Team ($15)

Brady liked it that way

Coach Joe

135.18 pts

Highest Scoring Player ($7)

The C.T.Express

Coach Austin

Bijan Robinson - 39.3 pts

(Joe’s Jahmyr Gibbs had 41.9 points but you can only win one weekly award per week)

Boy, oh boy, did we have some doozies this week.

Getting right into it, in our Game of the Week, Ewoldt and his Devil’s Duo came out swinging with a customary 36 points from JSN, but both Breece Hall and Travis Etienne would exit their games early, and meanwhile, his opponent, rookie coach Clay AKA YourMomsMailMan would be firing on all cylinders. Everyone but his kicker scored 11+ and four of his players went for 18+. Clay would sail to a 129-109 victory and move to 2-1. Ewoldt, one of four remaining undefeated coaches, falls to 2-1, and at least for the short-term will have to navigate his RB injuries.

While we’re at it, let’s check in with the other 2-0 start coaches. Nick’s autodraft kings Trust the Process would face TC’s Odyssey this week, and despite the Chiefs’ hot start, they didn’t boat race the Dolphins, resulting in Nick’s lowest score of the season. TC, on the other hand, posted his best score of the season, this week led not by JT, but Flores’ ridiculous Vikings defense, who put up 29 points. TC smashes Nick 123-89, climbs to 2-1, as Nick falls to 2-1.

Would the 2-0 Doc and his On-Call Killers fare better? By the time the Doc’s CMC hit the ground running with his 22.6 points, they had built a substantial lead over the 0-2 Brady, but Brady’s Lamar Jackson / Rashod Bateman stack whittled away. Doc; however, had the insurance play of Mark Andrews, and his 5.9 points, kept Brady at bay, and he would hold on, winning 97-95. The On-Call Killers move to 3-0. Like the yin and yang, Brady, is 0-3.

And what of Daddy and his slept on Rehm Team? This week they’d face the 0-2 Hunt, and what a ping pong match these two would have. Daddy would build an early lead, with Christian Watson’s 20 points in TNF, but Hunt came on strong in the late window, with his electric duo of Derrick Henry and Brock Bowers combining for 53 points, Hunt found himself up 22 points. Daddy’s Davante Adams would win the 1v1 against JK Dobbins, and cut the lead to 7 points. And though it wasn’t pretty, the only remaining player for either team, Saquon, would score 10.5 in MNF, to keep the Rehm Team undefeated. And how does Daddy reward his game-winning black stallion Saquon? By sending him off to his death on Drew’s bottom of the barrel team in favor of the white Jesus God quarterback Josh Allen. Hard to blame him, I guess.

There’s a lot to cover, and so I can’t get to it all, but I can’t ever leave you without pointing out Drew lost this week.

Until next time.

CdS has a monster week and takes a share of the lead.

The reigning two-peat Pick Em Champ pulls into the lead, but it’s a long season boys. Don’t count yourself out just yet. :)

[Highlight] Packers fan checking her pulse after Tucker Kraft dropped pass
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Week 2 Recap

Highest Scoring Team ($15)

The Rehm Team

Coach Daddy

141.8 pts

Highest Scoring Player ($7)

OARLING'S DROWNED TRUTH

Coach Drew

Josh Allen - 42.82 pts

I don’t know about you guys, but as good as week 1 felt, week 2 felt off. Wrong, even. Lot of injuries, low-scores, and Drew’s team won. So wrong.

Let’s start with Ewoldt and the Devil's Duo. His Jared Goff throws for 327 yards and 4 touchdowns and my Jameson Williams only gets two catches? That just doesn’t add up, does it? And then his JSN has the gall to put 42.75 points on me? I don’t know if calculating my scores right, you know what I mean? And now Ewoldt’s 2-0? With twins on the way? It just doesn’t make sense.

Or look at Daddy and the Rehm Team. His team is power-ranked 14th and yet they score 141.8 points this week, absolutely massacring Austin and the C.T.Express, the highest point total in the league, and now Daddy’s off to a 2-0 start. He did warn me he might consult his fantasy guru Brittany this year, but how could she know Bryce Young is going to be HIM this year, or that at the age of 33, Davante Adams is going to put up a 40-burger this week? HOW?!

The universe showed it’s cards pretty clearly here when it came to Joe and Brady liked it that way, whose hype around his team couldn’t be higher, not only power-ranked #1, but positioned in just a completely different tier from the rest of the league, and this week he loses Caleb Williams in his game against the Vikings, and without Zay Flowers, he gets absolutely smacked by Chris and Hock Tuah Griddy On It, 138-90. Joe should rebound, as Caleb and Zay could return for week 3 yet, but the gap may have been erased.

And then there’s Hunt, who quietly posted 10+ wins in the last three consecutive seasons (combined record of 31-11), has an all-play record of 3-31 through 2-weeks, and the lowest PPG in the league at 88 PPG thus far. Who beat him this week is not important, but that is just bizarro world, right?

Two things that do make sense? Nick and the Doc are 2-0. Two fellow two-time champs starting off the season undefeated, now that makes sense. Nick’s Trust the Process edged out Nelson this week 95-90, and the Doc, despite losing Jaxson Dart and Malik Nabers to injuries in MNF, had already put enough to beat Jesse in our Game of the Week, winning 98-91. Luckily for Jack, both Dart and Nabers appear to have avoided season-ending injuries.

I don’t know what the rest of the season holds, but let’s go back to the week 1 vibes, am I right?

X-IA extends their lead by a couple games, but the PPG coalesces a bit between all three divisions.

Nick posts a perfect week of pick ‘em, climbing into a share of the lead with the reigning champ.

Just an average QB, by the way.

[Highlight] Brock Purdy gets defender to bite on pump fake, then throws ridiculous ball to Mike Evans
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Week 1 Recap

 

Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Brady liked it that way
Coach Joe
137.89 pts

Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Hunt
Coach Hunt
Derrick Henry - 37.3 pts
(Joe’s Caleb Williams had 38.26 points but you can only win one weekly award per week)

Just like that, the IFL’s lucky number 13th season is underway, and the world is right again.

Duncan posts the lowest score in the league, maintaining his brand; your reigning champ, 2-time, Commish’ cruises to an easy 1-0 start, beginning his journey to win back-to-back titles; and Ewoldt begins his signature campaign whereby he starts off 5-0 and finishes the season 6-8. Yeah, everything is back to normal.

Joe’s Brady liked it that way, power-ranked #1, lives up to its preseason hype, posterizing Jord 138-108, led by 102 points between Caleb Williams, Gibbs and Flowers. Jord, who had a respectable 10-7 all-play record this week, just doesn’t have the juice he once he did, and I’m afraid the game may have past him by.

Clay, our rookie coach, thought he had a cakewalk to victory against the real mailman Nelson Monday Night, but Kenneth Walker exploded for 37 points, and Clay ended up losing by 21. Welcome to the big leagues, Clay. 100 points ain’t gonna cut it around these parts, and pretending to be a mailman I believe is a federal crime that sends you straight to Guantanamo…?

Anyway, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that Drew lost this week, and the fact that if you don’t count Josh Allen his team only scored 60 points, and the fact that if he wasn’t so hot he would literally have zero worth. Yep! Everything is right in the world.

X-IA looks to get things back on track in 2026, following their last place divisional finish last year.

Jord kicks things off 3 for 4, as all pickers whiff on the Monday Night Question!

[Highlight] Tyler Owens runs over blockers repeatedly to make body slam tackle (replay)
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Iowa Fantasy League
18 member league

Champions to Date
2024 - Jord
2023 - Nick
2022 - Curtis
2021 - TC
2020 - Jack
2019 - TC
2018 - Drew
2017 - Jack
2016 - Matt
2015 - Zach
2014 - Nick
 

Season Awards
Champion: $445
Runner-Up: $70
3rd Place: $10
Regular Season Champ: $15
Division Winner: $35
Wild Card: $8
Pick 'Em Champ: $25

Weekly Awards
Highest Scoring Team = $15
Highest Scoring Player = $7