Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Drews’ (F) Shak
Coach Drew
150.59 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Brady’s Boat Bucks
Coach Joe
Leonard Fournette - 43.6 pts
Our 3rd to last week in the IFL regular season brings us our second and third playoff clinch, two playoff eliminations and a change of divisional leadership.
The clinch is a massive sigh of relief for Drew’s (F) Shak, after losing 3 straight games, and putting their playoff berth in jeopardy, Coach Drew rights the Shak, posting the most points in the league this week, and hammering Nick and Curtis’s Lot Lizards into oblivion 151-85. Drew now, at minimum, has earned a wildcard spot in the playoffs.
All of the wheels have now officially come off the Scallon Express, curtesy of Hunt’s GROOVERS, who now extend their win streak and the IFL record to 11 consecutive wins with their 131-93 win. Scallon, who is now eliminated from playoff contention, will still fight to avoid the Tournament to Not Be Last, but he’ll do so handicapped once again without the #1 overall pick CMC, who is now out for the season. Interestingly, Hunt’s win and 11-1 record, still hasn’t earned him a divisional title or bye week, as he still remains only two games up on Drew, and since they play each other in Week 14, he can still be relegated to a wildcard. However, a win in Week 13 would avoid this scenario.
Aaron, the Badassmailman, is our other eliminated coach this week, who lost a low scoring affair against Curtis, the Outlaw Soldier, 76-91. He too, can still avoid the TTNBL; however, he’ll have to navigate Kareem Hunt’s Week 13 bye. The win was a fortunate one for Curtis, who has have averaged the 5th least PPG over the last four weeks, and has been spiraling since the lost of Derrick Henry. Also fortunate for him, was that TC’s BLASTERS annihilated his namesake team, TC BEING SO WEIRD ABOUT IT 143-101. This puts him back in a tie for the divisional lead in the CdS at 7-5, and since Curtis owns the head-to-head tiebreaker, that’s all he needs to take the division.
Our game of the week didn’t disappoint either, with X-IA rivals Recker Rampage and the Snyder Cut duking it out in a grinder of a game, but OBJ’s 18 points, his best game of the season, may have been the difference for Coach Jesse, and he was able to come out on top, winning 111-103. This was Jesse’s 4th straight win, and Austin’s 3rd straight loss. With Ewoldt, the Hype Zone, also losing this week, 101-107, to the Real Slim Brady, Jesse now has a one game lead in the X-IA. For now.
Jord’s win, which is quietly his 4th straight, gives him the 2021 Dirty Doc & the Boys division title, as he is now two games up on Jack and TC, and holds the head-to-head win over both of them. This is the IFL’s first divisional clinch of the season, and the 3rd time Jord has won the division, breaking his tie with Jack, who had also won it twice before.
Three playoffs teams determined and three to go, and still ten teams vying for those positions. Week 13 will be a reckoning.
The Cul-de-Sack has their worst week of the season, as Dirty Doc and the Boys have one of their best, and the CdS lead drops to just four games.
Curtis goes 3 for 4 this week, and gets one back on the top 2. 8 more points possible in the regular season, and then many 30+ points possible in the playoffs, it’s still anybody’s year.
Of all the NFL stats and rankings, Hottest NFL Head Coach has to be the most important. But what about the hottest IFL coach?
From an anonymous survey of 12,456,405 IFL fans (men and women), here’s the Top 5 Hottest IFL Coaches:
Drew
Jesse
Scallon
Hunt
Qualley / Jord (Dead Even)
Looks about right to me.