Highest Scoring Team ($15)
THE GROOVERS
Coach Hunt
158.57 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Technetium Tempest
Coach Jack
Davante Adams - 32 pts
(Josh Allen had 37 & Mike Williams had 33 for Hunt this week)
You absolutely HAVE to love it when the 5 remaining undefeateds get whittled down just one, after only 3 weeks, keeping the league’s competitiveness at an all time high. For myself, I particularly love it when the Game of the Week performs as such, as the GROOVERS not only overcome their 15 point underdog spread, but come back on Monday night to eliminate the #1 power ranked team in the league, Curtis “The Outlaw Soldier”, 159-151 and also do so with the most points in the league this week. Hunt, who is out here trying to resurrect his past glory, hasn’t had a winning record since 2015.
Jord and the Real Slim Brady were another undefeated to get knocked off this week, by a great performance from Nick and Curtis’s' Lot Lizards, 146-124, both teams now moving to 2-1.
The Scallon Express broke down on I-35 this week, just like their beloved Cyclones, after Christian McCaffrey exited the game with a hamstring injury, but even a forty burger from CMC wouldn’t have kept up with Qualley and the Des Moines Football Team who finally saw some 1st-round draft pick caliber Zeke action, as well as 24 points from Metcalf and 16 points from the legend Mason Crosby. Qualley gets his first win of the season 148-81, and the Express will look to regroup and steal a win or two while they’re likely without CMC for a few weeks.
Drew’s (F) Shak, was unfazed by TC BEING SO WEIRD ABOUT IT, in what was an ugly, low scoring affair, with Drew prevailing 107-94, crowning him the only remaining undefeated coach in the league, and the continued carrier of $20 bounty.
While it’s no biggie to drop from 2-0 to 2-1, dropping from 0-2 to 0-3 is another matter, and unfortunately, the Snyder Cut fell on that sword in his matchup with the BLASTERS, getting blasted 144-67. Austin’s, who claimed last season’s failures were planned, and this season’s would be an planned dramatic improvement, sure is setting the stage for something epic. Three weeks into the season, and his team, is historically bad, and by one metric, Overall Win-Loss (if you played every team every week), is the worst team in IFL History through 3 weeks, having only beaten one other team’s score in 45 matchups. This is a record that was established last season, actually, after Hunt started off the season beating just 2 teams out of 45 through 3 weeks. Of course, there have been lower scoring teams through 3 weeks, well just one, and that was of course Anton’s final hoorah as the C-Team, when he began the season averaging just 77 points per game after scoring the lowest point total in league history in Week 3 of 2019, scoring just 45.37 points. But as it’s been scripted, Austin has had CMC handcuff Chuba Hubbard stashed away since the draft, and that should give the Snyder Cut a boost for a few weeks that could entirely turn his season around. Won’t surprise me one bit.
The Cul-de-Sack isn’t going let the Boy Scout Cyclones run away with it, with big weeks from Curtis, Nick and Joe.
Curtis finally opens the door, and wouldn’t you know it, Drew walks right in.
Week 4 already?! Time to strap it on, boys.