Highest Scoring Team ($15)
ALL-TIME D
Coach Brady
146.20 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Rodgers LSDream Team
Coach Austin
Justin Fields - 48.2 pts
Can we be real here? When Brady’s team is bad, fantasy football just isn’t quite as fun. Unless they’re REALLY bad. I mean, I wouldn’t trade that calendar shoot for anything.
And I’m not saying Brady’s team is great either, but headed into week 8, the guy was power-ranked dead last by the experts and at 3-4, things were looking a little grim. But perhaps Drew’s black magic that he practices on his cursed farm headed into their rivalry matchup that week backfired, as Breece Hall’s Week 7 ACL tear led to James Robinson being traded to the Jets and that meant Brady’s already fantasy relevant Travis Etienne went from timeshare to bellcow in one fell swoop, and his back to back 29 point games not only helped Brady win rivalry week, but this week as well, against former X-IA rival Ewoldt.
And though Brady could have won this week with just, say, a 15 point performance, he gets a truly jaw-dropping 58.1 points this week from Joe Mixon, which is the highest score by a single player in IFL history (as scored at the time), beating last year’s 56.9 points from Jonathan Taylor. UN-BE-LIEV-A-BULL.
This propels Brady to his second straight win, and with TC’s nailbiting comeback win last night against Curtis, 114-113, Brady now is in a tie for the Cul-de-Sack divisional lead.
I guess all that to say, fantasy football is a weird roller coaster of adrenaline and pain, but if you got enough heart, sometimes that’s just enough to carry you through.
If you’re good enough, though, like the Houston Astros, you don’t even need heart, and that’s more or less Aaron’s team this year, who quietly gets their 8th consecutive win, beating, ironically, the last coach to get 8 consecutive wins, Hunt, this week 115-74. Aaron becomes only the fifth coach in IFL history to achieve that kind of win streak. Aaron still remains just a single game up in the Boy Scout Cyclone division, as the Scallon Express gets a win this week without the #1 overall draft pick JT, beating the Tufted Titmice 120-88.
And then there’s Jord, who after his third consecutive game of starting a player that would precede to leave the game injured, and losing his “cheat code” Carson Wentz, has now lost four straight, and is the lowest scoring team over the last four weeks. The ASSassins now sit three games back in Jord’s namesake division, and would you look at that, will play a Mixon-less ALL-TIME D in Week 10, which could be either a get-right game or the final nail in the coffin. 🤔
Between all the weddings and the novelty of rivalry week, one thing that I had neglected to track up until this point, is the Bounty, and I will now recap that for you here. As a reminder, the holder of the Bounty at the end of the regular season wins $20.
First week, the Bounty goes to the lowest scoring team, which was Jack’s Tufted Titmice with 73.76 points. Jack then proceeded to get beat by TC in Week 2, 154-126, who would then lose the Bounty to Hunt in Week 3, 123-100. Hunt would hold onto the Bounty until Week 5, when Chris would take it off of him, 122-87, and would hold it until Week 7, losing it to Jesse, 108-81. Jesse would carry the Bounty through rivalry week, into his matchup with Austin this week, who behind his recent $37 waiver pickup of Justin Fields (who accounted for 50% of Rodger’s LSDream Team’s scoring this week), would win 98-84, and will be taking the Bounty into Week 10.
X-IA has its worst week of the season and falls from second to last, as the Cul-de-Sack has a monster week. BSC still sits on top, for now.
Brady posts another good week, and Curtis continues his momentum, but the chasm between Chris and the rest of the pack is still wide.
