Highest Scoring Team ($15)
DSM Football Team
Coach Qualley
142.03 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Scallon Express
Coach John
Roheem Mostert - 35.2 pts
After catching some heat last week for their weak schedule, the Course Rangers come out angry against T-Hunt, and pipe a bomb right down down the middle of a par 5, winning handily, 138-105. Ewoldt is now the 5th coach in 10 seasons to start off 6-0.
Out of curiosity, let’s take a look at how those coaches finished their seasons:
2015 Anton’s Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory: 12-3, 2nd Place
2016 Brady’s The Twenty Deuce: 12-3, 1st Place
2019 Jesse’s 3-2-1 Spike: 9-6, 4th Place
2021 Drew’s (F) Shak: 10-7, 4th Place
Pretty good company, and if history’s taught us anything, Ewoldt’s team, legit or not, has all but locked up a playoff spot.
On the other end of the spectrum, Chris loses again this week, this time to Jord, 90-100, and becomes the 6th ever coach in 10 seasons to start off 0-6.
Also curious, let’s look at those coaches’ finishes:
2017 TC’s Dirty Mike and the Boys: 3-12, 15th
2018 Aaron’s Mr Ziemann with 69 Kush Eunuchs: 5-10, 14th
2020 Drew’s Team DrewBot: 2-12, 15th
2020 Hunt’s Team Tlhunt: 3-11, 16th
2022 Nick’s Curtis’ Bronco Coat: 5-11, 11th
Sort of amazing Drew’s on both lists, huh? And the fact that his 6-0 start finished 4-7 in the final 11 weeks. But that is to say, Chris, all of these teams started to pick up some wins, and one, even finished the season 5-4. Godspeed, man.
Scallon’s trade with Chris for Deebo catapulted him into the #1 power-ranked spot and despite getting knocked out in his first game on the Express with a should injury, he would still cruise to victory behind two 30-point performances from Mostert and Kupp, beating the also 4-1 Nick and Curtis’ Bronco Coat 127-109. Nick, the hottest team in the league going into this week, took a bit of a hit with the news that Achane will be seeing a 4-week IR. Still, he remains in a two-game lead in the weak Cul-de-Sack division and may be able to bide his time. The Express has now won 5 in a row.
Big doings in X-IA, as Jesse and La Bamba string together back-to-back wins, fending off the seemingly back to full strength Tuna with Mustard, 103-96. Jesse claws his way back to .500, and has quietly been of the most consistently well-scoring teams in the league. The Doc falls to 2-4, which, amazingly, is the worst record he’s ever held after 6 weeks. He’s always been 3-3 or better.
The run I’ve been screaming about from a mountain-top since it began, my boys fell victim to this week, as Austin “Moneyball” Richards and Goffpocalypse rips off their third in a row, beating Dierks’ Heathens 122-98. Remember, the 2022 A’s won 20-straight, so we got a ways to go on this, but it’s promising after beginning the season 0-3.
With Qualley and the DSM Football team blowing off some steam against Brady 142-84, he also gets back to .500, and with TC’s narrow loss this week to Drew 83-85, that puts the entire Papa Jord’s division locked up at 3-3. I know who I’ve got my money on, but also wouldn’t count anyone there out.
For the second week in a row, virtually no movement in the overall division standings.
A harrowing week of pick ‘em, and look who’s back on top… last year’s pick ‘em champ.
