Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Dade County Dirtballs
Coach Drew
133.8 pts (lowest weekly high thus far this season)
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
THE GROOVERS
Coach Hunt
Chris Godwin - 34.3 pts
Week 6 was our most competitive since Week 1, with 4 of the 8 games being won by 10 points or less, and our Game of the Week led the charge. Jack was down 104-108 to Jesse heading into the Jets/Bills game last night, and projected to win by 5 points, with Josh Allen and Tyler Bass. In Jesse’s defense, the caged phenom Garrett Wilson. The pair of Allen and Bass would hit their projections, but despite having just two 20+ point games in his last 27 appearances, Garrett Wilson would drop 25 points on Tuna with Spicy Mustard, and the Aspen Dummies would pull off the unlikely victory. Incredibly, Jesse has clawed his way back to .500 after his 0-3 start, and he snaps Jack’s 3-game winning streak. It’s a huge win too in the sense that it keeps him competitive in the dangerous X-IA division, particularly as Hunt would clean up Ewoldt this week 124-101, and climb to 5-1, a league best record. Hunt has now won five straight games, after losing week 1. The Doc took his loss to Jesse pretty hard, as he never got over the many betrayals of Jesse’s South American alliance in Risk all those years. Jack falls to 4-2, a game back from Hunt in X-IA.
Our other nailbiter this week between Qualley and Brady turned out to be more of a nightmare for Brady. Brady, who was down 11 points heading into MNF, got the news that his 2nd-leading scorer James Cook would be out, and though he had rostered his backup Ty Johnson, he failed to do the FridgeCheck™. Although everyone else in the league knows and doesn’t need it explained, apparently Brady was not familiar, so I’m going to spell it out plainly here for him. The FridgeCheck™ is a foolproof method of picking the right backup RB to spring into action upon their starter being declared out whereby you simply look at the headshots of the RBs on the depth chart and look to see which one looks like a refrigerator.
As you can see, Ray Davis is a refrigerator, and Ty Johnson is just a regular human football player. So naturally, by failing to adhere to this foolproof method, Brady’s Ty Johnson would score just 4.4 points last night, and Ray Davis would score 19.7 points. To add insult to injury, Drew picked up Ray “Refrigerator” Davis after Brady went with Ty “Regular Human Football Player” Johnson, and whether Drew’s voodoo had a hand in James Cook’ injury remains to be seen. After this blunder, Brady would fall to 2-4, and Qualley’s Des Moines Football Team would climb to 4-2.
Nothing ever seems definite with a TE, Drew needed just 5 points last night from Dalton Kincaid to knock off TC, and he would get a dozen, positioning both Drew and TC at 3-3 on the season. TC’s loss means that Qualley now has the sole lead of the Papa Jord’s division, one game up on TC and Jord, who would also win this week, putting some calm back into the Control Room, knocking off Chris 125-108.
Elsewhere, the Scallon Express, like the Aspen Dummies, would pick up their 3rd straight win after starting the season 0-3, getting over on Nick and Curtis’ Bronco Coat 116-91. Scallon and Jesse both out here representing hope, in a often dark and cruel world. Nick sorely needs some of that hope, as he now owns the worst all-play record through 6 weeks in IFL history at 6-84. In his defense, he did have some nasty buys to muddle through this week, but it may be a bit of a re-build for our 2023 champ. The Scallon Express remains competitive in the Boy Scout Cylones division, but remains a game back on No Nonsense Nelson, who would pick up a win over Curtis 128-92.
The CdS falls even further behind, as the rest of the divisions maintain their positions.
Your commish’ extends his lead to two games, going 10 for 11 over the last 3 weeks of pick ‘em.
