Highest Scoring Team ($15)
THE GROOVERS
Coach Hunt
150.96 pts (lowest weekly high thus far this season)
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
Tuna with Spicy Mustard
Coach Jack
Ja’Marr Chase - 41.8 pts (highest by a weekly award winner this season. Juaan Jennings has the highest score on the season (45.75 pts) but didn’t win the weekly award.)
WOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEE. That tuna IS spicy. Coach Jack blows the doors off Brady’s cozy little home he’d built in our Game of the Week, 141-110, thanks to a FORTY burger from Ja’Marr Chase. Tuna with Spicy Mustard wins their third straight game, and moves to 4-1. ALL-TIME D falls to 2-3, now having lost two straight, after a hot start to their season. They remain in the top 3 in all-play record; however, so we’ll follow their career with great interest.
At 4-1, Jack is in a tie for best record in the league with X-IA rival Hunt, who would one-up Jack in two ways this week. Hunt’s GROOVERS score 151 points in their smackdown of Chris’ Hey Darnold!, who mustered only 94, and have now won FOUR straight games. Hunt now has the highest scoring team in the league, just edging out Curtis, and regains the best all-play record through 5 weeks. Chris falls to 2-3, having lost three straight games, only bested by Nick, who has now fallen to 0-5 after losing again this week to the gentlemen scholar Qualley, 95-135. On the bright side for Nick, he did avoid having the worst all-play record of all time through 5 weeks, a record still held by Aaron who went 4-71 in 2018.
Qualley moves up to 3-2, and is in a share for the lead of Papa Jord’s with the TCU, who would comeback against PJ-ring leader Jord and the increasingly dire Control Room in MNF, winning 128-120 thanks to an impressive 20-deuce performance from the 29-year old Kareem Hunt, whose a Chief once again. Jord has now lost two in a row and just in a real freefall to the bottom of the league.
Another juicy MNF battle was between Scallon and Drew, and despite Drew’s dark magic, the Scallon Express and the Chiefs’ DST were able to clutch up, beating BRIAR’S HAUNTING CHORUS 136-127, and climb to 2-3, having won back to back games. Drew falls to 2-3, and with Aaron also losing this week and falling to 3-2, the Boy Scout Cyclone division remains a tossup.
The author of Aaron’s loss, Jesse and the Aspen Dummies, stood on business, winning 129-100. Jesse gets to 2-3, and now has been in the top 5 of scoring 4 out of 5 weeks this season, with the 5th best all-play record in the league at 44-31.
And making it a hat trick, Austin and McConkey Kong Country would also pick up the 2nd consecutive win this week, grinding one out against Curtis 104-87. With that, we have now went from a record four 0-3 teams, to three of those teams getting back-to-back wins, which makes the standings look a lot more competitive heading into Week 6.
In fact, we only have one clear division leader right now, the aforementioned No Nonsense Nelson, but every other division is in a tie, and even the Cul-de-Sack, which has Nick’s 0-5 team, he’s still only down 3 games, so certainly not out of contention whatsoever.
The CdS falters again, falling further behind, as X-IA posts another monster week, building its lead to 37.
Curtis and the Commish have a perfect week, along with the Pickers’ Consensus.
