Highest Scoring Team ($15)
The Control Room
Coach Jord
167.72 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
IFL’s 3-Peak Pick ‘Em Champ
Coach Curtis
Taysom Hill - 42.7 pts (Highest point total by a weekly award winner this season, but only the 4th highest score this season. The three players to outscore Taysom all earned their respective coaches the highest scoring team award that particular week and weren’t eligible.)
Just 3 weeks to go in the regular season, and every division is shaping up to come down to the wire.
In the CdS, Curtis and Brady pick up wins, Brady just by the skin of his teeth over Duncan 123-122, and move their 3-way tie into a 2-way tie with the Commish’ losing. Crucially, Curtis holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over Brady, but even with Nick getting routed this week and down two games, he’s still in the mix.
The BSC, which once looked like Nelson would walk away with it, as he was up 3 games, is now within reach for the Scallon Express. Nelson lost his second game in a row, this week getting his mailman uniform blown off by Jord 119-168. Scallon, who finally broke Jesse’s winning streak, with a 102-76 win, is now just one game back. Drew, who got nearly doubled up by Hunt this week 80-151, remains two games back.
Papa Jord’s was all Richards Bros this week, as the biological duo both put up 160+ points, and with Qualley losing to Curtis 117-137 that means that Jordan is once again in control of the division by a game. Austin is mathematically eliminated from winning the division now, but he can certainly play spoiler with point totals like that, and potentially earn a PPG playoff bid if he keeps it up. TC also won this week, in a gutsy performance against Ewoldt, 128-124, to remain a game back as well from Jord.
With Jesse and Ewoldt losing, X-IA did see a bit of separation this week. Jack and Hunt both won their respective games, and the top-end of the division continues to climb, Jack a game away from 10 wins now, and with Jesse’s loss, the Doc now owns the longest win streak in the league at 5 games. If Jack can hold onto the lead, Hunt (8-3) and Jesse (7-4) are both poised for wildcard bids, though that too remains competitive from the volley of 6-5 teams.
If the season ended today, this would be our playoff seeding:
Jack’s Tuna with Spicy Mustard (9-2) [X-IA Leader]
Jord’s The Control Room (7-4) [Papa Jord’s Leader]
Aaron’s No Nonsense Nelson (7-4) [Boy Scout Cyclone Leader]
Curtis’ IFL’s 3-Peat Pick ‘Em Champ (5-6) [Cul-de-Sack Leader]
Hunt’s Groovers (8-3) [Wildcard Leader] X-IA
Jesse's Aspen Dummies (7-4) [Wildcard Leader] X-IA
Qualley’s DSM Football Team (6-5) [PPG Leader - 123 PPG] Papa Jord’s
Brady’s ALL-TIME D (5-6) [PPG Leader - 120 PPG] Cul-de-Sack
Here’s a look at the bubble teams:
TC’s The TCU (6-5) 115 PPG Papa Jord’s
The Scallon Express (6-5) 105 PPG Boy Scout Cyclones
Drew’s Briar’s Haunting Chorus (5-6) 119 PPG Boy Scout Cyclones
Ewoldt’s The Course Rangers (5-6) 111 PPG X-IA
Zach’s Spawn of Satan (4-7) 113 PPG Cul-de-Sack
Technically, a huge point run could get Austin, Nick and Chris into the PPG-bid conversation, but the three of them are more than likely out of playoff contention this year, and relegated to the role of spoiler.
Bounty Tracker
It’s that time of year that we check in with the $20 IFL Bounty. Let’s chart the trajectory of this year’s bounty:
Nick earns the bounty Week 1 scoring the lowest point total in the league, and loses it to the Commish’ in Week 2.
The Commish’ loses it to Brady in Week 3.
Brady loses is to Nelson in Week 4.
Nelson loses it to Jesse in Week 5.
Jesse’s epic 7-game win streak would have him carry the bounty all the way to this week, week 11, where he would finally lose to the Scallon Express, who will now carry the bounty into week 12 in his matchup against Qualley.
Papa Jord’s continues their comeback on X-IA, furthering the divide between the top 2 and the bottom 2 divisions.
My fantasy team may be a disaster, but at least there’s pick ‘em.
