Highest Scoring Team ($15)
No Nonsense Nelson
Coach Aaron
185.33 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
ALL-TIME D
Coach Brady
Josh Jacobs - 31.1 pts (Saquon Barkley has 47.7 points, but as Aaron cannot win both weekly awards it’s passed onto Brady. It would have been the 4th time Barkley won player of the week.)
Week 12 brought us a divisional lead change in the Cul-de-Sack, as Curtis lost a heartbreaker against Chris 95.09 - 96.78, and fell to 5-7, while Brady would quad-kemosabe Hunt 143-93, and climbs to 6-6. It’s the first time a CdS team has had a .500 record or better since Week 8. It’s also Brady’s third consecutive win, and with Jack’s loss this week, it makes Brady the winstreak leader in the IFL to boot. Brady’s in command of the CdS for now, but with two weeks to go, Curtis and the Commish’ are hot on his heels, each a game back.
With Jack’s winstreak finally snapping, curtesy X-IA rival Ewoldt, who would win 124-106, it was accompanied by widespread mediocre performances in the division, with Hunt and Jesse both posting sub-100 totals this week, and the division going 1-3 overall. Jesse’s loss also dropped him from the current playoff seeding, as Qualley would pick up a win this week over Scallon 137-83 and though they share a 7-5 record, Qualley holds the head-to-head tiebreaker over Jesse.
Qualley’s Des Moines Football Team has been the most consistently high scoring team in the league, with the lowest standard deviation of any team with more than 112 PPG and the third best all-play record. It cannot be a coincidence that our international man of mystery is also a newly father, nor can I shake the fact that I bumped into him Saturday by chance and my Spawn of Satan would snap their 5 game losing streak, easily knocking off the The TCU 121-100. I now find myself frantically scouring the generally neighborhood of his house in a desperate attempt to recreate the magic.
With just two weeks to go, believe it or not, no team has clinched a playoff spot, but the closest to that point is certainly Nelson, who now holds a two game lead in the BSC, and who just posted the second highest score of the season, a ridiculous 185.33 points. He is the only team to score 180 points or more this season, and he’s done it twice in the last four weeks! This performance also has him usurp the title of points leader from Hunt, averaging 129 PPG on the season. Jord’s dangerous Control Room also snuck past Hunt this week with his 141 point performance, and he now averages 126 PPG, though he still has yet to close out Papa Jord’s.
Current Playoff Standings
Jack’s Tuna with Spicy Mustard (9-3) [X-IA Leader]
Jord’s The Control Room (8-4) [Papa Jord’s Leader]
Aaron’s No Nonsense Nelson (8-4) [Boy Scout Cyclone Leader]
(+4) Brady’s ALL-TIME D (6-6) [Cul-de-Sack Leader]
Hunt’s Groovers (8-4) [Wildcard Leader] X-IA
(+1) Qualley’s DSM Football Team (7-5) [Wildcard Leader] Papa Jord’s
(+4) Drew’s Briar’s Haunting Chorus (6-6) [PPG Leader - 118 PPG] Boy Scout Cyclones
(+1) TC’s The TCU (6-6) [PPG Leader - 114 PPG] Papa Jord’s
Bubble Teams
(-3) Jesse's Aspen Dummies (7-5) 108 PPG X-IA
The Scallon Express (6-6) 105 PPG Boy Scout Cyclones
(+1) Ewoldt’s The Course Rangers (6-6) 111 PPG X-IA
(-8) Curtis’ IFL’s 3-Peat Pick ‘Em Champ (5-7) 107 PPG CdS
Zach’s Spawn of Satan (5-7) 113 PPG Cul-de-Sack
Bounty Tracker
Here’s the trajectory of this year’s $20 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.
Scallon loses it to Qualley in Week 12, and he will now carry it into his game with Ewoldt in Week 13.
A monster week by Papa Jord’s and another fumble from X-IA shortens the gap to just 2 games! X-IA, who was up by 44 games at one points, is doing everything they can to throw away the top division crown with two weeks to go. Can they hold on to their all but disappeared lead?
A perfect week for the consensus, not so much for the Commish’. The pack cuts the lead down to 4.
