Highest Scoring Team ($15)
No Nonsense Nelson
Coach Aaron
189.76 pts
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
THE GROOVERS
Coach Hunt (2nd time this season)
Jaxon Smith-Njigba - 36.8 pts
Happy Election Day, gents! As the political landscape has continued to heat up, all leading to this very day, escalating to peak drama time and time again, I can’t help but think the Iowa Fantasy League is even hotter.
The Groovers, who had won seven straight games coming into this week, ran into an absolute buzzsaw in No Nonsense Nelson, who put up an IFL season-high score of 189.76 points to Hunt’s 137.2. The previous high score this season was 170.01 points by Curtis in Week 4, and ironically, Nelson’s score is the highest score by any IFL team since Hunt’s GROOVERS set the all-time IFL record with 215.34 points in Week 11 of 2021. I’m going to post a screenshot here of Nelson’s player scores for posterity.
Personally, I have failed to roster a team that can all exit their games healthy, but Nelson just had 9 players with double-digits, and 6 of them score 19 points or more, which is just NUTTY. Nelson extends his win streak to 4 straight, and now commands a 3-game lead in the Boy Scout Cyclones. Hunt, falls to 7-2, and opens the door to the ridiculously competitive X-IA division, all of whom are vying for playoff spots.
Walking straight through that door is the Doc, whose Belichickian ways have winning his third straight game, this week to the Scallon Express 108-77, despite averaging just 110 PPG over the last four weeks (only good for 10th best in that stretch). The man just wins, okay? He enters a tie in record with Hunt, but crucially has that head-to-head tiebreaker, beating Hunt in Week 1.
Also taking advantage of Hunt’s loss, the new win-streak leader of the IFL, Jesse and the Aspen Dummies, who would win handily over Austin and McConkey Kong Country 129-97. Jesse has now won six straight games, clawing his way to a game back in X-IA.
Notably, Jesse and Jord lead the league in trades, with 4 each, and 2 betwixt each other. Jord, whose namesake scratch team of data nerds and unpaid interns has really turned on the jets, currently rostering just 3 players whom they drafted (league low), and with Kupp healthy, are starting to look pretty terrifying. They torched Drew’s clearly awful team without any fuss in our Game of the Week 149-124. Jord maintains his one-game lead over Qualley in Papa Jord’s who would squash the Commish’ 148-117 in their game this week.
With the Commish’ losing his 3rd straight game, the Cul-de-Sack has never been worse, and never been more winnable.
Curtis did, however, take advantage of the Commish’s loss, snapping his four game losing streak this week against TC, with a 135-115 win. That places the 3-Peat Pick Em Champ in a tie with Spawn of Satan, though he lost the head-to-head tiebreaker in week 1. Incredibly, despite Nick’s 0-7 start, his back-to-back wins, including this week’s win over Chris 111-98, and horrible division mean it is quite realistic that he could mount a divisional comeback with five weeks to go still in the regular season.
More or less status quo in the divisional standings, but the CdS fall futher behind.
Qualley has a perfect week, but the Commish’ extends his lead on the pack.
