Week #15

And it does indeed appear that Old No 7 will be this year’s PQBFL champion! With another great week taking first place and, coupled with another dreadful performance by Beaudoin Bros, he has pushed his lead to a whopping 13 points with 3 weeks to go! Barring some sort of catastrophe it looks like Old will walk to the victory this year. This week he had a totally dominant McCaffrey but also outstanding performances by St. Brown at WR and Njoku at TE. The Browns D chipped in with 16 pts and after reviewing Old’s lineup there was only one real gap in it and that was at the QB position with Dak. Old has been very consistent of late with top 2 finishes in 4 of the last 5 weeks. As written last week, this is a feel good story about a veteran team with a history not unlike the Lions and the Browns of the NFL. Everyone has to be feeling pretty good for Old and he deserves a big pat on the back for a great season!

The only other real competitor for the championship this year, the Beaudoin Bros, have fallen on hard times the last two weeks and finished in 8th place this week. This is extremely rare for Patrick’s team to fall off late like this. Two things really hurt BB this week, the loss of Stroud at the rookie position, and the fact that James Cook was on the bench but collected 31.25 fantasy points. During the week 9-12 stretch it looked like BB was going to run away with this thing. They won 3 of those 4 weeks and seemed poised to win the league once again, but the Stroud injury and weak efforts from Kelce hurt this team badly. It was a bit surprising BB did not start Davante Adams this week, he was the most productive receiver of this team’s bunch but was on the bench. When reviewing coaching efficiency it seems BB made all the wrong choices this week with a paltry 64% efficiency.

2nd place went to the Glorious Bastards this week largely due to the continuing feel-good story of the NFL, Brock Purdy. He wracked up 33 big points this week with another great week. GB got unusually good production from him Tampa players Rachaad White and Mike Evans in a surprisingly high scoring TB win. RB James Conner also contributed 12.25. Rachaad White is currently RB5 in the league which I think is a bit surprising, and GB had receivers #5 (Evans) and #6 (Chase) which has helped him to get to 3rd place, 6 rank points behind BB but with BBs sudden slide it is not out of the question for GB to get 2nd place.

Decepticons finished 3rd this week but remains in the bottom 1/3rd of the overall league standings, currently sitting in 7th place but only 3 rank points from 6th. Decept has to feel a little bit down on Mahomes who very surprisingly is QB10 in the league. He can’t be a big Taylor Swift fan right now as clearly she has Kelce thinking about things other than football. Tua also was looking like a sure-fire top 3 QB early but has cooled.  Waddle and rookie Sam Laporta carried this team this week with 23 pts and 24.75 pts respectively. Laporta has been a very nice surprise for Decept. Decepticons has an awful 78.6% coaching efficiency for the year so there is improvement needed here.

The Admirals grabbed 4th this week and are playing out the string hoping to be able to maintain an 8th place finish. Injuries have killed this team and it is all but certain these guys will have the #1 overall pick next year as they have more than 400 more injury points than the nearest team to them in that category. Key injuries include QB Watson, RB Chubb, WRs Olave and M Williams, TE Dulcich, all of whom likely would have been week over week starters. This week Kyler Murray disappointed with only 7 pts and backup Tannehill has long since been benched so they’ve been down to 1 QB most of the year. At RB, they got a total of 0.75 pts this week (YIKES!) not counting Gibbs who was elevated from rookie to RB. Despite this they managed the 4th place finish due to Tee Higgins 20 pts,  the Dolphins 25.5 and former rookie Jahmyr Gibbs 20. Gibbs would be rookie #6 and as a RB is 5th in the PQBFL, and this team also has Maxx Crosy and Justin Tucker who are #1 ranked in their positions.

5th place went to Flying Elvis, and it feels like this is about where Elvis ended up in the standings most weeks this year. Very average. Somehow Josh Allen is QB1 but it sure doesn’t feel that way. Another so-so week for him with 16 pts. Austin Ekeler has basically decided to stop playing altogether, getting only 3 pts this week in another dismal effort. The Chargers team is an absolute mess right now. The only real bright spots for FE this week were Amari Cooper, the Ravens D and LBs Watt and Wagner. Wagner, Mr. Irrelevent this year, is LB#6 in the league. Rookie Bryce Young has been a big disappointment for FE as well.

The Ballers took 6th place which is a moral victory for this team that sits at the bottom of the standings and it does not appear they will crawl out of the cellar as they are 8 pts behind the nearest other team. Cooper Kupp was the star of the week this week for this team with 8 receptions for 111 yds and a TD. Rookie Rashee Rich also had a very good game with 9 catches for 91 and a TD. Some opportunities were missed by the coach though, namely the Saints who scored 17 vs. 5 for the starting Bengals and Jared Goff had a huge game with 37.5 vs. Lamar’s 16.5.

Professor MJ is currently sitting in 4th place and this week’s 7th place finish cannot be sitting well with them. They lost 5 rank points to the Bastards which is exactly how many points GB is now ahead of this team for 3rd. Justin Herbert has been a disappointment for this team and with the Chargers in the state they are in it would be lucky if he were to come back and be effective. Once good news for MJ is Derek Carr had a good week so he has a viable backup now. This team has WRs2+3 overall with Keenan Allen and CeeDee Lamb. It will be interesting to see if Keenan can continue his high level of play. The big miss by this coach this week was Jordan Addison of Minn who had a big game scoring 23.5 but he was benched.

As mentioned above, 8th place went to Beaudoin Brothers.

And the last place finish this week went to WaxOnWaxOff. This is the first time since week 1 this team came in last. The injuries to Burrow , AJ Dillon, Christian Kirk are rookie AJ Richardson (as well as rookie Will Anderson Jr) are severely impacting this team. At QB, they are fortunate to have Stafford who starts because both Burrow and Pickett are hurt. Despite having 6 RBs, 5 of whom were healthy this week, they only got 6.75 pts from the position and couldn’t have done much better no matter who they started. Receiver JJ (who was also hurt for a period of time this season) did not have a good game either.  Wax is 7 points out of 5th place and only 3 pts above 7th, so they will need to get some players to turn it around to stay in the middle.




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