The
GloriousBastards smoked the competition and earned their first
franchise win with a season-high 174.5 pts. Bas are the hottest
team in the PQBFL right now despite a slew of injuries as they now have
17 rank-points in the last three weeks which is higher than anybody
else including Beaud (15) and FE (15). WR Baldwin led the team
with 29.75 mostly due to great stats 13-171 on top of a TD.
Baldwin has been a great acquisition via trade because he did not cost
much in the trade with Dec (D Parker has been a disappointment and
Ebron has been mostly injured). Also acquired in that same trade
was old-man A Gates who scored 17.5 pts this week. A Luck scored
24.5 pts which was decent but not as much of a difference-maker as the
24.5 pts from M Jenkins who had 2 INTs and returned one for a TD.
FlyingElvis finished 2nd for the third time in 4 weeks and crushed Dec
to take sole possession of second place in the standings. Now up
by 5 rank-points, FE can secure 2nd place for the year with a mediocre
performance in week #17. FE has also been the second highest
total scoring team this season and ranks 2nd in strength of starters so
by all measures this has been an excellent season for FE. FE's
crew of Dallas Cowboys did some damage on MNF in the blow-out win
against the Lions. Elliott scored 20.5 pts and will finish best
rookie by the widest margin of all positions, dominating M Thomas
(Beaud) 17.1 pts per game to 12.4 pts per game. In that same game
B Church did well with 7 tackles 5 assists. Also on defense, the
Patriots were dominant against the lowly Jets, allowing only 3 pts,
less than 250 total yards, and causing 5 turnovers. QB Tyrod
Taylor had a rare top notch game with 33.75 pts in a loss to the
Dolphins. FE could have finished first if not for starting
injured A Peterson and AJ Green.
The BeaudoinBrothers scored exactly the same number of points (149.5
pts) as their season average, and the result was an average 3rd place
as well. Some players had great games (A Rodgers 42.5 pts, D
Johnson 23.25 pts, M Evans 18.75 pts, R Shazier 15 pts), offset by
shitty games by the Bills D (-2 pts), L Murray (4.25 pts), D Thomas (4
pts), and Z Ertz (3.5 pts), and J Hughes (3 pts). Note that the
last four of those were acquired by trades and have not been as
productive as hoped for, except for Murray.
The Admirals did not have a bad week with a score of 141.75 pts, which
is almost 10 pts higher than the all-league season-long average, but
only finished 4th and fell back to last place in the standings.
With only one week to go, Adm is two rank-points behind Bas and will
not have the tie-breaker. Brees did not do enough to carry Adm
this week with 15.75 pts and only one TD. D Bryant attempted a
furious comeback for Adm on MNF with 3 TDs and 26.75 pts but it was not
enough to beat Beaud and FE. Ajayi had a strong game with over
200 yards rushing once again and he added a TD. However Adm was
affected by the bad game from E Sanders who only had one
reception.
WaxOnWaxOff finished 5th and now has an outside chance of falling to
6th place in the standings because Wax leads Bas by 3 rank-points with
one week to go. Stafford had an awful game on MNF with only 7.5
pts with R Wilson scoring 38.5 pts on the bench. The Steelers
connection L Bell - A Brown did well with 22.25 pts and 19.75 pts and
they were by far the top offensive players this week for Wax, along
with rookie Shepard with 16 pts. J Reed's absence was painful
with only 3.5 pts from Fleener. Hauschka missed a costly extra
point for the Seahawks and scored zero. The Seahawks defense was
barely any better with 0.5 pt.
OldNo7 failed to capitalize on Dec's weakness and only gained one
rank-point on Dec due to finishing no better than 6th. Old is now
one rank-point behind Dec and 3 total points behind, so all Old needs
to do to finish the season 3rd is to beat Dec in week 17 unless it's a
narrow win by less than 3 total points. The coach can be blamed
for the lack of production this week because injured Forte and Ju
Houston started, leaving valuable points on the bench. TE Kelce
was the team leader this week with 27 pts thanks to a WR-worthy long TD
of 80 yards. Roethlisberger, McCoy, and ODB and good games,
scoring between 18 pts and 20.25 pts each, but that was not enough to
overcome the zeros from injured players.
Dec's slide continues and the team finished last for the second
straight week and barely avoided scoring less than 100 pts for the
second straight week. In weeks 12-16, Dec has been by far the
worst team in the PQBFL with only 12 rank-points in 5 weeks. The
second worst team was Wax with 18 rank-points. This collapse has
coincided with the bad production from rookie QBs who would have been
better off staying on the bench and not tempt Dec to start them over
rookie LB D Jones. This week Goff scored 3.25 pts with D Jones
scoring 14.5 pts on the bench. Injured Lamar Miller started and
scored a zero but backups were not much better anyway. At WR, Ju
Jones is still gimpy and only scored 7 pts. Maclin got a rare
start because D Parker sucks, and Maclin rewarded the coach with only
3.25 pts with Parker unusually scoring 16.25 pts.
