Week #17

The BeaudoinBrothers limped to the finish line and grabbed the PQBFL championship by blocking the surging GloriousBastards.  Thankfully the league rules have changed such that week #18 is now out of bounds otherwise the outlook would be grim for the Bros to hold on.  In fact the projections were already predicting gloom as of Saturday until King Henry exploded for an eye popping 43.5 pts by carrying the rock 36 times, the highest carry count of the entire NFL RB this year which is a heavy workload for any RB, let alone an aging RB like Henry.  So it was definitely a flashback to the golden years of the BeaudoinBrothers when Henry was a stud franchise player and led the Bros to many successful seasons including league titles in 2019-2020-2022.  He has now carried the team on his back for the 4th time and the win.  In 2025 he was still franchise but arguably a fairly weak one, in fact he ended the season as RB7 which is a below average starting RB1.  But he still had one more monster game left in him and it came at the perfect clutch time.  But even Henry’s huge game was still not enough.  As it happened so many times during the season for the Bros, a bunch of backups at non-key positions also made a difference.  If Jalen Carter, Kyle Dugger, and Rhamondre Stevenson all had scored equal to their weekly projection, the Bros would have finished this week 5th so Bas would be champions by now.  But those three guys after spending almost the entire season on the bench, were called into action due to injuries of other issues and showed up to play.  J Carter had a sack and a blocked extra point which turned a 14-13 defeat for the Eagles into a 13-12 win.  Dugger led the Steelers in tackles+assists with 8 and added an INT.  Last but not least, Stevenson played second fiddle to T Henderson (Old) like most of the year by being outrushed 19 to 8, but it was Stevenson who scored 2 TDs compared to none for Henderson.  If the Bros had started Hubbard, Bas would have tied Beaud at 100 rank points and won at the tie-breaker with the slimmest of margins due to total points. The 2025 Bros are arguably the weakest PQBFL champions in the history of the league.  Except for the original 1997 season when the league was still in its infancy (the only year when there were as few as 4 teams), the Bros finished this season with 5.27% points above average, the lowest of any champions, one small notch below the 2004 Decepticons which won the league with only 5.31% more points than league average.

The GloriousBastards won for a league-high 5th time (only 1 for Beaud) but came up short despite having the best saved team in the league.  It is still puzzling to this day how Bas could not dominate considering their awesome team at key positions.  Bijan + J Chase + Pickens + McBride finished 3rd, 3rd, 6th, and 1st at their respective position.  For these four spots alone, Bas had an average more than 13 pts per game more than Beaud.  QB was a mixed comparison because Purdy was roughly in line with Stafford but both did not play much, Stafford only started from week 10-15 after being acquired by trade, and Purdy missed 9 games due to injury.  Behind them were a rotation of backups, T Lawrence and D Jones for Beaud vs Nix for Bas which was similar, or the oft-injured Burrow versus J Daniels.  Bas lost this year almost entirely due to non-key position players.  For K+DEF+DL+LB+Flex+ROO, Bas was behind Beaud by 15 pts per game.  The most painful was the LB position where Beaud was not stellar (Q Walker LB8 and R Smith LB11) but Bas was simply disastrous having drafted LB30 LB32 LB33 out of 36 LBs (Henley, Parsons, Bernard).  Bas had lots of injuries during the season, but one which was more under the radar screen than others was Fred Warner.  He only played 6 games, ended LB10 and was sorely missed.  It might very well be that Warner’s injury was the difference maker, rather than high profile injuries to J Daniels, G Wilson, or J Conner because Bas had more depth at those positions.  This week Bas crushed the competition with 5 TDs from Purdy on SNF and 2 more from Bijan on MNF but Bas needed help from other teams and none came to the rescue by inserting themselves between Bas and Beaud.

OldNo7 was in decent position to win the PQBFL for the second time in three years but unlike the GloriousBastards, Old did not excel in the final week by finishing 5th so they end the season in third place behind Bas.  On the offensive side of the ball, Old showed up to compete with 2 TDs from Caleb, 1 TD from CMC, and 2 TDs from Chase Brown.  Both Old WRs scored double digits so they were decent but they failed to match their elevated projections.  It’s rather on defense that Old struggled with the four individual defenders combining for a lowly score of 14.5 pts which could not compete in any way shape or form with the Bros’ 41.5 pts for those four positions, leaving the offense with too much ground to make up.  It also did not help that rookie T Henderson watched his teammate R Stevenson (Beaud) score two TDs while he was held out of the end zone himself.

After a late surge in weeks 15-16, FlyingElvis still had a shot to finish in the top 3 but this week was a disappointment with 7th place so FE had to settle for 4th place in the standings.  The consolation is that FE could held on to their spot by finishing 3 rank-points ahead of Prof who beat FE this week, but only did so by one rank so it was insufficient to knock FE down.  FE had the problem of missing a DB this week again as all three DBs were still out to injury.  However unlike Old who struggled on defense, the three active defenders for FE scored an impressive 48.5 pts led by Cashman with 21 pts.  The cherry on top was the Seahawks defense scoring 17 pts to cap their season as the top defense in the PQBFL with an average of 13.0 pts per week.  The problems this week for FE was entirely on offense with D London still not looking like himself after returning from injury and only scoring 1 pt.  RB Josh Jacobs was even worse with only 3 rushing yards and nothing else in part because the Ravens completely dominated the time of possession and in the rare times that the Packers had the ball they moved quickly down the field with long passes rather than run it with Jacobs.

ProfessorMJ finished the season smack in the middle with 5th place with a nearly .500 record of 69 wins 67 losses and scoring an average of 140.7 pts per week, a fraction above the league average of 140.2 pts.  This week Prof took 6th place thanks to 25.25 pts from Prescott but unfortunately he did not throw much to CD Lamb this time, who was limited to 7.25 pts.  Lamb missed three games to injury this season but even in the games that he played, he was outscored too often by Pickens (Bas) and finished the season WR13 which is too low for a franchise player.  Besides Prescott, this week Breece Hall had a good week with 20.75 pts to end the season at RB17.  The pre-season projections for Hall were not as high as for Lamb but more was expected than him as the 20th player drafted overall.  But who knows, perhaps he can find his way out of New York for greener pastures (no pun intended) and his talent might help him produce in a better situation than the one in gang-green.

After a late season surge that got Adm back in the race, unfortunately they choked at the worst possible time by finishing last in two of the final three weeks which means they could not finish any higher than 6th in the standings.  J Gibbs was a monster for a while with three out of five weeks with scores between 29 pts and 47.25 pts during weeks 10-11-12-13-14 but the last three weeks he only scored 20.75 pts total, including a crappy 3.25 pts this week.  Also AJ Brown who had a bad season overall but who had improved recently, he did not get the job done this week with only 8.25 pts.  Adm remains fairly well setup for 2026 however because Gibbs (RB4) and Josh Allen (QB1) will most likely be ranked among the best franchise players when August come.  Defense was not a strong point in 2025 but part of it was Nick Bosa only playing 3 games, he might still be worth cutting which leaves decent players on Adm’s roster such as Sherwood (LB9) and McKinney (DB4).

As bad as Adm’s late season finish was, there is no argument that Dec was several orders of magnitude worse.  Dec finished in the bottom two for 5 of the last 6 weeks and scored more than 111.5 pts only once in the last 7 weeks.  From week 12-17, Dec earned 13 rank points which is half of the second next worst Ballers who had 26 during that period.  Wow.  This week Dec finished 8th and believe it or not there were many very good scores so it could have been a lot worse.  Both Jessie Bates and TJ Edwards scored a TD, how often do we have an individual defender scoring a TD, let alone two?  T Walker had a sack and the Eagles were impressive with a defensive performance in Buffalo for 12.5 pts.  But Dec had goose eggs at QB, K, and WR2 while WR1 DeVonta Smith was barely better with 3.25 pts.  Also Pitts only scored 2.75 pts ; he would benefit from a change in scenery if he leaves ATL in the offseason.

After finishing first in week 1 it was downhill from there for Wax who ends the season in 8th place but at least they close on a positive note with 3rd place this week, only the third time in the top three for the entire season.  Drake Maye might end up MVP of the NFL and crushed the lowly Jets with 39.5 pts.  He’s certainly not the MVP of the PQBFL but he finished QB3 which is higher than almost nobody would have guessed.  Not quite good enough for franchise player however.  Barkley might also not be worth franchise next year, he scored 6.75 pts and wraps up the season as RB11.  Ju Jefferson was even worse with 5.5 pts this week and a finish at WR29.  It is not clear that he will have a better QB in 2026 so the outlook is not so bright despite none of it being his fault.  Wax arguably had the MVP of the PQBFL with J Dart outscoring all other rookies by 3.3 pts per week, the highest of any position.  Dart only played 14 games, but ROO2 McCarthy (Beaud) and ROO3 Skattebo (Dec) had even fewer than him so it's not a main consideration.  But as good as Dart was, his value in 2026 will drop like a rock after graduating to QB because his score would have ranked QB18.  Wax might be in need of a rebuilding year after winning the league in 2024.  Things change fast.

The Ballers threw the towel a while ago but finished 4th this week which was the 4th straight week finishing 6th or better so from weeks 14-17 Ball finished above .500 with 17 wins 15 losses.  As bad as 2025 was, the outlook for 2026 is actually moderately promising.  Nacua and J Cook seem to be clear-cut franchise players.  L Jackson did not pan out in 2025 but he was affected by injuries so surely he will be worth high enough to cut in 2026 rather than be a very pedestrian saved player as per his QB14 ranking this year.  Swift is not old yet and playing on the improving Bears offense, as RB12 he's another cut candidate, same story for his teammate C Loveland.  B Thomas was a massive disappointment but he’s still young so he might retain some value especially with T Lawrence finding his groove this season.  Even on defense Ball have bright spots such as having the overall best defender in the PQBFL J Brooks who might be cut, which would allow Ball to save Hutchinson DL5 who has potential to finish top DL some day.



  



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