Week #9

Week 9 rearranged the furniture again. The GloriousBastards won with 172, OldNo7 followed at 161.25 and moved into the overall lead with 73.5 rank pts, just one point ahead of BeaudoinBrothers. Bas is now 3rd at 68, WaxOnWaxOff and ProfessorMJ share 67.5, and the title race remains less a hierarchy than an argument conducted through weekly score lists.

The GloriousBastards produced the cleanest winning case of the week. Brock Purdy and Ja'Marr Chase each scored 25.75, Bijan Robinson added 18, Jacksonville supplied 16, and the five defensive positions contributed 48. The result was 172, a 10.75-point win and an improvement from last week's 4th-place finish. Purdy remains QB3 in the league and Chase WR4 in the league, which is a useful pair of foundations for a roster now only 5.5 rank pts from the overall lead. Bas had problems at the rookie position earlier this season but finally CJ Allen woke up in weeks 8-9 with 26.5 pts during those two weeks in total, after scoring only 5 pts in weeks 1-7 combined.  This is a big change.  It's also notable that the Jaguars defense contributed 16 pts this week and made three trades to improve their defense even further.  Bas is the highest scoring team in the PQBFL and still arguably the most dominant, the only reason they are not in first place as of now is inconsistency.  But their ceiling is as high as any other team, if not more.  They remain the team to beat.

OldNo7's 2nd-place total came with the week's loudest defensive statement: 80.75 from the five defensive positions. Carson Schwesinger scored 26, George Karlaftis 17.5, and the offense received 17.25 from Javonte Williams plus 16.25 from KC Concepcion so elevating rookie Trotter to LB did not hurt so far, at least not this week. Drew Mestemaker added 11 from the college slot and remains COL1. The 161.25 total pushed Old to 73.5 rank pts and the overall lead, one point above Beaud. After surrendering first place last week, Old took it back immediately. Apparently the standings lead is now a library book, except nobody intends to return it on time.

The Admirals finished 3rd with 151, which is the respectable part of the story. Kaden Elliss scored 19, Jonah Coleman 15.25, Ka'imi Fairbairn 14, and Josh Allen 13. The less respectable part was C.J. Stroud's 45.25 on the bench. Stroud, the 99th selection in the draft, outscored Allen by 32.25. That is an extreme miss, even though the lineup still landed on the podium. Yes Josh Allen was playing the tough Vikings defense but it would have nonetheless been a hard call to make.  The Admirals climb to 56 rank pts, but a week that could have threatened 190 instead became a very elaborate demonstration of quarterback depth.

WaxOnWaxOff followed last week's victory with 150 and 4th place. Joe Burrow scored 32.5 and remains QB1, Bucky Irving added 21, and the defense supplied 55.5. Jordan Love scored 39.25 on the bench, but this is not the same argument as the Admirals' quarterback decision: Burrow was excellent, and choosing the league's top quarterback is not malpractice merely because the backup briefly caught fire. Wax now shares 4th overall with ProfessorMJ at 67.5 rank pts. The roster has followed 2nd, 1st, and 4th over the last three weeks, which is a convincing way to replace early doubt with late inconvenience for everyone else.

ProfessorMJ reached 149.25 for 5th behind a concentrated offensive surge. Ken Walker III scored 31.25 and moved into RB1, Christian Watson added 22.5, and Dak Prescott supplied 22. The five defensive positions combined for only 32, so the lineup needed nearly every bit of that offense to stay near the leaders. Prof is tied with Wax at 67.5 rank pts, only six behind OldNo7. Walker was the 15th selection in the draft and is now the top running back through nine weeks; that is the kind of return that makes draft-night confidence look like foresight instead of the usual paperwork submitted after the fact.

BeaudoinBrothers scored 142.25 which is not a low score, but this week it was only good enough for 6th place and Beaud lost against all other contenders.  Beaud slipped to 2nd overall, but the gap is only one rank point. CeeDee Lamb scored 24.75, Brock Bowers added 16.5 and remains TE1, and Trevor Lawrence supplied 16. The painful number was 27 from Arvell Reese on the bench. Reese, drafted 119th, moved into ROO1 with that performance while Beaud captured only 77.8% of the maximum possible, one of the week's largest selection gaps as it continues to be a problem like all year with Beaud ranking 8th in coaching efficiency so far. The roster is still 64.5-15.5 in all-play results and remains firmly in the title race. It simply chose an inconvenient week to let its newest position leader provide moral support.

Ballers reached 134.5 and 7th, improving from last week's 9th-place result. Puka Nacua scored 25.5 but got injured, Nakobe Dean 19, Nick Bolton 16, and the five defensive positions combined for 68. That defensive total turned an otherwise modest offense into a competitive result.  Ballers had been last all year until this week when they finally got out of the basement and now rank 10th overall at 27 rank pts.  Finishing ahead of four teams is at least evidence of a pulse rather than another administrative obituary.

FlyingElvis settled for 8th with 132.25 after three consecutive weeks in the upper half. Matthew Golden led the lineup with 23, Drake Maye scored 20, Seattle added 16, and the defense combined for 53.5. Carl Granderson's 16.5 remained on the bench, but the submitted lineup still collected 89.8% of its maximum and missed 7th by only 2.25. FE now sits 8th overall with 51 rank pts, close enough to the middle group to remain annoying and far enough from the leaders to require more than one good Sunday. The recent floor is better; the standings would now like proof of ceiling.

BetterBallers finished 9th with 123; Luther Burden III scored 17.75, Tee Higgins 16.5, James Cook III 15.5, and both Trey Smack and Drue Tranquill added 13. With Lamar Jackson injured and Brissett in the process of being traded, Bett had no other option at QB than Malik Willis and it did not go well with only 1.75 pts which is hard to recover from.  Also Bett only had one starting RB to speak of, with the RB2 spot being manned by a bunch of zombies, with two injuries the nod went to Sean Tucker who scored a goose egg.  Bett remains 9th overall at 33 rank pts.

FlyEaglesFly scored 108.5 and finished 10th. Rome Odunze led the selected offense with 12, Philadelphia and Nik Bonitto each scored 11.5, and Blake Corum added 10.75. Christian McCaffrey produced 19.5 on the bench as the coach failed to provide a lineup so it was a costly waste.  But even a perfect lineup would have reached only 137.5, so one substitution would not have turned the week into contention. FEF fell to last overall with 25 rank pts, two behind Ballers. The race at the bottom is close, which is not the same thing as being encouraging.

The Decepticons finished last with 105, and this one does belong to an owner-submitted lineup. Patrick Mahomes II scored 17.5, Spencer Shrader 12, and Denzel Boston 10.75, but the five defensive positions managed only 30.5. Meanwhile on the bench Bryce Young scored 21, Myles Garrett 18, and Jessie Bates III and Sonny Styles 14. The lineup captured a league-low 76.8% coaching efficiency, an extreme enough miss to discuss without pretending every bench point was obvious in advance. The only good news is that M Garrett is finally back from injury and being productive so he'll probably find his way to the starting lineup sooner rather than later.  Dec fell to 7th overall with 53 rank pts, but a roster that had 136.75 available and submitted 105 has provided the prosecution with exhibits, witnesses, and a closing statement.

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