Archive: Author: commish

Another wild week in the books. This week had less close match-ups than the previous weeks, and featured the biggest blowout of the season (100 points!). It also had our two highest scores of the season (184.5 and 181.6 points), and our two lowest of the season (84.3 and 94.3 points). A lot of teams ended up in the middle and the average score for the season continues to hover around 141 points. The average winning score this season? 154.5. The average losing scoring? 126.9.

There were a lot of bounce back teams this week. Surfers, Pumaskulls, and Nibblonians all took a big step from their average week 3 performances. Others teams like TGIF and Smoke came crashing back to earth. Shenanihads would have beat four teams this week, bringing their wins agains the field for the season up to 5-39. Giant Octopus on the other hand has recorded back to back high scores and has a 40-4 against the field. The system is now calling The Northern Pikes the power division, with 3 teams breaking the 600 point total. They also have the only teams who haven’t broke the 500 point total so the division seems a little polar. The Mayo boys however, have a pretty decent average amongst all the teams, although Mega Shark took a commanding lead this week with their 181.6 point performance.

This week we saw a huge gap in QB power, the Shenanihads scoring ZERO and the Nibblonians scoring 39 points. Defensive ends scored big this week with an average of 17.6 points, while cornerbacks in the league only scored 4.5. Five cornerbacks have been started this season with an average of 5.18 points, so beware when chasing CB points. Some teams are killing it with their drafted players – Shittysauruses have scored 573 out of their 614 total points from players out of the draft – while injury struck teams like the Boomers have barely scored 50% of their points out of drafted players. The Boomers have more than made up for this in free agency, where they’ve scored 200 points out of players from the waiver wire.

Every week I’m surprised at how many close games we have. This week there’s one game that I’m still not comfortable calling between the Surfers and the Boomers. Going to bed Sunday night, the Surfers held a fractional lead, but by Monday morning that lead had swapped. I’m guess some stat corrections on Thursday will cause score to swing even further, but who knows in what way.

Divisions are beginning to take form, although its anyone’s guess how long they stay like this. Former top teams like Surfers, Shittysauruses, and Pumaskulls are all winless, while newcomer wholelottasmoke is sitting atop the Pacific Mayo Boy Conference uncontested. Luck has definitely played a roll even this early in the season with teams like wholelottasmoke and Atoms over-performing  relative to the league, while Pumaskulls find themselves 0-3 despite a 51.5% win percentage against the field. Other teams like the Shenanihads will need to look inward to find the answer to their woes – they’re the only team to not score more than 120 points this season. Their top score of 117 points is less than 9 teams worst score.

Quarterback scoring is surging: this week the average quarter back score was 24 points. It seems like people are finding their footing in IDP: scores have increased in the DP slot every week. Position diversity has increased as well. Week 2 saw 31 linebackers starting, but week 3 saw 25 linebackers, 2 cornerbacks, 3 defensive ends, 1 defensive tackle, and 5 safeties. Mega Shark has cashed in on the position more than any other team – Darius Leonard has not only put up the top two defensive scores of the year, but is also the top scoring free agent acquisition.