Awards and notable teams of the week.
NOTE: Calcomatic has a couple errors this week: the Lions defense scored 0, not 2, and the Titans defense scored 3, not 5.
Strongest Living Team: After a low-scoring weak, the number of teams averaging over 200 points dropped from 234 to 64. Entry 107906 retook the lead this week, at 217.41, more than 5 points ahead of 2nd place. As of this week, no teams have cleared 200 every week.
Strongest Dead Team: chas23 (Entry 105369), who died last week, is the only dead team averaging over 200. Their 202.02 puts them in 48th overall.
Keep Your Day Job Award: Entry 105433 is averaging 106.76 per week and is the worst non-gimmick team. For the record, the worst team overall is still Entry 111816, a 15-QB team that is averaging 79.57.
Safest Team: We broke the 50 point barrier this week. The safest team in the contest is boujey (Entry 108041), who have cleared the cutoff by at least 48.1 points every week. Last week’s leader, Entry 103256, was the last team in the contest to score over 200 every week and had never cleared by less than 63 points, but they plummeted down into the 140s this week.
Just Skating By Award: Entry 106953 retains control in this category as the team living closest to the edge. This team has cleared the cutoff by 11, 8.2, 0.9, 4.9, 4.8 and 4.5 points.
Steady Eddie Award: The lowest standard deviation leapt from 1.8 to over 4 this week. Two teams have standard deviations under 5: Fist (Entry 100107, standard deviation of 4.08), who died way back in week 2, and Entry 111729 (4.59), who remains alive.
Icarus Award: This one’s kind of amazing. Through 6 weeks, Entry 11101 was averaging over 208 points per week, good for 30th overall. In week 7, they scored 99.45, better than only 801 of the 12,583 original entries. Now that’s what I call crashing and burning. Having McCaffrey and Chubb on bye certainly didn’t help.
Would Coulda Shoulda Award: Entry 102283 was eliminated in week 2. Since then, that team has averaged nearly 193 points per week, good for 106th overall over weeks 3-7. They also topped 200 week 1, when nobody was eliminated. Bummer.
Notable Teams:
QBs: Entry 107204, the 11-QB team that wouldn’t die, finally died. All 41 teams with 7 or more QBs are now dead. There are three 6-QB teams still alive (out of 32 originally).
RBs: No change: Sugarbears (Entry 100544), the last surviving 12-RB team, is still with us.
WRs: We’ve gone from five down to three living 12-WR teams.
TEs: No change: Of five 6-TE teams, two are still alive: MrScamper (Entry 101440) and Drunk with Power (Entry 104883).
PKs: No change: Of 21 teams with 7 or more kickers, only Entry 112043 remains (with exactly 7).
DEFs: Three 6-DEF teams still around.
And me, you ask? I’m alive and doing great: I’m in 246th overall.
More to come later...