Awards and notable teams of the week.
Strongest Living Team: Week 6 was very low-scoring, with only 9 living teams managing 200 points (4 dead teams also cleared 200). As a result, we are down to only 2 teams averaging over 200 overall. Our current leader, One Giant Loss (#107797) is averaging 205.4 points per week. The runner-up is Lavalley01, at 202.3.
Strongest Dead Team: Entry #102082 has the 26th-highest overall average, at 191.4. Their average is this high despite the 123.55 they put up in week 4, which got them eliminated.
Keep Your Day Job Award: Yes, Entry #102381 is a gimmick team, with 11 QBs and the minimum at all other positions. Yes, this means they can never field a full roster. But I can’t just ignore their weekly average of 57.9 points, not when there is no other team averaging under 85. There are plenty of other unserious teams, but none have come close to failing this hard.
It’s a little hard to distinguish the serious teams from the unserious ones at this point. Is a team with 10 QBs, 4 RBs and the minimum everywhere else “serious?” They can put together a full scoring roster (except for byes), after all. If so, then Entry #102892 is the worst team in the contest, averaging 89.4 points per week. If not, then it’s our old friend Wrecking Crew (#105142) at 95.22., swapping places with Entry #104339 (96.4) this week.
Safest Team: Last week, we had two teams who had always cleared the cutline by at least 60 points. This week, we’re down to one, and it’s our overall leader, One Giant Loss (#107797). The other one, Entry #107084, only cleared the cutline by 52.5 points this week, but that’s good enough to keep them as the second-safest team, and in fact the only other team that’s always cleared by at least 50. Another 26 teams have cleared by at least 40 every week.
Just Skating By Award: Last week’s leader, FBG Chaka (#104085), who had never cleared the cutline by more than 10.8 points, did it again this week, clearing by only 8.2 points and staying ahead in this category. Entry #108910, who has never cleared by more than 13.5 points, is in second here, with no other team below 15.
Steady Eddie Award: Our new leader here is FatnHappy (#108344), who has scored between 137.05 and 143.65 every week, for a standard deviation of 3.0. Entry #106514 is the only other living team with a standard deviation below 4.
Crazy Eddie Award: Entry #104502 continues to amaze. You may recall that last week, they had the 2nd-highest standard deviation in the contest but somehow survived. You may also recall their very promising score trend: 123.2, 136.15, 189.15, 185.05, and 276.2. Well, that didn’t last, as they came crashing down to an even 135 this week. As a result, they now have the highest standard deviation of any team, living or dead, at 57.2. You have to go through 23 dead teams before you come to second place here, GUNMAN1217 (#103909), with a standard deviation of 48.0.
Icarus Award: Big Blue Wreckin (#105594) got wrecked themselves this week. They were in 51st place overall after last week, but their 111.85 score in week 6 got them eliminated. Kind of an equal mix of injuries, byes, and week performances took them down.
Woulda Coulda Shoulda Award: All of the 64 teams with the highest average scores over the last 5 weeks are still alive…except for poor Dirtypirates (#107096), who are in 28th over that span but were sadly eliminated in week 1, when they missed the cutline by a mere 1.15 points. Ah, what might have been.
