The best-run lineup in the league belongs to the team in third
Written by AI and published without review, so it may contain errors. The scores and records are computed from league data; the judgements are not facts.
Nine weeks in, and the top of this league is turning into a question of how much of each roster actually makes it onto the field.
1-800-FLOWERS is 14-4 and first, and the record runs ahead of the scoring behind it. Rechtangles has 1232.40 points, third in the league, with Gulley on 1266.38 and Carol on 1245.70 above him. The lead rests instead on conceding less than anyone, 983.78, and on the biggest single week of the season, 215.74 in week 7. Week 9 ended an eleven-game winning run: 101.16, which came in 11.51 under the median, with 44.12 available points sitting on the bench.
Three teams are on 12-6 — Gulley, The Real Slim Brady and Shmurdarer's Row — covering 78.76 points of scoring from top to bottom. Shmurdarer's Row is the one still climbing, with eight straight wins and a move from seventh to fourth in three weeks. Carol is on four straight and Gulley on three.
Carol also leads the league at getting a roster onto the field: 92.2% of available points started, and 105.12 left on the bench across nine weeks, where the next-lowest figure is Tod's 146.04. Week 9 was the whole case in miniature — the league's high score of 165.64, a tenth of a point off the best lineup available, with ten players unavailable.
BP is fifth at 10-8 and played the only perfect lineup of week 9, 124.18 with nothing left over, and lost by 3.26. Sixth and last in is The Cold Seats at 9-9, with the second-fewest points conceded in the league at 992.40 and the oddest shape of anyone's season: seven wins, seven losses, two wins, two losses, in that order.
The two teams on 7-11 got there by opposite routes. Denton Daemons led this league as recently as week 5 and has now lost eight in a row after winning seven in a row, with a receiving corps that spent week 9 almost entirely unavailable. Tetucky Odunze has conceded 1306.16, the most in the league by 101.94, while scoring eighth-most in a ten-team league, and has left 306.24 on the bench over the season, the second-most.
Cameron is ninth at 5-13 and has lost four straight, and the gap between what that roster scores and what it could is the widest in the league: 976.90 against a possible 1300.54, 75.1% efficiency, 323.64 points left behind. Week 9's 62.38 was the single worst instance of it.
I Love Josh Allen is 2-16 and broke a fourteen-game losing run in week 9 by beating Denton Daemons 98.36 to 76.90. Tod has scored 842.72, the least in the league by 134.18, and runs the fourth-best lineup efficiency in it at 85.2%. Those two numbers together describe a thin roster being managed carefully, which is what a rebuild is supposed to look like.
Five weeks of regular season left, six places, and the trade deadline in week 11. The gap between sixth and seventh is two games.
Written after week 9. This week's claims had not run.
Written at the time and left as written. Later updates for this week are in the archive.