!!CONGRATULATIONS TMW ON GETTING HIGH SCORE FOR WEEK THIRTEEN!!
MANTLE OF MAGNIFICENCE
NUT maintains a 4 game winning streak, and leads DFFL with best record for the 2023 season at 12-1!! TMW is on a 3 game streak, nabbing the highest point score of the season this week. UGG and RAF each have 2 game win streaks going into the last game of the Regular Season, and KED and CAB return to the MoM with victories in Week 13. It appears that only RAF is the only team in the MoM who will not be in the Playoffs this year; what a spoiler! Congrats!!
(TMW (9-4)⭐⭐⭐⭐🤺🤺), (NUT (12-1)⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🏈🤺), (RAF (5-8)🏈), (KED (7-6)⭐🤺), (CAB (8-5)), and (UGG (7-6)⭐🤺), , in order of points scored.
CELLAR OF SHAME
MTT is on the longest losing streak in DFFL, going on 5 games. JWW and DMM continue their skidding at 4 games each. TIU has lost 2 straight, and DNF returns to the CoS in Week 13. PTS, who was on a confounding 6 game win streak, came down to the CoS in a close losing battle with RAF this week. PTS is the Hops Division Champion and this loss effects his Playoffs BYE likely NOT. TIU is the only other team in the CoS who has a chance at the Playoffs. Much is at stake for most upcoming Week 14 matchups!
PTS (10-3)⭐⭐), (TIU (6-7) ⭐⭐), DMM (4-9) ⭐⭐🏈), (DNF (5-8)⭐🏈), (MTT (4-9)🏈), and (JWW (1-12)⭐) in order of losing points scored.
Free Agent Top 5er:
NADA/ZILCH/NONE
(KEY: 🤺-Top 5 Defense/ST, 🏈-Top 5 Kicker, ⭐-Top 5 Player Q/R/W/T)
DFFL WEEKLY PRODUCTION NOTES
TOP 5 Notes:
NUT attained a Top 5er with Ja'Marr Chase and now leads all teams with 8x 5ers!
PTS picked up a Top 5er when (RB) Pacheco entered as #5 - he now has 2.
TIU lost the most 5ers as the Bills continue to struggle defensively and with stars.
CAB is only team without a 5er, as (RB) Jacobs fell out during his BYE week.
DFFL Production:
DFFL scored 1677.54 in Week 13.
Wk1-1493.7; Wk2-1558.98, Wk3-1526.44, Wk4-1676.94, Wk5-1719.48, Wk6-1639.76, Wk7-1566.43, Wk8-1843.04, Wk9-1507.4, Wk10-1692.8, Wk11-1619.58, Wk12-1779.02, WK13-1677.54.
Meeting Expectations:
TMW beat projections by over 18% this week; RAF beat by 16%.
RAF's Jake Ferguson and Trey McBride, TMW's Derrick Henry, Deebo Samuel, and Mike Evans, JWW's Chuba Hubbard, DNF's Christian Watson, TIU's Geno Smith, KED's Joe Mixon, and NUT's Ja'Marr Chase all beat projections by double digits in Week 13! Solid performances!!
RAF's 32% in Week 7 is a DFFL best for 2023 thus far.
Failing Expectations:
JWW had the worst week in production, losing over 29% expected production in Week 13!
DFFL had a whopping 7 starting positions provide GOOSE EGGS this week! MTT had the most in lineup with Tank Dell and Terry McLauren getting fat zeros in production. UGG's Juwan Johnson, JWW's Noah Brown, DNF's Treylon Burks, and KED's Marquise Brown were the other gooseegg starters. DMM's Jalen Guyton and DNF's Drake London got 1 point. Terrible, Just TERRIBLE!
NUT's Cowboys DEF received -1 for a score.
UGG (27%), MTT and CAB (24%) had really disappointing production from starters this week; however, only MTT lost his match.
MTT's 65% in Week 1 is a DFFL worst for 2023 thus far.
Benched Diamonds - Wasted Production in WEEK 13:
Highest Bencher QB – TMW's Brock Purdy (42.5)
Highest Bencher RB - JWW's Devon Achane (26.8)
Highest Bencher WR – PTS' DK Metcalf (37.4)
Highest Bencher TE – TMW's Sam LaPorta (28.5) TAXI
Highest Bencher K – NUT's Evan McPherson (13)
Highest Bencher DEF – KED's LA Chargers (17)
DFFL Platinum Performers - Week 13
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TIU's Geno Smith (QB) - 43.5
UGG's Dak Prescott (QB) - 43.3
TMW's Brock Purdy (QB) - 42.5
TMW's Deebo Samuel (WR) - 41.8
*Stroud's 60.3 in Week 9 is Season High *
DFFL WEEK 13 AWARDS
Tyson Award. Nite, Nite! Thleep Tight!
- TMW (3) beats JWW by a DFFL '23 season best 113.4 in Week 13!! TMW becomes the team with the most Tyson Awards this season with one game left to play...nice work bruiser! TMW also got the highest season score in the league this week, but I'll get to that in the Maguire. The Watts was led by a '40Burger' from Deebo Samuel and 3x near 30points or more from Derrick Henry (30.5), Tyreek Hill (32.8) and Mike Evans (29.7) to blow out The Wonder. JWW played a part in this historic loss by getting only 2x players to meet or exceed projected points - Pickens and Hubbard. Noah Brown's gooseegg assisted in the The Wonder's woes.
2023: PTS (2), MTT (1), RAF (2), NUT (1), DMM (1), UGG (1), TIU (1), DNF (1), TMW (3)
Historical: JWW 139.88
Maguire Award. Show me the Money!
- TMW (4) gets a 2nd straight Magurie this week with a season high 211.4 points! Unless NUT comes out swinging in Week 14, The Watts' will own the most stock in this award for the 2023 DFFL Regular Season. As discussed in the Tyson, TMW had an epic performance in Week 13 with multiple starters blowing past expected production. At 18% over projections, TMW had his best week and the DFFL's 2nd best week for over achieving on Sleeper projections. Solid!! Had The Watts started Brock Purdy (42.6) for Tua (27.2) and Nico Collins (33.6) for Keenan Allen (10.3), he'd have scored the highest DFFL weekly score at 250.1 - beating out DNF's 2021 record 246.5 points!! But that's Noonanesque...
2023: PTS (1), TIU (2), RAF (1), CAB (1), UGG (1), NUT (3), TMW (4)
Historical: DNF 246.5
Cliffhanger Award. By the skin of your teeth and newly discovered hair loss!
- RAF (1) gets his first Cliffy with a 1.88 point win over PTS in Week 13! While it's not the slimmest difference in the league this season, its the second slimmest. JWW beat TIU in Week 9 by only 1.08 points! RAF had his second best weekly score performance this week at 161.4, and can thank Alvin Kamara's best performance (32.9) this season along with his 2x allstar TEs, Ferguson and McBride (over 20 points, each), for eking out a close one versus Hops Division Champion, PTS. PTS needed just a tad more production from starters Jamyr Gibbs (7) and ARSB (13), or to have started DK Metcalf (37.4) and/or Puka Nakua (24.9), to push him into the 'W' column, extending his winstreak to 7 games. But alas, it wasnt to be!
2023: UGG (2), DNF (1), KED (1), DMM (1), JWW (1), TIU (1), PTS (1), NUT (4), RAF (1)
Historical: “The Tie”’19 (CAB vs RAF); “Halloween Howler.84”’22 (TMW vs NUT)
Meme Award. When your best isn’t good enough, but makes for great jokes!
- JWW (1) shockingly earns his first Meme of the year, stumbling and falling flat below the Century Mark, for only a second time this season, at just 98 points. He did beat his Week 1 performance by .06 points, however. In retrospect, that Game 1 score was prophetic for how the season would treat the Defending DFFL Champion JWW. Mahomes, who fell out of the Top 5 for the first time in years, only gets a fraction of fantasy production this season, and JWW's other starters are habitually underachievers. Noah Brown (0) and Rondale Moore (1) were particularly disappointing this week.
2023: DNF (1), RAF (4), UGG (4), MTT (3), JWW (1)
Historical: MTT 55.82 (Wk1/2023), OIE (MTT) 66.04.
Shamrock Award. I found me 4-leaf clover, and though small, I be a winner!
- UGG (2) finds himself the winner of a Shammy in Week 13 for the lowest score among the winnners, 126.76. Dak Prescott (43.26) wasn't to blame for the lackluster production from The Life's starters. But newly acquired D'Andre Swift (3) along with Calvin Ridley (7), and Austin Ekeler (9), not to mention the gooseegg Juwan Johnson brought The Life, made this game a tough one to win. Thankfully, UGG was matched against the tanking Millionaires, who only scored 112.62 in Week 13. A win is a win, but UGG finds himself the Comeback Kid of the DFFL 2023 Season, and is going to need a lot more points from his starters if he is to go beyond the first bowl game.
2023: CAB (2), KED (2), MTT (1), PTS (3), TIU (1), DNF (1), RAF (1), UGG (2)
Historical: CAB 102.7
TY-SHAM: PTSvsRAF(wk2 138.02).
Red Shirt Award. Starfleet security officer taking one for CAPT Kirk.
- PTS (2) has the unfortunate distinction of getting the highest score among losing efforts in Week 13 at a very respectable 159.52 points. It's well under TIU's Week 12 Red Shirt performance (171.56), but still smarts just the same. Only 3 players from the PTS starting squad reached or excelled beyond projected points, and The Six has only had one week this season with a squad breaking projections (Week 4). The Six did have 2x Benchers score over projections (Puka Nakua and DK Metcalf), but that helped him not. DK, in fact, had his best week ever as a player in fantasy!
2023: KED (2), JWW (1), TMW (2), DMM (3), TIU (3), PTS (2)
Historical: NUT 205.10 (Halloween Howler, Oct22)
Mojo Award. “Yeah, Baby!” Best pickup or start/sit decisions.
- TMW (3) deservingly earns a Mojo this week with his FLEX start of Deebo Samuel (41.8). Deebo had his best fantasy game ever! And while TMW left many points on the Bench, when you have the talent The Watts has, you're gonna leave points off the score, unfortunately. This only highlights how important it was for TMW to recognize Samuel was giong to have a historic day and to get him into his lineup! Solid work! Honorable mention goes to KED for the impactful Joe Mixon (31.7) start!
2023: DMM (1), RAF (1), MTT (2), JWW (3), DNF (1), NUT (1), UGG (1), TMW (3)
Noonan Award. "Best Ball Award"..nana nana naaa!
- PTS (2) easily wins a Noonan this week for sitting DK Metcalf, who had his best fantasy performance ever, and Puka Nacua, who continues to Karate Kid his way to epic fantasy success for an end of 3rd Round Rookie. Had PTS started these stars, he would have easily defeated the pestering RAF squad, making his win streak 7 straight! Enough said...
Honorable mention goes to TMW, who could have added Most Points Ever in a Game Award to his Franchise Card; instead, The Watts sat 40Burger Brock and WR sensation Nico and settled for top 2023 score. Oh well...
2023: MTT (1), JWW (2), TMW (1), TIU (3), KED (1), DMM (2), PTS (1), CAB (1)
(RETIRED) Deck Chairs Award. First Class or Steerage? All equally suck on Titanic!
As a result of trade deadline, this award is officially retired for the 2023 season.
RAF AND JWW received the most Deck Chair Awards (3 each) during the 2023 Regular Season. Both franchises have Week 15 BYEs in the consolation bracket and are ranked 11 and 12 in the DFFL Power Rankings.
Owners who managed to keep their assets above 'The Drink' include; NUT, PTS, TIU and KED; all teams with a solid shot at DFFL Championship Glory.
2023: UGG (1), DNF (2), CAB (1), TMW (1), RAF (3), MTT (1), DMM (2), JWW (3)
I'd hate to be the hair on KED and TIU's heads this week!! Gots to win in Week 14, and maybe get some losses from some other teams. I'll leave that up to the Commishes, who have playoff seeding down to a science. Good LUCK!!
~Rudolf
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