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PFCC: Week 11 (updated)

by: exRegionalWeenie (11/23/24)


The Dirty-Dawg Board aims to write weekly summaries for CFCC and PFCC. Weekly, for both contests?!?! Yes. Seriously - we do. Unfortunately, many of you are aware that our lofty early season goals typically are cast to the wind by mid-season. We've been even worse this year as one glance at our web page proves gives the appearance that we checked out in late September. Well, forget that nonsense - we're back, baby! Sure, this might only last a week and our attention span is admittedly low, but hey, it's better than nothing.

Maybe.

Week 11 NFL Notes & Highlights
Did you see that the Bengals lost despite Joe Burrow throwing for over 400 yards with 4 TDs and a perfect passer rating of 158.3... and that this is the second time that this scenario has happened to them this year?

Hey Aaron Rodgers, you better ask State Farm if you can resume doing their commercials. Your career was going much better back then.

Knock the dust off your Terrible Towels. The Steelers weren't supposed to be this good in 2024, yet here we are at 8-2. That's good enough for first place in the AFC North and the AFC's third-best record.

And how 'bout them Lions? They're 9-1 and tied with the Chiefs for the NFL's best record. Their success isn't that surprising if you just started following football in the past 2 seasons. The rest of us, however, can recall so many losing seasons (some especially bad) that seeing the Lions at 9-1 is just still hard to grasp.

Week 11 PFCC Top Dawgs
Six players were tied for this week's best won-loss record by going 12-1. However, Dirty-Dawg is "all about the points, stupid" so none of them actually won Week 11. Instead, this week's winner was BJ Ellis who went 11-2 but had more points than anyone else (95 - nice work!). Brad Mickelson and Dirty-Dawg charter member Dick Wagonmaker were tied for second with 93 points. Rumor has it that Dick could be in the overall Top 5 for the year if only he didn't forget to enter his picks one week. Ouch. Anyhoo, Michael Orosco and Vern Preston tied for fourth with 91 points each. If you score in the Top 10 for a week, your name simply must be bolded and that honor this week goes to Mark Plate, Mark Didrick, Bob Wagner, Michael Jurewicz and Mitchell Gaines who were in sixth through 10th place, respectively.

At the opposite end of the kudos spectrum, we find this week's low scorer: Keith Goolsby. Keith turned in some pretty nasty picks and won just four games. Even worse, he "scored"... (wait for it)... MINUS 57 points! WTH, Keith? His terrible score made this a VERY bad week for players to forget to submit their picks. The 30 of you who were guilty of this offense were awarded a matching -57. That'll teach ya!

Year-to-date Standings after Week 11
Gibson Rothschild assumed the leader position a week ago and had another nice showing this week (81 points; 16th-best of the week) so he maintained his No. 1 rank. However, Mark Plate's picks were even better (89 points) and almost good enough for him to overtake Gibson. As it stands, Gibson's lead over Mark is just two points! This week's biggest Top 10 mover was Salt Lake City's Trevor Boucher. Trevor's 83-point score vaulted him from 13th place into third place. Michael Bowlan was our leader from Week 5-9 but slipped slightly in the past two weeks and now sits in fourth place. Don't look now, but Jon Zeitler has been on a roll for four weeks, steadily rising from 17th place to 12th then eighth and now fifth. The overall Top 10 is rounded out by Joel Veeneman, Nick Greenwalt, Jeff Raberding, EJ Leche and Danielle Knittle.

PFCC Group Play Standings
The Tulsa Twisters remain atop the Group Play standings. Will Levis No. 8 Parfum de Mayonnaise slipped their way up to second place by scarfing a large helping of egg salad, bathing in mayo and "waxing" their SUVs. Hailraisers had a tough week and fell to third place as none of their players made it inside this week's Top 50.




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