PFCC Week 9: The Week the Chalk Behaved

By: Sugar (2026-11-10)

Week 9 is in the books, and if you didn't score triple digits you might want to check your pulse.

The field average for the week was 99.9. Not 99.9 percent — 99.9 points. Fourteen players turned in perfect weeks, which has to be some kind of dirty-dawg record in any contest we've ever run. CFCC, PFCC, CBCC, pick one. Fourteen guys and gals who went chalk and got paid for it.

That's what happens when the favorites decide to behave. Detroit over Miami drew 98 percent of the field and delivered. San Francisco over Las Vegas pulled 99 percent and delivered. Chicago over Tampa Bay got 98 percent. Seattle over Arizona got 97. And Kansas City over the Jets was the rare unanimous — 100 percent of this field took the Chiefs, and nobody had to sweat it.

The Three Games That Separated Anybody

You needed the oddballs to make up ground, and there were exactly three.

Green Bay over New England was the big one. Seventy-seven percent of the field sat on New England and got nothing for it. The 23 percent who rode the Packers bought themselves a week.

New Orleans over Cleveland was the other coin flip that paid, with 71 percent of the room on the right side for once. And the NY Giants beating Philadelphia — 87 percent of you called that, which means 13 percent of you looked at that matchup and talked yourself into the wrong answer. We see you.

Everything else held. Cincinnati handled Atlanta (90 percent). The Rams handled Washington (93). Dallas handled Indianapolis (93). Denver handled Carolina (80). Houston handled the Chargers (87). Buffalo handled Minnesota (84). The Red States vs Blue States game had 66 percent of the field on Blue, for whatever that's worth to you.

Top of the Board

Ashlyn Meffert still has the thing by the throat. She's at 532 on an 86-39 record and sits atop PFCC at the exact halfway point of the contest.

Eight points back is Steve Beaver at 524 (89-36), and let the record show that Beaver won this whole thing in 2003. Man's been waiting 22 years to do it again and he's close enough to touch it.

Ashley Warthen (522, 85-40) and Nick Greenawalt (522, 84-41) are tied 10 points off the lead. Ken Drozd is at 516 with the best record in the top six at 90-35, and John Banghoff rounds it out at 512 (89-36).

Here's the part that should keep you up at night: fewer than 50 points separate the top 18 players. Half a season gone and this thing is a knife fight in a phone booth.

Movers

Jeff Vitale made the biggest jump of the week, climbing 31 spots from 112 to 81. Caiden Orosco went from 156 to 130 for a gain of 26. Matthew Brady moved up 25 to 79, and Bryan Greenblatt matched him with a 25-spot climb from 121 to 96.

And now the part where we stop being polite.

Marty Mullen fell 111 spots. One hundred and eleven. He was sitting pretty at 29 and woke up Tuesday at 140. In a week where the average score was 99.9, that is an achievement in its own strange way. Marty is a dirty-dawg vet and will no doubt turn it around!

Bud Hazelwood dropped 94, from 65 to 159. Blake Burleson gave back 60 to fall from 116 to 176. Derrick Snyder slid 42 spots, 57 down to 99.

When the field averages 99.9 and you don't, you don't lose a little. You lose everybody at once.

Group Standings

Padookie Quack Attack hasn't budged off the group lead and now holds a 16.95 point cushion over Lake Erie Therapy Session. BoomerBacks, your defending group champ, sits third and is very much within range if the top two blink.

Achtung! Early Deadline Sunday

Pay attention, because this is how good seasons go sideways. There's another early deadline this Sunday, this one coming at you from Munich, Germany.

Get your picks in Saturday night. Don't snooze and looze.