Up top are the four 4-2 teams: #1 South Park has been the best team in terms of sheer wattage, their 1,417 points dwarfing the competition. Both of their losses have come to other 'cream of the crop' squads; #2 Orgrimmar in week four and #4 Manitoba in week five. Back on the right track, the Cows are the favorites as we go enter the pivotal mid-season mark at Week Seven. The Horde and The Moosecrew both followed a win over South Park with a loss to #3 Phoenix, so there's a nice bit of symmetry going on there.
Our bloated middle class features six 3-3 teams, all jockeying for position in a points race. 258.93 points separate #5 Deputy and #10 Brew-Tang, but being even in the win column showcases the league's parity. Two sets of 3-3 teams will face off this week; #7 Hill Valley take on the #9 HCM Lead Farmers while #6 Savannah take on the aforementioned Killa Beez. None of the 4-2 teams face off, none of the 2-4 teams face off, so we're likely to see the middle expand as we get over the season's hump. Psst don't look now, but the #8 Pawnee Pride have clawed their way back out from an 0-3 hole and not look to get over .500% for the first time in nearly a calendar year- after starting 4-2 in 2017 the Pride dropped three in a row in weeks 7 (HVM), 8 (DVH), and 9 (SAV) before finishing the year at 6-7.
At the bottom of the standings, #11 New York has scored 191 or better in five of six matchups and #12 Binghamton has scored 187 or better in five of six matchups. These are good teams that have caught bad breaks- while analytics would expect them to get some more fortunate run in the second half, nothing is promised and there is ground to make up. The #13 Rum Ham have been Jekyll and Hyding through six weeks, scoring monstrously (219, 255, 263) and meagerly (171, 163, 157) thrice apiece, and somehow losing in their finest form. Chronologically though, this is a South Philly team that has beasted in three of the past four weeks and could be rounding into form. At the very bottom, #14 Mar-A-Lago have fallen hard over the past month, dropping from #1 overall to the pit of dilly dilly misery. The past two weeks have seen them play competitively but come up against the sort of extreme point totals (SPC 265, SAV 243) that were rare in previous years but appear to be commonplace in 2018. They'll hope to right the ship against the defending champions in week seven.
SCOREBOARD:
Week 6 Matchups
- PRH 256: The Rum Ham get their best week of the season with their best player (Alvin Kamara) resting on the bye. Might this be a harbinger of a great second half?
- SPC 243: The team has succeeded despite having at least one defensive starter (seven total) score under 4.0 points in the past five weeks? Is this nitpicking. Yes. This team is great.
- ORG 234: Tough to be critical of a team executing at every level like this. It'd be nice if Myles Garrett was more consistent? The kicker didn't get to do anything? Good problems.
- SAV 216: Following the team's best ever performance the team put together another steady game plan and executed it brilliantly. PS, yes, Adam Thielen is real, and he's spectacular.
- HVM 216: Playing very well and still having no chance to win late in the game is as frustrating as the game can be. Six players scoring under six points mattered in this one.
- HCM 209: The entire lineup performed admirably in this important victory, as the WRs cover for Michael Thomas (bye) and showcase some impressive depth and credible ceiling.
- PAW 205: Like polio, Pawnee is making a comeback! Despite a suboptimal lineup and putrid WR play, Bakrley, Mahomes, and a swarming defensive front score a 3rd straight win.
- NYF 192: Oof, 47.28 points on the bench is the worst sort of regret, but it was an underwhelming performance from their marquee running backs that hurts most.
- BKB 191: Antonio Brown, Tyreek Hill, and Zach Ertz aside, this is an unremarkable squad that has done enough to hang around and could alter its course with a shrewd blockbuster.
- DVH 190: The defense is the heart of this squad, and it is beating the war drum hard, but a sickly performance on O (Melvin Gordon aside) doomed Deputy to a 2nd straight loss.
- BIN 190: After ranging from good to great for five weeks, Jared Goff struggled in this one, while the defensive front crumbled against the fury of the Horde.
- MAL 187: Playing well enough to lose with dignity did not end the Grabbers four game slide, but a plethora of byes give the team a reason to overhaul a flagging defense.
- PHX 182: Adding the last available kicker would have made this a more respectable 200, but you play to win the game, and the Uprising did that against paltry opposition.
- MMC 135: There are duds and there is this catastrophe. After waking up a winner five Tuesdays in a row (losing once on reversal) this horrid result was never in question.
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