WEEK 10 REVIEW
A crazy week in the Pit League saw a couple teams put themselves into near lock status for the playoffs, some teams left for dead show signs of life, and a couple of official eliminations from playoff contention. Let's take a look at how our featured matchups shook out:
WEEK 10 STATS
WEEK 10 MATCHUPS
Deacon Peach 80.64–64.74 Pickle-6 Rick
Peach pushed her league-leading winning streak to five games and with it all but assured herself of a playoff spot. While still mathematically possible for Peach to lose out, the nature of her remaining schedule and the amount of results that would have to go against her has astronomical odds. The scary thing with Peach is there is still plenty of room for improvement. Dak and Jonathan Taylor are playing extremely well, but Peach got underperformances from pretty much the entire rest of her starting roster and still put up a top half score. If Peach can get her whole team going at the same time, she becomes a very scary playoff team and I don't know that many could match her player for player. We will find out fairly quickly though with Peach's upcoming schedule; as of now she has no remaining teams on her schedule below .500, including two matchups against her direct divisional rivals TripleDeac and SD3. Peach is likely guaranteed a playoff spot, but there is still some work to do to get that division title and a favorable first round playoff matchup.
Barça 90.46–72.22 Bern
Over the past two weeks (both wins), Barça has a combined 4.56 QB points. All from Jared Goff. Somehow despite terrible injury luck, some harsh bye weeks, and some underperformances in various weeks from his top guys, Barça continues to piece wins together and stay atop the league. With division rival redwing falling in Week 10, Barça finally has some breathing room in the division and looks likely to coast to the divisional title. And with his Week 11 matchup against DeacHawk the only team left on his schedule with a winning record, Barça might just run up the scoreboard a bit and go for the overall regular season title with a week or two to spare. One would imagine that Barça cannot continue to get essentially a zero from his QB position and maintain his current run of form, but with the return of Kyler imminent, I think he should be just fine.
Satan's Minions 99.84–60.52 Lazy-Eyed Psychos
Welcome back, Patrick Mahomes, you couldn't have shown up at a better time for Satan. After a tough stretch of three losses in four games, Satan's grip on the division had been reduced to a single game and things were looking tenuous. But Patrick Mahomes looked like the player that won an MVP and Super Bowl MVP in his first two seasons as a starter again and Satan ran away with a huge victory to somewhat right the ship. Unless you're Barça, QB play is probably the most important aspect of winning in such a large league and Satan will hope that Mahomes' reemergence is a return to normal and not a short-term blip. With the Fighting Cocks of Appalachia back to winning ways and their continued leaguewide scoring lead, Satan needs these wins to keep pace. The win should all but confirm Satan's spot in the playoffs, barring a string of losses and huge gains elsewhere, but Satan won't feel comfortable for at least another week or two.
FAMILY CORNER
Mrs. I/O Deac 67.02–96.06 Pitt County Pinfish
The Davis Division may not have the best teams, it may not even have any good teams, but by golly it is fun. Despite Mac Jones' best non-Jets performance of his short career, Mrs. I/O couldn't come close against the Pitt County Pinfish and fell back to .500 on the season. Luckily for Mrs. I/O, division rival Young Buck also dropped his Week 10 matchup so their two-way fight atop the Davis Divi.......wait a second...
BAH GAWD! THAT'S EDAREM'S MUSIC!!!!
Family Corner has been hijacked by the revival of our defending champ who has somehow reeled off three straight wins to create a three-way tie for the Davis Division lead with four games to play. And with an upcoming Week 11 matchup against Mrs. I/O herself (who owns the tiebreaker against Young Buck), we could see some fireworks in the Davis Division down the homestretch. It's still a long way to go for Edarem (down a tiebreak to Young Buck, down points tiebreaks to both teams), but to be in it at this point in the season after his abysmal first half of the year is phenomenal and it shows that form is temporary but class is permanent. Good luck to all in the Davis Division, may the best manager or womanager win.
GOONER'S GALLANT GUESSES
Another .500 week, feeling pretty good about being able to stay above water on the season. If I continue my form, maybe next year I can set lines and take bets. Make a little bit of money from this since actually being competitive in the league seems far beyond my capabilities.
Congratulations to all Week 10 winners, we will see you later today with a preview of Week 11!