The Leg-Ends: Season Awards
Three weeks in, and the league already has legends, villains, and one team that keeps benching its best player and winning anyway. Updated as the season goes.
Best single performance of the season. Nearly 3x his own projection.
Projected for 27.5. Delivered actual negative points. A 54-point miss.
Three weeks, three benchings, 94.9 points left sitting. Drew Stevens twice, then Sam Martin's league-best 55.9 in Week 3.
Went from 101.2 to 25.7 in a single week. A 75.5-point nosedive, straight into a shotgunned beer.
Held the "worst score ever" title for exactly one week before Folk her right in the Butker took it.
First (and so far only) team to break 100. Founding โ and only โ member.
Someone had to go first
Araiza's Attorney came out swinging (kicking?) with 84.7, powered by Chad Ryland more than doubling his projection at 44.0. Poor Martynec never had a chance, losing 84.7โ26.6.
Tress Is The Way made history in the worst way, finishing at -0.3 โ the league's first team to owe the scoreboard money. Meanwhile their own bench player Drew Stevens sat there quietly worth 44.0. Nobody tell them.
Speaking of benches: Still Don't Know The Rules started a punter worth 10.8 and left Jeremy Crawshaw โ 58.4 points, best leg in the league this week โ glued to the pine. A truly elite bench decision, and not the good kind.
This week's awards
Best performance in the league. Watched it from the bench.
Congrats on being worse than doing nothing at all.
Left 58.4 points sitting down. Impressive, in a bad way.
Martynec, we'll get 'em next week. Maybe.
The century game
History was made: Smack That broke triple digits, dropping 101.2 thanks to AJ Cole's absurd 69.7 โ nearly 3x his projection. Araiza's Attorney, last week's champs, got run over 101.2โ21.5.
Folk her right in the Butker found a new low: -18.6, courtesy of Austin McNamara imploding for -26.6 on a projection of 27.5. The league record for "worst score" now has a one-week lifespan.
And Martynec โ look, we have to talk about this โ started Tommy Townsend (1.3 pts) over JK Scott, who dropped 29.8 from the bench. That's 28.5 points left on the table in a single week.
This week's awards
The first century game. Somebody frame this stat line.
New record. It took one week to break the last one.
JK Scott outscored the starting punter by 28.5 points from the bench.
Not a matchup. A crime scene.
What goes up
4th and Sch!0ng 55.6, Smack That 25.7. One week after the century game, Smack That came crashing down to 25.7, the lowest score of the week. AJ Cole went from 69.7 to 15.7, and backup Kai Kroeger outscored him from the bench. Smack That, the beer is yours. Meanwhile 4th and Sch!0ng got 41.5 from Brandon Aubrey, more than double his projection, and swapped Cameron Johnston in for Ryan Wright at punter. It was the right call by 2.9 points. They're 3โ0.
Bate and switch 67.3, Hekker We Doin Here? 36.1. After watching Harrison Butker score 43.5 on their bench last week, Bate and switch finally started him and got 32.0. Corey Bojorquez added 35.3, and the week's high score keeps them 3โ0. Hekker We Doin Here? dropped Brett Thorson and picked up Johnny Hekker, the man their team is named after. Then they benched him. He scored 19.2 from there.
Mevis and Butthead 53.0, Still Don't Know The Rules 36.4. Bradley Pinion punted his way to 37.0, and Mevis and Butthead even benched the right guy: Rigoberto Sanchez scored -1.2 from the pine. Still Don't Know The Rules benched Jeremy Crawshaw for the third straight week, and for the second time he outscored the starter, 28.8 to Michael Dickson's 23.4.
Folk her right in the Butker 54.0, Big leg Bill's 3rd Reich(ard) 42.3. Last week they set the league's worst score ever. This week Folk her right in the Butker dropped Dominic Zvada, picked up Cam Little, and got 41.0 from him in his first week. That's the redemption arc. Jack Fox sat on the bench again and scored 28.5, more than Austin McNamara's 13.0. Big leg Bill's 3rd Reich(ard) got a bounce-back 29.3 from Tress Way, who scored -0.3 last week. They also left Will Reichard, their other namesake, on the bench, where he outscored starting kicker Daniel Carlson 16.0 to 13.0.
Tress Is The Way 40.0, Araiza's Attorney 34.6. Tress Is The Way finally cut Drew Stevens, the kicker they benched for two weeks. They picked up punter Tory Taylor, started him over Sam Martin, and watched Martin score 55.9 from the bench, the best leg in the league. Taylor scored 6.5. They won anyway, thanks to Cameron Dicker's 33.5. Araiza's Attorney will want to look away: Ryan Rehkow scored 27.4 on their bench, and starting him over Mitch Wishnowsky (20.6) would have won the game.
3rd Leg Greg 65.6, Martynec 46.0. 3rd Leg Greg got 39.1 from Blake Gillikin and 26.5 from Trey Smack, and correctly benched Jordan Stout. They're now 2โ1. Martynec blew it all up, dropping Tommy Townsend and Matt Gay for Daniel Whelan and Riley Patterson. Whelan delivered 42.0, the best score by any starter this week. Patterson kicked in 4.0. JK Scott stayed on the bench for a third straight week, and this was the one week that was the right call. Martynec is 0โ3.
This week's awards
Best performance in the league. Watched it from the bench. Very on-brand for Tress Is The Way.
Last week: 101.2. This week: a beer.
Sam Martin outscored the starting punter by 49.4. They won anyway, which is somehow worse.
67.3โ36.1 over Hekker We Doin Here. Still undefeated.
First week on Folk her right in the Butker. Took them from the league's worst score to a win.