Nelson New PFCC Leader/CFP Underway
By: Sugar (2025-12-24)

The regular season end is in sight for the longest of the dirty-dawg contests with the PFCC recently wrapping Week 16. Selections are supposed to get easier during the later weeks of the contest, but the PFCC field managed only a paltry 22.7 point average for the week. The week also produced some extreme scores with one dirty-dawger clocking in at -68 (it's Christmas, so we won't embarrass them, this time) while Ben Nelson torched the rest of the PFCC contingent by going 14-1 with 114 points, missing only on Detroit's loss to Pittsburgh. Ben, from St. Augustine, FL is also our new leader after his Week 16 winning performance. Mary C Embry followed up her PFCC Week 15 championship with a 2nd place finish this week going 13-2 with 100 points. Mary was up another 30 places and into the number 10 spot overall after two stellar back to back weeks and is up 100 places since Week 12. Get 'er done, Mary!!  Teddy Overton, who has led the contest since Week 9 was booted into 2nd place, but only 3 points behind the new leader. Matthew Brady was up 6 spots into #3 after 16 weeks.

While the Overton clan has been at least temporarily kicked-out of the top spot, their group, Boomerbacks, continues to lead group play in dominant fashion. The 8 members, 4 with the last name 'Overton' are all in the Top 100 and have an embarrasing large 43.92 point lead over the rest of the field. No Mistakes by this Great Lake are the closest, followed by Hurricane Elvis, which is 64.72 points behind. Tulsa Twisters and Padookie Quack Attack round out the Top 5.

Meanwhile, the College Football Playoff Edition #2, got underway with two competitive games and 2 snoozers. Alabama prevailed in Norman in a contest where receivers had a hard time catching the football and Miami, who some felt shouldn't even have been in the playoff, held Texas A&M to 3 points in a game where neither kicker seemed to be able to kick the ball through those vertical posts in the endzone. And those were the entertaining games! In the non-competitive games, Ole Miss blew out Tulane and Oregon pasted James Madison, and while the game was never close, JMU did out score Oregon in the 2nd half and evened up the statistics (except for the one on the scoreboard). So, JMU, Tulane, Oklahoma and Texas A&M are out. None of these teams had an all player consensus over 6, so this was somewhat expected. However, Miami's conensus of 4 overall and 3 for the Top 10 players, could be a huge factor should they continue to win games, favoring those players of course, that have bigger points on the Hurricanes.

So, after Round 1, Gary Petti continues to lead the field with 1002 points, with Jeff Zoltowski 15 points back. David Shuler leads the CFP Blowout with a whopping 38 points for Round 1, with his 12 on Alabama and 11 on Miami. Dave is currently in 227th place, but if the Tide and Hurricanes keep getting it done, he will be rising much higher! We are still about another week out from CFP Round 2.

Okay, I know it is Christmas Eve and I doubt anyone will even read this, but don't forget that Week 17 PFCC picks are due at 12 Noon CST on Christmas Day!! Tell your friends. Otherwise, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays from your favorite sports contest! 

Week 15 PFCC Summary: Mary C Embry Wins Frigid Weekend
By: exRegionalWeenie (2025-12-17)

Wow, Week 15 was frigid in the NFL! Several games were played with temps in the 20s and wind chills in the teens. But wait; it gets worse. Three games were played with actual air temps in the teens and wind chills near ZERO! Can you imagine playiong in that weather? No thanks. I watched those games on TV from the comfort of my toasty house while stuffing my face with snacks. 

I was plenty warm at home but no where near as hot as Mary C. Embry. She was on fire in Week 15 by gaining 98 points on a 12-3 record. Nice job, Mary C! Chad Entremont was ^%(*&# close to beating Mary but came up a tad short at 96 points. Actually, the week's entire Top 5 were incredibly close as Anthony Cavallucci, was third at 94 points while Bill Gargan and Don Baker followed with 92. You probably don't care who rounded out the Top 10 unless you're included in that group, but here they are anyway: Mark Plate, Ray Sondag, Joe Kunches (not to be confused with the uber successful Linda Kunches), Michael Jurewicz, Mark Searcy, Brian Burleson and Ashley Warthen. The smart ones among you just thought, "Hey, exRegionalWeenie can't count. That's the Top 12, not Top 10." You're right. That's because those last four names were all tied for 9th place so I listed all of 'em. You're welcome.

Although there was a handful of dropouts in Week 15, we still had 195 dirty-dawgers turn in picks. Thanks for playing, everyone, but surely you're wondering who came in dead last place. Well, that fame was earned by Danielle Sanchez. Danielle went 6-9 with a paltry -38 points. Whoops. She lost her 12, 14 and 15. Hey, Danielle, why on Earth did you put your 15 on Tua and the warm weather Dolphins to beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh in ice cold weather? Live and learn, Danielle. Live and learn.

Year-to-Date Standings

Once again there was no change at the top of the overall standings as the Overtons still rule. Teddy Overton is still ranked No. 1 and Jeffrey Overton is still No. 2. The good news for Jeffrey is that he reduced Teddy's lead from 11 points to just five.

The Top 2 were unchanged but there was movement in the rest of the Top 10. Steve Listemaa (yes, that's how you spell it) jumped five places and now sits in third place. Steve is followed by Jane Banks and Linda Kunches. All three of them are extrmely close because Steve and Jane both have 859 points (Steve has three more wins) and Linda has 857.

The rest of the Top 10 is incredibly tight. Just TWO POINTS separate those five players as Robert Stonefield and Nick Greenawalt both scored 851 while Linda Ashford, Matthew Brady and Jeff Graschel are each at 849.  Man, this is gonna be CLOSE!!

Group Play Standings

No change here. BoomerBacks still have a commanding lead of almost 50 points. No contest. In fact, they're such a lock that you have to put $10 on them on Polymarket just to earn $10.01. Second place is presently owned by Hurricane Elvis while No Mistakes near this Great Lake is floating in third.

WARNING!!! We're at that time of year... a **Saturday** deadline to enter your picks. Check it out:

Week 14 PFCC Summary: Zach Sefcovic Earns Trophy
By: exRegionalWeenie (2025-12-10)

Well, not a real trophy. More like a virtual trophy, and I mean virtual as in fake (not a Zoom or Google meeting). So, Zach Sefcovic indeed won the Week 14 NFL contest but he did NOT win an actual trophy.  After all, this is dirty-dawg, it's a free contest and you don't even receive a trophy if you win the entire contest, let alone win just one week. But, nice job on winning Week 14, Zack!!

Zack set the pace by gaining 63 points on a 10-3 record.  A bunch of other players had the same 10-3 record but their points ranged from 55 down to 49 so the official standings show them from second place  down to eighth place. Not bad at all - just not a Zack-level of goodness. Those seven players were Dan Spaeth, Matt Rendall, David Carroll, Tom Fannin, Mary C Embry, Derrick Snyder and Robert Ricks. My fondness of round numbers compels me to inform you that Mitchell Gaines and Don Adams rounded out the Top 10 in Week 14. See, isn't that better than leaving you with just the Top 8? Why, of course it is.

As far as the actual games go, did you see the snow games in Buffalo and Cleveland? The snow was very light in Cleveland and didn't impact the game. However, the Buffalo snow was legit (by some standards, not by Buffalo's). Check it out:

We had 201 players in PFCC in Week 14. You already know the high score. Here's the average score: 24 for the Top 50 players but just 10 when you include all players. Now here's the fun part... the LOW score for the week was a hideous -31, thanks to Phil Stiegman's "effort." At least Phil played. We had about 40 people fail to submit picks (no excuses - it wasn't Thanksgivng weekend!) and they were each assigned Phil's score of -31. Take that, you quitters!

So where does Week 14 leave us in the overall contest? I'm glad you asked. It leaves us... unchanged. The year-to-date standings are still headed up by two Overtons: Teddy Overton still leads the contest (808 points) while Jeffrey Overton is still in second place, just 11 points behind. Jane Banks, Jeff Graschel and Linda Kunches round out the overall Top 5.  

You're probably too lazy to read about the Group Play standings unless you're in one of the top groups. So, I'll make it easy on you. Forget reading; all you have to do is look:

 

See, that wasn't bad, was it? Good luck in Week 15 PFCC!