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PFCC: Week 11

by: exRegionalWeenie (11/19/24)


The Dirty-Dawg Board aims to write weekly summaries for CFCC and PFCC. Weekly, for both contests?!?! Yes. Seriously - we do! Unfortunately, many of you are aware that our lofty early season goals typically are cast to the wind by mid-season. We've been even worse this year as one glance at our web page proves gives the appearance that we checked out in late September. Well, forget that nonsense - we're back, baby! Sure, this might only last a week and our attention span is admittedly low, but hey, it's better than nothing.

Maybe.

Week 11 NFL Notes & Highlights
Did you see that the Bengals lost despite Joe Burrow throwing for over 400 yards with 4 TDs and a perfect passer rating of 158.3... and that this is the second time that this scenario has happened to them this year?

Hey Aaron Rodgers, you better ask State Farm if you can resume doing their commercials. Your career was going much better back then.

Knock the dust off your Terrible Towels. The Steelers weren't supposed to be this good in 2024, yet here we are at 8-2. That's good enough for first place in the AFC North and the AFC's third-best record.

And how 'bout them Lions? They're 9-1 and tied with the Chiefs for the NFL's best record. Their success isn't that surprising if you just started following football in the past 2 seasons. The rest of us, however, can recall so many losing seasons (some especially bad) that seeing the Lions at 9-1 is just still hard to grasp.

Week 11 PFCC Top Dawgs
Seven players turned in perfect picks this week and went 13-0 with 117 points. This elite crew includes Dirty-Dawg charter member Dick Wagonmaker along with Michael Orosco, Mark Didrick, Mark Plate, Vern Preston and Brad Mickelson. Nice job, guys! The rest of the week's Top 10 was filled with four one-loss players that included Michael Jurewicz, Mike Lowder, Pat Spoden and Bob Wagner.

At the opposite end of the kudos spectrum, we find this week's low scorer: Keith Goolsby. Keith turned in unimaginably bad picks that went 3-10 with... (wait for it)... MINUS 81 points! WTH, Keith? The next-lowest score was a PLUS 15. That's right - Keith was almost 100 points worse than anyone else in Week 11. His horrific score made this a VERY bad week for players to forget to submit their picks. The 30 of you who were guilty of this offense were awarded a matching -81. That'll teach ya!

Year-to-date Standings after Week 11
First place Plate. That has a nice ring to it especially if your name is Mark Plate. Mark was the only member of the previous week's Top 10 to correctly guess that Indy would beat the NY Jets. That pick helped him go undefeated for the week and vaulted him from fourth place into the current leader position. Gibson Rothschild and Michael Bowlan slipped one spot each and are now in second and third place, respecively. Trevor Boucher had a big week (12-1, 99 points) and was the only non-Top 10 player to force his way into the new Top 10 based on this week's results. Trevor is in fourth place and is followed by the rest of the new Top 10 that includes Joel Veeneman, Nick Greenawalt, Jeff Raberding, Jon Zeitler, Ej Leche and Andrew Sniezak.

PFCC Group Play Standings
The Tulsa Twisters remain atop the Group Play standings. Will Levis No. 8 Parfum de Mayonnaise slipped their way up to second place by scarfing a large helping of egg salad, bathing in mayo and "waxing" their SUVs. Hailraisers had a tough week and fell to third place as none of their players made it inside this week's Top 40.



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PFCC: Week 11

by: exRegionalWeenie (11/19/24)


The Dirty-Dawg Board aims to write weekly summaries for CFCC and PFCC. Weekly, for both contests?!?! Yes. Seriously - we do! Unfortunately, many of you are aware that our lofty early season goals typically are cast to the wind by mid-season. We've been even worse this year as one glance at our web page proves gives the appearance that we checked out in late September. Well, forget that nonsense - we're back, baby! Sure, this might only last a week and our attention span is admittedly low, but hey, it's better than nothing.

Maybe.

Week 11 NFL Notes & Highlights
Did you see that the Bengals lost despite Joe Burrow throwing for over 400 yards with 4 TDs and a perfect passer rating of 158.3... and that this is the second time that this scenario has happened to them this year?

Hey Aaron Rodgers, you better ask State Farm if you can resume doing their commercials. Your career was going much better back then.

Knock the dust off your Terrible Towels. The Steelers weren't supposed to be this good in 2024, yet here we are at 8-2. That's good enough for first place in the AFC North and the AFC's third-best record.

And how 'bout them Lions? They're 9-1 and tied with the Chiefs for the NFL's best record. Their success isn't that surprising if you just started following football in the past 2 seasons. The rest of us, however, can recall so many losing seasons (some especially bad) that seeing the Lions at 9-1 is just still hard to grasp.

Week 11 PFCC Top Dawgs
Seven players turned in perfect picks this week and went 13-0 with 117 points. This elite crew includes Dirty-Dawg charter member Dick Wagonmaker along with Michael Orosco, Mark Didrick, Mark Plate, Vern Preston and Brad Mickelson. Nice job, guys! The rest of the week's Top 10 was filled with four one-loss players that included Michael Jurewicz, Mike Lowder, Pat Spoden and Bob Wagner.

At the opposite end of the kudos spectrum, we find this week's low scorer: Keith Goolsby. Keith turned in unimaginably bad picks that went 3-10 with... (wait for it)... MINUS 81 points! WTH, Keith? The next-lowest score was a PLUS 15. That's right - Keith was almost 100 points worse than anyone else in Week 11. His horrific score made this a VERY bad week for players to forget to submit their picks. The 30 of you who were guilty of this offense were awarded a matching -81. That'll teach ya!

Year-to-date Standings after Week 11
First place Plate. That has a nice ring to it especially if your name is Mark Plate. Mark was the only member of the previous week's Top 10 to correctly guess that Indy would beat the NY Jets. That pick helped him go undefeated for the week and vaulted him from fourth place into the current leader position. Gibson Rothschild and Michael Bowlan slipped one spot each and are now in second and third place, respecively. Trevor Boucher had a big week (12-1, 99 points) and was the only non-Top 10 player to force his way into the new Top 10 based on this week's results. Trevor is in fourth place and is followed by the rest of the new Top 10 that includes Joel Veeneman, Nick Greenawalt, Jeff Raberding, Jon Zeitler, Ej Leche and Andrew Sniezak.

PFCC Group Play Standings
The Tulsa Twisters remain atop the Group Play standings. Will Levis No. 8 Parfum de Mayonnaise slipped their way up to second place by scarfing a large helping of egg salad, bathing in mayo and "waxing" their SUVs. Hailraisers had a tough week and fell to third place as none of their players made it inside this week's Top 40.



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Remembering the 21st Night of September. And the 22nd and 23rd.

by: Sugar (September 26, 2024)


With apologies to Earth, Wind and Fire, one of THE best bands of the 1970s, it is time to look back at the 21st night (and day) of September, hereafter referred to as CFCC Week 4. We are learning more about the 2024 college football landscape with each passing week. For instance, Michigan looks better than originally thought, or USC was too highly thought of, but if the former is true, Texas is probably really, really good as suggested in this column a couple of weeks ago. James Madison hung 70 on North Carolina in a game where both teams totals almost went over the Vegas Over/Under. Miami of Florida continues to chug along and Tennessee looks like a force to be reckoned with in the SEC.

Mack Morris of New Braunfels, TX also looks like a force to be reckoned with as he was up one spot from Week 3 to take over the lead and has opened up a 22 point lead over previous leader, Matt Rendall. Mack had a 54 point performance during a week that only had a brutal 29 point average. Courtney Carpenter from Roseville, CA remains in 3rd place with a 48 point week and is 42 points back of Big Mack. For Week 4 itself, Phil Stiegman of Sierra Vista, AZ was the winner with a crazy 88 point performance on an 11-4 record. Phil missed the first 4 games of the week (NC State, UNC, Coastal Carolina and USC). Then he ran the table. Aaron Davis from Shreveport was the Week 4 runner-up with 82 points, also with 11 victories. Checking on the other side of the coin, David Carroll from Saint Albans, WV had about as much go wrong as possible clocking in with -66 points and a 5-10 record. Hang in there, David, better weeks are ahead! Snoop's Clean Canines, presented by WFO EWX continues to pace group play with an average score of 221.17 points, which is a tad over 3 points ahead of Water Wizards and The Andy Griffith Show. We will know even more about college football after the highly anticipated Georgia at Alabama tilt this Saturday

Switching over to the 22nd and 23rd days and nights of September, or PFCC Week 3, we see it was another brutal week for the dirty-dawg field with an average score of -25. Yes, that's a minus sign in front of the two and five. Only 18 players did better than zero, with Bryan Greenblatt the genius with 44 points on an 8-7 record. Danielle Sanchez from Colorado Springs had a good record at 11-4 and finished as Week 3 runner-up with 40 points. Overall, dirty-dawg veteran Paul Witsaman continues to lead with 113 points. Danielle Knittle from Endicott, NY is in 2nd place with 111 points while Trevor(lution) Boucher from Salt Lake City (fix your resident city T-Rev!) resides in 3rd place With 109 points. Picks So Hard, We Broke Our WRISD continues to lead the group efforts with 47.4 points, ahead of 2nd Place CRaP We Forgot and Hurricane Elvis.

As we head into another football-filled weekend, both game forms are up and ready for your expert action. Let's shoot for positive average scores in both contests this week. Good luck!
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Week3 CFCC and Week2 PFCC in the Books

By Boda September 19, 2024

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Well... a very deserved break from the difficulties of predicting college football was Week 3 in the CFCC. The average jumped to a more respectful 70 points with a smattering of 14-1 records, and numerous 13-2 and 12-3 records. First prize this week was shared by Jared Lee of Broomfield CO and Scott Kahn from the twin Long Island hamlets of East Northport and North Eastport (yes, I made you look). Each scored 108 points on 13-2 records. The overall standings following the first 3 weeks of CFCC also have shared leadership. Matt Rendall of Mishawaka IN and Mack Morris of New Braunfels TX each have 272 points, averaging just over 90 points per week. Matt and Mack are followed closely by Courtney Carpenter and Chris Darden. And last, Snoop's Clean Canines continue to hold their lead in Group play, just ahead of BoomerBacks and HailRaisers.

Not to forget PFCC which is through its second week of games. Our overall leader is Paul Witsamen of Forth Worth TX, followed by Trevor Boucher and Danielle Knittle. The Week 2 winner was Scott Carpenter of Salt Lake City UT with a stellar 9-6 record and 42 points. What's the difference between CFCC and PFCC you ask ? Parity !! While the Week 3 CFCC scoring average was 70, the Week 2 PFCC scoring average was -19. In fact, in the pro contest this week you could score zero and still climb 78 points in the standings (Martha Hilgeman). Ouch !!

So thats it for the latest Dirt-Dawg summary. For Week 4 CFCC, you won't have Florida State to kick you around anymore. We are starting to have a few conference games going foward which usually makes for more challenging picking. This week Utah at Oklahoma State and Tennessee at Oklahoma look to be the big games. In the PFCC, the usual tight slate is in place with about 5 home underdogs tempting your allegiance, along with about half the games with point spreads 3 or less. Good luck to all.

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CFCC Top dawgs

Through Week 12

Place Player Pts W L
1 Courtney Carpenter 828 127 53
2 Matthew Brady 780 126 54
3 Julie Mich 776 126 54
4 Adam Sherrer 774 125 55
5 David Schomaker 770 127 53
6 Dana Griffin 768 128 52
7 Jared Lee 766 127 53
8 Jeff Raberding 764 125 55
9 Gary Petti 762 124 56
10 Krissy Hurley 762 121 59
Full CFCC Standings

PFCC Top dawgs

Through Week 11

Place Player Pts W L
1 Gibson Rothschild 611 111 43
2 Mark Plate 609 108 46
3 Trevor Boucher 587 106 48
4 Michael Bowlan 581 107 47
5 Jon Zeitler 577 108 46
6 Joel Veeneman 577 108 46
7 Nick Greenawalt 575 105 49
8 Jeff Raberding 573 109 45
9 EJ Leche 573 104 50
10 Danielle Knittle 571 107 47
Full PFCC Standings

CBCC Top dawgs

2024 Contest

Place Player Points
1 Mary C Embry 8072
2 Chris Darden 8003
3 Joel Veeneman 7964
4 Ryan Hamill 7934
5 Howie Moseley 7917
6 Deanna Wolfe 7916
7 Mike Lowder 7866
8 Phil Stiegman 7845
9 Jim Rutherford 7840
10 Dick Wagenmaker 7819
Full CBCC Standings

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