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.