Champion

2017

IronCity Mudslingers · Wayne A. · title number two
This season 11-3 · 1,777 points, 1st of ten
All time 160–110 · .593 · 1st of ten
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The bracket

Champion
IronCity Mudslingers
11-3 · 1777 points
Won the final by 61
Runner-up
Sweep The Leg
8-6 · 1431 points
6th of ten on regular-season points
IronCity Mudslingers141
Reggie's124
Semi-final · by 17
Sweep The Leg100
there goes the Naberhood97
Semi-final · by 3
IronCity Mudslingers138
Sweep The Leg77
The final, week 16 · by 61
Champion
IronCity Mudslingers

The path

Week by week
Points for minus points against. Solid ink above the line, halftone below. Weeks fifteen to sixteen are the playoffs.
123456789101112131415+61, the final16
Level with the opponent
Solid ink is a week won, halftone a week lost, and the gold chip under week sixteen is the championship. The axis is not broken: week 11, a 89-point win, is the largest margin either way in the regular season, and no win came by under five points. Margins run across all 16 weeks, playoffs included. The rail under the week numbers carries the result: filled disc a win, hollow a loss, gold the championship week, and an ink ring the highest score in the league that week. The ring is a regular-season measure, so the playoff weeks carry none. The IronCity Mudslingers posted the league's highest score five times, and Sweep The Leg no times.

This is the largest margin in a final in league history and it was never close. Wayne A.'s IronCity went 11-3 and led the league with 1,777 points; Dave H.'s Sweep The Leg scraped in at 8-6 and sixth on points, and IronCity had already beaten them by 39 in week four. What made it a rout rather than a win was Todd Gurley, who scored 42 in the semi-final and 40 in the final, ran up 123 points across the last four weeks of the season, and finished the year worth 160 above replacement.

Sweep The Leg actually led after Saturday, by 15, on a Justin Tucker field-goal night. Then the one o'clock window arrived and IronCity scored 96 points in a single afternoon: Gurley 40, Tom Brady 19, Jordan Howard 16, Rob Gronkowski 13, A.J. Green 8. Sweep The Leg managed 29 in the same window and were 66 behind by two o'clock local time. Monday made it respectable and no more. 138 to 77, by 61. Sweep The Leg have reached three finals and lost all three, and the two heaviest defeats in the history of this game both belong to them.

The final, player by player

Week 16. Lineup order is points scored in the final. Both scales are capped at the 90th percentile of this game, PAR 12.7 and points 24.6, and shared across all twenty ribbons: never normalised per row.

IronCity Mudslingers
Sweep The Leg
Todd Gurley · RB
15 starts · 160 PAR
40
19
Ben Roethlisberger · QB
8 starts · 3 PAR
Tom Brady · QB
15 starts · 24 PAR
19
16
Le'Veon Bell · RB
15 starts · 96 PAR
Jordan Howard · RB
13 starts · -8 PAR
16
11
Justin Tucker · K
11 starts · 14 PAR
Leonard Fournette · RB
12 starts · 51 PAR
13
8
Zach Ertz · TE
13 starts · 38 PAR
Rob Gronkowski · TE
13 starts · 70 PAR
13
6
Christian McCaffrey · RB
15 starts · -18 PAR
DeAndre Hopkins · WR
15 starts · 85 PAR
13
5
Sterling Shepard · WR
7 starts · -30 PAR
A.J. Green · WR
15 starts · 22 PAR
8
4
Jack Doyle · TE
6 starts · -14 PAR
Martavis Bryant · WR
7 starts · -31 PAR
7
4
Broncos · DEF
13 starts · -48 PAR
Josh Lambo · K
2 starts · -3 PAR
6
3
Mohamed Sanu · WR
7 starts · -8 PAR
Jaguars · DEF
12 starts · 53 PAR
4
1
Devin Funchess · WR
11 starts · 4 PAR
Total
138
77
Total
Won by 61
PAR against replacement, ink above the line and halftone below, thickness is raw fantasy points, and a gap is a week he did not start; benched, injured and not-yet-acquired are three stories drawn identically and the footnote says so. The newsprint band is the playoff weeks and the gold dot is the final. Replacement is the mean of every started player at that position, league-wide, that week; in playoff weeks, when only the surviving teams field a lineup, it is carried from that season's regular-season mean instead.
The weekend, hour by hour
How the final was won, by kickoff window
After IronCity Sweep Margin
Saturday 0.00 15.10 −15.10
Sunday 1pm 95.60 29.10 +66.50
Sunday 4pm 118.60 33.60 +85.00
Monday night 137.90 76.60 +61.30
The lead changed hands 1 time across the weekend.

Who carried it

10 different players led the roster across 16 weeks. The most any one man led was 4 (Tom Brady). A defence led the team 3 times.

The week’s top scorer on the roster
10 different men led the roster across 16 weeks.
WkLed the rosterPosPoints
1PanthersDEF19.00
2Tom BradyQB35.25
3Tom BradyQB40.50
4Todd GurleyRB27.50
5Leonard FournetteRB30.40
6Rob GronkowskiTE20.30
7JaguarsDEF32.00
8DeAndre HopkinsWR28.40
9Tyrod TaylorQB30.75
10Tom BradyQB25.30
11JaguarsDEF30.00
12Tom BradyQB24.95
13A.J. GreenWR19.70
14Jordan HowardRB27.50
15Todd GurleyRB42.00
16Todd GurleyRB39.60
Source: content/titles/2017.md.
Mini-runs
Three or more consecutive starts at fifteen points or better
  • Tom Brady, weeks 2 to 8, 178.5 points
  • Todd Gurley, weeks 13 to 16, 122.9 points
  • Todd Gurley, weeks 1 to 4, 100.6 points
  • Tom Brady, weeks 10 to 12, 79.2 points
  • Leonard Fournette, weeks 4 to 6, 70.7 points
Every man who started a game, in lineup order24 starters
PlayerPosStartsPointsPAR
Tom BradyQB1533524
Tyrod TaylorQB1317
Todd GurleyRB15321160
Leonard FournetteRB1218151
DeAndre WashingtonRB215-5.6
Jordan HowardRB13131-8.0
Doug MartinRB431-13
DeAndre HopkinsWR1521585
A.J. GreenWR1515222
Paul RichardsonWR5443
Mike WilliamsWR12-6.3
DeVante ParkerWR746-16
Martavis BryantWR730-31
Rob GronkowskiTE1315871
Hunter HenryTE2217.5
Tyler KroftTE181
Josh LamboK215-2.6
Dustin HopkinsK15-2.8
Chris BoswellK18-4
Blair WalshK640-14
Giorgio TavecchioK634-16
JaguarsDEF1219553
PanthersDEF3337.6
LionsDEF15-8.1
Season PAR for the IronCity Mudslingers in 2017. Rows sort by position in lineup order, then by PAR within position. Kickers and defenses are in a record, so they are here.Roster total 365 PAR
24 men started a game for the IronCity Mudslingers in 2017 and the roster came to +365 season PAR. Todd Gurley carried +160 of it and DeAndre Hopkins another +85.

League context

Fin Franchise Record Points
1 IronCity Mudslingers 11-3 1,777
2 Sweep The Leg · lost the final 8-6 1,431
3 there goes the Naberhood 11-3 1,730
4 Reggie's 8-6 1,533
5 Caleboys 7-7 1,484
6 Washed UP 7-7 1,470
7 SMOKERS 7-7 1,390
8 Aaron it Out! 6-8 1,411
9 Hitmen 4-10 1,352
10 Alligators 1-13 1,092
Checked against the 2018 draft order, which runs in reverse standings. All ten slots agree.

The champion finished first of ten in points scored.

The regular season. Best week 153 in week 5, worst 100 in week 9. The narrowest win was week 9, by 5.0. They posted the highest score in the league 5 times all season.

The runner-up. Sweep The Leg, 8-6, 1,431 points, averaged 102 a week in the regular season and scored 77 in the final, −26 off their own pace.