By a tenth of a point. That is the closest final this league has ever played and it belongs to a team that won its last eight games and five games all season by under five points. Wayne A.'s IronCity were 11-4 and fourth of ten on points; Dave H.'s Sweep The Leg were 9-6 and third, and had the most valuable player in the game in Christian McCaffrey, worth 146 above replacement.
IronCity trailed at every checkpoint. Dak Prescott put up 25 on Saturday and they had nobody playing. Down 14 after the one o'clock window with sixteen men already gone between the two rosters. Down 21 after four o'clock, Ja'Marr Chase having managed 4, DK Metcalf having added 11 the other way. One player left on the IronCity side and none on Dave H.'s. Jayden Reed, a rookie receiver, scored 21 on Sunday night. He needed 20.1. Christian McCaffrey scored 9 and lost. 105 to 104, the first of three consecutive titles for a franchise that has now won six, and it came down to a tenth of a point on the last man to play.
Week 17. Lineup order is points scored in the final. Both scales are capped at the 90th percentile of this game, PAR 10.9 and points 23.8, and shared across all twenty ribbons: never normalised per row.
10 different players led the roster across 17 weeks. The most any one man led was 3 (Deebo Samuel Sr.). A defence led the team 5 times.
| Wk | Led the roster | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Richardson Sr. | QB | 24.15 |
| 2 | Saquon Barkley | RB | 21.20 |
| 3 | Deebo Samuel Sr. | WR | 19.10 |
| 4 | Anthony Richardson Sr. | QB | 32.60 |
| 5 | Ja'Marr Chase | WR | 37.20 |
| 6 | Ravens | DEF | 17.00 |
| 7 | Ravens | DEF | 19.00 |
| 8 | Jahan Dotson | WR | 16.80 |
| 9 | Ravens | DEF | 19.00 |
| 10 | T.J. Hockenson | TE | 19.40 |
| 11 | Saquon Barkley | RB | 26.00 |
| 12 | Dolphins | DEF | 28.00 |
| 13 | Deebo Samuel Sr. | WR | 31.80 |
| 14 | Deebo Samuel Sr. | WR | 27.00 |
| 15 | Dolphins | DEF | 32.00 |
| 16 | Matthew Stafford | QB | 24.00 |
| 17 | Jayden Reed | WR | 20.90 |
| Player | Pos | Starts | Points | PAR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Richardson Sr. | QB | 4 | 81 | 1 | |
| Gardner Minshew II | QB | 1 | 11 | -10 | |
| Taylor Heinicke | QB | 1 | 10 | -13 | |
| Matthew Stafford | QB | 9 | 178 | -14.4 | |
| Joshua Dobbs | QB | 2 | 32 | -15 | |
| Jonathan Taylor | RB | 7 | 102 | 21 | |
| Saquon Barkley | RB | 12 | 153 | 19 | |
| Bijan Robinson | RB | 16 | 172 | -7 | |
| Alexander Mattison | RB | 5 | 43 | -11 | |
| Keaton Mitchell | RB | 3 | 19 | -14.3 | |
| Dameon Pierce | RB | 6 | 49 | -17.1 | |
| Deebo Samuel Sr. | WR | 13 | 172 | 54 | |
| Ja'Marr Chase | WR | 15 | 161 | 24 | |
| Jayden Reed | WR | 3 | 45 | 18 | |
| Wan'Dale Robinson | WR | 1 | 2 | -6 | |
| Jameson Williams | WR | 2 | 4 | -13 | |
| Romeo Doubs | WR | 7 | 51 | -13 | |
| Hollywood Brown | WR | 3 | 10 | -17.3 | |
| Jahan Dotson | WR | 9 | 49 | -32 | |
| T.J. Hockenson | TE | 15 | 125 | 28 | |
| Trey McBride | TE | 2 | 20 | 7 | |
| Jake Elliott | K | 14 | 140 | 20 | |
| Riley Patterson | K | 3 | 15 | -12 | |
| Dolphins | DEF | 5 | 102 | 44 | |
| Ravens | DEF | 10 | 143 | 23 | |
| Colts | DEF | 2 | 6 | -18 |
The champion finished fourth of ten in points scored. A title does not require the best offence and this season is the proof of it.
The regular season. Best week 140 in week 13, worst 67 in week 6. The narrowest win was week 14, by 1.6. They posted the highest score in the league 2 times all season.
The runner-up. Sweep The Leg, 9-6, 1,716 points, averaged 114 a week in the regular season and scored 104 in the final, −10 off their own pace.