Ok boys, only 3 points separate every team still in the race. This season is coming down to a photo finish. Two straight weeks of 0-2 has turned Nathan's locked spot into a question mark, Mike should be giving Quentin Johnston a back massage in a Thai parlor as we speak, and half the league is sitting at 14 or 15 points with 3 weeks to go. How can you not get excited about this??

Playoffs??

I can't do the playoff scenarios myself yet (there's still like 4 billion outcomes), but I've given the deets to ChatGPT and this is what it came out with. Granted, it doesn't know the rich and deep history of our league and it was only going off what I told it, but it's better than nothing.

	Champ	Runner-Up	MBB Winner	4th Place	Miss Playoffs	Bitch Made
Jake	110%
Nathan		50%	40%	10%
Garrett		50%	25%	25%
Collin			35%	50%	15%
Mike				15%	85%
TK						100%
Tmo						200%

Idk, pretty interesting stuff I guess?

GAMES TO WATCH

#1 Nathan vs #T2 Collin

Nathan is desperate to get back on track. Two straight weeks of 0-2 (most recently to John Luke, no less) and he went from a 2-week cushion on his perch atop the standings to facing the possiblily of dropping out of playoff contention all together. Collin has done the opposite. He's scoring 160+ in 3 of his last 4 games, and is on a 10-2 run over the last 6 weeks. He did lose the first matchup vs Nathan this year, so he'll need a win here to make a potential tiebreaker be based on points (though Nate still has about 100 points on Collin).

#T4 Tyler vs #T4 Jake

I mean this is just one of those matchups that could be a play-in game, right? Both teams in 4th, fighting to stay alive, and both teams finish the season similarly (Trash Pile (TM) team next week, contender for the finale). Both teams are generally healthy, and the winner is all but certain to gain ground on the whole gaggle of 14-15 win teams. Vegas has the line slightly to Tmo for now, and Tmo won the first matchup in Week 3 to secure at least half of the H2H, we'll see how it plays out!

King of the Hill

Damn Garrett, you gave it a good run. Staying alive with 2 strikes for 7 weeks is nothing to be ashamed of. Nathan and Tmo are all that's left, what yall got??

PREVIEWS

Ryan 118.3 - 169.26 Collin

Yeah... I think this result surprises nobody. Collin has been red hot over the past few weeks, that Saquon trade is looking incredible, and when you have him plus FOUR other people break 20 (plus you're playing a pretty terrible Ryan team) then yeah... gg ez. Ryan has a spark of light to see at the end of the tunnel though. Jayden Daniels has looked great this year, he'll be a fantastic keeper (8th round) for next season, and the pressure is totally off of him for the next three weeks. Just try and fuck up some other seasons against both Merritt brothers and Garrett. Collin has ONLY pressure left, as he squares up against #1, #2, and #4 in his final stretch.

Garrett 107.16 - 137.78 Jake

It's taking me a lot of personal restraint not to make some comment about my performance that will inevitabily manifest a complete collapse. Here's all I'll say. Garrett, I respect you as a competitor and as our current reigning champion, I wish you the best of luck in your games moving forward, and Austin go fuck yourself.

Tyler 126.8 - 104.42 TK

In one of this week's Games to Watch, TK went out with a bit of a whimper. Deebo Samuel, Brock Bowers, and Rico Dowdle all failed to break 10, and the only real bright spot was Jakobi (great name) Meyers with 22.1. This was fortunate for Tmo, who didn't really have a breakout weekend but did plenty to earn the win and a Top 5. Sort of a BAU week for him as he keeps pace on the playoff race and gets his affairs in order. Nico Collins has returned to putting up 20 points, AJ Brown too. Tmo is one elite QB away from having a deep, playoff-ready team. TK's 0-2 week hurts him, but he's by no means dead in the water.

Nathan 116.36 vs 123.78 John Luke

Talk about an upset. JL has just been plain awful this season, I'm talking injuries like no one else, everything going wrong. Just bad. Then my man goes to Nathan's house with a bunch of bye weeks and manages a win against the #1 team in the league. Nathan was pretty hindered by his -1 from SF and only 4.7 from Justin Jefferson. John Luke has, for the second straight week, but an absolute pest. He kept a Top 5 point away from Jake last week, and now keeps a win from Nathan this week to just make sure it stays close way up at the top of the standings (not that JL can see up there).

Mike 130.98 - 127.26 Austin

Austin bro HOW did you lose this game? You would have been eliminated anyways, but you made it way more freaking complicated for me to sort though all the tiebreaker shit with Mike included. Classic Austin dude. This man had TWO 30+ point games from Mahomes and Josh Jacobs, 20 more from Puka, and went into MNF down less than 3 points with a whole WR left to play. Quentin Johnston got Z-E-R-O points. He even had 5 targets and didn't manage to catch a single one. So not only did Mike get the Top 5 point, he also escaped with a win, propelling him to 13-11 and just 1 point out of a playoff spot with Ryan due up. Austin's last source of inspiration for the season will be to play spoiler for TK and Jake, which knowing how the universe works he almost certainly will for Jake.

Are You Better than the Georgia Bulldogs?

Soft week for the boys, easy dubs across the league. Side note, how Austin, who has had an otherwise fairly disappointing season and has traded away his best player for next year, is 10-1 while 3 teams currently in a playoff position are worse is a mystery science just can't solve.