2022 Power Rankings-Week 7

## Introduction

We're dicks-deep in year 12, and somehow we still find ways to experience something new. This week, a rare and dramatic slate of games like we have never had in the first 150 regular season weeks in LOC history. In week 7, we have five 3-3 teams, and none of them will play each other. Instead, all 3-3 teams will play someone above or below them in what will shift the entire landscape of the standings. Already we have 10th place P9 projected ahead of 3-3 Shotti, 3-3 Dee projected ahead of 1st place Duck Punchers, and 9th place Papa's Posse just narrowly projected ahead of 3-3 Pain Train. Everyone has the chance they need: if you're on top, a chance to push down a 3-3 team and give yourself a cushion. For the 2-4 teams at the bottom, a chance to tie up with a team in a playoff position. To make things even more dramatic, all five games are projected within 10 points.

## Matchup Recap

* Duck Punchers vaults back into first and wins the historic 20th matchup against franchise rival Papa's Posse. **Next Matchup: N/A**
* Ma ma momma said leaps into a playoff position by taking down a reeling Shotti Bunch (11-10). **Next Matchup: N/A**
* Paddock 9 wins a stunner against former first place team RIPDab (9-8). **Next Matchup: Week 10**
* Multiverse of Mattness keeps his season alive with a win that just narrowly misses blowout of the week against Sweet Dee (7-8). **Next Matchup: Week 10**
* The Stupid Idiots didn't make it look pretty but still manages to capitalize on an all-time stinker and win the season series vs. Pain Train (4-5). **Next Matchup: N/A**

## Stat Chat

* The Stupid Idiots becomes the 10th team to reach 40 combined wins.
* By defeating Pain Train twice already this season, Stupid Idiots ties Sweet Dee with 6 career double-header wins.
* RIPDab becomes the 6th team to reach 70 regular season losses.
* Momma and Mattness square off this week in a battle of the only two teams with active streaks of consecutive games over 200 points (2 games each). No one else broke 200 in week 6.
* A tale of two franchises: Duck Punchers celebrates his 32nd week in 1st place the same week that Paddock 9 notches his 32nd week in last place.
* Duck Punchers (1177.49) is the first team to be in first place through 6 weeks with less than 1339 points.
* In 20 career matchups between Duck and Papa, week 6 was just the 2nd time that the winning team failed to score at least 190 points and only the 3rd time that the losing team failed to score over 150 points.
* In 9 career matchups between Stupid Idiots and Pain Train, week 6 was the first time that the winning team failed to score at least 220 points.
* This is just the second time in LOC history that only two teams are above .500 through six weeks. The only other time this happened was in 2016, when both 1st and 2nd place teams were 5-1.

## All-Time Regular Season Standings

Week 6 was our 150th week of regular season play in LOC history. Duck Punchers leads the way in both win% and total wins and has the chance to be the first team to 100 regular season wins this season. RIPDab and Shotti both have 80 wins, with Shotti playing 13 fewer games. Idiots continues to inch closer to Sweet Dee with a win percentage nearly 10% higher than hers.

## Absolute Standings

### Combined Absolute Standings

Everyone is pretty much where they deserve to be.

## Survivor Update

Haven't posted one of these all season because most of the league got eliminated SO early. But this week Commish took his first strike by trusting the GOAT Tom Brady vs. rookie Pickett in his first start. Stupid. Now he and Shotti go head-to-head, each with a strike, to determine this year's winner.

## Bust Watch is Back!

I haven't been doing this at all but figured now might be a good time to check in on everyone's first round picks. This time last year, Derrick Henry was having a monster season and had 224.68 points for ma ma momma said, but future Jared was about to be very sad. Not only would he break his ankle later in the year, but Jared's 2022 first round pick has missed extensive time as well. Swift was ruled out earlier Sunday morning in a pivotal game coming out of Detroit's bye.

At the bottom in 2021, CMC was already done for the season and had just 70.53 for Mattness. This year, Commish played it "safe" and has a first round pick that actually broke 100 points, so huge plus.

Overall, it's been a pretty solid first round. We'll have to wait and see how it all plays out before ranking it among the first rounds in LOC history.

Bust Watch: Total Points for First Round Picks
 C.McCaffrey (PP)
 T.Kelce (P9)
 M.Andrews (Commish)
 D.Henry (SD)
 D.Cook (Idiots)
 J.Mixon (RIP)
 N.Harris (DP)
 J.Taylor (PT)
 D.Swift (MMS)

## Worst Scores at Each Position Through Six Weeks in LOC History

After 12 years, finding new charts is never easy. But this week I actually thought of one.

As Duck Punchers continues to defy logic with winning despite not scoring, I got to thinking: scoring-wise, is he the worst first place team ever? And who is the worst last place team? And who is the worst 6th place team? Luckily, I have your answer.

In this chart I looked back at each season and determined which team, in any particular position in the standings, had the lowest score ever in that spot through six weeks.

Let's see how their starts rank among the best ever:

Nine different teams represented from six different seasons. While Duck does not hold the distinction of being the "worst" 5-1 team of all-time (that would be Shotti from 2019), he is the only person on this list twice. What that means? I guess the matchup Gods favor him? But ultimately, all that matters is you winning and Duck has won more than anyone in LOC history.

Next week, if I remember, we will take a look at the best scoring teams at each part of the standings and see if anyone from 2022 has made that list.

## Power Rankings-Week 7

What the fuck am I supposed to do here? The teams I ranked top four all lost in week six. The teams I ranked bottom three all won.

### 1(2). The Shotti Bunch

0-2 steak since being ranked first in what I can only assume is a backdoor Matt Jinx, but it's been a general trend throughoug the league over the last few weeks that teams which started off hot are cooling down and vice versa. Still, Shotti leads the league in points and is facing 10th-place Paddock 9. One of his big draft gambles already paid off in Barkley. Now, he gets DeAndre HoppedUpOnRoidskins back and if week 7 is any indicator, that draft appears to be paying off as well.

### 2(5). Duck Punchers

Is this the statement win we were waiting for? It wasn't a 300-point no-doubter, but it was the fourth best score of the week and marked the beginning of what could be a very positive stretch for his RB corp. Kenneth "Runner" Walker has the wiggle. Etienne is Eatin'. And Najee Harris actually had a pulse. Duck benching Najee shows just how serious he is about finding a winning formula. It was gutsy and I had to bump him up here for that alone.

### 3 (1). Pain Train

A perfect storm of suck for Pain Train and things are only getting worse. This week he doesn't have Josh Allen to bail him out with 46 points, Jeff Wilson lost his starting job, and Waller is still out. At least Swifty being a surprise late scratch boosts Williams' value, and he catches a huge break with the chaos going on with Papa's running backs.

### 4(3). RIPDab

Uhhh...What the fuck was that? I cannot remember the last time not a single player met a projection on a team. We joke that RIPDab has a bunch of underachievers, but it's almost impressive how unimpressive his players perform. This week he fell nearly 100 points below projection and ran the gambit from players putting up goose eggs, players getting injured, players looking like they dont' belong in the NFL ('sup Murray), and palyers finishing 1.12 under projection just to fuck with him.

### 5(5). The Stupid Idiots

Didn't need a QB or a defense to beat Pain Train this week and that's good news because neither played well. Idiots has sneakily been the most active player in the LOC at quarterback, having started 4 QBs in 6 games. But the real trouble spot for him, somehow, is kicker. He has started FIVE different kickers so far this year and has no kicker currently on his roster. Earning the name Stupid Idiots, TSI could have moved M.T. into the third IR spot in order to grab a kicker but will now have to drop a player if he intends to start a full team in week 7.

### 6(7). Sweet Dee

It's happening. You can run but you cannot hide from the Sweet Dee October Slide. And it wasn't like they played poorly. Despite Henry and Woods both on the bye, Dee was able to be the third best scorer and nearly broke 200 thanks to a beautiful flashback-enducing 56-point performance from Burrow against Commish. Now they go up against first place Duck in a must-win to reverse the bad JuJu.

### 7(8). ma ma momma said

Momma has been on a heater since coming back from London and has the edge already in week 7 thanks to a great performance by his kicker, of all boring random things. This bench is BIG thin and he really need Swift back, but being able to sustain the season despite the slow start has been huge. A win this week puts them right in the heart of the playoff hunt.

### 8(4). Papa's Posse

Vibes are bad. They are un-good. But they could get better? But maybe not this week. CEH has ceded his starting role to Pachinko and CMC got traded to San Fran. It's a team with way more weapons, so he may not need to touch it 20 times a game. And it will certainly hurt his chances of blowup in week seven vs. Pain Train. In other news, Papa decided he liked the name on the back of the jersey for D.J. Moore and has traded early-season surprise Devin Duvernay. It's decent until you consider Carolina is the worst team in the NFL and has a QB who couldn't hang in Pat's old flag football league.

### 9(9). Multiverse of Mattness

Well, well, well. The 0-14 kid has won two in a row and has jumped to third in the league in scoring. It may not amount to much, as the 0-4 hole is going to be difficult to climb out of, but it's a great confidence boost. Yahoo now projects Mattness to finish 6-8, which would honestly make me pretty happy considering the 0-4 start. This week they'll have to try and pull an upset without Gabe the Babe Davis and Justin Jet Plane Jefferson, which means it's time for the Rookie Gambit to pay off. In week 8, Mattness will role out Pierce, Wan'Dale, Brian Robinson and Breece Hall.

### 10(10). Paddock 9

Basically in the same boat as Mattness in that their 1-4 start will be hard to climb out of but they do have a shot this week vs. Shotti and could see a production boost once Duvernay lands from Papaland. Even at 3-4 though, this would be feeling like a lost season considering all that was sacrificed to get there.

## Matchup of the week

I can't pick one. This week is going to be absolutely insane. Everyone is the matchup of the week good job!