George S. has two titles and this is the one that makes no sense. His team, entered that year as HITMEN \\ POISON, finished 8-6 and fourth of ten on points. Pete M.'s Naberhood finished second on points with 1,532, beat the Hitmen twice in the regular season by 42 and by 24, and were the better team by every number available before kickoff. Tom Brady had held the Hitmen together, 195 points across the first eight weeks and the roster's leading scorer in ten weeks of sixteen, and Marshawn Lynch had taken over late with 90 across the last four.
The final was over from the first whistle and never got closer. The Hitmen led by 4 after the one o'clock window, by 16 after four, and Marshawn Lynch's 25 on Sunday night turned it into a rout. 112 to 68. No lead change at any point. Naberhood averaged 109 points a week that season and produced 68 in the game that mattered, and their best man, Arian Foster at 76 above replacement, was the most valuable player on the field for the losing side. It is the fourth-largest margin in a final and George S. was the fourth-best team in the league.
Week 16. Lineup order is points scored in the final. Both scales are capped at the 90th percentile of this game, PAR 10.2 and points 24, and shared across all eighteen ribbons: never normalised per row.
5 different players led the roster across 16 weeks. The most any one man led was 11 (Tom Brady).
| Wk | Led the roster | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Brady | QB | 19.90 |
| 2 | Tom Brady | QB | 18.80 |
| 3 | Maurice Jones-Drew | RB | 25.30 |
| 4 | Tom Brady | QB | 35.40 |
| 5 | Tom Brady | QB | 21.20 |
| 6 | Tom Brady | QB | 25.80 |
| 7 | Tom Brady | QB | 21.00 |
| 8 | Tom Brady | QB | 31.50 |
| 9 | Andrew Luck | QB | 30.20 |
| 10 | Marshawn Lynch | RB | 21.10 |
| 11 | Tom Brady | QB | 28.60 |
| 12 | Tom Brady | QB | 34.70 |
| 13 | Demaryius Thomas | WR | 21.90 |
| 14 | Tom Brady | QB | 31.40 |
| 15 | Tom Brady | QB | 31.30 |
| 16 | Marshawn Lynch | RB | 25.00 |
| Player | Pos | Starts | Points | PAR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Brady | QB | 15 | 375 | 33 | |
| Andrew Luck | QB | 1 | 30 | 9 | |
| Marshawn Lynch | RB | 13 | 218 | 66 | |
| Frank Gore | RB | 12 | 147 | 13 | |
| Maurice Jones-Drew | RB | 4 | 47 | 3 | |
| Ronnie Hillman | RB | 1 | 6 | -5 | |
| Fred Jackson | RB | 2 | 5 | -21 | |
| Demaryius Thomas | WR | 15 | 186 | 42 | |
| Wes Welker | WR | 15 | 157 | 14 | |
| Andrew Hawkins | WR | 2 | 16 | -2.8 | |
| James Jones | WR | 11 | 103 | -3.1 | |
| Jeremy Maclin | WR | 3 | 19 | -10 | |
| Ryan Broyles | WR | 2 | 1 | -16 | |
| Dennis Pitta | TE | 7 | 50 | 5 | |
| Jacob Tamme | TE | 1 | 2 | -1 | |
| Dustin Keller | TE | 4 | 25 | -6.9 | |
| Jared Cook | TE | 4 | 18 | -13 | |
| Shayne Graham | K | 2 | 19 | 1 | |
| Garrett Hartley | K | 5 | 40 | -4 | |
| Alex Henery | K | 5 | 38 | -6.7 | |
| Connor Barth | K | 4 | 26 | -7.0 | |
| Cleveland Browns | DEF | 3 | 21 | 2.2 | |
| Buffalo Bills | DEF | 4 | 28 | 1.8 | |
| New York Giants | DEF | 1 | 5 | -1.8 | |
| Baltimore Ravens | DEF | 7 | 48 | -2.2 | |
| Washington Redskins | DEF | 1 | 0 | -7.0 |
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 116 in week 3, worst 74 in week 7. The narrowest win was week 8, by 0.6. They never posted the league's highest score in a single week all season. A champion that never led the league for one week is one of the quieter facts in this archive.
The runner-up. there goes the Naberhood, 8-6, 1,532 points, averaged 109 a week in the regular season and scored 68 in the final, −42 off their own pace.