Champion

2013

Washed UP · Dave St. · title number one
This season 9-5 · 1,497 points, 2nd of ten
All time 143–128 · .528 · 3rd of ten
Titles 2013 2016

The bracket

Champion
Washed UP
9-5 · 1497 points
Won the final by 12
Runner-up
Caleboys
12-2 · 1609 points
Most points in the league, first of ten
Washed UP120
SMOKERS102
Semi-final · by 18
Caleboys123
there goes the Naberhood122
Semi-final · by 1
Washed UP132
Caleboys120
The final, week 16 · by 12
Champion
Washed UP

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+12, 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 4, a 60-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 Washed UP did not post the league's highest score in a single week all season; their best week was 2nd of ten. Caleboys, the team they beat in the final, led the league five times.

Cale S. has never won this thing and 2013 is the year he should have. The Caleboys went 12-2, scored 1,609 points to lead the league, and beat Dave St.'s Washed UP twice in the regular season, once by a single point in week six and once by 18 in week fourteen with the playoffs already in view. Washed UP were 9-5 and second on points, and what they had was Drew Brees in the form of his life: 159 points across the first six weeks, 138 more across weeks eight to twelve, the roster's leading scorer in eight weeks of sixteen.

The final ran to Monday and changed hands twice. Washed UP led by a single point after the one o'clock window, on the back of DeMarco Murray's 23 and Pierre Garcon's 20, then lost it by thirty in the afternoon. Peyton Manning went for 36 for the Caleboys. LeSean McCoy closed for Washed UP with 28. 132 to 120, and the third final Cale S. has lost. His 1,609.2 that season was the biggest regular-season total anyone had managed to that point bar one, and the one was The Bus the year before at 1,609.3, a tenth of a point clear.

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 14 and points 30.7, and shared across all eighteen ribbons: never normalised per row.

Washed UP
Caleboys
LeSean McCoy · RB
15 starts · 83 PAR
28
36
Peyton Manning · QB
15 starts · 124 PAR
DeMarco Murray · RB
13 starts · 41 PAR
23
25
Eric Decker · WR
13 starts · 34 PAR
Pierre Garcon · WR
15 starts · 17 PAR
20
18
Ryan Mathews · RB
5 starts · -1 PAR
Drew Brees · QB
15 starts · 53 PAR
17
12
Josh Gordon · WR
9 starts · 73 PAR
Dez Bryant · WR
15 starts · 42 PAR
13
10
Jay Feely · K
4 starts · 5 PAR
Phil Dawson · K
7 starts · -7 PAR
11
8
Alshon Jeffery · WR
8 starts · 27 PAR
Michael Crabtree · WR
1 starts · 1 PAR
10
7
Rashad Jennings · RB
3 starts · -2 PAR
Washington Redskins · DEF
6 starts · -2 PAR
5
4
Delanie Walker · TE
3 starts · -14 PAR
Antonio Gates · TE
13 starts · -32 PAR
4
1
Kansas City Chiefs · DEF
10 starts · 25 PAR
Total
132
120
Total
Won by 12
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 Washed UP Caleboys Margin
Sunday 1pm 78.80 77.50 +1.30
Sunday 4pm 83.00 112.60 −29.60
Sunday night 111.20 120.20 −9.00
Monday night 132.40 120.20 +12.20
The lead changed hands 2 times across the weekend. It changed in the last window. Going into monday night the champion was 9.00 behind; Phil Dawson scored 11.00 and it finished 132.40 to 120.20.

Who carried it

6 different players led the roster across 16 weeks. The most any one man led was 9 (Drew Brees).

The week’s top scorer on the roster
6 different men led the roster across 16 weeks.
WkLed the rosterPosPoints
1Drew BreesQB25.10
2Pierre GarconWR20.30
3Drew BreesQB36.20
4Drew BreesQB36.90
5Dez BryantWR26.10
6Drew BreesQB19.90
7Alex SmithQB19.80
8Drew BreesQB36.60
9Drew BreesQB25.10
10Drew BreesQB35.60
11LeSean McCoyRB27.00
12Drew BreesQB21.90
13DeMarco MurrayRB28.20
14LeSean McCoyRB34.10
15Drew BreesQB28.50
16LeSean McCoyRB28.20
Source: content/titles/2013.md.
Mini-runs
Three or more consecutive starts at fifteen points or better
  • Drew Brees, weeks 1 to 6, 158.6 points
  • Drew Brees, weeks 8 to 12, 137.5 points
  • DeMarco Murray, weeks 13 to 16, 88.1 points
  • Drew Brees, weeks 14 to 16, 77.5 points
  • LeSean McCoy, weeks 1 to 3, 63.4 points
Every man who started a game, in lineup order21 starters
PlayerPosStartsPointsPAR
Drew BreesQB1538553
Alex SmithQB120-4
LeSean McCoyRB1526183
DeMarco MurrayRB1319841
Joseph RandleRB19-2.3
Montee BallRB16-6
Fred JacksonRB215-6.6
Dez BryantWR1518642
Pierre GarconWR1516117
Justin BlackmonWR44813
Marlon BrownWR1199
Larry FitzgeraldWR111136
Michael CrabtreeWR1101
Percy HarvinWR12-7.1
Brandon PettigrewTE13-1
Owen DanielsTE211-3
Antonio GatesTE1378-32
Caleb SturgisK974-3
Phil DawsonK753-7.0
Washington RedskinsDEF636-1.8
Houston TexansDEF1048-27
Season PAR for the Washed UP in 2013. 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 161 PAR
21 men started a game for the Washed UP in 2013 and the roster came to +161 season PAR. LeSean McCoy carried +83 of it and Drew Brees another +53.

League context

Fin Franchise Record Points
1 Washed UP 9-5 1,497
2 Caleboys · lost the final 12-2 1,609
3 there goes the Naberhood 8-6 1,375
4 SMOKERS 8-6 1,380
5 Alligators 7-7 1,457
6 IronCity Mudslingers 7-7 1,452
7 Sweep The Leg 7-7 1,303
8 Hitmen 6-8 1,353
9 Reggie's 5-9 1,282
10 Aaron it Out! 1-13 1,188
Checked against the 2014 draft order, which runs in reverse standings. All ten slots agree.

The champion finished second of ten in points scored.

The regular season. Best week 135 in week 4, worst 73 in week 7. The narrowest win was week 12, by 10.5. 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. Caleboys, 12-2, 1,609 points, averaged 115 a week in the regular season and scored 120 in the final, +5 off their own pace.