Wayne A. put together the best regular season in the history of this league and lost. IronCity went 12-2 and scored 1,944 points, an average of 139 a week, more than five hundred clear of the team that beat them. George S.'s Hitmen finished 9-5 and sixth of ten on points with 1,420. Everything about the matchup said one thing and the weekend said another.
It was decided before Sunday began. Kirk Cousins went for 36 on Saturday and Jordan Reed added 25, and because IronCity had nobody playing that night the Hitmen opened 61 to nothing. Wayne A. clawed it to within 3 by the end of the one o'clock window and never got closer. The Arizona defense scored 42 in the afternoon, which is more than most starting quarterbacks manage, Blair Walsh kicked 23 on Sunday night, and the game finished 186 to 137. No team has scored 186 in a final before or since. The next best is IronCity's own 166 in 2024. Three of the four most valuable players on the field belonged to IronCity. George S. built a team around Andrew Luck and a defense and won the thing by 48.
Week 16. Lineup order is points scored in the final. Both scales are capped at the 90th percentile of this game, PAR 13.8 and points 26.3, and shared across all twenty ribbons: never normalised per row.
7 different players led the roster across 16 weeks. The most any one man led was 5 (Andrew Luck). A defence led the team 3 times.
| Wk | Led the roster | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andrew Luck | QB | 22.15 |
| 2 | Cardinals | DEF | 20.00 |
| 3 | Cardinals | DEF | 30.00 |
| 4 | Jameis Winston | QB | 19.55 |
| 5 | Frank Gore | RB | 15.80 |
| 6 | Andrew Luck | QB | 31.10 |
| 7 | Andrew Luck | QB | 29.35 |
| 8 | Andrew Luck | QB | 20.05 |
| 9 | Andrew Luck | QB | 24.00 |
| 10 | Kirk Cousins | QB | 32.20 |
| 11 | Mike Evans | WR | 12.30 |
| 12 | Jarvis Landry | WR | 22.90 |
| 13 | Jameis Winston | QB | 21.85 |
| 14 | Jameis Winston | QB | 15.50 |
| 15 | Kirk Cousins | QB | 39.05 |
| 16 | Cardinals | DEF | 42.00 |
| Player | Pos | Starts | Points | PAR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kirk Cousins | QB | 4 | 119 | 34 | |
| Andrew Luck | QB | 7 | 163 | 7 | |
| Alex Smith | QB | 1 | 15 | -5.6 | |
| Jameis Winston | QB | 4 | 75 | -15 | |
| Isaiah Crowell | RB | 1 | 15 | 3 | |
| Denard Robinson | RB | 2 | 14 | -6.5 | |
| Charles Sims | RB | 1 | 3 | -7.0 | |
| Marshawn Lynch | RB | 7 | 59 | -10 | |
| Frank Gore | RB | 14 | 133 | -12.6 | |
| T.J. Yeldon | RB | 9 | 85 | -12.8 | |
| Sammy Watkins | WR | 4 | 57 | 19 | |
| Jarvis Landry | WR | 14 | 148 | 16 | |
| Michael Crabtree | WR | 10 | 97 | 8 | |
| Demaryius Thomas | WR | 13 | 123 | 0.2 | |
| Rueben Randle | WR | 2 | 9 | -10 | |
| Davante Adams | WR | 4 | 21 | -12 | |
| Mike Evans | WR | 12 | 99 | -14 | |
| Jordan Reed | TE | 8 | 87 | 36 | |
| Delanie Walker | TE | 7 | 56 | -2.4 | |
| Jared Cook | TE | 1 | 1 | -6.6 | |
| Jordan Cameron | TE | 3 | 16 | -11 | |
| Stephen Hauschka | K | 10 | 96 | 13 | |
| Blair Walsh | K | 6 | 51 | 6 | |
| Cardinals | DEF | 14 | 204 | 58 | |
| Bengals | DEF | 2 | 16 | -1.6 |
The champion finished sixth 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 139 in week 7, worst 60 in week 11. The narrowest win was week 13, by 4.3. 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. IronCity Mudslingers, 12-2, 1,944 points, averaged 139 a week in the regular season and scored 137 in the final, −2 off their own pace.