One point. That is the whole story and everything else is how they got there. Wayne A.'s IronCity finished 8-6 and sixth of ten on points, lost four games in a row in November including a 97-point defeat to Naberhood in week ten, and were beaten twice by the team they met in the final, by 13 in week seven and by 49 in week twelve. Then they won four straight and the championship. Todd Gurley had carried the first half, 210 points across the opening eight weeks, and Saquon Barkley arrived in November to carry what was left.
Linda M.'s Alligators were 10-4 and had the best single player in the game in Patrick Mahomes, worth 99 above replacement. IronCity led all weekend, by 22 after one o'clock and 33 after four, and then Mahomes went for 31 on Sunday night and cut it to 2 with Monday still to come. Alligators had two men left. IronCity had one. Jordy Nelson scored 8 and Tim Patrick scored 4, for 12. DaeSean Hamilton scored 10. 94 to 93. Until 2023 it was the closest final ever played here, and it went to a receiver most of the league could not have named.
The defense had already won it before Monday. Wayne A. carried the Jacksonville defense all sixteen weeks and it repaid him badly: eleven starts, five benchings, and once left out for a week it scored 22 while the Steelers he started scored 3. In the final it went for 20, more than it had given him in any week he started it all season, against 2 from the Alligators' Colts. That is 18 of a 1-point win. The Cowboys were sitting on his own bench for 17. Three points fewer, and the one-point win is a two-point loss, and Linda M. has a championship.
Three years later Pete M. won one the same way and from the opposite direction, off a defense he claimed the week of the final.
Week 16. Lineup order is points scored in the final. Both scales are capped at the 90th percentile of this game, PAR 11.8 and points 25.9, and shared across all twenty ribbons: never normalised per row.
5 different players led the roster across 16 weeks. The most any one man led was 7 (Todd Gurley). A defence led the team 1 time.
| Wk | Led the roster | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Brady | QB | 25.05 |
| 2 | Todd Gurley | RB | 29.30 |
| 3 | Todd Gurley | RB | 20.60 |
| 4 | Tom Brady | QB | 23.70 |
| 5 | Tom Brady | QB | 32.95 |
| 6 | Todd Gurley | RB | 34.50 |
| 7 | Todd Gurley | RB | 26.60 |
| 8 | Todd Gurley | RB | 27.50 |
| 9 | Tom Brady | QB | 18.60 |
| 10 | Todd Gurley | RB | 22.00 |
| 11 | Saquon Barkley | RB | 33.20 |
| 12 | Saquon Barkley | RB | 26.20 |
| 13 | Todd Gurley | RB | 28.50 |
| 14 | Tom Brady | QB | 30.20 |
| 15 | DeAndre Hopkins | WR | 29.00 |
| 16 | Jaguars | DEF | 20.00 |
| Player | Pos | Starts | Points | PAR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Fitzpatrick | QB | 1 | 13 | -13 | |
| Tom Brady | QB | 15 | 308 | -44 | |
| Todd Gurley | RB | 14 | 314 | 136 | |
| Saquon Barkley | RB | 15 | 275 | 83 | |
| Ito Smith | RB | 1 | 12 | 0.1 | |
| John Kelly Jr. | RB | 1 | 5 | -8 | |
| Marshawn Lynch | RB | 1 | 4 | -9.3 | |
| Jordan Howard | RB | 15 | 138 | -53 | |
| DeAndre Hopkins | WR | 15 | 206 | 61 | |
| A.J. Green | WR | 9 | 104 | 16.8 | |
| DaeSean Hamilton | WR | 2 | 15 | -4.8 | |
| Geronimo Allison | WR | 1 | 1 | -8 | |
| Maurice Harris | WR | 1 | 1 | -9.1 | |
| Marquise Goodwin | WR | 2 | 9 | -11 | |
| Chris Godwin Jr. | WR | 6 | 37 | -18 | |
| Mike Williams | WR | 5 | 26 | -25 | |
| Dede Westbrook | WR | 4 | 13 | -26 | |
| Taylor Gabriel | WR | 4 | 12 | -26 | |
| Dallas Goedert | TE | 1 | 0 | -5.1 | |
| Vernon Davis | TE | 1 | 0 | -7 | |
| Rob Gronkowski | TE | 14 | 83 | -23 | |
| Mason Crosby | K | 13 | 128 | 17.0 | |
| Dan Bailey | K | 3 | 22 | -2.1 | |
| Titans | DEF | 1 | 8 | -2.2 | |
| Steelers | DEF | 4 | 33 | -15 | |
| Jaguars | DEF | 11 | 95 | -22 |
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 157 in week 6, worst 61 in week 10. The narrowest win was week 13, by 3.3. They posted the highest score in the league 3 times all season.
The runner-up. Alligators, 10-4, 1,619 points, averaged 116 a week in the regular season and scored 93 in the final, −23 off their own pace.