Tim Kelly put 159.0 on Jeff Abbott, the week's biggest total and its widest margin, winning by 55.5 and dragging himself to 2-2 while Abbott slides to 1-3.
Kelly's Easy Breecey Lemon Breecey scored 159.0 on Sunday, the highest total of the week and the highest of his season. Jeff Abbott's Drake Maye Fan Account answered with 103.5, a number that would have beaten four other managers and was never going to beat this one. The margin, 55.5, was the largest of the round by seventeen points.
The arithmetic was settled in the backfield. Bijan Robinson returned 34.5 and Chuba Hubbard 30.5, sixty-five points from two running backs before Kelly counted anything else. Abbott had no answer of comparable size and spent the late window watching a scoreboard that had stopped being a contest and started being a receipt.
The indignity is that Kelly also benched 53.0, including Kyle Monangai at 32.5, the highest benched score in the league this week. He won by 55.5 anyway. A manager who leaves a thirty-two point running back in a drawer and still posts the week's top figure is not being careless, he is showing off.
Kelly moves to 2-2 from 1-2 and sits fifth on 493.0 points for, second only to Hefferon in raw scoring. Abbott falls to 1-3 on 422.5. The pair were level in the table a week ago and are a game apart now, which is the sort of thing a Sunday afternoon can do to a man.
Ian Dudley lost again, 141.0 to 129.0, to Matt Francis. The Jackalope Society is 0-4 and alone at the bottom, which is a strange place for a side that has scored 389.5 points and had Nico Collins deliver 31.5 of them on Sunday. Dudley did not play badly. He played a man who had Joe Burrow throwing for 33.0 and that was the end of the discussion.
Francis, for his part, is no longer winless. Beef Dip opened 0-3 and has now scored 475.5 points, the fourth-highest figure in the league, and the first win was overdue to the point of embarrassment. He is 1-3 and ninth. Dudley's consolation is that this week in 2019 he beat Jeff Abbott by two points, which was a very long time ago.
Mike Littlehale benched 77.0 and started 98.0, a ratio no functioning adult should admit to. C.J. Stroud sat on 27.0 and Tee Higgins on 25.5. He won by 24.0 regardless, which only makes it worse.
Tim Kelly's 159.0 was the week's best and sixteen points clear of Sam Wadhams in second. It lifts his season total to 493.0, which is more than any of the three 3-1 sides have managed.
Kelly 159.0, Abbott 103.5, margin 55.5. The widest gap of the round and the only one past forty. Abbott's total was respectable in isolation and irrelevant in context, which is the cruellest way to lose.
Donald Hefferon is 4-0 after putting 120.0 on Hannan Merritt's 85.0, with Kyren Williams contributing 32.0. He leads on 538.5 points for and benched 48.5 without it mattering in the slightest.
Kelly v Pauza — Kelly leads Pauza 8-3 all-time, and both arrive with something to prove.
Borah v Hefferon — Borah leads Hefferon 4-3, and Hefferon has not lost yet this year.
Abbott v Gervais — Abbott and Gervais dead level at 7-7; Abbott 1-3, Gervais 2-2.
Merritt v Dudley — Merritt holds Dudley 10-6; Dudley needs one win from somewhere.
Wadhams v Littlehale — Wadhams leads Littlehale 5-4, two 3-1 and 2-2 sides colliding.
Francis v Pfeiffer — Francis trails Pfeiffer 5-12, the most lopsided ledger on the board.
Bright spells over Coach Tim, with scattered benched running backs falling harmlessly into the garden.
Persistent low pressure above the Jackalope Society. Duds should expect fog through November.
Warm front holding over Don's Unluckies. No rain forecast, no justice either.
Heavy cloud of unused quarterbacks drifting across Coach Mike. Visibility poor, results somehow fine.