Tom Pauza beat Donald Hefferon 74.0 to 73.0, a one-point margin bettered only nine times in 1,158 league games. Hefferon arrives unbeaten at 5-0 and leaves at 5-1.
Tom Pauza defeated Donald Hefferon by a single point on Sunday, 74.0 to 73.0. The league's own ledger records that of the 1,158 games ever played, only nine were closer. Hefferon came in at 5-0 and goes out at 5-1, holding a share of first place and absolutely nothing else worth the drive home.
Neither roster distinguished itself. Pauza is 4-2 with only one manager in the competition having scored fewer points, a feat he manages by conceding fewer than anybody else, 506.0 against through six weeks. Not Today Satan does not outscore opponents so much as outlast them, week after week, like a siege.
Hefferon, for his part, has 725.0 points for, fourth most in the league, and the dubious honour of a team name that has now been ratified by the results service. The Unluckies lost by one. A single rounding of a single stat line, anywhere across nine starters, and the unbeaten run survives the weekend intact.
The table is tighter for it. Hefferon keeps a share of the lead at 5-1, Pauza climbs to 4-2 and sits a game back with the rest of the chasing pack. One point on a quiet October afternoon, and the best record in the league is suddenly a thing that can be caught.
Matt Francis recorded the hundredth win of his career, regular season and playoffs combined, beating Sam Wadhams 123.5 to 103.0. Malik Nabers supplied 27.0 of it. The milestone arrives, as these things do, in a routine week against a man already having a poor season.
Francis leads the league in points for with 776.5 and is nonetheless 3-3, two games back. Wadhams falls to 2-4 with 793.5 points against, the second most conceded in the competition. One of them has a century. The other has a schedule.
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Travis Gervais started 120.0 and benched 52.0, including Tyler Shough's 27.0. He beat Tim Kelly by 8.0 anyway, carried by Kenneth Walker III's 32.0 and Drake Maye's 24.0. No harm done, which is not the same as no crime committed.
Mike Littlehale beat Jeff Abbott 119.5 to 101.5 behind Trevor Lawrence's 32.0, a fourth straight win. He is 5-1 and top of the table. Abbott's 26.5 from Christian McCaffrey went into the ledger of things that did not matter.
Ian Dudley beat Andy Borah 97.5 to 54.5, a margin of 43.0, for his first win of the season after five defeats. Matthew Golden scored 25.0. Dudley also left 33.0 on his bench, Bryce Young's 20.0 among it, and could afford every point.
Ian Pfeiffer beat Hannan Merritt 95.5 to 75.0 and now leads the series 10-4 across fourteen meetings. Pfeiffer benched C.J. Stroud's 28.0 and won comfortably. Merritt benched 46.5, more than half of what he started, and did not.
Gervais v Pauza — Gervais v Pauza, split almost down the middle at 7-6 across thirteen meetings.
Hefferon v Dudley — Hefferon leads Dudley 10-7, and Dudley arrives with momentum of a sort.
Kelly v Littlehale — Kelly owns Littlehale 13-6 all-time, which the table currently disputes loudly.
Borah v Pfeiffer — Pfeiffer leads Borah 3-1, a short series between two struggling point totals.
Abbott v Francis — Francis leads Abbott 12-5, and Abbott has conceded more than anyone.
Merritt v Wadhams — Wadhams leads Merritt 6-4, both sides arriving from thoroughly instructive defeats.
Persistent one-point drizzle over Don all week. Visibility poor, barometer falling, no shelter forecast.
Dry spell over Tom's scoring, yet he keeps winning. Meteorologists have stopped filing reports.
Heavy bench accumulation across Trav's practice squad. Expect further drifts of unused quarterback.
Brief sunshine over Duds for the first time since September. Clouds reassembling by Thursday.