Movers & Shakers QFL Week 1 Edition

QFL: The defending QFL Champion TenaciousQ franchise led all teams in QFL Nation scoring with 101.89. Three of the top four scoring teams came from the original QFL.

QFL Deuce: The new guy in Deuce, Morning Damien Woody, beat out Pimps by .36 points for his first ever skin. Congrats. Don’t get used to it.

QFL Thrice: Meanwhile in Thrice, BaltiMorons ran my personal favorite 2 TE, 1 WR offensive set and came up with 91.85 points to lead scoring in that League.

#1 Tenacious Q (1-0) – The football gods were more than kind to TenQ ownership this weekend. College, Pro and fantasy.

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#2 Quince United (1-0) – The second highest scoring team in all of QFL Nation couldn’t be a bigger surprise. Hans’ team is coming off a second to LAST place performance in 2010 and was widely criticized for being MIA in off-season trade talks when his team was clearly in need of work. If Steve Smith is truly resurrected Hans could theoretically keep this up.

#3 Quince (1-0) – The fourth highest scoring team in QFL Nation looks very wise to have divested away from all Colts players this off-season. Still, 6 of 22 active roster players on the Eagles (even after waiving Alex Henery) is a heavy reliance on one team. Homerism to an extreme.

#4 FahQ (1-0) – Three QFL teams got hit pretty hard by the Peyton Manning injury. FahQ is one of them. There is no way Reggie Wayne keeps up his week 1 pace, but for now Shane & Jerry can pretend. Commissioner jinx will be in full effect soon enough. Last year FahQ lost Dallas Clark and that was it for the team.

#5 Queef (1-0) – Paul will spend almost $10 cutting his roster down to the 18 man active roster limit in 3 weeks. His team is carrying 26 active roster players plus 2 PS players, the most in all of QFL Nation. Paul has 6 defenses and 4 of the top 8 scoring RBs after week 1 (started 2).

#6 SOQ (1-0) – Expect SOQ to start lobbying for a two-starting-QBs rule if Brady and Cam Newton keep combining for over 50 points.

#7 QBC (0-1) – QBC had a chance for some redemption but botched it in a week 1 replay of last season’s Quince Bowl. Double C and his side-kick will have to rely on their old friend the lucky ratio to make any kind of noise again this season. Team started Bradshaw AND Jacobs and just lost Colston for a month. Not good.

#8 OrigQ (0-1) – Check the logs. Did Rishi waive Rashad Jennings after, and therefore in violation of, the 24 hour free agency deadline? Tisk tisk.

#9 BQP (0-1) – Must be a record 5 teams started a wishbone in week 1 including BQP. Of those 5 teams, 2 won. Average score of the 5 wishbone teams: 60.73. There is a growing belief among some QFL circles that the wishbone is impossible to maintain now with injuries and committees at the RB position and so are abandoning the once dominant formation. Even TenQ has moved away from the wishbone with success.

#10 Bing (0-1) – FahQ (Wayne), QTang (Peyton) and to some extent, Bing’s Quest with Dallas Clark are the three teams that got hurt the most with the Peyton injury surprise. Queef arguably takes a hit with Addai too, but he and Bings Quest have the depth to absorb the blow. Many owners do not believe that Bing Quest’s sale price was one beer and are demanding the full story.

#11 QTang (0-1) – Benny will likely incur a $20 fine for starting inactive Hartley. Rule 20, Section 4, Article 3 calls for a mandatory “$20 fine for starting an invalid roster”.
Even FahQ has more guys on their active roster than QTang. Both teams subscribe to the “max out your salary on starting lineup” philosophy of team management. The Achilles heal of the strategy is, of course, injuries which the Peyton Manning situation clearly exposes.

#12 Drive by Quince (0-1) – McD is QFL Nation’s lowest scoring team by a mile with 28.99. But, before MNF McD was in danger of setting a new all-time low scoring record (which is 8 set by 6OQ in 2001) having put up only 3.43 points with 6 players. In the era of decimal scoring that would have been especially embarrassing. Fortunate for McD that McFadden and Hernandez had pulses, but not so fortunate to have risen out of last place.

For the Record:

All-Time LOW QFL Scoring Records:

#1 60Q scored 8 (2001)
#2 Qlogic scored 17 (2002)
#3 SOQ scored 19 (2002)

All-Time HIGH QFL Scoring Records:

#1 Q/P scored 136 (2000)
#2 FRNQ scored 135 (2004)
#3 QUnet scored 123 (2002)
#T4 QUnet scored 122 (2003)
#T4 MastiQate scored 122 (2004)