Following the Week 8 slate of matchups, I took a look at these numbers to see how the season was shaking out in the 2022 Point Differential piece. Here are those charts updated following the end of the regular season. Who has had the easiest schedule, and whose defense is most stout? Are you lucky to have a winning record, or were you destined for the bottom third?
TOP OFFENSE
We’ll start with the teams with the strongest cumulative offensive outputs this season;
| RANK | TEAM | POINTS | PPG |
| 1 | SC4 SKIPPERS | 29667 | 2119.1 |
| 2 | SECOND DECK | 28647 | 2046.2 |
| 3 | CTAN VS THE WORLD | 28372 | 2026.6 |
| 4 | M.C. QUASARS | 28198 | 2014.1 |
| 5 | QANON | 27445 | 1960.4 |
| 6 | FLYING DUTCHMEN | 27059 | 1932.8 |
| 7 | BURRITO WARRIOR | 26138 | 1867.0 |
| 8 | SIR THIS IS A WENDYS | 25285 | 1806.1 |
| 9 | WASH. SENTINELS | 25248 | 1803.4 |
| 10 | REDBANK MALLRATS | 24973 | 1783.8 |
| 11 | THE TIM BRADYS | 23845 | 1703.2 |
| 12 | FANDUEL BOOSTERS | 22519 | 1608.5 |
He’s been so quiet about it, I bet no one could have guessed that Jones finished with the most points scored this year, but there it is. You might also notice that all five of the top-scoring teams made it into the playoff this year, with the Mallrats as the lone outlier, finishing tenth with a disgusting 1783 ppg.
When we checked in after Week 8, Jones was actually third in scoring behind Matt and Chris, but he really picked it up in the latter half. The other teams were all still top-five at that point, and Kronner was still tenth at the time too, though he did manage to improve his ppg now.
Kyle and Tim finished last. Whomp Whomp.
TOP DEFENSE
So, we’ve seen who’s putting points up, but which teams are best at VooDoo cursing their opponent in mediocrity?
| RANK | TEAM | POINTS AGAINST | PPG AGAINST |
| 1 | SECOND DECK | 24776 | 1769.7 |
| 2 | THE TIM BRADYS | 25396 | 1814.0 |
| 3 | FLYING DUTCHMEN | 26024 | 1858.9 |
| 4 | REDBANK MALLRATS | 26034 | 1859.6 |
| 5 | M.C. QUASARS | 26194 | 1871.0 |
| 6 | QANON | 26385 | 1884.6 |
| 7 | WASH. SENTINELS | 26461 | 1890.1 |
| 8 | SIR THIS IS A WENDYS | 26923 | 1923.1 |
| 9 | CTAN VS THE WORLD | 26976 | 1926.9 |
| 10 | SC4 SKIPPERS | 27032 | 1930.9 |
| 11 | FANDUEL BOOSTERS | 27532 | 1966.6 |
| 12 | BURRITO WARRIOR | 27663 | 1975.9 |
So some of this makes sense. Matt with the easiest schedule and the second most points explains why he won 11 games this year. And it makes sense why Jones was so close to missing the playoff, since he had the third-hardest schedule, overcoming it only with his scoring output. Tim’s last-place finish also makes sense when you couple his scoring with the second most difficult schedule.
The Tim Brady’s were a little more surprising here. Sure they had the second-lowest scoring mark, but they also had the second-easiest schedule. And much like with the top-scoring teams, 5/6 playoff managers also show up in the top six for ease of schedule, this time with Jones as the outlier.
TOTAL DIFFERENTIAL
But what about the point differential? The greatest indicator of dominance, aside of course from the almighty W-L record, differential really shows us how the Dominance vs Luck argumant measures.
This is how the offense ranks against the strength-of-schedule ranks, and where each team was in Week 8.
| RANK | PREV. | TEAM | DIFFER. |
| 1 | 1 | SECOND DECK | 3871 |
| 2 | 5 | SC4 SKIPPERS | 2635 |
| 3 | 6 | M.C. QUASARS | 2004 |
| 4 | 2 | CTAN VS THE WORLD | 1396 |
| 5 | 9 | QANON | 1060 |
| 6 | 3 | FLYING DUTCHMEN | 1035 |
| 7 | 11 | REDBANK MALLRATS | -1061 |
| 8 | 4 | WASH. SENTINELS | -1213 |
| 9 | 8 | BURRITO WARRIOR | -1525 |
| 10 | 10 | THE TIM BRADYS | -1551 |
| 11 | 7 | SIR THIS IS A WENDYS | -1638 |
| 12 | 12 | FANDUEL BOOSTERS | -5013 |
This is where Timmo really shines. Not in a good way, but it shines with something…shame? I don’t know, but at -5013, his differential is like a whole Dump of the Week greater than Matt’s +3871. Plus the gulf between Second Deck and the Boosters has widened since Week 8 too. They were 7,032 points apart, while they are now they are separated by 8.884.
Additionally, following Week 8, Matt and Tim were the only teams at least a thousand points from zero – now every team in the league is more than a thousand points from being even, with Kronner, Kaiser and Trigger being the closest teams to zero.
As for the playoffs, the only team not to make it with a positive point differential was C Tan vs The World, and the only team that did make the playoffs without a + differential was the Mallrats.
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