The league has a first place team, and it is not subtle about it. Andy Nguyen's Nguyenning scored 185.12 points in Week 8, beat The McGriddle Stack by 100.22 in a game billed as a first place showdown, and is alone in first at 6–2 with five straight wins and the league's best points total. Joe Burrow scored 47.98 by himself. Tee Higgins added 32.5. The model said Nguyenning would win by 41, which now reads as a polite estimate.

Brett Pinholster's McGriddle Stack scored 84.90, the lowest score of the week, and had a kicker who scored 0.0. That is a shotgun, Brett's first, and it ended a season-long streak of sobriety that he had been bragging about in the group chat. The McGriddle Stack is still 5–3, which is the part of this story that will annoy everyone else the most.

The rest of the board is a crowded and ugly middle. Three teams are 5–3: Javaris Jamarr (second, after a 151.30-to-85.50 win at Chasing Last Place), Rashee-d For Speed (third, 154.98 over Achane Reaction), and the wounded McGriddle Stack. Six teams are 4–4, separated from fifth place to tenth only by points scored. Dakstreets Back, Alright! won its second straight over Courtney Stevens's All Gas No Drakes, who have lost four in a row and started the season 4–0.

Dart Side of The Beer Mile beat Sacrificial Lamb, 119.72 to 87.00, and is 4–4. It won with a quarterback, Michael Penix Jr., who scored −1.9, the lowest score in league history. The winner did not seem bothered. Bass To Mouth beat Myers Diggs by 7.84 in the closest game of the week, behind 24.96 from Drake Maye, who is a story all his own.

Six shotguns were triggered in Week 8, a season high. The sober club, which had two members entering the week, now has none. The trade deadline, the playoff race and the group chat all continue.