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The Gauntlet · Week 10 · 2026

How hard is the rest of the season for every team? Opponent strength, week by week — updated every Wednesday.

The Run-In

Remaining-schedule difficulty, hardest first. Trend = rank change vs last week.

Remaining schedule difficulty, hardest first — Week 10
Rank Team Opp PPG Difficulty (0–100) Trend
1 Pigskins 109.7 68
2 Vitside 104.9 60
3 The Dream 103.9 60
4 Music City 101.7 58
5 Dark Magicians 104.0 58
6 Mariachi Ninjas 102.3 57
7 Fire Ready 103.1 57
8 Computer Jocks 102.6 57
9 Da Dangsters 102.4 56
10 Midwestside 99.1 53
11 Wascawy Wabbits 98.0 50
12 Dead Cap 95.6 49
13 Mavericks 93.0 45
14 Bring The Pain 89.8 41
15 Cowboy Up 91.4 41
16 Gridiron Geeks 90.6 40

What They've Been Through

Strength of schedule already played — and who your record is lying about.

Schedule victim

Mavericks

1-11 against one of the league's tougher slates (past difficulty 59). Better than the record says.

Soft landing

Vitside

11-1 — but they've faced one of the softer schedules so far (past difficulty 51). Buckle up.

Schedule victim

Dead Cap

2-10 against one of the league's tougher slates (past difficulty 57). Better than the record says.

Past schedule difficulty, hardest first — through Week 9
Rank Team Opp PPG Difficulty (0–100) Record
1 Mavericks 104.1 59 1-11
2 Dead Cap 102.6 57 2-10
3 Wascawy Wabbits 102.3 57 9-3
4 Fire Ready 101.2 56 5-7
5 Computer Jocks 101.8 56 6-6
6 Bring The Pain 100.8 55 2-10
7 Dark Magicians 99.8 54 4-8
8 Music City 99.6 53 2-10
9 Cowboy Up 99.3 53 7-5
10 Pigskins 98.8 52 9-3
11 Midwestside 98.7 52 6-6
12 Da Dangsters 98.5 51 9-3
13 Vitside 97.5 51 11-1
14 Gridiron Geeks 96.0 49 10-2
15 Mariachi Ninjas 95.1 48 5-7
16 The Dream 96.2 48 8-4

Schedule Swap

What your record would be with another team's schedule: your scores, their opponents. Every game counts, doubleheaders included, through Week 9.

Pick a team to see its record on every other schedule.

Every team's record on every schedule. Rows are teams, columns are whose schedule they played.
Team ↓ · Schedule → PAINJOCKSCBOYDANGDMOCDEADFIREGEEKSNINJAMAVSMWSMUSICSKINSDREAMVITWABS
Bring The Pain 2-104-85-73-94-87-54-87-58-45-74-85-75-75-76-66-6
Computer Jocks 5-76-66-65-75-78-43-97-57-55-78-45-76-65-77-56-6
Cowboy Up 5-75-77-54-84-87-54-85-78-45-77-55-77-56-67-57-5
Da Dangsters 8-410-210-29-38-49-39-39-311-18-49-39-311-17-510-29-3
Dark Magicians 3-96-68-45-74-87-54-88-46-65-77-56-67-56-69-38-4
Dead Cap 2-100-122-104-81-112-100-122-103-91-112-102-103-92-103-94-8
Fire Ready 5-75-76-67-56-68-45-78-49-35-78-45-710-25-79-37-5
Gridiron Geeks 8-49-310-29-38-411-17-510-210-28-48-48-411-18-410-210-2
Mariachi Ninjas 3-94-84-84-85-75-71-118-45-74-85-73-97-54-85-77-5
Mavericks 0-121-111-111-112-102-101-111-111-111-113-92-103-91-111-114-8
Midwestside 2-102-104-83-94-87-53-96-66-63-96-64-87-55-74-85-7
Music City 1-113-91-112-101-112-102-103-92-103-92-102-102-102-103-95-7
Pigskins 5-76-67-56-65-77-56-67-56-64-86-66-69-38-49-37-5
The Dream 9-39-310-29-39-311-110-211-111-110-28-410-211-18-410-211-1
Vitside 8-49-311-110-29-311-18-410-210-28-49-39-39-310-211-19-3
Wascawy Wabbits 6-66-69-37-56-69-37-59-38-45-78-48-410-25-78-49-3

Week-by-Week Heat Map

Each cell = that week's opponent difficulty. Green is a breather; red is the buzz saw.

Grid of 16 franchises by 8 remaining weeks; each cell shows that week's opponent and its difficulty from 0 to 100 — higher is harder.

Trap Weeks

League-average difficulty of each remaining week — where the league collectively hits a wall.