Erik Thurza
1 season (2025–2025)
Erik Thurza got one season here, 2025, and spent it as the Queen City Chili Smashers, a name that promised more heat than the 5-9 record delivered. The draft did Erik few favors, with picks returning less than their slots usually do, and the year ended without a playoff trip. One week did boil over, though: a 148.7 that hinted at what the recipe could have been.
Trophy Case
Regular-season weeks only. Career counts run 2025–2026; Coach of the Week and Bench Blunder count from 2026, when lineups began to be recorded.
- 1Top Score2026: 0 this season
- 3Giant Killer2026: 0 this season
- 1Narrow Escape2026: 0 this season
- 4Heartbreaker2026: 0 this season
How the awards are decided
- Coach of the Week
- The best lineup choices of the week: the highest share of the best possible lineup (points scored divided by best-possible points, the Coach Rating already on Power Rankings, to one decimal). Ties on that figure are shared. Counted from 2026, because past lineups can't be rebuilt.
- Top Score
- The highest score of the week, to one decimal. Ties are shared.
- Giant Killer
- The biggest upset of the week, judged only on what was known before the game: where each team stood in the standings (record, then points scored). The winner must have gone in at least half a league’s worth of places below the loser (8 places in a 16-team league), and both teams need two games played, so it starts in Week 3. No projections of any kind.
- Narrow Escape
- The smallest winning margin of the week, to one decimal. Ties are shared.
- Bench Blunder
- The most points left on the bench: the best possible lineup minus the one started, to one decimal. Ties are shared. Counted from 2026.
- Heartbreaker
- The most points scored by a team that lost. Ties are shared.
Only regular-season weeks count. Playoff and consolation games never do.
Bench Blunder and Heartbreaker are the two friendly needles — drawn with a dashed ring, and meant in good humour rather than as a mark against anyone.
In 2025: Top Score in week 14; Giant Killer in weeks 5, 9 and 14; Narrow Escape in week 9; Heartbreaker in weeks 2, 3, 10 and 12.
| Week W1 | Week W2 | Week W3 | Week W4 | Week W5 | Week W6 | Week W7 | Week W8 | Week W9 | Week W10 | Week W11 | Week W12 | Week W13 | Week W14 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top Score1 in 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Giant Killer3 in 2025 | – | – | ||||||||||||
| Narrow Escape1 in 2025 | ||||||||||||||
| Heartbreaker4 in 2025 |
= shared with another manager · – Giant Killer starts in Week 3: both teams need two games first · Coach of the Week and Bench Blunder start in 2026, so they are not shown for this season
- Playoffs (0 of 1)
- 0-0
- Consolation (1 of 1)
- 0-3
Season by Season
| Season | Team | Record | Finish | Made Playoffs | Post-Season | Playoffs | Avg Pts | High Pts | Low Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025roster ↓ | Queen City Chili Smashers | 5-9 | 15 | — | 0-3 | 0-0 | 110.5 | 148.7 | 88.6 |
Finish is the regular-season standing that year. Record and the points columns are the regular season only.
How the post-season splits. After the regular season this league runs a championship bracket and consolation ladders, so every team keeps playing. Made Playoffs means reaching the bracket. Playoffs is the bracket alone, while Post-Season counts bracket and consolation together — so a winning Post-Season record does not imply reaching the bracket. In the Post-Season box above, the two season counts split every season into one or the other: made the bracket, or did not. A team knocked out of the bracket then plays consolation games too, and those are included in the consolation record, which is why it can cover a season counted as a playoff appearance.
Draft Tendencies
Every draft Erik Thurza has on record — 1 season. Value is measured against what the same position has returned in the same round across this league’s own finished drafts, so it reads as “better than that pick usually is” rather than as a reflection of which positions they happen to draft.
| Season | Picks | Autodrafted | 1st Rd | Draft Pts | vs Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | 0(0%) drafted every pick | RB | 1,747.9 | -537.5 |
Weekly Lineups
No recorded lineups yet. Lineups are captured each week as the season is played — ESPN serves a past season’s roster as that season’s final roster rather than week by week, so seasons before the archive began cannot be reconstructed.
End-of-Season Rosters
Who Erik Thurza finished each season with, for the years before weekly lineups were recorded. ESPN only keeps a past season’s final roster, so these are a snapshot of the last day rather than a lineup from any particular week — and there are no points beside them, because a player’s total for the year counts whatever they scored for whoever else rostered them first.
1 season · newest first
2025 · Queen City Chili Smashers
Roster
| D/ST | Chargers D/ST |
| FLEX | Christian WatsonWR |
| K | Jason Myers |
| QB | Tyler Shough |
| RB | Chris Rodriguez Jr. |
| RB | Jahmyr Gibbs |
| TE | Dalton Kincaid |
| WR | Cooper Kupp |
| WR | Jaylen Waddle |
| BN | Alvin KamaraRB |
| BN | Isaiah HodginsWR |
| BN | Noah FantTE |
| BN | Tee HigginsWR |
| BN | Tyler LoopK |
| BN | Tyrod TaylorQB |
| IR | Kyler MurrayQB |