GTPlanet Fantasy Football League '08 - WEEK 14 It's Playoff Time!

[FoolKiller]

FK, how could you leave a TE in your starting roster that is on a bye?

Not that it would have made a difference in the out come but still...

Because I didn't have a bench spot.

EDIT: And didn't have time to attempt picking one up as I didn't realize it until oh, 4:00 AM Sunday morning.

 

[UnoMOTO]

While I am having a good run at the moment, I see that Dan is breathing down my neck now. One little slip up and a good week from his poultry combo and we are in a nice battle.

 

[Joey D]

I still fail.

 

[UnoMOTO]

It didn't help that you left your defense on the bye.

 

[Joey D]

Ya I noticed that when it was to late.

 

[Speedy Samurai]

Get ready for a blemish on your record, Wicky Radsters! (says the guy in the bottom half of the standings <but.. but if you count points I am in the top half>)

 

[UnoMOTO]

Holy crap, Speedy! Our predictions call us at a dead heat with less then a point separation.

With your line up, you clearly shouldn't have a 2-4 record. I am ready for your challenge little grasshoppa!

 

[FoolKiller]

Sorry about missing a write up last week guys, but here is this week's.

The Happy Monks - 69.66
The Stiff-arms - 114.02

What can be said? David Akers, kicker for the inebriated chaste Outscored all but two other players on the team combined. With one guy on bye, and another that might as well have not shown up the Monks had nothing to hope for here. On the other hand John McCain's arms showed up and had a great performance with the Favre replacement and Portis both racking up over 20 points each. So, when Brett Favre Brett Favre Brett Favre faces his own replacement what happens? The J on his jersey turns into a huge L.

The Wicky Radsters - 89.04
Shovel Bums - 63.04

Someone beat him PUHLEASE!!!! In what world does Peyton "I wish I were Eli right now" Manning get shown up by Philip "second choice" Rivers? Fortunately for the butt scoopers his offense showed up fairly decent, however his defense took a day off. While the Radsters defense may as well have taken the day off the rest of the team just did what they always do....win.

Team Infrared - 91.24
Centurion Eagles - 71.44
I don't know what Team Infrared was eating this week but it is tasty. Tony Romo was the star of the show but even their kicker brought in a ton of points. Meanwhile the Centurion Eagles were relying on two Giants positions (how do you lose to Cleveland?). Like the monks Infrared's kicker outperformed all but two players. Perhaps the monks are sharing their brew.

The Babies - 62.86
Mud Dogs - 64.40

Despite the low score the dirty fleabags and the cry babies put up a good show that was decided by less than two points. It came down to the quarterbacks. Both tossers put up big points, but Drew Brees squeaked by with a slightly larger score. The Mud Dogs may want to count their blessings as they had a man on bye and two others that did absolutely nothing..

The Wildcats - 63.34
Mighty Turduckens - 73.58

The feral felines looked to be having a good week, but nearly everyone underperformed. So despite these kitties being hungry that most delicious of poultry combinations was just too much for them to handle. You would think a mutation of game birds wouldn't be able to do much against a predator, but in this fight the names like LaDainian Tomlinson and T.J whoseyourmamma meant very little.

So here are the current standings:
Rank - Team - W-L-T - Pts
1 - The Wicky Radsters - 6-0-0 - 551.84
2 - Mighty Turduckens - 5-1-0 - 488.66
3 - Team Infrared - 3-3-0 - 490.12
4 - Centurion Eagles - 3-3-0 - 483.26
5 - Mud Dogs - 3-3-0 - 461.52
6 - The Wildcats - 3-3-0 - 453.86
7 - The Happy Monks - 3-3-0 - 422.16
8 - The Stiff-arms - 2-4-0 - 484.16
9 - The Babies - 2-4-0 - 412.68
10 - Shovel Bums - 0-6-0 - 377.28


Next week's matches look like this:

The Happy Monks
The Wildcats

The Wicky Radsters
The Stiff-arms

Team Infrared
Shovel Bums

The Babies
Centurion Eagles

Mighty Turduckens
Mud Dogs

Will the Shovel Bums win? Will the Radsters lose?

Next week:
The Wicky Radsters have to explain why this was spotted on their sideline.

And an article on The Happy Monks and how win or lose, they do the same thing after every game.

 

[UnoMOTO]

Great Job as always FK and maybe you've heard this before..."if you're not cheating, you're not trying"

 

[thugbear2005]

What the hell happened to LT?

 

[JFM92_GTRacer]

Thanks steven jackson for saving my team this week.

I really want Tony Romo to get back asap. And at least Willie Parker.

 

[Joey D]

God damnit, I was projected to win but didn't. This is really starting to become not so fun anymore.

 

[Speedy Samurai]

God damnit, I was projected to win but didn't. This is really starting to become not so fun anymore.

If not for your opponent's Steven Jackson 35.60pt game, you would have won.

 

[FoolKiller]

God damnit, I was projected to win but didn't. This is really starting to become not so fun anymore.

No one saw St. Louis actually playing that well against the Cowboys. I thought you had it this week. It looks like wearing my Steven Jackson jersey gave him some much needed mojo.


And before someone points it out to me: Yes, I know I had a kicker and defense on bye.

The kicker was an accepted sacrifice to maintain more offensive bench positions. Both my defenses happened to be on bye this week and I have no clue how I missed that in the draft. I thought I would be able to switch it out because I didn't check my bench earlier in the week. By the time I noticed I couldn't have changed in time for the two-day waiver to take affect.

BAH!!!


In my other league I beat the undefeated guy!

 

[Danoff]

And before someone points it out to me: Yes, I know I had a kicker and defense on bye.

Good thing you drafted them so early huh?

 

[FoolKiller]

Good thing you drafted them so early huh?

Well, I wanted to make sure what I had was solid, but they aren't very solid when they aren't playing.

 

[Danoff]

Well, I wanted to make sure what I had was solid, but they aren't very solid when they aren't playing.

Why do you care whether what you have is solid if you're going to let them get you zero points just so you don't have to drop someone? Not to mention that year after year the best defenses and kickers are available on waivers through week 4.

I don't know why I'm telling you this. I should be happy to let you keep wasting your early draft picks. I guess I'm like the engineer in that joke where he fixes the guillotine so they can lop his head off.

 

[UnoMOTO]

Oh dear...what a weekend I'm going to have. I believe I will be 0-3 in my leagues this week.

 

[FoolKiller]

Oh dear...what a weekend I'm going to have. I believe I will have 0-3 in my leagues this week.

What? Sorry, I got distracted by your avatar....again.

I didn't check scores this morning. Are you going to lose, FINALLY?

 

[UnoMOTO]

Yeah...It's gonna happen.

I will make the pain go away by also getting distracted in my Avatar.

 

[FoolKiller]

I will make the pain go away by also getting distracted in my Avatar.

She makes me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class.

 

[UnoMOTO]

Nothing to see here...move right along please

 

[FoolKiller]

Then this link will make you feel like a kid again.

Fantasy Football is great! Teehee

I am not a member so I may not view attachments. BAH!

 

[UnoMOTO]

What a noobish thing for me to do. I will make amends shortly for that.

 

[thugbear2005]

Looks like The Wicky Radsters can be stopped. What a human like performance this week.

 

[UnoMOTO]

Speedy had THREE 20 point scorers...what cha gonna do against that?

 

[thugbear2005]

Scoring 58.52 probably didn't help. It's ok to be human moto.

 

[Speedy Samurai]

booyah! My ship has started to right itself. Now if I can just get over .500

 

[TwinTurbos94]

idk what is going on with MNF!


Everytime I have players playing on MNF they flop!

 

[FoolKiller]

idk what is going on with MNF!


Everytime I have players playing on MNF they flop!

There is a trend in football that the NFL and ABC/ESPN do not want to admit to: They schedule MNF games based on the previous season's records in hopes of bringing the best games. But nearly half the teams featured on MNF do not make it to the playoffs that year and so many times the teams that do make it are ones that were counted out in the preseason. Tuesday Morning Quarterback (weekly article on ESPN's Page 2 Web site) documents this every year at the end of the season. He also has the highest prediction accuracy of any of the so-called football experts by just predicting "Home team wins."

There is also a trend of at least one Super Bowl team not even making the playoffs within the next few years.

I think this is what makes the NFL much better than most professional sports, because the rules are balanced enough that with the exception of your once-a-decade dynasty teams the balance of success allows nearly everyone to have good and bad season cycles. So, even if you are a fan of a currently losing team you know they will come back sooner or later.

You can see it every year as there is always that one team that everyone is surprised to find doing as well as they are and others that had everything going great for them and have had minor changes but suddenly struggle.

There are a few exceptions though, like Detroit.