We still have a champion to crown so let's get right to it.
As a reminder there is finally (thank heavens) no Thursday night game. There is, though, a SATURDAY night game between ATLANTA and DETROIT.
Last chance for waivers on Wednesday night to get that perfect championship lineup. It is always interesting to see what, if any, no name players will get a shot to win a trophy for a team. This is the time of the season for a 3rd/4th string player to shine.
Onto the games:
In our first semifinal game, undefeated Nate welcomed Ike and his high scoring team into the Bouncherdome and treated him quite rudely. It all started with Michael Turner scoring early, then AP did what AP has done all season long in breaking off an 82 yard, 20 fantasy point touchdown run and finally watching Drew Brees take out his frustrations on Tampa Bay by throwing 4 touchdown passes. Nate's big 3 combined for 76 points and the rout was on. After scoring 99 points last week, Ike fell flat with only 58 total points as Nate's team defense continued to be his strongest attribute. Only Arian Foster and the Vikings D were able to crack double figures for Ike. In 15 games this season, Ike has averaged 79 points per game scored. In the 12 games (8-4 record) that he hasn't played against Nate he has averaged nearly 84 points per game and in the 3 losses against Nate he averaged just 61 points per game. Amazing. Nate advances to his 3rd Super Bowl in his history with the league and is 1-1 in his previous two games.
Final Score: The Bounchers 98 Myra's College Fund 58
Our other half of the Super Bowl bracket was new (Joel) vs. old (Adam) and proved to be a much closer game albeit lower scoring. Adam benched both DeMarco Murray and Knowshown Moreno for the hot hand in David Wilson and that decision almost bit him in the ass. Wilson flat lined with only 5 points while both Murray (14) and Moreno (17) had stellar days. Cam Newton did not have another big time performance for Adam, but he still scored 19 points and the Broncos D tallied 11. Joel also got burned by the lackluster play of the NY Giants as Victor Cruz struggled with just a point. Aaron Rodgers made up for that with 27 points and TRich continued his strong rookie season with 14 points. Joel's biggest mistake was going to the Bryce Brown well one too many times as he only scored 3 points while Beanie Wells emerged with 24 on his bench (although he would have probably played Ryan 'broken clavicle again' Mathews and his 2 points without 20/20 hindsight). When the afternoon ended Adam held a 2 points lead with each team having one player left. Adam had Stephen Gostkowski and Joel had Kenny Britt. For more than half of the Patriots game, Gostkowski was stuck on 3 points, but a late scoring blitz got him to 11 points meaning Britt needed 13 to give Joel a comeback win....he had 7 yards receiving...ouch. Adam advances to his 3rd Super Bowl as well and he too is 1-1 in his previous appearances. Joel had a very successful 1st season even though it ended earlier than he had hoped for.
Final Score: Biggums' 'Basers 70 Nikachu 57
SUPER BOWL XV
#1 Seed Nate vs. #6 Seed Adam
In the 3rd place consolation game #2 Seed Joel takes on #5 Seed Ike
The 5th place game between me and Matt was close, because I allowed it to be with no starting QB. Without RGIII I still eked out a victory behind a huge 26 point effort from Dennis Pitta and 20 from Alfred Morris. Matt got 25 from Matt Ryan, but only 3 points total from Ray Rice and Stevan Ridley.
Final Score: Escaped Lunatics 71 Rainbows & Puppies 68
In the 7th place game Luke beat Jody in another great contest where 8 of the 16 players hit double figures. Luke got 27 from Colin Kaepernick, 22 from James Jones and 17 from Julio Jones while Jody had 24 from CJ2K, 16 from BJGE and 13 each from Stevie Johnson and the Falcons D
Final Score: Deathtongue 85 DoggNutz 82
In the 9th place game, Nick G defeated Ben behind a pair of 18 point efforts from Peyton Manning and SeaBass. Ben's top scorer, CJ Spiller scored 16 points in defeat.
Final Score: The Lollipop Kids 70 The Magic Wands 51
In the 11th place game Alex and Mike tied at 83, but Alex claims 11th due to a better regular season standing. Mike saw Tom Brady lead all scorers with 31, but Alex used a good team effort including 21 from Joe Flacco and 17 each from Marshawn Lynch and TY Hilton to knot the score up.
Final Score: Worthless Peons 83 Bookoo Barbarians 83
Drum roll please...................
Finally our Toilet Bowl between John and Nick B was yet another pretty competitive game. Nick B made a very smart decision by benching Eli Manning and starting Andrew Luck as Luck put up 22 points while Manning scuffled to just 6 points. John got 17 from Matt Schaub, 20 from Eric Decker and 15 from Shayne Graham to offset a horrible -2 from the Lions defense against crappy Arizona. Nick saw the Texans D score 13 points, but he was still 14 points behind John with only Michael Crabtree left to play. Crabtree scored early and then, with the real game on the line and the fantasy game on the line, he scored again, finishing with 19 points and giving Nick B a comeback victory avoiding last place and sending John to draft board duties for Draft Night 2013!!!
Final Score: The Knacks 69 The Situation 64
Good luck to both Adam and Nate as they try to secure their 2nd ever Super Bowl joining Jody, Ben and me as multiple trophy winners.
1 comment:
Thanks Jason for these excellent writeups of the action all year, including this week's trenchant analysis of the sad playoff collapse of Nikachu. It's what I deserve for benching the SF defense for the first time all year.
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