FCNPFFL: Playoffs Week 1

This time of year a fantasy season can be ruined by many things: weather, injuries, poor play, blowouts and owner errors. This week we saw it all. In a record scoring week in the NFL we saw elevated fantasy scores for some and complete whiffs for others.

Before we get to the games...I will NOT be able to make it to the annual FCNP Holiday Party meaning no payouts this week. If you are local and would like to schedule a swing by my work here in Fairfax please let me know and I'll bring the money. If not I will have to cut you a check.

As for this upcoming weeks games: THURSDAY brings us DENVER and SAN DIEGO. Set your rosters accordingly as I think this game will impact rosters far more than last weeks game did.

Okay...on with things:

#3 Seed Nick G went toe-to-toe with defending Champion and #6 Seed Nate in our first playoff game of the season. While most of the 1pm games were snow laden both Nick G and Nate saw some flake free fun. Nate got rolling first with an 80 yard TD run by Bobby Rainey as he finished with 24 points. Nick G had his top scorer going at 1pm as well as Andrew Luck blew up with 39 fantasy points. Then the bad news came for Nick G. Rashad Jennings was inactive and Nick G didn't react fast enough to get Marcel Reece in the game (who finished with 26 points). Then AP, the #1 overall draft pick, went down with an injury after scoring just a single point. Nate stepped on the gas pedal with 13 each from RGIII and Nick Novak and 10 from Vincent Jackson. Going into MNF Nick G needed a repeat effort from Alshon Jeffery from last week to pull out a miracle. He didn't get it...coming up 17 points short. Oh to have gotten Reece into the game. Nate survives in inexplicable fashion again as a dream of back-to-back championships lives on. Nate moves on to face #2 Seed Luke who caught a HUGE break with Stafford/Megatron playing in a blizzard as they combined for a paltry nine points and Luke mustered just 46 as a whole during his much needed BYE week.

Final Score: The Bounchers 88 The Lollipop Kids 71

The other side of the bracket featured long time owner and #4 seed Ben versus second year owner and #5 seed Joel. This game was a blowout. Ben got 35 points from Peyton Manning and 13 from Marshawn Lynch...his two constants...and stood no chance. His other six players combined for only 16 points. Joel got 19 from the Cardinals D, 18 from Ryan Mathews, 16 from Shane Vereen and 15 from Keenan Allen and had the game wrapped up long before Josh McCown stepped in to destroy the Cowboys with 41 fantasy points on Monday Night Football. Joel does NOT earn $10 for the top scoring team of the week, but he does get to play the #1 Seed in Adam who is currently riding a 10 game winning streak (really a 9 game streak, but he won on his BYE week too as he's just been that good). This should set up to be a great game as Adam went triple digits with 100 points behind 27 from Jamaal Charles and 26 from Tom Brady.

Final Score: Nikachu 118 The Magic Wands 64

In our Purgatory bracket:

#10 Seed Mike ran roughshod over #7 Seed Matt behind 39 from LeSean McCoy: 99-42

#8 Seed John rolled over #9 Seed Nick B behind a 31 point performance from Drew Brees: 82-61

In our Toilet Bowl bracket that determines draft board duties for the 2014 draft:

#11 Seed Jason held off #14 Seed Alex thanks to 25 from Josh Gordon: 81-56

#12 Seed Ike survived against #13 Seed Jody with four double digit scorers: 70-63

This sets up #14 Seed Alex vs #13 Seed Jody for Toilet Bowl Winner Loser

Other games:

Ike vs Jason for 11th/12th place
Matt vs Nick B for 9th/10th place
Mike vs John for 7th/8th place
Ben vs Nick G for 5th/6th place

#6 Nate vs #2 Luke in Semi-Final 1
#5 Joel vs #1 Adam in Semi-Final 2

Good luck to the four remaining participants!!!