FCNP: Week 13 Results

There was no chance that Week 13 of 2014 could match the level of drama that 2013 brought us. There just wasn't enough up for grabs with one week to play. I don't think we'll ever see a MNF game that held so much at stake than that fateful game from last year. Thank heavens we weren't forced to watch the 'football' game that took place last night. When you are seeing references that read 'The last time .... happened was in 1953' repeatedly you know something weird has happened.

Anyways, another successful regular season has concluded (one of our best yet for overall balance and scoring) and I thank everyone for giving it a full effort.

Waivers continue into the playoffs and will be ran late Wednesday night.

Let's see how this season wrapped up:

I controlled my own destiny to lock up the league regular season title and #1 overall seed, but my team didn't make it easy. After a lackluster performance by newly acquired QB Tony Romo on Thanksgiving I left the door open for Adam to pull the upset. He get 18 from Julio Jones, 16 from Cam Newton and 10 each from Eddie Lacy and Greg the Leg, but still trailed by 7 going in MNF thanks to 29 from my RB tandem and 13 from Justin Tucker. He only got 6 from Chris Ivory on Monday and came up one point short.

Final Score: Escaped Lunatics 74 Biggums' 'Basers 73

I didn't have to sweat things out on Monday because Alex had already defeated Jason II/Ike on Sunday behind 22 points each from Mark Sanchez and Kenny Stills. MCF did get 28 from Aaron Rodgers in a losing effort. They have to settle for the #3 overall seed (thanks to overall points scored) while Alex concludes one of, if not his best seasons ever in this league.

Final Score: The Worthless Peons 78 Myra's College Fund 60

John didn't have too much to play for other than seeding as he was already locked into playing in Week 14 in the playoffs, but it didn't stop him from putting up big numbers against Nick B. With 21 from Megatron, 16 from Drew Stanton, 12 each from Dan Herron and Cody Parkey, John goes into the playoffs with a full head of steam. Oh, Nick B, you had such a good team wasted by not updating your lineup. With 25 from Le'Veon Bell and 20 from Tom Brady, Nick B had a good week, but by leaving his two Colts on the bench against the lowly Redskins he left 33 potential extra points on the bench...again. This should've been a playoff team for The Knacks.

Final Score: The Situation 96 The Knacks 69

Thanks to some shrewd trading I have to think that Mike is our clubhouse favorite to win a title this season. His team continued to dominated scoring the most points in the league for the 3rd time this season. He knocked Ben right out of the playoffs with a 134 point explosion. 82 of those points came from Andrew Luck and the Rams D while newly (you're welcome) acquired RB Rashad Jennings posted 21 to boot. Ben had a great season and might be the best team to not make the playoffs in our 17 year history (3rd in the league in scoring 37 points more than 4th and 119 more points than our lowest scoring playoff team!!!). He got 38 from Tre Mason and 23 from CJ Anderson...but oh the irony of a zero RB strategy that his non-RB's were the ones that let him down when it mattered most. Peyton Manning had a pedestrian 14 points and his WR/TE combo (w/o injured Julius Thomas) mustered just 16 points. Mike now needed a loss by Joel to wrap up the Critter Corner Division.

Final Score: Bookoo Barbarians 134 The Magic Wands 92

Joel took on Matt who really was playing just to avoid the Toilet Bowl with a division title on the line. Joel got all risky benching his starting QB in Philip Rivers for Josh McCown who had the perceived better matchup. That backfired in a big way. Rivers blew up for 31 points while McCown struggled to just 8 points. The Bills D did score 21 points and Antonio Brown hauled in 19 for Nikachu to try and offset that error. Matt got a surprising 33 points from DeAndre Hopkins and 16 from Alshon Jeffery to help offset his measly 2 points total from his RBs. Down 12, Matt still had 2 players playing Sunday night while Joel had just one. The Broncos D posted 15 points and Santos booted in 4 points while Joel got just 2 points from Travis Kelce. Matt pulls the upset costing Joel a division title, bye week and $$. Mike smiles.

Final Score: Rainbows & Puppies 77 Nikachu 72

I gave away the final playoff spot results earlier with my #RIPBeth spoiler alert commentary above, but Luke found his way into the big dance with a resounding victory over Jody, coupled with the loss by Ben. Luke got 36 from Drew Brees, 20 from a rejuvenated Seahawks D and 12 from Mason Crosby. Jody got 29 from Big Ben in a losing effort, sending him to another Toilet Bowl. Since Luke beat his brother Joel in their only meeting, Luke gets the #5 seed while Joel drops all the way to the #6 seed after going into the week looking at a possible BYE, brutal.

Final Score: Deathtongue 93 DoggNutz 51

Our last game of the regular season involved two non-playoff teams in Nick G and Nate. The Bounchers finished the season on fire with a 112 point effort behind 25 from Matt Stafford, 20 from Keenan Allen, 19 from LeSean McCoy, 14 from Matt Bryant, 11 each from Lamar Miller and the Texans D and a partridge in a pear tree. Nick got 14 each from Kendall Wright and the Colts D in the loss.

Final Score: The Bounchers 112 Lollipop Kids 56

Final Regular Season Standings:
#1 Seed - Escaped Lunatics 10-3 (Back Wall Champion)
#2 Seed - Bookoo Barbarians 9-4 (Critter Corner Champion)
#3 Seed - Myra's College Fund 9-4 (1063 points, split season series w/ Situation)
#4 Seed - The Situation 9-4 (987 points)
#5 Seed - Deathtongue 8-5 (H2H win over Nikachu)
#6 Seed - Nikachu 8-5
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#7 Seed - Magic Wands 7-6 (1106 points)
#8 Seed - Worthless Peons 7-6 (862 points)
#9 Seed - Rainbows & Puppies 5-8 (H2H win over Bounchers)
#10 Seed-The Bounchers 5-8
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#11 Seed-The Knacks 4-9 (886 points)
#12 Seed-DoggNutz 4-9 (874 points)
#13 Seed-Lollipop Kids 3-10 (Swept Biggums')
#14 Seed-Biggums' 'Basers 3-10

Playoffs:

Super Bowl

#3 Seed Jason II/Ike vs. #6 Seed Joel (Winner Plays #2 Seed Mike)
#4 Seed John vs. #5 Seed Luke (Winner Plays #1 Seed Jason)

Purgatory Bowl

#7 Seed Ben vs. #10 Seed Nate
#8 Seed Alex vs. #9 Seed Matt

Toilet Bowl

#11 Seed Nick B vs. #14 Seed Adam
#12 Seed Jody vs. #13 Seed Nick G

With Adam missing the playoffs his streak of 6 straight years in ends and now Joel has the current longest streak at 3 years. He also goes from #1 Seed and Super Bowl champion in 2013 to #14 seed in 2014.

For the sixth straight year the FCNPFFL will have 3 or more different playoff teams than the previous year.

Both Mike (89.0) and I (89.6) eclipsed the reigning points per game scoring record held by John at 87.0 (set in 2010)

The last two #1 seeds have won the Super Bowl after it not happening ever before (at least since 2000)

In the 15 years of record keeping (98-99 lost in the great move from JMU in 2000) our 2014 playoff participants (in times made the playoffs; previous Super Bowl championships)

Jason 10;4
Mike 5;0
Ike 5;1
John 3;0
Joel 3;0 (in 3 years of participation)
Luke 7;0

So the Hardi clan has all 3 of their members in the playoffs, but they have combined for 10 previous playoff appearances without a trophy. With 50% of the field can they finally bring home a title after 37 combined years of playing???

Ike's only title came against me in 2004

I won the title in 2002, 2007, 2009 and 2011 while losing in 1998 and 2004

John lost his only Super Bowl appearance in 2010

Mike lost his only Super Bowl appearance in 2005

Luke and Joel have never played in a Super Bowl

As for draft positions and making the playoffs:

Our 3rd, 4th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th positions made the playoffs

Draft picks 1-7 went 42-49; Draft picks 8-14 went 49-42

Critter Corner went 9-8 against the Back Wall Division

Good luck to all those in the playoffs!