Oof. It’s looking like I have to beat Jules next week to make the playoffs, and unfortunately the Texans are on a bye. That means I lose both a starting receiver and running back in Nico Collins and Joe Mixon.
Fun week. Omni doubles his win count. I retook the scoring lead. RNATB put up 173 points. Ol’Gaffer won a very important game with playoff implications by .15 points. Jules avoids the chance of missing the playoffs entirely by winning by 4 points.
SenorBeef wins the Sunbelt division.
If Retrovertigo wins and Ol’Gaffer loses, he wins the Midwest division. Otherwise Ol’Gaffer wins it.
And what would’ve been the most dramatic game, whoever wins the game between Jules and Ellis wins the Northeast division. After Jules was in the lead for the whole season that would be quite the upset. But… not quite so dramatic. Whoever loses it gets the wildcard. Only Dale could match Ellis’ record if Ellis loses, but he’s 200 points behind for the tiebreaker.
Not nearly so dramatic a last week as I had hoped. Well, for everyone else. I’m happy my drama of possibly missing the playoffs is over.
Oh lawd, he comin’!
Oh, nice. Glad I don’t have to win because the odds aren’t in my favor. Fortunately this is the final bye week so everyone should be full strength for the playoffs, barring injuries.
Who gets the #1 seed is still up for grabs, but there’s a good chance you guys will play each other twice in a row. If either of you gets the #1 seed (more likely for Jules) then the #1 division winner seed plays the #4 wildcard seed.
If I win and Jules loses and I keep my points lead, then I’d take the #1 seed… and then face Jules in round 1.
It’s technically strongly to my advantage to throw this last game so I can play the #3 seed, but that’d be a violation of our rule to try to win every game, so I won’t.
Man, if I had just started New Orleans over Miami I could have been a giant killer.
It would’ve been a relatively small chance and would’ve required Petey to beat me, but it would’ve been enough to make him sweat a little.
Figures that my team goes off just when it can do nothing except ruin my draft slot. You guys are in trouble if the Browns do the smart… okay, fun thing and start Jameis next year.
Petey’s done in by Cleveland’s passing game. What a world we live in.
Beef too! I am… The Spoiler.
Obviously @Ol_Gaffer and I should do the right thing here and both lose.
Agreed. We have the means and the motive for an epic conclusion.
Not yet, says Josh Allen’s 47+ point game
Holy Josh.
The Holiest Josh.
So that was actually the highest scoring fantasy QB performance ever. 55.30.
Unfortunately a win is bad for me. It means I’ll be playing either Jules or Ellis instead of whoever wins the midwest division. Which probably means I have to beat both of them for a championship which is a little rough. I wish The Josh put up this game next week.
Ellis comes from behind all season to win the Northeast division (Both 10 wins, and Jules barely edges him out 4 points on overall score, but Ellis has a 5-1 division record versus Jules’ 3-3). I didn’t check but I think this may be the first time Ellis was in the lead for the division - only at the very end.
I locked up Sunbelt last week.
I think I made a big mistake last week when I posted the scenarios. I said that Retro needed to win and Ol’Gaffer to lose to take the division, but I think I got them reversed. It was actually Ol’Gaffer that needed to win and Retro to lose. Hope I’m not giving Gaffer an unpleasant surprise by this. Retrovertigo wins the Midwest with a 7-7 record on a 5-1 divison record versus 3-3.
Jules wins the wildcard by a large margin with 10 wins.
First round will be
(1) SenorBeef
vs
(4) Jules Andre
and
(2) Ellis Dee
vs
(3) Retrovertigo
This is perhaps a little anticlimactic as I had hoped to face Jules in the championship round for maximum drama. If I have to beat both Jules and Ellis that’s absolutely brutal.
(And now that I’ve discounted Retrovertigo I hope he goes on a tear and gets a sneaky win)
Ellis Dee winning means I have reached the traditional end of my season. On the one hand, this was a nightmare season that was the least fun I’ve dealt with since the year my roster had more injured players than healthy ones. This year, I’ve missed 19 games due to injury among my starters, 2 more due to a baffling benching, and have a WR whose QB missed a month and tanked his production. And I took two zeroes due to moving across country. On the other hand, Brock Bowers is already the best TE in the league, and my 2nd and 3rd round RBs Tyrone Tracy and Bucky Irving have already stolen their starting jobs and are home run picks. I thought I would have to dismantle my roster and rebuild, yet the rebuild is already done. But who gives a shit when my team will lose the first week of the playoffs every year no matter how many records I set. See you all next season
Universe ain’t fallin for that shit my friend.
Also, as far as I can see, Ellis winning was almost inconsequential for you. If you won, you’d have taken the #1 seed and had to play the wildcard (which would’ve been him again) and he and I are roughly in the same difficulty tier. Either way, round 1 is a tough playoff game.
| Points rank | Team | Record | Total | Finish | Luck |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exploding Pancakes | 10-4 | 1833.9 | *1 | 0 |
| 2 | Peteys | 8-6 | 1813.2 | 5 | -3 |
| 3 | HungryHungryHaruspex | 10-4 | 1807.55 | *4 | -1 |
| 4 | New York Fanboys | 10-4 | 1803.45 | *2 | +2 |
| 5 | Formerly Sentimental | 8-6 | 1710.89 | 6 | -1 |
| 6 | No Use For A Name | 7-7 | 1645.52 | *3 | +3 |
| 7 | Nine Inch Neils | 6-8 | 1628.14 | 9 | -2 |
| 8 | Warner’s Brothers | 8-6 | 1604.82 | 7 | +1 |
| 9 | Gusterrhoids | 4-10 | 1522.12 | 10 | -1 |
| 10 | The Great Old Ones | 7-7 | 1463.99 | 8 | +2 |
| 11 | Moridwon (Hamlet) | 4-10 | 1345.13 | 11 | 0 |
| 12 | Ides of Martz | 2-10 | 1161.09 | 12 | 0 |
I created a table of the end of the regular season results sorted by total points scored. The 4th column was the actual finish/seed and the fifth column labelled “luck” on where you actually finished based on h2h record, division win, and tiebreakers compared to your points scored. Your official/yahoo rank. So if you scored a lot of points and your rank is low (like Peteys), your luck factor is negative. If you scored fewer points but ended up finishing very well, your luck factor is positive. If you’re at zero, you finished right where you belong.
Peteys put up 150 points this week and actually came from behind to take second in points scored. I think we’re all relieved he’s not in the playoffs because his team is a monster that seems to be peaking right now. But man, it is rough to score the second highest amount of points and not make the playoffs.
I think most of this year I regarded this Northeast division as the strongest, with Ellis and Jules combined edging out me and Petey, but in the end we both scored higher. Spiritus beats re-Petey and Dale, but then they both beat Justin by about the same margin, so the overall strength is quite close.
On the other hand… Midwest had a pretty terrible year. The best finisher was at 6th overall in scoring. I know he wanted to make the playoffs with a losing record, but going with a non-winning record is still notable.
I wonder if original Petey was this unlucky.