Monday Memo v2.17
Our second season of PPFFL fake football has come to a conclusion, with The Maestro bringing home the title. We knew that would be the case around Week 6. The rest of the league wound up the same way it had been since Week 15, when The Dragons passed the Kellogg Krushers for 2nd place.
Final Standings (Week 17):
The Maestro 2,212.49 (143.32)
The Dragons 1,874.46 (91.30)
Kellogg Krushers 1,844.21 (87.18)
The Bouncers 1,738.38 (65.75)
The Outlaws 1,646.96 (67.17)
The Dominator 1,578.31 (112.34)
Week 17 was a bit of a crapshoot for most of us, as the better players on the better teams didn't play very much, with one notable exception. New England was playing to go 16-0, meaning Tom Brady and Randy Moss were going to stay in there as long as necessary to get the job done (those two also had personal league records they were trying to attain). Having the Giants make it close the whole game meant that the guys that carried The Maestro all season gave everything they had for the full 60 minutes in an otherwise meaningless game. On the other hand, the fate of the Kellogg Krushers was settled when Brett Favre exited at the end of the 1st quarter in favor of Craig Nall.
The Dominator had another solid week, which is commendable considering the way the rest of his season unfolded. His Week 17 illustrated what happens when your team is made up of guys who play for borderline playoff teams, or worse. Those guys play hard at the end of the season (when they may have taken more than a few plays off earlier in the year) in an attempt to either sneak into the postseason or earn a job for the following season. The problem with these guys is they usually stink in the middle of the season and kill your fake team, as The Dominator more than realized this season.
This season we figured out things a little more and had the league expand by a team. It's possible that we may see another team or two added for 2008, meaning some of us might not be able to go through the whole draft by picking players off the tops of our heads. That's a testament to how well we all get along and how outsiders think they can come right in and win a fake league where Tom Brady was drafted after Marc Bulger, and Randy Moss wasn't drafted until the 6th round.
So that's a wrap on the 2007 season of the PPFFL. That's not the end of the analysis, though. A full recap of Season 2 will be published soon on this very space. It will hopefully be done Wednesday or Thursday, but that's not a guarantee. Keep checking, though, because it will be chock full of highlights of the season, awards, and the things that keep us all entertained while the guys in pads are trying to knock themselves into oblivion...or as Mike Tyson would say, Bolivion.
Have a happy and safe New Year, and spend all of 2008 doing great things....
The Commish
Our second season of PPFFL fake football has come to a conclusion, with The Maestro bringing home the title. We knew that would be the case around Week 6. The rest of the league wound up the same way it had been since Week 15, when The Dragons passed the Kellogg Krushers for 2nd place.
Final Standings (Week 17):
The Maestro 2,212.49 (143.32)
The Dragons 1,874.46 (91.30)
Kellogg Krushers 1,844.21 (87.18)
The Bouncers 1,738.38 (65.75)
The Outlaws 1,646.96 (67.17)
The Dominator 1,578.31 (112.34)
Week 17 was a bit of a crapshoot for most of us, as the better players on the better teams didn't play very much, with one notable exception. New England was playing to go 16-0, meaning Tom Brady and Randy Moss were going to stay in there as long as necessary to get the job done (those two also had personal league records they were trying to attain). Having the Giants make it close the whole game meant that the guys that carried The Maestro all season gave everything they had for the full 60 minutes in an otherwise meaningless game. On the other hand, the fate of the Kellogg Krushers was settled when Brett Favre exited at the end of the 1st quarter in favor of Craig Nall.
The Dominator had another solid week, which is commendable considering the way the rest of his season unfolded. His Week 17 illustrated what happens when your team is made up of guys who play for borderline playoff teams, or worse. Those guys play hard at the end of the season (when they may have taken more than a few plays off earlier in the year) in an attempt to either sneak into the postseason or earn a job for the following season. The problem with these guys is they usually stink in the middle of the season and kill your fake team, as The Dominator more than realized this season.
This season we figured out things a little more and had the league expand by a team. It's possible that we may see another team or two added for 2008, meaning some of us might not be able to go through the whole draft by picking players off the tops of our heads. That's a testament to how well we all get along and how outsiders think they can come right in and win a fake league where Tom Brady was drafted after Marc Bulger, and Randy Moss wasn't drafted until the 6th round.
So that's a wrap on the 2007 season of the PPFFL. That's not the end of the analysis, though. A full recap of Season 2 will be published soon on this very space. It will hopefully be done Wednesday or Thursday, but that's not a guarantee. Keep checking, though, because it will be chock full of highlights of the season, awards, and the things that keep us all entertained while the guys in pads are trying to knock themselves into oblivion...or as Mike Tyson would say, Bolivion.
Have a happy and safe New Year, and spend all of 2008 doing great things....
The Commish
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