Final Fantasy Rankings Week 13

Week: 1 | 2| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13

East Division: Dragons [8-5] earn their 4th division title in a row by winning the final 7 games of the season and will have the number two seed.

Central Division: Buckwheat [9-4] with their 1st division title, will have the number one seed throughout the playoffs

West Division: One Angry Gook [7-6], their 2nd division title in a row, will be the number three seed to start the playoffs.

Wild Card Seedings: Pimp Juice [6-7], Crippled Monkeys [6-7], Big Daddy [5-8], The Stud Stable [4-9]

	RANK (prev)	TEAM	REC	COMMENT
	1 (1)	Dragons	8-5-0	Dragons have scored the second most points the last six weeks of the season while going 6-0 as well. The team turned the corner with Romo, Chris Johnson and Fitz all dominating in point scoring.
	2 (3)	Dynasty	6-7-0	The only team to score 150+ points three times this season. There is a lot this team has to offer and the only problem it has is which players to start each week. Also, for the first time in league history, this was not the team with the most points scored against. Yeah, this team had that honor three years in a row.
	3 (2)	Crippled Monkeys	6-7-0	Second moist points in scoring, but losing the final two games of the season was a downer to a great draft. The curse of the highest auction player lives on.
	4 (7)	Rutting Bucks	6-7-0	Over the last six weeks, this is the team that has scored the most points. I've heard a few of you talking at Stickboy's house that you were a bit scared to face this power house in the playoffs. Winning the final two weeks and just made the 8th seed.
	5 (4)	Thunder Choads	7-6-0	Lost Steve Slaton for the remainder of the season. Can ADP and Hightower be enough for a playoff run. The receivers are coming on strong in the last half of the season, plus the defense has been putting up a ton of points as of late.
	6 (5)	Pimp Juice	6-7-0	I must give props for sticking with your stud RBs despite me giving you a hard time for not starting Maroney the last three weeks or so. Bad luck of the schedule as you were one of two teams on the short end of the tie breakers, welcome to the Beer Bowl. Oh, and this is the team that had the most points scored against.
	7 (6)	Grease Slappers	7-6-0	Squeezed out a win with a last minute field goal to end the season. Team may be in trouble if the Colts sit their starters once they gain home field advantage.
	8 (9)	One Angry Gook	7-6-0	Won the final two game of the season to edge out Grease for the West title. Right now this team has the hottest receivers but the coldest running backs [due to injuries]. Is this the new winning formula?
	9 (8)	Stickboy	7-6-0	Only won two of it's last seven games of the season, has scored the least amount of points during that stretch, yet at the early part of the season, this was the team to beat. Can it put it together for the playoffs, I don't know.
	10 (10)	Big Daddy	5-8-0	Ended with a loss to a disappointing season. Third most points scored against, but had a few decent weeks to make it interesting. Had a few players change teams mid season and this team faltered quite often.
	11 (11)	The Stud Stable	4-8-0	Losing Ronnie Brown really hurt this team with Moss finally coming on strong in the last half of the season. Brees was huge but the rest of the team wasn't getting it done each week.
	12 (12)	Buckwheat	9-4-0	A fitting end to the season by scoring the second lowest score of the week, just like clock work, it played the lowest score of the week and gets yet another victory.

Official Playoff Rankings

Official seedings for the 2009 playoffs. Keep in mind, we reseed after every round. Best team plays worst team.

Division Winners Seed Franchise Record Win % PF PA Div-Record PlayAll-Record 1 Buckwheat 9-4-0 0.692 1211.74 1109.93 4-2-0 54-89-0 2 Dragons 8-5-0 0.615 1328.72 1273.58 4-2-0 73-70-0 3 One Angry Gook 7-6-0 0.538 1319.55 1343.88 5-1-0 66-77-0

Wild Card Teams Seed Franchise Record Win % PF PA Div-Record PlayAll-Record 4 Stickboy 7-6-0 0.538 1337.13 1318.44 3-3-0 70-73-0 5 Thunder Choads 7-6-0 0.538 1326.05 1398.26 2-4-0 73-70-0 6 Grease Slappers 7-6-0 0.538 1364.46 1332.21 3-3-0 79-64-0 7 DYNASTY 6-7-0 0.461 1426.22 1314.40 3-3-0 79-64-0 8 Rutting Bucks 6-7-0 0.461 1374.74 1313.87 4-2-0 75-68-0

Beer Bowl Teams Seed Franchise Record Win % PF PA Div-Record PlayAll-Record 9 Pimp Juice 6-7-0 0.461 1343.19 1441.40 3-3-0 78-65-0 10 Crippled Monkeys 6-7-0 0.461 1382.71 1311.67 1-5-0 85-58-0 11 Big Daddy 5-8-0 0.384 1258.23 1400.52 2-4-0 63-80-0 12 Mr. Papagiorgio 4-9-0 0.307 1306.48 1421.05 2-4-0 63-80-0

Weekend Recap Week 13

Commish's Corner....

A big thank you goes out to Stickboy who opened his house for a day of watching football games. Two wide screen TV's playing several different games and one fancy internet hookup to the TV provided a very interesting way of watch the afternoon unfold. It was good way to watch the final regular season games. We'll have to do this again next season as it made the games much more enjoyable.

As for our playoffs, if your 7-6 or higher, you are in. If you are 6-7, you'll need the tie breakers to fall in your favor to make it as there are many teams that could end with this record.

The good, the bad, and the ugly….

Free Agent Lineup		Team	PTS	Starting Tragedy Lineup		Team	PTS
QB	Jason Campbell	WAS	30.35	QB	Mark Sanchez	NYJ	10.00
RB	Jerome Harrison	CLE	24.13	RB	Mike Bell	NOS	4.25
RB	Leonard Weaver	PHI	18.50	RB	Marion Barber	DAL	5.38
WR	Louis Murphy	OAK	28.00	WR	Chris Chambers	KCC	1.38
WR	Devin Thomas	WAS	24.50	WR	Mike Sims-Walker	JAC	1.50
WR	Davone Bess	MIA	20.63	WR	Dallas Clark	IND	3.13
KT	Garrett HArtley	NOS	15.40	KT	Stephen Gastkowski	NEP	3.00
DT	Denver Broncos	DEN	19.98	DT	Minnesota Vikings	MIN	3.77
Fantasy Points = 181.49				Fantasy Points = 32.41

Fantasy Game Recaps….

	Dragons (7-5) East 137.60	vs	Thunder Choads (7-5) East 91.19
	WR Derrick Mason	MNF	DT Green Bay Packers
With a lead of 46.41 and each team with a player still playing on Monday night, it's a good bet that Dragons will win it's fourth division title in a row. Seven wins in a row after dropping your first five, bravo. Should get another high score of the week, but there is a chance Rutting Bucks could catch him as he has Aaron Rodgers still to play and only needing 18 points and some change. The Choads should end with a 7-6 record, second in the East and sitting good going into the playoffs. Slaton is the only injury of note on the roster and as long as the remaining RB's can produce, they will be fine.

	Dynasty (6-6) East 93.33	vs	Stickboy (6-6) East 87.45
	none	MNF	RB Ray Rice WR Greg Jennings
This one surprises me, Dynasty up by only 5.88 points, but most likely will lose to Stickboy as he has Ray Rice and Greg Jennings yet to play. If Stickboy does get the victory, and I don't see any reason he wont, he'll move to 7-6 and make the playoffs, Dynasty should fall to 6-7 and then hold on for the tie breaker to see if he makes the playoffs or not.

	Crippled Monkeys (6-6) Central 66.38	vs	Buckwheat (8-4) Central 66.32
	none	MNF	RB Ryan Grant
As it sits, Crippled Monkeys holds a 0.06 point lead going into Monday's game, now if Ryan Grant comes down with H1N1, the Monkeys would have a chance. Baring an illness, groin pull in warm ups, or some fluky setback to keep him out of the lineup, all Ryan Grant needs to do is have one carry and fall forward to give Buckwheat yet another miracle win of one team falling flat on it's face. Odds are, Monkeys will be the second team with a 6-7 record by evenings end.

	Rutting Bucks (5-7) Central 119.51	vs	Pimp Juice (6-6) Central 90.81
	QB Aaron Rodgers	MNF	WR Donald Driver
Rutting Bucks at one point looked to be the team to beat, then there was a flat part of the season, now that the BYE weeks have concluded, WOW! Buck Buck is back with a vengeance. This team will get the victory with a 29 point lead and Aaron Rodgers yet to play. Even throwing to Donald Driver which helps Pimp Juice, I can't see Driver out scoring Rodgers enough to gain 30 points. Both teams will finish with a 6-7 record. Now we are at four teams with 6-7.

	Big Daddy (5-7) West 97.52	vs	Grease Slappers (6-6) West 90.89
	none	MNF	KT Mason Crosby
If you were watching the game day program, this was a very close game. Once the afternoon games concluded, the score as 91.12 to 90.89 in favor of Big Daddy. Each team had only their kickers to play. What are the odds? Big Daddy had Nick Folk, who was drafted by Grease Slappers and later cut, scoring 6.4. But, there was two missed field goals by Folk for about 11.5 more points. Grease has Mason Crosby on Monday, who was drafted by Rutting Bucks and later cut. So what this game is down to is Grease needing 6.64 points from Crosby to keep Big Daddy out of the playoffs. IF he doesn't get the points, both teams will be 6-7. If Grease does get the points, only 1 team will be 6-7. So that's five or six teams with a 6-7 record.

	The Stud Stable (4-8) West 118.35	vs	One Angry Gook (6-6) West 122.15
	none	MNF	none	WIN
By a difference of 3.8 points, One Angry Cook will win the West Division. He owns the tie breaker over Grease, so regardless of how that game plays out, the division is OAC's. If you were at Rob's house, for this game to be this close by the end is amazing. How big was the overthrown pass to Roy Williams now where he would have easily scored? Also the Meachem TD that counted as a touchdown for Saints Offense according to the MFL scoring. The win moves the Angy Cook to 6-7 along with six or seven other teams. Potentially we could have two or three teams with a 6-7 record NOT make the playoffs. I haven't a clue who they will be.

Fantasy Rankings Week 12

Week: 1 | 2| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12

Final regular season game. You knew by the final week, it would still come down to tie breakers.

East Division: The division winner in the East is simple, Dragons vs Thunder Choads. The winner of this game is the East Division Champion.

Central Division: Buckwheat has earned the Central Division Champion as of week 12. Congrats!

West Division: The West is between One Angry Gook and Grease Slappers. Both teams are 6-6 with OAG having the tiebreaker over Grease. If there both OAG and Grease win or lose, the title is OAG's. The only combination for Grease to win the division is for OAG to lose, Grease to win.

Wild Card Seedings: This is going to be a mess this year with so many having the same overall record. When two teams are tied, it's so easy to determine the winner. Add in three or more teams and there are many additional rules that come into play.

Official League Rules: 7.3 Tie Breakers

Wild Card Tiebreaker Setup – 5 Teams

• Overall Winning Percentage


• Head to head results – 2 teams only **


• Most overall points scored


• Reverse Points Allowed


• Power Rank


• Coin flip

** Use winning percentage rule #3 – If 3 teams are involved, in order for ‘Head to Head’ to be in effect, each of the tied teams must have played all of the other tied teams at least once.

** Use ‘Division Best’ rule – only the best remaining team in each division is compared against one another to determine wild card seedings.

As of week 12, five teams are tied with a 6-6 record, only four of the five will make the playoffs. With week 13 being the final regular season game, I do believe seven or more wins will guarantee a playoff spot. If you have only six wins after this week, you'll need a bit of luck on your side that the tie breakers fall in your favor.

Potentially there could be six teams with a 7-6 record. One team would be a division winner, the remaining five would be wild card teams. The good news is, there would be four teams with a 6-7 record or less who would make up the Beer Bowl. We don't live in a perfect world, so I don't expect it to be any easier when the playoff bracket is finalized.

On to the rankings....we have a new number one ranked team!

	RANK (prev)	TEAM	REC	COMMENT
	1 (3)	Dragons	7-5-0	The Dragons keep winning and are now the team to beat in the East. Dragons are also in the running for the Robert Conrad Award.
	2 (1)	Crippled Monkeys	6-6-0	It is what it is....tough week to face 'Buck Buck and Buck Buck again'. I wonder if that saying is still funny after week 12?
	3 (2)	Dynasty	6-6-0	A good week, just not enough to win. Should get it done next week and cruise into the playoffs.
	4 (5)	Thunder Choads	7-5-0	The win wasn't pretty, but the overall team health is good, the bench put up great numbers and this team should fair well going into the playoffs.
	5 (7)	Pimp Juice	6-6-0	Laurence Maroney, 87 yards, 2 TD's, lead the RB's in points scored in Week 12 for this team. I know, how can you sit LT and Gore?
	6 (4)	Grease Slappers	6-6-0	The up and down season for Grease continues and their starting to get dinged by injuries.
	7 (9)	Rutting Bucks	5-7-0	Their getting the job done between the starters scoring 127 and the bench that scored another 101 points. I wouldn't want to face this team when they are rolling.
	8 (6)	Stickboy	6-6-0	Stickboy's slide continues as he desperately needs Roethlisberger back in the line up for any chance of winning. Plus relying on Rock Cartwright to carry the running game isn't helping.
	9 (10)	One Angry Gook	6-6-0	Turned it around in week 12, but is in a bind for healthy players.
	10 (12)	Big Daddy	5-7-0	Living on a prayer....
	11 (8)	The Stud Stable	4-8-0	Couldn't overcome the injury to Ronnie Brown and will look to rebuild in 2010.
	12 (11)	Buckwheat	8-4-0	I've lost that lovin' feeling, Whoa, that lovin' feeling, I've lost that lovin' feeling, Now it's gone...gone...gone...wooooooh.