Playoffs

By: Thomas Davis

A Few Quick Notes as we begin the Playoffs

It was a crazy week 13 with everyone involved in some way and everyone having to pay attention to Monday Night Football because apparently 191 games is not enough to decide our seeding.  Our reigning champion, the only two time champion in PP History, All Fired Up sweated it out and survived as an 8 seed. Unless there is a scoring correction, I lucked into a playoff spot thanks to Chuck Pagano not wanting to embarrass the Jets even more. Center of Attention is the hottest team in the league! Congratulations to Hailmary to the Kings on winning the regular season title.  They won $400. You guys were one of the two best teams all season long and both teams battled to the very end to decide who would take home the crown. The Trojans fell 10.5 points shy of winning the title.  

As we start the playoffs there are a couple of reminders I would like to bring to everyone’s attention.

• A Stat Correction can happen through the following Saturday, and ESPN does that automatically.  With the closeness of some matchups, it really is not finalized and anything can happen. Please do not get angry or blame anyone (other than Chuck Pagano).

• Our rules do not prevent eliminated teams from utilizing FAAB to acquire players. They still have consolation matchups. However, I will take a screen shot of the remaining FAAB after week 16 has been completed.  All teams will be able to roll over their remaining budget and add it to next year’s money per the league rules.

• Keeper Rosters have been locked.  If you would like to see where players were drafted, the Google Draft Board is still available. You can see all of the transactions involving a certain player on the ESPN Site to ensure he was not dropped.

• In the past ESPN has not reseeded teams like Yahoo does. It has been a straight bracket, so if there is an upset in round 1, do not expect the playoffs to be reseeded.

• ESPN has the Murphy bracket set up as 9 vs 10 and 11 vs 12.  This is how they do it so we will continue to operate in this manner.

• Prizes-1200 for Playoff Champion, 200 for runner, 3rd place gets the money in the bank, and the winner of the consolation brackets gets the choice of picks between 2 and 11.

Playoff Matchups

Hailmary to the Kings vs All Fired Up

The Trojans vs Vonteego Cross

The Romosexuals vs No Bobby No

The Monstars vs Team DTA

Murphy Matchups

Team GFY vs The Rookie

Center of Attention vs Mean Machine Child Beaters

On a personal note, this weekend and especially last night was why this league is great.  We argue about RULES and other senseless crap, but the members of this league are fantastic.  Multiple league members stayed up watching an absolutely garbage game, being in the group chat until the very last whistle, because they enjoy this league and genuinely like most of its members. I do genuinely feel bad for Gambs and Sarno, but I want to thank all of you for riding out the crazy last 13 weeks with me.