DFL 2017 Week 17: A New Winner is crowned and we all kinda scratch our heads...

Well, here we are.  17 week up, 17 weeks down.  some of us are happy, but most of us are pissed/displeased/disappointed.  But here we are.  And the winner is

 Yep, that's right, the winner it he who should not be named.  So, congrats, D!  Well done! One good video deserves another:

But before we get drunk on my newfound ability to link videos directly into the blog post, let's take care of some bidness.

If you know what I mean... and I just mean the nitty gritty.  Get your
heads out of the gutter!

Pick 'ems.  We were all over the place this week.  Terri went 4-0, while everyone else went 2-2.  Nobody lined up:

Why can nobody every vote for me?  Myself included....

So, that means that the final count looks like this:

Ben:  54 (Gold Medal)
Phil:  53 (Silver Medal)
Crutch:  40 (Bronze Medal)
Josh:  33
Mike:  30
Terri:  29
Patrick:  15

Of course, everyone below Crutch:

And just so that we have the official records all together... Here's the break down of the elimination league:

The winners here being:
Ben @ week 6 - Gold
Patrick @ week 6 - Gold
RA Dave @ Week 5 - Bronze
Mike @ Week 5 - Bronze
Terri @ Week 5 - Bronze
Marie @ Week 5 - Bronze
Josh @ Week 4
Phil @ Week 3
McClennen @ Week 3
Skoot @ Week 3
Crutch @ week 3
Kyle @ Week 2 (congratulations on Melanie'ing - though at least Melanie actually made picks.  Maybe going out on a no pick should henceforth be known as Kyling?)

Man, I had forgotten what a shit hole of a season this was, even for picks!  (As a general rule, we usually make it to week 8 or 9.  I think that the longest was week 11 one year.)

Yeah, this sums up the season pretty well!

And now the Biggie.  The league itself.  We can't even go one week without some drama to let's run it down:

Championship game.
As we talked about earlier, D took this one to the bank.  So, he is our new champion.  The shitty thing is that the reason the Crutch lost is because Big Ben was benched at the last minute.  Now, if Crutch happened to have noticed that AND played his  back up QB - wait.  WTF? You don't have a backup QB?  I mean, I understand wanting to keep Peterson on your bench, because he had a season ending injury in week 12 - wait no.  I don't get it.  WTF, Crutch?

3rd place game.
Ho-lee fucking hell.  this was an almost 90 point beatdown.  Josh had a stellar game, even with Janeane Garofalo as QB (who kicked some serious ass).  Ben, on the other hand, got bitten so hard by the week 17 bug that I don't know what to call it.  Ajayi didn't play, Kelce didn't play, Matthews didn't play.  Cam did play, but he really didn't.  I mean, it was uncanny how much his team shit the bed.

Don't let Bob fool you. It was terrible.

5th place game
This game... not much happened.  It was just a seeding for next year's draft.  Kyle pulled off the victory, so he gets 5th place.  Kerry lost by a solid 20 points, and there's just not much else to say about that.

Playoff Bitch Bowl.
Nobody wants to make it to the playoffs, only to lose every.  single.  game.  But that's just how things play out.  And that person gets to be playoff bitch.  This year, Patrick gets that honor.   It wasn't for lack of trying through.  Patrick had the highest scoring player in the match up, and a few other solid perrformances.  However, h also had a few goose eggs.  (Grink wasn't targeted and Phily was shut out, so his kicker didn't get much of  chance.)  But that means.. that Patrick is the Playoff Bitch.

OK, so here are the official, official standings:

1 - D (Gold)
2 - Crutch (Silver)
3 - Josh (Bronze)
4 - Ben (Nothing!!!)
5 - Kyle
6 - Kerri
7 - Phil
8 - Patrick (Playoff Bitch)
9 - Terri (Queen of the Losers)
10 - McClennen
11 - Mike
12 - Skoot (The memorial Kookie slot)

And just as a trip down memory lane, here's how Yahoo! Thought that we'd finish after the draft:

1 - Kyle
2 - Skoot (Woah.)
3 - Kerry
4 - Phil
5 - Patrick
6 - Crutch
7 - Josh
8 - Ben
9 - D
10 - Terri
11 - McClennen
12 - Mike

So, well done, Skoot, for lowering the bar!

And if you wanna see the two lists above in graph form, here's Yahoo!'s take on it:

Hope that helps...

Let's take a look at moves:
Josh:  35
Phil:  34
Kyle:  28
D:  14
Cruch:  14
Patrick: 13
Mike:  11
Kerry:  10
McClennen:  9
Terri:  8
Ben:  8
Skoot:  2

Fun fact about the waiver wire.  It looks like there were only 10 conflicts all year:

Also, it looks like Josh was the big winner there.  Screw that guy.

So, here's the draft order for next year:

1 - Skoot
2 - Mike
3 - McClennen (don't fucking autodraft, hoser)
4 - Terri
5 - Patrick
6 - Phil
7- Kerry
8 - Kyle
9 -Josh
10 - Ben
11 - Crutch
12 - D

(Of course, if people want to trade picks, lemme know.)

As a side note, I'm not going to be totalling the players into tables this year.  As it turns out, you can do that through Yahoo! for the previous 2 years through the "Players" tab.

OK, now some bookkeeping. Next year, we'll do the rules voting again, as is the tradition.

Please feel free to send along any rules changes that you want to have voted on and I'll add them here, so that we don't forget.  I'm scratching my head about this season as it was kind of a shit show across the board, but that might just have been all of the big names getting hurt.  So, off the top of my head:

1 - We need to pull back the defenses. Seems like they were pretty consistently the high scorers in a few games week to week.  Maybe take out the special teams? Maybe knock back the TDs?  I dunno.  They just seemed high....
2 - Maybe flex out one of the starting WRs?  Give us a little more options?
3 - (From Ben and I'm REALLY hesitant to implement this, but I'll throw it out there as food for thought.)  End the season at week 16, instead of week 17.  Ben brought up a point that he couldn't actually field a team because all of his players were hurt or being protected in week 17.  (And in all fairness, this is Ben bitching that his team was too good AND he had kept a player on IR on his bench all season.  So, I'm personally not feeling too much pity, but he did get beaten pretty badly.)

OK that should be about it.  Hell of a good season this year, chaps.  See y'all in August(-ish)!

DFL 2017 Week 16: Well, that happened...

OK... so let's just get this out of the way... this was not an impressive week. 

Let's just start off with the Pick'em league.  There was... 1 correct pick across the week.  That's... that's impressively bad. 

So, congrats to Crutch for going 1-3, while Ben and I both goose egged.  Which means that not much has changed with respect to the standings:

Ben:  52
Phil:  51
Crutch:  38
Josh:  33
Mike:  28
Terri:  25
Patrick:  15

(As a side note, for posterity's sake, this was Christmas week, so I know that I pretty much just picked blindly.  Maybe that accounts for everyone'e shitty performance this week?)

As for the games themselves... usually I work my way from the top scores all the way down to the lowest scores... Can't do that this week because both winners from the consolation bracket beat both in the championship bracket because... ugh....  OK, let's start at the champ bracket at least....

Crutch vs. Josh.  Do you hear that sound?  It's the sound of the 7th seed doing ANOTHER upset and this time delivering the beat down of the weak. All season, Josh has been relying on Dak and the Jacksonville D.  Sadly, this week, they both took the week off.  This left Crutch's solid (though by no means impressive team) get past them into the championship game...

D vs. Ben.  now, this was a close game!!!  And the whole weekend was neck and neck.  D pulled it out (barely) on Monday night, squeezing a victory with by less than a point.  Which, yeah,I guess is par for the course this year.  Hell, D even spotting Ben a WR!  (I got bitten by Crabtree being benched at the last minute in another league, though it didn't work out nearly as well for me...)  So, let's see if D can squeak by one more week to pull in the championship ring next week.

Kyle vs. Phil.  Kyle bounced back from his defeat last week by throwing down the most points of the week! I know that that sounds impressive, but it only totaled to 72 points.  Still, it was enough.  Sadly, it was against league favorite Phil.  I know, I know.  Back to back losses in the playoffs is never fun, but I lay the blame squarely on Nick Foles.  Last week, he had his way with the G-men. This week, he barely eeked out a victory against the Raiders.  And in doing so, he screwed me.  Dammit.  So, now, Kyle advanced for seeding of the draft next year, while Phil advances to the bitch bowl.

Kerry vs. Patrick.  Yeah, this might be the surprise of all surprises this week.  Patrick pulled in over 20 points with his D and another 11 with his TE.  Kerry, on the other hand goose egged with her TE, but still pulled in victory.  (Her D going 20+ points, RB almost as much and other RB hitting double digits didn't hurt much either.  So, in the surprise of all surprises, Patrick is heading to the bitch bowl too.  Good luck to Kerry with her seeding next week though!

OK, so that leaves three real games to watch next week:

D vs.Crutch in the championship.  This is both their first entry into the championship game - well done!  D is slightly favored at this point, but this week kinda proved that it doesn't mean anything.

Ben vs. Josh in the last ditch effort to pull in a medal this year.  Josh is heavily, heavily favored in here.  Good luck, guys!

Patrick vs. Phil in the bitch bowl.  Sucks to get into the playoffs and then lose three straight.  Thus becoming the playoff bitch.  Would suck extra for you to be a second seed and have that happen.  I'm just sayin'...

Of course, the real kicker is that it's week 17.  So any team with a late game who was on the husp of a playoff berth but the early games didn't shake out might just be benching players after all.  But maybe not?  Isn't week 17 fun?

DFL 2017 Week 15: Here comes the playoffs

Well, they playoffs are upon us and they are just kicking everyone in the nuts aren't they?

Ok, so technically, it's only kicking HALF of the people's nuts who played this week, and really that's only like two thirds of the league overall....  YOU'RE MISSING THE POINT!!  DON'T CONFUSE ME WITH YOUR MATH LEARNING!

Before the games, let's take a peek at the Pick'ems.  FFS, those even kicked people in the nuts.  The people in particular being Ben, Crutch, and myself, who all went 2-2. Which means that... we might have all of just not picked. 

On the plus side, Crutch does get a "YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!" award for not getting any votes, but still getting the win.  Congrats, you salty bastard!

Man, I've missed these...

Phil vs. Ben.  Motherfucker.  I was slated to win. I went into Sunday up THIRTY DAMN POINTS!!  And I could have won it all, should I have gone another way.  (I hemmed and hawed over putting Olsen in, but decided against it, which cost me the game.)  But really, this does kind of sum up my season.  Plus, I Ben'ed it this week, AGAINST Ben, which is frustrating. 

Well done, Ben. Enjoy your extra time in the playoffs, you jerk face.

Josh vs. Kerry.  Ugh... well, if this doesn't hurt, I don't know what does.Josh laid down the beat down of the week.  He was projected to do so, but the way that it went down was nothing less than spectacular.  In one of Josh's more restrained scoring outing, he scored the third highest points of the week, with no huge superstars to speak of.  Kerry, ont eh other hand just imploded like I've not seen before.  Wilson shit the bed (against the RAMS? Really?) Jackson, Henry, and Fournette were hurt early in the games,   And, again, the Seattle D was pummeled by the freaking Rams. 

Heck of a way to end your rookie season, Kerry.  Sorry to see it go down like that....

Crutch vs. Patrick.  Crutch went into this game as a 4 point underdog.  Yet somehow, he pulled out a win with 5 points to spare.  Both teams played well, it's just that Crutch somehow played a little better than Patrick.  The real kicker for Patrick is that his ace in the hole is Elliott who is coming back NEXT week.  Just in time for it not to matter..  Well done pulling the upset, Crutch.  Good luck.  You sure as hell are going to need it moving forward.

D vs Kyle.  Another upset!  This game was actually projected within a point, but id didn't quite get there.  Each team had their QB and a Flex player post decent numbers.  But D was able to take this one to the bank with his superior TE.  (Yay, Ertz!)  Everyone else on the field was just kinda ho-hum.  Crongrats to D for advancing to the  next round.  ( I do believe that this might be the farthest that he has ever gotten.  I don't want to jinx it, but congratulations, good sir!

So, that means that in the semi-final round, we have
Ben vs. D
Josh vs Crutch

And in the consolation bracket:
Phil vs. Kyle
Patrick vs. Kerry

Good luck, guys!  Only two games left!

DFL 2017 Week 14: What an end!!

I know that this is usually the part of the write up where I bitch and moan about how someone or something has wronged me.  And I know that all y'all have come to expect it in the normal rhythm of the wrap ups,but lemme just say this:  Holy fuck, boys!  What a great weekend for football!!

Me all day Sunday.

Full disclosure: I might be on a bit of a football high as this was the most football that I have seen pretty much all season.  I was sad that I had to go to my son's birthday party until I saw that there were TVs EVERYWHERE and they were all playing different NFL games.  It was pretty much wonderful. I mean, officially, I was keeping my eyes on my son.  But, unofficially:

Anyways, we had a blizzard game (yay lake effect snow!), TWO games that were decided in the 3rd OT drive by touch downs, the Panthers win, the Eagles win, the Sunday night game is decided by a single freaking point, and Oh yeah, the Pats lose on national television.  Let me put that another way:  Culter beat Brady on Monday night football.

Did not see that coming....  I mean, pretty much everything came up aces this weekend.

Wait.  Shit.  Nevermind....

Anyway, before we get into the nitty gritty details, let's just say goodbye to the teams that didn't  make the post season this year:

Terri - This one has to hurt since the second to last place team beat you this week, which knocked you out of the playoffs.  Salt in the wound?  It was her husband that did it.
McClennen - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Auto draft sucks.  But the fact that you only made 9 moves all year says that maybe auto draft wasn't the only problem....
Mike - It was over long before this week, but way to go out on a high note.  Thanks for kicking your wife out of the post season, so that I may advance to get utterly destroyed by Ben next week. 
Skoot- With a whopping 2 moves all season, Skoot stopped caring long ago.  Sorry, man.  Hey - at least you get a good draft position next year, huh?

Alright, let's get to it...  Pick 'ems!

Erm... League Pick'ems, that is.

So, I'll just say this right up front.  This season has been pretty freaking random and this was pretty much the perfect way to end it.  That is to say nobody being able to pick the winners.

High picks this week was Mike, who broke even at 3-3.  THen, Josh and Phil pulled in an astonishingly bad 2-4.  Finally, Crutch and Ben somehow stumbled into 1-5 picks.  So, yeah, everyone sucks.

This leaves us with the regular season picks 'em like this:

Ben:  50
Phil:  49
Crutch:  35
Josh:  33
Mike:  28
Terri:  25
Patrick:  15

So, congratulations to Mike for finally pulling ahead of Terri.  Josh - so close to medalling..  And screw Ben.  I was actually going back and forth in my head thinking whether to choose Ben's opponent, since I knew that he chose himself.  Shoulda.  Didn't.  And that means that Ben wins the regular season pick'ems.  And for those keeping track, this means that Ben might just get the perfect trifecta:  Survival (already tied Patrick for the win), Pick 'ems (won the regular season outright), and the League itself (1st seed and going strong).  So.. good luck, Ben?

And now for the shit show that was the actual games this week.  Fun side note:  All 4 of the top teams took losses this week.  So, way to go underdogs!

Phil vs. Patrick.  I did not see this coming.  OK I guess that I did vote for it, but I was not expecting my team to have the highest score of the week AND deliver the beat down of the week.  the good news is that Wentz put in a solid performance, before being knocked out for the season...  But hey, Rodgers should be coming back next week, right?  RIGHT???  The good news for Phil is that this win sneaks him into the playoffs.  The bad news for Patrick is... actually there is none.  This game didn't change anything for him.  So, everyone's a winner!

McClennen vs Josh.  Again, another huge upset.  See McClennen?  This is how it feels when your team actually plays. What really hurts for Josh (and thank you for pointing this out, Josh) is that Josh only lost by 6 points here.  The problem is - you remember how both OT games which were decided by a TD?  Well, the players that scored said touchdowns were both on McClennen's team. 

Pictured above:  Josh reacts to his shitty luck.

D vs Kerry.  This is probably the game that meant most (outside of Phil desperately trying to get into the playoffs).  They were ranked 5th and 6th.  So, they were fighting to play the 4th seed (which, in this case, is Kyle who is the only non-points scored powerhouse among the top seeds).  D wound up pulling an upset and winning the game, mostly thanks to Williams and Thomas.  No thanks go to Ertz, who was benched at the last minute due to a concussion.  Kerry, who is still holding onto Cutler, just couldn't get her starters to, you know, start.

Kerry's whole team this week.

Crutch vs. Ben.  Now, normally I'm all on board with Ben losing.  The shitty thing this week is that Ben losing here *almost* kept me from the post season.  And I would have accused Ben of taking a dive just to spite me (because that's the kind of guy that he is), but really his whole team, even his bench just didn't show up.  I mean, by far, his highest scorer was his kicker. Crutch just had a really solid game.  (Side note: Dammit, Crutch where are you getting all of these high scoring TEs??  I can't find one to save my life!!!)  Nothing more to say on this one...

Skoot vs. Kyle.  Man, Skoot really shit the bed here.  QB goes negative, kicker barely gets on the board, defense just doesn't take the field.  Luckily for Skoot, Bell and Gurley were more than happy to pick up everyone else's slack.  Those two players pulled in almost all of Skoot's points.  Kyle, on the other hand, just couldn't get any of his starters going.  Not much to do here, except lick your wounds going into the play offs, Kyle. 

Nobody fucks with da Kyle.

Mike vs. Terri  This one didn't really mean much to Mike.  IT means a hell of a lot to Terri.  Sadly, Mike was able to wrestle this game away form Terri for the best reason of all: spite.  The big winner i the game was really Denver's D who shut out the Jets.  Outside of that, everything was pretty low scoring on both sides.  So, enjoy your time off for the next few weeks, Gs!

And that's about it!  Playoff are upon us and here's the match ups:

Ben (1) vs Phil (8)
Patrick (2) vs Crutch (7)
Josh (3) vs Kerry (6)
Kyle (4) vs D (5)

And fun side note on the playoffs: All 3 new teams (Kerry, Josh, and Kyle) made it into the playoffs.  Well done, all!

DFL 2017 Week 13: Ugh.. the pain.. it doesn't stop.

Well.. it's been a week.  A week that's seen 4 more teams lock down their playoff berth.  And in case you're wondering, no one of them wasn't me.

Ugh... but congratulations to Ben, Patrick, Josh, Kyle, Kerry, and D. They are all now guaranteed a post season. That leaves two spots open and three teams vying for them: Terri, Crutch, and Phil.  Terri and Crutch have more wins, but Phil's got more points.  So, all that Phil needs to do to sneak into the playoffs is to beat the competition this week.  And that competition would be the overall second ranked and second highest points total overall.  Well, then.....

ffffuuudge....

Pick 'ems!   Well, full picks this week.  Josh came out on top with 4-2, followed by Ben, Mike, and Terri pulling in 3-3.  Crutch limped along at 2-4.  Sadly, that wasn't the worst performance this week.  Phil tanked with an abysmal 1-5.  And that means that we have a new leader:

Ben:  49
Phil:  47
Crutch: 34
Josh:  31
Mike:  25
Terri:  25
Patrick:  15

 Lots of upsets this week and that just means that we've got a pretty dynamic game on our hands where anyone ... can... goddammit, Ben.  I mean, this is like your anti-minor all over again.  You make bullshit picks at the beginning of the season and somehow you bullshit your way to the top.

Complete side note here... did you know how awesome the ASL sign for bullshit is?

Cuz now you do.

All that being said, let chat on these games, shall we?

Ben vs. McClennen.  Holy fuck shit, Batman!  Ben broke into the centurian club here and delivered the beat down of the week.  Every freaking body on Ben's team was firing on all cylinders.  Ben's lowest scorer still beat most of McClennen's players.  This is kinda how this game felt:

While this was a meaningless game for Ben (he's long since locked down the 1st seed), it killed any of McClennen's post season dreams....

Josh vs. Skoot.  Again, pretty much everyone that Josh started was kicking all sorts of ass.  (Though, sadly, he was still 20 points lower than Ben in overall points this week.)  And Skoot.... well at least he put in most of his starters.  Most of them.  I mean, not starting Bell for the last 6 weeks was a bold choice, but good for Skoot for actually putting him in this week.  But Josh took it in typical, understated fashion:

Crutch vs. D.  Well, this sure was an interesting game...  D lost, but still secured a playoff berth.  Crutch won, and is fighting for the post season.  Also, the fact that the Miami D put up damn near 40 points for Crutch didn't hurt any either.  You've kinda got to feel for D, though.  He's got pretty much the streakiest team in the league.  Cousins is either crazy hot or terrible, last week Jones had a 30 point game, this week?  2 catches.  Well, get it out of your system now, I suppose, D.  And Crutch, savor the win while you can.  You're gonna need all of the help that you can muster to get into the playoffs...

What?  This was the first GIS hit for "savory".

Kyle vs. Patrick  Well, if this isn't a big old cup of what the hell happened?  Sure, Kyle put up a decent score here, but Patrick just shit the bed this week.  And what is going to make it hurt even more is that Gronk is suspended (at least for now) for 1 week.  So, his bench is going to be getting even more crowded.  Also, side note.  Kyle is still crazy Pat heavy.  So, the fact that he was somehow able to squirrel a win out of this  game when Tom Brady didn't see the end zone even once is nothing less than astonishing.

Kerry vs. Mike.  Well, Kerry hit line up Nirvana, while Mike..... Mike really REALLY didn't....  Mike almost scored as many points on his bench as he did with his starters.  Not much else to say about this one...

 Terri vs. Phil.  Last, and certainly least, Terri whooped on Phil this week.  So, that means that I'm ending the season as badly as I started it.  (Back to Back wins against the Gs at the front, and back to back losses against the Gs now.)  No huge stories in this game.  Terri's players just sucked a little less than my players.

Alright folks.  As mentioned above, it's do or die for 3 of us.  Seeding, time for 5 of us, 3 of us have already checked out.  And fuck Ben.  So, good luck this week!  I sure as hell know that I'm going to need it.

DFL 2017 Week 12: Where's all the Playoff Berths?

Well, we're in week 12 and you know what that means.  With only two more weeks of regular season, the playoff race is shaping up nicely... Wait. What the hell?  Where are all of the play off clinches?  (Side note:  Congratulations to me for starting off this blog post with 5 sentences starting with the letter W. Rah!  Anyways...)

I mean, holy cow.  Is the league really that tight?  As a matter of fact, we are that tight this year.  There lies a scant 2 games between 3rd and 9th place.  So, that means that there is still a bit of a fight not only for playoff berths, but also seeding.  Cuz let's be honest.  This is what the first round is going to look like for whatever unlucky sod happens to sneak in in 8th place:

We can only hope that it's Kerry who pulls 8th seed so that she can
do here black magic and make Ben lose again...

I'm not going to make wild guesses about what's going to happen in the next few weeks though.  So, let's get to pick'ems!

Ben and Crutch both kicked some serious ass this week going 5-1.  Mike and Terri were on the same wavelength going 4-2, and Phil clocked in with a sad 3-3.  That means that we've got some ties.  Ben is now tied with Phil for first place, and the Gs remained locked in 5th place together.  This is how it currently stands:

Phil:  46

Ben:  46 (boo!)

Crutch:  32

Josh:  27

Mike:  22

Terri:  22

Patrick:  15

So, it looks like this is going to come down to it again.  Good luck, everyone.  Except Ben, obvs.

Ben.  BEN.

Let's put that particular bullshit behind us and move on to the games...

Patrick vs. Josh.  Josh came into this one hungry.  If he could pull a win and lay a significant beating on Patrick, Josh would climb past Patrick to second place.  But this was not to be, as Patrick chalked up the most points in the league this week.  Also, this win puts Patrick at the top of the league for Points Scored throughout the season.  Also, fun side note:  Patrick hit line up Nirvana this week.  Josh's team did admirably, except for poor Dak.  This is the second week in a row that he went negative.  It wasn't quite as epic of a meltdown as last week, but still not good.  I'm not saying that Zeke's suspension is hitting Josh hard, but this is how I found him this morning:

Kyle vs. Terri.  Man, when Kyle is hot, he's HOT!  Brady kicking ass, NE Def (finally) kicking ass, Jones Jr kicking ass, Lunch kicking ass.  That's not to say that Terri rolled over her.  4 solidly double digit performances clocked in on Terry's starters AND almost 50 points were left on the bench between two players.  This is the sort of game that you wanna see.  Not a lot of lame ducks, just a lot of good performances on both sides.   Congrats, Kyle, and tough break, Terri...

D vs. McClennen.  Well, somehow D managed to pull of a very decisive win, even with starting Cousins (who sucks) and Crabtree (who was both booted and suspended for fighting).  But when Jones and Ertz almost outscore the competition on their own, it's gonna be a good time.....  Enjoy it while it lasts, D.  You're crushing it!

Kerry vs. Crutch.  This was another pretty tight game and Kerry managed to beat expectations and pull in a W.   A big game too....  Kerry jumped up to 6th place and Crutch was pushed out to 9th place.  Also known as "So close, but not quite close enough for the post season."  Keep kicking ass, Kerry.. this might just be your year.

Mike vs. Phil.  I know, I know. This was supposed to be a big rematch.  We were going to do as much smack talking as we did in week 1.  Sadly, both of our teams have just been beaten to hell and back, and I think that Mike and just didn't have enough bravado to cover up our shit shows of teams.  So, not a lot of smack here.  Though I will say that it did come down to Monday night, which was nice.  Hopkins needed a scant 9 and change points on Monday night to pull in the second W for ol' Phil.  It just wasn't meant to be as Mike one this match up by 0.68 points.  Ugh.  Hurt then, hurts now.

Ben vs. Skoot.  I can't even for this one....

A chink finally appears in Ben's armor, but somehow he manages to reverse Ben it.  I mean, second lowest points in the week and he manages to play the worst points in the week.  Fucking hell, Skoot.  You had TWO players who were clearly out.  

You're killing me here!!!

Ugh... OK.  So, two more weeks in the regular season.  Y'all know what to do.