DFL 2013 Week 15: It's Post Season time!!

What would the average man on the street in Denver say if I were to tell him that Peyton "Gold Boy" Manning would do his best Tony Romo impression in week 15, and make pretty much the entire fantasy football playing world cry out in pain?  I bet that it would look a little something like this:

Yeah, that's how this week went.  Lots of close games and a bunch of upsets.  But before we get into that, let's take a look at the pick'ems!

It seems like now that there are less games, we've got more picks.  Half the league jumped into the pick'em pool this week.  Phil took top spot, with 3-1 and Skoot took bottom spot with 1-3. Everyone else... well they didn't figure on any upsets and went 2-2.  So, that means, with a scan 8 games left in the season, Crutch is *barely* hanging on with 51 correct picks, Phil and Ben are tied with 50 picks, and Skoot theoretically still has a shot with 47 picks.  Terri and Mike are slugging it out for 5th place.  She has 42 picks, and he has 41 picks.  It's really coming down to the wire for this one...

We'll start at the top of the deck and work our way down....

Ben vs Phil:  Part 2, Electric Boogaloo.
Yep, fates be damned, after eeking out a victory against Ben last week, Ben and I had to face off again this week.  (And had the game gone the other way in week 14, then we still would have faced off, as his seeding would have gone up one, and mine down one.)  So, Ben scored the second most points last week and lost.  This week, he scored the third most points and lost.  So, just for those of you keeping score out there, that means that Ben had the second most points in the league (by like 35 points), he barely snuck into the playoffs, and he was eliminated right off the bat by playing the team with the highest points in the week.  I just have one thing to say about that.  Tell 'em, Mal:

Yeah... there are no words.  I fully expect Ben to take Bitch of the Playoffs by having the worst possible opponents week to week.  You know, Ben, when you are the commish, you get to set the match ups week to week.  Maybe you should take a look into that position next year.  :)

Skoot vs McClennnen:  Upset of the year!
You know it, I know it.  Somehow McClennen got Reggie Bush to outscore Megatron and then some this week.  I have no Earthly idea what happened here. Now what you might not know is that Skoot and I were discussing the match ups the day before the matches were set.  I was super stoked because I thought that I was going to be facing McClennen, what with his sub-70 point projection.  So, what happened?  Well, pretty much the entirety of Skoot's team had their appendices burst simultaneously, leaving then far below point projections.  (I mean Brees being shut down in St Louis?  Johnson being pretty much shut out?  What other explanation could there be??)  Meanwhile, all of McClennen's players somehow turned it on just enough to rack up 3 more points than Skoot.  You know that's gotta hurt..  Well, congrats, McClennen.  Now, let's see if you can set your line up before Thursday.  I'm just sayin'...

One final note.  I got a quote from Skoot on how he thought that the game went:

Or, the more family-friently version:  Any given Sunday, man.  Any given Sunday...

Terri vs Mike:  The G Bowl.
This game wasn't nearly so tight...  20 point margin of victory and the scrappy underdog pulls it out in the end.  Well play, Mike G!  Who would have thought that Nick Foles would have outscored Peyton Manning by over 10 points?  With Terri playing Manning the greater and Mike playing the Defense against Manning the lesser, it was definitely not a game that Archie Manning would have wanted to bet on.  Nevertheless, here is a pic of the Manning boys from this weekend:

That sums it up nicely, doesn't it?

Finally, we look at Patrick vs Missy
This was hands down the tightest game of the week.  I hesitated to write this column, in fear that there may be a stat correction.  Doesn't look like there are any coming, so we'll call it Patrick beating Missy by a scant 1.6 points... But how can this be?  Over half of Patrick's starters scored less than 5 points.  And two more didn't hit double digits.  Oh, right.  That's because Patrick's got a standing deal with the devil to start players who got apeshit crazy out of nowhere.  I assume that y'all remember Patrick starting Brandon Marshall a few years ago when he scored 63 points on his own.  Well, it's happened again.  Jamaal Charles pulled in 43 by himself.  And to a lesser extent, Jennings also doubled expectations. So, if we ignore the KC @ Oakland game, Patrick got whooped thoroughly.

I'm out of funny relevant pics for the week. I hope that this suffices...

So, where does that leave us?  Well, first and foremost, this is the first semi-finals in a long time without a lady present.  (OK, excluding Patrick.  We all know that he identifies as a woman, but he still has to tuck, so technically, he's still a dude.)  Next up, is the semi finals.  Patrick versus Phil, and McClennen versus Mike G.  Yeah, and a consolation bracket, too  And they are fighting not to be bitch of the playoffs.  So, I guess worth a mention:  Ben versus Missy, and Skoot versus Terri (both were projected to win this week, so someone's gotta win next week.)

Good luck to everyone!  (Except Patrick.  We hate Patrick so very ... very much.)