Yep.. here we are again... a scant 2 weeks left in the regular season. 4 playoff spot left open. People hungry for the win... So, what happens? A *hell* of a lot of beat downs are issued. We had a 25 point difference in a game. Not the beat down of the week. There was a 40 point blow out. Not even close to the beat down of the week. Surely, the 50+ point savage beating that was laid down took home the beat down of the week. You'd think so, but it wasn't even runner up. An almost 60 point walloping took home the runner up for the beat down of the week. That's right... The almost impossible to handle 76.59 point difference was the winner of the beat down of the week. Congratulations to Ben for picking that up against Patrick this week.
But you know what was the most painful game of the week to watch? It was the game that ended with a scant 2 point difference. Melanie took home the victory against me with just a 2 point lead. And the shitty thing is that it came down to Jarvis Landry on Monday night. If he would have caught that last pass lobbed at him in the 4th quarter on MNF, then I would have walked into sweet, sweet victory...
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And the real kicker? That play also eliminated me from the playoffs
in my other league. |
Perhaps I'm getting a little ahead of myself. Let's look at perhaps the most boring pick'ems week of all time. Three people picked this week: Ben, Phil, and Mike. We all picked the same for all of the games, except for Mike's pick on the Skoot vs Terri game. Again, loyalty costs Mike a point. So, Ben and Phil went 5-1, and Mike went 4-2. (And not to beat a dead horse, but if Landry just freaking caught that pass, both Ben and I would have bingo'ed this week. They would be the first bingo in over 2 months!) So, Phil and Ben are still tied at the top, and Mike sneaks past RA Dave to land in 3rd place. That means that the race for 3rd place is only separated by 1 scant pick. Keep those picks coming, guys!
Now, on to the games. As noted above, we have some pretty severe beating this week, so we'll start from the highest beating and work our way down.
Ben vs. Patrick: Points Difference: 76.59. I don't know how many beat down of the weeks Ben has administered this year, but it's a freaking lot. The one week that Patrick convinces Stafford to wake up, and nobody else on his team hits 11 points. On the other hand, Ben only had 2 players not reach double digits. (And I mean well into the double digits.) This pretty much summed up the game:
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| And Patrick always *did* like Raiden. |
Mike vs McClennen: Points Difference: 57.28. Mike went off this week, which catapulted him into contention for the playoffs. This is Mike's second visit to the centurian club this year, and it could not have come at a better time. McClennen, on the other hand, just took the beating. But when you start the New England Defense against Green Bay in Lambeau in November... well, you get what you get.
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| (And this is what you get.) |
RA Dave vs Kookie: Point Difference: 43.03. Dave firmly kept his grip on third place this week, with no small amount of thanks going to DeAndre "How the fuck did Dave get lucky enough to start me" Hopkins bettering his projections by nearly 20 points. Plus, Brady (his early season trade) is still paying very high dividends. Kookie... just... ugh. Manning the lesser kept being lesser. Somehow Smith Sr got nearly shut out, Garcon had freaking nobody throwing to him... well, you get the idea.
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| Like this, but Dave didn't have to work quite so hard... |
Skoot vs Terri: Point Difference: 42.84. Well, Terri met expectations this week and just kept right on going... Kaepernick went way negative, and three other player didn't hit 3 points. I know that I always say that kickers win games, but when your kicker is your high scorer, just... Ouch. Skoot, on the other hand, continued to show unwaivering support for Jonas Grey, who certainly beat my expectations of 0 (With a stunning 0.27 points) this week. Well done, Skoot! Also, this match up featured perhaps my favorite smack talk of the season said "This is rediculous. I'm about to throw the turkey right through the TV." Topical and wonderful!
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| But the turkey would be OK... They can fly, right? |
Missy vs Crutch: Point Difference: 24.07. I really thought that Crutch had this game, when Jeffery and Charles combined early for 30+ points. Sadly, then the rest of the team conspired to keep his score low. 5 of his plays totaled less than 15 points. Missy, on the other hand did.... OK? Certainly just shy of 100 points is good, but Manning the greater was just OK. And a fifth of her points came from the smack that Buffalo laid on Cleveland. So, this wasn't so much a beating as a stepping aside and letting your opponent fall all over himself.
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| Oh, Santa! You completely symbolize this game! |
Melanie vs Phil: Point Difference: 2.13. This game was so close and it came down to the 4th quarter in Monday Night Football. Complete heart breaker to go out like this. I'm not sure which image to post to symbolize this game. It's either this:
Or this:
Either way: Dammit.
Now, what does this all mean for week 14, AKA the last week of the regular season? Well, it means that there are only 4 teams locked in to the playoffs: Missy, Ben, RA Dave (wow - nice come back, Dave!), and Phil. And the crummy thing is that we're all pretty much locked into the seeding where we are right now. (OK, if Phil beat RA Dave by more than 32 points, then the 3 and 4 seeds get shaken up a bit, but that would be one hell of a blow out and I don't think that'll happen.)
Then, there are 5 teams who are fighting for those last 4 slots. Skoot, Crutch, Melanie, Mike, and Kookie. Skoot and Crutch at sitting pretty at 6-7 and a pretty massing point lead. So, really, it's going to come down to Melanie (who could easily be knocked out of the playoffs due to a low overall points total), Mike (who has one last shot of killing Missy's unfeated season, not looking good though), and Kookie (who has a *real* uphill battle with going up against Ben AND having the lowest points total of the 5 fighting for a playoff berth - of course a win for Kookie and a loss for Mike will pop him into the playoffs).
Lastly, at 4-9, I'm pretty sure that McClennen, Patrick, and Terri have been well and truly eliminated from the race this year. Sorry guys! This week you're just playing for seeding in the draft next year. On the fun coincidence side, it looks like Terri and Patrick, who are the last two ranks in the league, have the same record and they will be playing each other. So, we do get a battle for last place this year. Yay!
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| Always fun to have a potty bowl at the end of the season... |
So, that's it! Set your line up and strap in, fellas! It's gonna be a photo finish for this last week in the regular season.
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