DFL 2015 Week 17 (and a summary of a bunch of other weeks): We have a winner!

Hello?  Hello? Is this thing on?  How do I use this bloggy thing again?

As some of you might know, I had a house fire between week 3 and 4 this year. So, my updates have pretty much dried up.  Was the fire a plot by my family to get me to spend more with them?

Surely not... right?

Well, I have been slacking off long enough and I figured that I owed you guys (and "gals") at least one more blog posting.  So, strap in... this is going to be a long one. Lots to get through in this post.

Let's start with an easy one: Elimination League.  This lasted surprising long this year.  Week 7 was particularly nasty in that it booted 4 players (Patrick and Skoot bravely didn't make picks and Marie (remember Marie, y'all?) and RA Dave took a strike when they picked Buffalo. Granted, the Bills were playing the God awful Jaguars that week, so it seemed to be kind of a gimme.  The important lesson to learn here is that you should never count on the Buffalo Bills.  For *ANYTHING*.

Especially not this guy.

However, the elimination league didn't finish off until Week 11, with Ben and Terri slugging it out.  Ben had somehow not picked Seattle yet and was able to pull in the gold, as Terri picked Philadelphia.  In her defense though, da Iggles have really had two team this year:  "completely dominant" and "girl scouts". So, I appreciate the faith, Terri, no matter how unfounded it was.

Firing the head coach in a rebuilding year will fix everything, right? RIGHT???

So, congratulations to Ben for adding to his trophy case, and terribly sorry to Terri in her first elimination league.  There's no consolation prize.  You're either first or last in this game.

Copyright pending.

Let's see... how about we turn towards the pick'ems.  I have to tell you, this is kinda exciting... I haven't actually looked at this since week 3.  And the winner is ... Scott.  Geez that was kinda anti-climactic. After not picking the first week and not picking the last THREE weeks, Scott finished the pick'ems season with 40 points.  The only other person even close is RA Dave with 36 points.  Way, WAY back is Terri and Mike with 22 points.  So, officially:

Pick 'ems:
Gold:  Skoot
Silver:  RA Dave
Bronze: Terri
Bronze:  Mike

Man, only 1 bingo all year and that goes to RA Dave, in week .  Well done, sir.
(As a side note, we usually have somewhere in the neighborhood of 60-70 points for the winner of the pick 'em league.)

 And now, the big cheese.  Y'all ready?  Cuz there's some catching up to do.  First, we'll look at those who were smart enough to exit the league before Christmas, thus saving them that much more time before the holidays:

9th place (Queen of the Losers):  Terri (who *barely* missed the play offs by a scant 15 points!)
10th place:  Missy (woah!!  What happened here?)
11th place:  Kookie (Is anyone really surprised at this point?)
12th place:  Crutch (Even with a 1-13 record, still not the worst team that has ever played in this league. Still Kookie.)

So, well done, folks!  You've secured yourself a nice draft pick next year.

And now we come to the playoffs.... And by now, I'm betting that everyone already knows how that turned out.  Spoiler Alert :  Not well.  If I can sum up the play offs in a single gif:

Here's the final standings:
1st place (Gold):  RA Dave
2nd place (Silver):  Skoot
3rd place (Bronze):  McClennen
4th place (Robbed):  Phil
5th place:Melanie
6th place: Ben
7th place: Patrick
8th place (Playoff Bitch): Mike

There's a lot going on here, but a few gold nuggets:

• The romantic in me wants to believe that Mike tanked so the he could be right next to his wife in the standings.  The realist in me knows who he had on his team and knows that the title is probably well deserved.
• RA Dave was the 8th seed going into the playoffs and won the whole enchilada.  This is the first time in DFL history that this has happened! Congrats, Dave!  He also did it with his QB almost going into negative double digits.
• Skoot was the other team in the championship game.  I'll let Ben sum up Skoot's performance:  
  
• I decided to research the matter and it turns out that Ben is correct.  The previous record holder for the lowest score ever in the league was McClennen** back in 2013 with a whopping 33.27 points.  Skoot, never one to shy away from a challenge came up with an impressive 27.19 points.  In the championship game.  And I think that is just .... well, tell 'em James: 

Makes me giggle every. single. time.

• What else, what else? Oh.. that's right... the buggering that I got from defenses during the playoffs.  In weeks 16-17, the defenses for my opponents combined for a total of over 50 points.  Why do I bring this up? Because though it hurt, it lends credence to my saying that Defenses win games.  I'm just sayin'...

(** Side note:  Crutch actually had a few 28 point games this year, but I'm not really counting them since Crutch wasn't keeping his eye on the league this year.)

OK I think that wraps up the playoffs pretty well.  So, here's some stuff.

Draft order for 2016:

1. Crutch
2. Kookie
3. Missy
4. Terri
5. Mike
6. Patrick
7. Ben
8. Melanie
9. Phil
10. McClennen
11. Skoot
12. RA Dave

Best regular season record: Patrick (12-2-0)

Worst regular season record:  Crutch (1-13-0)

Most points scored:  Melanie (1133.07)

Least points scored:  Crutch (657.81)

Most points scored against:  Crutch (1077.92)

Lest points scored against: Skoot (854.36)

Most Moves:  Phil (27)

Least Moves:  Crutch (1 - though Melanie does get an honorable mention, as she only had 3)

Longest Win Streak:  Patrick (6 games)

Longest Lose Streak:  Crutch (9 games)

Only person to lose to Crutch this year:  Missy (come on, now!)

Here was the draft order for 2015, along with the ranking that Yahoo! gave us immediately after the draft:

1. Terri (A)
2. McClennen (B)
3. Kookie (B)
4. Patrick (B-)
5. Mike (C+)
6. Melanie (C+)
7. Crutch (B+)
8. Skoot ()
9. RA Dave (B)
10. Phil (B)
11. Missy (C)
12. Ben (B)

As always... no correlation whatsoever to the end game.

And here are the offensive stats for the year:

Offense	Fan Pts	Proj	Actual	Inc	Pass Yds	Pass TD	Int	Sack	Att*	Rush Yds	Rush TD	Tgt*	Rec	Red Yds	Rec TD	Rec TD	2PT	Fumbles
Cam Newton	327.43	73	1	199	3837	35	10	33	132	636	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Tom Brady	280.52	69	2	222	4770	36	7	38	34	53	3	1	1	36	0	0	0	2
Russell Wilson	265.07	33	3	154	4024	34	8	45	103	553	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Carson Palmer	263.88	114	5	195	4671	35	11	25	25	24	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Kirk Cousins	244.95	188	9	164	4166	29	11	26	26	48	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	3
Drew Brees	243.78	36	6	199	4870	32	11	31	24	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Eli Manning	238.87	60	12	231	4436	35	14	27	20	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Ryan Fitzpatrick	237.93	191	13	227	3905	31	15	19	60	270	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Blake Bortles	233.27	168	4	251	4428	35	18	51	52	310	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	5
Aaron Rodgers	225.96	21	8	225	3821	31	8	46	58	344	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	4
Matthew Stafford	222.01	85	11	194	4262	32	13	44	44	159	1	1	1	-6	0	0	0	2
Derek Carr	217.58	154	20	223	3987	32	13	31	33	138	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Devonta Freeman	210.02	101	10	0	0	0	0	0	265	1056	11	97	73	578	3	0	0	2
Antonio Brown	208.23	6	7	0	0	0	0	1	3	28	0	193	136	1834	10	1	2	2
New Andy Dalton	207.62	135	30	131	3250	25	7	20	57	142	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Philip Rivers	207.27	99	15	224	4792	29	13	40	17	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Jameis Winston	201.95	148	18	223	4042	22	15	27	54	213	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Tyrod Taylor	196.6	186	24	138	3035	20	6	36	104	568	4	1	1	4	0	0	1	1
Julio Jones	194.84	11	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	203	136	1871	8	0	0	1
Brandon Marshall	194.58	50	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	173	109	1502	14	0	0	2
DeAndre Hopkins	184.34	28	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	192	111	1521	11	0	1	0
Odell Beckham Jr.	184.2	9	21	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	158	96	1450	13	0	0	0
New Adrian Peterson	182.88	1	16	0	0	0	0	0	327	1485	11	36	30	222	0	0	0	3
Alex Smith	181.05	165	23	163	3486	20	7	45	84	498	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Allen Robinson	180	64	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	151	80	1400	14	0	0	0
Ben Roethlisberger	175.26	43	35	150	3938	21	16	20	15	29	0	0	0	-3	0	0	8	0
Ryan Tannehill	170.16	77	25	223	4208	24	12	45	32	141	1	1	1	9	0	0	1	3
Doug Baldwin	165.76	144	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	103	78	1069	14	0	0	0
Jay Cutler	160.68	130	37	172	3659	21	11	29	38	201	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	5
New DeAngelo Williams	159.15	184	28	0	0	0	0	0	200	907	11	47	40	367	0	0	1	2
Lamar Miller	155.51	27	34	0	0	0	0	0	194	872	8	57	47	397	2	0	0	1
Matt Ryan	154.28	54	31	207	4591	21	16	30	36	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5
Larry Fitzgerald	153.1	79	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	145	109	1215	9	0	0	2
A.J. Green	152.88	18	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	132	86	1297	10	0	0	1
Doug Martin	152.81	62	27	0	0	0	0	0	288	1402	6	44	33	271	1	0	0	5
Eric Decker	151.08	72	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	132	80	1027	12	0	0	1
David Johnson	151.01	146	36	0	0	0	0	0	125	581	8	57	36	457	4	1	0	1
Todd Gurley	149.75	66	33	0	0	0	0	0	229	1106	10	26	21	188	0	0	0	1
Rob Gronkowski	149.04	8	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	120	72	1176	11	0	0	0
Jarvis Landry	147.04	71	48	0	9	0	0	0	18	113	1	166	110	1157	4	1	1	0
Danny Woodhead	146.6	119	50	0	0	0	0	0	98	336	3	106	80	755	6	0	0	0
New Calvin Johnson	144.56	15	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	149	88	1214	9	0	0	1
Jordan Reed	143.58	133	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	114	87	952	11	0	0	2
Marcus Mariota	143.39	134	53	140	2818	19	10	38	34	252	2	1	1	41	1	0	3	6
Brandin Cooks	142.72	30	45	0	0	0	0	0	8	18	0	129	84	1138	9	0	0	0
Matt Forte	139.43	16	44	0	0	0	0	0	218	898	4	58	44	389	3	0	1	1
Chris Ivory	139.01	52	42	0	0	0	0	0	247	1070	7	37	30	217	1	0	0	2
Demaryius Thomas	136.66	10	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	177	105	1304	6	0	0	2
Gary Barnidge	135.22	185	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	125	79	1043	9	0	0	0
Latavius Murray	134.85	29	49	0	0	0	0	0	266	1066	6	53	41	232	0	0	0	1
Michael Crabtree	133.38	159	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	146	85	922	9	0	0	0
New Jeremy Maclin	132.95	67	57	0	0	0	0	1	3	14	0	124	87	1088	8	0	0	1
Jeremy Hill	131.59	12	59	0	0	0	0	0	223	794	11	19	15	79	1	0	1	3
Allen Hurns	131.24	166	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	105	64	1031	10	0	0	1
Delanie Walker	130.92	95	47	0	0	0	0	0	1	36	0	133	94	1088	6	0	1	0
Tavon Austin	129.85	194	64	0	0	0	0	0	52	434	4	87	52	473	5	1	0	2
Sam Bradford	129.13	102	63	186	3725	19	14	28	26	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Tyler Eifert	128.6	105	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	74	52	615	13	0	0	0
No new sMark Ingram	128.47	32	60	0	0	0	0	0	166	769	6	60	50	405	0	0	1	1
Jordan Matthews	128.38	24	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	128	85	997	8	0	0	1
Frank Gore	128.15	31	54	0	0	0	0	0	260	967	6	58	34	267	1	0	0	3
Sammy Watkins	125.95	70	55	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	96	60	1047	9	0	0	0
Brian Hoyer	124.58	240	108	145	2606	19	7	25	15	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Greg Olsen	122.66	48	46	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	124	77	1104	7	0	0	1
DeMarco Murray	119.68	14	73	0	0	0	0	0	193	702	6	55	44	322	1	0	0	2
Darren McFadden	119.62	139	58	1	0	0	0	0	239	1089	3	53	40	328	0	0	1	3
Randall Cobb	117.99	20	81	0	0	0	0	0	13	50	0	129	79	829	6	0	0	0
Emmanuel Sanders	117.33	39	62	0	0	0	0	0	3	29	0	137	76	1135	6	0	0	2
Joe Flacco	116.61	124	105	147	2791	14	12	16	13	23	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Jonathan Stewart	115.89	47	65	0	0	0	0	0	242	989	6	21	16	99	1	0	0	2
Ted Ginn Jr.	115.56	190	74	0	0	0	0	0	4	60	0	96	44	739	10	0	0	0
LeSean McCoy	115.35	23	66	0	0	0	0	0	203	895	3	50	32	292	2	0	1	2
Golden Tate	114.25	53	95	0	0	0	0	0	6	41	0	128	90	813	6	0	0	1
John Brown	114.09	82	69	0	0	0	0	0	3	22	0	101	65	1003	7	0	0	1
Teddy Bridgewater	114.08	103	61	155	3231	14	9	44	44	192	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	3
Ronnie Hillman	113.97	156	75	0	0	0	0	0	207	863	7	35	24	111	0	0	0	1
Amari Cooper	112.6	55	72	0	0	0	0	0	3	-3	0	130	72	1070	6	0	0	1
James Jones	112.6	197	71	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	99	50	890	8	0	2	0
T.Y. Hilton	109.46	26	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	134	69	1124	5	0	0	0
Rueben Randle	108.38	138	84	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	90	57	797	8	0	0	0
Travis Benjamin	105.44	204	82	0	0	0	0	0	4	12	0	125	68	966	5	1	0	2
Giovani Bernard	104.05	81	80	0	0	0	0	0	154	730	2	66	49	472	0	0	0	0
Benjamin Watson	104	173	79	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	110	74	825	6	0	0	1
Rashad Jennings	103.87	74	77	0	0	0	0	0	195	863	3	40	29	296	1	0	0	2
Kamar Aiken	103.26	210	88	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	127	75	944	5	0	0	1
Charles Sims	103.21	160	83	0	0	0	0	0	107	529	0	70	51	561	4	0	0	2
Pierre Garcon	103.08	87	104	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	111	72	777	6	0	0	0
Jeremy Langford	101.96	205	86	0	0	0	0	0	148	537	6	42	22	279	1	0	1	0
James Starks	101.25	217	87	0	0	0	0	0	148	601	2	53	43	392	3	0	0	3
Mike Evans	101.24	25	76	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	148	74	1206	3	0	0	1
Travis Kelce	101	49	78	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	103	72	875	5	0	2	2
Darren Sproles	100.15	170	118	0	0	0	0	0	83	317	3	83	55	388	1	2	0	0
Richard Rodgers	100.13	208	92	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	0	85	58	510	8	0	1	0
Julian Edelman	99.71	57	110	0	0	0	0	0	3	23	0	88	61	692	7	0	0	1
Tyler Lockett	99.39	222	102	0	0	0	0	0	5	20	0	69	51	664	6	2	0	1
Martavis Bryant	98.07	100	91	0	0	0	0	0	5	37	1	92	50	765	6	0	0	1
Andrew Luck	97.99	17	174	131	1881	15	12	15	33	196	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Donte Moncrief	97.32	175	112	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	105	64	733	6	0	0	0
T.J. Yeldon	96.49	56	94	0	0	0	0	0	182	740	2	46	36	279	1	0	0	0
Michael Floyd	95.96	117	89	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	89	52	849	6	0	0	0

Kicker Stats:

Kickers	Fan Pts	Proj	Actual	0-19	20-29	30-39	40-49	50+	0-19 Miss	20-29 Miss	Made PAT	Miss PAT
Stephen Gostkowski	171	200	85	0	6	11	12	4	0	0	52	0
Graham Gano	151	206	96	1	10	4	13	2	0	0	56	3
Justin Tucker	146	230	128	0	10	9	10	4	0	0	29	0
Josh Brown	144	225	122	1	6	12	8	3	0	0	44	1
Robbie Gould	144	224	121	1	8	10	7	7	0	0	28	1
Cairo Santos	137.08	227	126	0	7	10	9	4	0	1	39	2
Blair Walsh	137	220	113	0	9	13	6	6	0	0	33	4
Brandon McManus	136	236	141	0	12	8	5	5	0	0	35	1
Dan Bailey	131	253	161	0	9	10	6	5	0	0	25	0
Steven Hauschka	130	229	127	0	9	7	7	6	0	0	40	4
Mike Nugent	127	252	160	0	6	5	10	2	0	0	48	1
Mason Crosby	124	264	180	1	7	4	8	4	0	0	36	0
Chandler Catanzaro	123	234	134	1	12	9	6	0	0	0	53	5
Chris Boswell	122	202	173	1	9	8	9	2	0	0	26	1
Dustin Hopkins	121	248	176	0	7	9	7	2	0	0	39	1
Sebastian Janikowski	110	295	212	0	7	5	5	4	0	0	38	1
Adam Vinatieri	110	266	186	0	7	6	8	4	0	1	32	3
Josh Lambo	109	261	177	0	4	7	11	4	0	0	28	4
Matt Prater	106	282	203	0	3	8	6	5	0	0	36	3
Travis Coons	105	298	215	0	11	10	7	0	0	0	22	2
Phil Dawson	99	1873	237	0	9	6	6	3	0	1	20	1
Connor Barth	99	1999	241	0	9	8	3	3	0	0	25	1
Jason Myers	92	269	188	0	9	8	6	3	0	2	32	7
Dan Carpenter	92	290	208	0	5	8	7	3	0	0	34	6
Caleb Sturgis	89	274	265	0	4	8	4	2	0	0	35	2

And the Def:

Defense/Special Teams	Fan Pts	Proj	Actual	Pts vs.*	Sack	Safe	Int	Fum Rec	TD	Blk Kick	Yds	TD
Arizona	177.65	198	115	307	36	2	19	14	6	0	1059	1
Pittsburgh	147.53	218	154	319	48	0	17	13	2	2	932	1
San Diego	76.12	2056	2468	366	32	0	11	9	1	0	667	0
Philadelphia	125.8	241	206	412	37	1	15	11	5	1	1008	2
New York	118.88	271	251	302	39	0	18	12	0	0	1193	0
New Orleans	64.67	2062	2474	464	31	0	9	13	2	3	880	1
New York	120.3	268	246	424	23	1	15	13	4	3	1338	2
San Francisco	67.32	2342	2550	371	28	0	9	3	1	4	1219	0
Seattle	170.97	140	125	263	37	0	14	9	3	0	1318	2
Baltimore	103.78	1865	1975	371	37	0	6	8	3	5	1307	1
Houston	149.45	179	146	295	45	0	14	11	3	1	807	0
Jacksonville	91.03	1872	2298	406	36	0	9	9	3	3	1082	1
Carolina	160.48	199	116	300	44	0	24	15	4	0	689	0
Tampa Bay	92.23	1851	1837	399	38	0	11	12	3	2	794	0
Washington	132.2	243	211	363	38	1	11	16	3	1	1152	2
New England	135.7	238	205	303	49	1	12	9	2	1	942	0
Minnesota	149.02	228	175	300	43	0	13	9	3	1	1501	3
Dallas	80.78	2055	2467	344	31	1	8	3	2	3	887	0
Denver	183.52	192	93	276	52	1	14	13	5	2	871	1
Cleveland	76.77	1907	2439	414	29	0	11	10	2	1	1366	1
Cincinnati	145.5	231	179	261	42	0	21	7	1	2	1050	0
Buffalo	96.73	167	2301	347	21	1	17	8	3	0	1004	0
Chicago	77.9	2073	2498	373	35	0	8	9	0	2	1134	0
Detroit	104.82	1878	2305	394	43	2	9	9	2	0	1429	0
Green Bay	122.47	259	233	303	43	0	16	6	2	1	1048	0

That's about it for this year.  Hope that you had fun and we'll see you next year!