DFL 2016 Week 14: That's that for the regular season!

And what a week it was!  Didja see the scores?  Because they were....  well, not so good.

 NOBODY cracked triple digits. Heck, half of the league didn't even break 60.  Plus, we have a new all time low score.  I don't want to tip my hand too far, but it's by the current first place team.

But we'll get to that in a minute.

First off, pick 'ems.  Well, the insanity that was the NFL this week didn't stop the 4 usuals from making their picks.  Phil was top dog going 5-1, which also landed him in first place.  RA Dave made some great picks as well, going 4-2.  This jumped him up to 3rd place over Mike.  Mike went 2-4,and Terri just got the touch of death this week getting a miserable 1-5.  So, this means that the regular season picks end like this:

Phil 48
Terri 43
RA Dave 42
Mike 41
Skoot 8
Ben 6

We'll definitely continue this on into the post season, but with Phil pulling ahead and the limited number of games, there's not a lot of hope for an 11th hour upset.

We'll make this pretty quick here, starting at the high score and working our way down.

Kookie vs Crutch.  Well, well, well.  Kookie breaks his 4 game losing streak at just the right time.  Kookie was the high score of the week at 89 points.  It's a bit of a hallow number, considering that he left *70* points on the bench.  And Crutch, yeah, he took the beating and still was able to sneak into the playoffs with an 8 seed.  I asked him last night if this means that he's going to actually look at his roster, what with this being the post season.  His response "Eh, not looking has been working for me so far..."  I think that we can all say this about Crutch's uncanny luck this season:

Ben vs. Skoot.  Well, Skoot did it.  He won out.  This was his 4th win in a row.  And considering that this record was 5-9, well, you get the idea...   His starter's performance ranged from abysmal to Le'Veon Bell.  Yeah, Bell outscore two of the teams in the league this week with 38 points.  Ben's team did perfectly respectable, knocking out 73 points himself, but it just wasn't enough.  So, Ben barely slips to 7th seed.  One other fall of from this game is that Skoot was able to climb out of 11th place.

Skoot celebrating his win.

Missy vs. Melanie  IT was the bitterest of rivalries, the stuff of legends... This is the game that people will be talking about for 10,000 years... Nah.. I'm just kidding.  This was the 10th place team (Missy) knocking the stuffing out of the dead last place team (Melanie).  The big surprise of this game is that Bilal Powell ranked up an impressive 26 points.  He's so obscure that you'd think that he was on Patrick's team.  But at the end of the day, this game didn't amount to a hill of beans.  So, no more ink on this one...

McClennen vs. Terri.  Well, McClennen is riding high.  This marks the *6th* straight win for him.  (Yes, that's easily the longest running streak in the league.  And who could question it, what with such a stud as Cousins as his QB.  (And speaking of QBs, what happened to Big Ben? I mean -2 points?  Sure, it was snowing pretty bad in his game, but ouch!)  So, it's official.  McClennen did NOT misname his team....

RA Dave vs. Patrick.  Once again, RA Dave shows complete disregard for favorites here and manhandles Patrick.  Going in, not only was Patrick ranked higher, he was supposed to beat RA Dave like a red-headed step child.  (The only vote that RA Dave pulled in this week from Pick'ems was cast by himself.)  But that's not to worry.  Because of the outcome of this game, you two get to play each other NEXT week too!!!

Phil vs. Mike.  I know what you're thinking.... we were doing the teams in descending order of the number of points scored.   AND I haven't yet talked about the beat down of the week.  That's because, though I scored the least winning points, I also administered the beat down of the week.  Not only that, but  Mike set a record for the lowest score in the league EVER!  (That would be 13.19 points.)  Yes, that beats the previous lowest score, set by Skoot last year in the championship game.  Skoot had an impressive 27.19 points.  So, congrats for cutting that score in half.

Pictured above:  A graphical representation of the Phil v Mike game.

So, yeah.  That's it.  Playoffs are locked in, and we're ready to start the post season insanity.  The top two seeds have been on a crazy losing streak recently, and the bottom half o the playoff participants are just at .500. So, who knows?  This could be another crazy upset like last year.

As a side note from last year, I do feel that I have to mention that this is Terri's second year reigning as Queen of the losers, having finished in 9th place.