DFL 2016 Week 15: Here come the playoffs! (RISE UP!)

Not sure if you were watching the playoffs this weekend, but if you did you might have been all like:

And I'd be all like:

Yeah, the top bracket went as expected, but the bottom bracket was solid upsets.  But, I'm getting ahead of myself...

Pick'ems.   It's the play offs and I don't know whether we should restart the counting or keep it going or what.... so, I'm going to keep track of both!  4 people made picks on the 4 games this week.  Phil and Mike both went 3-1 (Thanks, Kookie for killing the dream of a bingo this week!)  And RA Dave went 1-3.  But wait!  Didn't I say that there was one more pick?  Yeah, Kookie did it again.  He only made one pick and he picked himself, and he picked wrong.  So, the outlooks is this:

Player  Overall    Playoffs
Phil         51             3-1
Mike       44             3-1
Terry       43             0-0
Dave       43             1-3
....
Kookie     0              0-1

Overall, it looks like it's a battle for second place at this point.  As long as I can make 2 picks correctly I'll put myself out of striking distance from anyone else.  But for race for silver and bronze is still on.  Have at it!

OK, not quite, but it's close.

OK, *now* we can talk about the games.  High score down to low score.  And here we go!

Ben vs. Kookie.  Yeah, Ben was a full 10+ points higher than anyone else this week. AND HE SAT TWO PLAYERS doing it.   (Or as he calls it "Victory Formation".)  He had beaten Kookie by 10 points going into Monday night, so he  decided to play it safe.  Had he actually played all 8 starters, he would have easily cleared triple digits.  But at this point in the season a win is a win.  Smart move, sir.  Smart move.  As for Kookie, this sucks not only because he was the 2 seed, but also because he totally Ben'ed this game.  Second highest point total of the week, and he happened to play the highest point total.  It'll happen every season, you just hate to see it in the post season.  O well, Kookie, start playing for honor at this point.  This kinda feels like how Kookie's season has treated him:

Phil vs. McClennen.  This was the other seeding upset.  Phil's running backs carried this victory with a little help from Wilson.  Though the real reason that Phil was able to snag the beat down of the week this week is that McClennen's team just imploded.  *ONE* of McClennen's starters high double digits.  And that was his kicker.  After such an impressive regular season, it's hard to watch a team just shit its pants right out of the gate in the post season.

Mike vs Crutch.  Finally... The universe has corrected itself with Mike throwing the phantom Crutch out of the playoffs.  Crutch hasn't touched his line up since September and he just kept winning.  Well, Mike put an end to that tomfoolery this week.  OK, really Drew Brees put an end it that this week, but the rest of Mike's team helped too.  I mean, I guess that his team could have put up more points, you know, had they not been thrown out for PUNCHING THEIR OPPONENTS IN THE FACE WHILE THEY WERE STILL WEARING THEIR HELMETS.

Mike started Jordan Reed, on the far right.  I guess that you can't expect
too much thinking from TEs, considering how much respect they get. BEN.

Patrick vs RA Dave.  I mean, someone had to win this, right?  When Carr is on, he's really on, but when he's not... he's just barely good enough to pull out a W, right?  Dave Johnson was really the biggest player on the field in this match up, and his 20 points were enough to give Patrick the victory, in this overly sad and underly scoring game.  So, well done, Patrick.  Keep your groove on, however sad it might be.

So, that leaves us with these match ups for the semi-finals this week:
Mike (1) vs Patrick (5)
Phil (6) vs Ben (7)

So, this means that if the victories go as the seeding would go, we might just get a rematch of the Mike vs Phil Championship that nobody really wanted.  Well, nobody except maybe Mike.  But I am getting ahead of myself, and seeding predictions haven't exactly been all that rock solid, so I'm not saying that anything is set in stone right now.

Anyways, good luck everyone (except Ben)!  Enjoy the last few weeks of fantasy football for the next 8 months!