DFL 2017 Week 16: Well, that happened...

OK... so let's just get this out of the way... this was not an impressive week. 

Let's just start off with the Pick'em league.  There was... 1 correct pick across the week.  That's... that's impressively bad. 

So, congrats to Crutch for going 1-3, while Ben and I both goose egged.  Which means that not much has changed with respect to the standings:

Ben:  52
Phil:  51
Crutch:  38
Josh:  33
Mike:  28
Terri:  25
Patrick:  15

(As a side note, for posterity's sake, this was Christmas week, so I know that I pretty much just picked blindly.  Maybe that accounts for everyone'e shitty performance this week?)

As for the games themselves... usually I work my way from the top scores all the way down to the lowest scores... Can't do that this week because both winners from the consolation bracket beat both in the championship bracket because... ugh....  OK, let's start at the champ bracket at least....

Crutch vs. Josh.  Do you hear that sound?  It's the sound of the 7th seed doing ANOTHER upset and this time delivering the beat down of the weak. All season, Josh has been relying on Dak and the Jacksonville D.  Sadly, this week, they both took the week off.  This left Crutch's solid (though by no means impressive team) get past them into the championship game...

D vs. Ben.  now, this was a close game!!!  And the whole weekend was neck and neck.  D pulled it out (barely) on Monday night, squeezing a victory with by less than a point.  Which, yeah,I guess is par for the course this year.  Hell, D even spotting Ben a WR!  (I got bitten by Crabtree being benched at the last minute in another league, though it didn't work out nearly as well for me...)  So, let's see if D can squeak by one more week to pull in the championship ring next week.

Kyle vs. Phil.  Kyle bounced back from his defeat last week by throwing down the most points of the week! I know that that sounds impressive, but it only totaled to 72 points.  Still, it was enough.  Sadly, it was against league favorite Phil.  I know, I know.  Back to back losses in the playoffs is never fun, but I lay the blame squarely on Nick Foles.  Last week, he had his way with the G-men. This week, he barely eeked out a victory against the Raiders.  And in doing so, he screwed me.  Dammit.  So, now, Kyle advanced for seeding of the draft next year, while Phil advances to the bitch bowl.

Kerry vs. Patrick.  Yeah, this might be the surprise of all surprises this week.  Patrick pulled in over 20 points with his D and another 11 with his TE.  Kerry, on the other hand goose egged with her TE, but still pulled in victory.  (Her D going 20+ points, RB almost as much and other RB hitting double digits didn't hurt much either.  So, in the surprise of all surprises, Patrick is heading to the bitch bowl too.  Good luck to Kerry with her seeding next week though!

OK, so that leaves three real games to watch next week:

D vs.Crutch in the championship.  This is both their first entry into the championship game - well done!  D is slightly favored at this point, but this week kinda proved that it doesn't mean anything.

Ben vs. Josh in the last ditch effort to pull in a medal this year.  Josh is heavily, heavily favored in here.  Good luck, guys!

Patrick vs. Phil in the bitch bowl.  Sucks to get into the playoffs and then lose three straight.  Thus becoming the playoff bitch.  Would suck extra for you to be a second seed and have that happen.  I'm just sayin'...

Of course, the real kicker is that it's week 17.  So any team with a late game who was on the husp of a playoff berth but the early games didn't shake out might just be benching players after all.  But maybe not?  Isn't week 17 fun?