Wow! In 7 years of this league we have never had a Championship game end in a tie. In fact, we didn’t even have playoff tiebreakers in effect until 2007. If you remember, that was the year where in the semifinal round, Jens defeated his opponent but Joe and Jason tied in the other game. Ultimately, all three of those teams battled for the title with Jason coming out the victor. Tiebreaker rules for the playoffs have been in effect since then, but have never been used. Until now…
In a bizarre decision, Philadelphia decided to postpone their Sunday Night game until Tuesday due to a snowstorm. By random happenstance, four players in the Championship game were involved in this game: Michael Vick, DeSean Jackson and David Akers for the Scottish Rebels, and Jeremy Maclin for sprouts. Sprouts led by 18 points going into the Tuesday night game. Akers ended up posting a deuce by only kicking two extra points and coming up about 12 yards short on a 54-yard kick. DeSean Jackson posted a measly 3 points, while Maclin logged 7 by gaining 74 yards. So it all came down to Michael Vick. Coming in he was averaging 28 points per game, so it seemed likely he could put up a good total against a struggling Vikings team. The only thing that struggled though, was Vick. He lost two fumbles, threw one interception (and should have had at least two other passes picked) and just looked bad all night. Somehow he managed to throw and run for a touchdown, finishing with 20 points, his second lowest point total of the season. This left my Scottish Rebels and sprouts knotted at 87 points.
The first tiebreaker in the Championship Round is to the team with the highest scoring quarterback. In spite of his less than stellar performance, Vick outscored sprout’s QB Matt Schaub who had scored 14 points against the Denver Broncos. So the 2010 Sacred Sundays Champion is the Scottish Rebels!!! I must say, it feels good to take my spot at the top of the Fantasy Football Mountain. :-)
Congrats also need to go out to Joe’s Pats this week who was the only team to break into triple digits (and just barely!) with 100 points! Way to go, Joe!! With that, six different teams took home Weekly High Score Prizes this year. Here are the final standings:
1st – Scottish Rebels – Jerry
2nd – sprouts – Russ
3rd – Joe’s Pats – Joe
4th – SOFA KING GOOD – James
5th – Lords of Lumberg – Timmy
6th – Midnight Maulers – Jamie
7th – Tailgate Approved – Jens
8th – Coors Light Drunk Guys – Shawn Martin
9th – American BadAss – Jason
10th – Frito Pie – Rachel
(Next year’s draft will be the reverse order. More on the draft and keepers below.)
Here are the final money payouts:
Scottish Rebels - $220 (3 Weekly High Score Prizes plus Championship)
sprouts - $210 (4 Weekly High Score Prizes plus Runner-Up)
SOFA KING GOOD - $160 (4 Weekly High Score Prizes)
Lords of Lumberg - $120 (3 Weekly High Score Prizes)
Tailgate Approved - $40 (1 Weekly High Score Prize)
Joe’s Pats - $40 (1 Weekly High Score Prize)
Checks will be going out this week!
DRAFT AND KEEPERS
The same rules will apply for keepers this year as last year: You can keep up to two players from your team’s final roster for next year. For any player that you elect to keep, you will forfeit a draft pick equivalent to the round the player was drafted in the previous draft. Any keeper being kept again will count as a first round pick. Any player acquired through a waiver wire pick-up or as a free agent will count as a 15th round pick. Keepers must be declared no later than one week after the 2011 NFL Draft. Also, as mentioned earlier, the draft order will be the reverse of the final standings.
HISTORY AND RECORDS
As I was researching the tiebreaker rules this week, I ended up spending some time looking back at past seasons for Sacred Sundays. It’s amazing that this league has been going now for 7 years! Here are the past champions:
2004 – Bad Ass – Jason (I believe he defeated Jamie in the finals, but I kept really crappy notes and records back then.)
2005 – Sofa King Cool – James (Defeated Bad Ass in finals)
2006 – Midnight Maulers – Jamie (Defeated Coors Light Drunk Guys in finals)
2007 – American BadAss – Jason (Defeated Jens & Joe in three-way battle)
2008 – American BadAss – Jason (Defeated Scottish Rebels in finals)
2009 – Lords of Lumberg – Timmy (Defeated Midnight Maulers in finals)
Also, here are some records that I have been keeping since the 2007 season:
Highest Weekly Point Total – Shawn – 145 pts, Week 16-2008
Lowest Weekly Point Total – Jason – 21 pts, Week 4-2008
Highest Weekly Total Score (all teams combined) – Week 2-2007 (993 total pts)
Lowest Weekly Total Score (all teams combined) – Week 16-2007 (644 total pts)
Best Bench Improvement – Russ – 89 pts, Week 2-2009
Highest Single Week Player Points – TIE – Adrian Peterson – 49 pts, Week 9-2007, and Michael Vick – 49 pts, Week 10-2010
BEST BENCH
There was a real battle to see who was going to grab the final Best Bench of the season… Joe’s Pats and Frito Pie put up good efforts, with 35-point and 36-point improvements, but the final crown for this year goes to last year’s champion…. the Lords of Lumberg!! Timmy could have improved his point total by a solid 42 points with three roster moves: J. Freeman for M. Ryan (+20 pts), M. Austin for W. Welker (+14 pts) and Kansas City for the New York Jets (+8 pts).
So another season has gone by in what seems like the blink of an eye. I have certainly had a blast this year, as I do every year with you crazy assholes! I’m already looking forward to next year!
Happy New Year!!!
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