Sacred Sundays 2022 is upon us! This marks the 19th season of Sacred Sundays and the 6th iteration with all the same owners. Joe’s Pats begins a fourth title defense run, which ties American BadAss for the most in league history. Big Sack No TD’s on the other hand, is trying to avoid being the bottom team for the third year in a row. Over the last two seasons BSNTD’s has a combined record of 5-21, which, if you are keeping score at home, is not great. (The only way to go is up from here, Jens! What do YOU know?!?) On the flip side, the best regular season record over the last two seasons belongs to sprouts, who is 18-8 (.693).
Last season’s best record was a tie between Joe’s Pats and my Scottish Rebels at 8-5. The best regular season finish ever is 11-2 which has only been done twice, most recently in 2013 by Timmy’s then named ‘Channel 4 News Team’, and way back in 2007 by my Scottish Rebels. (There have been six 10 win teams since 2007). The best starting record still stands at 6-0, a record also most recently achieved in 2013 by that same ‘Channel 4 News Team’. (If you’re curious, ‘Ch. 4 News’ dominated in 2013, racking up 5 Weekly High Scores and a 2nd place finish to lead all money winners. However in 2014, ‘Ch. 4 News’ stumbled to a 4-9 record and missed the playoffs, thus causing Timmy to abandon the name in favor of “Bubble Craps Bandits” in the 2015 season.)
Here are some quick hits from the 2022 draft:
- Every NFL team had at least 2 players selected in the draft. The four teams tied for the fewest players selected (2) were: Carolina, Houston, Tennessee and Washington.
- Wide receivers were the most selected position with 50 taken, followed closely by running backs with 46 players selected.
- The Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs both had the most players selected with 8. (Timmy accounted for all 8 Chiefs selected.)
- Attack of Mahomes 8 Chiefs are by far the most of any single NFL team represented on one roster. The next closest is Joe’s Pats with 4 New England Patriots. Three teams picked 3 players from two separate NFL teams… Train Wreck (3 from both the Bucs and Jets), Coors Light Drunk Guys (3 from both the Packers and Cowboys), and American BadAss (3 from both the Bengals and Bills).
- Sprouts is the most ‘diverse’ across NFL teams with 13 different teams represented on his roster.
- Attack of Mahomes also takes the prize for the most players in a single position drafted, having selected 7 running backs. I think Timmy is planning to run the wishbone this season. Three teams (Big Sack, Young Guns and Joe’s Pats) tied for second most of one position, with all three teams selecting 6 wide receivers.
- Everyone drafted a kicker this season! The first kicker (Evan McPherson) did not go off the board until the 11th round. Over the last three seasons, the first kickers went off the board no later than the 8th round.
EVERYBODY NEEDS MONEY, THAT’S WHY THEY CALL IT MONEY
The buy-in and payouts will be the same as last season… $150 buy-in, with $50 to the weekly high score (16 weeks) plus prizes for the top four finishers: $75-4th, $125-3rd, $150-2nd and $350-Champion.
Teams with carryover funds from last season:
Joe = $150 carryover ($0 due)
Timmy = $275 carryover ($0 due)
Jason = $50 carryover ($100 due)
Rob = $50 carryover ($100 due)
Everyone else can send me $150 either via Paypal (jernoble2727@yahoo.com) or Venmo (@Jerry-Noble-2), or mail me a check (1821 Division St, Camas, WA), or swing by and drop off cash.
WYLD ASS MONKEYS ARE ON FIRE
Chris Gallegos is living on his Rollerblade royalties on some tropical beach somewhere. LMFAO
DRAFT POSITION vs FINAL STANDING
Does where your team picks in the draft have any bearing on final standings? I’ve taken the last seven years of Top Four finishers and looked back to see where those teams drafted to see if there are any trends. Here is a table showing the draft position of each of the top four positions since 2015:
Draft Position of final results:
Overall it is a fairly random distribution, but there is a slight skew toward draft positions in the back half (6-10) versus the front half (1-5). Of the 28 draft positions listed above, there are only 12 from the front half (42.9%) and 16 from the back half (57.1%). Perhaps this is a statistical anomaly due to a small sample size, or maybe there is a slight advantage from having a back half draft position.
Here is a table showing the number of times each pick has appeared in the top four:
No clear winner here, but the one oddity is the team drafting from the fourth position has not placed in the top four in any of the last seven years. Time to break the trend, Timmy! (Attack of Mahomes was 4th in the draft this season.) Also, the last two seasons, the second place team drafted second. This year’s second spot in the draft belonged to Train Wreck…so James you are off to a good start!
Okay, the season starts on Thursday (Sep 8th) with the Bills @ Rams so make sure your rosters are set!
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?!?
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