Congratulations to The Jeff Fisher Effect for going against its namesake's legacy, and winning his first Smarter Than Phil Simms Fantasy Football Championship.
Todd Gurley. That's pretty much all you have to say. He scored 46 points this week (and 90.5 in the playoffs) to lead the Effect to the title. And there wasn't much doubt (despite what the GroupMe chat might have lead you to believe). The triumvirate of Gurley, Melvin Gordon and Kareem Hunt was monstrous in these two playoff weeks. The Effect becomes the first team to break 300 points in the playoffs.
Grim Reaper didn't stand much of a chance this week; his players simply didn't show up. After a huge week in the first round of the playoffs, he couldn't break 100 points in the finals. That's fantasy football; some weeks your players go crazy, and some weeks your players do nothing.
And also, for the first time in league history, our bottom seed going into the Loser Bowl won BOTH of his games in the Loser Bowl, moving Boobies (heh) up to what is technically a 7th place finish. He scored the most points of any team in the Loser Bowl (206) and more points than the #1 seed going into the playoffs (Hooper's Heroes scored 177 in his two contests). Perhaps he didn't deserve the title of The Worst after all...
Final standings (final record in parentheses)
- The Jeff Fisher Effect (10-6)
- Grim Reaper (8-8)
- Pedro Pickles (10-6)
- Hooper's Heroes (9-7)
- Scrote Squad (9-7)
- Team Provost (7-9)
- Released Dix On Boobies (7-9)
- Jameis Winston Zeddemore (7-9)
- Outta Luck (8-8)
- Iron Ryan (5-11)
The final standings don't mean much, but it's interesting to see. Despite our #9 team having a better record than the 3 teams ahead of him, he scored fewer points than 2 of them (though he beat Boobies (heh) head to head on the season). Iron Ryan finished 5-11 so... yep. Finishing 10th makes sense.
There will be more highlights, lowlights and analysis at our upcoming End of Season: The Gathering. Recall this event will take place at the Rumbleseat in Chicopee on January 6 (you probably received a Google Calendar invite from your Commish). I hope all owners on the East Coast can attend for some fun and frivolity. And a couple fun surprises.
I also have to say thanks for making the season fun. I've recently started reading the r/ffcommish subreddit, and man, some of those guys have some shitty leaguemates: guys who don't pay, guys who abuse the rules. I'm happy we have a league where that doesn't really happen, and where we all respect each other (most of the time). I'm grateful that you guys don't make this league any more stressful than it has to be (which isn't much because c'mon...it's fantasy football!)
See you guys in a week, and Merry Christmas!
-The Commish
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