The regular season has come to an end and we’ve got two firsts. Congratulations to Grim Reaper, who will make his first ever playoff appearance, and congrats (?) to Released Dix On Boobies, who becomes the first franchise in league history with multiple The Worst titles.
Grim Reaper’s week got off to a rough start when Alvin Kamara left the Thursday night game during the Saints first possession. But he got enormous weeks from Michael Thomas and DeAndre Hopkins, which clinched the win and his playoff berth
Reaper had to win to make the playoffs, but if Scrote Squad was able to win, he’d have owned the spot. Instead, he put up the third 48 point week in the league this year (Boobies (heh) and Iron Ryan), in a week where he absolutely needed a victory. In the final two weeks, when wins were almost required for Scrote, he put up 75.5 and 48 points. Those are incredible numbers for a team that had a shot at a playoff spot.
Four teams finished the season 7-7, but Reaper had the most points, giving him the playoff nod. His advantage ended as exactly 100 points over Scrote. Luckless and Zeddemore did everything they could, putting up the second and third highest point totals of the week. But they had too big a hole to climb out of.
There was also a shakeup at the top. Pedro Pickles couldn’t beat Team Provost (who probably deserved to finish better than 6-8, as he actually finished with more points than Reaper) which dropped him to the #2 seed, after Hooper’s Heroes put up another money-winning week in his victory over The Jeff Fisher Effect.
But honestly, I’m burying the lede here (and yes, that is the proper spelling). We have our first two-time The Worst. Our two serious contenders, Iron Ryan and Boobies (heh), both lost this week, so it came down to the points. They wound up separated by only 28.5 points over the season, and are the only two who failed to eclipse 1200 fantasy points on the year.
Playoff Preview
Hooper’s Heroes will face off against Grim Reaper, while The Jeff Fisher Effect will face off against Pedro Pickles. I’d like to point out that the top seed is 1-2 all-time in the semifinals. Heroes has that Big Ben/AB stack I can’t shut up about, but that’s because they have basically carried him the last few weeks. That stack faces off against the Patriots this week, so I don’t really know what that means. The Effect is going to hope that last week’s Kareem Hunt re-breakout wasn’t a fluke, and hope he can ride that to a championship. Honestly, it really seems there is no clear cut favorite this year. Any of these teams has a chance to win.
Loser Bowl Preview
I’d like to propose the following: Since The Worst has already been crowned, the loser of the Loser Bowl becomes the owner on the hook to provide the extra $5 in scratch tickets to the winner of the Loser Bowl. It keeps our Loser Bowl incentivized, since Crobi already knows he’ll be wearing the T-shirt again.
Eligible to win those extra tickets are Scrote, Zeddemore, Luckless and Provost (the 5-8 seeds). Scrote and Zeddemore won’t have to provide the extras (because of the way our Loser Bowl bracket is set up) but they will certainly want to win them. I’m gonna say Provost is the “favorite” here for two reasons: 1) he’s got the most points of the group by far, and 2) he’s got Zeke coming back in Week 16 (granted, he has to win in Week 15 against a guy who just put up his biggest week of the season for that to matter).
Money Winner
Hooper’s Heroes topped the league scoring this week, his fourth time this season.
The Playoffs start on Thursday night, and continue on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. (Well done, NFL). Good luck to you all!
Except Pete.
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