On Monday night, Commish wondered how horrible it would feel for Team Provost if Stefon Diggs scored a 40 yard touchdown, during which he tweaked a hammy and the Bills decided to sit him the rest of the game because they're already in the playoffs.
Well, Diggs scored a 50 yard touchdown, and it was over. Congratulations to TEAM PROVOST on his second Smarter Than Phil Simms Fantasy Football Championship.
As it has often seemed in our league (and throughout most of fantasy football), the best team in the regular season has not won the title. I think we can say that wasn't the case here; Provost scored the most points in the regular season and he put up the most points on Championship Week. It was a pretty impressive year. His final overall record of 14-2 is the best record in league history, and he scored the most points we've ever had in a regular season.
Elsewhere, in the league....
It appears that Iron Ryan was a Week 15 gameday shower away from a league championship. Yes, there's some speculation here, but had he swapped out the injured Zeke and put in Tony Pollard (the highest projected RB on waivers) in Week 15, he'd have defeated the Provost Train and moved into the finals. And then, he scored more points this week than runner-up RTTM, and could be walking home with a title. Alas, it's not to be. But he won the third place game though, and the newly minted cash that goes with it.
We also had a nailbiter in the Worst Bowl. You guys saw the GroupMe when Hardcore Sacks asked for no stat correction, because he was winning by 1.5? Guess what?
THERE WAS A STAT CORRECTION!
Or maybe it was a point fix from some kind of audit (it's not listed under the "stat corrections" on ESPN), because that lead and apparent margin of victory is down to .5. Crazy!
Also, that this was the highest scoring matchup of the year was just peak-2020.
Our winner of the extra scratchers for the draft is Death Valley Driver, who rode Josh Allen and Davante Adams to victory over Utah Falco (who, strangely enough, won the extra scratchers last year).
Those extra scratchers will be provided by Pedro Pickles, who as he mentioned in the group chat, will now sink into a deep depression. He had some rotten luck this year, and really does not deserve to be The Worst, but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
The deserving Worst is absolutely Jeff Fisher Effect. Though, he turned it on when it "mattered", breaking 100 points in consecutive games for the first time all year, and winning as many Pooper Bowl games as he did regular season games. He might have gotten a little lucky in that his opponent decided he was too good for a meaningless game, and started TWO players who were inactive on game day (CEH we knew from last week, DeVante Parker was a game day inactive). I'd like to figure out some sort of incentive for this game, just to keep everyone interested all the way down to the end.
So that's it: that's a wrap on the 2020 Smarter Than Phil Simms Fantasy Season.
I'm behind on my stat updates, but you can believe I'll be finishing them up, and poring over them for stat nuggets for our End of Season: The Gathering.
Speaking of End of Season: The Gathering: We can do a Zoom call, similar to the draft, where we can also do our standard playoff pool, and I'll rattle off the aforementioned stat nuggets and stuff. I think then we can also plan an actual in-person The Gathering when the weather warms and we can all be outside.
In closing, once again, I say thank you. I hope you all enjoyed the fantasy season in STPS. I look forward to 2021.
For more reasons than that.
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