The first ever Rad Dynasty playoffs have come. Only the top 4 teams, the absolute best of the best have made it here. It's been a wild, up and down season in the league this year. It's been full of interesting stories. Several different teams have spent time in first place, including Alice in Horns and The Killing Fields. Turd Ferguson shook off a slow start, nearly winning their way into the playoffs before losing a must-win game in the final week of the season. Alice lost in week 15, too. Win and she would have been in. Another interesting story: Bluth Company being one of the league's highest scoring teams all season long but having awful luck, absorbing everyone's biggest game of the year week in and week out.
BDB's team has been an underdog all season long. They are middle of the pack on the scoring spectrum, but have been one of the best teams in the league as far as exploiting their matchups. ned's rollers have been dominant pretty much all year long. They've won 8 of 10 coming in and are the highest scoring team in the league.
TDs or Bust has been up and down all season. Started out 3-0, but then went on a skid and dropped to 4-4 and in danger of falling out of contention. They overcame that slow stretch and proceeded to go 6-1 in their final 7 games. That lone loss was by .09 points to first place ned. The similarly named Show me the TDs is a team that has always been scrappy and always seems to find a way to win. They come into the game having won 5 of their last 7 and putting up good scoring numbers in the process.
Before we get to the results, shout out to the Player of the Week for the first round of the playoffs: Justin Fields for Show me the TDs. He had 26.50 fantasy points, throwing for a touchdown and rushing for one more. He also had 97 rushing yards, which are valuable in fantasy. Good job Justin Fields. Show me the TDs has hopefully found his dynasty QB for years to come.
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Literally nobody has sent their keepers into me yet. Remember, you must send me 15 to 20 players from your team to keep by January 8th. I know that's still almost 2 weeks away, but hopefully some of you will send them to me so I don't have to go around bugging you before the deadline.
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Now onto the recaps.
ned's rollers (1) 157.84 vs BDB's Jet Setters (4) 117.20
ned's team came in as massive favorites and were able to roll to a fairly easy win. Admittedly, I was not following the action too closely on Christmas weekend, but it seemed to me like ned's team was never in danger. They'll advance to the championship round next week and will earn the right to compete for the first ever title of the Rad Dynasty. Here is what I had to say about ned at the beginning of the year:
"Ned's team in particular stands out as an interesting dynasty team. Maybe he won't win this year. I don't even have him making the playoffs this year. But he is set up for some serious long term success. He's got Dalton Kincaid - who I wanted, JSN - who I also wanted, Jordan Addison, Zach Charbonnet, Jameson Williams, Jonathan Mingo, Javonte Williams, Kendre Miller. Just a ton, and I mean a ton of young talent. If these guys put it together in the next few years he is going to have the team to beat. He also has Kenneth Walker and CeeDee Lamb on his team, and they are already there playing at a star level. This is going to be a good good team down the road."
I didn't even mention Jalen Hurts in my evaluation! I was also totally wrong in my prediction he'd miss the playoffs, but totally right in that this team is going to be set up for long term success, and a real shot at creating an actual dynasty in this league. Maybe it all starts right here?
Ned's team was led by Jalen Hurts (24.44), Cee Dee Lamb (22.20), and Bobby Wagner (20.5). BDB's team was led by Saquon Barkley (17.9), Jake Browning (15.4), and Chig Okonkwo (15.3). Not a great game across the board for BDB's team, as Stefon Diggs (6.9) and Travis Etienne (4.6) did not have superstar games. Cameron Heyward had a goose egg on the defensive end.
BDB closes the year at 9-7, including the playoffs. They'll pick 9th overall in the draft next year, as they lost their one and only matchup against the other losing team this week, Show me the TDs.
This makes the week 15 loss to BDB tougher to swallow for Turd Ferguson. If they'd won that game and made the playoffs, they would have been the highest scoring team in the first round with 162.02 points scored. Instead they get a meaningless consolation win.
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TDs or Bust (3) 143.72 vs Show me the TDs (2) 140.80
Let's look at some of my other predictions I made before the year started:
"Predictions? I'll make some bold ones. The 4 teams that will make the playoffs this season are: me, TDs or Bust, My Team, and BDBs Jet Setters. I'll say TDs or Bust wins it all this year."
I was right on 2 of the 4 playoff teams. BDB made it and so did TDs or Bust. And now TDs or Bust is dangerously close to winning the entire thing and making my prediction come true. With this win, they move on to the title game where they will face off against ned's rollers.
This was a tight game, coming down to less than 3 points in the end. The predictions on Yahoo kept going back and forth between these two teams all weekend, from what I noticed. It was destined to be a close game, and that it was.
TDs or Bust was led by Matthew Stafford (24.72), Tee Higgins (22.5), Zaire Franklin (18), and Rachaad White (16.7). Let me just take this moment to give a shout out to Rachaad White. Every week he puts up massive numbers. He's definitely a candidate for MVP of the Rad Dynasty - one of a solid number of players. I didn't expect much from him this year but he has definitely proven me wrong big time. He was drafted in the 8th round, too. Definitely has provided higher than 8th round value.
Show me the TDs goes down in a blaze of glory. At least we don't have to worry about two teams with the word TDs in their name anymore. The aforementioned Justin Fields put up the most points among players started in the postseason. Justin Jefferson (24.6), Zamir White (14.5), and David Njoku (13.4) were the high scorers in the loss. Josh Jacobs was left in the starting lineup even though he was out with an injury, and that ended up being the difference here. If Sean puts in Najee Harris, who was left on the bench with 13.8 points, he wins.
Show me the TDs finishes the year 10-6 overall, and will pick 10th in the draft next season.
Before we move on, a special plug for TDs or Bust. He runs a dynasty league somewhat similar to this one. He had 2 inactive teams this year and is looking for someone to replace them. I'm not sure if he needs 2 still or just 1, but if you had fun in the Rad Dynasty and are now turned onto the idea of dynasty leagues - this would be a good chance to join a new, very fun league. Send me a message or an email if you are interested, or just contact TDs or Bust directly. I'll let it be up to him if he wants to share his email address here.
Updated draft order for 2024:
1 TBone's Terrific Team
2 Thunder Thighs
3 My Team
4 Dynastic Dan
5 Bluth Company
6 Turd Ferguson
7 The Killing Fields
8 Alice In Horns
9 BDB's Jet Setters
10 Show me the TDS
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11 TDS or Bust
12 ned's rollers
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Next week should be epic. Early predictions show ned as an 11 point favorite, but Perry hasn't set his lineup fully yet. Should be interesting to see how this goes. Coworker vs friend: who will win the first ever Rad Dynasty championship? Stay tuned.
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