The regular season comes to a close. We are locked in and ready for the playoffs to begin. Our last player of the week for the regular season is Bo Nix for Bluth Company. He had 37.08 points for Bluth Company. Unfortunately it was not enough to lift Bluth to a win in the season finale. Fun note: the players of the week could have been Trevor Lawrence (54.30) or Kyle Pitts (40.10) but both players were left on the bench by their managers.
Observations from each game:
Me vs My Team: this was a game where I felt I was okay with winning or losing. It's not like My Team has been much of a threat this season. Winning would pretty much lock me into a matchup with ned, who always has my number in the playoffs, so I went with an experimental lineup. Would you look at that? It ended up working out for me anyway. I seems like I haven't had a boom week in a while. And that was even with Rome Odunze with a zero in my lineup because he was ruled out at the last possible moment before kickoff (I was in a car driving to Madison, WI at the time and didn't see the notification). And imagine if I'd started Kyle Pitts and his 40 points! I'm not looking forward to my matchup with ned in the playoffs though.
Alice vs Bluth: Nice to see Alice go out with a win. This game had no playoff implications, but with the loss, Bluth moves up to the 1.05 in next year's draft instead of the 1.06.
Skattebo vs BDB: Another game with no playoff implications. Tough luck for team Mike, as he was in the top of the standings for over half the season before losing a few games at the end. Next year, this team would be in the playoffs as the 6th seed.
ned vs Teflon Don: a surprisingly good game, but ned gets the expected win. Teflon Don will come into next season with the 2nd and 3rd pick in the draft. Ned plays me in the first round of the playoffs. Even though I swept ned in the regular season, it is likely going to be a tough matchup for both teams.
Battle of the TDs: It was nice to see Sean come out on top but unfortunately due to getting swept by ned in the regular season, he misses out on the tiebreaker and ned goes into the postseason. It all comes back to that DJ Moore fumble on the last play of the game in week 1. If that doesn't happen, the roles are reversed. The loss drops Perry all the way down to the #3 seed (loses tiebreaker to Scotty).
AR12 vs TBone: Scotty needed to win this game to clinch a playoff berth, and he was able to come out on top over TBone, who has been winning some games lately. If Scotty had lost, that would have dropped him into a 3 way tie with Sean and ned, and he would have lost the tiebreaker based on points scored and missed the playoffs.
My bold predictions are Ned and Perry going to the finals. I do not feel confident about my team at all. I think Scotty could also pull off a big win. He did win the only matchup against Perry in the regular season. So technically he has the #2 seed and Perry is the #3 - despite what Yahoo says. It doesn't change the playoff matchup so I am not going to change it manually.
Final standings according to Yahoo:
1 Dynastic Dan
2 AR12 is Weird (won season series with TDs or Bust 1-0)
3 TDs or Bust
4 Ned (swept show me the TDs)
5 Show me the TDs
6 Skattebo Doesn't Know
7 Alice (split season series, but scored more points than Bluth)
8 Bluth
9 BDB (swept Teflon Don)
10 Teflon Don
11 TBone
12 My Team
This is also the reverse draft order (starting at My Team with the first pick). Now, for those who want to know how the first round will go next year, look at this below. I mapped out the first round, with trades included:
First round order:
1.01 My Team
1.02 Teflon Don (via TBone)
1.03 Teflon Don
1.04 BDB
1.05 Bluth
1.06 Alice
1.07 Skattebo Doesn't Know
1.08 Show me the TDs
If the final regular season standings were also the final playoff standings*:
1.09 Bluth (via ned)
1.10 Show me the TDs (via TDs or Bust)
1.11 AR12 is Weird
1.12 Dynastic Dan
*subject to change
Just keep in mind, we won't know where the playoff teams will land in the draft order. For the two eliminated teams in round one, we go with the head to head tiebreaker. So if me and Scotty were both to lose in the first round, Scotty would get the better pick (the 1.09) because he lost the season series to me 1-0.
Also a note to eliminated teams: your rosters have been locked in Yahoo. I will now add your taxi players to your roster on my personal spreadsheet - which I will make public once the season is over. You will have your entire roster as it is now, plus your taxi player, to hang onto for the entire offseason. You don't need to trim down to 15-20 until the 10 days leading up to the draft, which will take place (per tradition) on the 1st Sunday in August.
So you have a LOT of time to mull over who you want to keep or cut. You can also use that time to wheel and deal with fellow managers and pull off some trades. Also a reminder that unused FAB will carry over to next season, where you will also be given a fresh $100.
I'll be making a complete "here is how the offseason works" post after the season ends.
Good luck to everyone in the playoffs and the consolation bracket. The consolation bracket counts for nothing, so don't worry about trying to tank it for a better draft pick, lol.
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