After 14 long weeks, we finally have our last 6 players and know the seeding order. We've had a good idea who would be the final 6 since week 12, but it's good to have everything finalized. Before we move on to the meat of the article, let's pour one out for our last fallen homie -- Matt Lundin. Your team died so Rob could fly -- thanks a lot you big jerk.
Game Recaps
Skyler vs Brady: This game wasn't supposed to be close after the Sunday afternoon game, but Davante Adams nearly pulled the miracle. Lack of miracle aside, Skyler had good games from Davante and Kamara, while Brady was able to get his narrow 1.96 point victory thanks to a team effort -- he only had one player (Fournette) score over 20 points this week. His DST was his only player to score single digits. This game resulted in Tyler moving up to the 1 seed, Skyler dropping to the 2 seed, and Brady locking up the 3 seed.
Kyle vs TJ: In a game that didn't affect the playoff race, TJ got a solid win with his DST putting up 28 points. Kyle had a herculean effort from Josh Allen (39+) and a good game from Renfrow (28+), but no one else on his team broke double digits. This ended up being the battle of ineptitude.
Tyler vs Jordan: This game only mattered for Tyler from a seeding perspective -- and pride. He needed a win and a Skyler loss to finish the season with the best record. He put up a ridiculous 189.54 and reminded the rest of the league that even after back-to-back losses, he is the #1 team to watch out for in the playoffs. I don't usually reference the write-up that the site automatically does, but let me quote the headline of the recap: "Hukraine Throat-Punches P- Town". In case you think that's hyperbole, Tyler doubled Jordan's score and nearly beat him by 100. This throat punch included brass knuckles made up of Aaron Rodgers (37.64), Cooper Kupp (31.30), Mark Andrews (28.5), and the Cowboys DST (25). Jordan's lone attempt to swat away this throat punch was feebly put up by Justin Jefferson (20.50). Sadly, this blowout wasn't even the biggest blowout of the week.
Trevor vs Matt: The biggest blowout of the week was Matt slapping Trevor around with a margin of victory of 111.44 points (aka more points than the 3 lowest scoring teams). Whether or not the good doctor threw the game or was simply tired after a long shift and quit caring because he was eliminated a while ago was up for some debate earlier in the week, but Matt's high score rendered anything Trevor could have tried as futile. Matt had 4 people score 20+ (Stafford, Chase, Godwin, and the Titans DST) and also had Cook who scored 30+. No one on Trevor's team scored over 19. Try as he might, his blowout win wasn't enough to make the playoffs.
Brandon vs Rob: Matt had no shot to make the playoffs thanks to Rob being the highest scorer of the week against Brandon. This game was the weekly bonanza -- and it was one of the rare 300 points combined games. Brady, Kittle, Harris, Lockett, and Javonte all showed up in a big way to get Rob this win. Herbert and Jones showed up for Brandon, but the rest of the evening news team didn't show up -- which is probably for the best as one of them may have been killed by a trident. This win solidified the 6 seed for Rob -- which is a seeding he 100% deserves given his record, though no one wants to play him after his showing this week.
Tommy vs Chad: It wasn't a given that Brady would win before this game went final, but they both knew that if Brady won, this game was worthless and they would play each other in the first round of the playoffs next week. This was the nail-biter of the week, but unfortunately for Tommy, he was not able to complete the comeback -- he lost by 2 passing yards (aka 0.08 points). Tommy was only in this game thanks to a 33+ point effort by James Conner on Monday Night -- but even that result with Mahomes putting up 20+ as well wasn't enough to overtake the 20+ points scored by DangeRuss Wilson and Mike Evans.
Award Season
MVP: Given the lack of stakes this week, this was a tough award to give out. I'll give this weeks award to Mr. Unlimited for his best week since week 4, and helping Chad win by less than a point.
LVP: Antonio Gibson got pulled for fumbling, and his replacement got a TD. This meant that Skyler lost and Brady won, which put them on the Rob side of the bracket, which made both of them mad. Thanks Riverboat Ron for pissing off two teams in the league.
Luckiest Team of the Week: TJ was the 9th highest scorer (aka could only beat 3 teams), but he managed to get a win this week.
Unluckiest Team of the Week: Matt's two yard loss to Rob back in week 12 means he missed the playoffs. Brady won when he didn't want to -- so he can win this award, even though he probably doesn't want it either. I'm sure he won't end up regretting the regular season win.
Highest Scorer of the Week: As previously mentioned, Rob went off, but still only won this award by 4.
Lowest Scorer of the Week: Trevor took this award by a 10 point margin, and was one of 3 teams to score under 100 this week.
Playoff Update
As was previously discussed in text messages during the game day, Tyler got the 1 seed, and will face the winner of 4 seed Chad and 5 seed Tommy, while Skyler got the 2 seed, and will face the winner of 3 seed Brady and 6 seed Rob. One side has 7 championships, the other has 1, but the side with the 7 championships has 25 wins this season, while the side with 1 championship has 27 wins this season.
Game Previews
Schedules got weird this week with Covid, so this will look a little odd.
Chad (4) vs Tommy (5): Chad has 0 players on Spider-Man: No Way Home release day, 0 players on Saturday, 2 players Sunday night, 2 players on Monday night, and 2 players on Tuesday afternoon. Tommy has 1 players on Spider-Man: No Way Home release day, 0 players on Saturday, 0 players Sunday night, 1 player on Monday night, and 1 player on Tuesday afternoon. They split their actual games 1-1, but if we look at all 14 games and compare, we see that Chad has the 8-6 lead, and their total score over the season was separated by fewer than 60 points (in favor of Chad).
Brady (3) vs Rob (6): Brady has 1 player on Spider-Man: No Way Home release day, 1 player on Saturday, 1 players Sunday night, 0 players on Monday night, and 1 player on Tuesday afternoon. Rob has 2 players on Spider-Man: No Way Home release day, 0 players on Saturday, 1 players Sunday night, 0 players on Monday night, and 1 player on Tuesday afternoon. Brady when their actual game in week 10, but if we look at all 14 games and compare, we see that Rob has the 8-6 lead, and their total score over the season was separated by 130 points (in favor of Rob).
Good luck to none of you -- this is the playoffs.
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