Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Updates: Final weeks of the regular season

Hey guys.  Merry Christmas to you all this coming week.  I hope you enjoy seeing me slide down your chimneys to greet you in the middle of the night.  On with the Updates!

There are lots of updates to go through, so let's start from the top.

Fantasy Football

Since our last update, Joe beat Shawn followed by Rob beating Folden. 

This put some heated matchups in the semifinals.  Rob & Joe's teams unfortunately didn't arrive on the big stage, and they are left to sort out 3rd place in the consolation game and 1 bonus point.

Shawn beat Folden for 5th place. 

This leaves Hale & I on the collision course we've been on all year in the finals.  It's a heavyweight for sure, with our teams projected to put up a combined 280 points. 

Pro Pick'em

With two weeks to play we've got some tight finishes happening here. 

Munez's lead is down to 1 game over Folden after he had a rough week last week.  Rob is in striking distance 4 games back.  Gary is at 106, followed by a log jam between Me, Joe, Shawn, and Jim all within 2 points of one another. 

There's a lot of variance in this still, which could make a very big impact on the final scores, and there are only 32 games left to decide it. 

Losers Pool

We have finally decided the consolation bracket in the losers pool.  Hale outlasted Shawn & Folden, meaning Hale maxed out at 8 points.  Shawn & Folden will each end up with 6.5.

Rob & John are the only two left going for anything.  Rob hasn't lost yet and John has one loss.  If Rob finishes undefeated he obviously will finish in first.  John will need to win out and hope Rob loses one for a tie. 

Survivor Pool

On the Survivor side of things, Hale got knocked out, picking the Jags to beat the Redskins, which unbelievably didn't happen.  Hale earns 8 points in that as well.

This leaves Folden, Joe, and Eplin fighting it out over the final 3 spots. 

Bowl Pick'em

It's early here,  too early to really do an update with only a handful of games played.  But, I noticed some people didn't change their confidence points for any games this weekend.  You guys know what that means right?  If you don't understand confidence points, please let me know. 

Pro Predictions

I'll go through these in depth either next week or the week after.

Bonus Points

Rob, Gary, & Kemp each earned the half point bonus for this week in pro pick'em. 

Jim earned it the week before.

Rob will earn the 1 point bonus for making thru another 4 weeks in losers pool next week. That's a guarantee.  John can still earn it too next week.   

We also get a bonus point for every 5 points in the predictions.  The way it stands at this moment is as follows for college predictions

Munez 5
Adam 5
Gary 5
Kemp 5
Hale 4
Eplin 4
Joe 4
Jim 4
Rob 3
John 3
Folden 3
Shawn 2


Making our totals for Bonus points as follows: 

Munez 21
Hale 13
Folden 12.5
Joe 12.5
John 12
Rob 11
Kemp 10.5
Adam 10
Jim 10
Gary 9
Eplin 8
Shawn 5

If you want to look at the attachment i put in fantasy football, you can see where we stand in each of the categories.  Anything highlighted in green, means a point value that's set in stone.  Anything clear, is still a variable.

1. Munez 64.5
2. Rob 62
3. Joe 60
4. Folden 57
5. Hale 53.5
6. Adam 46
7. Eplin 37.5
8. John 37
9. Gary 34
10. Shawn 33
11 Jim 30
12. Kemp 27

Compared to last week a few thins have happened.  Munez's lead overall has shrank from 3.5 points to 2.5 points.  Rob is now in sole possession of 2nd, making the fantasy game this weekend even more important.  Joe is 4.5 points off of the lead.  Folden is 7.5 points back and was 7.  Hale gained a point and a half, moving up to 11.5 points out instead of 12.5.

I fell back pretty bad, falling from 15 points back to 18.5.  I'd say I have a comfortable grasp on 6th place right now, noone within 7.5 points of me either way. 

Eplin held steady, letting John fall back 4 points to fall to 8th.  Eplin in 7th.  Gary jumped a couple of points from 31.5 to 34 to get to 9th.  Shawn from 31 to 33 in 10th.  Jim from 31.5 to 30 in 11th.  Finally, Kemp rounding out the bottom with 27 points.

Make your move in pro pick'em and bowl pick'em.  Let's check in next week or the week after.  Ho Ho Ho. 

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Update City

Hey guys, I'm going to jump right into it.  Lots to cover.

Survivor Pool & Losers Pool

There was only one loss this weekend with Joe finishing in 3rd by choosing the Giants to lose.  Folden, Hale, Shawn, and Jim still fight it out for 5th-8th place points and Rob & John still have no losses on the year.

In Survivor Pool Me, Hale, Joe, Eplin, & Folden are still fighting it out for 2nd-6th.

Pro Predictions

The first divisional pro prediction of the year has come in with the Rams winning the NFC West.  The Saints aren't far behind, neither are the Pats.  Lots more to come in that arena

Fantasy Football

The playoffs are set.  As it turned out, neither Munez nor Eplin won their game, so there wasn't a whole of changes.  Rob did jump from 6th to 4th, Folden & Shawn each falling one game.

Here is the field:

1.  Adam
Bye

4. Rob
5. Folden

3. Joe
6. Shawn

2. Hale
Bye

In other news, in the first time in like 35 fantasy leagues I've ever played in, Kemp went 0-13.  Congrats on that I guess.

The point totals for the final standings for the bottom 6 are:

6. Eplin
5. Munez
4. Jim
3. Gary
2. John
1. Kemp

The rest of the point total's will vary based off of playoff results.  Hale & I are guaranteed to finish top 4.

College Pick'em

So, now this is done. Season over.  Well done to Munez, for winning this with a record of 142-112.

Here are the points associated with this.

12 Munez
11 John
10 Folden
9 Kemp
8 Eplin
7 Joe
5.5 Gary
5.5 Rob
4 Shawn
3 Adam
2 Jim
1 Hale

With that, Munez earns 5 bonus points, John 3, and Folden 2.

Additionally, Rob, Munez, Folden, and Shawn earned a bonus point for the most predictions in combined pick'em this weekend.

College Predictions

With only awards season & the final 4 to play out, we have our initial results in for the College Predictions.  I'll go over them in detail where they need detail and gloss over what doesn't.

Final Four

This one's pretty simple.  Everyone but Eplin & John got 4 points for having Georgia and Alabama.  Noone had Oklahoma or Notre Dame.  Eplin didn't have Clemson & John didn't have Alabama. 

The ACC was similar.  Everyone had Clemson but Eplin 
SEC - Shawn, Rob, Kemp, John had Georgia, everyone else had Alabama for the points.
PAC 12 - Everyone but Jim, Folden, & Kemp had Washington
Big 10 - Only Munez & I had Ohio State winning the Big 10.
Big 12 - Only Munez, Kemp, & Hale had Oklahoma winning the Big 12.
AAC - Everyone but me, Folden, and Shawn had UCF winning.
Conf USA - Lane went ahead and Kiffined on us.  We all had FAU & they sucked balls.
MAC - Eplin & Kemp were the only two who took NIU to win the Mac.
MWC - Fresno upset Boise to win the MWC, noone had them.
Sun Belt - App st won, which was picked by Gary, Kemp, John.

Losers of the Conferences

ACC- Obviously, noone predicted Pitt.
SEC - Georgia was correct by everyone but Shawn, Rob, Kemp &, John.
Pac 12 - Utah was picked by Jim, Rob, & Munez
Big 10 - Obviously noone had Northwestern
Big 12 - Texas picked by Hale, Kemp, & Munez
AAU - Memphis was picked by Rob, Munez, Eplin, & Kemp
Conf USA - nada
MAC - Buffalo was picked by Hale
MWC - Noone had Boise
Sunbelt - Louisiana Lafayette was picked as a loser by Jim

Top 10 to fall out of the top 25 was picked correctly by:
Adam - Wisconsin
Folden, Joe, Rob, Gary, Eplin, & Kemp - Auburn

Highest unranked teams in top 25.

These two ended up being Florida & Washington St.  Noone had Wash St, but Florida was chosen by:
Adam, Shawn, Joe, Munez, Gary, and Hale.

This puts our current point totals as below.  In parenthesis.  Depending on how awards go, this could change before we get to the championship games. 

Munez 26
Gary 24
Hale 23
Joe 22
Adam 22
Kemp 19
Eplin 18
Rob 18
Jim 16
Folden 15
John 13
Voyten 11

Bonus Points:  Here is a quick update on the bonus points earned this season.

Adam 5
Jim 5.5
Folden 9.5
Shawn 3
Joe 8.5
Rob 7.5
Gary 3.5
Hale 9
Eplin 4
Kemp 5
John 9
Munez 16

Overall Standings as of Dec 6th

1. Munez 64.5
2. Rob 61
2. Joe 61
4. Folden 57.5
5. Hale 52
6. Adam 49.5
7. John 41
8. Eplin 37.5
t9. Gary 31.5
t9. Jim 31.5
11. Shawn 31
12. Kemp 28




Munez is either leading or has won 4 categories this year.  Unreal.  I likely won't do a point update next week, so don't get the lube out too fast for this one.  There probably won't be enough changes next week to warrant one.  I'll update fantasy & the pools, as well as pro pick'em next week though.