Football God Final Scores

1. Rob 84.5
2. Alex 76.5
3. Adam 74
4. Shawn 71.5
5. Hale 70.5
6. Gary 59.5
7. Folden 51.5
8. Joe 51
9. Munez 48
10. Eplin 46
11. Jim 39
12. John 30

Let's remember where we all stood at the last update.  We didn't have a lot that needed finished up, so how much could things change?   Apparently, a lot is the answer.  

John, Gary, Hale, Joe, Folden and Jim all correctly predicted that the Chiefs would win the Superbowl.  And, where that didn't effect people at the bottom of the predictions, it certainly did everyone else.  The 8 points for that prediction was a major swing for something that was so close to begin with.  Several people dropped pretty far in this.  

Jim and Folden crushed it for 1st and 2nd, and Hale, John, and Gary all tied for 3rd.  Here are our actual standings in the Pro Predictions.

Several people also had Kyler Murray as the OROY and a couple had Nick Bosa as the DROY.  This led to some big swings in the standings. 

 Jim 45

Folden 43

Hale  39

Gary  39

John 39

Eplin 37

Joe 36

Alex 32

Adam 29

Munez 28

Rob  27

Shawn  27

Alex dropped 3 points, Shawn dropped 3 points, Joe rose 6 points.  Rob fell 3 points.  This was a huge swing.  It changed the bonus points slightly but not enough to make much mention.  In the Pick'em Alex finished in 2nd, Gary 3rd, and Rob 1st.  Shawn finished ahead of Munez breaking his tie.  Joe ahead of Eplin.  

So what did this huge swing in points do to the final standings?  Let's take a look 

Rob 81.5

Adam 74.5

Alex 74

Hale 71

Shawn 68

Gary 62.5

Joe 55

Folden 52.5

Jim 44

Eplin 43

Munez 40

John  36

Congrats Rob on your repeat championship.  Winnings will be dispersed in short order.  Just contact me. 

Update!

Hey, I'm back, finally, with an update! 

Lots has happened since last month, let's get into it. 

The college football season ended with LSU winning over Clemson.  many people had Clemson losing the National Championship, so let's look at how this impacted our total standings.

Rob won the damn thing with 42 points.  I was in 2nd with 37.  Hale one point behind with 36.  John one point behind him with 35.  After that was a pretty drastic drop off.

Here's where everyone ended up.

Rob 12
Adam 11
Hale 10
John 9
Gary 7.5
Folden 7.5
Joe 6
Alex 5
Jim 4
Gary 3
Shawn 2
Munez 1


Bowl Pick'em came and went with me winning by about 30 points over the next closest person.  After that was quite a log jam, with Hale at 642 and Shawn at 638.  4th and 9th were only seperated by about 40 points total.  Here's where everyone finished there.

Adam 12
Hale 11
Shawn 10
Jim 9
Alex 8
Joe 7
Rob 6
Gary 5
Chris 4
Eplin 3
Folden 2
John 1

Obviously, this effected our bonus points as well, with the top spot in each getting 4 bonus points, 2nd getting 2, and 3rd getting 1.  The bonus points was also effected by the Pro Predictions.  Which are almost complete. 

As of now, almost everyone has the Chiefs either winning or losing the Superbowl so our standings will still drastically change in that.  There are still the individual awards to be given out as well. 

So, for now.  Jim is leading with 34 points, Folden is close behind with 32, and then it is an old school cluster fuck the rest of the way down.  Here's where we stand.

Jim 12
Folden 11
Eplin 9.5
Hale 9.5
Alex 8
Munez 6.5
Gary 6.5
Rob 4.5
Shawn 4.5
Adam 2.5
John 2.5
Joe 1

In the Pro Pick'em we're just about finished too.  Rob has locked up the top spot and the bonus points.  Half of the positions are set in stone.  Gary and Alex are still tied for 2nd.  Shawn and Munez are tied for 5th.  And Eplin can still tie Joe. 

So.  Add everything together and where are we? 

1. Rob 84.5
2. Alex 76.5
3. Adam 74
4. Shawn 71.5
5. Hale 70.5
6. Gary 59.5
7. Folden 51.5
8. Joe 51
9. Munez 48
10. Eplin 46
11. Jim 39
12. John 30

I'll attach all the supporting documentation in emails if anyone wants to double check things. 

Short Update

Hey guys.  I don't really have the time to go through everything right now, but wanted to just make a couple of quick announcements. 

Congrats to Alex on winning the fantasy football league.  He started 1-5 and ended up winning every game but 1 the rest of the way to make the playoffs.  I truly haven't seen a comeback like it.  Good for you, Alex.

Alex wins the 4 bonus points that comes with this, Shawn comes in 2nd and receives 2 bonus points.  Joe comes in 3rd and gets 1 bonus point. 

The bowl pick'em is underway, no real updates on this yet.  Those will come after the weekend.

The Pro pick'em is down to the last week with a lot of games.  REMEMBER to make your picks throughout the playoffs.


SURVIVOR POOL is down to 2 teams, Alex & Rob.  I lost last week by picking Fuck Hodges and the Steelers. 

Loser's Pool is also in the last week, with Gary and I still fighting it out for 2nd place, with Shawn having sewn it up long ago.


That's all I got this week.  Just wanted to update people on the happenings.

First Point Update of the Season

We've finally reached the point where I can give an involved and detailed status of where we stand on the season.  Let's start off:

Fantasy Football:

Shawn & Alex won their games this weekend, leaving the two of them in the finals.  Shawn gets the honor of getting to be the last team that gets the shit kicked out of them by Alex this season on the way to his inevitable overtaking of the world. 

Hale & Joe will play for 3rd place and 4th place points. 

Over the weekend, Munez beat me locking up 5th place and I took home 6th.  Here are your points as of now.  (Shawn, Alex, Hale, and Joe are showing the average of their points that are available to them.

Shawn 11.5
Alex 11.5
Joe 9.5
Hale 9.5
Munez 8
Adam 7
Rob 6
Folden 5
Gary 4
John 3
Jim 2
Eplin 1

College Pick'em

Rob ran away with the college pick'em, Shawn came in 2nd, and Folden 3rd.  This is important because there are bonus points given to the top 3 in everything except for the survivor and losers pool. 

Our Final point totals in this go as follows.

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

Survivor Pool

Me, Alex, and Rob still are in the Survivor Pool with 2 weeks to play.  Here are the points in this one:

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


Losers Pool:

This one has Shawn already winning it with Me and Gary fighting it out for 2nd and 3rd place:

Shawn 12
Gary 10.5
Adam 10.5
Eplin 9
Rob 8
Joe 6.5
Munez 6.5
Jim 5
John 4
Hale 3
Alex 2
Folden 1


These four categories are either complete or near complete, there wont' be a lot of variance left in these.  However, the next ones still have a lot of changes to go through

PRO PREDICTIONS & BOWL PICK 'EM

I don't have any points tallied for this yet, so these are the x factor going forward in the league. 

Pro Pick'em

With two weeks left in the bowl pick'em it's really tight.  At the top Gary holds onto a 2 game lead, with Alex and Rob tied for 2nd behind them.  Alex had a rare bad week to fall.

Munez is in 4th with 117, with me and Hale tied at 5th with 116. 

After that there is a drop off to Shawn at 110 Folden at 117 and Eplin at 106 in the 7-9 spot.

Our points (as of now)

Gary 12
Rob 10.5
Alex 10.5
Munez 9
Adam 7.5
Hale 7.5
Shawn 6
Folden 5
Eplin 4
Joe 3
John 2
Jim 1


This brings us to our College Predictions.  I'm going to attach the college predictions sheet after this so everyone can see where we are at this point. 

In the top 4, no one was able to get more then 2 teams in the finals.  Everyone got Clemson, and then there was a smattering of Ohio st and Oklahoma for some people.

At this point, 6 people have their champion still in teh running, 7 people have their runner up.  All of these are Clemson for everyone, (except for me, having Ohio State and Clemson)

This means that if Clemson makes the finals, the point differences could vary greatly.

As of now here's where everyone stands:

Rob 12
Adam 11
Hale 10
John 9
Folden 8
Joe 7
Eplin 6
Alex 5
Gary 4
Jim 3
Voyten 2
Munez 1

Rob has 38 points in the lead.  I'm 2nd with 33.  I think the only way Rob can fall out of the top spot here is if Ohio State wins the National Championship.  Other then that, depending on Clemson winning or losing the National Titlea  lot of people could jump or fall.

In the attachment, the Yellow highlights in the individual awards represent getting a finalist in the category who didn't win.  You received 1 point for that this year.


The rewarding of bonus points for someone being the only person to get a correct prediction in a category goes as follows. 

Adam - Ohio St winning the Big 10
Voyten - FAU winning Conference USA

That is it.


Bonus Points. 


I'll also attach the bonus point spread sheet.  If you can figure out my weird method to follow it.  But here's the overall totals here.

Rob	21
Alex	14
Hale	11.5
Shawn	11.5
Adam	11
Folden	10
Joe	9.5
Munez	8.5
Gary	8
John	8
Eplin	6.5
Jim	5.5

OVERALL STANDINGS

Here's where we stand at this point:

Rob 71

Adam 61

Alex 59

Shawn 55.5

Hale 51

Gary 50

Joe 43.5

Folden 39

Munez 37.5

Eplin 33

John 26.5

Jim 17

Still a lot of fluctuation and 2 categories taht haven't even started being counted yet.  Until next time.

Updates Updates

Hey guys been a few weeks since I updated.  So let's see where we stand.

Fantasy Football

The regular season has come to an end, and we have some resolutions.  Alex made the unbelievable comeback of his team starting 0-5 yet he still made the playoffs.  He won 7 of his last 8 games in the best comeback story I think in the 12 years of this league.  Well done Alex.

He beat Rob in an elimination type game, jumping him via the points scored tiebreaker.   

Joe hit a late season losing streak, dropping him to a tie at 7-6 along with Rob and Alex, his points scored helping him to stay in the 5 seed. 

I had a late season surge to power myself to 8-5 and the 4 seed, helped a little bit by Folden's strategy of not playing a QB or WR in the last game of the season. 

Munez finishes at 9-4 and in the 3 seed, tied with Shawn and Hale, but beaten by the point tie break.

Shawn and Hale end as our 1 and 2 seed and enjoy the luxuries of a first round bye.

Points so Far

Rob was in great playoff position, but went 1-3 down the stretch, and just about every other game went the worst way possible for Rob. 

Folden fell apart at the end finishing in 8th. 

Gary pulled out 2 wins to end the season, which brought him from last to 9th, which is a big difference of 3 points in the final overall football god standings.

John finished in 10th, Jim 11th, and Eplin's 7 game losing streak ends the year for him in 12th.

Rob 6
Folden 5
Gary 4
John 3
Jim 2
Eplin 1

Shawn and Hale are guarenteed somewhere between 12-9 points.  The rest of us could fall to 8 or 7 points.

Matchups
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Munez Vs Alex

Man this one looks bad for Munez.  Alex's team is putting up about 150 points a game.  That being said, noone's stifled their opponents scores this year like Munez.  He's like the bitter poison pill to everyone he plays. 

The winner gets Hale the Snail.

Adam Vs Joe

I've been lucky enough to play Joe twice this year and beat him twice this year.  I feel like this luck is going to run out.  I've got some injury issues and Joe's team looks like it's finally fully healthy. 


Survivor Pool


The survivor Pool has dropped to 4 people with 4 weeks to go.  Rob lost his 1 game cushion by choosing Carolina last week.  This loss also knocked Hale out of the running. 

Eplin was able to make it through the tiebreak round with the high points for the group of people who got knocked out a few weeks ago.

Here's where our points are laid out so far.

Hale 8
Eplin 7
Shawn 5.5
Joe 5.5
Jim 4
Folden 3
John 2
Munez 1


Losers Pool

The losers pool is closer to it's resolution.  Shawn already won the losers pool.  Rob & Eplin were just eliminated tied for 4th.  So they'll play things out for 4th and 5th.  And Gary and I are playing for 2nd and 3rd.  Here's our point totals at the moment:

Shawn 12
Adam 11 or 10
Gary 11 or 10
Rob 9 or 8
Eplin 9 or 8
Munez 6.5
Joe 6.5
John 4
Hale 3
Alex 2
Folden 1


College Pick'em

We're in our final week of the pick'em, and Rob's got that shit locked up.  He's up by 10 and there are only 8 games available to pick from.  Shawn and Alex are a point apart for 2nd, Munez and Folden likely fighting it out for 4th and 5th.  It appears there's some room for everyone to rise of fall a little bit.

Pro Pick'em

Alex is trying to go wire to wire in the lead here.  He's got a several game lead.  We'll get more into that next week. 

The College Pick'em points will start rolling in next week, we'll get to that then too.


Bonus Points. 

So, I'll try to do as comprehensive of a review of who has earned what in our bonus points so far.

Fantasy Football Bonus point for highest score of week.

Alex 3
Rob 3
Joe 2
Shawn 2
Adam 1
Hale 1
Gary 1

Fantasy 1/2 point for highest scoring loser of the week

Alex 1
Rob 1
Folden 1
John 1/2
Joe 1/2
Jim 1/2
Shawn 1/2
Eplin 1/2
Munez 1/2
Hale 1/2

Pick'em Bonus Through Week 13

Alex 4
Folden 2
Munez 2
Hale 1
Rob 4
Gary 2
Eplin 1
Jim 1

Fantasy Wins 1 Bonus point per 4 wins & 1 point for making fantasy playoffs

Shawn 3
Hale 3
Munez 3
Adam 3
Joe 2
Alex 2
Jim 1
John 1
Folden 1
Rob 1
Gary 1


Total bonus points at this point. 

Alex 10
Rob 9
Hale 5 1/2
Shawn 5 1/2
Munez 5 1/2
Joe 4 1/2
Folden 4
Gary 4
Adam 4
Jim 2 1/2
Eplin 1 1/2
John 1 1/2


Of course this is without factoring any category winners or the prediction bonus's so that's going to change big time.  There are only two weeks left in the bonus points for pick'ems. So, the number we get from that will be everyone's baseline going forward so I don't have to add these up again. 


So, basically, at this point, I still can't give you guys a mock of the standings.  However, once the college predictions mostly roll in tomorrow we can start with some mocked standings so everyone can see where they are.  Those will of course be without pro predictions or the bowl pick'em.

ALSO, Everyone sign up for Bowl pick'em on ESPN.  You should have gotten an email link.  Thanks guys.  Hopefully an update next week!

Survivor Blow Up

Well well well...Thanks to the Saints I got my wish.  We got some fucking movement on the Survivor Pool.  Four eliminations:  to Shawn, Jim, Eplin, and Joe, knocks the Survivor Pool down from 9 to 5.  Per usual, the Saints fuck the chicken on it, getting blown out to the Falcons when they were 13 point favorites.

This leaves Gary and Rob as the only two people without a strike.  Me, Hale, and Alex are still alive with a strike a piece.

Shawn, Jim, Eplin, and Joe will be fighting it out for the 4 to 7 point range of things.

The Losers Pool was even nuttier.  Literally everyone lost.  Shawn got his first strike, and that was good enough to finish in 1st place for the year, netting him 12 points in the overall standings.  Everyone else, Rob, Joe, Eplin, Munez, Me, Gary, will be fighting for the 11 to 6 point boost.   Congrats to Shawn.

College Football Predictions:

I was able to get a much better look at how things are able to play out this week.  I'm going to be sending this as a link through facebook so you can follow along.

The color coding is pretty simple.  If it's in Green it is confirmed, if it's in yellow it's unlikley to occur, and if it's in Red it won't occur.

The only predictions to come 100% accurate so far are Folden's Willie Taggart fired prediction and Rob's Chris Ash fired prediction.  I want to hgihlight a coupel of places where people are looking good.

In the Big 12 a lot of people went Texas this year.  With only a few games left Oklahoma is looking poised to repeat.  This benefits Joe, Rob, Munez, Eplin, Alex, John, Hale,and Folden.

Somehow I was the only person pick either Ohio St or Minnesota to make the big 10 title game.  This would be a huge boost for me, if Ohio State were to play Minnesota and beat them.


The AAC is looking very much like UCF won't be winning that.  This is a big boost to Voyten, Hale, and Rob who have Memphis.

5 people took Georgia winning the SEC this year.  I'm unsure if this will happen, as it's looking increasingly like Alabama won't be in the SEC championship.  LSU has 3 conference games left and would need to lose 2 of them for Bama to get into that game.

Alex, Munez, and Folden are the only ones hurt by Washington's fall off this year, Oregona nd Utah are fairly split between the rest of us.

At this point, almost everyone's picks are still in the running.  Outside of anyone who chose Texas or Michigan.  Otherwise everyone's picks are all still in the running.

Fantasy Football

Technically, I guess, Eplin and Gary aren't eliminated mathematically yet.  But, let's presume they're chances of making it in this are so small that we'll leave them out of discussion until we see a win or two.

Let's also assume that Joe, Shawn, and Hale are in the playoffs.  All three are at 7-3 and have a 3 game lead over the 7th place team. 

Today we'll focus on teams 4-10

Folden 4-6 vs Rob 6-4
Jim 4-6 vs Shawn 7-3
Alex 4-6 vs Eplin 3-7
John 4-6 vs Hale 7-3
Munez 6-4 vs Joe 7-3
Adam 5-5 vs Gary 3-7


So, the only game between teams that are still fighting is between Rob and Folden.  Like half of Folden's team is either on bye or hurt, so let's sea how this goes.  I mean the guy's receiving core is Curits Samuel, Cole Beasley, and N'Keal Harry, a guy I've literally never heard of.  These are either the most savvy plays of all time or Folden's just fucked. 

Otherwise, Alex has fought back from a 0-5 start to win 4 out of his last 5 getting up to 7th place and being a win and a lose from me away from being in the playoff picture.  He has a 50 piont lead on me in points for hte tie breaker.  If he loses the Folden, Jim, and John all could tie me with a win this weekend and a loss by me.  It's most likely I would keep my point tie breaker over each of them unless I did absolutely nothing. 

If Folden, Jim, Alex, John, Joe and Gary were to win though that would cause some craziness. 4-10 would all be seperated by 1 game.  We'll likely endu p somewhere in between.

That's it for this week.

Update in the City

Another wicked weekend has come and gone, and here we are knee deep in a soggy November rain, basking in the memories of warmer days.  Onto the update

NFL was wild this weekend with the hometeam winning every game except for the Monday night game.  That fucked up a lot of people's picks and a couple of survivor pools.  So let's start with that. 

Survivor Pool & Losers Pool

Survivor Pool took it's 3rd victim of the season, with Folden choosing the Browns and paying for it.  He's now in 10th in that giving him 3 points on the year for Survivor.  The point totals go as follows

3.  Folden
2. John
1. Munez

That leaves 9 people to go in this pool and man could we use some movement.  We're more then halfway done on the year, and there are still 5 people without a strike.  Those are:

Me, Alex, Gary, Hale, and Rob. 

People with one strike are: Eplin, Shawn, Joe, and Jim. 

It would figure that something has to give at some point.  For those unaware of tiebreaker rules, if we go the whole season without a winner.  The tie is broken based off of when the person got their first strike.  So at the end of the year if it's Hale and Joe as the final 2.  Hale would get first place points because he went longer without his first strike. 

If people don't have a strike, or got strikes on the first week, then I'm out of guesses and the people just split the points.  So, 12 and 11, each person would get 11.5. 

The losers pool has had significantly more movement.  Jim got knocked out by picking Pittsburgh this weekend, which puts him in 8th place gaining 5 points.  The points in this one are:

5. Jim
4. John
3. Hale
2. Alex
1. Folden

Everyone else has 1 strike, except for Shawn who is pushing along without any.  This pool could be over in any given week.  Although that's unlikely.

Pro Pick'em

After a terrible week from Alex, the pro pick'em has finally tightened up.  Shout out to Hale for obstaining on picks, realizing this week was going to be difficult.  Gary took advantage of this the most, picking up 8 points on Alex and moving into 2nd place overall.  He has a 4 game lead over me, which is where the bottleneck starts. 

8 games seperates me at 3rd and Joe at 10th.  So with 8 weeks to go in the regular season, there's plenty of room for everyone to move. 

College Pick'em

College is tight.  Munez has a 1 game lead over Rob and Shawn and a 3 game lead over Jim.  Folden and Alex are only 4 back. 

Fantasy Football

We almost had the perfect chaos weekend, but Gary's QB injury prevented him from winning.  Overall, we have 4 weeks left and everyone is still technically still in it.  Let's go through the standings. 

Joe 6-3
Rob 6-3
Shawn 6-3
Hale 6-3
Adam 5-4
Munez 5-4
John 4-5
Folden 4-5
Alex 3-6
Eplin 3-6
Jim 3-6
Gary 3-6

3 games separating 1st through 12th is pretty good variance.  four 6-3 teams, four 3-6 teams, two 5-4 teams, 2 4-5 teams.  It's almost beautiful to look at.

What does this mean for playoffs?  Well, you need to look at next week's schedule to get a better idea of where this might shake out.  Consider this the 2nd part of potential fantasy football chaos that could ensue, based off of the schedule.

1. Joe 6-3 vs 2. Rob 6-3
5. Adam 5-4 vs 6. Munez 5-4
4. Hale 6-3 vs 12. Gary 3-6
3. Shawn 6-3 vs Folden 4-5

So the first 3 games.  Rob and Joe are basically playing for 1st and a playoff spot guarenteed (based off of their points).  So there game is pretty much irrelevant for this articles purposes. 

Gary needs to win or he's done.  That simple.  He needs to win out plain and simple.

Munez and are playing at 5-4.  This means that one of the playoff teams next week will be 5-5, whether it's me, Munez, Folden, or John (if they both won)

Folden needs to beat Shawn to put himself into good position down the stretch to make the playoffs.

Here's where things get interesting, and where the playoffs more then likely start for 4 teams this weekend.

Alex 3-6 vs John 4-5
Eplin 3-6 vs Jim 3-6

Simply put, Jim or Eplin are out of it after this weekend.  And Alex is out if he loses.  John's very low points for likely puts him out if he loses too, so let's say this is playoffs starting for these teams. 

Let's put out a scenario. 

Alex wins, Gary wins, Folden wins.  Our standings next week

1. J or R 7-3
2. J or R 6-4
3. Shawn 6-4
4. Hale 6-4
5. A or M 6-4
6. A, F or M 5-5
7. A, F, or M 5-5

Then you have

John 4-6
Alex 4-6
Gary 4-6
Jim or Eplin 4-6


If this happens, we'll have 5 teams within one game of the playoffs with 3 to play.  That's where things go nuts. 

Bonus Points: 

I'm going to do a full on bonus point update here soon and let everyone know where they stand. 


Pro & College Predictions: 

We're 1 week away from when college predictions can be talked about.  That, fantasy and bonus points will be the soul update for next week.