Football God X12 Participants

Welcome to your annual presentation of the participants. Hard to believe we're a decade into this.  nutso.  Let's start with the usual, the list of previous champions

2008: Folden
2009: Adam
2010 Folden
2011: Shawn
2012: Adam
2013: Joe
2014: Joe
2015: Jim
2016: Adam
2017: Joe
2018: Rob



Now let's look at this year's participants.  In lieu of actual photos, I'm using what I think of when I thought of your name. 

2018 Champion:  Rob Klingensmith

Our Rodney Ruxin has finally won the league.

Rob Wins the Video

Previous results

2009: 10th
2012: 7th
2013: 3rd
2014: 2nd
2015: 7th
2016: 7th
2017: 6th
2018: 1st



2018 Runner Up:  Munez

2009: 4th
2011: 11th
2012: 6th
2013: 9th
2014: 4th
2015: 10th
2016:  11th
2017: 9th
2018: 2nd


2018 3rd place finisher:  Adam Johnson

2008: 4th
2009: 1st
2010: 2nd
2011: 8th
2012: 1st
2013: 7th
2014: 6th
2015: 2nd
2016: 1st
2017: 8th
2018: 3rd



2 Time Champion Anthony Folden

2008: 1st
2009: 3rd
2010: 1st
2011: 9th
2012: 3rd
2013: 8th
2014: 11th
2015:4th
2016 2nd
2017: 7th
2018: 4th


3 time champion Joe McLane

2009: 5th
2010: 5th
2011: 2nd
2012: 4th
2013: 1st
2014: 1st
2015: 5th
2016: 5th
2017: 1st
2018: 5th


Former Champion Jim Rowing

2008: 3rd
2009: 6th
2010: 4th
2011: 3rd
2012: 9th
2013: 5th
2014: 5th
2015: 1st
2016: 10th
2017: 2nd
2018: 9th

Former Champion Shawn Voyten

2009:  2nd
2010: 8th
2011: 1st
2012 8th
2013: 6th
2014: 8th
2015: 8th
2016: 3rd
2017: Last
2018: 10th


Gary Yingst

2014: 3rd
2015 Last
2016: 8th
2017: 5th
2018: Last

David Eplin

2015: 6th
2016: Last
2017: 3rd
2018: 8th


Chris Hale

2016: 9th
2017: 4th
2018: 6th




John McLane

2010: 6th
2011: last
2012: last
2013: last
2014: last
2017: 11th
2018: 11th


Alex Vohar

2019 Rules

ONLY A FEW CHANGES IN 2019.  I'm doing the weekly bonus points based off the week that it says on Yahoo.  Therefore even though Week 1 of college football and Week 1 of the NFL are played a week apart, the bonus point will go according to it just being Week 1.  This is simply to make it less consfusing for me when doing bonus points.  

ROTO SCORING

This is in essence, THE change this year.  First I'll explain the process, then I'll explain the reasoning.

There will be 9 categories this year.

Fantasy Football, College Pick'em, Pro Pick'em, Survivor Pool, Losers Pool, Bowl Pick'em, College Predictions, Pro Predictions, & Bonus points.

The way that each of these categories operates will remain largely the same as years before, but here's the difference.  In previous years, you would receive 10 pts for a fantasy win, or 20 pts for a correct prediction, which would go to an overall total of points that would usually end up being between 950-1100 for the winner.  This year the winner will likely have between 65 & 75 points total.  Here's how it'll work.

If you win fantasy football you receive 12 points.  If you finish in last place you will receive 1 point.  If you finish in 2nd you get 11 points. 8th place would get 5 points.

The same goes for every category.  So, here's an example score sheet

Fantasy - 3rd (10 pts)
College pick - 8th (5pts)
Pro pick 6th (7 pts)
Survivor Pool 10th (3 pts)
Bowl pick 'em 12th (1 pt)
College Predictions 1st (12 pts)
Pro predictions 9th (4 pts)
Bonus points 2nd (11pts)
Losers Pool 8th (5 pts)

Total 58 pts out of a possible 108

Why am I making this change?

There are a couple reasons but mainly, it makes things a lot easier for me.  I can look at the scoring and figure out where people stand much more quickly.  I can still do point updates, just instead of points going up all year long, points will fluctuate up and down, depending on people's place in the standings.

I think this will help people stay in the mix to win for longer, and keep people more engaged.

TIE BREAKER

If there's a tie it will be broken by looking at the places.  If Jim & Joe both have 70 points and Jim has 1 first place and Joe has 0, Jim would win the tiebreaker.  If Joe also had 1, we would go to 2nd place finishes.  If Jim had 1 2nd & Joe had 2, Joe would win.  So on and so forth .

PAYMENT

The entry to Football God will be $77 this year.  Geiss & Colin were always the holdup from us raising the fee.  I accept payment through VENMO.  As I stated last year, I always hated taking money for the league.  This way things are in an escrow account of sorts.  I can also take Paypal if that's your only option, but I'd prefer Venmo, so all the money is in the same place.  $2 of the prize money from each person will go towards the site hosting our losers pool.

Eplin, I kept your $60 for coming in 3rd last year, so you only owe $17 for this year.

That puts our prize pool at $900 for the year.

1st $550
2nd $250
3rd $100

We'll probably move the entry to $100 next year and cap it there.  Unless anyone has an objection.

BOWL PICK'EM

Because the bowl pick'em has such a limited spectrum of games, we can't just do straight points.  We'll end up with the potential to have way too many people tied.  Also, since bowl pick'em is now equally weighted to the other areas of Football God, we need to up the skill level.  Because of this, I'm instituting confidence points in the bowl pick'em this year.  

I'll explain that more when the time comes to sign up for the bowl pick'em.



SURVIVOR POOL

Survivor pool rules are the same as last year.  2 strikes and you're out.  Pick the team most likely to lose their game.  Can only choose each team once.

LOSERS POOL
We're going to do a weekly losers pool this year too.  The way this works is the opposite of the survivor pool.  You pick a team each week to lose.  You can pick each team once.  You get 2 strikes and you're out.

COLLEGE & PRO PICK'EM

I went back to doing the pro pick'em against the spread.  I know some of you don't like it, but with every category being of equal weight, the difficulty needs to be higher.

College pick'em is a weekly pick'em against the spread as well.

PREDICTIONS

You all should have received the Predictions sheet. I uploaded it to the facebook group message.  Let me know if you can't open it.


Bonus Points

Bonus points will still exist same as always.  But, they're a little different this year.

If you win college or pro pick'em in a week you get 1 bonus point.

If you are the highest scoring team in fantasy football for a week, you get a bonus point.
If you are the highest scoring losing team in fantasy football for a week, you get half a bonus point.
Every 4 wins you have in fantasy football you get a bonus point.  If you make the playoffs you get a bonus point.
If you make the fantasy playoffs you get a bonus point
If you win any of the categories you receive 4 bonus points. 2nd gets you 2 bonus points. 3rd gets you 1 bonus points.  This excludes losers pool and survivor pool, & obviously the bonus point category.
If you are the only person to get a prediction category correct, you get a bonus point.
For every 5 points you score in the predictions, you get a bonus point.

End of the Season Results

So, in the end, that shit was tight.  I'd recommend anyone to check my math here.  If nothing else I realized that I make mistakes, while going back through and figuring this all out.  But, anyway, let's see where we stand. 

The Patriots won the Superbowl for the 300th time.  This was also only the 2nd Superbowl that I didn't watch.  The other being the 2nd Patriots and Giants game.  So, let's move on from this dynasty forever, please. 

 Kemp managed to predict the Superbowl exactly right.  And, after his miserable start with the survivor, losers, and fantasy football, Kemp managed to put together a nice little season in the end.  Well done Kemp.

Otherwise, Jim predicted the Rams to lose the Superbowl, and John predicted the Patriots to win.  The Chiefs losing the AFC Championship game also scored points for Jim and Eplin.  Oddly enough, although lots of people had the Saints in the Superbowl, no one had them losing the NFC Championship game.

With our individual awards and stats, noone had Patrick Maholmes winning MVP (obviously), or Nagy winning coach of the year.  But, we had a few come true.

Most people chose Saquon Barkley to win the Offensive Rookie of the Year.  Everyone but John. 

Joe had Aaron Donald both winning DPOY and leading the league in Sacks. Hale and Eplin also had him for the DPOY & John had him leading the league in sacks. 

Folden, Shawn, Munez, Rob, and Eplin all had Andrew Luck winning the Comeback player of the year award. 

It was a rough year for some of the predictions this year.  So, let's take a look at our final standings in this.  Throughout all of this, the number in parenthesis is how many points you got in the standings.

Kemp 38 (12)

Eplin 34 (10.5)

Jim 34 (10.5)

John 32 (9)

Hale 30 (8)

Joe 27 (6.5)

Rob 27 (6.5)

Shaw 24 (5)

Adam 21 (4)

Munez 19 (3)

Folden 18 (2)

Gary 15 (1)

Kemp received 5 bonus points, Eplin & Jim each received 2.5.  For finishing in the top 3.

Points Associated in final standings.  Remember each person received a bonus point for every 5 points in this.

The Pro pick'em fished up here with the Superbowl and here are your final standings.

Folden 143 (12)

Munez 137 (11)

Rob 134 (10)

Joe 133 (9)

Gary 132 (8)

Shawn 128 (7)

Jim 127 (5.5)

Hale 127 (5.5)

Adam 124 (4)

Kemp 123 (3)

Eplin 111 (2)

John 100 (1)

Folden earns 5 bonus points, Munez 3, Rob 2. 

With that we come to our end of the season.  Along with Bonus Points which finished off like this. 

Munez 27

Kemp 25.5

Adam 25

Hale 24

Jim 21.5

Folden 20.5

Rob 19

Gary 18.5

John 18

Joe 18

Eplin 15.5

Shawn 14

So, the final standings.  

1. Rob 76.5

2. Munez 64.5

3. Adam 64

4. Folden 63.5

5. Joe 63.5

6. Hale 62.5

7. Kemp 58

8. Eplin 57

9. Jim 52.5

10. Shawn 50

11. John 49

12. Gary 40.5

Congratulations to Rob on his first Football God title.  Congratulations to Munez on his highest finish yet.  I'm attaching the final standings for everyone to review, on facebook.  What you'll notice is the consistency.  Rob didn't finish lower then a tie for 6th in any category this year.  Pretty unreal. 

Munez  fluctuated wildly, but a couple of 1st and a 2nd insulated him from this.  He narrowly pushed away of the 2nd-6th clusterfuck.

I was a bit in between, but I didn't fall below 3 points a tall, and finished with several double digit point finishes.  

Folden did really well in many categories, but really poorly in his predictions.  That was his big bring down.  Joe was pretty consistent all around, but his biggest fault was not finishing higher then 3rd at all in any category.  That hurt his bonus points badly, which ended up being the difference.

Hale would have been in 2nd instead of 6th if the Rams had won the Superbowl.  That one hurts. 

Also Folden and Joe tied for 4th.  So how do we resolve that for draft positioning?

The tiebreaker #1 is who had more 1st places in categories.  Folden had 1 in pro pick'em, and Joe had none.  So, that settles that.

Draft Order for Football God 2019

1. Folden

2. Joe

3. Hale

4. Kemp

5. Eplin

6. Jim

7. Shawn 

8. John

9. Gary

10. Adam

11. Munez

12. Rob

Thank you so much for playing fellas.  I'll get ahold of Rob & Munez to get you guys your money.  Thanks very much for playing.  

Big Changes Thanks to that Clemson Ass whoopin'

Quite the headline I know, but it really sort of fits in for the group.  To give a little background on the history of FBG we've been predicting the College & Pro Championships since the beginning.  The reason why those are worth significantly more points then other things is because it's relatively to predict just right.  So, in the course of our league, it's been a nice reward to give the people who are able to accurately predict the champion a bit of a leg up for doing so.

This year is not like every other year.  Since August everyone knew it was probably going to end up Clemson vs Alabama.  Sure, some people picked Georgia to mix it up, and Eplin in explicitly picked Wisconsin, but the likelihood of Clemson vs Alabama was high.  Because of that going into the last game of the season we were going to see a huge swing in the points either way.

With most people having one of the forms of Clemson and Alabama, whoever got it right was getting 10 points (in most cases) and the loser was getting nothing.  Below were the standings going into the final game.

Gary 27
Munez 26
Kemp 25
Eplin 24
Hale 23
Adam 22
Joe 22
John 19
Jim 19
Rob 18
Folden 18
Voyten 11

This would be the final standings if Alabama had won:

Munez 36
Hale 33
Joe 32
Eplin 30
Kemp 29
Folden 28
Gary 27
John 23
Adam 22
Jim 19
Rob 18
Voyten 11

Here are the final standings with Clemson winning

Gary 37 (7)
Adam 32 (6)
Jim 29 (5)
Munez 26 (5)
Kemp 25 (5)
Eplin 24 (4)
Rob 24 (4)
Hale 23 (4)
Joe 22 (4)
John 19 (3)
Folden 18 (3)
Voyten 11 (2)

Other than the fact that in either case, Shawn is woefully in last place, there are giant swings.  Remember this when we get to the standings this week.

With that, Gary gets 5 bonus points, I get 3 bonus points, and Jim gets 2 bonus points.  In addition to this I counted up our total prediction points.  In the rules, it stated that for every 5 points you score in the predictions you get a bonus point.  The bonus points are in parenthesis above.

Bonus Points

Giving an update on where we stand on bonus points:  Keep in mind this is with the 1 bonus point per prediction in College pick'em but NOT in the pro pick'em:  Obviously, those top 3 bonus's are coming into play more and more.

Munez	26
Adam	24
Hale	22.5
Gary	21
Kemp	17.5
Rob	17
Joe	17
Jim	17
John	16
Folden	15.5
Eplin	12
Shawn	12

Bowl Pick'em
Onto our bowl pick'em.  It appears nothing changed in the pick'em.  Meaning our final winner is Shawn, followed by Kemp, and then Me.  The bonus points will go out 5, 3, and 2.

Final ROTO points per person.

Shawn 12
Kemp 11
Adam 10
Eplin 9
Rob 8
Folden 7
Hale 6
Joe 4.5
John 4.5
Gary 3
Jim 2
Munez 1

Pro Pick'em

There were slight changes in pro pick'em this week.  Mainly with Gary jumping up to 4th.  This is still really close, with 2 games seperating Gary, Joe, and Shawn for 4th place.  Hale and Sahwn tied for 7th.  These last few games could make the difference in close standings in the finish.

Pro Predictions

John 26

Hale 24

Rob 21

Joe 21

Kemp 21

Jim 20

Adam 18

Eplin 17

Shawn 16

Munez 13

Gary 12

Folden 12

That are the current standings in the Pro Predictions.  And these are the points still to go out.

MVP

Offensive Rookie of the Year

Comeback player of the Year

Coach of the Year

Defensive Rookie of the Year

Defensive Player of the year

AFC & NFC Championship Game losers

Super Bowl Loser

Super Bowl Winner

So, in the next few weeks we'll settle the bonus points category, pro predictions, and pro pick'em. 

So let's see what's changed.  Our standings last update

1. Rob 78.5

2. Joe 74

3. Hale 72.5

4. Munez 67.5

5. Adam 62

6. Folden 61.5

7. John 57.5

8. Eplin 51.5

9. Shawn 51

10. Kemp 49

11. Jim 39

12. Gary 38.5

Now let's see where everyone would stand if Alabama had won last week.


Joe 72.5
Hale 72.5
Rob 70
Munez 67
Folden 65.5
Adam 60
John 59.5
Eplin 54
Kemp 53.5

Shawn 49.5
Gary 40.5
Jim 39

Finally, let's take a look at where we actually stand, solely becaue Clemson beat Alabama, instead of the other way around.

Rob 78
Joe 67.5
Adam 67
Hale 67
Munez 64
Folden 58.5
John 56.5
Kemp 54.5
Eplin 52
Shawn 49.5
Jim 47
Gary 46.5

Unreal how a few bonus points and a jump in the standings can change everything.  Essentially it looks like Rob has it locked up.  He'd have to drop 11 points to one of the 3 people below him, and I don't think there's enough variance left for that to happen.

The interesting thing now is between 2nd and 5th.  Only half a point seperate 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.  With Munez still only a couple of points back.  With us all having different Superbowls, it'll probably come down to that game to decide who finishes in the money, and who finishes out.

Pre playoff update

Hey fellas.  Let's all be friends here and talk about where we stand going into the final month of the football season.

Fantasy Football

Hale and I's game came down to the Sunday night affair, and he outlasted me to win the Fantasy Championship.

That's 5 bonus points to Hale, 3 to me, and 2 to Rob, who finished in 3rd. 

Your final points standings in fantasy look like this:

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

Pro Pick'em has changed a lot of over the past few weeks.  With only 11 games left in the season, it may be hard to make too much of a move here.

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

Folden is probably safe at either 1st or 2nd, with Rob in 3rd 6 games back.  Munez could still jump to 1st or possibly fall to 3rd.  The place where there's real chances for carnage is between 4th and 8th.  Only 4 games separate that bunch. 

Bowl Pick'em

With 1 game to play here is where we stand

Shawn 559
Kemp 519
Adam 494
Eplin 480
Rob 477
Folden 432
Hale 422
John 422
Joe 421
Gary 391
Jim 331
Munez 320

The nice thing about ESPN is that it shows you how many points each person has remaining.  Rob for instance, at 5th has only 1 point left, so he can't go any higher than 5th place.  He also has a 45 point lead over Folden at 6th.  So you know he's set there at 5th.

Shawn has a 40 point lead over Kemp at 2nd place, with Kemp having 35 points left.  So Shawn will win.  Kemp can finish no worse then 3rd, I can finish no worse then 4th.  Eplin will finish between 2nd - 4th.

The real juice here is between 6th and 9th.  Only 11 points separates the Mclanes, Folden, and Hale.  So, who will use there gamesmenship right.  Switch to Clemson and hope everyone else picks Bama, or stay with Bama and hope every else switches?

Here's our cooresponding point totals as of now

Shawn 12
Kemp 11
Adam 10
Eplin 9
Rob 8
Folden 7
Hale 6
Joe 4.5
John 4.5
Gary 3
Jim 2
Munez 1

Pro Predictions

I don't really have time to go through all of this.  But I'll just post the point totals as of now. 

John 26

Hale 24

Rob 21

Joe 21

Kemp 21

Jim 20

Adam 18

Eplin 17

Shawn 16

Munez 13

Gary 12

Folden 12

I'll get more into the pro predictions next week.  

On another note I had completely forgotten that for College and pro predictions you get a bonus point for every 5 points you score.  So our bonus points are updated with that in mind. 

Here is where we are at in bonus points now.  

Munez	28
Hale	26.5
John	22
Adam	21
Joe	21
Rob	20
Kemp	19.5
Folden	17.5
Jim	17
Gary	16
Eplin	15
Shawn	10

Lastly,  Rob ended up winning the losers pool.  He didn't lose a game all year.  Well done by him and John taking it down to week 17.

So obviously there's a few bottle necks that can still clear up.  In the meantime, here are your overall total scores as of 1/4/19

1. Rob 78.5

2. Joe 74

3. Hale 72.5

4. Munez 67.5

5. Adam 62

6. Folden 61.5

7. John 57.5

8. Eplin 51.5

9. Shawn 51

10. Kemp 49

11. Jim 39

12. Gary 38.5

So, the addition of a couple of categories really mixed things up.  Hale jumped from 5th to 3rd.  Munez fell from 1st to 4th.  Folden from 3rd to 6th.  Will be interesting to see how things play out.  Points will fluctuate again on Tueday after the College football season ends.  Update it then.  

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. 

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.