GFFL Results
Jan 5th, 2010 by craig
Dateline – WASHINGTON (the state) – With the end of the NFL regular season, the Greyhavens Fantasy Football League finished its playoffs and got their first season in the books. There were lots of ups and downs, but league officials consider their inaugural season a big success.
In the first playoff week, the Championship Bracket saw number one seed Wurstens6 take on the fourth seeded The Burning Legion. In a squeaker, Wurstens6 managed to advance to the Championship game, beating The Burning Legion by less than five points. In a battle of the second and third seeds Dunedain advanced over the Snowmen. In the Consolation Bracket, in what may have been their best week of the season, the eighth seeded Bulldogs upended the fifth seeded The Hand of David team and Safety Blitz barely managed to get by the Bruisers.
In the Championship week, The Dunedain managed to outscore the mighty Wurstens6 to finish in the top spot, while the Snowmen outplayed The Burning Legion for a third place finish. The Bulldogs continued their strong play to win the fifth place game and The Hand of David won their finale to finish in the seventh spot.
There were lots of exciting times throughout the season, from the opening stresses about “how’d I end up with that player” and the “what can I do to get this guy” – to the midseason “oh no, my best starters all have a bye this week” and all the consternation about which players to start – to the final weeks frustrations over the best players sitting out of meaningless games. Everyone that watched felt bad for The Hand of David team in the week they were playing the Wurstens6. At first it looked like they had just barely lost to the Wurstens6, then a scoring change put The Hand of David on top and everyone congratulated them on beating the Wurstens6, only to have the scoring change corrected to put them back to a loss.
The Wurstens6 proved to be the team to beat, scoring 1593.96 points in the regular season, a full 161 points more than the next closest team. Oddly enough, the next four scoring ranked teams were within ten points of each other, the Dunedain at 1432, The Hand of David only five points back at 1427, the Snowmen at 1423 and the Burning Legion only about one point back at 1422.
Some other interesting scoring notes: The closest game played was in Week 11 between the Bulldogs and the Bruisers, when the Bruisers beat the Bulldogs by only 1.14 points. The highest team score for a week came in Week 6, when the Dunedain scored 146.18 points. Somewhat uncharacteristically, the Wurstens6 had the lowest team scoring week when they posted only 32.10 points in Week 4. The highest total weekly score (the two teams combined) came in Week 2 when the Wurstens6 and the Safe-T-Blitz scored a combined total of 243.40 points. The lowest combined score was in Week 4, when the Wurstens6 and the Bruisers combined for only 94.16 points. The biggest blowout came in Week 14 when those same two teams, Wurstens6 and the Bruisers played and the Wurstens6 won by almost 79 points.
For the record, here are the standings at the end of the regular season:
Grand Old Division
Dundedain 9-6
Snowmen 8-7
Bruisers 7-8
Bulldogs 5-10
Junior Circuit
Wurstens6 10-5
The Burning Legion 8-7
The Hand of David 7-8
Safe-T-Blitz 6-9
League officials are all looking forward to an expanded season next year!
Those Snowmen didn’t do too bad. They were right in it up until the last game or two. Just goes to show that attitude matters and it’s worth it to fill your team with happy, smiling players.
Yes, your “smile strategy” seems to have worked out real well.