And then there were two

So after the first week of no upsets, the second round has upsets in 3 of the 4 games. And the one non-upset stopped a 7 game losing streak.


Championship Table is Set
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Lance rode the back of LDT once again and scraped his way into the championship game despite McNair getting hurt and giving him 0 points. A huge game from Desmond Clark at TE definitely helped and Shayne Graham's big Monday night was just icing on the cake.

I was able to ride through with the help of several solid but not spectacular games from St. Jax, M-Drew, and Romo, which made Viniatieri's big monday night my icing and got me to triple-digits.

Alex fell to Lance through 3 bad events hitting him the same week: 1. He started 2 guys who didn't play 2. Brees finally had a bad week and 3. His IDP's actually let him down.

Tommy fell despite Gore and Bulluck's solid outputs because even the guys he had with big yards just did not get TD's, which ultimately killed his chances.


Consolation Rounds
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Tommy and Alex will now battle it out for 3rd place.

Saurabh stopped his 7 game skid by beating Kristel. He was losing going into Monday night, but he had Peyton while Kristel only had Wayne. Wayne had a good night, but Peyton had a spectacular game pushing Saurabh into the 5th place matchup (and Kristel to the 7th).

Tim was led through to the 5th place matchup with Saurabh by Vick's 4 TD explosion. Besides him only Stevens got into double-digits, but it was enough to hold off Joe, whose team has fallen off the past 4 weeks since McNabb was injured. Even Harrison's 24 point game (one of the highest for a WR this year) wasn't enough to make the score close.

5th place matchup: Saurabh vs. Tim

7th place matchup: Kristel vs. Joe

Week 1 Playoffs

No real surprises in the first week as all the top 4 seeds advance easily.

In fact, the closest game ended up being a 12 point win by the LDT led Lance team.

The other semi-close game with me vs. Joe was decided on Monday night as St. Jax and Urlacher reeled off huge games to send me to a harder than the score looked win.

Tommy and Alex rolled to easy wins yet again firming up their positions as the top two seeds.

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This week:

Alex vs. Lance

Lance - Has rode the LDT train this far and doesn't want to stop as he faces a weak KC defense. If he wants help, he's hoping McNair can take advantage of a banged up Cle secondary, and is also banking on Joe Horn still being out as he has Devery Henderson in his lineup. Also, he's hoping the Bears take advantage of TB as he has both Clark and Jones going for him.

Alex - Great matchup at QB with Brees facing the weak Wash secondary. Some of his other matchups don't work out as well though as Westbrook faces the re-invigorated NYG, Henry the Jags, and Galloway the Bears. He also has D-Jax in the lineup despite the fact he is probably out for Thursday's game. We'll see if he realizes this and changes him out in time.


Tommy vs. Mike

Tommy - some tough matchups as Holt faces the Oakland pass D, Gore the Seattle run D and Fitz faces Champ Bailey. Shockey has a real soft matchup though and his defensive players all ahve favorable opponents.

Mike - Half the team is banged up (St Jax, Driver, Vernon) and the other half is so up and down it's hard to count on them for sure (Romo, Roy Will, Parker). If the banged up guys play and the up and down guys are on an upswing, most have favorable opponents. Otherwise, it might be tough sledding.

Playoffs!?...you're talking Playoffs?!

And our 8 teams are set. Congrats to those that are in and regrets to those that didn't make it. Special solace to Justin who finished in a 4 way tie for 6th by going 6-2 down the stretch, but didn't have enough points to make the cut.

Good luck to everyone in the playoffs. Should be fun times.

Some Regular Season Awards:

Spoiler of the Year: No doubt that Chetan gets this award. After starting 1-7, he finished by winning 4 out of 5 games including his last 2 over playoff teams that helped wreck their seeds.

Flops of the Year: Joe's two friends with teams logged in sparingly and showed you can't win in fantasy football without putting in some kind of effort.

Most surprising fall: I would give this to Saurabh's team that was able to squeak into the playoffs despite a 5 game losing streak. at 7-1 it looked like he had the team to beat; that may still be the case, but it hasn't looked that way as he dropped to the #6 seed.

Busiest: Tim had the most waiver moves at the end of the regular season with 37, while I ended with 35. I also had 4 trades completed though, so maybe I take home this title (though the trades netted me the likes of David Carr and Michael Clayton among other such stellar players).

Brother Battles: Justin beat Pat. Joe beat Tommy. Little Bros 1...Big Bros 1.

Biggest losing streak: 10 by say something.

Biggest winning streak: 6 by myself.

Point Winner: Alex (followed by Lance and Tommy)

Point Loser: DUP (followed by say something)

Highest scoring player: Tomlinson (by 80!!! points).

Highest scoring defensive player: Demeco Ryans (a rookie!)

Highest scoring week: 119 by Kristel