Week 17 Wrap Up
Well, the regular season has come to an end, and it took me a couple extra days to wrap it all up. Sorry for the delay, folks. Let's get down to it.
Week 17 Winner - 4 people managed a 15-1 record in what is typically one of the oddest weeks of the football season. Week 17, is where everyone rests, or mails it in, it seems. Teams vying for a wild card spot will usually mangle their opponents who've already got a playoff spot locked up, or simply don't give a crap. Four people unlocked the code of Week 17, and after the tiebreaker was settled, King Krush finishes Season 9 as the Week 17 Winner. Krush broke perfectly even in score and took Week 17 over Idiotguy, GUNIT, and Gawaga. Congratulations to Krush on his second weekly win of all-time.
Weekly Winnerperson - Joseph Futrell held down the fort for the final 3 weeks of the season, and is the new Weekly Winnerperson Champion. Whoot Whoot.
Rock Bottom - It was down to Mrs. JiM, Jaime, Kendra, and Mr. Kimberly. 3 womenfolk, and a dude named after his wife. Jaime was the first to get the elimination by hitting 13-3. Then both Kendra, and Mr. Kimberly scored 10-6's, which left just Mrs. JiM. My wife. And, now, GTSR's first ever Rock Bottom Champion. Congratulations, babe...I suppose. I love you either way!
Secret of the Looze - RatzPack is the first ever Secret of the Looze Champion, and now the ONLY person ever to hold both WDG and SOTL championships. Rock and Roll.
The Meatgrinder Cup - The Final Matchup pitted #5 Big A (#18 overall) vs. #8 Nails (#32 overall). And, naturally, these bozos couldn't manage a clear cut winner, as both scored a 9-7. The overall theme with Nails in this wrap up will be tiebreakers, as he couldn't get away from the damn things. Meatgrinder Tiebreaker has been the same as Weekly Win tiebreaker, the Monday Night Score. When the dust finally cleared, and I breathed a sigh of relief at not having to come up with a second tiebreaker, Nails has become the first ever Meatgrinder Champion. With his new shiny internet football prognostication title, Nails gains free entrance (yeah, cuz anyone pays, pfft) into the next Meatgrinder Cup (Season X in the fall) regardless of his adjusted rank based on win %. It's unlikely he'll fall out of the Top 32, but there's gotta be a perk to it.
Congratulations Nails on being the first Meatgrinder Cup Champion. You now have an unbreakable record (lowest seed to win the Meatgrinder Cup), as I'm not changing the format any time soon.
Most Improved Player 3 - Randamme is the Most Improved Player for Season 9, after posting a +37. That's a crapload of improvement, bro! This is the first of numerous championships Randamme bagged this season.
Leaderboard - Speaking of. Randamme is the NEW GTSR Champion, after posting an impressive 186-70 record, which is good for a .726 win percentage. The Canadian Sector of GTSR dominated another Leaderboard as 4 of the Top 10 spots belong to The Great White North, including the one that matters the most, #1. Congratulations Randamme on becoming the new GTSR Champion of the World because there is no other GTSR in name alone as far as I know. So as far as the world is concerned, it's all you, dog.
California 5 - Dammit, Nails. Why must you make things difficult. After the Meatgrinder Tiebreaker, Nails manages to score a 9-7, and ass himself up in the process, as Joseph Futrell ties him for the California lead in the final week of the season. Which of course...tiebreaker. Usually a tiebreaker breaks ties, but this is extra special, as both Nails and Futrell managed to remain tied after the stupid tiebreaker. Week to Week Head to Head wound up being 7 wins for Nails, 7 wins for Futrell, and 3 tie weeks. Therefore, a second tiebreaker. As Nails has said at work before : "The HELL!". If my memory serves correctly (and it probably doesn't), the word "what" is random in preceding the previous quotated statement.
So anyway, back to this Double Tiebreaker crap. The second tiebreaker is Monday Night Wins. Therefore, I got the pleasure of going over all the paperwork, to determine who had the most Monday Night Wins. Whoever has the most, wins the division. If it's still a tie after this, I don't care, they're both champions, and that's it.
So of course, I'm checking the weeks, looking for all the Monday games, and boom, I hit Week 17, and these guys managed to stay tied yet a-friggin-gain. Dammit. I'm ready to kick some asses by this point. I really don't care if Week 17 didn't have a Monday Night Game, as the Sunday Night Game was a fine replacement in this situation.
As it turns out, Week 17 was the deciding factor, as Joseph Futrell wins the California Division via Double Tiebreaker, since he got the Sunday Night pick correct, and Nails didn't. Not only did the division come down to the last week, but it literally came down to the last game. Sigh. Congratulations, Futrell, not only did you win the division, but you earned me the 'evil eye' at work. Thanks.
Ontario 2 - Randamme whooped that ass in them leather pants. I think I've used that before, but I still think it sounds funny, so I'm using it again. Randamme finished with a 9 game lead over J-Pod to capture the Ontario Division Championship. Congrats on another one Randamme.
Buck Star - Well, RONNIE did all the late season footwork by catching ORMS, and surpassing her in Week 16, but it was all for naught, as ORMS pulled a RONNIE, and caught HIM in Week 17, and beat him in the final week of the season for the Buck Star Championship. ORMSBYLARGO's 180 wins is good for a 1 game win over RONNIE, and it also gained her the NFLP 15 Overall Championship as well. Congratulations ORMS.
Sunstone Empire - Another come from behind win at the last second, as Frode is unable to maintain control of the lead. ZTigerX leapfrogs Frode for a 1 game lead, but then as the games were winding down, Idiotguy, with the help of his 15-1, is able to surpass ZTX and take home the Sunstone Empire Championship. Idiotguy started Week 17 in 3rd place, and takes the championship unanimously. Congrats, dude...it made for a decent reaction for me as I was typing it up (akin to 'holy crap').
Old Master Bay Tar Centennial Line - Kimberly extends her lead to 4 games, and ultimately takes the Bay Tar Championship for herself. The Bay Tar Championship. She's the champion of the Bay Tar. She's officially the MASTER BAY TAR Champion...and yes I'm completely neglecting the other 3 words in the division, and I don't care, because I'm childish, and this is what I wanted to type. It's my game, dammit. Congratulations to Kimberly on mastering the Bay Tar. I'm done for now.
Dual Reps - Riley B. put up a good effort in catching up, but in the end, he wound up just 1 game behind the new Dual Representation Champion, The D. The D's 180 wins is tied for 4th place overall on the leaderboard, and has earned The D the Dual Reps Championship. Congatulations to the D on the W. HAR HAR SEE WHAT I DID THERE. :-/
Lone Reps - A last minute surge by Headscan probably would have scared the tinkle out of Rasiani, if Rasiani had access to my paperwork to see what I saw, and if he really cared that much about a free football picks game. Well, since he doesn't have access, and he hasn't been emailing me daily about the results, I'm guessing that Rasiani still maintains his tinkle. Headscan's 14-2 in Week 17 was good enough to destroy almost all of Rasiani's lead, but in the end, Rasiani held on by just 1 game to win the Lone Reps Division. Congratulations, Orange Predator. You're the champion of the GTSR loners.
Paramount - When all was said and done, neither RONNIE nor The D took home the Paramount Championship. RONNIE fell from 1 game back to 2 games back, and dropped to 4th place. The D and ORMSBYLARGO tied for 2nd with 180 wins, but thanks to his 14-2 in Week 17, Headscan, who wasn't even mentioned in last week's Paramount Update, snatches victory from the jaws of defeat, and is the new Paramount Champion. Congrats to Headscan on the last second victory.
Upper Midway - Oh hell. Nails and Futrell are both in this division too. However, and thankfully, neither factored into any type of tiebreaker as Kimberly wins the Upper Midway Division, with a 4 game lead over Nails/Futrell, in an uncontested final week. Kimberly wound up strolling to her title, as those who did catch up by a game or 2, were too far behind to threaten either way. Congrats Kimberly, on another division championship.
Lower Midway - WOW. Riley B had a 4 game lead going into the final week, and even though he scored an 11-5 in Week 17, it was dangerous territory with Idiotguy (and his 15-1) in the same division. However, Riley B. had guns blazing (whatever the hell that means in this regard), and wins the Lower Midway Championship, by just 1 game over Idiotguy, whose 15-1 devastated the Sunstone Empire Division just a few paragraphs ago. Congratulations to Riley B.
Bedrock - As far as wins divisions go, if you're here, then you haven't been high on the leaderboard in a while. Well, the Bedrock got flipped turned upside down, and let me take a minute, oh dammit...Randamme won this division too, as he steamrolled to victories in anything relating to his 186 total victories. Randamme winds up with a 4 game lead over Rasiani (who was second place overall on the leaderboard as well...that's crap luck really).
Greenhorns - Talk about a tank job. Jimmy Brossett was letting slip the hounds of war. No wait, he was letting slip his frickin Greenhorns lead. Jeff O HELLS YEAH STOEN COLD STEEV AUSTON 6:!3 was catching up to him at a rapid pace, mangling a once 7 game lead down to just 2 going into Week 17. Well, Jimmy and Jeffy both stunk up the joint with twin 8-8's, and thusly, a very lucky Jimmy 'The Water' Brossett wins the Greenhorns Division by 2 games over Jeff O CANADA. Congratulations Jimmy, you're still a new guy, and now you're the winner of them.
.500 Streak - Mansfield Mudflaps survives another full season, and goes into Season X carrying a wicked 59 weeks of .500 play. Behind him is the new 2nd place all-time .500 streaker, Crowmeal, with 47 weeks. Behind HIM is the new 3rd place all-time group of Jon, Joseph Futrell, No Talent Ass Clowns, ORMSBYLARGO, RatzPack, Slim Shady, The D, and The OC at 41 weeks. Idiotguy and Sidewinding are sitting in a tie for 8th all time with an active streak of 34, while Justin Noone and Week 17 Winner King Krush are tied for 9th all time with 33 wins, and to round out the newest form of the Top 10, is Riley B. whose 32 weeks is good for a 10th place all-time tie. That means that we'll head into Season X with 16 active streaks in the All Time Top 10. That's crazy. Congratulations to everyone who made the final cut of the new Top 10.
MONTHLY CHAMPIONS - The Monthly Championships will be announced within the next couple of days. I have absolutely no reason why I'm stalling, I just decided to stall. Also, I'll post the newest achievers of 500 and 1000 wins all-time. That's in the near future.
Bowl Games IX is coming to an end tonight with the Texas / Alabama game, and the final Bowl Games IX results will be posted tomorrow morning, along with a crowning of the new Bowl Games and Heavy Mettle Champions!
POSTSEASON V - Postseason V FORM is up & running. The Wild Card Round Deadline is : Saturday - 1.9.10 @ 4:30pm Eastern.
Mrs. JiM now takes over with Postseason V, as I begin to conjure new stuff for Season X.
Thank you for playing GTSR Deep Season 9 : The One With The Whales. *flex*
--JiM
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