I'd like to say there's nothing historic about that. I'd like to say that I make the title game every year, but as I check the record books, I see that I haven't made it this far since --- 2013. And given that this is Matt's second year in the league, this is his first TTFFL title game.
No, we know that this is a historic title game thanks to Taylor's consultants, and their exhaustive analysis which shows that AirMatt has scored the most points ever in a single TTFFL season (1149.2), while I finished a close second (1146.3).
Great. So now I have two reasons to curse my decision to invite Matt into this league. In addition to possibly losing a title to him, I have ALREADY lost the record for highest-scoring season in league history.
Of course, Matt doesn't get all of the credit for this record. At least part of it needs to go to stupid Dan Bailey, who I stupidly continued to stupid start even after he stupid missed 5 stupid field goals and scored stupid single-digit points in 4 consecutive stupid weeks. Stupid Dan Bailey. Never trust a guy from Minnesota named Bailey.
Sorry, I digressed there. What I'm saying is, it doesn't really matter who scored the most points in league history, and who came up short in that regard thanks to an inaccurate kicker. What matters is, the two goliaths of the TTFFL are going to settle things on the virtual playing field this week, as it should be.
(Can I mention that I just got done playing Matt in another league? A league where he was ALSO the top scorer for the season? And through sheer luck, I managed to knock him out of the playoffs --- but now I have to face him AGAIN?!?
I can't? Okay. Well, then. Never mind).
Meanwhile, Taylor and Kevin meet to determine third place, but we already know how this one ends up, don't we? Taylor said it himself. In the playoffs, Merrill and Air Apparent are toast.
The other two matchups that folks might care about include, of course, the Toilet Bowl and the battle for 2019's top pick. Levi managed to avoid completing the worst-to-first-to-worst trifecta thanks almost exclusively to the efforts of Dalvin Cook, one of the few fantasy studs who actually delivered in week 15. The other thing that helped him is that Aaron Rodgers sucks all of a sudden, and so only contributed 6.7 points to Aaron's total.
I kinda think that McCarthy might not have been the only problem in Green Bay.
Anyway, Aaron now has one chance to avoid the dreaded back-to-back last place finish. Fortunately, he only has to beat up on Jason, which isn't a particularly tall order. Jason has only cracked the 60-point barrier once in the last 7 weeks, and if you had to name his strongest player, you'd have to say 'none of the above'. Yep, it's been rough on the Screaming Eagles since the Chiefs bounced Kareem Hunt out of the league.
The battle for the first overall pick will be waged between Adam and Pete, and should boil down to a simple question of which Atomnation team shows up. Will it be the terrifying team who led the league in scoring in weeks 4, 9 and 15? Or the simply terrible team who showed up in weeks 5 and 13? Only time will tell.
Oh and --- remember that I have rule changes that I plan to put up for a vote after the season ends. Get ready. They're really awesome.
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