Much as I hate my second-place finish and the way my team chose the worst possible week to lay an egg, it's really only appropriate that the title goes to Matt. After all, he finished the season as the uncontested #1 seed, and scored the most points in league history. It's only right that all of that ends in a title (although it's a bit ironic that ~ AirMex ~ wins their first league title with someone other than Mex at the helm).
Of course, the Ninjas' season nearly matched Matt's for points and victories. It's only a shame we weren't able to provide a more climactic title game. And I AM kicking myself --- in hindsight, I realize that all I needed to do to get the win was to drop Philip Rivers for Sam Darnold, and also start Sony Michel over either Tyreek Hill or Adam Thielen.
What was I thinking?!? I'm kicking myself!
Perhaps Taylor is kicking himself too (I'm halfway tempted to kick him). In 3 playoff weeks, he outscored Matt for all of them except the one week they actually played each other --- and Matt scored a measly 56 points. For his consolation prize, he wins the consolation prize for the second time in a row.
As a result, Kevin's charmed season is over, and he finishes --- yet again --- agonizingly out of the money. In the end, the Grahams' simply weren't able to overcome a rash of injuries to key players: Crowell, Ajayi, Olsen, A.J. Green and finally, at the last minute, Todd Gurley.
Fantasy football is a marathon run through a minefield.
Adam's season was a different kind of misery. Despite scoring only 8.4 points fewer than Kevin on the season, he endured 6 more losses. But in the end there was redemption, as he nabbed the #1 overall pick for 2019. And since he also ended up winning more weeks than Kevin, I guess he actually has the last laugh.
The Orion River Horses finished the season with the #2 pick, which is a pretty good outcome given their 1-4 start to the season.
The Marauders' season was exquisite. He also scored nearly as many points as Kevin, and while he didn't manage to squander them as badly as Adam, he DID manage to lose at just the right time --- including four of the final 6 of the season. I personally am quite pleased to have beaten Merrill not once, but twice, including a delightful 95 - 92.4 win in week 12 (I had the highest score that week --- any guesses about number two?). Any season which ends with Merrill in 7th place must be considered a victory.
The Harbaughs and Los Diablos seasons were unremarkable. Low middle of the league for points scored, low middle of the league for seeding, low middle of the league through the playoffs --- although Los Diablos 5-game losing streak from weeks 2-6 was pretty impressive.
The Leviathans were the mirror image of the Golden Grahams. Their regular season was a nearly-uninterrupted record of misery, with only two wins (one of them a 48.5 - 35.9 decision over the equally pathetic Screaming Eagles). But in the same way that Kevin fell apart after his week 14 bye, Levi rose to the challenge after his to finish in 10th place, well above what his regular season justified.
And finally --- Aaron and Kapernick's Crusaders managed to avoid the ignominy of a second straight last place finish thanks to the general incompetence of Jason and his Screaming Eagles. Jason's aforementioned puny defeat to Levi was but the midpoint in his end-of-season swoon, in which he averaged a puny 51 points per game while losing 8 of his final 9.
We'll get to end-of-season accounting later, but for now, we'll bring things to a close with next year's draft order. And once again, congratulations to AirMex!
- Suspended Atomnation
- Orion River Horses
- Merrill's Marauders
- Team Harbaughs
- Los Diablos
- Leviathans
- Strike Team/213/Lucille/Whatever Aaron decides to name his team
- The team formerly known as the Screaming Eagles
- Golden Grahams'
- Air Apparent
- Psychotic Ninjas
- ~ AirMex ~
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