Take a Knee Ghastly Becuase...

It's over .. "Ghastly" has won the 2010/11 NFLPOOL championship. With a five game lead and only three games left he can coast his way to a higher tax bracket.   How impressive was his season, look at these numbers:

• He spent the last 8 weeks in the top spot
• The lowest he was this season was 8th
• He spent 14 of the 19 weeks in the top 3
• He had 6, 10+ win weeks
• He only had 2 weeks when he was under .500

His weekly average win total was 8.21 which I said at the start of the season is where you needed to be to have a shot at the money spots.

The rest of look like this: Edo has clinched a top 5 spot and The Dirty 712, Clay Davis, The Highlanders, Bob W, and WVU Pete have all clinched a money spot.  The rest, from 8th place to 15th place is still up in the air.  Spots 8 - 13 have 146 or 145 wins each while spots 14 and 15 have 144 and 143 wins. That 15th and final money spot will be fun to watch, Currently JoeF defied the odds (my odds) and climbed 15 spots in two weeks from 30th place to 15th place after a 3-1 finish this week following his 4-0 finish last week.  His tiebreaker score is a good 12.6 and the players tied with him in wins all have weaker scores but lurking win behind is Lone Wolf (pun intended) with an outstanding 10.6 tiebreaker.  A 2-0 weekend by Lone Wolf would put great pressure on JoeF because there is no way JoeF wins a tiebreaker shootout with him. ENZO is also sitting there with Lone Wolf at 142 wins but with a 14.0 tiebreaker ENZO needs a miracle finish to leap into the top 15. 

As far as me and the middle man prize (62nd), I went 1-3 this week and dropped to 65th place, Stella who went 2-2 now occupies 62nd place - whatever.

My playoff predictions last week here went 3-1, I whiffed on the NE/NYJ game but who didn't.  This week I'll nail both of them!

GB 31

CHI 13

NYJ 14

PIT 24

(if I were NY I'd be really scared of kicker Nick Folk this week)

And as a Patriots fan the AFC CG is a tough one to pick a side to root, I can't say either team I like but the way I see it is IF one of those teams has to win the Super Bowl who would I rather have it be? It has to be Pitt because most Jets fans are Yankees fans and the Yankees are douches just like their fans.  Rooting for a team in this game is like rooting for a casino in Blackjack but I have to root for someone or I can't watch. Plus if Pitt wins that will make back to back years the Jets made it that far and lost which will start the rumblings that they are a bridesmaid team.  But anyway .. I am rooting for GB to win the super bowl.  So Pit and GB this week and GB in two weeks (with Chi as the alternate team). 

Nomar Fact of the week

Nomar is the first player ever to hit three home runs over two consecutive innings as he did so in the first two frames of a Red Sox 22-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Devil Rays on July 23, 2002 (Also tied a major league record for most home runs over two days with five as he had hit two against the New York Yankees the previous day)