Regular Season Wrap-up

First off, sorry about last week. I've been pretty distracted and didn't even realize I forgot to do a wrap-up until Thursday when Jim reminded me. But who cares, I remembered this week and that's all that matters, right? We have finally made it to the end of the season. For a few of us, it was a great year, full of many victories (Cox), highest scoring (Eric) and mid-season comebacks (Ash). For others it was a disappointing wreck of near losses, low scoring weeks and bench players gone wild. But all that is in the past now, and we finally have our playoff bracket set in stone.

The number one seed, quite deservedly, is Cox's Annexation of Puerto Rico with a sexy looking 11-2 record. While his team wasn't the highest scoring team in the league, they consistently put up solid numbers while having the fewest total points scored against them. He'll be paired up with the number four seed, Eric's TGIF. TGIF scored the second most points this season, scoring over 100 points in 8 out of 13 weeks. TGIF's line-up is always potent and capable of putting up huge numbers, so it'll be no easy match-up for Annexation. In fact, one of Annexation's two losses came from TGIF way back in week one, so if anyone can take them down it's TGIF.

The other bracket pairs brother- and sister-in-law against each other in a battle of the comeback kids. Ash definitely takes the comeback trophy here, having started the season with horrible luck and coming back to win 6 games in a row and clinch a spot in the playoffs. The Shittysauruses scored more points than anyone this year, almost 90 points more than Drew's Boomers. However, the Boomers aren't a force to be easily dismissed. After losing his first round pick early in the season, Drew managed to stay in the playoff race all year long and pulled off a killer upset over Giant Octopus that won him Ray Rice. The Boomers put up the fourth most points this year behind a killer season by Fred Jackson before he went down with a season ending leg injury a few weeks ago. It'll be a tough match for the Boomers, who lost the season match-up against the Shittysauruses, but a comeback victory is never out of the question.

No matter what happens in the semi-finals, this years Bo Bowl should be action-packed. For the rest of us, the season isn't over yet. We still have the Toilet Bowl to look forward to. As of now, it's still using the default ESPN structure of two two-week long matches, which kinda sucks since it won't result in a Toilet Bowl champion. However, like I mentioned the other week, we might be able to work around that. If ESPN won't let us customize the bracket into something that will crown a King of the Losers, than we can do it ourselves (set matches on the side and just use scoring, ignoring the match-ups on the league site). I'm talking to Justin about all this right now, so hopefully before Thursday we'll know a bit more. If you've got any ides or an opinion one way or another, please post in the Toilet Bowl post on the message boards.

At some point, perhaps after the playoffs, I'll do my wrap-up awards again. For now, here are the weekly and season points leaders:

Top 10 Players In-play

1. Cam Newton[QB] (SLNF) - 38.3
2. Aaron Rodgers[QB] (PHSH) - 32
3. Percy Harvin[WR] (PHSH) - 29.5
4. Shonn Greene[RB] (ATOM) - 29.4
5. Chris Johnson[RB] (FLUF) - 27.7
6. Ray Rice[RB] (34) - 27.4
7. Marshawn Lynch[RB] (SLNF) - 26.8
8. Demaryius Thomas[WR] (SLNF) - 26.4
9. Drew Brees[QB] (TGIF) - 25.7
10. LeSean McCoy[RB] (MEGA) - 25.3

Season Points Leaders by Position

QB:
1. Aaron Rodgers (PHSH) - 324.5
2. Cam Newton (SLNF) - 288.4
3. Drew Brees (TGIF) - 275.4
4. Tom Brady (34) - 260.8
5. Matthew Stafford (FLUF) - 229.5

RB:
1. LeSean McCoy (MEGA) - 231.1
2. Ray Rice (34) - 215.3
3. Arian Foster (COX) - 200.6
4. Maurice Jones-Drew (FLUF) - 177.4
5. Adrian Peterson (TGIF) - 172

WR:
1. Calvin Johnson (SHSR) - 179.2
2. Wes Welker (MEGA) - 175.6
3. Victor Cruz (PHSH) - 147.9
4. Mike Wallace (OCTO) - 147.3
5. Greg Jennings (TGIF) - 146.9

TE:
1. Rob Gronkowski (SHSR) - 177
2. Jimmy Graham (COX) - 152.6
3. Tony Gonzales (ATOM) - 115
4. Jason Witten (ROBO) - 106
5. Jermichael Finley (TGIF) - 96

D/ST:
1. Ravens (PHSH) - 142
2. 49ers (34) - 131
3. Texans (TGIF) - 129
4. Bears (DMPS) - 125
5. Jets (ATOMS) - 110

K:
1. David Akers (34) - 132
2. Dan Bailey (MEGA) - 124
3. John Kasay (COX) - 116
3. Robbie Gould (ATOM) - 116
5. Mason Crosby (PHSH) - 112


Good luck to everyone in the post-season. We'll let you know what's going on with the Toilet Bowl. The time to make huge wagers is now! Someone bet their car! (Not me, though, I need it).