All divisions up for grabs

With the final week of the regular season upon us, no team has yet clinched a division title. Six teams can be 10-game winners, but only 4 of those will make the Fantasy Bowl playoffs. Surprisingly, none of these division contenders are playing one another the final week.

• Paterno Division: GBM (9-2-2) leads PHI (9-3-1) by one-half game. The Mud also hold the tiebreaker over the Griffins, with a win and a tie in their two meetings this season. GBM plays MER the final week, and PHI plays OCD. If both teams win, they are both in the playoffs. The runner-up here has a strong edge in wild card tiebreakers by virtue of having fewer losses.
• Cappelletti Division: SYR (9-4) and HVV (9-4) are tied. The Blizzard beat the Violence in both their meetings this year, so SYR holds the tiebreaker. HVV plays BOS the final week, while SYR plays FFL.
• Engle Division: RMD (9-4) and DAL (9-4) are tied, and the teams split their two games this year. Both teams have the same division record (4-1) and RMD has a slim 8-point lead in overall points. The Armadillos play NDV the final week, and the Raptors play MIA.

For the consolation bracket, two of the teams noted above will be in. They will be joined by two other teams. Three teams have a decent shot at the two remaining slots:
FFL (6-6-1), KEY (6-7), and BOS (6-7).
Without going into all the obscure tiebreaker possibilities, it appears three other teams are still not mathematically eliminated: BOB (5-8), MIA (5-8), and OCD (5-8).

Yes, that’s correct. There are currently no teams in the league with either 8 or 7 wins.

Many records set or tied

New Denver is one loss away from a dubious distinction: the first winless season in league history. The Studs this week became the first team in league history to lose 13 games in a season. NDV also set the league’s longest losing streak, eclipsing Richmond’s 12-game losing streak in 1998. In NDV’s 13th loss, they scored 48 points (their 2nd highest score of the year) but ran up against a BOS Wildcat team that scored 127.

The Wildcats set the league record for points by 3 starting receivers: 72 points from Chad Johnson, Joe Horn and Drew Bennett. This bests the previous record held by the (NY) Griffins, who scored 61 points in Week 5 of 1995 (Isaac Bruce, Carl Pickens, and Joey Galloway).

Keystone also set a league record this week. Donovan McNabb’s 37-point performance is the new all-time high individual QB performance. The previous record was set just 5 weeks ago when the Griffin’s Peyton Manning tallied 36 points.

Syracuse also set a league record this week for total points from two running backs. Curtis Martin and Julius Jones combined for 58 points, shattering the old mark held by the Wisconsin Cheeseheads (now FFL) when Errict Rhett and Emmitt Smith combined to score 49 points in Week 1 in 1995. Emmitt totalled 282 points alone in 1995.

Miami tied the league’s record high for a kicker, with John Kasay’s 23 points matching two previous efforts: KEY’s Olindo Mare in 1999 (wk6) and GBM’s Jeff Wilkins in 2000 (wk5).

Boston’s 127 points this week is third-highest in league history, and the Wildcats now own the 3 highest weekly scores of all time.