The Frelinghuysen Froglickers finish 9-5 and win the Wild Card slot for the Fantasy Bowl playoffs via an 85-56 win this week over the Griffins. MassIll Mud finishes at 8-6 following a 57-33 loss to Richburgh.

Philadelphia at 10-3-1 is the #1 seed. Orange County gets the #2 seed and snaps their losing streak with a 41-26 win over Miami to finish at 10-4. Oregon rounds out the final four with a 9-5 record after a 21-10 win over Syracuse this week.

The Fantasy Bowl semi-final matchups will be:

PHI Griffins (10-3-1) vs. BOB Big Bang (9-5)

OCD Beach Dudes (10-4) vs. FFL Froglickers (9-5)

Six teams are serious contenders for the high point awards for non-playoff teams. KEY, BOS, MER, HVV, MIM and RIB are all within approx. 30 points of each other in the low-to-mid 700’s in total points. All other teams have fewer than 600 points.

Philadelphia captured the #1 seed for the Fantasy Bowl playoffs with a razor-thin 51-50 win over Oregon. The Big Bang, however, clinched the Engle Division despite the loss because Dallas also lost by the palindromic score of 92-29 to the Mud. Orange County has captured at least the Wild Card slot, but MassIll is still not out of the running for the Paterno Division title. The Mud’s 3-game winning streak coupled with the Beach Dude’s 3-game losing streak (including a 50-48 loss to Boston this week) has left a slim hope for MassIll. If MIM-OCD both finish with 9-5 records, the tiebreaker would go to total points. OCD current enjoys 111-point lead, which is not out of the question should the Mud’s studs all turn in huge games.

The most likely scenario, however, still finds the Mud fighting it out with the Froglickers for the Wild Card slot. These teams didn’t play each other during the regular season, so if they end up with identical W-L records, the tiebreaker will come down to total points. Currently FFL leads MIM by 32 points overall. The week 14 matchups for these two teams are: MIM vs. RIB, and FFL vs. PHI.

If MIM and FFL both lose in week 14, Keystone could finish with the same record. But the Longfellows are eliminated from the Wild Card scenario via head-to-head losses to both FFL (twice) and MIM during the regular season.

And finally, going into the last weekend, New Chester will still finish with the worst regular-season record, but they are now riding a 3-game winning streak following their 48-44 defeat of Richburgh this week.

Full week 13 scores and stats after the jump.

Continue reading “Griffins grab #1 seed; Bang and Dudes both in despite losses; Mud and Froglickers still alive” →

We’re behind with updates here on fflgoo.com, but the league standings, scores and stats are all available on Web League Manager so check them out there until we get this site updated (most likely Wed. evening 12/2).

With 2 weeks left in the regular season, this much is clear: Philadelphia has clinched the Cappelletti Division title, while Orange County and Oregon each have clinched at least a tie for the other division titles. Frelinghuysen, Keystone, Dallas, and MassIll are all in the thick of the race for the Wild Card slot. A number of other teams with 5 wins still technically have a shot at the Wild Card, but chances are very slim at this point for them.

The New Chester Thorobreds are winless no more following a 51-19 victory over Miami.

Full Week 11 scores and stats after the jump.
Continue reading “Thorobreds winless no more” →

The Orange County Beach Dudes clinched at least a tie for the Paterno Division title, and only needs to win 1 of their final 4 games to clinch the division crown. The Dudes had the week’s high score in a 92-79 win over the Froglickers. Frelinghuysen drops 1.5 games behind the Griffins in the Cappelletti Division as Philadelphia beat the Mud, 73-51. Oregon maintains a 2-game lead in the Engle Divison after a 70-63 win over Boston.

We’re at the trading deadline, we have 3 clear-cut division leaders, and the wild card is still pretty wide open (with the notable exception of the still winless Thorobreds).

Let’s repeat once again — the trade deadline is just a few days away … kickoff Thursday night.

This means several things as we all know, but let’s review:

1. No trades after kickoff this week
2. Transactions go back to first-come, first-serve after kickoff this week. Reminder: you cannot drop a player until after his team’s game has finished that week.
3. Only players on a roster kickoff week 11 (or before) are available for protection next year. (eg, players added after kickoff week 11 are not eligible for protection)
4. More points in these finals weeks could increase your chances in the draft lottery for non-playoff teams next year.

Week 10 scores and stats after the jump. Continue reading “Beach Dudes on the verge of clinching division title; Trade deadline is here” →

The Philadelphia Griffins faired much better than the Phillies in the week past. The Griffins notched high weekly score of the year so far in a 99-50 rout of the Violence. The Beach Dudes posted the week’s second-highest score in an 86-42 win over the Big Bang.

With 5 weeks left in the regular season, two things seem apparent: Orange County at 8-1 looks to be a playoff team, and New Chester at 0-9 is not going to be a playoff team. Everyone else is within 3 games of each other in the standings.

Reminder: the trade deadline is kickoff week 11.

Full week 9 scores and stats after the jump. Continue reading “Griffins hit 99 points, take overall points lead; Beach Dudes with best record at 8-1” →

Two streaks were snapped in one game this weekend, and in the process a rare scoring category was invoked for (what the editor believes is) the first time in league history. Dallas Armadillos running back Kevin Smith had a endzone tackle of an opposing player, scoring 2 points for the safety in the Armadillos’ 44-36 win over Frelinghuysen. Dallas snaps their 5-game losing streak, while the Froglickers saw an end to their 5-game winning streak. FFL leads the Cappelletti Division by a half game over Philadelphia and by one game over Keystone. The Longfellows topped the Griffins this weekend 69-66.

The editors also discovered that the Web League Manager does not automatically support the 2-point safety category, which is a good time to remind owners to check your own scores to ensure they are correct each week.

Oregon’s Big Bang continued with the hot hand winning their 5th straight game 54-35 over Happy Valley. The Violence have a big hill to climb if they want to return to the Fantasy Bowl, finding themselves with a 3-5 record and locked in a 3-way tie for second place in the Engle Division.

Orange County upped their record to a league-best 7-1 and returned to the win column with a 53-35 defeat of Richburgh. The Beach Dudes have a 2-game lead over Boston, who had the week’s high score with a 75-37 win over the MassIll Mud.

Full week 8 scores and stats after the jump.
Continue reading “Dallas snaps losing streak and does the Safety Dance” →

For 17 seasons in this league, we’ve never had an undefeated season. Make that 18, as the Orange County Beach Dudes suffered their first loss of the year, 69-43 to the Happy Valley Violence. New Chester remains the only winless team at the halfway point, dropping to 0-7 in a 92-15 rout at the hands of the Mud. MassIll’s 92 points was the week’s high score.

Frelinghuysen won their 5th straight game, 71-66 over Richburgh. Oregon is riding a 4-game winning streak after a 47-44 win over Mercer. Both the Froglickers and the Big Bang lead their respective divisions. Streaking in the other direction are Dallas, who dropped their 5th straight game 58-38 to Syracuse; and Miami, who lost their 4th straight game, 46-39 to Philadelphia.

Keystone had the week’s 2nd-highest score in a 77-46 win over Boston. The Wildcats have had 450 points scored against them through the first 7 weeks — an average of over 64 points a week. Both Keystone and Boston sit with 4-3 records.

Full scores and stats for Week 7 after the jump.
Continue reading “Beach Dudes suffer first loss; several other streaks continue” →

The northeast’s un-welcomed preview of winter this past weekend was apparently just what the Blizzard needed, as Syracuse snapped their losing streak with their first win of the year — a 62-15 thumping of the toothless Mud.

Philadelphia lost it’s first game of the year, dropping to 4-1-1 after a 68-34 loss at the hands of the Froglickers, who move into first place in the Cappelletti division with a 5-1 record.

The only remaining zeros in the W-L column are found in the Paterno division, where the Beach Dudes continue to roll at 6-0, while the Thorobreds remain the league’s only winless team at 0-6. OCD beat NCT 84-27. And after a rollercoaster first 4 weeks, the Wildcats have their first winning streak of the year and posted the week’s highest score with a 98-61 win over Mercer.

And we have a rare in-season trade that didn’t happen the day before the trade deadline. The Longfellows and Raptors traded backup QBs, with Eli Manning headed to Keystone and Kyle Orton going to the Burgh.

Full week 6 scores and stats after the jump.

Continue reading “Blizzard warms up while Griffins fall; Keystone and Richburgh swap backup QBs” →

The Angels aren’t the only hot team in Southern California — the Orange County Beach Dudes are the only team with 5 wins through the first 5 weeks, following a 49-38 win over Dallas. Jacksonville’s late disciplinary-related benching of WR Mike Sims-Walker likely cost Philadelphia it’s 5th win, but the Griffins remain undefeated after battling Mercer to a 63-63 tie. The Froglickers have the league’s 3rd-best record at 4-1, while MassIll posted the high score of the week in a 74-63 win over Happy Valley to up their record to 3-2.

But the real eye-popping stat this week lies in the Engle Division, where the lowest-scoring team in the league through 5 weeks — the Big Oregon Bang — leads the division with a 3-2 record.

Full week 5 scores and stats after the jump.
Continue reading “The hot team is in Southern California” →

After the jump … Continue reading “Week 4 Scores and Stats” →

Mercer, Philadelphia, and Orange County remain the three undefeated teams after 3 weeks. The Griffins knocked off the previously-unbeaten Armadillos handily, 70-25. Mercer got negative points from golden boy Drew Brees, but still hung on for a 46-45 win over Keystone. The Dudes sent Syracuse to 0-3 by a 54-40 score.

Week 3 scores and stats after the jump. Continue reading “Mustangs, Griffins, Dudes all open 3-0” →

Philadelphia and Mercer are on an early roll, both 2-0 and both jumping out to big wins in Week 2. The Griffins demolished the defending champs with a 92-25 thumping of the Wildcats, ending Boston’s 10-game winning streak. Mercer squished the Froglickers 90-58. The Beach Dudes and the Armadillos are also both 2-0.

Final Scores:

PHI Griffins 92, BOS Wildcats 25
MER Mustangs 90, FFL Froglickers 58
DAL Armadillos 77, BOB Big Bang 35
KEY Longfellows 74, MIA Muffdivers 33
HVV Violence 64, SYR Blizzard 49
RIB Raptors 54, NCT Thorobreds 28
OCD Beach Dudes 48, MIM Mud 36

Full stats after the jump. Continue reading “Griffins, Mustangs on an early roll” →

Full scoring and stats for week 1 games, after the jump. Continue reading “Week 1 Scores and Stats” →

Week 1 of the 2009 season is in the books, and 2008’s two top-scoring fantasy players — QB Drew Brees and RB Adrian Peterson — picked up right where they left off in 2008. Peterson’s 3 TD, 180-yard performance was good for 35 points and propelled the Orange County Beach Dudes to Week One’s highest score in a 77-47 win over the Richburgh Raptors.  Brees’ 6 TD, 358-yard performance was good for 34 points and lead the Mercer Mustangs in a 58-56 win over Miami.

Also picking up where they left off in 2008 were the Boston Wildcats. The defending champions scored a 55-50 win over the MassIll Mud. Going back to last season, it’s the Wildcats’ 10th consecutive win.

Preliminary week 1 scores below. Stats, standings, etc., to be updated Wednesday evening.

OCD Beach Dudes 77, RIB Raptors 47
MER Mustangs 58, MIA Muffdivers 56
BOS Wildcats 55, MIM Mud 50
PHI Griffins 51, KEY Longfellows 35
DAL Armadillos 50, HVV Violence 44
FFL Froglickers 38, NCT Thorobreds 24
BOB Big Bang 31, SYR Blizzard 29

We’re still waiting on the Miami Muffdivers to come up for air long enough to send us a roster of protected players. In the meantime, here are some choice nuggets overheard on Protection Sunday:

• “Stop playing with one ball and deal with a team that has 8!”
• “Does Nick have scandalous pictures of NCT crew or what?”
• “You can have the rest of my miscreants, you vultures!”
• “I haven’t had a chance to do anything with FFL yet, so my strategy for this year will be to put as little time in as possible, it certainly can’t be any worse than in prior years!!”
• “Dallas Armadillos trade our 9th round pick this year to the Philadelphia Griffins. Many other teams are giving to the Philly Cause this year and Dallas wants to contribute as well.”
• “How can a team trade away Donovan McNabb, DeAngelo Williams, Ryan Grant AND Reggie Wayne in the same day? That could be a championship team right there.”
• Paul talking to Cathy (on the landline) talking to Doug who is talking to Ying (on the cellphone): “No, don’t trade with him!”
• “We did not protect Favre but are still entertaining trade offers?!?!?!?!” (via email an hour after the deadline)

Remember the protection deadline is Sunday, August 30th at 9:00pm EST. Email your protected rosters to Ying.

All preseason transactions will be posted on the transactions page.

PHI Griffins propose:

A player may only be protected three consecutive seasons by a single team, with the two exceptions noted below.
(In practice, this will limit NFL players to no more than 4 consecutive seasons on a fantasy team, with the following 2 exceptions:)

A) A “drafted” NFL rookie may be protected four consecutive seasons.
(In practice, this means when you draft an NFL rookie, you could keep him on your fantasy team for five consecutive seasons).

B) Each fantasy team gets one “franchise player” designation that they may apply to one player. This player is exempt from the aforementioned consecutive season limit. Teams may apply their one franchise player designation to the same player in consecutive years, without limit.
(In practice, this means ONE player can be protected in unlimited consecutive seasons by repeatedly using your one franchise player designation).

Nick proposes that players protected this year be considered as year one. Also, players that were drafted as rookies in 2008 and are protected this year by the original drafting team are eligible for exception A.

We are changing the draft time again as a majority of owners have either a) expressed interest in moving the draft to noon; or b) expressed that they don’t really give a you-know-what.

DRAFT: Will begin at 12:00 noon EST on Sunday, September 6.

PHONE NUMBER: 866-537-1617
PASSCODE: Has already been sent to everyone via email

Thanks to Happy Valley for starting the ball rolling on finalizing a draft time. We have a majority of owners willing/agreeing to moving the draft to Sunday, so it’s set.

PROTECTION DEADLINE: Submit protected rosters to Ying via email by 9:00 p.m. EST on Sunday, August 30.

DRAFT: Will begin at 1:00 p.m. EST on Sunday, September 6.

The following teams may protect 6 players total — 5 regular plus 1 prospect, and no more than 2 regular players at a single position (meaning if you keep 3 players at a position, one of them must be a prospect).
MER, SYR, RIB, MIA, OCD, NCT, BOB, FFL

The rest of the teams (money winners from last year) may protect 5 players — 4 regular plus 1 prospect.
BOS, PHI, HVV, MIM, KEY, DAL