Week 12 is HERE!!!

I won my game this week, 79-54. I finally got game of the week.

With week 12 finally here, there is a lot on the line. In most fantasy leagues, most of this stuff was sorted out weeks ago. Here is a post that is going up on the site today.

We are now down to our final week of the regular season. If you look at the standings and the schedule, you have to thank your scheduling gods. Five of the games have some kind of meaning. It is nice to have some pre-playoff games.

In the Counting Conference, both divisions and even the conference title is on the line. In Division A, the Kaiser's Krushers will take on Eldora Highbanks. If the Krushers win, they win their division. They would need ShadowKahn to loose to win the conference. If Eldora wins, would win the division title due to conference tie-breaker.

In Division B, ShadowKahn takes on the KY Intimidators. If ShadowKahn wins, they will take both their division and conference titles because of the head to head matchups over the Krushers even if they win. If the Intimidators win, they would win the division due to the division record tie-breaker. KYI could also win the conference if they win and KK looses.

The Infinity Conference is a little bit different. When the Lexington Nightmares take on Guts and Glory, it will be for very nice payout (50 bucks + Add/Drop fees). They are playing for the Best Season Record and conference title. GG took the first matchup of 80-32. If Lexington wins, they would win the conference title because of a better conference record. WINNER TAKE ALL!!!

It looks as if no one in this conference wants the second wild card. Both the Barbarians and Big Cheeses lost last week. This week they play each other. If the Insane Barbarians win they are in. If The Big Cheeses win, they would need help. They would need the LigerCats to loose to The Big Kahunas. Yes, that's right, the LigerCats still have a chance. If they win, they would own the tie-breaker from the head to head matchups. The have won two of their three games against TBC.


Div A
Kaisers Krushers 7-4
Eldora Highbanks 6-5
Brigands 3-8

Div B
KY Intimidators 7-4
ShadowKahn 7-4
Bengalstorm 3-8

Div C
Lexington Nightmares 8-3
Insane Barbarians 4-7
The Big Cheeses 3-8

Div D
Guts and Glory 9-2
The Big Kahunas 6-5
LigerCats 3-8

Nascar Championships

For some odd reason, Hello is not uploading pictures. I will try later today. I just wanted to get this out.

Congrats to Martin Truex Jr on back to back Nascar Busch Series Championships.

Congrats to Tony Stewart for his second Nascar Championship. He is the first driver to have both Winston Cup and NEXTEL Cup championships.

Things are setting up...

I will make another post tomorrow on the playoff matchups. I had to get this out early. It looks as if next week in our conference that two games will be winner take all in both of the divisions. Highbanks vs Krushers and Intimidators vs ShadowKahn. It is nice that the schedule has worked out to have some PRE-playoff games.

Tonight I need Favre to score at least 7 points for me to have game of the week. My team has 68 points as of now. I would like to start winning some of my money back before the playoffs. I have come close only a couple of times this season to have GOTW.

Rob from CrabApple put in a comment about only 12 week regular season fantasy football seasons. I asked the same question when I first joined the Counting Infinity Fantasy Football League. The reasonning makes sense. Lets use Peyton Manning for an example. What if the Colts clinch their division and home-field early? Most likely Manning would be benched or playing time reduced to refresh him and save him for the playoffs. If you have him on your team and your league's championship is in week 17, you could possibly loose because the Colts benched him. Not many NFL teams bench stars in week 15. This sets up the 12 week regular season with playoffs 13-15.

Playoffs in two weeks

Here is a post I put on the fantasy football website. It is about the playoff possibilities. Now that I am in, I want to win it all. Just need to take it one week at a time. Well, here it is. I will post the standings at the end.

The playoffs are in two weeks and you are probably asking yourself,
"What are my chances of making the playoffs?" Here is a look at the
possibilities.

Division A

Kaiser's Krushers - next two games against Bengalstorm and Eldora Highbanks
Conference Record 5-3
Already clinched playoff spot. Needs to win both games to claim
division title. KK can afford a loss to Bengalstorm, but would need to
win against Eldora. If win against Bengalstorm and loss to Eldora,
would win division because of division record.

Eldora Highbanks - next two games against ShadowKahn and Kaiser's Krushers
Conference Record 5-3
A win in either game will guarantee a playoff spot. If EH wins their
next two games and KK looses to Bengalstorm, they could steal the
division right out from under KK.

Bengalstorm still has a small chance. Would need to win their final two
games against KK and Brigands, along with Eldora loosing both of their
games. Bengalstorm beat Eldora in week 3, 95-51.

Division B

ShadowKahn - next two games against Eldora Highbanks and Kentucky
Intimidators
Conference Record 6-2
Already clinched playoff spot. Win both games to claim division title.
Can afford loss to Eldora, but would need win against KYI for division.
If they loose both, they would fall to the second wildcard.

Kentucky Intimidators - next two games against Brigands and ShadowKahn
Already clinched playoff spot. Win both games, win division title by
division record tiebreaker.

Division C

Lexington Nightmares - next two games against The Big Kahunas and Guts
and Glory
Clinched Division in Playoffs.

Insane Barbarians - next two games against Guts and Glory and The Big
Cheeses
Win both games and in. Loose one and it could gets crazy.

The Big Cheeses - next two games against Ligercats and Insane Barbarians
The Big Cheeses beat IB 63-35 in week 5. Need to win next two games for
the second wildcard. If loss to Ligercats and IB loose GAG, would need
to beat IB in week 12.

Division D

Guts and Glory - next two games against Insane Barbarians and Lexington
Nightmares
Conference Record 6-2
Win either game claims the division. If loss in both games, would need
the Big Kahunas to loose to Ligercats. If TBK beats the Ligercats,
conference record would come next. They split the season matchup and
would have identical division records. This would cause them to fall to
a wildcard.

The Big Kahunas - next two games against Lexington Nightmares and Ligercats
Conference Record 5-3
Clinched playoff spot. Win in either game clinches first wildcard.
Need to win both and GAG to loose both to claim division.

Tune in next week when the playoff schedule will be a little clearer.


Division A
Kaiser's Krushers 6-4
Eldora Highbanks 5-5
Brigands 3-7

Division B
ShadowKahn 7-3
KY Intimidators 6-4
Bengalstorm 3-7

Division C
Lexington Nightmares 7-3
Insane Barbarians 4-6
The Big Cheeses 3-7

Division D
Guts and Glory 8-2
The Big Kahunas 6-4
Ligercats 2-8

Week 11 Matchups
Brigands at KY Intimidators -3
Highbanks -7 at ShadowKahn
Krushers at Bengalstorm -2
Lexington at Big Kahunas -16
Big Cheeses -6 at Ligercats
Barbarians at Guts and Glory -16

I already used this title

I lost again. This time 67-42. It is hard to come back when the other teams defense put up 29 points. He had Jacksonville defense against Baltimore. At 6-4 I have clinched a playoff spot. I still have a chance for the division title. If I play my cards right, I may even pull off the regular season conference title. I don't want to get ahead of myself. I have been looking over scheduling matchups of weeks 13-15. Some look good, some look iffy. Wish me luck. Looks like I am going to need it.

Needing a Win

This week I am taking on the Kaiser's Krushers. After dropping the Raider's DEF and picking up Green Bay's DEF, my team became a 5 pt underdog. Then Randy Moss was down graded on the injury update in the middle of the week. The new line is minus six. My team usually performs the weeks when I am an underdog, so I am optomistic.

You probably ask yourself, "Green Bay's DEF??? Don't they SUCK???"

Actually, they are not that bad. The reason I dropped Oakland, was that they are playing Denver this week. With CJ on a bye this week, I had to start Lelie. If he scored a TD(Rec 3pt), OAK DEF would loose 2pts (look over the rules posted for Def Scoring in an earlier post). GB Def takes on Atlanta. If they can cause some pressure on Vick, I can get some good points. They have perform better than Oakland anyway. There is also something else that sold me on GB. Championship weekend they play Baltimore. If it is the same Baltimore as right now, it will look like a genious move. But, if Kyle Boller emerges to become something, it may be a bad move. I would have to resort to SD DEF. WHAT AM I SAYING??? Boller???

Losing Sucks

I lost this week to an opponent that I thought I would roll over. Westbrook wasn't enough to overcome a 9pt deficit. He only racked up 3pts. I lost with my worst showing of the season, 39-33. I have only scored in the 30's twice. The last time was back in week 5 with 37. I can't afford any more showings like that. Next week, I play Kaiser's Krushers. He is a good owner and is usually one step ahead of me. Hopefully I can beat him this time. He is favored 56-47. I lost earlier this season 83-48. Carolina WR Steve Smith killed me that week with 18pts against Miami. This week he is up against the Jets. I don't know if that is any better or not. The Jags Def also scored 17pts which is the second highest they have scored this season. They play Baltimore. Well Hell, I think I am done for. I will need to win my last two games to make sure I get in the playoffs. I guess that is why they play the games. But not TO, have fun on the couch the rest of the season.

B Division
Team W L T PCT GB Strk Div Wks PF Back PA
ShadowKahn 6 3 0 0.667 0 L1 2-1-0 0 440.0 113.0 389.0
KY Intimidators 6 3 0 0.667 0 L1 2-1-0 0 424.0 129.0 386.0
Bengalstorm 3 6 0 0.333 3 W1 1-3-0 2 455.0 98.0 424.0

A Division
Team W L T PCT GB Strk Div Wks PF Back PA
Kaiser's Krushers 5 4 0 0.556 0 W1 3-0-0 1 501.0 52.0 434.0
Eldora Highbanks 4 5 0 0.444 1 W2 2-1-0 0 392.0 161.0 478.0
Brigands 3 6 0 0.333 2 L2 0-4-0 0 360.0 193.0 419.0

C Division
Team W L T PCT GB Strk Div Wks PF Back PA
Lexington Nightmares 6 3 0 0.667 0 W3 3-1-0 2 480.0 73.0 492.0
The Big Cheeses 3 6 0 0.333 3 L3 2-1-0 1 427.0 126.0 425.0
Insane Barbarians 3 6 0 0.333 3 L1 0-3-0 0 361.0 192.0 493.0

D Division
Team W L T PCT GB Strk Div Wks PF Back PA
Guts and Glory 7 2 0 0.778 0 W7 2-2-0 3 553.0 0.0 402.0
The Big Kahunas 6 3 0 0.667 1 W1 2-1-0 0 476.0 77.0 422.0
LigerCats 2 7 0 0.222 5 L5 1-2-0 0 378.0 175.0 483.0

Late FF Update

I won my game this week, 42-32. It looks to be an easy matchup this week. I am favored by 11 against Highbanks.

Side note: The wife has a new job that starts next week. Look for me to be blogging more. It is hard to keep up with this when she is home. I am doing this from work, so I better stop doing this and get to work.

Just Think???

The Baseball Game

So, you take your young son to his first ball game.

Good father and son stuff... right??

Super Male bonding, right??

You buy him a coke... pop corn... a ballcap and three hot dogs.

Then, "whack"...He see's his first homer . .

Will he remember this wonderful day spent with you??

Will he remember the special unique taste of the ball park hot dogs??

Will he often think of that tremendous boomer home run ??

NAHHHHHHHH ~~~~~~~~

What will he remember ??

Both Sides

An Indiana man met a beautiful lady and he decided he wanted to marry her right away. She protested, "But we don't know anything about each other."

He replied, "That's all right; we'll learn about each other as we go along."

So she consented, and they were married and went on a honeymoon to a very nice resort.

One morning, they were lying by the pool when he got up off his towel, climbed up to the 10 meter board and did a two and a half tuck gainer, entering the water perfectly, almost without a ripple. This was followed by a three rotations in jackknife position before he again straightened out and cut the water like a knife.

After a few more demonstrations, he came back and lay down on his towel.

She said, "That was incredible!"

He said, "I used to be an Olympic diving champion You see, I told you we'd learn more about ourselves as we went along."

So she got up, jumped in the pool and started doing laps. She was moving so fast that the froth from her pushing off at one end of the pool would hardly be gone before she was already touching the other end of the pool. She did laps in freestyle, breast stroke, even butterfly! After about thirty laps, completed in mere minutes, she climbed back out and lay down on her towel, barely breathing hard.

He said, "That was incredible! Were you an Olympic endurance swimmer?"

'No," she said, "I was a hooker in KY and I worked both sides of the Ohio River."

KYI 5-2

Way to go Jets, you kept Vick contained. He only scored 12 points. KYI 43 TBC 31.
(somehow lost a point on my defense after scoring correction) After week 7, the standings look like this.

Div A
Kaisers Krushers 4-3
Brigands 3-4
Eldora Highbanks 2-5

Div B
ShadowKahn 5-2
KYI 5-2
Bengalstorm 2-5

Div C

Lex Nightmares 4-3
The Big Cheeses 3-4
Insane Barbarians 2-5

Div D
Guts and Glory 5-2
The Big Kahunas 5-2
Ligercats 2-5

J E T S JETS JETS JETS

Tonight I am rooting on the Jets defense. I need them to shut down Vick. I am winning 44-19. As long as he doesn't have a career night, I win. ShadowKahn's game is already final, he lost. Good for me. We are now tied again for the division lead as long as I hold on to this 25 point lead. Once again...(and I can't believe I am saying this)

J E T S

JETS JETS JETS

Going into Sunday

After Friday night's game, the score of my game is still 0-0. He had the Miami kicker +8 and defense-8. I am looking forward to today's games.

KY Girl

A girl from Kentucky and a girl from the west coast were seated
side by side on an airplane.

The girl from Kentucky, being friendly and all, said,
"So, where y'all from?"

The West coast girl said, "From a place where they know better
than to use a preposition at the end of a sentence."

The girl from Kentucky sat quietly for a few momen ts and then
replied: "So, where y'all from, bitch?"

Half way mark

Week 6 of the NFL season probably marks a lot of fantasy football's mid way point of their regular season. There are many people out there wondering what happened. There are teams that started out hot and have died off. There are also teams that keep going strong. I am doing good now at 4-2. Yes, I won this past week, 51-47. I got lucky that TE Dallas Clark didn't catch any of those touchdowns Monday night. My team is keeping pace with ShadowKahn, 5-1. He is a 2 pt favorite over Lexington Nightmares, 3-3. It could be a tough match up for him. Don't let their record full you. They are in front in their division, but have lost a couple of really close games. My team is also a 2 pt favorite over The Big Cheeses, 3-3 (a really big Packer-fan). We fought over Favre. Our games are pivitol for their division. So you know what in the hell I am talking about...

Divisions A and B are Conference 1
Divisions C and D are Conference 2

Division winners are in the playoff along with two wildcard teams out of each conference.

Division A
Kaiser's Krushers 4-2
Eldora Highbanks 2-4
Brigands 2-4

Division B
ShadowKahn 5-1
KY Intimidators 4-2
Bengalstorm 2-4

Division C
Lexington Nightmares 3-3
The Big Cheeses 3-3
Insane Barbarians 1-5

Division D
Guts and Glory 4-2
The Big Kahunas 4-2
LigerCats 2-4

Only six more weeks to go, then PLAYOFFS!!!

I hate being sick

I started getting sick yesterday. I woke up worse today. My head is congested and my nose wont stop running. UGH!!! I had to call off work. There was no way that I could have gotten through work today. I am most likely taking off tomorrow. I don't want to spread what I have. When it drops into your chest, it is like carrying a 60 lbs kid around all day. The back hurts and you have no energy. Good luck to everyone else out there who haven't gotten sick yet. I am just glad that I am getting this out of the way early. My immune system will be up for the rest of the winter. I don't look forward to getting sick until the season starts to change for spring.

FF Update- I am going into this weekend an 8 pt underdog. That don't mean shit. My team usually performs better the weeks that I am an underdog.

KYI Update

Well, this sucks. I lost 44-37, which makes my current record 3-2. LT is a killer when it comes to fantasy football. His two tds was the deciding factor. Next week I will have Moss and Porter back. Hopefully I can go on a run and win my division. It is going to tough now that I am a game back along with ShadowKahn having the tiebreaker. I definitely need to win our next matchup later in the season.

The funniest thing that happened this week was the new Brigands coach getting the team's first win. My former boss probably feels like crap. Of course he is off work this week, I can't give him any shit about his wife getting the win.

Just another year...

Today I turned 31. Happy Birthday to ME!!!

A long awaited post

I have been wanting to post an update about some fantasy football news. If you read the comments, I had a good post going. When I clicked the post button, it told me that blogspot was down for maintenance. Then my wife's parents came in town and never had time to post. Well, here it goes.

The owner of the Brigands quit the league. After I whooped his ass for his fourth loss of the season, his wife decided to take over the team. Right now she is up, 38-34, going into MNF. Even with a good showing this week, she may still not win with McCardell having to play.

I am up 33-22 going in. Looks like a tough night. I have San Diego's Def against LT and Kaeding. Winner is up on division and conference.

Now, here is a little about how fantasy football works. You get about 8-12 people together to form a league. Each owner drafts a team due to league rules. Schedules are made for head to head matchups. Scoring is based on each players stats. Also depending on the league rules, playoffs are set and a champion is crowned. The following is what we have set in our 12 team league.


Roster Limits
Status Min Max
Active Players 8 8
Reserve Players 0 10
Injured Players 0 2
Total Players 8 19

Position Min Max
Active QB 1 1
Active RB 0 1
Active WR 2 3
Active TE 1 2
Active K 1 1
Active DST 1 1

Illegal rosters score zero points in standings.

Scoring for Offensive Categories

FG - Field Goals 3 points
Plus 1 point for a FG of 45+ Yds
XP - Extra Points 1 point
MFG - Missed Field Goal -1 point
MXP - Missed Extra Point -1 point
FL - Fumble Lost, Including ST plays -1 point
PaInt - Passing Interception -1 point
Pa2P - Passing Two-point Conversion 1 point
PaTD - Passing TD 3 points
PaYd - Passing Yards 0 - 240 PaYds = 1 point for every 30 PaYds
241+ PaYds = 1 point for every 20 PaYds
Re2P - Receiving Two-point Conversion 1 point
ReTD - Receiving TD 3 points
ReYd - Receiving Yards 0 - 80 ReYds = 1 point for every 20 ReYds
81+ ReYds = 1 point for every 15 ReYds
Ru2P - Rushing Two-point Conversion 2 points
RuTD - Rushing TD 6 points
RuYd - Rushing Yards 0 - 80 RuYds = 1 point for every 20 RuYds
81+ RuYds = 1 point for every 15 RuYds

Scoring for Defensive Categories

BFB - Blocked Field Goals (ID/ST/DST) 1 point
BP - Blocked Punts (ID/ST/DST) 1 point
DFR - Defensive/ST Fumble Recovered (ID/DT/DST) 1 point
Int - Interceptions 1 point
DTD - Total Defensive and Special Teams TD 6 points

PA - Points Against, Total Points Scored
0 - 0 PAs = 10 points
1 - 5 PA = 8 points
6 - 10 PA = 6 points
11 - 15 PA = 4 points
16 - 20 PA = 2 points
21 - 24 PA = 0 points
25 - 27 PA = -1 point
28 - 30 PA = -2 points
31 - 33 PA = -3 points
34 - 36 PA = -4 points
37 - 39 PA = -5 points
40 - 42 PA = -6 points
43 - 45 PA = -7 points
46 - 48 PA = -8 points
49 - 51 PA = -9 points
52 - 54 PA = -10 points
55 - 57 PA = -11 points
58 - 60 PA = -12 points
61 - 100 PA = -13 points

SACK - Sack 1 point
STY - Safety 2 points

YDS - Yards Allowed
0 - 19 YDSs = 16 points
20 - 59 YDSs = 14 points
60 - 99 YDSs = 12 points
100 - 139 YDSs = 10 points
140 - 179 YDSs = 8 points
180 - 219 YDSs = 6 points
220 - 259 YDSs = 4 points
260 - 299 YDSs = 2 points
300 - 339 YDSs = 0 points
340 - 379 YDSs = -2 points
380 - 419 YDSs = -4 points
420 - 459 YDSs = -6 points
460 - 499 YDSs = -8 points
500 - 539 YDSs = -10 points
540 - 579 YDSs = -12 points
580 - 619 YDSs = -14 points
620+ YDSs = -16 points


Playoffs
1st round (week 13) - 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, 3 vs. 6 & 4 vs. 5.

2nd round (week 14) - Winner of 1 vs. 8 VS 4 vs. 5 & Winner of 2 vs. 7 VS. 3 vs. 6

4th round (week 15) - Superbowl