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If the playoffs were to start today (2009, wk 12)

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Post Mortem

Happy Thanksgiving to all PFFL-ers. Here’s wishing you all a fantastic holiday filled. For those of you traveling like me, do so safely. For those of you spending time with family and friends, enjoy the time. For those of you spending it alone, enjoy the peace and quiet while you watch three football games.

You can check out the “Playoffs” tab on the myFantasyLeague site at any time to see how the seeds in PFFL would work out if the season ended today. Also, the old PFFL site has a page for the Division Race and Wild Card Race but tiebreakers are only mildly applied there (i.e., they are wrong).

Clinched

Post Mortem has not only clinched a playoff berth, but based on their win in week 11, they have also clinched the Central Division Title and the #1 overall seed.

Postseason Records

This is playoff appearance #10 for Post Mortem. SaaBB could join Mortem at that league-leading figure if they can find a way into the dance
This is the second straight #1 seed for Post Mortem, an accomplishment that no other PFFL team has achieved (the consecutive part — there have been other teams with multiple top seeds). ‘Mortem hopes it works out better than last year’s first round flame out.
The division title is Post Mortem’s fourth, tied with Tappa Kegga Day behind league-leading The Jedi Masters’ 5.

But, I thought I’d add a little detail here.

If the playoffs started today, these would be your first round matchups:

(8) Winning Beer Money vs (1) Post Mortem
(7) Sharp as a Bowling Ball vs (2) SIAP
(6) Kramerica Industries vs (3) CSPJ
(5) Hedfullalicker vs (4) Double D

Changes from last week:

There were no changes at all in the seeding from 1-8

Tiebreaker info:

Hed gets the advantage over Kramerica due to a head-to-head win
Winning Beer Money beat Turd Ferguson head-to-head
SaaBB is 3-0 on the season against Turd and WBM, so they are the leader of the 3 5-6 teams in the West
Camel Toe split their season series with The Jedi Masters, but has a better division record and is therefore top 5-6 team in the East
SaaBB beat Camel Toe head-to-head
WBM is 1-0 against Turd in the West, so they rank higher
Winning Beer Money gets in ahead of Camel Toe based on total points scored
Turd Ferguson beat Camel Toe, and therefore is the first team out of the playoffs

If you’re looking for some historical perspective on playoff chances after 11 games, here’s what I can tell you:

Teams with 8+ wins after 11 weeks have never missed the playoffs. Post Mortem is the only team this year that qualifies in this category and has most certainly clinched a spot.
Only once (in 25 times) has a team with a 7-4 record missed the playoffs. Camel Toe accomplished that feat in 2006. This is good news for SIAP and Double D.
Only 5 of 32 6-5 teams have failed to qualify for the postseason. WBM (twice), Post Mortem, The Dark Side and CGRW are the only teams to fail to make it in. This is good news for CSPJ, Hedfullalicker and Kramerica.
Of the 33 teams with 5 wins after 11 weeks, 16 have made it to the playoffs, 17 have not. This is the fence that SaaBB, WBM, Turd, Camel, and the Jedis are sitting on right now.
There is some good news for the remaining three teams. Three 4-win teams and one 3-win team have made it to the playoffs. Unfortunately for DDT, The Hip and TKD, that is most definitely the exception, not the norm.

Playoff Scenarios – Week 12

These are the possible playoff spot/seed clinching scenarios that I’ve determined for this week. They may be incomplete, and they may be wrong.

Post Mortem has already clinched the #1 seed.
Double D and SIAP will both clinch playoff spots with wins and losses by The Jedi Masters (to Post Mortem), Turd Ferguson (to Hedfullalicker) and SaaBB (to SIAP)
I can’t completely guarantee this one, but I believe The Hip and Tappa Kegga Day will be eliminated from contention if they lose this week

The big Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show was last week — check out this post for lots of gift ideas, guys!

Categories: General | Tags: 2009, Marisa Miller, Playoffs, Victorias Secret

2009 Week 11 Recap [Joanna Krupa]

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Post Mortem

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Results

Turd Ferguson beat CSPJ to improve to 5-6 on the year and take an all-time series lead of 3-2 in this matchup.
Camel Toe exploded for weekly high points with over 153, improving to 5-6 (and, it should be noted, 5-1 in the division) with a win over defending league champion Tappa Kegga Day, who fall to 3-8. CT’s season sweep of TKD ties the career matchup between these two at two wins each.
The Jedi Masters picked up their fifth win of the season and completed a season sweep of The Hip, who have now lost three straight. The Jedis have beaten The Hip five straight times and now lead the series, 6-5.
SIAP’s once dominant position atop the West was reduced to a “slim lead” following a sixteen point loss to Winning Beer Money. WBM earned a season sweep of SIAP and now leads this matchup, 11-6 all-time.
In a battle for second place in the Central, Double D eked out a 7-point win over Hedfullalicker. The win completes a season sweep for DD, who is 4-0 against Hed in division games and 0-1 in non-division meetings.
Post Mortem won a tenth straight game, dropping Kramerica by 26. This is Post’s first victory over Kramerica since 2005, tying the all-time series at three wins a piece.
DDT improved to 4-7 and remained in the playoff hunt with a win over SaaBB, who fall to 5-6. DDT leads this career matchup, 8-4.

Record Watch

Note: All player scoring records cover the period of 2004 to the present only

Post Mortem’s 10-game winning streak is the third longest in PFFL history. Only The Jedi Masters (12) and Tappa Kegga Day (11) have put together longer streaks.
Camel Toe recorded their 2500th division point this week. In taking 30 games to reach this milestone, they are tied for 8th fastest to the mark.
100!!! The Hip became the first team in PFFL history to lose 100 games overall, including both regular season and playoffs.
The Jedi Masters are only 102.15 points away from 15,000 regular season points.
Matthew Stafford’s 40.8 points this week is the 7th most points by a played on someone’s bench ever

PFFL Survivor

View the Current Survivor Standings

Eliminated: The Hip

The Hip and The Jedi Masters played each other head-to-head this week, and after all was said and done, that game was for survival. As it should be this late in the game, the 89.53 points scored by The Hip are the highest for any eliminated team this season.

The stage is now set for this week’s battle to get into the Survivor finals. There is another head-to-head matchup this week that will determine at least one spot in the finals as the winner of Post Mortem – The Jedi Masters is in the money.

Final Three: Double D, Post Mortem and The Jedi Masters

Season High Points

View the Current Season High Point Standings

In the weekly high points hunt, Camel Toe picked up their first high point week of the season and is within 145 points of the season point title. Double D picked up 14 points on Post Mortem in the overall race which now (complete list at above link) looks like this:

Post Mortem – 1147.58
Double D – 1092.52 (-55.06)
Kramerica Industries – 1016.26 (-131.32)
Winning Beer Money – 1014.49 (-133.09)

High Points Against

View the Current Season High Points Against Standings

By losing to the weekly high point team, TKD is starting to run away with this one. In addition, The Jedi Masters leapfrogged over DDT (who fell more than 200 points off the pace). The above link will give you the complete list, but currently, the favorites are:

Tappa Kegga Day – 1195.45
The Hip – 1038.29 (-157.16)
Kramerica Industries – 1034.09 (-161.36)
The Jedi Masters – 1015.39 (-180.06)

PFFL Approved Music of the Week

This is getting linked to all over the internets today, the Muppets do Bohemian Rhapsody:

Recap Babe

Joanna Krupa, currently on Dancing with the Stars, and even more currently in Playboy.

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Categories: General | Tags: 2009, Joanna Krupa, Muppets, Recap

If the playoffs were to start today (2009, wk 11)

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Post Mortem

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But, I thought I’d add a little detail here.

If the playoffs started today, these would be your first round matchups:

(8) Winning Beer Money vs (1) Post Mortem
(7) Sharp as a Bowling Ball vs (2) SIAP
(6) Kramerica Industries vs (3) CSPJ
(5) Hedfullalicker vs (4) Double D

Changes from last week:

Winning Beer Money took the playoff spot that Camel Toe had been holding onto last week
SaaBB moved up one seed, from 8 to 7
Seeds 1-5 stayed exactly the same

Tiebreaker info:

Double D has the advantage over Hedfullalicker in the Central due to a head-to-head win
Double D gets a seed advantage over Kramerica due to total points scored
Hed gets the advantage over Kramerica due to a head-to-head win
Winning Beer Money beat Turd Ferguson head-to-head
Camel Toe has a better division record than The Jedi Masters
Winning Beer Money gets in ahead of Camel Toe based on total points scored

If you’re looking for some historical perspective on playoff chances after 9 games, here’s what I can tell you:

Teams with 7+ wins after 10 weeks have never missed the playoffs. This is great news for Post Mortem and SIAP.
Only twice (out of 30 times) has a team with a 6-4 record missed the playoffs. Camel Toe accomplished that feat in 2006 and The Dark Side did it in 2000. This is good news for Double D, Kramerica, CSPJ and Hedfullalicker.
Teams with .500 records after 10 weeks appropriately have made the playoffs 50% of the time. 18 of 36 have qualified, 18 of 36 have stayed home. SaaBB, therefore, is squarely on the fence. It should be noted, however, that SaaBB has been 5-5 twice and qualified for the postseason both times.
13 of the 30 teams to go 4-6 to start the season have made the playoffs. This gives WBM, Camel, Turd and the Jedis about a 43% chance of moving into the playoffs.
20 teams have started the year 3-7. 2 have qualified for the postseason. Hip, DDT, TKD? You have a 10% chance at this thing. If you want to place a bet on one of these three to make it, bet on The Hip. They are the team responsible for both fo the “2″ 3-7 starts to qualify for the playoffs. And, they’ve been on a 5-year cycle, accomplishing that feat in 1999 and 2004, and failing in 2006.
No team with 2 or fewer wins after 10 weeks has ever made the playoffs.

Playoff Scenarios – Week 11

These are the possible playoff spot/seed clinching scenarios that I’ve determined for this week. They may be incomplete, and they may be wrong.

Post Mortem has already clinched a playoff spot. They can clinch the division with a win (the best that the winner of DD-Hed could do if PM wins is tie, and PM would win all division tiebreakers). Post Mortem can clinch the #1 seed with a win and a SIAP loss.
SIAP can clinch a playoff spot this week with a win and losses by Camel Toe and The Jedi Masters (I’m not totally positive about this one, but I don’t see how 8 wins doesn’t make the playoffs, so SIAP probably just needs a W)

Shakira wears half outfits and does silly dances while cheering your team into the playoffs. (see the video)

Categories: General | Tags: 2009, Playoffs, Shakira

2009 Week 10 Recap [Sofia Vergara]

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Post Mortem

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