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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

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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)

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If the playoffs were to start today (2009, wk 10)

Posted on November 12, 2009 by Post Mortem

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

ashley-greene-french-01 If the playoffs started today, these would be your first round matchups:

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

Changes from last week:

Turd Ferguson went from 5-seed a week ago to out of the playoffs completely
Taking Turd’s place is SaaBB
Camel Toe, Kramerica and Hedfullalicker all benefited from Turd’s absence by moving up a seed each

Tiebreaker info:

Hed gets the advantage over Kramerica due to a head-to-head win
SaaBB leads Turd in the division tiebreak, and Camel Toe leads the Jedi Masters in their division tiebreaks
Camel is a seed ahead of SaaBB due to total points
SaaBB beat The Jedi Masters, earning them a playoff spot in that tiebreaker

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 9 weeks have never missed the playoffs. This is great news for Post Mortem.
Only once has a team with 6 wins missed the playoffs. Camel Toe accomplished that feat in 2006. The other 24 teams to sit with 6 wins after week 9 were much more fortunate, however. This is good news for SIAP and Double D.
10 5-4 teams have missed the playoffs, 33 5-4 teams have made it. This is pretty good news for CSPJ, Hedfullalicker and Kramerica.
Only 15 of the 34 teams with 4 wins after 9 weeks have made the playoffs. That puts Camel, SaaBB, TJM and Turd’s chances at pretty close to 50%.
There have only been 21 teams with 3 wins after 9 games, so the sample size here is a little smaller. The news is not completely bleak for the 4 3-6 teams in this year’s PFFL season, since 4 of those previous 21 did in fact make the postseason.
Heck, 2 teams with only 2 wins after 9 weeks actually made the playoffs. No one is in that long-shot spot this year, however.

Ashley Greene’s cleavage invites you to watch the new Twilight movie while sweating out your playoff fate.

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If the Playoffs Were to Start Today (2009, wk 9)

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Post Mortem

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HADOO090250_MilitaryPoster_Horiz-2-366x550 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).

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

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

(8) Camel Toe vs (1) Post Mortem
(7) Kramerica Industries vs (2) SIAP
(6) Hedfullalicker vs (3) CSPJ
(5) Turd Ferguson vs (4) Double D

Seeds 5-8 are all 4-4 right now. Turd beat Kramerica, so is the West division representative in the first three-way tiebreak, along with Hed and Camel. Camel lost to both Turd and Hed. Turd and Hed have not played, so it goes to total points and Turd gets seed 5. For the 6 seed, Hed gets it cleanly with a sweep of both Camel Toe and Kramerica. Finally, the 7-8 seeding comes down to total points scored.

That would breakdown as 2 teams from the East, 3 from the Central and 3 from the West

If you’re looking for some historical perspective on playoff chances after 8 games, here’s what I can tell you:

Teams with 6+ wins after 8 weeks have never ever missed the playoffs — a perfect 24-for-24. This is great news for Post Mortem and SIAP.
6 teams with 5-3 records have failed to make the postseason, out of 41 teams to hit that record after 8 weeks.
Predictably, it gets a little tighter after that, as 16 .500 teams after 8 weeks have missed the playoffs, out of 42 with that record.
Only 9 teams with 3 wins in their first 8 games have ever made the playoffs. 20 of 29 teams at 3-5 missed out on the postseason fun.
The Hip has successfully bucked the odds twice, qualifying for the playoffs in 1999 after a 2-6 start, and again in 2004 after beginning the season 1-7. No one else has ever gotten into the dance without winning at least 3 of their first 8.

Marisa Miller’s blog probably doesn’t talk about fantasy football history.

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Super Bowl XII Ring

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Post Mortem

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(Again, assuming no stat change)

This is Tappa Kegga Day’s Championship ring:

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2008 Championship Recap + Franchise Ratings [Doutzen Kroes]

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Post Mortem

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(Pending stat changes of course) Tappa Kegga Day prevailed over SIAP in the closest championship game in PFFL History this weekend. Just like the NFL’s setting of the playoff table, this game wasn’t decided until the Sunday night game was played. In addition, the Franchise Ratings have been updated, and we now have FOUR 5-star franchises. Read on for the details.

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Championship Result

#3 seeded Tappa Kegga Day beat #8 seed SIAP, 79.09 – 78.17. SIAP set the perfect lineup, but their second highest scoring player was their backup QB and they received subpar performances from several players who had helped them get to this point. Brandon Jabobs’ injury didn’t help either. TKD was led by Marques Colston and Jason Campbell, and was able to pull off the win despite leaving a bunch of points on the bench. The all-time series between these two clubs is now tied at 8 wins each, but TKD holds a 2-0 advantage in the postseason (both championship games), which is where it really counts. This is also the first time since 1998 that the winning team didn’t score 80 points. SIAP is now 12-6 in the postseason, including 2-2 in championship games. Similarly, TKD is 11-5 in the playoffs and an identical 2-2 in championships.

Championship Record Watch

With a 0.92 point victory margin, this was the closest Super Bowl in league history. It’s worth noting that the 6 closest championships have occurred in the last 6 years, and this is the 3rd time in 4 years that the big game was decided by fewer than 2 points.
Matt Schaub’s 27.4 point performance is the 3rd highest individual player performance in a Super Bowl in the player stats era (2004-present)
The combined point total of 157.26 makes this the fourth lowest scoring championship game ever.
SIAP’s 78.17 and TKD’s 79.09 are the 9th and 10th lowest point totals in championship history, respectively.
TKD now has 11 postseason wins, one behind SIAP’s record 12.
TKD’s .688 playoff winning percentage is 4th best overall and tops among active teams. SIAP is right behind, at .667.
TKD joins SIAP and The Hip as the only three franchises in PFFL history to win two championships. And yeah… those three teams have won half of the 12 championships to-date.
TKD won its 100th overall (regular season + playoffs) this week and is the third team to do so.

Toilet Bowl Result

The Jedi Masters captured their first ever Toilet Bowl championship, beating The Hip.

Franchise Ratings

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Only twice before had a team reached a perfect 100.0 (the max) on the franchise rating scale. SIAP was the first to hit the mark following their championship season in 2004 and The Jedi Masters hit the mark last year. Well, four teams are rated perfectly today. TKD’s championship run, Post Mortem’s winning season, The Jedi Masters’ high points mark and SIAP’s second place finish (combined with their strong ratings to-date) rank all four as the most valuable franchises in the league.
DDT surpassed Double D as the fifth most highly rated team in the league — both are four star franchises
SaaBB’s division championship added a full star to their rating, while The Hip basically held steady and Winning Beer Money lost a half star.
Hedfullalicker had a great season and is certainly a team on the upswing value-wise, but their lack of playoff success has them right in the middle with 2.5 stars.
Turd Ferguson and Kramerica Industries both gained a half star, giving their stockholders reason to be optomistic.
At the bottom, Camel Toe and CSPJ both achieved the lowest possible scores and are zero-star franchises.

Championship Recap Babe

Doutzen Kroes is a Victoria’s Secret model from the Netherlands, meaning she’s not shy about showing off her naught bits.

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2008 PFFL Championship Preview [Christmas Babes]

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Post Mortem

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SIAP vs TKD – both teams have made it to the Championship game four times. SIAP has two titles, TKD has one. And, they have one previous meeting in the title game. SIAP has never won the title as a wild card, but HAS won in each of the last two election years, while TKD has lost in its previous two trips as the East Division champion. Who will add their name to the PFFL trophy in 2008?

As we reach the conclusion of another year, let me take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and safe holiday week. I hope you all get to spend it with your families and friends.

Merry Christmas!

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Championship Matchup

(3) Tappa Kegga Day vs (8) SIAP > This week’s championship game is a rematch of the PFFL title game from 10 seasons ago. TKD won the 1998 championship over SIAP, 109-78. It is the only other time these two original franchises have met in the postseason. In the overall series, this will be the 16th meeting in a matchup that SIAP leads, 8-7. As division rivals in the East this season, these two teams split their two games. TKD won in week 4, while SIAP won in the regular season finale. This is the fourth championship game appearance for both teams. SIAP won the title in 2000 (as the West champ and 3-seed) and 2004 (as the West champ and 2-seed), but lost in the aforementioned matchup with TKD in 1998. TKD won their only title in 1998 as the 8-seed, and lost in the championship game in their other two East Division winning seasons (1997 and 2005, as the 1 and 3 seed, respectively).

PFFL Championship History

A little recap of the PFFL championship games of years gone by:

1997	Super Bowl I	The Dark Side def. Tappa Kegga Day 101-50	TKD loses by 51 in the innagural PFFL title game
1998	Super Bowl II	Tappa Kegga Day def. Skens Irish Alley Pissers 109-78	TKD returns to the championship and gets it this time, over SIAP
1999	Super Bowl III	The Fighting Lamas def. Cuttysark, 102-80	In its first season, TFL beats CS by 22
2000	Super Bowl IV	Skens Irish Alley Pissers def. Sharp as a Bowling Ball, 134-94	SIAP returns to the Super Bowl, and gets a win this time by scoring more points than any other team in championship history
2001	Super Bowl V	High Life def. Post Mortem, 110-73	The commissioner’s team makes its first-ever appearance in the championship, but loses to freshman team, HL
2002	Super Bowl VI	The Hip def. Duany Duany Tanning, 110-66	TH dominates DDT to win the title for the first time
2003	Super Bowl VII	The Hip def. Double D, 85-71	TH wins a repeat championship over freshman team DD in a low-scoring matchup.
2004	Super Bowl VIII	SIAP def. The Jedi Masters, 96-86.8	SIAP returned to the championship for the first time in four years, and promptly won their 2nd PFFL title, matching The Hip as the only two-time champs.
2005	Super Bowl IX	Double D def. Tappa Kegga Day, 66.68-64.75	In their second championship appearance, Double D claims the crown in the lowest scoring Super Bowl in PFFL history. TKD falls to 1-2 in championship games.
2006	Super Bowl X	Winning Beer Money def. Hedfullalicker, 101.04 – 99.89	This was both the highest scoring and closest championship game in PFFL history. Both teams were appearing in the first Super Bowl.
2007	Super Bowl XI	The Jedi Masters def. Kramerica Industries, 93.11 – 74.77	The most successful season in PFFL history ends appropriately for The Jedi Masters, as they claim their first league title to conclude a 13-1 season.

Toilet Bowl Championship Matchup

The Jedi Masters seek their first ever Toilet Bowl title in the first appearance in the little dance, while The Hip is looking for their second Toilet Bowl title, in their third Toilet Bowl championship appearance.

Coming Next Week

Be sure to check back next week after all the fantasy action has concluded for the year. Not only will I recap the 2008 postseason, but it will also be time to unveil the updated PFFL Franchise Ratings! Has your team increased or decreased in value this year? I’ll also run down the final financial totals for each team. Happy Holidays!

Championship Preview Babes

A whole collection of ladies in Christmas-themed attire. Most of them look more naughty than nice.

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2008 Playoff Week 2 Recap [Kristen Bell]

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Post Mortem

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The 2008 PFFL Championship game opponents are now set. The two teams with the most league championship appearances in the league added to their total to the dismay of two teams who have never seen their names engraved on the trophy.

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Semifinal Results

(8) SIAP 129.54 def (5) Turd Ferguson 104.83 > SIAP continued its impressive postseason, with 7 of 8 players in double digits this week. It all started with Jones-Drew and Wayne on Thursday night, continued with Jacobs’ 3 TDs on Sunday night and concluded with a two turnover/one block Monday night performance from the Bears’ D. For Turd Ferguson, they played like the game was over after Thursday when Garrard and Dallas Clark staked them to an early lead. With Bowe, Andre Johnson and AP all coming up small, however, Turd’s chance at a championship appearance vanished. SIAP now has a 3-game win streak against Turd, and leads the overall series, 10-6.
(3) Tappa Kegga Day 91.53 def (2) Sharp as a Bowling Ball 53.78 > For the second straight week, TKD stayed alive largely due to a fortunate matchup, although at least the winning score this week was a little more respectable. TKD had Joseph Addai in the lineup on Thursday, and his gooseegg certainly wasn’t a good start, but solid, double digit performances from 6 of his 7 other players on Sunday made up for the rough start. Meanwhile, SaaBB was in trouble from the moment that Anquan Boldin was announced as “out” and got worse when Kurt Warner was completely ineffective in the snow and subsequently benched. Those two players had single-handedly gotten SaaBB to this point, so missing even a “good” performance from each of them spelled disaster. TKD’s win was a mark of revenge for a loss 3 weeks ago during the regular season. SaaBB still holds the overall series advantage at 9-6, but TKD has a 2-0 record over SaaBB in the playoffs.

Playoff Record Watch

SIAP’s current record of 12 postseason wins is safe at least until the 2009 playoffs. TKD is second on the list with 10.
SaaBB ties Post Mortem’s mark of 9 postseason losses (the result of similar playoff success — 9 of 12 years in the postseason, 0 championships)
Both SIAP and TKD will be making their fourth championship game appearance, a league record given that no other team has made it more than twice.
Turd Ferguson became only the 7th team in PFFL history to accumulate 1000 postseason points
SIAP’s 129.54 point performance is the 9th highest score in postseason history
SaaBB’s 53.78 point output is the 8th lowest score in the PFFL playoffs
After participating in a postseason record-setting performance for combined high points last week, Turd Ferguson is on the list again in 4th place this week, as the SIAP-Turd battle totaled 234.37 points
Turd’s 104.83 points is the 5th highest score in a losing postseason effort
Turd’s 123.17 points-per-game average in the 2008 postseason is the 4th highest average score in PFFL playoff history

Toilet Bowl Results

The Jedi Masters beat Double D for their first ever Toilet Bowl win
The Hip beat Winning Beer Money and now owns a 6-1 Toilet Bowl record

Playoff Recap Babe

Kristen Bell might be only like 4′ 5″ but she’s mighty cute. And she wishes good luck to both of this week’s semifinal winners.

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2008 Playoff Week 2 Preview [Marisa Miller 2009 Calendar]

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Post Mortem

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Quick reminder: There is home field advantage again this week, so both Turd Ferguson and SaaBB will be getting a 2-point boost to start things off. There is no home-field in the championship.

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Playoff Semifinal Matchups

One game this week is a rematch of a game played just three weeks ago, while the other is the first meeting of the year. Week 15 saw 2 of 4 lower seeds advance. Will we see any upsets this week? To decide the matchup for the 2008 PFFL Championship game:

(8) SIAP vs (5) Turd Ferguson – This is the first meeting of the year for these two clubs who made the playoffs as wild cards and scored upset victories in round 1. Despite not playing in ’08, these two are familar foes, as this will be their 16th meeting in PFFL history. SIAP leads that series, 9-6, and swept Turd last year when they were division rivals. This is their first ever meeting in the postseason. SIAP is 3-2 in semi-final games, while Turd Ferguson is 1-2 and has not advanced to a championship game since 1999.
(3) Tappa Kegga Day vs (2) SaaBB – Back in week 13, SaaBB beat TKD by 20 to lock up the #2 seed in the playoffs and the 2-point head start that could come in handy this week. While this is the 16th all-time meeting of these two clubs, it is only their second faceoff in the postseason. In PFFL’s innagural season of 1997, TKD beat SaaBB, 89-74 in the semi-finals. TKD is an impressive 3-1 in the semifinal playoff round, while SaaBB struggles in this round, going 1-6 in their opportunities to make it to the big game.

Toilet Bowl Matchups

(3) Winning Beer Money vs (2) The Hip – The Hip is an impressive 5-1 in Toilet Bowl action, while WBM picked up their first consolation round 1 (in 2 tries) last week.
(5) Double D vs (1) The Jedi Masters – Double D is now 1-0 in the toilet bowl, while this is the first ever toilet game for TJM.

Semifinal Preview Babe

Marissa Miller has made a few appearances in the PFFL Blog this year, so it seemed appropriate to provide some pictures from her 2009 calendar as we near the end of the PFFL year. Joel is probably already printing this out…

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2008 Playoff Week 1 Preview [Abigail Clancy]

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Post Mortem

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First off, some reminders on waiver rules:

Only teams alive in the championship round of the playoffs are allowed to make waiver moves
Players can only be added in the case of a newly injured player. In other words, the injured player must have been active or listed as no worse than probable in the previous week.
The added player must be the same position as the injured player
The injured player does NOT have to be dropped — any player can be dropped to make room for the injury replacement

And a quick reminder about the playoffs – there is home field advantage in play in the first two rounds. So the better seed gets a 2-point head start.

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Playoff Quarterfinal Matchups

All of the first round matchups in this year’s postseason are rematches of contests held earlier this year. In two of the four games, the teams involved are from the same division and split their season series. On top of all that, 3 of the four matchups this week are between teams who have met in the playoffs before. On to the history…

(8) SIAP vs (1) Post Mortem: Post Mortem beat SIAP in week 12, 81.41 – 75.36, in a low-scoring affair. That win evened the overall series tally at 7-7, but SIAP has a 1-0 advantage in postseason play, with a 116-80 win over Post in the 2000 semi-finals. SIAP has not won a playoff game since their 2004 championship run (granted, they only have one playoff game since then), but are 5-2 in first round playoff games. Post Mortem is 4-4 in the first round of the playoffs, and has advanced to round 2 in 2 of the last 3 seasons. Side note: PM has three West division titles and has now been seeded in all three of the available division winner spots, #2 in 1997, #3 in 2001 and now #1.
(7) Kramerica Industries vs (2) Sharp as a Bowling Ball: Kramerica beat SaaBB waaaaaaaaay back in week 1, 66.31 – 49.79. That was KI’s third straight win over SaaBB, including a 90.12 – 52.21 win in the playoff semi-finals last year. Before the current Kramerica streak, SaaBB had dominated this series, winning the first five meetings. Kramerica is 1-1 in the first round of the playoffs, and is coming off of a 2007 season that saw them make a run all the way to the title game. In 8 playoff appearances, SaaBB has lost in the first round only one time, back in 1998. The second round is their nemesis, as they are 1-6 in the semis.
(6) Duany Duany Tanning vs (3) Tappa Kegga Day: These two East division rivals split their season series. DDT won in week 6, while TKD returned the favor in week 12. DDT holds an overall 7-5 series advantage, which includes a 12-point win in the first round of the 2006 playoffs. DDT is 3-for-5 in the first round, but is actually 2-0 as a wild card. Tappa Kegga Day, meanwhile, has not won a playoff game since advancing to the 2005 title game. Losses in the first round in 2006 and 2007 ended TKD’s perfect 4-0 first round record prior to that time.
(5) Turd Ferguson vs (4) Hedfullalicker: Both teams hail from the West division. Hedfullalicker won the first meeting of their division series, in week 1, with Turd getting the victory in week 10 to earn the season split. Hed leads the overall series 7-6. This is their first ever postseason meeting. Turd Ferguson is an even .500 in the first round, going 3-3, but without a playoff win since 2005. Hedfullalicker has been one of the hardest luck postseason teams in PFFL history. From 1997-2004, Hed reached the playoffs six times, but never made it out of the first round. That streak finally came to an end in 2006 when Hedfull not only won in round 1, but advanced all the way to the championship game.

Toilet Bowl Matchups

The Jedi Masters and The Hip get byes into the semi-final round of the Toilet Bowl, but the bottom 4 teams in the league square off this week. Among the six teams in the Toilet Bowl competition, only one has ever won a Toilet game — The Hip, who bring an impressive 5-1 Toilet record to the table.

(6) Camel Toe vs (3) Winning Beer Money: Camel Toe is 0-2 in the Toilet round, but both losses came against The Hip (who would be their 2nd round opponent). Winning Beer Money has only one Toilet Bowl game under their belt, a loss to SIAP in 2005.
(5) Double D vs (4) CSPJ: Double D is making their first ever appearance in the Toilet Bowl, while CSPJ is here for the third straight season, but has never made it to the 2nd toilet round.

Playoff Preview Babe

Abigail Clancy is another of the hot models to come out of the UK, so she’s probably more into fantasy soccer than football, but I’m willing to let that slide.

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