Week 16

We're at half time of the Frenzy championship and Cam2109 leads LRobbins (-6) to (-14). And in the final round of the consolation bracket, where 3rd place is up for grabs, we have a rematch from round 1... #6 Jay Dub, who got a huge 41-9 win from the Panthers to beat Monica's 42-17 Chargers win, 32-25, will take on Jeff C., whose Patriots 35-7 win beat Gridiron Guru's Niners' 20-6 win, 28-14. That knocked out #5 Monica and #4 Gridiron Guru.

The second half of the championship and the final round of consolation play begin Sunday at 1:00pm. There's no Thursday, Friday, or Saturday football this week so you have until games begin Sunday to get your picks in. Good luck to those still vying for money.

Playoffs, Round 1 --> Round 2

Week 14 of the NFL Regular season is over and so we move on to Round 2 of the playoffs. Round 1 saw the Steelers lose to the Browns and the Patriots beat the Panthers giving Jeff C the edge over Jay Dub, 10-(-7). The Chargers outlasted the Cowboys and the Ravens treated the Lions like they were supposed to and gave them a 48-3 beat down moving Monica into the second round with a 45-3 victory over Gridiron Guru. So Round 2 sets up like this; the lower #5 seeded Monica goes on to face #1 seeded LRobbins coming off of her first round BYE, and #3 Jeff C moves ahead to take on #2 Cam2109, also coming off of a first round BYE.

#6 Jay Dub and #4 Gridiron Guru fall down to the consolation bracket, for the last earning placement, and get a second round BYE as they will wait for the rest of the consolation bracket to be filled. They may make a pick for this week but don't have to, as this pick will only be used in the event of a tie in week 16.

Not only do we have Thursday Night Football this week (so get your picks in by Thursday at 8:20 pm), the Colts at the Jags, but we also have Saturday Night Football as the Cowboys go to New Orleans. 4 nights of football this week... life is grand.

Good luck to you all.

Week 14... THE PLAYOFFS (Overview)

The playoffs are here... Week 14 of the NFL Regular Season. The final regular season standings are in and the playoff seedings are set. Round One BYE's go to:

#1 LRobbins (9-2)
#2 Cam2109 (9-2)

These players will get a first round BYE which means that they aren't playing in round 1. However, they should still make a pick in round one as the first tiebreaker in the playoffs is total playoff scoring.

The first round matchups look like this:
#3 Jeff C (9-2)
vs
#6 Jay Dub (9-2)

#4 Gridiron Guru (9-2)
vs
#5 Monica (9-2)

Playoffs wins are scored by the points differential of the team a player picked. If player A's chosen team loses by 10 points and Player B's losses by 14 points Player A get the win and moves on to round two. Whichever player wins by more or loses by less advances to the next round. For more detailed rules you can click on the rules links at the top of this page or go to the rules section on the Home menu.

Remember, the first game of the week is Thursday at 8:20 so if you are going to make a pick you must have it in by then. If you chose not to make a pick, you will not automatically receive a loss, your win/loss will be based solely on what your opponent's team does.

Due to the playoffs tiebreaking procedures picks for round one will not be posted until the selection window is closed. If you make a pick make sure to check your email for the confirmation notice. If you didn't get one, make your pick again. If you continue to to not get a confirmation you may email me or use the contact me link on the Home menu.

Good luck to everyone who can still win some money.

Regular Season Finale

It came down to the wire and in the last week of the Frenzy regular season there were some shifts in the playoff picture. The top four spots kept their playoff berths, but Jeff C. fell from the #2 seed to the #3 seed, with Cam2109 taking over #2. Although the Patriots lost, LRobbins maintains #1 as the Pats only lost by 1 and no one was able to make up the points differential. Gridiron Guru hung in there to take keep the #4 seed. A Saints victory, coupled with a Steelers loss and a Panthers win, but not by enough to overtake Monica, Monica keeps the 5th spot and Jay Dub knocks Fumble of the playoffs by 5 points and just misses the 5th spot by 3 points.

There still one more game to be played this week, but it will have no bearing on the Frenzy playoffs. It's just for a double shot of pride for me, as my boys take on the Packers in Lambeau. Congrats to those who've made it the next life, and good luck. For those of us who didn't... I hope to see you next year and better luck then.

A playoff overview will be coming soon, with the seedings and quick glance at playoff scoring.

Goodbye Week 12, Hello Week 13

Week 12 is complete and the playoff picture is still fuzzy with only one week left in the Frenzy regular season. After 10 weeks we have our first playoff clincher. With a Vikings win Jeff C. clinched the Sussex Division and will be at worst a 4 seed in the playoffs. Currently he is the 2 seed.

After this week with wins from Minnesota, Philadelphia, and Atlanta and losses from Washington, Pittsburgh, and the New York Giants half the league is officially eliminated from playoff contention. The remaining 9 are still in it and anyone could talk any seed as it staands right now. It would take a combination of a big loss by LRobbins and a big win by someone below her to knock her from the #1 seed but stranger things have happened.

With the 29 point Charger win, Monica over took Fumble for the first Wild Card spot and Monica has come on strong with the current longest winning streak at 6 games.

Jay Dub continues to find himself on the outside looking in, but only by 8 points, and SAW and bharris need a little more help to make their ways into the playoffs.

Week 13, the final regular season Frenzy week, will start early, with a big divisional game starting Thursday at 8:20 between the Jets and the Bills. You need to have your picks in by the time that game starts... Them's the rules.

Good luck to those who are still in it... and to those that still have enough pride to get one last win.

Week 11.... Short Week

Week 11 starts tonight. Get your picks in by 8:20 pm TONIGHT. If you don't make a pick you'll get a loss.

Dolphins/Panthers tonight, sans Ronnie Brown. I guess the only Wild Cat tonight will be the Panthers. The Saints should have a field day with the 1-win Bucs. The Giants and Falcons will battle, both being in the thick of a wild card race. The Steelers should roll over the Chiefs. And in the Game of The Week (not because it will be a good game, but because of the bitter history between the two teams) the Ravens welcome the Colts and former Raven kicker Matt Stover, who now kicks for the enemy.

Good luck to everyone and don't forget your picks... 8:20pm tonight.

Week 10 Review

As I said, over these couple of weeks, the playoff picture is beginning to come into focus. With the Cowboys loss I (LuMon) became the first player to be eliminated from playoff contention. At 3-5 I am 4 games behind LRobbins (7-1) in the Kent Division and 4 games behind Jay Dub (also 7-1) in the Wild Card with only 3 regular season Frenzy games to go.

With a Vikings win and an Eagles loss, Cam2109 took sole possession of the New Castle Division with jharris falling a game behind and Mark two games back. And thanks to the Titans win, bfaries holds on to hope for another week. However with a loss in week 11 or wins from Cam2109, LRobbins, Fumble, and Jay Dub in week 11 he will be eliminated.

As I mentioned in the week 10 preview I didn't think LRobbins would go undefeated this year, and with the Eagles loss she took her first L of the season, though she still retains the division lead with that huge points differential lead. In a bit of a surprise Jay Dub was able to draw even (record-wise) with LRobbins and Fumble at 7-1 as the Panthers pulled one out over the Falcons in Charlotte. With an ugly Ravens win over Cleveland Monica kept pace at 1 game out in the Kent Division.

The Vikings win coupled with a Steelers loss switched Kinger and wissinger positions in the Sussex Division with both of them 2 games behind division leader Jeff C. In an interestingly decided game J.D. Gravatt was able to keep his playoff hopes alive as the Colts came from 17 points down in the 4th quarter to beat the Patriots 35-34 and remain undefeated. It was interesting because with just over 2:00 left in the game on 4th and 2 at their own 29 yard line, Bill Belichick decided to go for it. The Patriots didn't convert and Peyton Manning got the ball back on the New England 29 and ran the clock down to :13 and scored the game winning touchdown.

In the ugly game of the week the 49ers used 5 Jay Cutler interceptions to beat the Bears 10-6. That's right, 5 picks and only 10 points... like I said, ugly game... and boring too. With that Niners' win, Gridiron Guru overtook the Delaware Division lead as the Colts come-from-behind win also helped SAW push D10206156 to third in the division. In the closest division in the league this year, JKing took the Vikings and kept pace at 5-3 and only 1 game behind Gridiron Guru.

So, with 3 weeks left in the Frenzy regular season, I am eliminated from playoff contention and two others, bfaries and J.D. Gravatt, are hanging by a thread. If the playoffs started today the matchups would look like this:

Round 1
#3 Jeff C (7-1)
vs.
#6 Jay Dub (7-1)

#4 Gridiron Guru (6-2)
vs.
#5 Fumble (7-1)

BYES:
#1 LRobbins (7-1)
#2 Cam2109 (7-1)

As you can see, things can change quite a bit in just one week. Good luck to everyone, and from the first player eliminated, nice job to everyone in your picks this season.

Short Week... Week 10

So this week starts Thursday Night Football on the NFL Network. That means it's a short week and all of your picks need to be in by 8:20 tonight (Thursday, November 12th). This weeks Game Of the Week puts the surprising Bengals (6-2) in Pittsburgh (6-2) in a battle for the AFC North Division lead. A win by the Bengals this week would put them 5-0 in the Division with sweeps against the Ravens and Steelers, and at 7-2 they'd be in great position for a playoff run.

The other key matchup this week, which I think is overhyped, is the Patriots in Indy. While this is always a good game, I just don't think the Patriots have what it takes to knock out the undefeated Colts. This isn't the 16-0 Patriots from two seasons ago, and it certainly isn't the dynasty Pats from the early part of the decade, but surprisingly the Colts are only 2.5 point favorites AT HOME. For those of you who aren't aware, the home team always gets 3 for home field advantage. So what that means is that if this game were held on a neutral field the Patriots would actually be a very slight favorite. Apparently the oddsmakers aren't fans of Indy at home this week.

One other somewhat interesting game, if only because of the history, is the Cowboys in Green Bay.

If you're interested in train wrecks, may I suggest the Chiefs in Oakland? That game should be ugly... of course you could just go watch your local pop warner team and see the same level of play... and you'd be supporting the community.

Remember, short week this week... get your picks in by 8:20pm tonight. Good luck to everyone below me in the standings... J.D. Gravatt and bfaries.

Week 9

So week 9 sucked. That's all I'm saying about it. For me to have a chance and for the Ravens to have a chance in the AFC North they needed to win. They didn't and they loooked terrible doing it. So now I'm 4 games out in the division and 3 games out in the wildcard with only 4 to play until the Frenzy playoffs start. With a Colts win LRobbins remains undefeated. In the four seasons that I've run this game only one person has gone undefeated the entire season... Me... and that was the first year I ran it and there wasn't any money on the line so it didn't even really count. I'm not so sure she'll be able to put it off this year, though, as her remaining schedule looks pretty difficult.

On to the 1-loss players... Cam2109 and jharris got wins out of the Steelers, so they are neck and neck atop the New Castle Division, Fumble kept pace with LRobbins by also choosing the Colts, Jay Dub got a 1 point win out of the Chargers over the struggling New York Football Giants to remain up there as well, and the Patriots kept Jeff C. on top in the Sussex division.

In other games from week 9, the Eagles looked listless in their loss to NFC East rival Dallas, the Saints came out flat again, but made a comeback to beat the Panthers and remain unbeaten along with the Colts, the 49ers got beat by the Titans, and the Falcons got a win over the Redskins.

It's time to start talking playoffs as the playoff picture should start to firm up over the next couple of weeks. If the playoffs started this week, these would be the matchups (with several good records on the outside looking in):

Round 1
First Round BYEs, who would still have to make a pick only to be used in tiebreaking if necessary:
#1 LRobbins (7-0)
#2 Cam2109 (6-1)

#3 Jeff C. (6-1)
   vs.
#6 jharris (6-1)

#4 D10206156 (5-2)
   vs.
#5 Fumble (6-1)

So that means, 5 5-2 players and 1 6-1 player wouldn't be in the playoffs. That's a pretty strong year so far.

Week 8...

Looking back at week 8, LRobbins is still unbeaten as she's coming of her BYE week. Week 8 in the NFL saw the fall of one more undefeated team. My boys gave the Denver Broncos, who we all know weren't 6-0 good to begin with, a thorough BEATDOWN. The Broncos who had only given up 10 2nd half points and 0 2nd half third down conversions all season went into half time down only 6-0. But the Ravens ran the second half opening kickoff back 95 yards and didn't look back, winning 30-7. That's 24 second half points and only 7 didn't come on offense and they had one drive in which they pushed 4 third down conversions across for 1st downs.

Now that I'm done hyping up the Ravens who finally learned how to play defense again, I'll move on to some of the other games that were picked. There were only two losers this week, JKing, who took the Cardinals who were just outplayed by a bad Carolina Panthers team, and SAW, whose homer pick, the Packers, almost worked out for her but in the end didn't.

Now for the winners, who didn't help those of us trying to climb back into our divisions... As I mentioned the Packers lost, which means the Vikings, in "Brett Favre's TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO LAMBEAU IN PURPLE" (geez, I'm so tired of hearing about this man. I repect him, but enough already), won 38-26. For once, Peyton Manning didn't throw a touchdown pass. Of course he still threw for almost 350 yards and the Colts remain one of two undefeated teams left as they had a tougher battle against the Niners then they expected, I'm sure, and won 18-14.

Wow how the mighty have fallen... the Giants before the injury to the other Manning brother looked like they might be the best team in football. Then the Saints put 48 points on them, the Cardinals beat them, and now the Eagles just put 40 points on them. In a division rivalry, the Chargers eeked out a win over the Raiders, and Tony Romo finally got a win at Seattle... luckily this time it didn't come down a last second field goal attempt as the Cowboys won 38-17.

Week 9...

There's really not a whole good to talk about in Week 9. There's about four interesting games this week. In the Game Of The Week, the the Eagles will welcome the Cowboys for the NFC East division lead and the Broncos will welcome the Pittsburgh Steelers, fresh off their BYE week, into Mile High or whatever they're calling it now. With a Broncos win and a Ravens victory in Cincy this week there will be a three-way tie for the AFC North division lead. The last of the remotely interesting games in week 9 will put the somewhat surprising Dolphins in New England to take on the Patriots.

The Giants will take on the Chargers, the Packers go to Tampa, Texans to Indy, Cardinals in Chicago, 'Skins in Atlanta, Panthers to the Big Easy, and the Niners welcome the Titans who just got their first win of the season.

You all have until Sunday at 1:00pm to make your picks. Good luck with that.

Week 8 G.O.W. Highlights

Week 7... Week 8

Week 7 is done, and now there is only one unbeaten player. With another HUGE win, though not by 59 points, LRobbins went to 6-0 and extended her already lengthy points lead. With the Cardinals win over the Giants, D10206156 took his first L of the season but remains ahead of SAW by one game who got a 42-6 victory out of the Colts. By being on BYE bfaries lost a half game to everyone in the New Castle Division as the Chargers, Eagles, Cowboys, and Steelers all got Cam2109, jharris, bharris, and Mark victories, respectively. In the most entertaining and interesting game of week 7 the New Orleans Saints battled back to beat the Dolphins 46-34. With a big win from the Patriots in London's Wembley Stadium, I got back on the right side of the W-L column and with the Vikings first loss of the season Kinger took a backseat to Jeff C. Finally, in another good but not great comeback, the 49ers gave Gridiron Guru a loss.

As it stands now, halfway through the season, the division leaders are Cam2109, LRobbins, Jeff C, and D10206156, and Fumble and jharris hold the two wildcard spots.

Week 8 is just a couple days away and has a few good matchups... including the Giants in Philadelphia, undefeated Broncos in Baltimore, the Vikings and Packers, and the Falcons and Saints... and one disaster waiting to happen, the battle for futility, the Rams in Detroit. Good luck this week everyone, but not too much.


Week 8 Game of The Week Highlights:

Week 7 Preview

So week 7 is upon us. Hard to believe we've almost played two full months of Football, Halloween is just around the corner, and The Holiday Season will soon be here. Week 7 has at least one good matchup for us and several disasters waiting to happen. With my boys on BYE this week getting ready to play the undefeated Broncos next week I'll have to latch onto another team for a week. This week that team will be the team that just beat my Ravens, the Minnesota Vikings. In the game of the week for week 7 the undefeated Vikings travel to Pittsburgh to take on the Steelers. On the other side of the League, the Bills and Panthers faceoff, and in two disasters waiting to happen the Saints go to Miami and the Eagles travel down to DC.

Some other key matchups for this week include the Chargers and the Chiefs, the Cowboys and Falcons, Colts and Rams, Patriots and Bucs, Giants and Cardinals, and the Packers and Browns.

Remember... GET YOUR PICKS IN!!! Unless you don't want to. Good luck.

Week 6 Review

So Week 6 is over and so is the Tennessee Titans's season. Luckily no one picked the Titans to win last week. However there were a couple of people on the other side of the 59-0 Titans loss to the Patriots. LRobbins extended her division lead by a half game over Fumble, who was on BYE, with the Patriot win and SAW was helped immensely by the 59 point differential.

Like a dummy Jeff C picked the Redskins to beat the 0-5 Chiefs. He's no longer undefeated as the Redskins played their 6th straight winless team and lost their 4th game of the year sending them to 2-4 and Jeff C to 4-1. With that loss and the Texans 28-17 win over the Bengals, Kinger moved into the Sussex Division lead.

In the game of the week, what looked early to be a Viking blow out of the Ravens turned into quite an explosive game as with 10 minutes left in the game the Vikings went up 27-10. The Ravens proceeded to outscore Minnesota 21-6 in the final 10 minutes of the game and sat at the 27 yard line with a chance to win on 44yd field goal attempt by young kicker, Steven Hauschka. He pulled it left and the Ravens improbable comeback was not to be... Vikings 33, Ravens 31 in a hell of game... offensively.

With three BYE's in the New Castle Division and a Steeler win over the Browns, Cam2109 jumped a couple spots to second in the division and with a Chargers loss to the STILL surprisingly 6-0 Denver Broncos bfaries fell to the cellar of the New Castle Divison.

If not for the Redskins dreadful performance, the Panthers/Bucs game would have been the worst game of the week by far, with the Panthers lucking into a 28-21 win and Jay Dub moving to 3-1. Not a bad record, but still a full game and a half behind 5-0 division leader LRobbins and only 22 points out of the second wild card spot.

There's still far too much left to play before we start to talk about the Wild Card spots and the playoffs, but I can say with relative certainty that if you don't make your pick you won't make the playoffs. J.D. Gravatt failed to make his pick for the second week in a row. While that didn't harm in week 5 since he only had one team to chose that week and they lost he could have picked up huge points by picking the Patriots last week. Remember folks, you can't win if you don't pick and play.


Highlights from Week 6's game of the week:



Week 7 preview coming...

Week 5 Results

Week 5 is in the books for the Frenzy and although there is still one game left to play tonight, the standings through 4 weeks of Frenzy play are set.

Week 4 began with 5 unbeatens and ends with only 3 remaining. With big wins from the Eagles (33-14), Vikings (38-10), and Giants (44-7), LRobbins, Jeff C, and D10206156 are still undefeated and lead their divisions. The 17-14 loss by the Ravens to the Bengals, who just plain outplayed the Ravens, gave Monica and bharris their first losses of the season.

In other games around the league The Steelers kept pace in the AFC North with a 28-20 win over the Lions, and the surprising Denver Broncos moved to 5-0 with an overtime win over the Patriots, 20-17. They remain one of 5 unbeatens in the NFL. The other four are the 5-0 Colts, who look completely dominant and almost unbeatable, 5-0 New York football Giants, 5-0 Vikings and the 4-0 Saints.

A preview of week 6 in the NFL will be coming shortly after tonight's Jet/Dolphins AFC East matchup.

Week 3 Review... A look ahead at Week 4

Week 3 of the Season is in the books and we've had our first BYE's of the season. Through two weeks of the Frenzy's season we have four undefeated players and all of them are leading their division. bharris picked up two wins with the Raven's win over San Diego in week 2, and the Cowboys win over the Panthers last week. Lrobbins with Indy's win over Miami and Philly's win over KC sits at 2-0. Jeff C, after picking the Redskins in week 2 and being scared to death, and getting a win out of New England over ATL last week also sits at 2-0 and D10206156 is also 2-0 with wins out of Indy over the Dolphins and the Giants shutout of the Bucs. Mark falls to 0-2 as the hapless Redskins gave the Lions their first win in 20 months... way to go 'Skinis!

Looking back at week 3, the Cowboys got their first win in the new 1+ Billion dollar stadium, The Eagles (behind Kevin Kolb) handled the Chiefs with ease, 34-14, and in one of the bigger surprises of the week, the Steelers managed to give away a game to the once-lowly-but-now-looking-like-a-contender-but-still-really-not Cincinatti Bengals on a last minute drive that ended in the end zone for the 23-20 win. Other scores include the Redskins losing to the Lions, 19-14, the Raven PASTING the possibly-worst-team-in-the-league Browns as they should have, 34-3, the Chargers over the Dolphins 23-13, the Patriots over the Falcons, 26-10, the Saints beat up the Bills, 27-7, the Texans lost to the Jags, and the Colts beat the Cards, 31-10.

Some of the biggest games of week 4 include the Ravens in New England, Green Bay in Minnesota, the Jets at New Orleans, and the Chargers at Pittsburgh. If the Ravens win the rest of the NFL will officially HAVE TO TAKE NOTICE (as if they haven't already). The new face of the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, takes his team into the Dome in Minnesota to face the Ghost of Packers' past Brett Favre. The Saints and the Jets are two surprising 3-0 teams and this game pits the most powerful scoring offense this year against the stingiest yardage defense this year. The 2-1 Cbargers will go into Pittsburgh Merriman-less and the Steelers, who are 1-2, are out for blood as their two losses came in the waning moments of those two games in which they led for most of the game.

The selection window is open until 1:00pm Sunday which means you have just over 75 hours to get your picks in. Good luck.

And now for some highlights from week 3 in the NFL:

2009 Three Team Football Frenzy

Kickoff Thursday in which the Steelers take on the Titans is only 25 days away. That means you have about 34 days to pick your teams and make your selection for week 2, the opening week of the Frenzy. As always you'll have the entire preseason and week one of the regular season to guage your teams and pick who you want for the rest of the season. 10 buck to play like last year and the top three earn money.

Good luck to everyone who wants to play and registers.