Wednesday, December 10, 2014

[League Update] Week 14: Everyone #TD4W

Congratulations to 2014 Royale with Cheese regular season champion Turn Down For Watt (11-3). Its owner sat down with me (virtually) to talk about the season and her hatred for RGIII and the Cowboys.



And here's the Turn Down for Watt video I mentioned at the beginning.


The regular season champion has only won the league championship once, the first year of the league (2011) when Taking it to the next level (Go big or go home) did it. In 2012 Correctamundo finished second and in 2013 the Muscular Mathletes finished fourth.

And, yes, TD4W would be the first female champion in RWC history.

Cant Be That Hard may have finished second in the regular season, but it was the season's highest point-scorer. CBTH's 1,450 points is the most in league history.

Four teams tied for second place at 9-5, making Sunday and Monday nights quite tense. One of the teams wasn't going to make it into the championship playoffs. That team was Big Poppa, who had the lowest Points for.

That means that both teams that had the Twitter avatar before TD4W -- PerpetualMotionSquad and Big Poppa -- both missed the championship playoffs. The same kind of thing happened last year, when Chicks Dig Scars (TD4W) lost seven straight games and missed the playoffs after having the avatar earlier in the season.

Father/Son Inscoe Bowl VI was a very tense one. Not only was it close, but Jeff Fisher's Mullet needed the win to make the championship playoffs. Thanks to a poor performance by Keenan Allen Sunday night, the Mullets were down to Dolphins of Old by just 4 points coming into Monday night's game. But Randall Cobb -- the Mullets' most consistent receiver all year -- decided to slow play it. It wasn't until a 20-yard pass in the third quarter that Cobb got to four points. The Mullets won 103-101.

Cant Be That Hard made the playoffs for a second year in a row after a 128-116 win over Go big or go home. Go big is this week's winner of the Jameis Winston Award for Poor Decisions:



Last week was the rare week where it was smart to start Carolina Panthers players. Jonathan Stewart scored 21 points on Go big's bench. It could have replaced several players in the starting lineup and given Go big a win, knocking CBTH out of the playoffs.

TD4W, which had already clinched a playoff spot, beat The Reservoir Dogs 99-79.

So here is how the championship playoff looks:

  • (1) Turn Down For Watt vs. (4) Jeff Fisher's Mullet
  • (2) Cant Be That Hard vs. (3) Dolphins of Old
That playoff guarantees that we will have a first-time champion this season. 

Here is the consolation bracket: 
  • (1) Big Poppa vs. (4) The Reservoir Dogs
  • (2) Academic Probation vs. (3) Big Kahuna Burger
Big Poppa beat the hapless Something 73-44 in the final week of the regular season, but missed out on the championship playoffs because of the Points for tiebreaker. 

Something wins this week's Sad Trombone Award after having four players in the starting lineup score 0 points. 



The week's highest scorer was Academic Probation, who beat Off Constantly in glorious fashion. Academic Probation won by MORE THAN 100 POINTS, 158-55. I don't want to spend the time looking back at all the seasons, but that has to be the largest margin of victory in league history. It is definitely the second-best weekly total in league history. And Academic Probation didn't even start its best lineup. Switch out the tight ends and the score would have been 14 points higher.

Big Kahuna Burger finished the regular season on a three-game losing streak after falling the Muscular Mathletes 70-62. Aaron Rodgers' big night against the Falcons pushed the Mathletes past BKB Monday night. 

And, finally, in the most irrelevant game of the week, PMS beat Blaupunkt 99-79. 


Blame the media all you want, but Blaupunkt's fall from grace is pretty spectacular. After winning the championship in 2012, Blaupunkt has finished 13th each of the past two years. It's actually surprising. The owner knows his football, pays attention and tries to make good roster moves. Maybe he should consult Mrs. Blaupunkt more. 

Note: If you didn't make the playoffs, I made it so that you can't add, drop or trade players. We don't want a player dump to affect the playoffs. 

This week's Thursday night game is between the Cardinals and Rams. No teams are on bye. 

Best of luck to everyone in the playoffs! I hope we'll have a video previewing the 2014 Royale with Cheese championship next week. 

Wishing you sure hands and strong ACLs, 

Corey
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