Tag: VPFL

It’s that time again. There is an extra spot open this year thanks to the Greenfield Grizzlies claiming last year’s championship. Current members are: the White Buffalo, Nate, me, and Zek, the winner of the VP-AFL. That leaves six teams open for management; it’s a keeper league so you’ll inherit up to three players of your choice from last year’s roster.

If you haven’t participated before but would like to do so this season, please throw your name in the hat here now. I’ll choose the six participants randomly.

79 Greenfield Grizzlies
42 Fromundah Cheezheads

The Greenfield Grizzlies are your 2013 VPFL champion. It’s been a banner year for the White Buffalo, as he also defeated me in our other fantasy league, 77-57 AND won his picks league at work as well. This will make him absolutely insufferable for the next nine months.

Thanks for playing, everyone, and the very small silver lining in the gargantuan cloud that is the Greenfield championship is that thanks to one of the permanent players winning the league, there will be six open spots next year instead of the usual five. I will post a call for volunteer players about a month before the season starts; as always, new players will be given the priority.

As for the NFL, here is to hoping that Leslie Frazier heads back to coordinating defenses and Bill Musgrave is doing something besides calling successive off-tackle plays for Adrian Peterson.

74 Greenfield Grizzlies
57 Bane Sidhe

80 Fromundah Cheezheads
79 RR Redbeards

The two top teams all season are meeting in the VPFL Championship Game. Greenfield has had a banner year; as it happens, I’m meeting the White Buffalo in the MFL championship game.

127 Bane Sidhe (8-5)
50 RR Redbeards (8-5)

60 Fromundah Cheezheads (10-3)
44 Suburban Churchians (5-8)

73 Mounds View Meerkats (6-7)
67 Bradford Gamma Rays (5-8)

71 Bailout Banksters (6-7)
69 Greenfield Grizzlies (9-4)

86 Boot Hill Hangmen (4-9)
68 Mercury Marauders (4-9)

The playoff teams are set, all that remains to be settled is who plays where.  Right now, no one wants to face the defending champions, Bane Sidhe, who appear to be rounding into late-season form. And curb-stomping Nate? Well, let’s just say the old Weeper was smiling that day.

I’m not discontent with my performance this season. Losing both Rodgers and Foster knocked me out of contention, but I still managed to score more points than two of the four playoff teams.

52 Fromundah Cheezheads (9-3)
40 Mercury Marauders (4-8)

79 Bane Sidhe (7-5)
67 Boot Hill Hangmen (3-9)

55 RR Redbeards (8-4)
43 Greenfield Grizzlies (9-3)
56 Moundsview Meerkats (5-7)
50 Bailout Banksters  (5-7)

71 Bradford Gamma Rays (5-7)
68 Suburban Churchians (5-7)

At the close of Week 12, Fromundah Cheezheads and RR Redbeards both made
the postseason. Greenfield Grizzlies got their fourth straight week in
first place, despite a loss to RR Redbeards. Moundsview Meerkats
leapfrogged the most teams this week, climbing from seventh place to
fifth. Suburban Churchians wasn’t as lucky, sliding from sixth to
eighth. RR Redbeards has won seven consecutive matchups.

This is the weekly open NFL thread. And while the Vikings season has been a nearly unmitigated disaster, the ironic thing is that the decision to Percy Harvin leave appears to have been an even better one that the decision to let Sydney Rice go.

97 Greenfield Grizzlies (9-2)
67 Bane Sidhe (6-5)

58 Fromundah Cheezheads (8-3)
49 Boot Hill Hangmen (3-8)

92 RR Redbeards (7-4)
71 Mounds View Meerkats (4-7)

75 Suburban Churchians (5-6)
43 Bailout Banksters (5-6)

90 Bradford Gamma Rays (4-7)
49 Mercury Marauders (4-7)

This is shaping up to be the least interesting Vikings-Packers game in ages. Two teams and no real quarterbacks between them. It may be time to consider running the single-wing.

73 Greenfield Grizzlies (8-2)
64 Mounds View Meerkats (4-6)

75 Bane Sidhe (6-4)
51 Fromundah Cheezheads (7-3)

53 RR Redbeards (6-4)
46 Suburban Churchians (4-6)

69 Bailout Banksters (5-5)
58 63Mercury Marauders (4-6)

84 Boot Hill Hangmen (3-7)
47 Bradford Gamma Rays (3-7)

My season is essentially over, with both Aaron Rodgers and Arian Foster being sidelined by injury. Even so, there is NO excuse for last week’s loss to the Grizzlies, as ANY starting quarterback would have been enough to give me the 10 points I needed for the win. But I simply forgot that Rodgers was out and started him.

So, it’s looking like the four playoff contenders are Greenfield, Fromundah, last season’s champs, and much to everyone’s surprise, the slow-starting Redbeards.

79 Greenfield Grizzlies (7-2)
74 Suburban Churchians (4-5)

58 Mounds View Meerkats (4-5)
45 Bane Sidhe (5-4)

76 RR Redbeards (5-4)
48 63Mercury Marauders (4-5)

66 Bailout Banksters (4-5)
65 Boot Hill Hangmen (2-7)

66 Bradford Gamma Rays (3-6)
60 Fromundah Cheezheads (7-2)

The Redbeards appear to be climbing back into it, even as I completely forgot to start Alfred Morris for this week. This is, as always, your NFL open thread, in which we will conspicuously fail to worry overmuch about the loss of the Vikings starting quarterback to injury.

I haven’t got the scores together yet, but in the meantime, this would be your open NFL thread.

83 Greenfield Grizzlies (5-0)
52 Bradford Gamma Rays (1-4)
 
71 Fromundah Cheezheads (5-0)
61 Mounds View Meerkats (2-3)

80 Bane Sidhe (3-2)
49 ’63 Mercury Marauders (2-3)

74 Bailout Banksters (2-3)
41 RR Redbeards (1-4)

75 Boot Hill Hangmen (2-3)
52 Suburban Churchians (2-3)

Not the best of starts for the Meerkats, especially not with Greenfield and Fromundah going 5-0.  But that will end this week, as the two undefeated teams meet; Fromundah has the nominal edge, and is up 16-0 after the Thursday game, but has to be deeply worried about Peyton Manning facing the outclassed Jaguars today.  I can sympathize, as the Meerkats would be 3-2 if it weren’t for his 6 TD passes in Week One.

I’m quite pleased that the Vikings showed the sense to pick up Josh Freeman.  It wasn’t all that long ago that he was being touted as the next great QB and I’m not convinced that the problem was him and not the Buccaneers. Regardless, when you’ve got nothing, the prospect of something is worth a shot. This is a quarterback’s league, and if you don’t have a top 10 QB, then you had better keep rolling the dice until you land one.  I’m not saying that Freeman is a long term solution, but we already know that neither Ponder nor Cassel are.

80 TD, 66 INT and a 78.8 rating for a 25 year-old quarterback isn’t so bad, especially considering that he threw for 4,000 yeards with 27 TDs against 17 INTs last year.