PIFF/PIML Season Finale

Hello!

Well the Fantasy Football season ended a week ago, but I wanted to wait until all the stat corrections were in before champions were declared.

In a very close game the Svinksland Pillagers beat the Kreplachistan Rebels 38 to 34 to win the 7th Pirate Islands Fantasy Football Championship. If you had stat-tracker pulled up during the game you know how close this game was, it ended up tied after Monday Night Football but a forced fumble by Kevin Boss gave the Pillagers a win (the points were awarded after the games were over). Congratulations to the Pillagers for their long awaited first Championship.

The PIML championship game pit the two favorites against one another. In the end the Tea Republic Boilers beat out the Battle Cove Coasters 49 to 29 to win the first Pirate Islands Minor League Championship. The win was largely due to Chris Johnson's performance as running back.
Thanks to everyone for playing, I hope everyone had a good time. The season All-Star totals are below.

The Week 14 PIFF All-Stars were:

Pos   Player       Pts Team
QB    D. Brees     13  Eldars
RB    C. Johnson   19  Pillagers
WR1   D. Jackson   15  Kilters
WR2   A. Johnson   14  Rebels
TE    K. Boss      6   Pillagers
K     R. Bironas   4   Plankers
DEF   Jets         3   Maties
DB1   J. Byrd      3   Vampirates
DB2   L. Hall      3   Steepers
DL    D. Howard    6   Plankers
LB    P. Willis    4   Maties

Final PIFF Total All-Stars:
18 Netthuania Nites
18 Tea Republic Steepers
17 Svinksland Pillagers
16 Sparrow Island Maties
16 Takawokonia Plankers
15 Tsukestan Picklers
15 Kreplachistan Rebels
11 Scotslandi Kilters
11 Pirataly Vampirates
10 Ninja Isle Eldars
8 Snotvia Snotknockers
7 Harbor Coast Red Burns


Week 14 PIML All-Stars were:

Pos   Player       Pts Team
QB    D. Brees     13  Focus
RB    C. Johnson   19  Boilers
WR1   D. Jackson   15  Boilers
WR2   A. Johnson   14  Savvy Sirens
TE    D. Clark     5   Savvy Sirens
K     R. Bironas   4   Savvy Sirens
DEF   Jets         3   Boilers
DB1   J. Byrd      3   Savvy Sirens
DB2   T. McGee     3   Trip'ems
DL    A. Carter    4   Savvy Sirens
LB    O. Umenyiora 4   Boilers

Week 15 PIML All-Stars were:

Pos   Player       Pts Team
QB    P. Manning   16  Monkey Strings
RB    M. Jones-Dr. 13  Savvy Sirens
WR1   A. Johnson   12  Savvy Sirens
WR2   S. Smith     11  Trip'ems
TE    D. Clark     9   Savvy Sirens
K     M. Prater    4   Coasters
DEF   Giants       4   Monkey Strings
DB1   D. Rodgers   6   Coasters
DB2   C. Bailey    3   Coasters
DL    J. Allen     4   Coasters
LB    O. Umenyiora 4   Boilers

Final PIML Total All-Stars:
38 Battle Cove Coasters
37 Tea Republic Boilers
32 Pesce Bay Savvy Sirens
28 Tai Shu Trip'ems
24 Harmakipa Monkey Strings
14 Nebuchadnezzar Focus

PIFF 2008 Championship and Wrap Up

Now we must close the 2008 season, which was another successful year for the PIFF. The Tea Republic Steepers was able to hold off the Snotvia Snotknockers to win the Championship, while the Scotslandi Kilters continued their impressive late season run to win the Consolation bracket, beating the Tsukestan Picklers. If the Kilters would have had won one more game in the regular season they would have made it to, and won the Championship Playoffs.

As always I am grateful for everyone putting in the time to play the season, I had a great time playing and I hope everyone else did. The plan for finishing up the season is to get everyone a price list for the keepers sometime later this year when salary cap figures are released.

I think that the changes in the scoring system that we had were a step in the right direction, but they are still going to need some tweaks. The biggest change for next year will probably be a reduction in negative points for DEF points allowed. I still like the idea of losing points for poor DEF performances, but this year it seemed that too many of the outcomes each week were directly tied to the performance of the DEF. I am also thinking about getting receiving yards more points, and adding in bonus points for yards gained (like 1 extra point for a 100 yard game). Throughout the season this year I have been recording the NFL data so that I can run the numbers to try to see what should to be changed. I'll give some more updates when I start working on that.

One big thing I am considering for next year is to start a "minor league" for PIFF. I am starting to meet more people that are interested in joining our league, or just want to give fantasy football a try. Our league can only hold 14 teams is the max and I do not want anyone to leave PIFF so I thought that running a side non-keeper league would be a way to introduce new people while not giving them the pressure of having to be in a league "that counts". I would run the minor league just like PIFF except for the keeper aspect of it, so the scoring system would be the same, as would the naming conventions of the teams, etc. I think that as long as there are 4 or 5 new people interested I will give it a shot. So if you have a significant other, parent, or sibling that wants to give fantasy football a shot next year let me know (especially since they would be in a different league you could help them out more than if they were in PIFF). The sooner I get people signed up the sooner I can make football helmets for them, and as we all know the PIFF is a just ruse so that I have an excuse to make football helmets. :)

Well as I said at the opening, this was another great year of PIFF, and I have already started to think about who I am going to keep for next year and who needs to get the ax.

I hope everyone had a good Christmas, and enjoy the NFL playoffs!
(Anyone else rooting for a Cardinals/Dolphins Super Bowl?)