Monday, December 22

drum roll please

And the winner of the first ever MILLION DOLLAR grand prize for fantasy football is.....

...to be determined. However, the field was greatly narrowed yesterday down to Shane S (Xfactor) and Kenneth S (Giantboys). There are a handful of teams scrambling for 2nd and 3rd, but who really cares about that? Only these 2 teams have a realistic chance at winning first place. It comes down to Aaron Rodgers vs Matt Forte and the Bears defense. Every pick that Rodgers throws will be double joy/pain for these owners.
A few other teams are technically alive if Greg Olsen gets 8 touchdowns or Mason Crosby kicks 20 field goals, but in all likely hood, this will be a 2 team race. I wonder if the other 13 finalists have taken sides and will root for one or the other? It sounds like they are all having a good time and I'm sure it's an experience of a life time.
I haven't taken the time to do a full analysis of my lineup 'first guesses', but here's what I know...

Of the 14 lineup changes I said I would make on Friday, half of those moves were made by the owners. I'm sure weather was the biggest influence, but maybe my blog truly has power? Anyways...of the 7 moves that were made, 5 of them turned out beneficial and the other 2 were not. Of the ones I suggested, but weren't made, 4 would have been better and 3 would have been worse, and in some cases, much worse. This is assuming the Packers DST scores less than 18 points and Driver scores more than 3.0.

Tomorrow I will try and figure out the final standings had I been in control of the 15 lineups.

Best of luck Shane and Kenneth! I know one of you will be pretty disappointed, but you'll still get a good chunk of money and won't have to deal with all the media coverage when it's over. I'm definitely jealous that I wasn't good enough to make it to Vegas, especially since we got almost 2 feet of snow and have had wind chills around -30 all weekend here in Wisconsin.

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