Official Results 2005 Week #17

2005 Week #17

Out of nowhere, the Dugongs went from last in week #16 to first in week #17 to surprise everybody with their second win of the season. The Dugongs were able to win despite starting E James and B Urlacher who did not even play. Almost everybody on Dugongs team that actually played had a big game. K Collins finished the season with his best game of the year and 30 pts. He gave something to think about to the Raiders who must decide if he will return in 2006 . Tatum Bell started for the Broncos because M Anderson rested his injury. T Bell took advantage of the opportunity and scored 20 pts against the tough Chargers run defense. P Burress got his first good game since week #11 with 19 pts. Even E Kennison got a decent game by his standard with 14 pts. The Dugongs finish the season in 4th place with a season where injuries hit early in the season, but the main reason is that team management screwed up on almost all their draft picks in the first 7 rounds. Except for E James who had a nice year, the next 8 players drafted by the Dugongs were busts or got injured: J Lewis, J Walker, T Gonzalez, T Bell, J Horn, C Brown, Ravens D, and K Collins. It is hard to do worse than this during a draft. The only positive for the Dugongs is that the coach was able to get the highest coaching efficiency in the league, doing the most of what he could with a team that ranked last in the league in strength of starters.

The BeaudoinBrothers finished in the top 2 for the seventh straight week, establishing one last record during this top notch season where the BBs led the league from start to finish. The BeaudoinBrothers finished 31 rank-points in front of the Spitoons and WaxOnWaxOff. This is such a lead that even if the season was extended 5 more weeks for all NFL playoffs and even the Pro Bowl, the BBs would still be assured to finish first, even if they ranked last five straight weeks and the Spitoons or Wax being first five straight weeks as well. If it was not for Carr's injury in the first half of week #17, the BBs might have finished first this week again. Tiki Barber ended the season with 29 pts and he was easily the steal of the draft as the 17th RB taken (early 5th round pick). L Tomlinson slowed down towards the end of the season due to an injury, but finished 3rd best RB in the league. The BBs finished with 3 WRs in the top 6 (top 5 excluding T Owens) with Holt, C Johnson, and A Boldin. The BBs also finished with the best 2 TEs in the league, four of the top 5 LBs in the league, the top rookie (O Thurman), the 2nd best DL (O Umenyiora), etc. As unbelievable as it sounds, the BBs dominated the league so much that even if Bulger, Tomlinson, Holt, Gates, D Edwards, J Vilma, and R Harrison all got a season-ending injury after the draft but before week #1, the BBs would still have finished 1st in front of the Spitoons ! The BBs finished the season 22.2 more pts per week than the Spitoons. Losing all the listed top stars would have affected the BBs by about 17 pts per week. With still 5 more points per week than the Spitoons, it is safe to say that the BBs would have still won the title.

FlyingElvis also ended the season on a good note with a 3rd place. If the season had been extended, chances are that FE would have caught up with UJ in 6th place. FE got 17 rank-points in the last 3 weeks. The team's season start was so awful that they did not reach 17 rank-points until week #10 ! Larry Johnson was definitely the leader of FE during the last half of the season and he scored 38 pts this week and finished 2nd best RB in the league despite being backup for 8 games. LJ carried the team by himself to 3rd place this week because the rest of the team was not very good. Rookie M Jones, DL T Suggs, and RB W McGahee were the only other two to reach double-digits. Despite finishing last, FE might actually have a decent saved team for 2006 with several players having a strong season end. If A Green and J Lewis return strong in 2006, they will give headaches to other teams who will have to cut players from FE's team.

WaxOnWaxOff finished the season with a disappointing 108.5 pts and a 4th place. This was the team's worst week since week #10. This came at the wrong time. Wax only beat Spi by one rank and lost 2nd place in the standings overall by the tiebreaker, having scored 2199 total points to the Spitoons' 2224.25 pts . Wax almost succeeded in making an unbelievable comeback against the Spitoons but fell just short. Rudi Johnson was the main culprit for the counter-performance of Wax this week. Rudi was awful with only 1 point as the Bengals were routed by the Chiefs. Wax's WRs were mediocre as the image of the season, with J Porter and C Chambers scoring only 9 pts and 8 pts. TE Heap also finished on a bad note with only 3 pts. Wax's prospects for 2006 are relatively bright. Several players could be in a better situation in 2006 which would greatly help Wax's saved team. For example, if Ricky Williams starts somewhere other than in Miami, his 2006 value would increase. T Jones and D Davis are however watching if their team will replace them with a younger RB. The Bears have not used C Benson much this season, and the Texans might draft rookie Reggie Bush in April.

The Spitoons barely escaped a complete collapse from 2nd place by edging UJ and Old in the last game of the season. Ju Jones from Old and D Bledsoe from UJ were playing against the weak Rams D and both were unable to score more than 5 pts. The Spitoons hung on to 5th place this week and therefore only lost one rank-point to Wax to finish the season in 2nd place. The Spitoons were able to survive in week #17 despite only having 0.5 RB because S Alexander missed part of his game, and Westbrook, L Jordan, C Martin were all injured . QB Roethlisberger was also horrible against the Lions as he backtracked into the playoffs with only 3 pts. The Spitoons' WRs were the team strength all year and in the end it's them who saved the team once again. Steve Smith scored 23 pts to finish the season as 2nd best WR, and virtually first if we ignore dumb ass T Owens. L Fitzgerald did a great job in Owens' absence for most of the year. He scored 17 pts this week to finish 5th best WR.

UncleJack finished the week in 6th place and finished the season in 6th place. Bledsoe had a horrible game in the regular season finale with three turnovers . C Dillon did not even play. Droughns did almost nothing in the Browns' win over the Ravens. Rod Smith played sparingly and only scored one point. The only big game came from the Panthers D who scored a TD, caused 4 turnovers and sacked Vick+Schaub 5 times. UncleJack has a lot of work to do during the offseason to return this franchise to the glory days of 2002. Outside of the QB and DB position where the team is pretty strong, UJ has no depth at all. The saved team going into 2006 may be weak. UJ will have to rely on a good draft to have success in 2006.

OldNo7 failed in their final attempt to catch up the Dugongs when they got crushed and finished last for the third time this year. Ju Jones was horrible against the Rams and was unable to help Wax by beating the Spitoons. Andre Johnson finished the season with another stinker: 1 reception for 3 yards. He has been a bust this season. Remember that he was the third pick in the 2nd round! Yet he finished 31st WR. Very expensive 2nd round pick! Very little went right for Old this week. Even the dominant Bears D rested several players and their backups played like crap and scored -4 pts. Despite this performance, the Bears D was so dominant during the season that they finished the season as the top defense in front of the Panthers D. Portis was the team's top scorer this week with 21 pts. Depending on his performance in the NFL playoffs, he is the most likely player to end up being tagged as OldNo7's franchise player. Portis finished 8th best RB after being drafted as the 7th RB. Not too bad.

I hope you all enjoyed the season. Have a good offseason!

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