2009 Week #17

Congratulations to WaxOnWaxOff, the 2009 PQBFL champions!

Wax won the league for the first time since 2001. It was a very nice comeback from the 2007 season finish (7^th place out of 8), up to 3^rd place last year, and now 1^st. Wax was able to quickly rebuild a strong team.

The BeaudoinBrothers put up a fight in the final week and Wax’s players were nervous and not on their A-game, but the BBs came up just short. Wax should send flowers to JB for beating the BBs by 3.75 pts otherwise the BBs would have completed another improbably comeback. At the end, Wax won the title due to better coaching decisions than Beaud, finishing first in the league compared to third for Beaud in coaching efficiency. In the final week, Beaud could have won the title if they had started the Cowboys defense instead of the Eagles defense. Also, Beaud benched Mayo because of the fear the Patriots might not play their starters much, and instead used 2 DLs by starting A Schobel. Unfortunately Schobel had his worst game of the year with only 2 pts compared to Mayo’s 8 pts.

Wax escaped with the title by doing just enough on Sunday. With R Moss on the bench, it was important for Wax to get something out of T Owens and A Bryant and they both scored a TD despite low stats, but every bit helped. The Vikings defense fixed their screw up from last week when they could have sealed the title for Wax but dropped the ball on MNF. This time the Vikings were solid and scored 15 pts. Wax also won this year in part due to the TE position. Not only D Clark finished top TE in the PQBFL, but Wax needed to use the backup this week due to the low expected usage of Clark. Celek was a great late round pickup and he delivered on Sunday, scoring 11.75 pts and he finished 5^th best TE in the league. This was sufficient to overcome the bad games from MJD (6.25 pts), Flacco (3.25 pts), and C Wells (1.5 pt).

The Decepticons won for the fourth time this season and for the third time in the last six weeks to secure 3^rd place in the standings in front of Spi. Dec completely outscored the opposition with strong games from Cutler and J Stewart. With the second RB spot, Dec had the guts to start J Charles instead of regular T Jones and it paid off. Charles demolished the sorry Broncos by running for 259 yards and 2 TDs. On defense it is worth noting the 22.5 pt performance by Ju Smith who sacked the QB 3.5 times.

All other positions in the rankings were already almost pre-determined, but JB’s trouble-making performance was not in vain. By finishing 2^nd, JB not only knocked out Beaud, but also kicked UJ to the curb and edged UJ for 7^th place in the standings.

Since week #17 was worth 3x the normal rate of beers for total points scored, the abysmal 62 pts scored by UJ not only cost one rank in the standings, but cost more due to scoring 44% fewer points than the league average of week #17, compared to only 7% worse than average for the entire season.

Enjoy the NFL and PQBFL playoffs everybody and have a nice offseason.

Note: sometimes the NFL announces stats changes and according to PQBFL rules, the results are not totally official until Sunday 1pm Eastern.

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