WatchBlog here. Dramatic regular season finish. Let's get to it.
The game that decided nothing
In what very well could be CFFFL Championship preview, the Sugar Gliders took on Honey Badger in a statement game. The statement was this: like it or not, Honey Badger is here, unmanned, and dangerous. All the managers that have spent weeks pouring over their rosters and the waiver wire in an attempt to improve their team have to wonder if the simplicity of just drafting a team, and leaving them alone might be the most genius strategy of all. Andrew "If everyone agrees not to tell me, I'll never even know if I win it all" Cook won't even have a game to ignore next week, as he has earned a BYE week, along with the distinction of being the sole playoff representative from the 3CBC division. The Sugar Gliders will also enjoy a BYE next week, and will await their next opponent in the second playoff round. Shoshana "3 losses? I feel terrible. How do you other teams handle it?" Cook's biggest downside to the playoff berth is that now she has to pay attention to football for at least one more week.
The game that put a Mother and her son out of their misery
As bad as MotherBoy has been the past 5 weeks, this high scoring, highly praised, and predictably snake bitten team still just needed 1 thing to advance to the playoffs. It was the same thing the team has needed for 6 weeks in a row: a win. But for 5 weeks, no such luck, and this was their last chance. Their opponent, the Cow Pokes were looking to punch their ticket to the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. After finishing in last place in 2011, Norman "Who's laughing at my draft selections now?" Cook needed a win to finish as the 5th best regular season team, but knew a loss would knock his team out of playoff contention altogether. The Pokes had not battled with Boy on the field, but had a run in earlier in the season over a proposed trade. The Pokes wanted to trade RGIII away for Eli Manning, but Commish Gary "this is the last trade I'll ever veto" Cook said the deal was unfair and stopped it. The result was that the Pokes ended up also getting TE Heath Miller out of the trade - the same Miller that started for the Pokes and scored 15.7 points (13.8 points more than the Pokes reserve TE Dennis Pitta.) Those extra points were just enough to give the Pokes the win, and knock the Commish out of the 2012 playoffs. So much for trying to be fair.
The game that shall be known as Rise of the Perm - Pt II
The game that decided nothing
In what very well could be CFFFL Championship preview, the Sugar Gliders took on Honey Badger in a statement game. The statement was this: like it or not, Honey Badger is here, unmanned, and dangerous. All the managers that have spent weeks pouring over their rosters and the waiver wire in an attempt to improve their team have to wonder if the simplicity of just drafting a team, and leaving them alone might be the most genius strategy of all. Andrew "If everyone agrees not to tell me, I'll never even know if I win it all" Cook won't even have a game to ignore next week, as he has earned a BYE week, along with the distinction of being the sole playoff representative from the 3CBC division. The Sugar Gliders will also enjoy a BYE next week, and will await their next opponent in the second playoff round. Shoshana "3 losses? I feel terrible. How do you other teams handle it?" Cook's biggest downside to the playoff berth is that now she has to pay attention to football for at least one more week.
The game that put a Mother and her son out of their misery
As bad as MotherBoy has been the past 5 weeks, this high scoring, highly praised, and predictably snake bitten team still just needed 1 thing to advance to the playoffs. It was the same thing the team has needed for 6 weeks in a row: a win. But for 5 weeks, no such luck, and this was their last chance. Their opponent, the Cow Pokes were looking to punch their ticket to the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. After finishing in last place in 2011, Norman "Who's laughing at my draft selections now?" Cook needed a win to finish as the 5th best regular season team, but knew a loss would knock his team out of playoff contention altogether. The Pokes had not battled with Boy on the field, but had a run in earlier in the season over a proposed trade. The Pokes wanted to trade RGIII away for Eli Manning, but Commish Gary "this is the last trade I'll ever veto" Cook said the deal was unfair and stopped it. The result was that the Pokes ended up also getting TE Heath Miller out of the trade - the same Miller that started for the Pokes and scored 15.7 points (13.8 points more than the Pokes reserve TE Dennis Pitta.) Those extra points were just enough to give the Pokes the win, and knock the Commish out of the 2012 playoffs. So much for trying to be fair.
The game that shall be known as Rise of the Perm - Pt II
In 2011, there was a dark horse team that only managed 6 wins, but because of tiebreaker advantages, made it into the playoffs as a 6th seed. Fast forward to 2012, and yet again, another dark horse team came out of nowhere to scratch out 6 wins, and through a tiebreaker, claim the 6th and final playoff spot. In both cases, the team was the 47ers. Thanks to a head to head win over Easily Offensive in week 12, all the 47ers needed to do was to beat the very beatable Gamers. After rough Sunday's for both teams, The Gamers actually had an almost 18 point lead. But the 47ers still had one player to go - the electric RGIII. 18 points was a given, right? Well for 3 quarters of the Monday night game, it looked like it wasn't a given at all. RGIII was being held in check, and needed his first touchdown of the game if he was to pull out the win for his Redskins, and in so doing, launch the 47ers into the playoffs, and knock Easily Offensive out for good. Durlon "Easily Offensive eliminated me yesterday by winning, I don't owe them anything" Bryant's loss left him in a tie for last with the Hottez - a team that has literally played short-handed every game since week 6. Maybe drafting Jay Cutler in the first round is actually just as bad as not playing 8 players every week. As for Jerry "So Stat Corrections happen every week, huh? Surely a 2 point correction isn't gonna show up and turn this whole thing upside down... right?" Cook, his 47ers will avoid playing his wife in the first round like he did last year, and instead will face off against the defending Champ Hunters. Which team he will be rooting for is yet to be determined.
Final Playoff Standings (Unofficial)
^clinched #1 seed throughout playoffs
**clinched division
*clinched playoffs
°eliminated
Coach Ratings - Week 13
| Rk | Team | Division | Div Winner | H2H Tie Breaker over | Points | Wins |
| 1 | **^Gliders (SG) | 5C | yes | N/A | 1265.58 | 10 |
| 2 | **Badger (HB) | 3CBC | yes | N/A | 1097.90 | 9 |
| 3 | *Hunters (QH) | 5C | LF | 1124.38 | 7 | |
| 3 | *Fielders (LF) | 5C | N/A | 1253.58 | 7 | |
| 3 | *Pokes (CB) | 5C | N/A | 1061.84 | 7 | |
| 6 | *47ers (47) | 5C | EO | 1086.48 | 6 | |
| 6 | °Offensv (EO) | 3CBC | N/A | 1192.78 | 6 | |
| 8 | °Boy (MB) | 3CBC | N/A | 1218.84 | 5 | |
| 9 | °Gamers (GM) | 3CBC | N/A | 983.58 | 4 | |
| 9 | °Hottez (HZ) | 3CBC | N/A | 896.46 | 4 |
^clinched #1 seed throughout playoffs
**clinched division
*clinched playoffs
°eliminated
Coach Ratings - Week 13
| Rank | Team | Actual | Optimal | Percentage |
| 1 | Sugar Gliders | 89.92 | 90.02 | 99.89% |
| 2 | Cow Pokes | 117.44 | 125.44 | 93.62% |
| 3 | Left Fielders | 106.72 | 121.52 | 87.82% |
| 4 | Honey Badger | 95.58 | 111.48 | 85.74% |
| 5 | The Gamers | 75.82 | 89.32 | 84.89% |
| 6 | Easily Offensive | 88.64 | 106.78 | 83.01% |
| 7 | MotherBoy | 108.90 | 140.24 | 77.65% |
| 8 | 47ers | 77.62 | 104.62 | 74.19% |
| 9 | Quail Hunters | 50.94 | 79.94 | 63.72% |
| 10 | Hottez wit da bodiez | 37.40 | 106.28 | 35.19% |
2012 CFFFL Final Regular Season Coach Rankings - Cumulative
| Rank | Team | Actual | Optimal | Percentage |
| 1 | Sugar Gliders | 1265.58 | 1416.60 | 89.34% |
| 2 | Easily Offensive | 1192.78 | 1381.92 | 86.31% |
| 3 | Left Fielders | 1253.58 | 1512.88 | 82.86% |
| 4 | MotherBoy | 1218.84 | 1503.34 | 81.08% |
| 5 | The Gamers | 983.58 | 1224.02 | 80.36% |
| 6 | 47ers | 1086.48 | 1363.84 | 79.66% |
| 7 | Cow Pokes | 1061.84 | 1334.50 | 79.57% |
| 8 | Honey Badger | 1097.90 | 1389.72 | 79.00% |
| 9 | Quail Hunters | 1124.38 | 1425.70 | 78.87% |
| 10 | Hottez wit da bodiez | 896.46 | 1411.16 | 63.53% |
2012 CFFFL Final Regular Season Power Rankings
| Rank | Team | Record | Points | Breakdown | Power | Actual Wins | Pts Scored | Bkdown Wins |
| 1 | Sugar Gliders | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | 10 | 1265.58 | 81 |
| 2 | Left Fielders | 6 | 9 | 8 | 23 | 7 | 1253.58 | 76 |
| 3 | Honey Badger | 9 | 5 | 7 | 21 | 9 | 1097.90 | 62 |
| 4 | MotherBoy | 3 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 5 | 1218.84 | 76 |
| 5 | Quail Hunters | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 1124.38 | 61 |
| 6 | Easily Off. | 4 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 6 | 1192.78 | 56 |
| 7 | Cow Pokes | 6 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 7 | 1061.84 | 54 |
| 8 | 47ers | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 1086.48 | 47 |
| 9 | The Gamers | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 983.58 | 37 |
| 10 | Hottez...bodiez | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 896.46 | 35 |
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