Weeks 8-10 in Review

WatchBlog here. It's been quite a while since WatchBlog has been able to post about the CFFFL, but it's time to try and catch up. Let's get to it.

Week 8

Week 8 saw the formerly No. 1 ranked  Russian Hackers crash and burn against the No. 2 ranked No Punt Intended. With a big win by the formerly No. 5 ranked Draft King, that meant the CFFFL East division lead changed hands for the first time all season, and put the Draft King in the number 1 overall rank, leap-frogging No Punt Intended who remained at No. 2. With the loss, the Hackers dropped to 6th overall due to their head to head loss in Week 6 against the previous holder of the the No. 6 rank, NFL-NIP(NotInPrison) who moved up a spot to No. 5. The remaining playoff spot continues to be held by Coconutycrazy, who despite their week 8 loss, still holds a 2 game lead in the CFFFL West.

Week 9

Week 9 saw the Russian Hackers (No. 6 overall) continue their spiral with their 2nd loss in a row, this time to the surging Josh's Juggernauts. The win put the Juggernauts in a 2-way tie for the second place record in the CFFFL with No Punt Intended, who maintained their No. 2 ranking despite a Week 9 loss. With the Juggernauts holding at 3, NFL-NIP(NotInPrison) and Cocunutycrazy holding at 4 and 5 respectively with their Week 9 wins, no changes at all occurred in the playoff rankings, and that continued down the line for the whole league, as none of the Week 9 results improved any teams ranking, although several races tightened.

Week 10

No one had to tell CFFFL fans what the week 10 game of the week was going to be, as the best 2 teams in the CFFFL faced off with 1st place at stake. Amanda "Finally, some nicknames - it's about time" Cook and her No Punt Intended squared off against Jerry "Crickets..." Cook and Draft King. Draft King was entering on a 5 game win streak, but was facing the 2 time CFFFL champion who was fighting to maintain a Division lead in the tightest division race in the league. Not unexpectedly, the game was the closest game of the week and No Punt Intended squeaked out a 5 point victory to retake the No. 1 overall ranking based on a head-to-head advantage over the King who fell to 3rd place with the loss.

Entering the week in 3rd place, Josh's Juggernauts took down Durlon "is this season over yet?" Bryant's 11th place The Gamers, and now have the hottest win streak going in the league at 3. Josh "I do better when WatchBlog isn't blogging" Cook has a 2 game lead in the CFFFL South division with 3 games to play, and with a match up with the worst team in in the CFFFL coming up, looks destined to secure a playoff spot shortly, and is currently sitting as the 2nd ranked team in the CFFFL.

In 4th place, Coconutycrazy has her own 2 game win streak to impress, and has opened up a 3 game CFFFL West Division lead with only 3 games to go. Cosette "Thanks for letting me win all these games, this is really easy" Cook would have to lose out, and see the 3-7 Normans Playboy Team win out to lose the division at this point. 1 more win from her, or 1 more loss from Norman "My Dallas Cowboys are going to win another Lombardi Trophy, y'all can have fun trying to win this one..." Cook and the West is officially won.

5th place is still held by NFL-NIP(NotInPrison) but they are neck and neck with No Punt Intended for the CFFFL North who they lost to in Week 1. As the 2 teams play again this week, Cindy "I've beaten No. 1 Teams before - it's kind of my thing" Cook needs the win or will have a near impossible task of snatching the North Division lead from her daughter.

The final and 6th playoff spot is currently held by the Russian Hackers and David "Seems like WatchBlog fails to blog in the weeks immediately following a loss by my team - weird..." Cook, who had a nice comeback win over Gary "I may have lost my 4th game in a row, but at least I didn't have to watch Cam Newton under-perform while doing it" St. John's Team, and has climbed to within 1 game of the Division lead in the CFFFL East. That division likely won't be decided until Week 13, but only if the Hackers take care of business this week against Asher "How come the other kid in this league got 2 of the worst teams in her division and I got 2 of the best?" Cook and The Cloudy Navigator.

Those were the top 6 teams who would make the playoffs if they started today. Only 2 teams have been eliminated - Motherboy, and The Gamers. Some have only the longest of shots, but 3 are within 1 or 2 games of a playoff spot. Bad news for those teams is that there are only 3 games left to play.

The Commish came out and clarified that Yahoo! is misreporting the actual standings. Here are corrected standings for Week 10:

Division games are critically important this year in the CFFFL, and we have 3 weeks filled with them. Hold on to your hats. WatchBlog out.