GUNNERS CLINCH PLAY OFF BERTH
Can anyone stop them?
Week 9 in the Subsim Fantasy Football League, and it's the business end of the season. Positions are harder to get back, wins are harder, play off spots are less and less, unless you're the Guns of Hoculi and secure the first play off position of the year.
There is a lot to get through tonight, and none more important than a last reminder that for the past eight years, we've been building towards the historic day tomorrow.
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The problem with the Australian Taipans being based out of the USA is that their Coach is operating in a different timezone. Choosing a QB becomes a dilemma when you don't submit your starting team to the Program Producers. Taipans struggled to get the right QB in eventually settling for Aaron Rodgers. Not that they needed it anyway. The Drunk Monkeys apparently couldn't afford to fly the entire team out so they just sent a couple of starters. Taipans decimate the Monkeys 167 - 93.
Who cares? Hold the phone folks, there's something circling here, it may not be safe to go in the waters yet.
Our Match of the Day this week was the Guns of Hochuli hosting the Helmand Highthawks. Hosting? They fried those birds. Nighthawks flew into an unseasonably hot day and got their feathers BBQ-ed. Nighthawks were let down by their receiving corps of Emmanuel Sanders (WR) Dez Bryant (WR) and Gary Bamidge (TE) who caught very few passes and absolutely no TD's. The Nighthawks were lucky that on Monday night Russell Wilson (QB) and Doug Daldwin (WR) put some respectability back into the score or they might have suffered a record 100 point defeat. Nighthawks are going to have do better (and at least show up) if they want to have a shot at the Gunners. Guns of Hochuli take this one easily 167-109.
Gunners victory leaves blood in the water.
Down in Carolina, nothing could be finer than a Who Dat Nation victory in the morning. A battle of the two most recent Torpedo Bowl Champions, the Nighthawks were facing a "do or die" situation. Sitting at the bottom of the ladder, they were approaching elimination from the Championship series if results went one way. But, they didn't, and in fact, the results couldn't be any more prosperous for the Nation than if they had fixed the results themselves. (We'll leave that for tomorrow.
) Black Cats brought their game but it was the aerial assault of Drew Brees (QB) passing again for over 300 yards which hurt the Cats. Nation fans bellowed as Melvin Gordon carved through the Panthers (DEF) of the Cats, but it was Monday night that really put this game away as Jimmy Graham (TE) finally made a welcome return to the highlight reel. Who Dat Nation finally shows up and topple the Black Cats 176 - 129.
Now, onto the really interesting stuff. Get out your mathematical equations, this is going to be good.
Guns of Hochuli are the first team to clinch a play off berth. Gunners record of 8-1 includes a 4-0 divisional record. The Guns of Hochuli need one more win to clinch the divisional title. The loss by the Drunk Monkeys drop them to five games in arrears, and into a tie with the Who Dat Nation at 3-6. However, even though the Monkeys have scored less points that the Nation, the Drunk Monkeys and their three game losing streak still have them at 1-2 within the division, a game ahead of the Nation. Both the Drunk Monkeys and the Who Dat Nation can still win the division, but the Guns of Hochuli need to loose every game, and both the Monkeys and the Nation need help.
They can only get the help from an unlikely ally in the Surface Skimmers Division.
Black Cats loss drops them to 5-4 but they still lead the division by one game. The real feud though is going on behind them as the loss by the Helmand Nighthawks and the win by Australian Taipans level them out at 4-5 each, just one game behind the Cats. After having grabbed the divisional lead a few weeks back, the Cats are facing the prospect that their next loss, could drop them from Divisional Champions, to completely out of the play off picture. There's no doubt that in the next few weeks this division is going to take wins away from each other, so each of these three teams needs to make the most when they play inter divisional opponents.
And that's exactly where we'll be going next week when the Australian Taipans ask the Guns of Hochuli to make the long trek to the Great Southern land. The two top scoring teams in the league face off with some large stakes on the line. A win by the Gunners clinches the Surface Skimmers Division. A win by the Taipans keeps the Surface Skimmers Divisional Title barely alive, but more importantly, draws them level with the Black Cats.
Each week, the Associated Subsim Writers (ASW) will nominated their Most Valuable Torpedo (MVT) of the week, the single player who proved decisive in their teams performance.
For the effort of 8 receptions for 103 yards and 2 touchdowns, for a total of 36.3 points, the Associated Subsim Writers are pleased to present Jimmy Graham of the Who Dat Nation the Week Nine MVT.
