The Season is over

Well another season down the drain. The sequel was much better than the original but I personaly hated the ending (Trucos did it again... Congrats). I played in 3 Fantasy leauges this year (31-14-1)and went to the title game in all three. Funny thing... I lost all three (I know Herm.... you play to win the game!!) so I might change my name to the Bronx Bills. I guess I am the King of the Losers 3 times over Bow to me !!!! (Sorry Doug)

Overall this season was a success and I am looking forward to bigger things next year. I already have a theme for next year: WBIFL Season III 'What's the Excuse this time!!". If your not ready to play a full 16 games next year then don't even bother coming back. Again you play to win the game....Anyway I promised a WBIFL Wrapup so here it goes:

WBIFL 2 Year Career Totals (Regular Season only)

Panama QXOPA 12-1
El Salvador. 18-8
Fantasy Wrecking Crew 16-9-1
Bronx Bombers 15-10-1
Old Fart 14-9-1
Kensington KRUSH 10-16
Bombay Monsoon 10-16
Team Sasquatch 8-18
The Matrix 6-18-2
Planet Drew 2-10-1


WBIFL Year End Awards
**Based on regular season trophies

Rookie of the Year: Panama QXOPA Who else... (No Cenk you are no longer a rookie after year 2)
Offensive Team of the Year: Panama QXOPA As the Patriots went so did his team..
Defensive Team of the Year: Planet drew I guess defense doesn't win championships after all... But it keeps you out of the toilet bowl!
Comeback Team of the Year Bombay Monsoon He traded Romo, Ownens, and Willis McGahee and still managed to make the playoffs

This Year there were a whopping 11 trades. Here are the best and worst of them

Top 6 Trades that should have happened but were rejected.

1. Bombers and Planet Drew: Wes Welker or Shawn McDonald, Earnest Graham for Jason Witten. Welker and Graham had great seasons. McDonald was a hit for a few weeks Drew had the option on Welker or McDonald. He declined and chose S.Moss, A. Green, and H. Miller :D

2. Bombers and Fantasy Wrecking Crew: Santana Moss, Earnest Graham, Heath Miller for Dallas Clark. Graham went on to be the RB The Crew needed, Miller was the 7th ranked TE and S.Moss was a bust

3.Bombers and Panama: Santana Moss, Earnest Graham for Steeler D. Graham would have given Panama a 3rd legit RB to go with Westbrook and Peterson to make his team stronger (outside of Brady, Moss, Peterson, adn Westbrook everyone else sucked). The Redskin D was ranked 14th to the Steelers 11th not much of a dropoff. S. Moss was a bust. Again :D

4. Old Farts and Planet Drew: Frank Gore P. Rivers and D Bowe for Chad Johnson and another player to be named later. Rivers was the 15th Ranked QB and had a better season that Drews other QBs on his roster. Bowe would have made nice combo with B Marshall and Gore ended up being the 11th ranked RB better than Drew's other RB

5. Old Farts and The Krush: Gore and winslow for Braylon Edwards Both players would have helped the Krush from fading at thew end. Gore would have provided help at RB while Winslow ended up being the 4th ranked TE and a better player than the Krush started every week.

6. Bombers and the Krush: Lee Evans Ryan Grant for Braylon Edwards. Ryan Grant turned out to be an RB that would have helped the Krush avoid his end of the year slide. He ended up with Evans via the waiver wire with mixed results.


Top 6 trades that never should have happened

1. Trucos and Monsoon: Travis Henry,Matt Leinart for Brandon Jackson, Tony Romo. This trade started Doug's big comeback. Leinart was injured for most of the season Travis Henry avg 6.4 points per game while Romo went on to be the second rated QB with 27.9 points per game.

2.Trucos and Planet Drew: Jamal Lewis,Heath Miller for Chris Chambers,Julius Jones
Jamal Lewis went on to score 14.3 points per game and Miller added 7.7 points for Doug while Julius Jones scored 5.9 per game. Chambers did chip in with a respectable 9 points per game but Miller still had better years than either of Drew's TE on his roster. I gotta admit I hate J Lewis and would trade him right now if I had him but for Julius Jones... :(

3. Monsoon and Old Farts: Willis McGahee, Terrell Owens for Frank Gore,Cedric Benson,Kellen Winslow,Dwayne Bowe. Before this trade Kevin had nothing.... lowest scoring team in the league. After the trade he won 4 out of his last 6 to almost make the playoffs. Cedric Benson went on to be hurt and Keat dropped D Bowe a week later.

4. Trucos and Sasquatch: Hines Ward for Dominic Rhodes. Doug made a mistake on this trade. He tried to sucker James but forgot to add another player. He tried to void the trade but James refused (can't really blame him). You see how both their seasons ended.... :(

5. The Matrix and Bronx Bombers Ryan Grant for Marc Bulger. This deal was made because I did not want Grant to waste away on my bench and I needed backup QB help. Since no one else wanted to make a deal to fill their need at RB (Krush, Wrecking crew) I decided to give Grant to Cenk for nothing. I cut Bulger the next week. You see how my season ended... :(

6.Bomber and Sasquatch Willie Parker for Kevin Walter,Greg Jennings. Jennings put up great numbers 13 points per game while Walter was solid 9.4 points per game. Parker was a disappointment scoring 10.3 points. All you need to know Week 16 Jennings 6 points, Walter 14 points Parker 0.........


Waiver Wire Wonders...
This year there were quite a few teams who could have helped themselves easily if they would have used the waiver wire more effectively. Here is the All Waiver Wire team of players who were not drafted who went on to be major players this year

QB B. Farve
QB D. Anderson
RB E. Graham
RB J. Fargas
RB K.Watson
WR R. White
WR B. Marshall
WR K.Walter
TE D. Lee
TE T. Scheffler
Def GB
Def Giants
LB P. Willis



For the finale I present a team by team breakdown of the turning point or points of their season with the reprecussions

Turning Points

Panama QXOPA -The turning point for Panama was not strenghtening his bench for the playoffs after he was exposed in a week 10 loss to Kevin. The back half of his roster was average and the big 5 could not carry him down the stretch. Jorge has been tied or outscored by someone each round of the playoffs including the bye.

El Salvador Truco - The turning point for Truco was the Northeast weather storm in week 15. His 100 points that week wouldn't have only beaten 1 othe team that week. *Honerable mention would be Trucos landing Romo before Leinart's injury.

Fantasy Wrecking Crew: The crews turning point was M. Harrison never recovering from injury early this season. He lost out on the Manning to Harrison combined points.

Bronx Bombers: The turning point for me was the Green Bay Bear game for the Championship. Farve and the packer Defense both lay eggs. :(

Old Fart: The game that basically kept Kevin from the playoffs this season was the Dallas Buffalo Monday night game. Dallas recovers onside kick in the closing seconds and N Folk kicks a 50 yard field goal for the game. The result was a two point win for me that would have put Kevin one game above the Krush for the last spot.

Kensington KRUSH: The Krush's season turned after he failed to obtain a RB before the trade dealine. Once R. Brown, L Johnson, and M Lynch went down to injury the Krush only won 2 of their final 8 games and barely made the playoffs by .5 points.

Bombay Monsoon: Bombay's turning point was key pickups of Chester Taylor and Maurice Morris in late in the season. He was able to use them along with Gore to win 2 keys games at the end to get him into the playoffs after trading away the core of a would be playoff team (Willis McGahee, Terrell Owens,Tony Romo

Team Sasquatch- The turning point for Sas was not being able to make a week 4 trade with some of his excess running backs. From that point on his backfieled situation went south and he never seemed to get back on track.

The Matrix- The turning point for Neo was the draft day deadline. As a result of Bomber and Trucos being frustrated by a lack of deadline trades; they both combined to trade a give Cenk a core of players (Earnest Graham, Marques Colston, Larry Fitzgerald and Ryan Grant for nothing (Kenny Watson, Rudi Johnson,Torry Holt, and Marc Bulger -waiver wire pickup). Before the trade he was 2-6-2 but a result of the trade he goes 3-3 (including the playoffs) to avoid the toilet bowl. Without that trade he was a lock for the toilet bowl.

Planet Drew - The turning point for Drew was Willie parker going down with an injury on his first carry in Week 16. Davenport went on to give him 29 points to give him a win in the toilet bowl over James. Without the injury Davenport would probrably not haved score 5 points.

Again thanks for playing. Stay tuned for the trophy presentation. Remember "2nd Place is First Place for Losers!"
Trust me I should know :(