Playoffs Semifinals
Julian (5th) vs Gino (1st)
The first semifinal matchup features top seeded Gino, who led the league in total points, against fifth seeded Julian, who is just coming off of an upset win. There was a close spread on the game, Gino was a slight favorite, -1.52 (-110). Even though only three of Gino’s players were above their projected totals he started out hot. This team is led by future NFL MVP Cam Newton. Cam had 340 passing yards, 100 rushing yards and five touchdowns passes. He nearly doubled his projected total and scored 41.60 points. Next with Matt forte get a solid day getting 10 points over his project the total was six catches for 57 yards and a touchdown plus 47 rushing yards. He scored 22.40 points. Gino's third player to get above his project total was Antonio Gates and he had six catches for 88 yards to score 14.80 points. Even though he didn't hit his projection total Alan Robinson had a decent game with with three catches for 57 yards and one touchdown. It wasn't quite what Gino was looking for, but still was productive. In what look liked a good match up Brandon Marshall was shut down by his terms with only four catches and 74 yards receiving which gave 11.40 points. The disappointments for Gino was Alshon Jeffrey who only had one catch for 10 yards and a touchdown for 8.00 points then he got hurt and wasn't really involved in the game after that. The other one was Brandon Bolden who only scored 7.40 points on 36 rushing yards and two catches for 18 yards.his Jacksonville defense didn't do much an interception in the sack but also giving up 23 points did you know 3.00 points. And he had a kicker it was Robbie Gould you had 7.00 points. Even though Gino's team looked under productive, but he still nearly scored six points over his projected total (130.30). I’m sure Gino thought as long as he got over his projected total he would be enough since Julian was averaging 117.10 per game. But….Julian said no! Julian had eight of his nine players exceeding their projected totals. Julian's top scorer was Amari Cooper who had his best fantasy day of the year with six catches for 120 yards and two touchdowns to get him a total of 30.00 points. Next up for Julian is Sammy Watkins who has been on a late season surge for scoring points. Watkins had five catches for 111 yards and two touchdowns and scored 28.10 points. Russell Wilson has just been killing it lately had another great day with 3 touchdown passes 249 yards and 46 rushing yards to score 26.56 points. Julian also started one of Wilson's targets, Tyler Lockett had five catches for 55 yards in a touchdown to score 16.50 points. The Seahawks stack lately has been a high-scoring one. Rob Gronkowski gave Julian a quiet 16.40 point performance he had five cases for 54 yards and a touchdown. It just keeps going like this. There was waiver wire pick up Denard Robinson who had eight catches for 46 yards plus 28 rushing yards to get him a total of 15.40 points. Even Julian's defense had a big scoring day the Arizona defense had to fumble recoveries interceptions plus a defense of touchdown to give Julian 17.00 more fantasy points. And he had a kicker is well Chandler Catanzaro made it to double figures, he put up 10.00 points. The one disappointment for Julian who did not hit the projected total was his own Bengal Gio Bernard. He could only muster up 33 rushing yards and 4 catches for 18 receiving yards for measly 9.10 points against that vaunted San Francisco defense. Julian picked a great day to score his highest point total of the season and earning his second straight Biggest Blowout. It was enough to knock out the number 1 seed and top point scorer in the tournament. Gino had a brilliant season. He had an amazing auto draft graciously done for him by the commissioner. But he wheeled and dealed to shake up his lineup to make it into the big powerhouse that it was. Julian tallies up another upset victory on his way to the championship match. He'll be hoping to ride Russell Wilson's hot arm, two rookie wide receivers in Cooper and Lockett, and athletic freak show Gronk into Golden Showers infamy. Julian defeats Gino 169.06 - 130.30.
Rico (3rd) vs Matt H (2nd)
This semifinal matchup features two seasoned veterans of fantasy football. Both Rico and Matt have been here before and knows what it takes to reach the next level. This matchup was projected to be high scoring with both teams getting into the 130 point range. Matt was favored in the matchup, -2.07 (-110). But we all know we can't rely on the project the totals. Rico had for his nine players get about the project the totals in this game. Rico's top scorer was tight end Jordan Reed who had seven catches for 84 yards and two touchdowns to score 27.40 points. Next was waiver wire pick up Tyrod Taylor. He had 235 passing yards 79 rushing yards a two point conversion and two passing touchdowns to score 27.30 points. Finally Julio Jones came back to his old self he had nine catches for 118 yards and one touchdown and got over the 20 point mark for the first time in a month to score 26.80 points. The fourth and final member of Rico's 20 point club was his Bronco wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, he had five catches for 61 yards but two of those were for touchdowns and he scored 23.10 points. Rico did have his fair share of disappointments his two running back's were both no-shows Matt Jones has 28 yards rushing plus a reception for 8 yards to score 4.60 points. Then there is Eddie Lacy who's "bipolar season" continued and just had 23 yards rushing for 2.30 points. Also it appears lay Fitzgeralds hot start to the season has ended he only caught three passes or 43 yards giving Rico 7.30 points. Rico had a kicker Brandon McManus all he did was kick PAT's he had 3.00 points. The Denver defense got beat up a little but they still had three sacks and two interceptions to score 6.00 points. Rico was just under his project the total by 2.22 points. I'm sure he was thinking that probably wasn't going to be enough points to defeat Matt. But Matt was in for a long day. He only saw three of his players get above their projected totals, and one was the kicker. Matt's top scorer was Matt Stafford who had a 254 yards passing and three touchdowns for 22.06 points and was also the late Monday night push. That was the end of the 20 point scores. His next highest score DeAndre Hopkins at 17.40 points under his projected total even though he had eight catches for 94 yards. Jarvis Landry also had eight catches but for 54 yards he scored 13.40 points which is also below is projected value. Travis Kelsey scored 13.30 points which was above his projection he had six sketches for 73 yards nothing too impressive. Jeremy Hill just missed his projection by two hundredths of a point. He has 31 yards rushing but two touchdowns and he did lose a fumble. Matt was majorly let down by his running backs. Adrian Peterson only had 63 yards rushing to equal 6.30 points and then Javorius Allan had 18 yards rushing and then he lost a fumble and then he was benched for the rest of the game. He scored -0.20 points. Like I mentioned before Matt had a kicker, Graham Gano, he scored 9.00 points. The Seattle defense wasn't too bad for Matt they scored 9.00 points also. This was very bad timing for Matt who had the longest winning streak in the league this year to also have one of his worst games of the year. Hopefully this defeat will keep Matt motivated during the off-season so he will come back strong next year. Rico was able to get the upset victory and move on to the finals. Rico will be the high seed entering the championship game but his opponent already has two upset victories of his own. Rico needs to come out with a strong lineup in order to take the first-ever Golden Showers Championship. Rico defeats Matt 127.82 - 103.36.
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