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TACOS CRUNCH HAPPY

FALCONS AND BEERCATS SCORE DOMINANT CHAMPIONSHIP WINS

ON THE EDGE OF GREATNESS

GE FANTASY FOOTBALL AWARDS

FINAL FOUR

FALCONS FLYING HIGH INTO PLAYOFFS

PURDY GOOD WEEKEND

BAD FOOBALL!, BAD!

ALL 25 SEASON TEAM

KELCE AND MARTIN ENTER TFFL HOF

HALL OF FAME WEEK

ELWAY, WATTERS and WITTEN JOIN HOF

WILLOW RUN TURNS IN RIVOTING PERFORMANCE

FANTASMIC

TACOS CRUNCH HAPPY

LION EYES

HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY

DAK KNIGHT RISES TO TOP OF CHARTS

JOANNE BREAKS TACO CORP’S HEART

PUTTIN ON THE GRITZ

SHAKEDOWN PUTS OUT A HIT

STEEL CITY FOOBALL CUTS PATRIOTS OFF AT THE KNEES

SETTING A FINE EXAMPLE

VOTING RESULTS and DRAFT REMINDER

Week

Team

Points

Digital Scammers

117.8

FooBall

123.7

Shakedown

161.8

Gritz Blitz Falcons

151.9

Joanne

145.8

Dak Knight Rises

126.3

Happy

150.3

Secret Scammers

132.6

TacoCorp

144.5

Grande Fantasmas

134.9

Willow Run Flyers

143.4

FooBall

134.9

Willow Run Flyers

142.0

Gritz Blitz Falcons

131.2


Rank	Team
1	Shakedown
2	GritzBlitzFalcons
3	Dak Knight Rises
4	Digital Scammers
5	Happy
6	Down The Drain
7	Willow Run Flyers
8	Bane
9	Beercats
10	Steel City FooBall
11	Prestige Worldwide
12	Ohio State Buckeyes
13	Rimski Raiders
14	Old England Patriots
15	Rally Possums
16	Joanne
17	Secret Scammers
18	Grande Fantasmas
19	TacoCorp
20	Baloony Boiz
21	Cincinnati Eagles
22	Florida Seabreeze
23	Transformation Worldwide
24	Momball

Team

Digital Scammers

Willow Run Flyers

Baloony Boiz

Momball

Beercats

Cincinnati Eagles

CHAMP

Down The Drain

Florida Seabreeze

Grande Fantasmas

GritzBlitzFalcons

Happy

Joanne

Bane

Ohio State Buckeyes

Old England Patriots

Prestige Worldwide

Rally Possums

Rimski Raiders

Secret Scammers

Shakedown

Steel City FooBall

Transformation Worldwide

TacoCorp

R-UP

Dak Knight Rises

TacoCorp stopped the red-hot Happy 144-78. Josh Allen led Taco Corp with 28 points, Racheed White and Josh Jacobs added 23 and 21 points respectively. The win tightens up the race in the Shula division, but Happy still leads at 5-4.

Dak Prescott returned to the top of the Player standings in week nine, first time he’s been a POW contender in quite a while. Prescott led the Dak Knight Rises with 34 points, paving the way to an 80-74 win over Bane.

The best game of the week saw the tough luck team in the league take another loss. The Rally Possums got just enough from Justin Herbert on Monday night to pull off a 73.3-72.9 win over the Beercats. You know the Possums were expecting a more comfortable margin.

For the Beercats, who are now 3-6… four of their losses have been by less than ten points, and the last two weeks have been by a total of 1.5 points. The Beercats are actually second in the league in scoring. Be warned all high division leaders, this is not a team you want to draw in the opening round of the playoffs.

Scores in general were down this week as only three teams hit the century mark in the EWFFL. But the other really good performance besides TacoCorp was Down The Drain. They took full advantage of Happy taking a step back with a 127-85 victory over Tranformation Worldwide. Its desperation time for Transformation at 1-8. 6-8 is usually needed to get a playoff spot, and they don’t look on the verge of a five game win streak.

The Scammers scored a come from behind win on Monday night over Momball 108-85. Trailing by five heading into the final game of the week, the Chargers defense returned a punt for a touchdown in the first two minutes and this game was over.

If I’ve ever buried the lead in an article, it is this week. It is right now. The 1972 Miami Dolphins are poppin’ champagne corks again, as the last of the undefeated have fallen. Joanne throttles Shakedown 92-79, handing Shakedown their first loss. Don’t feel too bad for Shakedown as they still hold a three game lead with five to play over Joanne. Jalen Hurts was the game MVP with 29 for Joanne.

BUCKEYES BEAT FLORIDA
I just like that title. Would have liked that in January 2007. Alas, I’ll have to settle for it in fantasy land. The Ohio State Buckeyes best Florida SeaBreeze 117-90 this week, to move to 4-5 on the season. A first time POW winner in CJ Stroud led the way. Stroud had a whopping 51 points for the Buckeyes. Way more than that slacker Jalen Hurts had in the EW League.

The best game of the week featured the second and third highest scoring teams of the week. Rimski Raiders (who rumor has it is having a birthday today 11/7… rumored, not confirmed) beat the Cincinnati Eagles 112-106. Josh Allen was top dog for the Raiders with 28. I’m sure the Eagles won’t feel so bad knowing they let the Raiders win on their special day.

Steel City FooBall was the only other team to crack a hundred. They dropped the Old England Patriots 104-86 and improved to 7-2. Jalen Hurts… did I say something bad about Jalen Hurts?!?!? I didn’t mean it. Jalen Hurts was the leading scorer with 29. FooBall is now two full games ahead in the Halas division, and figure to be tough to beat down the stretch.

The last three games of the week were equally BLAH. The Willow Run Flyers beat Grande Fantasmas 74-56… Fantasmas still hung over from their TOW last week. The Digital Scammers beat the Baloony Boiz 88-63 and are now 7-2 leading the Brown division. And the Gritz Blitz Falcons have dropped two in a row after a 7-0 start. This time it was Prestige Worldwide doing the honors 86-59.

SURVIVOR
What makes Survivor so fun is that one false step, and any team can be eliminated. That’s the case for Shakedown, as they are off the Edison Works side of Survivor Island. And in the Brilliant League, the top team in that league was eliminated. The Digital Scammers were the low scoring remaining team this week and are also off the island. On the flip side, I also noticed to my surprise, Transformation Worldwide is still alive.

I did find a mistake some of you may have noticed. I had Steel City FooBall marked as eliminated. That was a mistake. I marked them the week Grande Fantsmas was eliminated. Only caught it because Fantasmas would have been out this week in the BMFFL.

TOW LEAGUE HEAD TO HEAD The Edison Works League has had the highest scoring team five straight weeks, and are one week away from clinching a tie for the superior TOW League. More impressively, and I’m sure I’ll jinx it here, we have not had a team repeat as Team of the Week. Nine weeks, nine different winners.

SOMETHING AMAZING
Something Amazing happened this weekend. I updated the Money Matters. I think I have accurately recorded all those who’ve paid, and now have laser focus on those who have not. I now how Quedo from Collection-R-Us on speed dial to bring in the rest of your entry fees. For those who have not paid, there are four, count ‘em FOUR easy ways to pay, all listed at the bottom of the article page.

GAME OF THE WEEK

Shakedown and Happy offered a compelling option for Game of the Week in the Edison Works League. But the Brilliant Manufacturing League went one better. Three teams in the BMFFL are atop their divisions at 7-2. Surprisingly there are no teams at 6-3. So these three teams are out ahead of the field. Well two of them play this week.

The Gritz Blitz Falcons have fallen on hard times recently. I’ve not been tracking this closely, but it make me suspect they’ve been bit by the injury bug, probably with bye complications. But they still have Lamar Jackson, who is capable of keeping a team in a game on his own.

The Scammers may have to put Baker Mayfield under center this week. Are you kidding me… no team playing Baker Mayfield should ever be 7-2. But if you think he’s bad, you should see Scammers other two options.

For two high powered teams, this game may only be close because neither team can score enough points to win by a lot.

Article ID: 164

MONEY MATTERS

Yeah, I still haven't updated for 2023. :( ..... Updated January 9, 2023

Team

Entry Fee

Amt Paid

Owner Owes

Winnings
(Lg Owes)

Comments

Baloony Boiz

$10

$10

[11/6/23] No Transactions for 2023 Season

Ohio State Buckeyes

$10

$20

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[11/6/23] $20 paid for 2022 and 2023, September 21, 2023 (Venmo)

Prestige Worldwide

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[11/6/23] $10 paid on August 23, 2023 (PayPal)

GritzBlitzFalcons

$10

[1/15/24]2023 account closed, balance 0
Lg paid $70 in prize money for Lg Champ, TOY, Div Champ via PayPal

[12/19/23]Division winner, $25
Team of the Year $10
Total $35

[11/6/23] $10 paid on September 5, 2023 (Venmo)

Steel City FooBall

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0
Lg paid $15 in prize money via PayPal

[12/19/23]Division winner, $25.
Entry fee deducted from prize money.
Net $15

[11/6/23] No Transactions for 2023 Season

Grande Fantasmas

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[11/6/23] Commish believes the league is all square with Fantasmas, Patriots and Raiders
includeing 2023 NCAA Tourny and 2023 FFL Entry Fee.
But needs to verify with the owners.

Willow Run Flyers

$10

$15

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, Lg owes Flyers $15

[11/6/23] Paid from 2022 winnings.
League owes Flyers $15 in prize money

Old England Patriots

$10

Rimski Raiders

$10

$20

Florida Seabreeze

$10

$10

[11/6/23] No Transactions for 2023 Season

Cincinnati Eagles

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[11/6/23] $10 paid on September 4, 2023 (Venmo)

Digital Scammers

$10

$25

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[12/19/23]Division winner, $25

[11/6/23] paid, cash

TacoCorp

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[11/6/23] No Transactions for 2023 Season

Down The Drain

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0
Paid $25 cash in office on 1/3/24

[12/19/23]Division winner, $25.
Entry fee deducted from prize money.
Net $15

[11/6/23] No Transactions for 2023 Season

Transformation Worldwide

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[11/6/23] $10 Paid October 30, 2023 (Venmo)

Happy

$10

$10

[1/17/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0
Entry fee paid $10 via Venmo

[11/6/23] No Transactions for 2023 Season

Rally Possums

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[11/6/23] $10 Paid August 21, 2023 (PayPal)

Dak Knight Rises

$10

$25

[1/18/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0
Lg paid $25 prize money via cash at work

[12/19/23]Division winner, $25

[11/6/23] No Transactions for 2023 Season

Beercats

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0
Lg paid $45 in prize money for Lg Champ + TOY

[12/19/23]Team of the Year, $10

[11/14/23] Paid $10 via PayPal on November 7, 2023

Bane

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[12/19/23] $10 paid via PayPal
[11/6/23] No Transactions for 2023 Season

Secret Scammers

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[11/6/23] paid, cash

Shakedown

$10

$20

[1/15/24]2023 account closed, lg owes $20. 25 winnings minus 5 contribution.

[12/19/23]Division winner, $25.

[11/14/23] Made his wife pay his entry fee of $10 via Venmo.
Man Card suspended for 30 days

Joanne

$10

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[11/6/23] No Transactions for 2023 Season

Momball

$10

[1/15/24] 2023 account closed, balance 0

[11/6/23] paid, cash

Three, no make that four, delightfully easy ways to pay your humble commish...
1. Cold, Hard, CASH. Paying with Cash comes with the honor of meeting your humble commish. You might even get a Thank You!
2. Pay Old School. Send a check made out to David Lamb and mail it to 1192 Emery Ridge Dr, Batavia, OH 45103
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4. Less preferred, but still accepted, Electronic Payment... Venmo. I am @David-Lamb-015 on Venmo.

TFFL PRIZE MONEY
DIVISION WINNER : $100
TEAM OF WEEK : $5 per (14 x $5 = $70)
RUNNER UP : $30
CHAMPION : $200

BMFFL PRIZE MONEY
DIVISION WINNER : $25
TEAM OF THE YEAR : $10
CHAMPION : $35