And there you have it, Super Bowl XLVI is in the books. The New York Giants over the New England Patriots. As much as I was against the Patriots winning another Super Bowl (more so than “for” the Giants, if you get my drift), I did feel a little sad when they showed Robert Kraft’s reaction after the final play, looking up to the sky (presumably) towards his departed wife, Myra Kraft.

The game was short on big plays overall, but it was very tense throughout with such a close score. The opening offensive play for the Pats was just bizarre getting called for the safety. I’m not debating the call, but that was extremely rare occurrence, indeed. The Giants were fortunate on their pair of fumbles they recovered themselves. I can’t help but imagine “what if” Rob Gronkowski was able to haul in the tip off the hail mary, a la Mike Thomas of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

It was definitely up there amongst Super Bowls, capping a year where parity reigned supreme amongst the top teams, when usually a team or two stand head and shoulders above the rest. Lets not forget the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers did more to cost themselves a chance to play for the Lombardi trophy, than the Patriots or Giants did to prevent the Ravens and 49ers from beating them.

The Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints were also nearly unstoppable at times this season, but chose the playoffs to make – numerous – key mistakes that stopped their own forward momentum towards the big game. And what of the Houston Texans, down to their third QB and still a muffed punt by Jacoby Jones near the goal line helped seal a Ravens win to advance?

Any given Sunday rings true once again. Were the New York Giants the best team in all of football for the 2011-12 season? Maybe, maybe not, but they’ve got the hardware, and that is all that matters now.

The end of the Super Bowl also marks the final whistle on Fantasy Throwdown for this season. Thanks everyone for trying Fantasy Throwdown. We are extremely happy with the feedback on this new way to play fantasy football. Now it is time for us to plan and look forward to the 2012 NFL season. We’ll definitely be back, and we look forward to challenging you to another season of Fantasy Throwdown.

Big congratulations to FFootball247365, who was our runaway winner in our NFL Playoffs Tournament that wrapped up with the Super Bowl. It was going to take a near miracle for someone to unseat him going into the last round. MtgProHammer made it close! It wasn’t quite enough to grab the first overall spot.

Here are the final overall standings from our NFL Playoffs Tournament:

Here are the final round group standings from the Super Bowl round of our NFL Playoffs Tournament:

MtgProHammer wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record.

Matt wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record. BuffaloMudwings finished second using the points differential tie-breaker over Losperros and raptors. raptors finished third using the head-to-head tie-breaker over Losperros.

jrnall2 wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record.

DLFootball wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record. FBGWILL finished second using the head-to-head tie-breaker over PFF_Alex. RyanMc23 laoch finished fourth using the head-to-head tie-breaker over RoadWarrior… by 0.1 points! The score of their game was 95.7-95.6.

EasyRider wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record. patwat finished second using the head-to-head tie-breaker over FantasyTaz. Rick finished fourth using the head-to-head tie-breaker over Noank Isototes.

Airbus79 wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record. mschauf63 finishes second using the points differential tie-breaker over wmagnum1 and WideReceiving. wmagnum1 finishes third using the head-to-head tie-breaker over WideReceiving.

The game results are in for the Conference Championships round of our Fantasy Throwdown NFL Playoffs Tourney, and here are the group standings.

FFootball247365 finished first in his group, again! Although he did suffer his first loss in our tournament, he’s now up to 11-1 through three weeks with three consecutive first place finishes. Very impressive, and it may be near impossible to knock him off the pedestal he’s built for himself.

We did have some 4-0 results this week. Congrats to BuffaloMudwings, FBGWILL and Rick who each swept their group. These guys will be moving up the overall rankings, which will determine our groups for the Super Bowl, the last round of our tournament.

FFootball247365 wins the group with a 3-1 record. @BNQuinlan finished second using the points differential tie-breaker over davestake and RyanMc23. RyanMc23 finished third using the head-to-head tie-breaker over davestake.

NLSMike wins the group using the head-to-head tie-breaker over MtgProHammer. jrnall2 finishes fourth using the head-to-head tie-breaker over PFF_Alex.

BuffaloMudwings wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record. Matt finishes second using the head-to-head tie-breaker over Scott Kuff. laoch finishes fourth using the head-to-head tie-breaker over FantasyTaz.

Losperros wins the group using the head-to-head tie-breaker over EyeoftheGator. patwat finishes fourth using the head-to-head tie-breaker over mschauf63.

FBGWILL wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record.

Rick wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record. EasyRider finishes second using the points differential tie-breaker over WideReceiving and Airbus79. Airbus79 finishes third using the head-to-head tie-breaker over WideReceiving.

Conference Championships were a different animal than the Divisional Playoffs. Quarterbacks were racking up big points last week, but all four were pretty similar this week, and the consensus #1 QB for the week, Tom Brady, actually finished fourth in fantasy points output at his position. If you started with Brady, and even worse, blocked Eli Manning, you could have been in trouble as your opponent countered with either Joe Flacco or Alex Smith.

Counter-point: Even a Brady + Block Eli (or vice versa) strategy, could have kept you in the black if your opponent had Ray Rice while you drafted two of Frank Gore, Ahmad Bradshaw and BenJarvus Green-Ellis. All three did considerably better than Rice.

At TE, the big difference maker was once against Vernon Davis. He trumped Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez, who both had nice games but didn’t find the end zone while Davis hit pay dirt twice. Victor Cruz had a big game in our point-per-reception scoring while Michael Crabtree was nearly invisible, so if one of your WR starters came down to that decision, it was a big swing vote in the outcome.

The lack of as many individual big scores this week resulted in some closer matches overall in our Fantasy Throwdown NFL Playoffs Tourney, like RyanMc23 over raptors by 0.75 in Group A, davestake over @BNQuinlan by 1.05 also in Group A, or BuffaloMudwings over Fantasytaz by just 0.25 in Group C!

Finally someone knocked off FFootball247365 to tarnish his perfect record, as @BNQuinlan got a decisive win there, but that was FFootball247365′s only loss. He’s still going to be on top of the overall rankings, finishing first in his group for the third straight week. Here are all the game results from the Conference Championships round of our tourney, and the group results are in a separate post.

P3-A1vA2: FFootball247365 114.10 vs. RyanMc23 105.05
P3-A1vA3: FFootball247365 100.75 vs. raptors 91.90
P3-A4vA1: @BNQuinlan 120.10 vs. FFootball247365 95.15
P3-A5vA1: davestake 108.20 vs. FFootball247365 118.75
P3-A2vA3: RyanMc23 93.15 vs. raptors 92.40
P3-A2vA4: RyanMc23 93.15 vs. @BNQuinlan 119.40
P3-A5vA2: davestake 95.40 vs. RyanMc23 101.85
P3-A3vA4: raptors 101.90 vs. @BNQuinlan 88.75
P3-A3vA5: raptors 89.95 vs. davestake 113.00
P3-A4vA5: @BNQuinlan 113.65 vs. davestake 114.70

P3-B1vB2: jrnall2 82.55 vs. MtgProHammer 103.90
P3-B1vB3: jrnall2 93.55 vs. NLSMike 125.70
P3-B4vB1: Mike 109.90 vs. jrnall2 101.55
P3-B5vB1: pff_alex 89.05 vs. jrnall2 106.30
P3-B2vB3: MtgProHammer 112.75 vs. NLSMike 118.20
P3-B2vB4: MtgProHammer 104.55 vs. Mike 94.00
P3-B5vB2: pff_alex 89.75 vs. MtgProHammer 116.20
P3-B3vB4: NLSMike 113.90 vs. Mike 119.80
P3-B3vB5: NLSMike 97.80 vs. pff_alex 96.85
P3-B4vB5: Mike 91.35 vs. pff_alex 102.70

P3-C1vC2: Matt 99.00 vs. BuffaloMudwings 102.15
P3-C1vC3: Matt 122.30 vs. laoch 86.15
P3-C4vC1: Fantasytaz 105.20 vs. Matt 100.35
P3-C5vC1: Scott Kuff 90.65 vs. Matt 115.70
P3-C2vC3: BuffaloMudwings 115.25 vs. laoch 111.10
P3-C2vC4: BuffaloMudwings 102.35 vs. Fantasytaz 102.10
P3-C5vC2: Scott Kuff 102.40 vs. BuffaloMudwings 111.75
P3-C3vC4: laoch 106.80 vs. Fantasytaz 97.65
P3-C3vC5: laoch 103.15 vs. Scott Kuff 118.10
P3-C4vC5: Fantasytaz 87.90 vs. Scott Kuff 114.75

P3-D1vD2: Maury_Morris 113.80 vs. Losperros 99.75
P3-D1vD3: Maury_Morris 78.55 vs. EyeoftheGator 132.30
P3-D4vD1: mschauf63 113.00 vs. Maury_Morris 78.55
P3-D5vD1: patwat 88.90 vs. Maury_Morris 120.65
P3-D2vD3: Losperros 124.25 vs. EyeoftheGator 94.90
P3-D2vD4: Losperros 99.85 vs. mschauf63 93.40
P3-D5vD2: patwat 95.90 vs. Losperros 112.55
P3-D3vD4: EyeoftheGator 116.20 vs. mschauf63 86.55
P3-D3vD5: EyeoftheGator 109.55 vs. patwat 96.90
P3-D4vD5: mschauf63 96.95 vs. patwat 114.00

P3-E1vE2: DLFootball 112.30 vs. Noank Isototes 106.95
P3-E1vE3: DLFootball 104.30 vs. jimpemba777 99.45
P3-E4vE1: RoadWarrior 109.55 vs. DLFootball 94.90
P3-E5vE1: FBGWILL 106.65 vs. DLFootball 103.50
P3-E2vE3: Noank Isototes DNF vs. jimpemba777 DNF *
P3-E2vE4: Noank Isototes 84.35 vs. RoadWarrior 138.80
P3-E5vE2: FBGWILL 107.75 vs. Noank Isototes 103.70
P3-E3vE4: jimpemba777 89.75 vs. RoadWarrior 102.00
P3-E3vE5: jimpemba777 98.25 vs. FBGWILL 105.90
P3-E4vE5: RoadWarrior 101.70 vs. FBGWILL 109.85

* Noank Isototes awarded the win in this incomplete match based on a judge’s ruling

P3-F1vF2: Airbus79 115.80 vs. Widereceiving 99.75
P3-F1vF3: Airbus79 118.30 vs. wmagnum1 105.80
P3-F4vF1: Rick 111.50 vs. Airbus79 92.15
P3-F5vF1: EasyRider 111.55 vs. Airbus79 89.90
P3-F2vF3: Widereceiving 124.40 vs. wmagnum1 91.35
P3-F2vF4: Widereceiving 107.85 vs. Rick 111.70
P3-F5vF2: EasyRider 92.15 vs. Widereceiving 92.40
P3-F3vF4: wmagnum1 96.00 vs. Rick 122.55
P3-F3vF5: wmagnum1 73.00 vs. EasyRider 112.55
P3-F4vF5: Rick 114.70 vs. EasyRider 91.15

The updated combined rankings from our Wild-Card and Divisional Playoff rounds were posted in the forum earlier, but here is the official announcement of our groups for the Conference Championship round.

The challenges are now up, so check your My Throwdown page, and get those drafts done by kickoff on Sunday. Good luck!

Earlier I posted the game results from the Divisional Round of our Playoffs Tourney. Here are the group standings. The first tie-breaker is head-to-head record. The second tie-breaker is point differential.

If three or more teams need the point differential tie-breaker (it would only come into play with three or more teams), then the tie-break winner is declared and removed from the group of tied teams. Then we go back to the top of available tie-breakers, starting with head-to-head, to determine the next ranked teams from the remaining group of tied teams.

FFootball247365 wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record.

RyanMc23 wins the group using the head-to-head tie-breaker over davestake. Matt finishes fourth using the head-to-head tie-breaker over EyeoftheGator.

@BNQuinlan wins the group with a 3-1 record. Mike finishes second using the points differential tie-breaker over patwat and laoch. laoch finishes third using the head-to-head tie-breaker over patwat.

jrnall2 wins the using the points differential tie-breaker over FantasyTaz and Scott Kuff. Scott Kuff finishes second using the head-to-head tie-breaker over FantasyTaz.

NLSMike wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record.

maury_morris wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record. jimpemba777 finishes second using the head-to-head tie-breaker over FBGWILL. WideReceiving finishes fourth using the head-to-head tie-breaker over EasyRider.

Here are the game results from round two of our Playoffs Tourney. The group standings are in a separate post.

Did I say lopsided scores last week? Sheesh. This week was potentially worse if you were on the short end at QB – Aaron Rodgers, Tim Tebow (gulp) over Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Alex Smith (say what?) – or TE – Jermichael Finley over Rob Gronkowski, Jimmy Graham or Vernon Davis. There were plenty of high scoring but close games too, because there were great options at each position.

This week put an exclamation point on the Year of the Tight End talk. Can no one really cover these guys, or are defensive coordinators a little dense, perhaps? I’d say a little from column A, a little from column B. See: Gregg Williams, Saints. Correction: ex-Saints.

Darren Sproles, Arian Foster and Hakeem Nicks weren’t too shabby this week, either.

P2-A1vA2: FFootball247365 177.50 vs. Losperros 141.85
P2-A1vA3: FFootball247365 189.10 vs. pff_alex 115.40
P2-A4vA1: raptors 126.20 vs. FFootball247365 145.90
P2-A5vA1: MtgProHammer 122.00 vs. FFootball247365 132.60
P2-A2vA3: Losperros 114.40 vs. pff_alex 187.10
P2-A2vA4: Losperros 165.65 vs. raptors 192.50
P2-A5vA2: MtgProHammer 149.20 vs. Losperros 121.15
P2-A3vA4: pff_alex 121.60 vs. raptors 153.50
P2-A3vA5: pff_alex 150.00 vs. MtgProHammer 183.55
P2-A4vA5: raptors 152.20 vs. MtgProHammer 127.00

P2-B1vB2: Matt 141.90 vs. RyanMc23 152.10
P2-B1vB3: Matt 143.80 vs. EyeoftheGator 119.90
P2-B4vB1: davestake 146.10 vs. Matt 142.40
P2-B5vB1: BuffaloMudwings 189.30 vs. Matt 153.75
P2-B2vB3: RyanMc23 189.75 vs. EyeoftheGator 164.80
P2-B2vB4: RyanMc23 184.25 vs. davestake 162.40
P2-B5vB2: BuffaloMudwings 150.65 vs. RyanMc23 135.90
P2-B3vB4: EyeoftheGator 123.20 vs. davestake 179.45
P2-B3vB5: EyeoftheGator 167.65 vs. BuffaloMudwings 109.60
P2-B4vB5: davestake 166.35 vs. BuffaloMudwings 107.40

P2-C1vC2: @BNQuinlan 189.65 vs. laoch 165.70
P2-C1vC3: @BNQuinlan 152.20 vs. RoadWarrior 142.70
P2-C4vC1: Mike 158.00 vs. @BNQuinlan 160.95
P2-C5vC1: patwat 165.30 vs. @BNQuinlan 160.75
P2-C2vC3: laoch 161.40 vs. RoadWarrior 141.85
P2-C2vC4: laoch 113.40 vs. Mike 174.85
P2-C5vC2: patwat 174.65 vs. laoch 189.70
P2-C3vC4: RoadWarrior 112.10 vs. Mike 174.35
P2-C3vC5: RoadWarrior 172.35 vs. patwat 159.60
P2-C4vC5: Mike 141.60 vs. patwat 157.90

P2-D1vD2: jrnall2 161.50 vs. Fantasytaz 169.20
P2-D1vD3: jrnall2 181.20 vs. Noank Isototes 132.80
P2-D4vD1: Scott Kuff 126.50 vs. jrnall2 159.10
P2-D5vD1: Airbus79 132.20 vs. jrnall2 183.55
P2-D2vD3: Fantasytaz 187.50 vs. Noank Isototes 158.95
P2-D2vD4: Fantasytaz 145.85 vs. Scott Kuff 148.30
P2-D5vD2: Airbus79 124.50 vs. Fantasytaz 150.35
P2-D3vD4: Noank Isototes 115.00 vs. Scott Kuff 124.10
P2-D3vD5: Noank Isototes 149.30 vs. Airbus79 131.05
P2-D4vD5: Scott Kuff 134.95 vs. Airbus79 128.20

P2-E1vE2: mschauf63 148.40 vs. NLSMike 159.65
P2-E1vE3: mschauf63 146.90 vs. Rick 130.50
P2-E4vE1: wmagnum1 105.60 vs. mschauf63 176.75
P2-E5vE1: DLFootball 156.00 vs. mschauf63 131.10
P2-E2vE3: NLSMike 183.95 vs. Rick 110.90
P2-E2vE4: NLSMike 159.35 vs. wmagnum1 109.50
P2-E5vE2: DLFootball 138.00 vs. NLSMike 140.20
P2-E3vE4: Rick 119.90 vs. wmagnum1 166.85
P2-E3vE5: Rick 140.00 vs. DLFootball 159.30
P2-E4vE5: wmagnum1 146.45 vs. DLFootball 150.40

P2-F1vF2: Widereceiving 142.10 vs. FBGWILL 144.40
P2-F1vF3: Widereceiving 113.60 vs. Maury_Morris 163.40
P2-F4vF1: jimpemba777 141.05 vs. Widereceiving 139.50
P2-F5vF1: EasyRider 118.30 vs. Widereceiving 147.80
P2-F2vF3: FBGWILL 137.25 vs. Maury_Morris 190.60
P2-F2vF4: FBGWILL 144.60 vs. jimpemba777 177.15
P2-F5vF2: EasyRider 111.70 vs. FBGWILL 155.70
P2-F3vF4: Maury_Morris 188.90 vs. jimpemba777 107.15
P2-F3vF5: Maury_Morris 165.35 vs. EasyRider 164.10
P2-F4vF5: jimpemba777 105.60 vs. EasyRider 178.75

We are ready to start the Divisional Playoffs Round of our NFL Playoffs Tourney!

After ranking every player from our Wild-Card Round, including dropping my second entry and inserting EasyRider as my replacement, the groups are reset with the top five forming Group A, next five forming Group B, and so on and so forth. The combined standings/rankings (plus methodology) can be found in the forum. The end result are the following groups:

The challenges are now up, so check your My Throwdown page, and get those drafts done before Saturday. Good luck!

Earlier I posted the game results from the Wild-Card Round of our Playoffs Tourney. Here are the group standings. The first tie-breaker is head-to-head record, the same as we using for our earlier tournaments. The second tie-breaker is point differential, which is different than before when we used total points scored.

raptors wins the group with a 3-1 record. @BNQuinlan finishes second using the head-to-head tie-breaker over jrnall2 and Airbus79. jrnall2 finishes third using the head-to-head tie-breaker over Airbus79.

Matt wins the group using the head-to-head tie-breaker over EyeoftheGator. RoadWarrior finishes third using the head-to-head tie-breaker over mscauf63.

PFF_Alex wins the group with a 3-1 record. laoch finishes second using the head-to-head tie-breaker over Noank Isototes and Scott Kuff. Noank Isototes finishes third using the head-to-head tie-breaker over Scott Kuff.

FFootball247365 wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record.

Losperros wins the group with a perfect 4-0 record.

MtgProHammer wins the group with a 3-1 record. BuffaloMudwings finishes second using the points differential tie-breaker over patwat and Mike. patwat finishes third using the head-to-head tie-breaker over Mike.

Here are the game results from the opening round of our Playoffs Tourney. The group standings are in a separate post.

Some lopsided scores this week thanks to big games from Calvin Johnson, Arian Foster, Hakeem Nicks, Drew Brees, Matt Stafford and… I don’t think anyone had Tim Tebow or Demaryius Thomas. If you had the CJ-Foster combo though, your opponent was pretty much cooked right there.

P1-A1vA2: Airbus79 129.50 vs. raptors 122.30
P1-A1vA3: Airbus79 136.90 vs. jrnall2 143.10
P1-A4vA1: @BNQuinlan 129.45 vs. Airbus79 74.95
P1-A5vA1: DLFootball 112.60 vs. Airbus79 171.55
P1-A2vA3: raptors 128.90 vs. jrnall2 125.00
P1-A2vA4: raptors 151.85 vs. @BNQuinlan 107.00
P1-A5vA2: DLFootball 113.80 vs. raptors 147.60
P1-A3vA4: jrnall2 138.80 vs. @BNQuinlan 149.85
P1-A3vA5: jrnall2 99.95 vs. DLFootball 83.45
P1-A4vA5: @BNQuinlan 129.10 vs. DLFootball 153.20

P1-B1vB2: Maury_Morris 106.55 vs. mschauf63 139.30
P1-B1vB3: Maury_Morris 79.30 vs. EyeoftheGator 152.65
P1-B4vB1: RoadWarrior 169.50 vs. Maury_Morris 116.30
P1-B5vB1: Matt 123.85 vs. Maury_Morris 116.40
P1-B2vB3: mschauf63 117.50 vs. EyeoftheGator 126.70
P1-B2vB4: mschauf63 98.20 vs. RoadWarrior 144.20
P1-B5vB2: Matt 134.10 vs. mschauf63 140.60
P1-B3vB4: EyeoftheGator 155.30 vs. RoadWarrior 129.10
P1-B3vB5: EyeoftheGator 143.90 vs. Matt 146.40
P1-B4vB5: RoadWarrior 122.30 vs. Matt 130.80

P1-C1vC2: laoch 133.20 vs. Widereceiving 149.90
P1-C1vC3: laoch 72.85 vs. pff_alex 121.25
P1-C4vC1: Scott Kuff 145.50 vs. laoch 151.60
P1-C5vC1: Noank Isototes 88.25 vs. laoch 118.85
P1-C2vC3: Widereceiving 106.20 vs. pff_alex 169.25
P1-C2vC4: Widereceiving 112.90 vs. Scott Kuff 169.50
P1-C5vC2: Noank Isototes 144.15 vs. Widereceiving 125.40
P1-C3vC4: pff_alex 130.20 vs. Scott Kuff 161.50
P1-C3vC5: pff_alex 144.85 vs. Noank Isototes 106.80
P1-C4vC5: Scott Kuff 102.45 vs. Noank Isototes 126.75

P1-D1vD2: FBGWILL 128.35 vs. Rick 144.50
P1-D1vD3: FBGWILL 143.20 vs. Fantasytaz 148.70
P1-D4vD1: FFootball247365 151.40 vs. FBGWILL 111.30
P1-D5vD1: davestake 162.60 vs. FBGWILL 112.80
P1-D2vD3: Rick 131.80 vs. Fantasytaz 142.40
P1-D2vD4: Rick 96.40 vs. FFootball247365 180.90
P1-D5vD2: davestake 166.60 vs. Rick 91.40
P1-D3vD4: Fantasytaz 131.00 vs. FFootball247365 148.65
P1-D3vD5: Fantasytaz 128.40 vs. davestake 130.70
P1-D4vD5: FFootball247365 184.80 vs. davestake 89.00

P1-E1vE2: Mike 116.20 vs. RyanMc23 149.65
P1-E1vE3: Mike 136.80 vs. NLSMike 135.60
P1-E4vE1: Losperros 129.35 vs. Mike 122.60
P1-E2vE3: RyanMc23 148.10 vs. NLSMike 138.70
P1-E2vE4: RyanMc23 122.65 vs. Losperros 132.70
P1-E3vE4: NLSMike 115.70 vs. Losperros 124.40
P1-E5vE1: jimpemba777 101.50 vs. Mike 168.60
P1-E5vE2: jimpemba777 101.50 vs. RyanMc23 180.60
P1-E3vE5: NLSMike 142.20 vs. jimpemba777 131.60
P1-E4vE5: Losperros 167.30 vs. jimpemba777 102.40

P1-F1vF2: patwat 146.40 vs. Mike 110.20
P1-F1vF3: Mike 98.95 vs. MtgProHammer 121.85
P1-F4vF1: BuffaloMudwings 100.45 vs. Mike 102.55
P1-F5vF1: wmagnum1 109.45 vs. Mike 153.20
P1-F2vF3: patwat 135.95 vs. MtgProHammer 140.00
P1-F2vF4: patwat 82.65 vs. BuffaloMudwings 109.45
P1-F5vF2: wmagnum1 121.20 vs. patwat 133.50
P1-F3vF4: MtgProHammer 107.85 vs. BuffaloMudwings 84.55
P1-F3vF5: MtgProHammer 102.55 vs. wmagnum1 105.65
P1-F4vF5: BuffaloMudwings 159.10 vs. wmagnum1 129.60

Our NFL Playoffs tourney is underway, and at present we have twenty-five participants, split up into five groups of five. Plus I have two more guys on a reserve list. We are running out of time, but if anyone else wants to play please speak up now so I can schedule the matches and we can get the draft finished before the first Wild-Card Weekend game on Saturday.

Here are the first five groups plus start of potential sixth group:

This tournament is non-elimination. If we stick with five groups, then the group winners, based on won-loss record with head-to-head as the first tie-breaker, point differential the second tie-breaer, will form a group to play each other next week. The second place finishers in each group will form a group to play each other next week. Thirds vs. thirds, fourths vs. fourths, and fifths vs. fifths.

We’ll do the same thing from Divisional Playoffs to the Conference Championships, and then Conference Championships to the Super Bowl. Once we’ve each played 16 Fantasy Throwdown games between now and the Super Bowl, we should have an excellent idea of who is the best of the bunch this time around.

I know MtgProHammer is itching for a spot in this thing, so please, let’s get Group F up and running (even though it would mess up my 1st vs. 1st, 2nd vs 2nd, etc. plan going forward. If we get six groups, or more, then I’ll adjust accordingly.

Anyway, there you have it. Good luck to all of our competitors, and enjoy the playoffs!