The biggest story surrounding BS Super Bowl II is the historical dominance of one Mark Pearlman.Mark was introduced to fantasy football in the middle of the 2003 season, in the form of a weekly salary cap game called Home Team Challenge on nfl.com.
In 2004, we got our small crew together and started our first real season of Home Team Challenge. Mark won the season.
The same way he would do in 2005 and 2006.
In 2007, we ventured out and got everyone in a true draft fantasy league on nfl.com. Piecing together HC records, I've established that Burnsy led our league in points thanks to Brady. But Mark secured the #1 seed in the playoffs. When Brady only scored 3 points in the playoffs for Niraj, Mark advanced to Construda Super Bowl I.
I started 1-5 (because Brees sucked!) but made the playoffs thanks to a Christmas Construda Miracle and beat Kirat by 2 in the first round of the playoffs.
The Super Bowl was a blowout (which sounds better than Mark blew me out) thanks to Warner and Jacobs going off, both former players on my team. Mark finished 14-2 and basically won 4 titles in a row, 4-0 in full seasons.
In 2008, I wrote "If anyone ever deserved to win a Super Bowl, Mark did this year." Mark led the league in points, scored 194 more than 2nd place. This was a runaway. 9 out of 14 times he scored more than 105 on nfl.com, something my team that almost made the playoffs only did once.
And yet his team was not built for the playoffs, he lost in round 1 (week 15) for a final record of 10-5. Matt advanced to the Super Bowl (for reference, that year Matt also only broke 105 once).
In 2009, Mark again led the league in points. He had a 200+ game that let him smack Burnsy in the face with a burrito 13 times. He did it by drafting Peterson and trading for Chris Johnson. He won BS Super Bowl I, finishing the season 10-5.
This year, he led the league in points, yet again. For the second straight year, he traded for the top running back (Foster). And he's going to win it all again. He's going to finish 14-2.
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To recap:
2004: Won Home Team Challenge
2005: Won Home Team Challenge
2006: Won Home Team Challenge
2007: #1 seed, Won Construda Super Bowl I, finished 14-2
2008: #1 seed, led league in points, lost in playoffs semifinal, finished 10-5
2009: #2 seed, led league in points, Won SB Super Bowl I, finished 10-5
2010: #1 seed, led league in points, will win SB Super Bowl II, will finish 14-2
That's an incredible 48-14 all-time record for a winning percentage of 77.42%. Oh yeah, and six titles in seven years. This isn't just a dynasty, this is complete domination.
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