The subplot that no one's talking about!
Week 7: Mac beats Mark by 5.5 points. If Mark had started Maclin over Fred Jackson, Mark wins that game. Then Mark is the #1 seed with a 9-4 record. Burnsy is still at 8-5 and gets the #2 seed. Mac still owns the tiebreaker over Stevo, so Mac is #3, Stevo is #4.
So then Mac would have lost to Niraj, Stevo loses to Mark...
and we were that close to having a War Across the Shore rematch for the Super Bowl in week 15!
It didn't have to be that loss for Mark...if he had beaten me in week 13, then the same thing. One more win for Mark would have been great news for Niraj.
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But that's out of Niraj's control...what about in week 13? If he rests his starters, Kirat makes the playoffs with a 8-5 record and gets the #3 seed where he loses to Mark. Niraj still owns the tie breaker over Stevo and me, so Niraj gets in, gets the #4 seed and beats Mac by 60.
Basically, one more loss by Niraj would have been great news for Niraj.
So now we've got an added wrinkle to the Hypothetical Bowl. Let's have me and Niraj set our best lineups, and see who could/would have won it all.
where to begin with all the commenting?
ReplyDeletefirst, i realized during the games that if niraj had lost to kirat in week 13, then he would have been the #4 seed and won. but you could "what if" everything. the fact is, it sucks to be burnsy. he scored 145 points, a great week by any measure, but my guys just went bananas and there was nothing anybody could do about it.
Yes. Very unfortunate. I'll have to beat Mac and claim third! I was thinking that it would have been good to lose in Week 13, but I wasn't sure exactly how the tiebreakers and things played out, and it felt kind of cheap to throw it. In retrospect, I probably should have!
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