2017 Champion - Agent P

The 2017 VP3 Fantasy NFL Champion: 

Agent P

With a score of 107 to 73 Agent P completely whipped Doof's Playinators. A stunning game to Gurley, 39.6 points - it's pretty much impossible to beat that. The other positions pretty much balanced out, although a -1 to the Jaguars DEF for Doof was terrible. Gurley did the damage to Doof, just as he did to the Tennessee Titans.

Taken in the second round of the draft, Gurley finished the season with 319 points, over 60 points more than the next RB. Over two games better than 2nd place!

Backing up Gurley, Agent P also boasted the number 4 RB in the league, Melvin Gordon. Gordon was the first round pick and put up 217 points. Agent P's 3rd and 4th round picks weren't great, TY Hilton and Isiaih Crowell. Her 5th round, coupled with the RBs, pretty much carried her over the Championship line: Russell Wilson. Wilson finished first in QBs with 327 points, 33 points up on 2nd place.

Congratulations to Agent P: 10-4 season, top 2 players, Championship winner.

Third place

Breesus beat Bradylessbrothers for third place this season, 67-56. Congrats on another fine season!

2017 Championship Game

(1 v 2) +
(2014's 3 v 4) +
(Evil scientist v secret agent platypus) +
(Dan v Tanja) =
2017's pinnacle of rightness

Doof's Playinators v Agent P in

The Battle of the Tri-State Area

If you've never watched Phineas and Pherb the Doof v Agent P thing probably makes no sense.
If you've never watched Tanja and me argue about something, this rivalry probably makes no sense.
But for those in the know, this is huge!

Agent P

Since Week 9 Agent P has averaged 114 points per game, dropping below 100 only twice and losing only one game. Agent P scored over 130 three times! These consistently high scores make sense when you see her gun players: Russell Wilson, Melvin Gordon, Todd Gurley and Tyreek Hill. And these players were all picked up in the draft. In Wee 8 Agent P made the move from the Patriots D to the Ravens and the following week started moving Kickers around. But the core four didn't change, they didn't need to.
Agent P finished the Regular Season at 10-4, two games behind Doof and two games above BB.

Doof's Playinators

Since Week 9 Doof averaged 98 points per round with a low of 76 and a high of 114. Doof''s win in Week 7 against Agent P was the start of an 8-game winning streak in the regular season that propelled the team to a 12-2 league-leading record and first place in the League standings.
In the Semi-Final Doof was 25 points up with one game to play and confidence was high. A monster game to Breesus's Freeman reclaimed those 25 points, but it was not quite enough and Breesus fell 1.5 points short of another Championship appearance.

Head-to-head

The projection Thursday morning is Agent P (94) over Doof (89).
Agent P and Doof met only once this year, in Week 7 with Doof taking the W: 136-93. Huge games to WR Cooper and QB Wentz and another big game by the Jaguars DEF put Doof over 130 points for, I think, the only time this year. Russell Wilson was typically great as was Gurley, but the rest of Agent P's team a bit ordinary.
In 2016 the two teams met only once, also in Week 7, where Agent P won 67-56.
And way back in 2014 Doof and Agent P met in the 3rd place game, with Agent P winning 97-72.

3rd Place Game - Bradyless Brothers v Breesus King of the Drews

It's 3 v 4 in the final battle for 3rd place for the season. Both teams have ups and downs this year, stars and busts. Breesus is projected to win, 95-80.
These two teams met only 2 weeks ago, with BB winning 107-98. The win put BB a game up on Breesus and ensured the 3rd place in the standings.
This is the third year in a row BB has made it to the Championship Round, although the last two years BB was playing for the Championship, winning it all last year against the Lighties.
Breesus finished in fourth place last year, losing the Third Place game to Doof. In 2015 Breesus missed the playoffs altogether, after winning it two straight years.

2017 Regular season - over

After 14 short weeks the regular season is now over; on to the play-offs.

Riding an 8-game winning streak, Doof finishes the season on top with a 12-2 record. The combination of Carson Wentz, Le'Veon Bell and the Jaguars DEF was pretty unstoppable. Now Wentz is gone for the season with an ACL, which screws me over(!) and probably also the Eagles.

Agent P lost the final round but still finished at 10-4, two games ahead of third place. Wilson, Gurley and Gordon were her Big 3. In never-underestimating a good Kicker, Agent P's Zurlein put up 160 points, tops among Kickers and 22 more than the next best.

At 8-6, Bradyless Brothers will play Agent P in the semi-final. Dak Prescott did not have the season he was supposed to have for the Cowboys, nor did McCaffrey, Jackson or Thomas. It's tough when your best player is the TE, who put up great numbers... for a TE.

Three teams finished with a 7-7 record, with the only one making the play-offs. Only three teams recorded a winning season (greater than .500) - indicating the weird, injury-plagued, weird-performing season that was 2017.

Breesus will play Doof in the semi-final. Breesus tried various QBs, including Derek Carr, Jared Goff, Deshaun Watson and finishing the season with Case Keenum. No one saw that happening at the draft! A stand-out on the team, Hopkins had a great season at WR.

The Farn's and Lighties both finished with a 7-7 record. In his first year, Goonbags dropped the final game of the season to end 6-8. After a scintillating 3-0 start, Endless dropped a lot of games before bookending the season with a 3-game win streak to finish at 6-8. After a woeful start to defend his 2016 Championship, US Forces finished in 9th position at 5-9. Marcy never quite got it together, 2-12.

Flicking through the Player lists shows that the top-four teams fields most of the top rated players per position. Agent P ended with 2 of the top-3 Kickers. Agent P had the top QB, Doof had 2 and 3. Agent P, the 1 and 5 RB's, Doof number 2. At WR, Farn's had the top-WR with Antonio Brown, nearly 30 points higher than Hopkins at 2, and 60 points higher than Keenan Allen at 3.

What does this tell us? Winners have the high ranked players. Surprise!

To Farns, Lighties, Goon, Endless, Forces and Marcy: thanks for playing another year! I hope you had fun, even though your season didn't end as planned way back at the draft.

To Agent P, BB and Breesus: this is the year of the Doof!