December 24, 2001
S W F F L  C O M M I S S I O N E R S '  N O T E S
By Karl J. (Butch) Smalley
   WEEK 16 RESULTS  SPOCK'S LINES-WK 17
 M. TAKERS        81 
 BLACK REVENGE    63 
 M. TAKERS        -8 
 SHARKS         (100)
 SHARKS           58 
 GOOD FELLAS      15 
 JELLY BEANS      -9 
 HAMMER HEADS    (89)
 DREAM TEAM       43 
 HAMMER HEADS     26 
 DREAM TEAM      -10 
 BLACK & BLUE   (110)
 QUIET STORM      35 
 BLACK & BLUE     30 
 QUIET STORM      -5 
 BLACK REVENGE   (97)
 BULLDOGS         49 
 JELLY BEANS      47 
 GOOD FELLAS      -1 
 BULLDOGS        (87)
 STANDINGS   W  L  T    GB    POINTS 
 DREAM TEAM     
 M. TAKERS      
 JELLY BEANS    
 SHARKS         
 12  3  0  
 10  5  0  
  9  6  0  
  8  7  0  
 ---
  2 
  3 
  4 
  792
  873
  771
  679
  ELITE LINE      
 QUIET STORM    
 BLACK & BLUE   
 HAMMER HEADS   
 BLACK REVENGE  
 GOOD FELLAS    
 BULLDOGS       
  8  7  0  
  7  8  0  
  6  9  0  
  5 10  0  
  5 10  0  
  5 10  0  
  4 
  5 
  6 
  7 
  7 
  7 
  618
  799
  627
  834
  665
  560
POSITION SCORING MATRIX
 TEAM     QB   RB   WR   PK   ST      TOT  
  MT  
  GF  
  JB  
  DT  
  HH  
  QS  
  BB  
  BR  
   S  
  BD  
  239  343* 135  140*  16 
  177  226   96  127   39*
  152  225  254  110   30 
  264* 162  219  112   35 
  217  118  159   98   35 
  172  102  198  113   33 
  252  104  279  127   37 
  189  215  282* 129   19 
  251   96  186  126   20 
  102  164  147  114   33 
  873*
  665 
  771 
  792 
  627 
  618 
  799 
  834 
  679 
  560 
AVG/GM    13   11   12    7    2     45 
PLAYER TRANSACTIONS
 TM       ACQUIRED         RELEASED    
 MT  
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
  Kordell Stewart  
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
  Elvis Joseph     
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
                   
SPOCK'S LOCKS FORMAT - Favorite w/Spread on top - Underdog w/Under-Over in parenthesis

    Week 16 finds the tops spots getting all locked up. The final 2 Elite spots are fairly wide open. There is a game Saturday, so check out that schedule before making plans to call in your lineup on Sunday. Since this will really be my last, opportunity before the holidays, I would like to wish everyone a Safe and Happy Holiday.

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Key Match-Ups to Watch this Week.
    The M. Takers will try to compete the season sweep of the Sharks. The Takers need to win out and some help to steal the Championship in the final week. The Sharks got their foot in the Elite, they'd like to take a stab at 3rd. The Beans would like to start a new streak by completing the season sweep of the Hammer Heads. The Hammer Heads are pretty much left to trying to grab consolation prizes. The Dream Team will try to wrap up the Championship this week by completing the season sweep of the Black & Blue, with the RAMS locking up a lot, don't want to go into the last week in a must win situation. The Black & Blue will need some help to jump back in the Elite, but the have a reasonable shot. The Quiet Storm will try to keep their Elite hopes alive by sweeping the defending Championship Black Revenge. The Revenge can only hope to play spoiler against a former partner. In another battle of former partners, the Good Fellas will try to avenge their Week 8 loss to the Bull Dogs. The loser here has the inside track to the basement, not that this is a desirable thing.

    Spock was 4/5 this week and is 31/65 (48%) on the year, he retains top billing. Norm was 3/5 this week and is 34/65 (52%) on the season, my estimates of his lines appear below:

 S  -2 MT (92)     QS  -3 BR (91)
JB  -4 HH (96)     GF  -2 BD (78)
DT  -7 BB(105)

    No Monday game, so I guess Sunday Night Madness was the order of the day.

    The M. Takers kept their Championship hopes just barely alive with a sweep of the Black Revenge. This game looked real interesting until Faulk broke off a 70 yarder and took all the fun out of this one. The bad news is the Takers need a collapse by the Dream Team and perfection to take home the trophy. The good news id would take a collapse by them and near perfection by the Beans to unseat them from 2nd. Their point total makes a drop to 4th almost impossible. The Revenge once again was the 2ndhighest scoring team which just happened to face the helmet team. Toast your fantasy year last year must have angered the Fantasy Football Gods beyond belief.

    The Sharks easily completed the sweep of the Good Fellas. The Good Fellas players seem to have packed it in, or maybe they are saving it for the big week 17 consolation prizes. The Sharks were led by Favre and Alstott are back in the Elite.

    The Dream Team reduced their magic number to 1 by avenge their early season loss to the Hammer Heads. It was not a pretty win. One could argue that the Championship race would be a lot tighter if Bouman did not leave after one series (Moss may have kept the Beans in contention too). There are rumors spreading that the Dream Team is a "paper tiger" of a first place team. All I can say is we win it, and do not finish in first in total points, it will not be the first time that has happened and I'd rather be a "paper tiger" champion than an out of the Elite wannabe or even a strong runner-up.

    The Quiet Storm ousted on of the teams blocking their way into the Elite by sweeping the Black & Blue for the season (and from 4th to 6th). The Storm held off a late Manning surge (They may be the only ones glad Dilger threw that pass to Harrison). Ron Dayne - who had the crystal ball.

    The "Game of the Week" honors go to the contest between the Jelly Beans and the Bull Dogs. The Dogs had been finding ways to loose and the Beans were on a torrid streak. After Rhodes ripped off a 15 point run everything looked like it would change. But Rhodes hung around the 90 yard mark forever. He Fumbled twice, was injured twice (even had to leave the field) and the Beans kept clinging to a 4 point lead. Finally Rhodes came back out and broke the 100 yard mark, which ended one of the more impressive winning streaks in years and ended a fine Championship run by the Beans. Beans, I would be pulling for your first Championship if I was not in the running myself.

CHATTERBOX:(Get Quotes in by Monday Night)
Dream Team (Norm):
"Missing in Action - will post it later."


BEST & WORST OF WEEK 16
  MVP: Marshall Faulk (37) M. Takers   
  Best on Bench: John Hall (23) Sharks   
  Low Scorers: Good Fellas (15)
Coaching Efficiency:
High: Hammer Heads (100%)
Low: Good Fellas (56%)


Top Rostered Players By Position (All points included)
QB - Warner(258),Manning(240),Favre(232),Garcia(225)
RB - Faulk(186),Alexander(169),Green(143),Holmes(129)
WR - Harrison(132),Owens(129),R. Smith,Moss(105)
PK - K.Brown(138),Elam(131),Wilkins(130),Carney,Vanderjagt(127)
ST - BROWNS(57),RAMS(49),BEARS(45),CHARGERS(42)


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