Our 37th season has come to an end. The Dream Team notched their 6th championship and were the highest scoring team (barely). The Black Assassins finished strong and took 2nd place. The Good Fellas faded down the stretch and dropped in at 3rd place (2nd in scoring). The Black & Blue Attack managed to hold on to that last money spot. Even the last place teams managed to win 1/3 of their games and one, the Fightin’ Irish, managed to take home the golden helmet (snapping the Shop’s 2-year streak). The Dream Team lost right at the end of their game much the way the EAGLES did, But given the standings I am OK with all of this.

  The old web (http://swffl.50megs.com) has updated archives and historical records. I will also add some web-exclusive. Send any ideas to me and I will see what I can do.

   OK, this is the part where I look back at the draft analysis that I do at the beginning of most years. This year it picked 2 of the 4 Money teams making it 57 of 125 (46%) in the past 30 years, a little worse than a coin toss. Alternatively, the CBS Guru selected 1 of the 4 Money teams, which makes them 18 of 40 (45%) in the last 10 years. The Guru's system is any better than mine, despite the fact that it uses projections instead of last year’s numbers.

   Norm was 2 of 5 making him 38 out of 80 (48%). Spock was 1 of 5 this week making him 46 of 80 (58%) and although he lost the final week he won the season long competition.

   Since we have some extra room in the last week, I will be giving out my season-ending awards. The 2025 Fantasy MVP award goes to Trey McBride winning his position by over 100 points. The LIONS get the 2025 Fantasy NFL Team of the Year award by grabbing a top 4 spot in 2 of the position rankings (WR, RB). Christian McCafftey gets the 2025 Comeback Player of the Year after avoiding the injury bug all year There were many candidates for 2025 Bust of the Year, but it goes to Justin Jefferson (Saquon and Jeanty were up there too). The 2025 Worst Fantasy NFL Team goes to the RAIDERS (spoiling both Jeanty and Bowers). The 2025 SWFFL Rookie of the Year goes to Tyler Warren (beating out Henderson, Egbuka and T-Mac).

   Only one game was decided prior to Monday night, the other 4 had some Monday night madness (actually a lot of them did).

   The Black & Blue Attack had the victory and the season split with the Croatans all wrapped up on Sunday and still Boswell to come on Sunday night. The Attack was led by Chase as they locked up 4th place. The Croatans wasted a nice performance by Fairbairn in the loss. The Croatans best lineup (Mayfield, Orton and CHIEFS) would have made that last money spot interesting.

   The defending Champion Body Shop earned a season split with the Roxborough Wranglers in what I can only call a fantasy game that beckons back to the days when we only had TD scoring. The Shop’s Lawrence was the only starter to clear 20 points and neither team cleared triple digits. The Wranglers failed to clear 40 points – I really cannot remember a lower score, and they did not have much help on their bench either.

   The Black Assassins and a 37.8-point lead held off the Jelly Beans, Andrew and the STEELERS on Sunday night. The Assassins locked up 2nd place and completed the season sweep of the Beans largely due to the efforts of Williams and Wilson (what a pickup he was). The Beans failed to field a 20-point starter, and their best lineup would have come up short on Week 18 as well.

   The Fightin’ Iris, King Henry and a 33.1-point lead barely held off the Money Takers and Co-MVP of the week Action Jackson on Sunday night. The Irish earned a season split with eh Takers and notched their only helmet of the year. If you are only going to win one helmet all year, the week 18 helmet is the one you want to win. The Irish were led by Stafford and Little (nothing little about the FGs he kicks). It was nice that the Irish won the week 18 helmet given that they were the only team to face triple digits every week, but the Fantasy Gods still made them sweat it out on Sunday night. The Takers were led by Action Jackson, Nacua and Loveland. A Charbonet start and the Takers take the Week 18 helmet.

  The "Game of the Week" honors go to the contest between the Dream Team and the Good Fellas. I am very thankful that we wrapped up the Championships as I went to bed early Sunday night with a 50+-point lead against the Fellas, Warren and Flowers. Surely even Flowers (who has to have something against the Dream Team) could not change the outcome of that game. With minutes left in the game – I was awakened by phone calls and texts about the Dream Team’s sudden demise. As it turns out if we had lost last week, we would have still won the Championship by a meager 4 points (in total points. The Fellas were led by the dreaded Co-MVP Flowers, Gibbs and Gonzales (and an interesting choice at QB). The Dream Team was led by Shough and the Sun God. For those that we think we backed our way into the trophy, we did finish as the top scoring team despite not leading any one position. My partner says that is because we weren’t as dependent in bug scoring out of one or 2 players. Don’t about that but we also were the only team to clear triple digits every week.