At the previous pole, Vesh had the lead by a nose. But Brodz' SLAB now has the lead by a head on the Regal Romanians (446 to 419 in pts). JoePa's Black Sox trail by one length. UWSSM leads a pack of 5 who are 2 lengths behind (FU, Bugs, Beagles, and Beavers are the others). MiB and B'runners are currently sitting on the outside.
Gary's 12 Angry Men remain as the softest D in the League - giving up 30.7 points per game.
Bladerunners are the new toughest D - allowing 21.8 ppg.
The top scoring teams: SLAB (37.2) and Romanians (34.9)
The lowest scoring teams: 12 Angry Men (17.1) and Brian (17.3)
The League scoring average is: 26.3

TERRIERS RETURN TO TOP 10

After an abysmal season in 98-99 (14-20-3), the BU Terriers were picked to finish 8th (out of 9) in Hockey East this year. After starting the 99-00 season at 2-3-0, the "Ice Dogs" have gone undefeated over the past 9 (7-0-2) to *finally* crack the Top 10 in college hockey again. After sweeping Denver (4-0) and Colorado College (5-1) over the weekend, the Terriers now stand at #10 in the poll. Wisconsin is #3, Michigan is #6, and Minnesota is tied for #16.
The Affirmed Division went 3-1 against the Secretariat Division, and the weak Mr Ed Division actually held their own at 2-2 against the powerful Seattle Slew Division. The Affirmed Division still has the most W's (29) - the Seattle Slew and Secretariat Divisions are tied (25), and the Mr Ed Division is lagging badly (17).
Enough random babbling... on to WIR #12!

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**** GAME OF THE WEEK ****
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Men in Brown 9
Team Desai 15

ASTOUNDING!!! Joebob was cruising along on a 4-game winning streak, but now has dropped back-to-back contests to Brian and Team Desai. This loss was especially devastating - as Shivan has now wrested away the Presidency of IFEJ. Does anyone remember what IFEJ stands for? Perhaps you can remind us in your acceptance speech, Shiv.
Playoff projections 2 weeks ago had Joebob comfortably in the #4-#7 seed range. Now... Joebob could finish as low as #12.
MiB could only manage treys from Brad, Tim, and Todd. Team Desai made the correct call in starting Morton over Pickens.
SCRUB W for Team Desai (3-1 in scrubs)

johnson 3 tallen 0 sedrick 0 westbrook 0 dwight 3 roland 0 peterson 3
kordell 0 watters 0 garner 3 keyshawn 0 morton 6 santiago 0 hall 6
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Y2K Bugs 23
Ferocious Underwear 43

FU D Coordinator Foge Fazio continues to work wonders for Wang. This week's gameplan was to stop MHarrison - and to take their chances with the other 6 Bugs. The end result... 0 for Harrison and a manageable 23 for the balance of Tim's team. Reunited (and it felt so good) RB combo Faulk and Biakabutuka scored all the points FU would need. Flutie has scored every single week for Tim. Jeff Graham broke Wang's streak of 7 consecutive weeks without WR points.

flutie 6 karim 0 linton 3 harrison 0 bradford 6 sloan 0 longwell 8
warner 6 mfaulk 17 biakabutt 9 oronde 0 graham 3 mitchell 0 brown 8
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Wide Open Beavers 44
Enid Furth Harmony 24

After consecutive scrub losses, Cals got back into the winning column despite a last minute call switching from Chandler's 15 points to Gus' 9. Every Beaver scored (Tyrone, too!) - as Frerotte and Moss led the way with 9 each. For Stan's EFH, Tremayne scored 12 points on 1 total yard. Beuerlein also pitched in, but EFH was pulled down by 3 0's and Julie Krone's having to fill in for Byron at TE.

gus 9 robsmith 3 donnell 6 moss 9 crowell 6 tyrone 6 christie 5
b'line 9 tremayne 12 cway 0 tbrown 0 dmayes 0 Julie X hanson 3
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Don't Call It a Comeback 39
12 Angry Men 28

Gary's Irate Dozen matched their franchise high of 28 points, but still lost to DCIAC. Rickey Dudley is now only 12 points behind Walls for All-RFL TE, and Stoyanovich led all PK's this week. But 4 0's from Gary's RB's and WR's meant win number 5 for Kevin. DCIAC posted their highest point total since Week 3 as Torry Holt broke his string of 7 consecutive scoreless starts, and "Prime Time" Oxendine and Gonzalez also scored surprise TD catches.
SCRUB LOSS for 12 Angry Men (1-1)

manning 3 huntley 0 oxendine 6 galloway 0 holt 12 gonzalez 6 brien 12
aikman 3 dunn 0 kfaulk 0 jgreen 0 poole 0 dudley 12 stoy'vich 13
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Bladerunners 10
The South Side Black Sox 19

JoePa's 11th hour switching from Holcombe to Lamar as Ricky Williams emergency replacement cost the Black Sox 6 points, but fortunately not the victory. Stevie Cauthen stepped in for Riemersma at TE. Hindsight tells us that Clark should have gone with GHill instead of CEnis. Also... all Clark needed was one TD pass from Favre to Freeman to win on bench points, but there would be no Monday Night Magic for Bladerunners this week. Getting outscored by 9 in the PK spot didn't help, either.
SCRUB WIN for the Black Sox (3-1)

favre 6 dillon 3 enis 0 mills 0 freeman 0 brady 0 vinatieri 1
mcnair 6 ejames 3 lsmith 0 dalex'er 0 dyson 0 Cauthen X kasay 10
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Regal Romanians 25
Jock Itch United 23

Vesh's Romanians nearly fell to Ali's JIU this week. But Walls stepped up with the game-winning TD catch on Sunday nitro, and the Regal Romanian D (in cahoots with a dismal QB in Stenstrom) held Terrell Owens scoreless on Monday night. Gannon also came up huge for the Romanians with an angry dozen. JIU is finally getting solid and consistent RB production, but 0 points from the QB and WR's doomed them to defeat.

gannon 12 cmartin 0 bettis 0 ibruce 0 tmartin 0 walls 6 v'jagt 7
kitna 0 jstewart 6 rhett 6 towens 0 hilliard 0 lafleur 0 stover 11
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Crazed Beagles on the Run 34
Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits 56

Brodz has scored 45 or more points in 4 of the last 5 weeks. Vesh taunted SLAB this past week - after Brodz produced only 14 points - and inadvertantly inspired SLAB to surge past the Romanians back into the lead in the Steamroller race. SLAB was led by the George twins. Cris Carter also put up 15 - after spiking a ball and accidentally breaking an official's nose. Wally's Beagles posted their 3rd highest point total of the year - and were rewarded with their 3rd scrub defeat. Jimmy Smits led the Beagles with 11 - and is now 6th in WR scoring.
SCRUB LOSS for Wally (1-3)

jmiller 6 levens 0 hoard 6 jsmith 11 moulds 6 wycheck 0 wilkins 5
jgeorge 18 egeorge 15 alstott 0 ccarter 15 tglenn 6 freddie 0 hollis 2
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brian's bums 12
Upper West Side Stomp Mongers 30

Dylan's UWSSM backed into 9 points from Darnay when Muhsin hurt himself in this week's pregame warmups. Dylan also got yet another TD from SDavis. UWSSM has now won 4 of 5. Brian suffered a major let-down after last week's upset victory over MiB. Puckett scored 9 for the 2nd straight week, but Dylan's D put the clamps on Trent and Marcus.

dilfer 0 kirby 9 bam 0 dawkins 0 marcus 0 glover 0 richey 3
bledsoe 3 emmitt 3 sdavis 6 connell 0 dscott 9 alexander 0 delgreco 9
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Eric Moulds ContrOversy (averted):

Wally called in his Week 12 Depth Chart from some exotic locale where he had no internet access. While I was trying to get work done (seeing as how I was at work at the time), Wally mentioned something about starting Hines Ward over Eric Moulds since Moulds had a bye. Because I was distracted by the interesting nature of my work, I mistakenly and accidentally confirmed to Wally that Moulds was out due to a bye - even though I *knew* Denver had the bye (not Buffalo).

Once I realized my mistake (a few minutes after hanging up on Wally), I sent an email to Wally and his opponent leaving Wally's WR depth as EMoulds, JSmith, HWard. Although Wally had *implied* that he would start Ward over Moulds due to the phantom bye, Wally never explicitly instructed me to move Ward ahead of Moulds in his depth chart.

The whole affair was rendered moot as Moulds and Ward both scored 6 pts on Sunday. But please consider this precedent as set.

Kordell "Slash" Stewart ContrOversy (preemptive re-visitation):

Now that Kordell has lost his starting QB job (FINALLY!), word around the Steelers camp is that their rash of injuries at the WR position will bring about the resurrection of SLASH. So... Team Desai now has the option of starting Stewart as a WR - which some unscrupulous GM repeatedly did a few years back (even though Kordell was primarily used as a QB). The rule this year will be as follows:
If Kordell is listed as the starting QB by NFL.com's gamebook, he can only be considered as a QB. If Kordell is listed as a starting WR, he can only be considered as a WR. If Kordell is not listed as a starter, he can be considered to be either.

Who's Scoring?

Below is one numerical representation of the scoring so far in the 99-00 RFL season - broken down by position.

QB's: 38 guys, 1009 pts /16 /12 = 5.26 ppg per QB
RB's: 42 guys, 1372 pts /32 /12 = 3.57 ppg per RB slot
WR's: 43 guys, 1126 pts /32 /12 = 2.93 ppg per WR slot
TE's: 13 guys, 221 pts /16 /12 = 1.15 ppg per TE
PK's: 28 guys, 1322 pts /16 /12 = 6.89 ppg per PK

QB1 = 91 pts pmanning
QB16 = 24 pts dmarino
................67 pt diff

RB1 = 105 pts sdavis
RB16 = 33 pts malstott
................72 pt diff

RB17 = 33 pts lhoard
RB32 = 12 pts jlinton
................21 pt diff

WR1 = 98 pts mharrison
WR16 = 27 pts dmayes
................71 pt diff

WR17 = 24 pts tholt
WR32 = 12 pts ojmcduffie
................12 pt diff

TE1 = 54 pts wwalls
TE16 = 0 pts ssharpe (only 13 TE's have scored this year)
................54 pt diff

PK1 = 101 pts mvanderjagt
PK16 = 43 pts dbrien
................58 pt diff

Below is the ranking of each franchise in terms of overall scoring by position.

QB	RB	WR	TE	PK
kevin 97	dylan 201	tim 158	vesh 54	brodz 109
joepa 90	wang 161	vesh 120	gary 42	vesh 109
wang 88	brodz 129	brodz 117	kevin 33	wang 99
brodz 79	joepa 123	cals 111	joepa 18	ali 94
joebob 72	wally 90	wally 95	tim 12	tim 89
clark 67	desais 87	dylan 78	stan 12	wally 89
tim 63	joebob 81	brian 66	brodz 12	joebob 87
stan 59	vesh 78	ali 63	cals 12	joepa 86
vesh 58	clark 72	joebob 63	clark 8	cals 82
gary 57	cals 69	stan 57	brian 6	kevin 81
dylan 57	kevin 66	desais 54	wang 6	gary 73
wally 54	ali 66	kevin 45	ali 6	stan 71
brian 48	stan 62	joepa 27	joebob 0	clark 71
cals 48	tim 42	clark 24	wally 0	desais 65
desais 36	brian 36	gary 24	desais 0	dylan 65
ali 36	gary 9	wang 24	dylan 0	brian 52

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Handicapping the Playoff Race
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With 2 games left in the regular season, here is a look at the current overall standings in the race for the Steamroller - and a projection of how the teams might finish.
Please keep in mind the OFFICIAL RFL PLAYOFF TIEBREAKERS:
1. TOTAL POINTS SCORED
2. HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORD
3. OVERALL SCRUB RECORD
4. TOTAL POINTS ALLOWED (more is better, indicates a tougher schedule)
5. COIN TOSS

The Playoff Race (Current Record, Pts Scored, Remaining Games):

Rank	Team	Record	Pts Scored	Games Left
1	SLAB	9-3	446	JoePa Dylan
2	Romanians	9-3	419	Brian Wally
3	Black Sox	8-4	344	Brodz Ali
4	UWSSM	7-5	401	Ali Brodz
5	FU	7-5	378	Gary Desai
6	Y2K Bugs	7-5	364	Kevin Cals
7	Beagles	7-5	328	Clark Vesh
8	Beavers	7-5	322	Joebo Tim
9	MiB	6-6	303	Cals Kevin
10	B'runners	6-6	242	Wally Brian
11	DCIAC	5-7	322	Tim Joebo
12	JIU	5-7	265	Dylan JoePa
13	EFH	5-7	261	Desai Gary
14	Team Desai	4-8	242	Stan Wang
15	brian	3-9	208	Vesh Clark
16	12 Angry Men	1-11	205	Wang Stan

Projected Finish:

1) SLAB 11-3
Brodz must face JoePa and Dylan - 2 *tough* contests

2) Romanians 11-3
Vesh "only" has to deal with the Grayeskis

3) FU 9-5
Will be favored over Gary and Desais

4) Y2K Bugs 9-5
Should be able to handle Kevin and Cals

5) Black Sox 9-5
Looks like: loss to Brodz, win over Ali

6) UWSSM 8-6
Looks like: win over Ali, loss to Brodz

7) Beagles 8-6
Looks like: win over Clark, loss to Vesh

8) Beavers 8-6
Two tough games against Joebob and Tim

9) EFH 7-7
Should be able to beat Desais and Gary

10) B'runners 7-7
Looks like: loss to Wally, win over Brian

11) DCIAC 6-8
Two tough games against Tim and Joebob

12) MiB 6-8
Will be underdog against Cals and Kevin

13) JIU 5-9
Two tough games against Dylan and JoePa

14) Team Desai 4-10
Two tough games against Stan and Wang

15) Brian 3-11
Two tough games against Vesh and Clark

16) 12 Angry 1-13
Two tough games against Wang and Stan

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SEASON POINTS LEADERS
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QB
91 Peyton Manning (Don't Call It a Comeback)
85 Kurt Warner (Ferocious Underwear)
72 Brad Johnson (Men in Brown)

RB
105 Stephen Davis (Upper West Side Stomp Mongers)
93 Edgerrin James (The South Side Black Sox)
89 Marshall Faulk (Ferocious Underwear)
81 Eddie George (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
69 Emmitt Smith (Upper West Side Stomp Mongers)
57 Dorsey Levens (Crazed Beagles on the Run)

WR
98 Marvin Harrison (Y2K Bugs)
78 Cris Carter (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
75 Isaac Bruce (Romanians)
63 Randy Moss (Wide Open Beavers)
54 Ed McCaffrey (Y2K Bugs)
53 Jimmy Smith (Crazed Beagles on the Run)

TE
54 Wesley Walls (Romanians)
42 Rickey Dudley (12 Angry Men)
30 Tony Gonzalez (Don't Call It a Comeback)

PK
101 Mike Vanderjagt (Romanians)
99 Mike Hollis (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
83 Jason Elam (Jock Itch United)

be sure to check:
The Season Points Leaders page
...for an expanded list of scoring leaders.

Desais	Advantage	Stan
EGrbac		MBrunell
RWatters		OGary
CGarner		TStephens
KeyJohnson		TBrown
CPickens		DMayes
OJSantiago		LBroughton
JHall		JHanson

Team Desai is coming off the HUGE high of claiming the IFEJ Presidency from Joebob. Brown people throughout RFL-land are crying in their curry and tandoori at the conclusion of the Age of Pynadath's Velvet Fist. Team Desai seems to be coming into form a little too late, but has scored more than 24 points just twice all year.
Stan's EFH is coming off a most disappointing loss to Cals' Beavers. EFH tried valiantly to overcome an 0-5 start, but now appear to be headed for a finish out of the playoffs. EFH has scored 20 or less in 8 of 12 games. EFH must win out and hope for a LOT of help to make the postseason.
Team Desai appears to have a solid edge at RB. And perhaps a very slight advantage at WR. Stan has the advantage at QB, TE, and PK. Look for Olandis and Tremayne to hold their own in the RB battle - and steal this victory for EFH.

**** Reading between the treadmarks: EFH by 3 ****

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