Steamroller Champion SLAB and the #2 seed Reservoir Romanians fell by the wayside in the first round of the playoffs - as FU, Black Sox, UWSSM, and DCIAC advanced to the semifinals. Wang's FU will take on Dylan's UWSSM (the highest scoring team remaining in the Ags Bowl hunt) in one semi - while JoePa's Black Sox will face Kevin's DCIAC in the other.
The top scoring teams: SLAB (35.5) and UWSSM (32.9)
The lowest scoring teams: 12 Angry Men (16.5) and Brian (19.0)
The League scoring average is: 26.6
The worst D: Y2K Bugs (29.4)
The best D: Bladerunners (22.8)

I'D LIKE TO CALL A ''FRIEND''!

Regis: Hello, Patrick. This is Regis calling from "Who'd Like to Win the Aglione Bowl?" The next voice you hear will be that of your friend Brodz. He was on the verge of winning Aglione Bowl X, but now will be battling for 5th place in the playoffs.
Brodz: Cals, I only have 30 seconds - so give me your answer quickly! I'm going up against Y2K Bugs this weekend, the team that knocked your Beavers out of the playoffs last week. What advice can you give me that will help me beat Tim?!?
Cals: Against Tim I accidentally started a gimpy Antowain over "TD" Donnell Bennett. And my D couldn't keep FTaylor out of the endzone under the bright lights of MNF. Pick the right RB's and contain Fred.
Enough random babbling... on to WIR #15!

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**** GAME OF THE WEEK ****
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Reservoir Romanians 12
Upper West Side Stomp Mongers 36

For the 2nd straight year, a heavily favored Romanian squad was unceremoniously bounced from the playoffs in the 1st round. Last year, the Steamroller Champion Romanians lost to the #8 seed. This year, Dylan's #7 seed UWSSM did the deed vs the #2 seed Romanians.
A closer look at the performance of Vesh's team down the stretch shows that the self-imploding Reservoir Romanians started the slide towards this ugly performance back in Week 10. After Gannon and Curtis Martin scored 12 each to lead the Romanians to 48 pts that week, the Romanians scored 36, 25, 28, and 17 pts in successive weeks - before posting their season-low 12 against Dylan.
UWSSM has been stomping at a much more stable rate over the 2nd half of the season. Dylan's team has scored less than 27 pts just once in the last 8 games.
Who would have thought that Vesh would outscore Dylan in the RB battle and LOSE?!? Dylan's RB duo was held under 6 pts for only the 2nd time all season - but Muhsin's blackjack (vs Walls' 0) on Saturday appeared to deflate the Romanians' morale heading into Sunday's action.
But in the end... Dylan did not even need the Muhammad points. Kerry and Al scored all the pts needed to beat the uninspired Romanians.

gannon 3 cmartin 3 bettis 0 ibruce 0 tmartin 0 walls 0 v'jagt 6
collins 3 duce 0 sdavis 0 kevj'son 0 muhsin 21 alex'er 0 delgreco 12
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Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits 12
Don't Call It a Comeback 18

In another case of getting off quickly to put your opponent in an emotional hole, Kevin's Gonzalez scored a dozen on Saturday. Brodz could only manage Hollis' 6 on Sunday - while DCIAC QB Peyton matched with 6 of his own. Under normal circumstances, SLAB would have been expected to make up the 12 pt difference on MNF with JGeorge and CCarter going up against the inexperienced GB DB's. But a Gimpy (note the CAPITAL "G") Cris was not able to make the decisive TD reception on this day. Kevin was able to survive a 0 from his PK in the playoffs!

jgeorge 6 egeorge 0 alstott 0 ccarter 0 tglenn 0 freddie 0 hollis 6
manning 6 means 0 lane 0 galloway 0 thigpen 0 gonzalez 12 brien 0
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Ferocious Underwear 36
Bladerunners 12

For the 5th straight week, FU's hiring of Foge Fazio paid defensive dividends. FU's D magically shutout Clark's prime-time duo of Favre-Freeman on Monday Night! Wang's Ram pairing of Warner and Faulk scored all the pts FU would need to move on to the Aglione Bowl semis. Clark's B'runners could only manage 9 from Adam and a trey from Wayne.

warner 9 mfaulk 6 pritchett 0 jeffers 9 oronde 0 mitchell 0 mare 12
favre 0 enis 0 ghill 0 chrebet 3 freeman 0 pollard 0 vinatieri 9
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The South Side Black Sox 45
Y2K Bugs 26

Proving that the Black Sox' 48-38 triumph over the Y2K Bugs in Week 7 was no fluke, JoePa's Sox cranked it up again to smoosh the Bugs in this quarterfinal matchup. Edgerrin was able to offset the on-again FTaylor and a surprise TD from Linton. And when Toomer was able to outscore Tim's talented WR duo of Harrison and McCaffrey, all wariness of the Y2K Bugs was alleviated. Tim's "homer"-ness was exposed when he started Detroit Gus over Doug "I scored in all 13 games for you" Flutie. ;-)

mcnair 9 ejames 15 holcombe 0 toomer 6 hatchette 0 riemersma 6 carney 9
gus 0 ftaylor 9 linton 6 harrison 3 mccaffrey 0 sloan 0 longwell 8
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Wide Open Beavers 22
12 Angry Men 14

Cals beat Gary 29-22 in Week 3. In Week 15, the Beavers would need some Monday Night necromancy. Trailing 14-7 heading into MNF, Cals had RSmith, RMoss, and Tyrone gunning for the 7 pts. Smith and Tyrone would prove to be non-factors on this evening, so it was all on the Freak's shoulders. For nearly 3 quarters, Gary's 12 Miffed Men clung to their lead. But then a 1-yard TD catch by Moss won the game for Wide Open Beavers. Rice caught a nice TD for Gary's hung jury. Moss is now pushing Harrison for the top spot in WR points.

king 0 robsmith 0 montgomery 0 moss 15 crowell 0 tyrone 0 christie 7
aikman 3 dunn 0 murrell 0 jgreen 0 rice 6 dudley 0 stoy'vich 5
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Crazed Beagles on the Run 49
brian's nameless bums 42

This game featured yet another dose of Monday Night sorcery. Wally's Beagles were 8 points behind the Bums heading into Monday's action, but Wally had both RB's (Levens and Hoard) taking their shots at weak opposing run D's. Brian had Glover in Monday Night's game, but Glover came up empty. Levens got a TD and 100 yards to win the game for the Beagles, and Hoard fell into the endzone once himself to run up the score a little - in this Grayeski vs Grayeski "Loser Leaves the League" steel-cage death-match. Marcus scored 24 WR pts for Brian and moved up to 6th in WR points.
Wally shutout Brian 20-0 in Week 1's GOTW.

mcnown 15 levens 9 hoard 6 jsmith 3 moulds 6 wycheck 3 wilkins 7
couch 0 kirby 6 bam 6 dawkins 0 marcus 24 glover 0 richey 6
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Men in Brown 33
Team Desai 37

Team Desai backed into the decisive 6 points from Elvis when Slash started at WR for the Steelers this week. Watters (69) and Garner (66) have come on as a steady RB combo for Desais. After the most recent round of "trouble" in the MiB camp, Joebob brought in *previously* squeaky clean Navy-boy Napolean as his new pet project. Kaufman ran marvelously this weekend, but watch for him to crash soon - and then be tossed out onto the street by the evil GM of MiB.
Desais withstood Joebob's attempted coup to retain control of IFEJ.

johnson 4 tallen 0 nap 15 westbrook 2 herman 0 roland 0 peterson 12
elvis 6 watters 9 garner 9 keyshawn 0 morton 3 santiago 0 hall 10
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Jock Itch United 25
Enid Furth Harmony 34

"Should I start Beuerlein or Brunell?" This has been the bane of Stan's season week after week. EFH started the right QB this week, as Olandis and Tim also scored 6 each to beat Ali's JIU. Ali was without the services of JStewart this week, but managed to put up a respectable quarter. EFH also beat JIU 31-16 in Week 8.

kitna 6 priest 6 rhett 0 towens 0 hilliard 6 lafleur 0 stover 7
b'lein 18 centers 0 ogary 6 tbrown 6 dhayes 0 gclark 0 hanson 4
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Playoffs Bracket

Quarters	Semis	Aglione Bowl X
SLAB
DCIAC
	DCIAC
SSBS	SSBS
Bugs		DCIAC/SSBS
		UWSSM/FU
Romanians
UWSSM	UWSSM
	FU	3rd Place
FU		*********
'runners	Consolation	DCIAC/SSBS
	***********	UWSSM/FU
	SLAB
	Bugs	5th Place
		*********
	Romanians	SLAB/Bugs
	'runners	Romanians/'runners
		7th Place
		*********
		SLAB/Bugs
		Romanians/'runners

UN-playoffs Bracket

Quarters	Semis	Scrub Bowl
Beavers
12Angry
	Beavers
JIU	EFH
EFH		Beavers/EFH
		Beagles/Desais
Beagles
Brian	Beagles
	Desais	11th Place
MiB		*********
Desais	Consolation	Beavers/EFH
	***********	Beagles/Desais
	12Angry
	JIU	13th Place
		*********
	Brian	12Angry/JIU
	MiB	Brian/MiB
		Last Place
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		12Angry/JIU
		Brian/MiB

Playoff Game Tiebreakers:

During the regular season... if two teams tie with respect to starter points and bench points, the game is declared a tie. In the playoffs, the tiebreaker system below is employed:
1) BENCH POINTS
2) TOTAL YARDS (PASSING, RUSHING, RECEIVING) BY STARTERS
3) BENCH YARDS
4) COIN TOSS

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Current Standings
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Team	W	L	GB	PF	PA	STK
Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits	11	4	-	532	407	L1
Reservoir Romanians	11	4	-	476	392	L1
Ferocious Underwear	10	5	1	485	415	W5
The South Side Black Sox	10	5	1	441	356	W2
Upper West Side Stomp Mongers	8	7	3	494	416	W1
Y2K Bugs	8	7	3	423	441	L1
Crazed Beagles on the Run	8	7	3	414	397	W1
Don't Call It a Comeback	8	7	3	403	380	W4
Wide Open Beavers	8	7	3	394	368	W1
Bladerunners	8	7	3	360	342	L1
Men in Brown	7	8	4	391	426	L2
Enid Furth Harmony	7	8	4	350	353	W1
Jock Itch United	6	9	5	346	400	L2
Team Desai	5	10	6	353	433	W1
Brian's Bums	3	12	8	285	439	L4
12 Angry Men	2	13	9	248	430	L1

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

RB
132 Edgerrin James (The South Side Black Sox)
122 Marshall Faulk (Ferocious Underwear)
117 Stephen Davis (Upper West Side Stomp Mongers)
108 Eddie George (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
69 Emmitt Smith (Upper West Side Stomp Mongers)
69 Corey Dillon (Bladerunners)
69 James Stewart (Jock Itch United)
69 Ricky Watters (Team Desai)

WR
107 Marvin Harrison (Y2K Bugs)
90 Randy Moss (Wide Open Beavers)
84 Cris Carter (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
81 Isaac Bruce (Romanians)
65 Jimmy Smith (Crazed Beagles on the Run)
63 Marcus Robinson (Brian's bums)

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

PK
128 Mike Vanderjagt (Romanians)
122 Mike Hollis (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
100 Jason Hanson (Enid Furth Harmony)

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

Wang	Advantage	Dylan
TBanks		KCollins
TBiakabutuka		SDavis
SPritchett		ESmith
PJeffers		MMuhammad
RMoore		KevJohnson
PMitchell		SAlexander
OMare		ADelGreco

The Rams have already clinched homefield in the NFC, so Wang (with Warner and Faulk) will now have a serious case of Rumbling Romanians' disease (Vesh's Bronco meltdown towards the end of last year). Is half of Warner and Faulk better than full games from Tony Banks and Tim "Bring out the Gimp" Biakabutuka?!?
In Week 11, JJ Johnson led FU to a 25-17 win over UWSSM. This was Dylan's only sub-27 pt performance over the last 8 weeks.
Wang has been struggling at the WR spots all year long. Dylan's WR's have outscored Wang's 114-39 through 15 weeks.
The strong point of both teams has been at RB. UWSSM and FU rank 1 and 2 in RB scoring - while Dylan's RB's have outpointed Wang's 213-194.
Wang's 124-81 advantage at QB will be tempered by the Ram situation, but Banks *has* been putting up good numbers in the last few weeks.
Look for Dylan's RB's and WR's to give UWSSM the clear upper hand. If Wang cannot get big numbers from the QB and PK spots, FU could get blown out.

**** Dylan gains vengeance for Week 11: UWSSM by 4 ****

JoePa	Advantage	Kevin
SMcNair		PManning
EJames		NMeans
RHolcombe		KOxendine
AToomer		JGalloway
DAlexander		THolt
JRiemersma		TGonzalez
JCarney		DBrien

The Black Sox and DCIAC did not meet during the regular season. Here are the point "splits":
QB: 112-109 Kevin
RB: 162-81 JoePa
WR: 54-39 Kevin
TE: 63-24 Kevin
PK: 107-93 JoePa
While Manning should pass for more TD's, McNair is always a threat to run one (or more) in. If Ricky Williams cannot go for JoePa, Holcombe should be able to run one (or more) in when the Rams rest Faulk - preserving a large RB "edge" for JoePa. Both teams have obviously had scoring problems at WR. It'll basically be another crapshoot at WR this week. Riemersma and Gonzalez are 2 of the top 4 TE's. Gonzalez can't possibly keep up his current torrid scoring pace - can he?!? Brien is pretty shaky at PK for DCIAC. JoePa was forced to replace Kasay with Carney.
The main plot: Who will win the WR battle?
The sub plot: Can Kevin get some RB production?

**** This should be a really close shave: Black Sox by 1 ****

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