| Fantasy Golf Standings Update |
1:50 AM ET on 5/21/12 by Jay Soester |
Sixty-six had Jason Dufner active for at least a round to earn the tournament win point for the Byron Nelson Championship, the sixth highest total on the season. Chris Haynes had the high score for week 20 of Fantasy Golf at 236 points, one more than Richard Vance. Paul Silvestri earned the final week win at 228 points, a stroke better than Patrick Gentry & Joe Higginbotham. Both the high score and the week win minimum are the second best so far this season. Twenty-seven members reached 200 points to help boost the week's average to 153.847 points, the fifth best mark on the year.
The overall standings pages are now updated.
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| Fantasy Formula 1 - Monaco GP |
6:25 PM ET on 5/20/12 by Nathan Susanto |
The jewel in Formula 1's crown, the Monaco GP, takes place
on Sunday, May 27th. The original racing "King of Monaco"
was Graham Hill thanks to his victories around the
principality's streets in 1963-65, and 1968-69. The
two-time world champion is also the only driver to
complete motor racing's Triple Crown after adding the 1966
Indianapolis 500 and the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1972 to his
Monaco successes. Hill's five Monaco victories were
unrivaled until Ayrton Senna won six in seven years
between 1987 and 1993. Michael Schumacher matched Hill's
quintet of triumphs, winning in 1994-95, 1997, 1999 and
2001, but no driver has won more than two since.
Remember to make your game picks in the 2012 Fantasy Formula 1 thread
before the deadline of Saturday, May 26th at 7:55 AM ET,
five minutes before qualifying begins. Here we run down
some Monaco GP facts and season stats.
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| Premier League Pickem Results |
2:11 AM ET on 5/17/12 by Jay Soester |
David Cords won the inaugural edition of Premier League Pickem by two points over Anders Nilsson thanks to Sergio Agüero's dramatic, championship-deciding, final goal of the season.
Heading into stoppage time for all ten games of the final Sunday of the season, Cords led 866-865 as Man City trailed QPR 2-1 with his pick of 3-1 City and Nilsson's pick of 2-0 City both scoring zero points at the time. When Edin Džeko tied the game at 2-2 in the 91st minute, Nilsson tied Cords at 866 points each while Nilsson had the tiebreaker of most correct picks. It would prove to be a two minute cocktease as Agüero's title decider in the 93rd minute created a 3-2 final scoreline, giving them both three points for the correct result, but moving the correct score point from Nilsson to Cords in the process for an 870-868 final point total. After 379 games, the winner was determined by two goals in the final five minutes of the season. Oddly enough, both had 27 points for the week. Jay Soester (862), Nathan Susanto (859) and Mark Yothers (856) rounded out the top five.
I'd like to thank everyone who participated, particularly those who neared the 380 pick mark. A special thanks goes to Nathan Susanto for helping maintain the game and providing the weekly Premier League Preview articles. He's earned 40 bonus points for his efforts (on top of his actual game points) and is guaranteed a second team in all of our draft games. Second teams are giving out in draft games based on the relevant bonus points standings at the time leagues are being filled and are only given when necessary to fill one of our individual Yahoo! leagues, unless a member has earned a guaranteed spot for his reliability and/or assistance. If anyone is interested in writing a weekly article for any other sport, feel free to let me know.
David Cords also earned the most bonus points from the game with 48.18. Each pick made was worth 0.03 bonus points with any member who picked all 380 games also earning an extra 0.1 points for a total of 11.50 before performance was taken into account. Bonus Points for a member's overall rank were awarded based on the league scoring formula with a maximum of 25 points. The formula was also used to award bonus points based on the correct pick standings and the non-0 pick standings with a maximum value of six and three respectively. Points were also awarded for weekly performance as each week winner earned 0.5 points and anyone who topped 3 points per game in a week earned between 0.1 and 0.5 points depending on how far above 3 points per game they reached. The top five in each month also received between 0.1-0.5. For the full explanation of bonus points awarded, check the game's rules page.
With the season now complete, take a minute to look at the standings and statistics from this season...
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| Fantasy Premier League Results |
11:58 PM ET on 5/15/12 by Jay Soester |
Doug Eden had the high score for the final week of Fantasy Premier League at 130.5 points, the tenth best weekly high score of the season. Chad Gumm earned the second week win at 116 points for the 14th best week win minimum of the 38 week season. The average for the final week was 71.118 points, the sixth best average for the year.
Jay Soester hung on to win the nine month marathon with 3366 points after taking the overall lead following week 7. Greg Krause clawed back to within twenty points over the second half of the season after being 145 points behind Soester following the first week of the second half. John Wright finished third with a stellar final week of the season seeing him close to within 14 points of second place from 63.5 points back. Unfortunately for last season's winner (and the prior season's runner-up), time ran out to carry the momentum. Krause finished sixth in the inaugural and second editions before cracking the top five last season. Soester finally got the monkey off his back after finishing third in the first and second editions and second last season. An honorable mention also goes to Brad Wilson for finishing this season in eighth place after cracking the top ten in each of the prior three editions (5th, 7th & 4th). Soester's winning total is the lowest since the original edition's 3146 points by Ryan Drzik.
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| Fantasy Golf Standings Update |
1:48 AM ET on 5/14/12 by Jay Soester |
Only Gianfranco Lintas and Matthew Hardman managed to use Matt Kuchar for at least a round to earn the tournament win point for The Players Championship. Only one tournament has seen a lower number of winner picks. Darril Gagnon had the high score for week 19 of Fantasy Golf at 168 points, the 17th best high score on the season thus far. Mark Yothers, John Stillman & Mike Green tied for second with Yothers and Stillman earning the week wins on the first tiebreaker as they had seven and five of their golfers make the cut respectively while Green had just four. This week was the third instance of the tiebreaker being needed this season. The average for the week was just 99.415 points, the third worst on the season so far.
The overall standings pages are now updated.
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| Fantasy NASCAR Standings Update |
2:58 PM ET on 5/13/12 by Jay Soester |
Twenty had Jimmie Johnson active for the Southern 500 to earn the race win point after 74 had Greg Biffle on Friday for the pole point. Thomas Linton and Chad Luik tied for the high score for week 11 at 349 points, the fifth best high score on the year. Robert Flatt was third at 346 points and Russ Goatcher was fourth at 340 points to round out the week winners. Goatcher's total is the third best week win minimum to date. The average for the week was 260.639 points, the sixth best average this season.
The overall standings pages are now updated.
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| Keeper Leagues Bids Available |
11:06 AM ET on 5/12/12 by Jay Soester |
With all promoted and relegated teams now sorted out. The Keeper Leagues Bid System is now fully functional for the 2012-2013 Fantasy Football season.
If you've submitted a bid previously, please do so again. Any submitted before teams were ironed out were useless.
Make sure to check the bid list page to see what teams are likely to become available. Currently, only three teams (the three marked as Team #) are definitely available, making for some stiff competition amongst bids. It would take at least 17 bidders for me to create a fifth division.
If you have any problems or questions, reply to the drafts thread.
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| Premier League Week 35 Preview |
11:11 AM ET on 5/11/12 by Nathan Susanto |
The curtain falls on the 2011-2012 English
Premier League season on Sunday with the two Manchester
clubs still level on points. Both City and United secured
2-0 victories last weekend meaning the teams are only
separated by virtue of the Blues holding a superior goal
difference. If the top-two sides finish the campaign level
on points, it will be the first instance in the Premier
League's twenty year history and the first time in
England's top-flight since Arsenal defeated Liverpool 2-0
in the final game of the 1988-1989 season to snatch the
title after the goal scored tiebreaker had to be used
(Arsenal had scored 73 goals to Liverpool's 65).
Remember to make your Premier League Pickem predictions before the deadline of
each game. With every team having to play just one more
game this season, all ten fixtures in week 35 will take
place on Sunday with a 10 AM ET kickoff.
Here we preview the ten games in the upcoming week of the
English Premier League.
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| Fantasy Premier League Standings Update |
5:59 PM ET on 5/9/12 by Jay Soester |
David Synychak had the high score at 108.5 points for week 37 of Fantasy Premier League, the penultimate week of the season. Dave Berrong was close behind for the second week win with 105 points. Synychak's total was the 24th best week high score for the season while Berrong's was the 21st best week win minimum. With Raj Ashok the only other member over 100 points at 101, the average for the week was just 57.706 points, the 22nd best average on the season. Greg Krause trails Jay Soester by 24 points overall heading into the final week after picking up 9.5 in week 37.
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| Fantasy Formula 1 - Spanish GP Preview |
7:58 AM ET on 5/7/12 by Nathan Susanto |
With the four flyaway races in the books, the Formula 1
season's European leg begins this weekend with the Spanish
GP. The Circuit de Catalunya in Montmeló was a
happy hunting ground for Williams in the 1990s with the
team winning five out of the first seven grands prix to be
held at the venue. As we moved into the 21st century,
Ferrari began to dominate, winning six out of the eight
races between 2001 and 2008. Moving into this decade,
however, we might be seeing a new team to beat in Spain.
In the last two years, Red Bull Racing has been victorious
at the Spanish GP and, on top of that, they also won the
2010 and 2011 editions of the European GP, both held in
Valencia, Spain.
Remember to make your game picks in the 2012 Fantasy Formula 1 thread
before the deadline of Saturday, May 12th at 7:55 AM ET,
five minutes before qualifying begins. Here we run down
some Spanish GP facts and season stats.
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| Fantasy Golf Standings Update |
1:31 AM ET on 5/7/12 by Jay Soester |
Thirty-eight had Rickie Fowler active for at least a round of the Wells Fargo Championship to earn the tournament win point. Brad Wilson and Anders Nilsson tied for the high score of week 18 of Fantasy Golf at 222 points, the fourth best weekly high score this season. Charles Yelverton earned the final week win just two points back with two others two points behind him. His 220 points were the third best week win minimum of the season. As you'd expect of a week with a strong high end, the average of 153.891 points is the fourth best so far this season. Sixteen reached 200 points.
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| Fantasy NASCAR Standings Update |
10:39 PM ET on 5/6/12 by Jay Soester |
Eleven had Brad Keselowski for the Aaron's 499 race win point. Doug Eden had the high score for week 10 of Fantasy NASCAR at 361 points. Matthew Hardman was second at 355 points with Skip Wilson and Susan Gantz tied for third at 351 points to earn the final week wins. Both the high score and the week win minimum were the second best totals so far this season. Despite the strong highs, the average for the week was just 256.255 points, the seventh best average so far. Sixteen members topped 300 points while 65 had less than 250.
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| Keeper Leagues Fantasy Football Drafts & Bids |
9:21 PM ET on 5/5/12 by Jay Soester |
The 2012-2013 Keeper Leagues Fantasy Football drafts are now available. You can begin to submit your players to be kept for next season or submit a bid to get yourself a team. The bid system won't be completely sorted out until all promoted and relegated members pick their new teams, you can't currently bid for a team that's marked as "promotionchoice#" or "relegationchoice#" for that reason.
Last season's results are also available.
The deadline to select your new team if you were promoted or relegated last season is this Wednesday, May 9th at 11:59 PM ET. Visit the standings from last season to know where you are in the picking order; if you aren't first, submit your preferences in order.
The deadline to submit your players for next season is July 21st at 11:59 PM ET.
I anticipate the drafts starting in mid-August.
I'm working on the standings for Fantasy Hockey & Fantasy Basketball with the Basketball Rosters Assignment also available.
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| Football Results Available |
6:05 PM ET on 5/5/12 by Jay Soester |
The Fantasy Football standings are now available with the final results.
The championship standings for each ASASFL league will be set up once the results for Fantasy Hockey & Fantasy Basketball are available. Robert Flatt (CL), Stephen Schulte (SL) and Nathan Susanto (TL) lead the respective leagues after the first game of the season.
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| Premier League Week 34 Preview |
4:34 PM ET on 5/4/12 by Nathan Susanto |
While mathematically the Premier League title can't be
decided this weekend - although a win for City and defeat for United
would all but seal things for the Blues - week 34 could
spell the end of a relegation battle for at least one club
at the bottom of the table. Blackburn are vulnerable,
currently sitting in 19th, three points behind 17th
position, and will go down if they don't at least match
the results of Bolton and QPR. Bolton won't want to lose
either because of their far inferior goal difference
compared to those immediately above. If QPR win and Bolton
lose, Wanderers will be hoping for a miraculous set of
results on the final day of the season.
Remember to make your Premier League Pickem predictions before the deadline of
each game. Week 34's schedule has a slightly different
look due to the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool
on Saturday. There is just one Saturday kickoff in the
Premier League this week, between Arsenal and Norwich,
starting at 7:45 AM ET. Sunday's opening game has
Manchester City visiting St. James' Park to take on
Newcastle at 8:30 AM ET. Five 9 AM ET matches are up next
at Aston Villa, Bolton, Fulham, QPR and Wolves. Sunday's
action is rounded off by Swansea's trip to Manchester
United at 11 AM ET. Blackburn's clash with Wigan,
beginning at 3 PM ET, is the only Monday fixture this
week. Week 34's final matchup pits together the two FA Cup
finalists, Chelsea and Liverpool, on Tuesday, with a start
time of 3 PM ET.
Here we preview the ten games in the upcoming week of the
English Premier League.
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