FFOC Regular Season Hits Final Week … Aloha!
November 3rd, 2009 | by admin |A great Monday Night Football game last night concluded another awesome weekend of football, and closed the books on the next to last week of the Open Championship’s regular season.
With 8 weeks of action behind us, the overall lead in the race to becoming fantasy football’s next millionaire has taken all of us off the mainland to the beautiful island of Hawaii, where in a low scoring week Cheolpin Lee of Aiea, Hawaii used strong weeks from Maurice Jones-Drew, Reggie Wayne, Miles Austin and Thomas Jones to earn The 4 Kings a weekly score of 128.02, and vault to the top of the overall leader board with total score of 140.39.
In what has become a broken record, Glen Malick of Florissant, Missouri enjoys his 4th week in a row at the top of the Missouri Open championship. Glen’s First and Goal did not have its best week of the year, but managed to get enough game out of Adrian Peterson, Reggie Wayne, Roddy White and Matt Hasselbeck for a weekly score of 108.18, and a 6 point cushion over the rest of the Missouri Open field.
There are all sorts of things to watch going into the final week of the regular season. First and foremost, the race for the regular season high scorer is extremely close, and week 9 results are going to play a huge role in who walks away with the $2,500 cash prize. A mere 2.14 points currently separate the top 6 spots, and 36 teams are within 10 points in the race for regular season scoring champ. Week 9 is simply huge for these teams.
For the rest of the field, this is the final chance to pad week 1-9 average totals before everybody starts fresh with a new scoring period in week 10. It’s also the final opportunity teams will have to make changes to their 20-man rosters. It’s the last chance that teams will have to qualify for their week 10 league championship games, and for Tier 2 teams a final opportunity to lock up an automatic bid into the Las Vegas Bracket. Finally, the race for top scoring league is too close to call, and it will be going right down to the MNF game.
So much at stake!
Good luck trying to make the correct roster decisions – every point is crucial when the prize is The Ivory Jacket and the life changing experience of becoming fantasy football’s next millionaire.
Stan Misthios is the founder of the Fantasy Football Open Championship. He is an avid player himself, but does not compete in The Open due to the obvious conflict of interest – which he sees as a huge PLUS for The Open’s thousands of other competitors because like most fantasy footballers, Stan assumes that he would win the Ivory Jacket every year. A loyal fan of the Silver and Black, Stan’s fantasy team in his home league is called the Just Win Babies, and the team’s logo is a picture of Al Davis shaking hands with the dark lord himself, Darth Vader.
