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Old 12-13-21, 11:29 PM   #20
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WILD WEEKEND SETS THE PLAYOFFS TEAMS
Final Seeding Still To be decided

Week 14 in Subsim Fantasy Football and we've had such a wild weekend, we still need one more extra regular season week to sort out where the playoffs are going to be seen. We know who will be there, we know who could be there, but we don't know where they will be.

Confused. Stick around, and we'll explain all right after this message.


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Lets go to our match of the day where the Black Cats were hosting the Who Dat Nation. Both of these teams have won the Torpedo Bowl, but this year, both of these teams are fighting just to make it into the playoffs. The Cats were marginally favored to win at the start of the week, but the apathetic effort by Lamar Jackson (QB) scoring just 0.68 points, left the pussies in trouble. The Who Dat Nation needed to win and needed to win by a margin if they were to have any chance of making the playoffs. They Nation came out Thursday night behind Dalvin Cook (RB) and just steamrolled the Cats into the ground at their home. Even with Andrew Robinson (WR) not doing very much, the Nation were able to push forward and keep their hopes of making the playoffs alive - mathematically. In the first of the blow outs this weekend, The Who Dat Nation defeats the Black Cats 164 - 130.

Across the Atlantic, the Helmand Nighthawks were in their last regular season home game as they hosted the Drunk Monkeys. This one wasn't even close. Having unexpectedly been beaten by the ghosting Monkeys earlier in the year, the Nighthawks needed to put aside the horrors of those games and take the Monkeys to the whipping shed. And whip them they did. After stacking up 200 points last week the Nighthawks back it up again lead by Greg Kittle (TE) to give the Drunk Monkeys the largest blow out of the year. The Helmand Nighthawks easily account for the Drunk Monkeys in 202 - 65 ass whipping.

Just when you think you have the regular season wrapped up, Covid strikes taking out two of your WR's, and you have start dropping players, including a kicker, just to put a team on the field. Then you get on a plane and fly from Los Angeles to Pearland Texas to the Guns of Hochuli home ground knowing that this team has been a thorn in your side for the past few years when it has come play off. That was the situation facing the Australian Taipans this week and it didn't get any better when the game started and Josh Allen (QB) put up over 50 points on his own to guide the Guns of Hochuli to an improbable victory 174 - 128. Their victory though gives some clarity to the play offs seeding - so lets take a look at that.

The Helmand Nighthawks sit at the top of the ladder at 10 - 4. They have clinched their division and need one more win to clinch the regular season.

The Taipans are also at 10-4 but have two losses to the Nighthawks so they drop back to the #2 seed on count back. The Taipans have clinched the division but need a win and the Nighthawks to loose in order to win the regular season.

The improbable win by the Guns of Hoculi cement them as a play off team, with their final seeding still to be decided. They will have to play through next week and relay on another game before they know their play off position.

The Black Cats at 6-8 are in a precarious position. They not only have to win next week but need favorable results elsewhere before they know if they have made the playoffs.

The Who Dat Nation suffer the most from the win by the Guns of Hochuli. The Nations best chance to make the playoffs was to force the count back against the Gunners, but they have advanced one game beyond reach. The Nation needs to win and have favorable results if they are to make the playoffs.

In previous years it has been a 14 week regular season, but with all the vacation request that were allowed, the season had to be expanded out to 15 - and we are going to need every second of next weeks game to sort out who's going to the playoffs. With the Who Dat Nation needing the win to advance, we'll go back to Oregon for our final regular season game as the Drunk Monkeys come to town. This is not a pushover game, with both coaches currently on the FBI's Missing and Wanted list. The Monkeys have upset the top three teams this year and while their season is over, the Monkeys will pay the pivotal role in the final regular season game. And we'll be there to capture every second of every game.

Each week, the Associated Subsim Writers (ASW) will nominated their Most Valuable Torpedo (MVT) of the week, the single player who proved decisive in their teams performance.

We've already outlines some of the stunning individual performances that could have made for this weeks MVT. With the improbable win of the Guns of Hochuli, this players performance to keep their team still alive for the playoffs proved to be outstanding in right moment. For the effort of 205 rushing yards for 2 touchdowns, and 1 reception for 17 yards, for a total of 41.20 points, the Week Fourteen MVT goes to Dalvin Cook (WR) of the Who Dat Nation Rises.


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