Saturday, March 21, 2009

2008 MVP Ballot Results

2008 MVP Results Lakenheath
1) Most Valuable Fantasy Player DeAngello Williams RB CAR
2) Rookie of the Year Matt Forte RB CHI
3) Sleeper of the Year Kurt Warner QB AZ
4) Biggest Bust of the Year Too many to list –usually on that owners team _______________________________________
5) Fantasy Owner of the Year ( In our league) Woody
6) Changes to suggest for next year 1/2 PPR for RBs versus 1 point for WR and TE
7) Do you want to keep the $120 Yahoo league where we all get Stat Tracker or would you rather skip the free stat tracker and use the money for prizes o entry fee back to $20? Keep Tracker-overwhelming

MVP TEAM (nearly unanimous)
QB D Brees QB NO
RB DeAngelo Williams
RB CARRB Matt Forte
RB CHI ( M Turner)
RB ATL Honorable mention)
WR Larry Fitz AZ
WR Andre Johnson HOU
TE Tony Gonzalez KC
K S Gostkowski NE
DEF Baltimore

Sunday, March 1, 2009

2003 Draft pictures

Dan Myers instructs Bobby Floyd in BBQ techniques as Steve Shandrow looks on.


Spike studies the draft board in the beautiful English sunshine. He later went on to pick a kicker who was not available thus starting a terrible trend that continues to this day.


Bobby Floyd (Thumpers) explains his "draft a kicker early and often" stratgey to Spike.


The diehards at Lakenheath Fantasy Football. Pictured from L to R (Smy, Bobby, Spike, Cowboy). Note Slam taking the picture.




Cowboy (aka Gary Snyder) takes a few moments during the break after the 8th round to get his draft cheat sheets back in order after the frenzy that was draft 2003.



League Records

For those of you wondering. Here is a Records review:

Worst start and worst record ever 0-13 Nitro 2007', Army of Five 2008

Best Start Watergates 9-0 in 2000'

Most points scored in a season: 1390.84 by Slams Slammers in 2008 (794 pts Russ Rumpkickers 2002 under old system pre PPR, 1 pt per 10 yds etc)

Best regular season record: 12-2 Thumpers 2000', and Russ Rumpkickers 2002; Slams Slammers 11-2 in 2007 and Stormtroopers in 2004 since they did not play a 14 game schedule)

Worst regular season record: 0-13 Nitro 2007', Army of Five 2008

Most points scored in a single game: 144.5 by Spikings in the round 2 of the playoffs (week 15) to advance to the Super Bowl in 2008 (They lost to Woodys Warlocks in SB
(old system: 92 points In Week 7 of 2002" Russ Rumpkickers*)

Lowest Points scored in a game: 5 points Sammys Slayers Week 4 2007'

Best come back: Pigskins win last 5 games to finish season 6-8 (after 1-8 start) Cinderella Season has them going to Playoffs as West Div Winner in 2000'

Most weeks won as highest scoring team in season: 6 by Thumpers in 2006 and then 5 by Slams Slammers in 2008

2008 Champion Woodys Warlocks with trophies



Woody shows off his individual trophy (right side of photo) for winning the Lakenheath Fantasy Football League 2008 Super Bowl and the traveling trophy (larger troohy on left side of photo) which he retains for the next year as the current champion.

Who will get to own the traveling trophy next?
Can Woody Warlocks repeat? Only 1 team has ever repeated in the history of the league (Thumpers in 2005+2006)