Round 1 Overview: Anticlimactic Start To The Playoffs

 

There's no way around it, as awesome and unpredictable the regular season ended for us..the 1st round of the playoffs was a boring ass dud. Beyond predictable with no suspense. Honestly, the right four teams are in the playoffs. Selfishly I wish that wasn't the truth as I reallllly wanted Mark and Eugene to be in my bracket, but it didn't happen so we have our final four. Here are they yawn inducing results of Round 1. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Scott's Tots (8-6)                              108.54

Rocket Man (6-8)                               69.14

Good lord, this was not even exaggerating, over by the first wave of games. Seriously...Kenny's 4 1:00 PM plays outscored Eugene's entire team.  Gross. Kenny's team wasn't even THAT good, at least to his standards, yet because Eugene's team was so terrible it didn't matter and it was easy nearly 40 point blowout. It's not Eugene fault, he lost A.J. Green and Melvin Gordon at the absolute wrong time, but man, this was just a glorified bye for Kenny. Unfortunately Eugene ends the season on a 5 game slide. For Kenny, he plays me next....yay. 

Light's Broken Bots (8-6)                                                144.68

Shock The Monkey (7-7)                                                   82.98

Another laughable matchup that was never in doubt. Matt wins by over 60 in this snoozefest. I guess Mark put up a better fight..if you count scoring in the low 80's a fight. George Kittle absolutely went BONKERS which afforded Matt to have a pretty average Patrick Mahomes game. This is exactly why I wanted Mark and Eugene in my bracket. I basically could've coasted to the finals while also getting Kenny eliminated (he would've lost to Matt had Mark won the final week of the season) Damn you Alshon Jeffrey for not being able to outscore Josh Doctson in Week 13. Matt gets Leland's team, which I would've said was the favorite about 3 weeks ago, but with him losing both Kareem Hunt and Emmanuel Sanders for the season, I think Matt actually has the upper advantage now. For Mark, what a rollercoaster, I went from never buying his team, to buying in, to can't believing I second guessed my original stance. Anyways, at the very least, Mark's loss means we're guaranteed a new champion this year, as Albert still get to keep his claim to fame as the only repeat champion in our league's history.

Round 1 MVP

George Kittle (Light's Broken Bots)

7 Receptions, 210 Receiving Yards, 1 TD, 30.5 Points (All in the 1st Half)