2005 Season - Week 17 (cont)

This is the 10th anniversary of our knock-out game and the road to BUMSBowl X starts here. There are no changes to the rules but to refresh your memory here’s how this knock-out tournament works. It’s a head-to-head contest with the highest scorer in each game going through. You must select one QB, one kicker and any FOUR outfield players to play within a budget of $7.5 million using the same player prices as the regular season. (See attached spreadsheet). You can change all players between each round and in each game no more than 2 players can appear in both teams. Please get your teams back to me by 10am on Saturday so we can sort out any swaps needed. Whoever gets their team to me first gets first pick of players to swap, if necessary, so a speedy reply is of the essence. If scores are tied at the end of the games the tie-breaker is the player that scored latest in any game. As always top scoring owner plays lowest and so on, so here are the Wildcard match ups. In the BBCBowl Daz will play Ron. The other match-ups are AP v Phil, Cheryl v Paul, John v Dave G, Mark v Wayne, Gareth v Aaron, H v Johnny and David S v defending BUMSBowl champion Marcus. NFL Play-offs In the AFC the champs are Indianapolis (South 14-2) and Denver (West 13-3) with bye weeks & Cincinnati (North 11-5) and New England (East 10-6) playing in the wildcard games at home to Pittsburgh (11-5) and Jacksonville (12-4) respectively. In the NFC the champs are Seattle (West 13-3) and Chicago (North 11-5) with bye weeks & Tampa Bay (South 11-5) and NY Giants (East 11-5) playing in the wildcard games at home to Washington (10-6) and Carolina (11-5) respectively. BUMS on Seats. We will meet at BUMS HQ on Saturday night for Washington’s visit to Tampa Bay at 9:30pm. The second game (Jaguars @ Patriots) kick’s off at 1am Sunday morning & we will watch this on Sunday from 2.30pm at BUMS HQ followed by the ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown pre-game show, then at 6pm it’s Carolina @ NY Giants and finally Pittsburgh travel to Cincinnati for a 9:30pm kick-off. The viewing plan for the Divisional games on Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th January will be the same featuring one live game at 9:30pm on Saturday, then we will be getting together at 2:30pm Sunday afternoon at BUMS HQ for a triple header, starting with the recorded 1am second Saturday game then the two live games on Sunday evening. All are welcome.