2010 Season - Week 17 (Cont)

Welcome to our knock-out game and the road to BUMSBowl XV starts this weekend. There are no changes to the rules so 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 1 QB, 1 kicker and any 4 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. 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 the scores are tied at the end of the games the tie-breaker is the Momentum Rule where the player that scored latest in any game is ruled to have “Mo” and wins. As always top scoring owner plays lowest and so on, so (after two tie-breaking dice rolls) here are the Wildcard match ups. Johnnie will play John, Chief v Daz, Mark v Cheryl, Wayne v Dave G, Aaron v George, AP v Ron, H v David S and Craig v Marcus. With George and Ron tied on 400 points and Craig, David S and Marcus tied on 420 their draft order will be decided on how successful your post-season is. Whoever scores the most points overall in each tie will get the earlier pick. NFL Play-offs In the AFC the champs are the Patriots (East 14-2) and the Steelers (North 12-4) with bye weeks & the Colts (South 10-6) and Chiefs (West 10-6) playing in the wildcard games at home to NY Jets (11-5) and Ravens (12-4) respectively. In the NFC the champs are Atlanta (South 13-3) & Chicago (North 11-5) with bye weeks & Philadelphia (East 10-6) and Seattle (West 7-9, first ever losing record in the post season) playing at home to Green Bay (10-6) and New Orleans (11-5) respectively. BUMS on Seats. We will meet at Johnnie’s from 9:30pm on Saturday night for New Orleans’ visit to Seattle. The second game (NY Jets @ Indianapolis) kick’s off at 1am Sunday morning & we will watch this on Sunday from 3pm at BUMS HQ followed by ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown and around 6:30pm Baltimore @ Kansas City. We will be back at Johnnies on Monday from 6:30pm for the second Sunday game Green Bay @ Philadelphia. The viewing plan for the Divisional games on Saturday 15th & Sunday 16th January should be the same. As always all are welcome just let us know. DON’T FORGET TO SEND YOUR WILDCARD TEAM AS SOON AS POSSIBLBE!!