2011 Season - Week 17 (Cont)

And so we begin our knock-out game and the road to BUMSBowl XVI starts this weekend. There are no rule changes so to refresh your memory here’s how our 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 key. 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 here are the Wildcard match ups. Chief will play David S, Craig v George, Johnnie v John, Daz v Aaron, AP v Cheryl, Ron v H, Marcus v Wayne and Mark v Dave G. Dave G and Mark are tied on 430 points so their draft order will be decided on the success of their post-season. Whoever scores the most points overall will get the earlier pick, making this their Draft Decider. NFL Play-offs In the AFC the champs are the Patriots (East 13-3) and the Ravens (North 12-4) with bye weeks & the Texans (South 10-6) and Broncos (West 8-8) playing in the wildcard games at home to the Bengals (9-7) and Steelers (12-4) respectively. In the NFC the champs are Green Bay (North 15-1) & San Francisco (West 13-3) with bye weeks & New Orleans (South 13-3) and NY Giants (East 8-8) playing at home to Detroit (10-6) and Atlanta (10-6) respectively. BUMS on Seats. We will meet at HQ from 9:30pm on Saturday night for Cincinnati’s visit to Houston. The second game (Detroit @ New Orleans) 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 7pm Atlanta @ NY Giants. We will be at Johnnies on Monday from 6:30pm for the second Sunday game Pittsburgh @ Denver. The viewing plan for the Divisional games (at San Francico & at New England) on Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th January (at Baltimore & at Green Bay) should be the same. As always all are welcome just let us know. DON’T FORGET TO SEND YOUR WILDCARD TEAM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!