2016 Season - Week 24

Well the votes are in and thanks to the 13 members who voted. We nearly created a Top 20, in total 17 different QBs received a vote and while it was close for fourth to eighth the top three were solidly in their positions. The winner was almost unanimous with only one of the 13 members not putting him in their top 5 while everyone else had him at number one or number two. The list is attached in standard charts rundown order starting with those equal 14th, who all got one vote, Dan Fouts, Joe Namath, Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman, all the way up to our runaway number one. Trading Day – Is It Pointless? “No” says Craig, “Yes” says Chief. The analysis is in (and attached) and without Trading Day Craig would have come second rather than winning his first Premiership title. Leamington’s replacements outscored their original draftees by 28 points however instead of finishing third Chief would have won the title but he had two torrid trading days. At TD1 he cut an injured Donte Moncrief who went on to score 36 points once he returned in week 11. Meantime his replacement Kyle Rudolph scored only one touchdown from TD 1 to TD 2 and so Chief cut him, replacing him with Randall Cobb, who from week 10 to the end of the season managed just one score while Rudolph found pay-dirt another 3 times. All in all, Chief ended up 42 points worse off.  Maybe he should call the spreadsheet "2016 Trading Failure".Marcus would have been third (not second) without the trades as he made good use of his season high seven trades to improve the Phoenix Fire Warriors score by 79 points. Meantime Mark was the most successful trader as his four TD1 moves improved his squad by 101 points, mainly helped by his running backs as Christine Michael (30pts) replaced injured Adrian Peterson and Mark Ingram (50) replaced also injured CJ Spiller. At the bottom Cheryl and Dave G would still have been relegated but Andy H and not Wayne would have also gone down. While Wayne’s one trade (Thomas Rawls for Ameer Abdullah) saw him improve by 18 points after TD2. Perivale’s busy trading days saw their six trades net an improvement of 65 points, enough to lift Andy H to 11 points above the drop-zone. Ron’s one change, the Tight End swap from Clive Walford to “former basketball player” Antonio Gates on TD1 saw an improvement of 18 points, enough for the defending champ to remain in the big league after his tie-breaker win over Wayne. In the Conference the same three owners were promoted but it would have been AP and not Daz who would have been the division winner if they’d had no trades. On TD1 AP replaced QB Eli Manning with Dak Prescott (for a difference of +12) and kicker Greg “the Leg” Zuerlein for rookie Roberto Aguayo (-32) for an overall drop of 20 points while Daz’s two swaps at the same time netted him +56. Davante Adams outscored Corey Coleman by 50 and Jim Caldwell had one more win than Chuck Pagano.