1997 Week 15 Results

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Intro Text Jerry Rice tore up his knee

Barry 46 Mosakowski 36
Ricker 44 Jones/Klingman 32
Gates 52 Deitrich 48
Wallace 33 Peil 28

Week Results

Week 16 Preview

(sigh)....It's hard to work up any enthusiasm for "weak 16". It is like the Colts vs Ravens and the Bears vs Rams for the right to go to the Super Bowl. The four teams carrying our banner would have been long been put to bed in other leagues. The idea behind the "socialist BRFL" as Ricker calls it was not to have four teams with losing regular season records playing in the money round, but to give one or two dark horses a chance. The model for this playoff format is the NCAA basketball tournament. It is exciting to see a unexpected team jell and turn it on. Like Arizona last year. In our case, we've got four Arizonas.

How did this happen? Parity - can harp on that enough. Going into week 15, Number 1 seeded Mosakowski was LAST in scoring. It was only a matter of time. Tough match-ups in week 15 killed JK. Talbot scored 42 in week 14 and lost. Number 4 Bud lost with 48 in week 15.

Our four finalists? Barry got hot with Kansas City. Because of KC's surge, Denver isn't letting up like last year and that benefits Ricker. Gates, far too dependant on Detroit, has seen them score 85 points in weeks 14 and 15. That leaves Wallace - who gets into week 16 the way you usually get ahead in this league: Luck...

Wallace vs Barry

Can a 14 seed make the finals? Barry has been averaging 55 points in two weeks. Is he due for a let down? Wallace on the other hand, has been averaging only a very average 35 a game... Barry by 20? Probably not this is Wallace. He's famous for cooling off a hot team. This season, he stopped Stroupe's five game winning streak. Last year Best was averaging 55 a game in the playoffs and Wallace iced him in the Super Bowl. Every week Wallace has someone step up and have a big week. This week it is Natrone Means.

Gates vs Ricker

Detroit at Minnesota. This could be a wild one. 5 of Gates players are in that game. Ricker could cool off: Denver has a tough Monday match-up in San Francisco. Gates should romp. A Gates/Wallace Super Bowl? Unreal. Two teams that at least did something transaction wise this year. Wallace always a playoff overchiever vs Gates a playoff underachiver.

Rotissiere Report

Best wins week 15 with 60 points. For those that did not submit a lineup, I used your usual or default line-ups.


                     Tot  WK15 Wk16  Wk17
BEST              60   60     0    0
CZUPRYNA          52   52     0    0
DEITRICH          48   48     0    0
OUTLAW            45   45     0    0
JACKSON           44   44     0    0
TALBOT            40   40     0    0
STROUPE           37   37     0    0
MOSAKOWSKI        36   36     0    0
JONES/KLINGMAN    32   32     0    0
PEIL              28   28     0    0
WALLACE            0   *33    0    0
GATES              0   *52    0    0
RICKER             0   *44    0    0
BARRY              0   *46    0    0