Starting 5 Challenge: The Finale

What a great season, I can't begin to tell you how much I have appreciated all your support and, yes, even the hate.  It's been fun and I enjoyed the challenges and seeing the amount of participation.  This weekend I offered the challenge to three contestants and only one player beat me.  2-1 in the final week is not bad and the one winner will get two entries into the end of the year raffle.  The scores were as follows:

Fantasy Football Post: 26 points
Carlos Y: 30 points
Eric M: 20 points
Brianna F: 14 points

Congrats to Carlos Y who not only beat me this past weekend but also won the raffle and the autographed Brian Dawkins football.  I will be sending that to him ASAP and I hope everyone enjoyed the contests and blog this year.  Thank you for all your support and tune in tomorrow for the All Fantasy Team for this season.

Starting 5 Challenge

The end of the fantasy year is upon us and some leagues have the unenviable task of playing a championship in Week 17. Good luck to those having to sort through the lineup mess that is week 17. Some seasons have already ended, congrats to those champions, including two of Fantasy Football Posts contributing writers, Carlos Y and myself. But for those playing this week I seriously ask you to consider ending the season in week 16. With players being rested this week, it becomes hard to evaluate the strength of teams as most of those players that got teams to the finals may not be playing. This difficulty presented itself as I made my Starting 5 earlier this week, without know if these players would actually play on this day.

But I want to once again thank you as even though we have been gone for a while, I still received a solid response from you, the reader, and the computer program was able to select our three contestants. Remember if you beat me, you will receive two entries into the raffle for the Brian Dawkins autographed football and the winner will be announced tomorrow. So let's take a look at the starting lineups of all 4 teams.

Fantasy Football Post:


QB: Aaron Rodgers v. Chicago
RB: Michael Turner v. Carolina
WR: Reggie Wayne v. Tennessee
TE: Vernon Davis v. Arizona
K: Nate Kaeding v. Denver

Carlos Y:

QB: Peyton Manning v. Tennessee
RB: Arian Foster v.Jacksonville
WR: Roddy White v. Carolina
TE: Jason Witten v. Philadelphia
K: Sebastian Janikowski v. Kansas City

Eric M:

QB: Tom Brady v. Miami
RB: Jahvid Best v. Minnesota
WR: Roddy White v. Carolina
TE: Tony Gonzalez v. Carolina
K: Josh Scobee v. Houston

Brianna F:

QB: Peyton Manning v. Tennessee
RB: Adrian Peterson v. Detroit
WR: Calvin Johson v. Minnesota
TE: Jason Witten v. Philadelphia
K: Mason Crosby v. Chicago

Look for the results, as well as our winner tomorrow here on the site. We will also present our end of the year Fantasy Football All Pro team. Have a great first Sunday of 2011.

The Return of the Challenge

So it's been a tough last couple of weeks here for us at Fantasy Football Post but we're going to end the year with a bang and do one last Starting 5 Challenge against 3 opponents.  The winners will all get two opportunities to enter the raffle which will be held on the upcoming Monday evening.  The winner will be announced here on Tuesday of next week.  So you know how it works, send us an email at postfantasyfootball@gmail.com and we'll post the three contestants on Saturday evening. Here is our Starting 5:

QB: Aaron Rodgers v. Chicago
RB: Michael Turner v. Carolina
WR: Reggie Wayne v. Tennessee
TE: Vernon Davis v. Arizona
K: Nate Kaeding v. Denver

Thank you for all your support this year and a Happy New Years to all.  Congratulations to Eric M. for winning our Pick'em Challenge, he will receive a Keith Bulluck autographed picture.  Let's finish week 17 strong!

NFL Pick'Em

Last week we had a Paul F. trying to beat Eric M.'s score in our NFL Pick'Em Challenge. Unfortunately for Paul getting 6 correct wasn't going to cut it. Paul finished with a score of 0.428 on the way to a low finish.

This week I will take my second shot at the NFL Pick'Em Challenge and put my picks out there in hopes of defeating Eric M. These are my picks and may everyone have a great day on this wonderful Thanksgiving Day.

Michael M.'s picks:

New England over Detroit
New Orleans over Dallas
New York Jets over Cincinnati
Green Bay over Atlanta
Houston over Tennessee
Minnesota over Washington
Jacksonville over New York Giants
Pittsburgh over Buffalo
Cleveland over Carolina
Kansas City over Seattle
Oakland over Miami
Philadelphia over Chicago
Baltimore over Tampa Bay
Denver over St. Louis
San Diego over Indianapolis
San Francisco over Arizona