The 2010 Fantasy UnSports Awards

Posted by Commissioner in Fantasy UnSports Announcements on Feb 8th, 2010 | 2 comments

Well, the season is now officially over.  It was a good ride, for sure.  We had DUIs aplenty, lots of arrests, gobs of fines and injuries, and a host of unexpected hijinks–most from Senior Ochocinco.  I’ve compiled all the scores, and it’s time to reveal our grand prize winner, as well as some other unofficial awards I’ve decided to hand out.  If you’re willing to help us make this game better for next season, please fill out our brief survey.  Or you can simply subscribe to our site’s news feed to stay in the loop.

Congrats to the Saints.  Even though I was rooting for the other team, it’s hard to be upset at a Saints victory.  They are quite the deserving champions.

And now, without further ado, your 2010 Fantasy UnSports Champion is:

MartianManhunter!

Martian Manhunter, with the too-perfect-sounding final score of 3000 points!!  Congratulations MartianManhunter, you are the winner.  You will receive an official replica jersey of the team and player of your choice from the NFL shop online!  Please email me within the next seven days to discuss the arrangements for your prize:  fantasyunsports@gmail.com.

You can download the final full leaderboard on the right sidebar or by clicking here.  Now for some other awards and stats.

Best Team Names:

There were a lot of team names in Fantasy UnSports that made me laugh a lot.  Here are the best of the best:

• McNair’s Tragic Passing Efficiency
• I Beg To Dilfer
• Leonard Little’s Defensive Driving Course
• I Slept With Steve Phillips
• Titans of Infidelity

League MVP – Highest Scoring NFL Player In Fantasy UnSports:

Chad Ochocinco.  Was there any doubt?  All year long, Ocho kept us entertained with his singular wit and charm, from starting his own news network to creating his own iPhone app, from sending opposing players gift packs to pretend-bribing officials… Chad was “on” all season.  He earned a total of 655 for his owners, which is a huge amount.  I have a sneaking suspicion that he will be owned by about 95% of teams in next year’s game.  Chad, should you ever read this… thank you for being you… you are everything that makes Fantasy UnSports so much fun.

Highest Scoring Team Roster in Fantasy UnSports:

The Tennessee Titans with 1215 points.  Wow.  The Bengals were a close second with 1080 points–mostly due to Ochocinco–but the Titans pulled out the upset.  The AFC teams crushed the NFC teams in this particular race.

Stats:

We had 324 PQEs this season; that’s more than 2 per day.

The single highest-scoring PQE of the year was Chad Ochocinco’s iPhone App, which earned his owners 90 Points.

We had 192 players in our game–actually it was 202, but about 10 registrations were incomplete or were duplicates.  192 is a pretty good number.  I am so glad that so many of you were interested in our little game.  I’m hoping we can maybe double that number for next year.

Most Waiver Moves:  ATomOfAllTrades.  This player tried furiously to catch up at the end of the season, and only missed by 180 points.  A valiant effort, sir.  My helmet goes off to you.

Some Thoughts On Next Year:

I am definitely going to run this game again.  In fact, the next season will probably start much sooner than you think.  Instead of waiting for the start of the regular season, we’ll be starting far earlier–though I’m still deciding on when exactly we’ll kick things off.

We’re going to do away with the “double-dipping” aspect of the scoring–where players who have Ochocinco AND the Bengals roster on their team earn double the points for each of Chad’s PQEs.  We’ll have some other tweaks and changes to the scoring as well.

If you’re interested in playing again, and want to have some input on what the next version of Fantasy UnSports will look like… please fill out a brief survey here, or simply subscribe to our feed to stay in the loop.

Thanks:

Thanks to everyone who played this game.  It was a blast.  If you got 10% of the enjoyment out of Fantasy UnSports that I did, then everyone’s a winner.  Thanks to everyone who emailed me PQE and league suggestions.  Thanks to Mike H., who made the scoring system so much more manageable for me with his Excel wizardry.  Thanks to all the idiots in the NFL who made stupid decisions this year–you made the whole thing possible!  We will be launching the sophomore season of Fantasy UnSports in the coming months–sign up here to stay in the loop on that stuff–and hope to have many of you join us again.  Thanks for making this worthwhile!

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