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Sorry all for the general slackness the last coupla weeks, just really been struggling timewise, especially with the quick turnaround in games. So I'm not putting up a review but  here's a chance to leave your thoughts on all things FPL and VS.

It's also WC time in FPL so let us know what your plans are for that or have you already used it, if so what have you done?

RVP was too expensive for many at 13mil, now priced at 14mil can you afford not to have him? Walcott has gone up 0.4mil since boxing day- who jumped on? With the last few games about to kick off it could be a painful morning for some with Ba out as he talks to Chelsea with Mata, Hazard and Cole all rested to the bench. Anyway leave your comments over the break and apologies again for the slackness...
Well the end of our 2012 NFL fantasy season has come to an end with championship games across all leagues decided last week. Thanks to everyone for making the leagues as competitive as they were and for the spirit in which it was played. Please join Stowie and myself as we review the championship games in the Keeper League and League 1. If anyone from league 2 wants to provide a rundown on the result in that league then please do.

THE KEEPER LEAGUE (review by bgt2110)

Waito’s Warriors (302) defeated Welcome Back Mr Wallace (214)

A dominant display over two weeks saw Waito win the inaugural keeper league championship in a well deserved win. To score 136 points in week 1 and then back it up a week later to score another 166 highlights the strength of Waito’s team with high scoring players across all lines. Calvin Johnson’s 20 points in week one also saw him seal the record for most receiving yards in a single season while Alfred Morris scored 16 in week 1 and another 39 in week 2 to cement his place as probably the best RB to come out of the 2012 draft. He also set the record for most yards by a Washington RB in a single game with his efforts in week 2. With Demaryius Thomas dominating all season, he followed it up in our fantasy playoffs by scoring 16 points in week 1 and another 18 in week 2. Michael Crabtree sealed the deal for the Warriors by getting his highest score for the year with a 29 in week 2, an inspired pick in the flex position to replace Steven Jackson who was up against a strong Seahawks d/st.

Mr Wallace has certainly found a keeper QB in Russell Wilson who was the highest scorer across both weeks combining for 47 points while CJ Spiller backed up his 16 points in week 1 with another 16 in week 2. Jimmy Graham was quiet in week 1 but backed up in week 2 for 17 points while Reggie Wayne couldn’t match his 14 points in week 1, only managing the 4 in week 2. The inconsistency in scoring going a long way in explaining the end...
So I'm hungover as all hell, but rather than write a depressingly decrepit pop song about this fact, I've decided to do some thing that's at least semi-useful; some ORFFL club previews for the upcoming 2013 season.!Well, actually I wrote them earlier, but making the copy pasta and pressing the submit button is hard work too.



So please enjoy my musings ORFFL citizens on why your fantasy club is worse than mine and will remain so.







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BONNIE DOON BANDITS



For much of season 2012 I had considered Jimcumbilly to be the unluckiest team in the ORFFL. In the post-season though, that mantle clearly belongs to one team; Bonnie Doon.



With ORFFL teams forced to delist 6 players before the 2013 draft, fate made this task a great deal easier for the coach of the Bandits; Gram, Hargrave, Gilbee, Drummond and Folau all retiring of their own accord. The problem being is that many of those players were Bonnie Doon's better scorers, particularly down back.



Enter the pre-season trade period, and the giant sized move of trading out Sam Mitchell (110.42) for young defenders Hibberd (73.85) and Trengove (68.5), along with P8 in the upcoming draft.



The rebuild is well and truly underway.



What's Working:



Bonnie Doon's defence which was a gaping wound in season 2012 looks pretty patched up going into 2013. Along with the 2 new intakes, we find fantasy journeyman Jarred Brennan (78.12), rising force from the north Mitch Golby (76) and the much maligned Ryan Clangermakers (68.27).



Okay so that doesn't look great, but if Reid (69.3/79.3) and Gwilt (63.5/83.2) can recover from their injury plagued seasons, the future looks pretty bright. And deep.



Cox (112.27) and Griffin (91.85) remain a premier ruck combo if Sandi can find himself injured for a sizeable length of time. A definite possibility....
I have been very slack in getting the write up done this week.&#160; I have been watching too many NBA games over the last week before I go back to work.&#160; I need something to keep my interest in the NBA as my fantasy team sucks!!

As per usual, I will do the review of the Premier League, Stowie will do the review for Division One and Rev will do the review for Division Two (EDIT – I will include the review for Divsion Two once I receive it from Rev)

Premier League

Run TMC (5-2-1)&#160; 1432&#160;&#160; v&#160; Linsanity 17&#160; (0-8)&#160;&#160;&#160; 1188

The season of hell for Linsanity continues with Run TMC posting a comfortable victory.&#160;&#160; Linsanity used all of their 5 acquisitions in this matchup to no avail.&#160; &#160;The best players for Run TMC this week were Dudley (174/4), Westbrook (193/3) and George (173/4).&#160; Once again I am not even going to bother with mentioning the scores for Linsanity as it is embarrassing.

Fudge’s Sixers (2-6)&#160;&#160; 1365&#160;&#160; v&#160;&#160; Team Anthak&#160;&#160; (4-4)&#160;&#160; 1340

Fudge was able to make it back to back wins and will be feeling even better now that Dirk is back on the court.&#160; Fudge was able to build a sizeable lead with 2 days to go and it did not matter that Anthak outscored him over the final 2 days as he had enough points in the bank.&#160;&#160; Timmy D has proven to be an inspired pick for Fudge and once again he led the way with (217/4), followed by Pierce (206/3) and Jordan Crawford (194/4).&#160; For Anthak the leading scorers were Lebron (183/3), followed by Z Bo (157/4) and Chandler (140/4).

Jasmine’s Mob (6-2)&#160;&#160; 1860&#160;&#160; v&#160;&#160; Ruddy’s Cavaliers&#160;&#160; (4-4)&#160;&#160; 1458

What can you say about Jasmine’s team?&#160;&#160; They continue their high scoring and had no problems in beating the Cavaliers this round.&#160;&#160; Jasmine had 11 players break the 100 pt mark...
How time flies, Christmas has been and gone and so has rounds three and four. Currently in the middle of the 5th Round.

Melbourne teams are gong alright and the Sydney teams...not so good. In the Official Fantasy game we have Yamum right up there too. So how's everyone else doing?

I'm sinking down the rankings quicker than the Titanic. Brought in Lumb and Tait this week so hoping things improve a little bit but I'm too far gone playing catch up!.

Feel free to have a chat with us regulars below in the comments.
Like an early Christmas present, I'm cracking open early access to the all new TooSerious 4.0

For 1 reason, I've a nasty habit of tweaking 1%ers (and I really need to move on to the next phase) - and 2, cause you guys are awesome at finding any bugs and stuff!

It's just an IP address, but check it- here.

First thing you need to know- your password has changed! Cause those things are encrypted, I can't actually move them to the new server- so they've been reset to the email address you registered to TS with.

Secondly, work the site. Hit it with various browsers, with phones, ipads, whatever you've got and let me know how it goes. The thing is designed to scale well across all those environments.

Not ie7 though, might work there, but I'm not guaranteeing nothing!

Thirdly- you'll probably notice a bunch of comments that are missing from over there. Fear not- I'll be bringing the latest posts, and comments across to the new site before we go live. The forum on the other hand, that thing was a bish to convert and will probably live on as is! (So move yo ass to the new forum- cept you donors. Haven't transferred the donor status yet!)

And have fun! Hoping to have the domain moved across by the new year, so hit it fast peoples, and email me any issues you find!

Peace.
Well it's the start of the 2 week grand final matchups in fantasy NFL after some close semi final encounters with games only decided after Monday Night Football. Join Stowie and myself as we review last weeks results.

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LEAGUE 1 (Review by Stowie)

PLAYOFFS MATCHUPS - WEEK 2

#3 Show Me Ya TD's (wateman) 162 def by #2 Vick's Dog Fighters (Fez) 243

Vick's Dog Fighters showed no mercy, extending their lead in the second week and destroying Show Me Ya TD's. All but one player hit double figures led by the Bengals D/ST (24fpts), WR Andre Johnson (21fpts) and RB Marshawn Lynch (18fpts). For Show Me Ya TD's Brady (24ftps), RB Richardson (14fpts) and WR Green (11fpts) put up a fight but the rest were disappointing.


#4 Lilydale Leather Heads (bgt) 182 def by #1 Jimbos Juggernaut (jimbowan) 200

Despite taking the foot of the accelerator, Jimbos Juggernaut held on for a win which will see the top two sides during the year playoff for the title. It was RB pair Morris (20ftps) and Spiller (16fpts) with the Seahawks D/ST (16fpts) providing solid scores. For Lilydale Leather Heads, Brees (29fpts), Janikowski (19fpts) and the Texans D/ST (18fpts) leading the comeback charge but a horrid effort from Cruz (1fpts) and his New York Football Giants teammates snuffed out any chance of a comeback.


So there you have it, the teams that finished #1 and #2 will fight it out over the next two weeks for the crown!



THE KEEPER LEAGUE (Review by bgt2110)

#6 Welcome Back Mr Wallace(238) def #2 Canton Bullldogs(222)

In a complete form reversal from week 1 of this matchup Mr Wallace was able to overcome the 30 point deficit and knock out a huge 143 points to reach the inaugural Keeper League Grand Final with a 16 point win. Mr Wallace made all the right decisions in terms of on field personnel this week and was rewarded with some huge scores. Russell Wilson(39) turned around his disappointing 8 point score last...
In first of my Supercoach articles for year I thought I’d take a look at some of the Saints players you should put on your watchlist and a few to basically cross off your list! This wasn't initially meant to be a TooSerious article, but Walsey thought it might be worth posting here. Obviously one best ways to get advice on particular players is to ask people that know their club like back of their hand, not from people that just look at stats and decide. This doesnt have to be a Saints players post, you can comment on any player from any club that you think would be worth putting on watchlist.

Will be doing a full preview of all the Saints players closer to the season, and hopefully other clubs but for now join us over break for the Saints watchlist.

2013 WATCHLIST – Saints players to keep eye on

Jarryn Geary
2012 Average: 73.65 (up from 39.29 in 2011)
2013 Price:&#160; $394K

Jarryn Geary had a breakout season in 2012 and for bargain price of $213K if you held onto him for entire year you would have been rewarded. He started year in spectacular fashion averaging 94.5 in opening 4 rounds before the return of Jason Gram in Round 5 saw a change of role, playing a shutdown role on small forwards. This had massive impact on his scores, averaging only 45.2 in next 10 games. He scored over 55 only twice in that time (78 & 113).

In final 6 weeks he went back to role he started the year with and averaged 92.1. In his 10 games that he had the freedom to take game on and rebound out of defence Geary averaged extremely respectable 93.1.

Geary is prime candidate to play the role of the recently departed Brendon Goddard or Jason Gram in Saints. If Geary isn’t used as shut-down player on small forwards next year he will be under-priced and as pointed out he has decent ceiling when given freedom in defence and could easily average 90-100.

Verdict: Keep a close eye on his preseason and if he is being used in the Supercoach friendly role then...
Once again I don't have much time do the write up this week. Once XMAS is over and done with, I will do some in depth analysis on the NBA season so far and what it means from a fantasy perspective.



One thing I have been surprised with somewhat is the lack of trades occurring in all of the leagues. It looks like people are either happy with their original draft choices and are going to stick with those decisions or have been picking up players direct from the FA list.



After round 7, there is now only only team without a win this season after Fudge scored his first win. I am ashamed to say my team is the only team still winless and I really don't know why I am doing the write up for the NBA fantasy basketball as it is painfully obvious that I have no idea judging by the performances of my team!



As usual I will do the review for the Premier League, Stowie will do the review for Division One and Rev will do the review for Division Two.



Premier League



Team Anthak (4-2) 1420 v Wade Machine (3-4) 1283



Anthak was able to get back in the winner' s list this round by comfortably defeating Wade Machine. This match was close going into the last day of the matchup but Anthak was able to outscore Wade Machine by 93 pts. The leading scorers for Anthak were Kobe (245/4), Sideshow Bob (155/4) and LBJ (163/3). The best players for Wade Machine this round were Young (152/4), Millsap (122/3) and Barnes (122/3).



Jasmine's Mob (5-2) 1747 v Run TMC (4-2-1) 1416



What a score by Jasmine this week! She led this match from start to finish and even though Run TMC posted a respectable score this round, they were never in the hunt. The best players for Jasmine were Parker (219/4), Lin (156/4) and AK47 (157/3). Run TMC had to rely upon George (162/3), Turner (157/4) and Noah (152/3)



Fudge's Sixers (1-6) 1184 v Linsanity 17 (0-7) 1138



In the battle of the also rans, Fudge was...
So, the big news today (apart from the fan planner from later today), is that the top 10 priced players in DT have been released.

I've updated the predictor column to reflect that (for those who don't have the previously mentioned planned)

The magic number is up to a massive 5150 which is a fair wack higher than it has been in the past.

1Dane Swan (Coll)MID$688,100
2Gary Ablett (GC)MID$642,500
3Dayne Beams (Coll)MID$599,400
4Matthew Boyd (WB)MID$593,700
5Jobe Watson (Ess)MID$579,400
6Trent Cotchin (Rich)MID$570,200
7Scott Pendlebury (Coll)MID$568,700
8Brett Deledio (Rich)MID$568,600
9Brent Stanton (Ess)MID$548,900
10Scott Thompson (Adel)MID$541,200


Swan had a massive, massive year last year, coming out with an average almost 20% higher than most of the other top10 alumni.

And of course with massive scores, comes a massive price.

Last year, I decided to skip on him because of the recreational *ahem* use rumours that were going round- and as we saw with Caro's article earlier in the off-season, those rumours won't be going away anytime soon.

But is it all unfounded? Should I just jump on the bloke and smile as my captain averages more than anyone else.

Ah yeah, love the smell of fantasy sports in the morning.