The Sportsballers

We recorded this week’s episode of our podcast on Wednesday. You can find that episode and  the rest of our show’s library  on  Apple Podcasts ,  Amazon Podcasts ,  Spotify , and  Google Podcasts .   Evan won another week of our picks contest in Week 16 and has made a significant dent in his deficit. Second place is now within reach, especially with the playoffs still to come.   For the wild card round in two weeks, confidence points will be distributed with scores of 16, 13, 10, 7, 4, 1 followed by a 16, 12, 8, 4 distribution for the divisional playoffs.   Fan Leaderboard through Week 16 1.       Sean Kennedy – 1385 points (160-80) 2.       James Dailey – 1373 points (156-84) 3.       Andrew Perez – 1330 points (161-79)   Top Week 16 Fan Results 1.       Sean Kennedy – 96 points, 9-7 2.       James Dailey – 93 poi...

It’s always bittersweet when we reach the end of Week 16 in the NFL Season. We have an exciting postseason to look forward to. We’ve just crowned the 2020 AFL champion! But we also say goodbye to the fantasy season. style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> This was an exciting year for us. Throughout the summer we many questions about the upcoming fantasy season. Which players will opt out? Will there actually be an NFL season? How long will it take before everything falls apart due to COVID? And if that happens, how will we handle it from a fantasy standpoint?   As it turned out, we made it through the season with no teams missing any games (the postponed Steelers/Titans game simply moved their bye weeks earlier). A few players missed games due to COVID, but in all there were far fewer competitive imbalances in our league that can be attributed to the pandemic than we were concerned there could be when the season began in September. Crowning a Champion The 2020 seaso...