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Week 17, 2016 Raging Bulls Vs Killer Beas

(3) Jimmy (11-5) Vs (4) Beas (11-5) $$$

Beas leads the series 9-6, winning 4 of the last 5 including a week 9 win this year.  From 2004 to 2009 they were evenly matched at 5 wins each.

Jimmy:  Jimmy joined the league in 2004.  The next 5 years he compiled a 32-46 (.410) record missing the playoffs all 5 years.  Those were the early years.  Since 2009 Jimmy has made the Playoffs 6 out of 8 seasons compiling a 79-47 (.627) record.  If one were to take out 2011 (3-10) and 2014 (5-9), Jimmy's 6 Playoff seasons were a 71-28 (.717) run of success that produced a Championship Game loss in 2009 revenged by his crowning achievement in 2010, a League Championship.  To be frank & honest, Jimmy's last 8 years may very well be the envy of the league and if he were to top it off with a League Championship in 2016, all the richer.

Beas:  It was August 1999.  Five of us sat at my dinning room table in my little farm house.  We had discovered fantasy football on Yahoo and had set up a league.  We were amazed when Beas arrived with a Fantasy Football magazine that had all that information in it.  Crazy times.  Beas would go on to make the Playoffs 6 of the next 7 years.  Easier back then? Maybe, but still done.  From 2006 to 2013 Beas would make the Playoffs only once in 2011.  Missing the Playoffs 7 out of 8 years is indeed a dark period.  But like most runs of bad luck there's usually a moment of light.  In 2014, after 15 years of football magazines, drafts, trades, adds, drops, wins and losses, Beas broke through and claimed his 1st League Championship.  That run has continued with a Playoff appearance in 2015 and now a 4th Championship Game appearance in 2016.  33-15 (.688) the last three seasons.

Our league has never had a back-to-back Champion.  As crazy as that is, it's true.  We have had one team win 2 Championships in a three year span, Rojo (2005) (2007).  Beas has the opportunity to be the 2nd team in League history to accomplish that feat, winning in 2014.

In our League history, we've only had two multi-championship teams.  Irregardless of who wins this week, whether Jimmy or Beas, we will have our third multi-championship team.

Jimmy is 10-4 in Championship Bracket games and 7-4 in games that matter.

Beas is 11-10 in Championship Bracket games and 7-8 in games that matter.

Jimmy is 1-1 in Championship Games.  (2009 L, 2010 W)

Beas is 1-2 in Championship Games, (1999 L, 2002 L, 2014 W)

Beas participated in both Money Pools that pay out to the Champion.  There's $240.00 & $500.00 available from those two and $200.00 available from the Mandatory Entry Pool.  Yeah, if he wins the Championship Game, he brings home $940.00.  What I haven't told everyone is that I invested that money into Sandridge Energy stock.  So the winner gets the stock instead.  Currently valued at $12.