DFC XI Final Preseason

THE DFC XI PRESEASON TOP TWELVE



Rank, DFC X Record
1. Scott Latta, 54-42
2. Mark Gainey, 58-38
3. Eddy McBroom, 61-35
4. Lori Beirne, 58-38
5. Drew Morris, 56-40
6. Jennifer Ernst, 53-43
7. Yours Truly, 61-35
8. Brad Latta, 54-42
9. James Hawbaker, 58-38
10. Trey Cartledge, 58-38
11. Matt Latta, 57-39
12. Tyler Campbel, 53-43

13-20... Matt Halpert (52-44)... DMOsborne (52-44)... Tommy McLeod (56-40)... Jonathan Osborne (56-40)... Joey Thornell (54-42)... Justin Fisher (48-48)... Eddy Jr (53-43)... Dan Sellers (53-43)

21-35... Sarah Hasha... David Tuck (rookie)... Steven Ray... Tom Johnson... Zack Graves... Tebe Shaw (returning)... John Wolf (rookie)... Tim Wasyluka... Rhett Barnett... Daniel Powell... Ryan Sherman... Chris Croyle... Garrett Cheney... Mikey Nipp

DIVISIONAL STANDINGS
(listed in order of predicted finish)
BEIRNE CONFERENCE
NORTH DIVISION
DMOsborne
Matt Latta
Matt Halpert
Rhett Barnett
Joey Thornell
Zack Graves
Drew Warren (rookie)

CENTRAL DIVISION
Jennifer Ernst
Justin Fisher
Tommy McLeod
Brad Latta
Tebe Shaw
Sarah Hasha

WEST DIVISION
Eddy McBroom
Drew Morris
Trey Cartledge
Dan Sellers
Tom Johnson
David Tuck (rookie)

Prediction... DMOsborne and Big Eddy get byes, Jenn wins division and wild cards are Drew, Trey and Justin. Trey and Justin advance. Trey and Big Eddy, Big Eddy gets to DeuceBowl XI.

MCBROOM CONFERENCE
EAST DIVISION
Mark Gainey
Yours Truly
Tyler Campbell
John Wolf
Ryan Sherman
Garrett Cheney

CENTRAL DIVISION
Scott Latta
Lori Beirne
Jonathan Osborne
Steven Ray
Randy Latta (rookie)
Jason Roberts

SOUTH DIVISION
James Hawbaker
Eddy McBroom the Junior
Chris Croyle
Tim Wasyluka
Daniel Powell
Michael Nipp

Prediction. Mark and Scott get top two seeds and byes, Yours Truly seeded third, James (division winner) gets 4th, followed by Lori and Tyler. Yours Truly and Tyler advance, with Scott and Yours Truly getting to final four. Scott Latta advances to DeuceBowl XI

Scott Latta defeats Eddy McBroom for the 11th DFC title and his name on the Brook DeRamus Championship Plate.

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THE RULES
On Monday, August 30th, an email will go out containing matchups and some details of 8 upcoming college games that will take place the weekend of September 3rd through 6th. The first week will be all college, then next week will incorporate NFL games. One game will be designated as "The Tiebreak" game. Your response is to predict the winners, and pick the tiebreak game correctly.

Except for the first week, on Tuesdays, you'll receive an email with the previous week's results. A "weekly winner" will be announced--weekly record first, then goes to tiebreak--and overall standings, an an overall Top 12, the Power Poll, is also released. On Thursday, a quick "reminder" email will be sent, just informing people who's games have been received, who's games are still being waited on.

Games are expected to be into my email box by kickoff of the first game, though the exception is Thursday games. They will be few, but when there is a Thursday game, the pick for that game can be sent in, and the rest of the games can be sent in the next day.

TIEBREAK/TBA
With your overall standings, a "Tiebreak Average" will be kept throughout the season. When you send in your TB score, its the total score of the game selected... example is if Nebraska beats Colorado 41-9, for a total score of 50, and you had selected 40 points total (50 - 40 = 10), then you were 10 points off. For the next two games you were off 12 and 5, thats a total of 27, divide by 3 (games or weeks) and your TieBreak Average is 9.

This score is kept all season, and will be used to break the ties at the end of the season, including like-records for divisional records and for playoff positioning seeds (and spots). One need look no further than DFC III when Mikey Nipp's 10.18 TBA beat out Scott Latta's 10.75 TBA, for the conference's final playoff spot, robbing Scott of his first postseason spot (which he would not get until DFC VI)

TIEBREAK DROPS
A slight change has been made to the to Drop system, which previously allowed you to drop one score per season. This year the "drop" has been removed and instead, your best and worst Tiebreak guess of the season will be dropped, leaving 10 weeks worth to calculate. If you have a horrendous week in Week 3, and go with 60 points in a game that ends up 13-3, that will be dropped. However, if in Week 4, you go 70 in a game that ends up 7-0, that will become your worst week, and your atrocity in Week 3 will return. It will be up to you to keep track of your scores (or just trust me to take care of it, like most people do)

PLAYOFFS
The season will continue through 12 weeks, concluding the weekend of November 19-21st. The top six records in each conference will make the postseason, with division winners making it regardless, even if a division winner has a worse record than someone in another division for the 6th spot. The top two seeds, regardless of divisional status, get first round byes, the other four per conference will participate in "Wild Card Weekend". Divisional winners get higher seeds when in a record-tie with 2nd+ place in another division, regardless of TBA, but if 2nd place in a division has a higher record than a divisional winner, that higher seed is awarded to the 2nd place division finisher.

Top two records in Wild Card Weekend advance to next round. The top two seeds advance again to create a Final Four between the two conferences. Best record from each conference advance to DeuceBowl XI.