FLOF Bowl Half-Time Report

At the half FLOF Bowl 14 is locked in a 0-0 tie.

Mostly this is because Roger's offense has sucked and his defense has played well. 4 of Roger's 5 offensive players scored 0 pts. McGahee's 10 pts and the 1 receiving point scrounged together between 3 players is all he's got right now. However, Sugg's 13 pts and Rodgers-Cromartie's 8 provided a solid base for a defense that still has one more player to play.

Fitzgerald has provided the only offense so far for Bill with 13 points but the story for Bill is who hasn't played yet, not who has. Bill currently has a 12 point deficit and 2 offensive players who can score points this upcoming weekend.

Bill has Brett Favre, Garrett Hartley, and either Will Smith or Bradie James left to play in next weekend's games. Roger has Gary Brackett playing this weekend. So this FLOF Bowl will likely come down to Favre and Hartley against Brackett and a 12 point cushion. In all likely hood, Roger's best bet is to have the score tied after this weekend. Of course if Brackett were to score a touchdown...

Tie-Breakers:

Time to dust off the FLOF Bowl tie-breaker rules. Some of you will remember 2002's crazy 0-0 FLOF Bowl between Drow and Deadheads that resulted in an unsatisfying use of the last tie-breaker: Super Bowl total score predictions. The tie-breakers were re-written that off-season resulting in:

1) If the score is tied. All current starters are locked in place and any stats they accumulate the next weekend are added to their current stats and we re-score the game. We continue to do that every week through the Super Bowl if we have to. If that doesn't break the tie...

2) We un-round all point calculations and see if that breaks the tie. This really only affects yardage numbers and maybe tackle numbers and would likely not do anything to break a tie if its a 0-0 defense fest. If that fails to break the tie...

3) Instead of subtracting defensive points from opponent's offensive points we add each team's offensive and defensive points together (while retaining the un-rounded stats from above). This seems likely to produce a winner with un-rounded yardage stats and no chance for a 0-0 defensive tie, but there is more if we need it...

4) Calculate how many points players on the bench would have scored in the FLOF Bowl and add that to our calculations to this point. (keeping the rules from #2 and #3 above). If that doesn't do it Doug pulls out his hair and we will be reverting to our last tie-breaker...

5) Prior to the Super Bowl both teams must guess the total score of the Super Bowl, making sure there is no chance for a tie here...