FLOF Bowl Preview: Bill's Team

Bill's Team are a career 0-1 in FLOF Bowls -- losing their only appearance to Deadheads in 2005. Bill's Team are 6-7-1 all time against Ramjets including a loss in their lone playoff match up: a 45-12 loss in 2003's wild card round. They tied in their only meeting so far this season 27-27 in week 7.

How They Got Here:

Bill's Team has been one of the most explosive teams in the league during the second half of the season. They scored in the top 1/3 of scores 5 times in their last 7 regular season games as well as in their lone playoff game so far. But their winning streak goes back even farther. After starting the season a rough 2-3, they would close out the season 7-1-1 to finish with the league's best record. Despite the gaudy numbers, it also took Bill a week 14 show-down with a division rival to secure the division championship because Malleus went on a nearly equal run to close out the season.

The chart below tracks Bill's total points scored every week. The grey bar is the middle 1/3 of scores in FLOF over the last 2 seasons (from 61 to 72 pts). The white line is the median over the last 2 seasons (68 pts).

Key Players:

Carson Palmer was not his usual self this season but he held down the fort all season. Bill drafted Carson in the 7th round back in 2003.

This was the Chris Johnson show all season long. CJ went through a slow patch weeks 2-3 but has not scored fewer then 10 pts in a game since including a 3-game stretch were he never scored fewer then 25. CJ also came up big in the biggest games: scoring 30 in week 14 with the division on the line and scoring 20 in last week's playoff win. Chris Johnson was the 2nd pick in the 2008 draft (by Bill).

Larry Fitzgerald has been a beast as well this year averaging 8 pts per game with consistent scoring. Fitzgerald was acquired via trade with the Rednecks in 2007.

Olindo Mare was serviceable most of the year at the kicker position for Bill averaging 7 pts per game with few really terrible games. Mare was a 7th round draft pick this year.

Jon Beason is another star for this team that seems loaded with them. Beason averaged just under 8 pts per game and saved his best for the stretch run -- scoring 8 or more for the last 3 weeks of the regular season and 17 in last week's playoff game. Beason was a 2nd round draft pick this year.

Adrian Wilson was a post-draft free agent pick-up for Bill this year and has been a solid starter since appearing regularly in the starting line-up week 9.