CB Posse Fantasy Football League: 215: The Great(est Team Ever) Eight

Monday, January 2, 2012

215: The Great(est Team Ever) Eight

"When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story."

-Barney Stinson

With my fourth championship (suck it Murat!) finished in such spectacular fashion, I’m just going to go ahead and crown my team the greatest ever assembled in the history of the CBPFFL.

Twice in the final three weeks of the season, my team put up exactly 215 points; no other team has ever broken 200 before.
I’m betting it will be a long time before my season total of 2544 points will be reached again.
My total of 593 points for Weeks 15-17 is a record that will live on like the 1972 Dolphins (an average of 197.667, six points higher than the previous weekly high score).

It was five months in the making, so let’s bask in some of my awesomeness:

WEEK 15		WEEK 17
QB- Stafford	37	Stafford	48
RB- Foster	24	Tate	21
RB- F. Jones	15	F. Jones	14
WR- C. Johnson	42	C. Johnson	41
WR- White	35	White	10
WR- Welker	8	Welker	11
TE- Hernandez	28	Hernandez	28
Flex- Wells	13	Washington	19
K- Gostkowski	11	Gostkowski	11
D- HOU	2	JAC	12
Total	215		215

My roster represents the greatest collection of talent ever assembled on a single team…

During Week 15, Roddy White started by putting up 35 points on a Thursday, and Felix Jones followed with a capable 15 on Saturday night. With 50 points from just two players, I knew the possibility was there for greatness. Megatron and Hernandez gifted me with their career best yardage totals.

With a dream team of pure awesomeness, Week 17 was dicey trying to decide if any of my players would get rested for the NFL playoffs. But when Arian Foster got yanked just hours before kickoff, I simply whipped out Ben Tate. Megatron and Hernandez both broke their career best yardage totals. I started the perfect roster and didn’t leave a single point on the bench.

Awesomeness defined…

Matt Stafford finished the season with 415 points, the fourth best total for a QB, but he was drafted as my backup. Matt Ryan’s 318 points made him a top ten QB also.
Arian Foster was a difficult number one choice. He nursed a shaky hammy through the first few weeks, and only put up 5 points through Week 3, but then he exploded. Ignoring the weeks he was injured, Arian Foster averaged more points per week than any other RB.
My WRs will quite possibly stand as the greatest ever assembled. Megatron, White and Welker all finished the year as top five WRs, with Johnson and Welker going 1-2. Not bad, considering I plucked Welker in the 7th round. Nate Washington deserves an honorable mention for finishing the season as the 14^th best wideout and a flex option that would be a number two WR on nearly every other team.
Aaron Hernandez, who I grabbed at the end of the 12th round as my back-up, had a monster season. He finished as the 3^rd best TE.
Gostkowski, who I picked up midway through the season (Thanks Carl!), finished as the 3^rd best kicker

This is a team that will live through the ages as a testament to greatness, a legend for future generations to emulate, and a measure of what is possible in this universe!

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History of the League

In the fall of 1991, six young boys entered the hallowed halls of the Banfield Academic Center to embark upon a journey that would make them into men. They were lead by the eponymous Carl Brown and his obsession with Dennis Hopper. His group, which gathered each day in their private, brick-walled alcove, consisted of Steven Caggiano, James Pickard, Sahil Tak, Hank Zakroff, and Murat Zincir. Though other people drifted in and out, this was the core of the entity that would come to be known as the CB Posse.

CB Posse FF officially began in 1993. The early years of the league would be dominanted by Murat and Pickard, who took the trophy three time each. It wasn't until the seventh year of CB Posse FF that this dynamic duo of NFL knowledge failed to capture first place. Sadly, in 1999, as the Posse members finished college, only four owners played, and, due to lack of interest, the league would begin a decade long hibernation.

In 2009, Pickard asked Hank whether he would be interested in getting the league back together. After an emphatic "YES!" from his friend, Pickard made some phone calls and the league was reborn like a glorious phoenix from the ashes. The 21st Century has revolutionized FF into a more competitive monster. CB Posse FF went completely digital, and unless you can navigate the nearly endless amounts of NFL information available on the internet, you don't have a chance. Sahil would emerge as the dominant force, and he destroyed the league for back-to-back championships.

21st Century CB Posse FF has seen significant expansion. Murat and Pickard have lured several local friends into the ranks. Murat's New York crew has been dominant, consistently finishing near the top, and even claiming several championships. CB Posse FF has also become multi-generational, as young Jack Caggiano has boldly followed his parents' footsteps. Even the trophy underwent massive expansion, and is renamed The Caggiano.