Well, the regular season is done in my fantasy football league, and the playoffs start this weekend, so it seems like a good time to take a look at how the season went.

As it turns out, I did a bad job of dividing up the league. I decided on two divisions - the MSDN Division and the Raymond Chen Division (you can figure out the reason for picking those two on your own), and the MSDN division ended up with 5 teams with a record of 9-4 or better. Chen's best team was 9-4, and only had one other team above .500.

The way the playoffs are set up with Foxsports' fantasy football is a little odd to me. There are six teams in the playoffs, but it's not divided up as three from each division. It's the division winners, and then the next best 4 teams. So the MSDN division has five teams in the playoffs, and the Chen division only has one. Each division winner gets a bye, which makes sense.

Anyway, here's the teams that made the playoffs, and who they are in real life (if I know them).

1. Prod's Squad (10-3 /?Power Ranking: 1): One of my best friends. He ran all over the league with the help of Shaun Alexander, Mike Vick, and Larry Johnson. He also gets the award for most points scored in one week - he scored 170 points, where as the most from week to week was usually around 110-120.
2. Belding Horsepower (9-4 / PR: T2): Prod's brother. Also a good friend of mine. He should have been 10-3, but he forgot to set a lineup in week one, and scored 0. He's also the sole team from the Chen Division. He's got Peyton Manning, but will be hurting because his top back is Westbrook.
3. Bengals (9-4 / PR: 6): I have no idea who this is (I don't think). He (or she) was in the league last year too, I believe, and did good last year too. As I said in the past, wide receivers were going to be king because of the way I set up the league, and he's got quite a few good ones.
4. 42k Gold (9-4 / PR: T2): This is another team that I'm not sure who is, but I think was in the league last year. Riding Carson Palmer and Edgerin James, this team looks good going into the playoffs.
5. RossCode Razors (9-4 / PR: 4): This is me. I was 4-4 and went on a five game winning streak to make the playoffs, aided by one of the only trades in the league. I started with Culpepper and Brian Griese as quarterback (both on IR now), so I traded away Curtis Martin for Eli Manning. At the time, it looked like a pretty even deal. Now, it's a lopsided deal in my favor. By the way, I've been?in the playoffs six of the last seven years - and the one year I wasn't was because I wasn't in any leagues.
6. The Knuckleheads (9-4 / PR: 5): Our QA guy at NuSoft. He got lucky and ended up with both LaDanian Tomlinson and Drew Brees. It's tough not to make the playoffs with those two!

So this week, it's the Bengals against The Knuckleheads and 42k Gold against the RossCode Razors. Prod's Squad and Belding get a bye. Fox Sports system is nice because it gives you breakdowns of what would have happened if you played each team every week, so in the first matchup, The Knuckeheads would be 9-4 had the played the Bengals every week. As long as L.T. plays this weekend, they should get the win.

In the other game, it sure looks like I'll be packing up my team and going home, only to wait for next season. I'd be 3-9-1 if I played 42k Gold every week. That's not a singing endorsement of how my team will perform this week. Granted, I've only had Manning for a few weeks, and before that, I basically didn't get any points out of my quarterback.

It's too bad that the most exciting part of the football season coincides with the end. The 20 weeks of football season just isn't long enough!