Millbrook Fantasy Football

 Rejoice! The Fantasy Season is finally here, and after the summer we have had, this is worthy of celebration by itself. We at MFFL Studios have never been as we were to here Scott Hanson's voice than Sunday at 1pm as he delivered us his Octobox of kickoffs with the famous NFL Redzone phrase, "7 hours of commercial free football start now!" While spending entire Sundays sunk into the couch and refreshing the Yahoo Matchup tab has returned as usual, a few new features have been introduced to our weekly fantasy routine, including the brand new scoring feature: Defensive Schemes. The first week seemed to go over fairly smoothly, apart from a couple hiccups that were swiftly fixed, so a great thanks to our team for administering the new Matchup Google Sheet and keeping us all up to date.  Along with all the joy of NFL and Fantasy Football returning, we also get to see our first look at our rosters and make actual gameplay based judgements on each player. With this of course c...

Fantasy Football Season is upon us! The annual MFFL draft occurred last night, August 2, to officially kick off the 2020 fantasy season and delivered way above expectations (much like Cam Akers will). In a hectic draft that featured not only the most ever draft pick trades, a zoom call with some of the most flamboyant managers, and a fully fledged google sheet that automatically updated with each pick, GM Matt of the Tittsburgh Feelers was finally able to make his live draft return after a multi year absence! This easily was the highlight of the draft for me and GM Matt seemed eager to make the most of his participation, eating up nearly all of (and then some) his time allotted for double draft picks each round. With the celebration of the draft and commencement of the 2020 season, a full draft review is in order as we look to break down some of the biggest moments and decisions that went down yesterday.  Firstly, any manager who knows anything about Fantasy Football knows that the...

Power Rankings: No More Mr. Nice Guy Kraft Beer The Underachievers Belichick Yo Self The Scoregasms The Juice is Loose Bigpapihugetime Tittsburgh Feelers 5 Year Plan Miking Mikes Leprechaun Soldiers Romanian RAPOs Weekly Awards: Oh Boy! Play of the Week: GM Dominic and GM Kelly get a joint play of the week for their record breaking matchup this past week. Both teams surpassed 160 points for the highest scoring matchup in MFFL History!  Murphy Mixup: GM August started the wrong TE this week, giving TE Hockenson the go ahead for 5.5 points while leaving TE Everett on the bench with his 8.3 points. Making the switch would have given the Stalinists 102.12 points, which would have seen them lose by the lowest possible margin in fantasy (.2 points = a single passing yard). So maybe for GM August's sanity, it's for the best he started the wrong TE. WTF Waiver Wire: GM Michael dropped $27 on RB Hill who will be replacing an injured RB Freeman for the ...

Hello there. Welcome back to the Weekly Wrap-up. Hope you didn't miss us too much during our bye week. (Yes even us at MFFL Studios get a bye week believe it or not!) A lot has happened since we last convened: The Scoregasms added a "The" to their name, revealed a new co-owner and unveiled their new logo; our previous top 3 teams have lost 5 of their 6 games over the last 2 weeks, GM Dom got good?; and GM Michael and GM August actually won a game! With teams in the lower standings picking up the PACE while the top teams are faltering, the league is the closest and most competitive it has ever been this late into the season! Only 3 games separate first place from last place and as week 10 approaches, no team has yet been eliminated from or clinched their spot in the 2019 MFFL Playoffs. Since the standings do not offer their usual separation and clarity with a season as tight as Dom before DTDB, the Power Rankings may be more important than ever in hinting at which teams ma...

The conclusion of Week 7 of the 5th season of the MFFL marks the midway point of the Fantasy Regular Season (Augie, your plan is really heading into crunch time bro and not one of us is quite sure about what your plan actually is),  and while all managers venture together in unison into the second half of the season, the perspectives of last night's season solstice are completely personal. A night filled with fun poll making and misinterpreting what it means to be a midseason Fantasy MVP was also marked by relentless restlessness over a Weekly Wrap-Up that was running late (If you call this thing an article one more time Dom I'm banning you from the group chat for 1 day: Darren treatment). Furthermore, while managers from top tier teams could sleep blissfully with the promise of playoffs prancing in their head, managers of the bottom feeders spent the night tossing and turning in a trance of turmoil over Dansky Bowl dread. In order to properly embrace this embarkment into the l...

What's up MFFL fans and managers and welcome back to the Weekly Wrap-up that usually gets posted every Tuesday except for weeks where I am too lazy to write these things! (this is one of those weeks. But you can finally stop stressing about how I'm doing Ian because here it is) Week 6 was dominated by the little fish of the pond, who have yet to really make their presence known in the league so far this season, other than from embarrassingly low point totals and crappy records. But this week, they finally showed up and closed the gap on the upper ranks of the table. The bottom 4 teams all united to join into the Top 6 point totals of the week, and the previously 12th ranked RAPOs actually claimed the top spot of Week 6. Meanwhile, some previously top ranked teams faltered and really slipped up as we saw a new season worst point total this week from one of our top teams (Connor thought this team should be ranked #2 in the Power Rankings by the way and was trashing the studio...

Hello and welcome back to the Weekly Wrap-up starring me. Can I just be full time commissioner and be relieved of managing duties because this is just plain painful at this point? Anyways, some wacky stuff happened this past week in fantasy: some teams won and some teams lost; some players scored a lot of points, my players scored very little points. Did I incorrectly use the semi colon just now; probably. Who cares; I certainly don't. Anyways let's just hop right into the rankings since I know GM Ian and GM Connor have been oogling over where their team will be ranked for the past 72 hours. Power Rankings: Bigpapihugetime:  GM Kurt has certainly slowed down since his team's red hot start, but still leads the league in total points scored by a 40 point margin. Kraft Beer:  A 2nd loss for GM Ian is disappointing, but that's certainly not due to his WR or RB positions. Newly acquired QB Murray will hope to put an end to his QB struggles. Mr. Nice Guy:  4th in tota...