Fantasy Bowl XXXIV

FANTASY BOWL XXXIV

Cherry's Chislers 46  Molotov Cocktails 31

This was to be the match up of the decade!  Two of the highest scoring, high flying offenses.  One that weighed almost entirely on the Chiefs.  Another that was heavy on Rams.  Which team would prevail?  And is this the beginning of a new trend in the CFFL??

Well the Chislers were coming into their 11th Fantasy Bowl.  A veteran of the big game.  The Cocktails were on the big stage for the first time in their short franchise history. 

It started out slow, with an unexpected defensive TD by the Chislers/Patriots making the score 6-0, but most players were yet to take the field.  One player in particular that was supposed to play early was Davante Adams for the Cocktails.  However an injury kept him out of the game (while he was still in the starting line up).

Hill would score 2 TDs

4:00 was when the fire works were supposed to begin.  Chiefs and Rams.  6 of the 8 starting Cocktails were Chiefs.  The Chislers came with 4 starting Rams (Gurely was ruled out, so could have been 5). 

Mahomes would hit Hill for a big 11 point connection taking the lead for the Cocktails.  However, this would be the only 11 point connection for the 11 Point King Cocktails.  The Chislers however would get not one to counter, but 2 big 11 point connections from an unexpected source.

Josh Reynolds, a late substitution for Antonio Brown, would be the surprise player of the game for the Chislers as he caught 2 Goff TD passes!  Had Brown scored, there is no telling if he would have scored 2 TDs at all. 

Reynolds was the x-factor in the game!

Hill would score another TD, but on the ground, and Mahomes would throw another TD pass, but to a player that the Cocktails actually DIDN'T have.  Plus Kelce would be disappointing as he was shut out.

Jared Goff, FB XXXIV MVP

Jared Goff would eventually end the game with 16 points and earn Fantasy Bowl XXXIV MVP honors in the Chislers 6th victory in the Fantasy Bowl!  The closest to 6 titles is only 3 held by the Crew and then 8 others with 2 (Crickets, Jewels, Crush, Maulers, Power, Mooches, Mayhem and Krauts).  The Chislers are truly the Patriots of the CFFL.  All hail the Chislers!! (and the Chisler Luck)

Mahomes and Goff after the Fantasy Bowl

Player of the Year:  Patrick Mahomes, QB, Cocktails - 214 points

Rookie of the Year:  Saquon Barkley, RB, Juggs - 92 points

1st Team All Stars:
QB - Patrick Mahomes, Cocktails - 214
RB - Todd Gurley, Chislers - 132
RB - Alvin Kamara, Bums - 114
WR - Antonio Brown, Chislers - 90
TE - Eric Ebron, Crush - 84
WR - Tyreek Hill, Cocktails - 84
K - Ka'imi Fairbairn, Animals - 150
DEF - L.A. Rams, Ferrets - 40




2nd Team All Stars:
QB - Matt Ryan, Bums - 166
RB - Saquon Barkley, Juggs - 92
RB - Melvin Gordon, Crew - 88
WR - Davante Adams, Cocktails - 80
WR - Mike Williams, Krauts - 68
WR - DeAndre Hopkins, Animals - 66
K - Justin Tucker, Krauts - 141
DEF - Bears, Krauts - 38







All Nickname Team:
QB - Mitch "Bitch" Trubisky, Krauts
RB - Nick Chubb "Chubb, chubb, chubb", Chislers
RB - Alfred Blue "He needed the money", Titans
TE - George K.I."TT Boy" L.E., Dragons
TE - Mike "I don't always play fantasy football, but when I do I draft" Gesicki, Dragons
K - Jason "Michael" Myers, Crush





We will see everyone next year for the Cherry Fantasy Football Leagues' 35th season!!!

CFFL Playoffs and Fantasy Bowl Preview

Merry Christmas!

Well we are all set.  The big Fantasy Bowl XXXIV match up between the Chislers and Cocktails has come to reality.  Could this be an epic shoot out, or a complete blow out?  Let's look to see how they got there last week...

Chislers 41  Animals 26 - CHICAGO, IL - It was another battle between father and son in the playoffs, a place the Animals were able to defeat the Chislers last year on their way to a Fantasy Bowl title.  This year it would be different.  With no Happy or Sad Cam and facing the number one offense Chislers it was going to a tall task.  The Animals took a quick lead 18-0 but barley any of the Chisler main players had yet to play. 

Woods was a late line up change that paid off!!

But as the 4:00 games began, the Rams/Chislers were taking the field, however less one of the best players in the league, Todd Gurley.  Well it appeared they wouldn't need Gurley, as both Goff and Woods would actually run TDs in!  Then it hit!  Goff hit Woods for an 11 point play and Antonio Brown caught a TD just seconds apart.  It was all over for the Animals as their dreams for a repeat ended.  The Chislers were yet again back into the Fantasy Bowl for the 11th time in franchise history.

Cocktails 37  Krauts 32 - BERLIN - There is something about teams from Germany fighting teams from Russia that just doesn't end well for the Germans.  The Cocktails had beaten the Krauts twice in the regular season and was looking for yet a third to move on to their first ever Fantasy Bowl.

Mahomes had 14 points!

The Stage would be set by a colossal disastrous line up change by the Krauts.  The Krauts struck first as Kyle Rudolph "the red nose reindeer" scored two TDs including a Hail Mary TD catch at end of the half.  The big mistake was that the Krauts, for some reason, decided to bench Cousins for Trubisky!  Wait, what?  Was it because Cousins had played terrible last week? (No he threw for 2 TDs).  Was it because "Bitch" Trubisky was lighting it up lately?  (Not really, 4 points and 8 points last 2 weeks).  Well that move would come back to haunt the Krauts.


Trailing 32-6 going into Sunday Night, the Cocktails would need a decent game from the Chiefs who was playing a tough game up in Seattle in the cold, dark night.  It was really only a matter of time, as Mahomes continued his MVP year with 14 points along with 11 from Butker.  The  final seconds of the Krauts season ticked off the clock and the final was 37-32 for the Cocktails.

Cousins was perplexed about the decision. 

Trubisky had one TD pass.  Cousins had 3.  Those two extra TDs that Cousins, who led this team the entire year and played for the owner's favorite team the Vikings, threw, would have won the game for the Krauts!

Fantasy Bowl XXXIV Preview

Molotov Cocktails at Cherry's Checkers

Well this was the match up the entire league was expecting after they both stocked up on Ram and Chief players.  And with both NFL teams needing to win this weekend, they might not have any players sitting. 

QB - Mahomes vs Goff.  We saw this actual match up in the NFL and it was one hell of a shoot out.  Chiefs take on Raiders while the Rams take on 49ers.  Both will be at home.  This is going to be close.  I see Mahomes edging Goff here by one score.
ADV - Cocktails

RB - Some Chief RB vs. Chubb (Gurley?).  Williams seems to be the play here, even if he has West on the bench.  Chubb has been a pleasant surprise and has 10 TDs on the season.  However Browns play the Ravens.  Gurley may not play Sunday due to nursing a banged up knee.  If he does play, count on the advantage going to the Chislers.  However I have a feeling he won't be playing.
ADV - Cocktails

WR - Chiefs WRs vs. Brown, Hilton, Thielen and Woods.  While the Cocktails are banking on the Chiefs WRs and TE Kelce, the Chislers will be hoping to get some other production from Hilton and Thielen.  Hard to argue that the Cocktails wide outs won't out score the Chislers.  Hill and Kelce alone will be enough as each TD catch is 11 points. 
ADV - Cocktails

K - Butker vs. Zuerlein.  Well it depends on what the Chiefs and Rams do.  Either way, I could see Zuerlein getting more FGs than Butker (which would mean Cocktails probably getting more TDs)
ADV - Chislers

This should be a good one and will be a wild Sunday afternoon as both Chiefs and Rams play at 4:00.  Oh boy!  I don't know if the Chislers are going to be able to keep up with the scoring that the Cocktails will likely put up.  But you know there is one thing the Chislers have that no other team has.  Chisler Luck!  The Chislers are going to need to be at least 6 point behind by the end of the 4:00 madness so that Hilton can catch a game winning TD for the Chislers to get them their 6th Fantasy Bowl title. 

Prediction:  Cocktails prevail however as they will have an 8 point lead, and Hilton will only get 1 TD.  Cocktails win 52-50.

CFHL Week 2

As we move onto Week 2 we have a lot of parity in the league with only one undefeated team at 2-0 and one 0-2 team, with the rest at 1-1.

La Femme Nikita 4 Assassins 2 
Nikita are the only undefeated team beating the Assassins.  Their Lighting combo of Stamkos and Kucherov combined for 6 goals, 7 assists, +6, and 2 PPPs.  Howard and Hutton goalies for the Assassins came up with no wins.

Goon Crew 4  Krampus Carols 2
It was a goalie battle  as both  teams had 4 wins each.  Krampus goalie Halak had 3 wins and Goon Crew goalie Andersen had 3 wins as well.  The undoing of the Krampus was that they managed only 3 goals the entire week.

Mayhem on Ice 4  AshBusters 2
The defending Cherry Cup champs got their first win of the season dispensing the AshBusters.  Atkinson was the Number One Star of the game getting 4 goals and a +6. 

White Mambas 5  Checkers 2
The once dominating Checkers are now 0-2 as they got beat by the White Mambas.  Marchand led the Mambas with 2 goals and 6 assists along with 4 PPPs.  Checkers made the Mambas feel it though racking up 57 hits.  William Carrier had 23 hits for the Checkers

USSR 5  Who Gives a Puck 2
The USSR are back on the winning track taking down the Puck.  It was low scoring with USSR edging the Puck 6-5 in goals and by one hit.  MacKinnon for the USSR had  3 assists and 6 hits.

CFFL Three Stars of the Week:

Sergei Bobrovsky, G, White Mambas, 4 wins, .970% SV%

Morgan Rielly, D, Assassins, 3 goals, 6 assists, +10, 2 PPP and 3 hits

Nikita Kucherov, F, La Femme Nikita, 2 goals, 7 assists +7, 1 PPP and 1 hit.

Goon of the Week:  William Carrier, Checkers, 23 hits.

CFFL Playoffs 2018

Was a bit of a ho-hum first round of the playoffs with really no thrilling games.  About the only game that got somewhat interesting was the Ferrets vs. Krauts game and that was still a 13 point difference. 

Chislers 29  Sinistars 14 - CHICAGO, IL - Well Chisler luck once again prevailed.  This was a week where the Chislers were primed for an upset scoring well below their average and Goff throwing for zero TDs.  But the Sinistars couldn't take advantage of it, as their traditionally power running attack was held to 0 points (Ingram and Peterson).  The Chislers did still manage 23 points from their Rams (Gurley 12 and Zuerlein 11).  They now move on to face their division foe and son, Alex's Animals.

Gurley scored twice despite having knee issues

Krauts 48  Ferrets 35 - BERLIN - The Ferrets did what they could to try to come back from the early 20-0 hole Kraut WR Mike Williams put them in on Thursday night.  It just wasn't enough as Joe Mixon ran two scores in and Kirk Cousins had 2 TD passes.  As with the Sinistars, the Ferrets were let down (really all year) by their duo RBs Elliott and Johnson, who managed only one TD between the two of them.  Krauts will face their division foe Cocktails who swept them this year.

Williams' 20 points really sealed the win

Animals 35  Crush 8 - PASADENA, CA - The Crush completely came out flat in their home playoff game scoring only 8 points with players like Brady, Keenan Allen, Michael Thomas, Ebron, Gronkowski.  How is that possible?  (Sounds like another Southern CA team that played like crap at home...)  The defending champ Animals however were ready!  Kicker Fairbairn had 17 points and Hopkins snared two TDs as the Animals move on to face the Chislers who they knocked out in last years playoffs on their way to their first Fantasy Bowl title. 

Fairbairn was 5-5 in FG attempts!

Cocktails 32 Titans 19 - TOLEDO, OH - The Glass Bowl was packed.  Standing room only to see their Titans in the playoffs for the second year in a row.  But also to see the high powered Cocktails.  While they have been slowed down some, the Cocktails are still rolling as they shot out to an early 30-0 lead after Thursday with their Chiefs.  Including 12 points from back up to the back up RB Damien Williams!  They move on to try to beat the Krauts for a third time this year!

Back up to the back up!

2nd Round Playoff Preview:

Animals at Chislers (-14)

The Defending Champs are on their quest for back to back titles and will have to defeat the Chislers to make it to their second consecutive Fantasy Bowl.  These two teams split the regular season contests.  Chislers won in Week 1 41-22 while the Animals won in Week 14 15-12.  Last year in the first round of the playoffs the Animals won in thrilling fashion as Mike Evans caught a last minute TD for the victory 46-44.

Can Goff lead the Chislers to the Fantasy Bowl

This year both teams come in banged up.  Cam Newton has a bad shoulder (apparently) and Gurley has a banged up knee.  Chislers have been slowed down as the Rams have looked terrible lately.  A trip to Arizona might just cure them.  Chislers may need to rely on Goff's arm and Zuerlein's leg to win this one.  Of course its a Happy Cam or Sad Cam that decides the fate of the Animals...or does it.  Look out for their WR trio of Evans, Hopkins and Hooper.  Fairbairn can go foot to foot with Zuerlein.

Chislers just have too much talent to not win this one.  But not by 14. Chislers 40-32  Bet:  Animals +14

Cocktails at Krauts (+12)

They say its hard to beat a team three times in one year.  Cocktails were victorious in the home and home weeks vs. the Krauts 49-13 and 36-25.   They will attempt a third victory against a fired up Krauts team.  It will be a challenge for the Cocktails who will start 6 Chiefs who play on the road, at night, in Seattle.  Can they produce enough points to pull this game out and make it to their first ever Fantasy Bowl?  It is going to be interesting and will not be determined until late Sunday night.

Mahomes ready to defeat the Krauts for a third time

The Krauts can score at any position with Fournette and Mixon in the backfield (puching people and getting in fights) and Gordon, Mike Williams, and Kyle Rudolph at wide out.  I wouldn't say his players have very favorable match ups either.  Mixon going against a tough Brown D, Vikings (Rudolph and Cousins) at Detroit.  Williams playing Ravens. 

This one will be decided in the final moments of the game.  If I was the Krauts I would want to score 40 points or more to have a chance before the Chiefs kick off Sunday night.  Cocktails 34-29.  Bet Krauts +12. (of course what do I know? I went 1-3 last week)

CFHL Week 1

Well the puck has dropped on another CFHL Season.  This season is a short one and every game will be oh so important!

AshBusters 6  Checkers 1
AshBusters had little trouble defeating the Checkers this week and dominated 6 of the 7 categories, including a 29-9 advantage in assists!  Scheifele for the AshBusters was clearly the player of the game netting 5 goals, 6 assists, +3, 3 PPP and 3 hits.  Both of their goalies each had 2 wins as well.  Checkers will have some work to do and not as much time to do it in.

Scheifele has big week for AshBusters

Krampus Carols 5  White Mambas 1
In another blow out the Krampus dominated as well.  Krampus Captain Ovechkin led all players with 7 goals.  Neither net minder was very impressive as each team could only manage 1 win each out of their respective goalies (Anderson and Halak for Krampus and Quick and Bobrovsky for Mambas).

Assassins 6  Mayhem on Ice 1
It was a week of lopsided wins as the Defending Cup Champs Mayhem on Ice lost to the Assassins, who some think might have had the best draft of the league.  They had an impressive number of assists (37) led by Wheelers' 7 assists. 

Wheeler had 7 big assists for Assassins

Who Gives a Puck 5  Goon Crew 2
Another lopsided game, was closer than the score indicated, sort of.  The difference was really the goalies.  Puck certainly had the better goal tenders in this game as they had 3 wins from Dubnyk and Varlamov to go along with a SV% of .925.

Dubnyk stoned his opponents 

La Femme Nikita 4  USSR 3
Hey a close game!  And it was a close one for sure.  Not only was it a one category win, They were only separated by one in both Goals and Hits.  MacKinnon had 6 assists for the USSR while Stamkos managed 4 goals for Nikita. 

Three Stars of the Week:  

Number 1 Star:  Alex Ovechkin, Krampus, 7g, 0a, +5, 1 PPP, 7 hits

Number 2 Star: Mark Scheifele, AshBusters, 5g, 6a, +3, 3 PPP and 3 hits

Number 3 Star:  Jack Eichel, Assassins, 5g 4a, +4, 3 PPP and 3 hits

Goon of the Week:  Adam Larsson, D, Goon Crew, 12 hits