29 January 2023

 

Black & Brew crew,

 

Conference Championship week closes and the Super Bowl teams have been set.  Either the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles - each of them #1 seeds - will be crowned champion of this season.   

 

Results for the Conference Championship round have been posted to the league's standings page.

Details for each team can be found here.

 

Teams placing in the money this week are:

Rank

Team

TOTAL

1

Hoekstra, Mike

1726

2

Schultz, Miles

1524

3

Zuzolo, Andrew

1490

4

Gates, Joseph

1458

5

DeAngelis Schroeder, Erica

1452

6

Whitead, Andrew

1361

7

Timmins, Kyle

1358

8

McDevitt, Dave

1348

9

Hoff, Cole

1339

 

Mike Hoekstra had a very solid week, managing to hit on the highest scoring running back, tight end, flex, kicker, and defense.  His 1726 points fell just 218 points short of perfection this week.

Mike is in his 9th season of the Black & Brew playoff contest and amazingly has had a podium finish in a week in eight of those nine years.  This is his first victory, with his previous best being a third place finish.

 

Top performers for the Conference Championship round

Pos

Week 3

Name

POINTS

QB

Patrick Mahomes (KC)

389

RB

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Christian McCaffrey (SF)

278

WR

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Marquez Valdes-Scantling (KC)

304

TE

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Travis Kelce (KC)

230

PK

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Harrison Butker (KC)

180

WR

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Tee Higgins (CIN)

238

D

Philadelphia (PHI)

325

TOTAL

1944

 

Most popular lineup this week looked like this and would have finished 85th

Popularity

Pos

Name

Owned

Points

Pos Rank

3rd

QB

Joe Burrow (CIN)

40.18%

270

2nd

2nd

RB

Joe Mixon (CIN)

42.86%

74

7th

5th

WR

A.J. Brown (PHI)

33.93%

64

8th

1st

TE

Travis Kelce (KC)

44.64%

230

1st

T-6th

PK

Robbie Gould (SF)

33.04%

10

4th

T-6th

DEF

San Francisco (SF)

33.04%

-90

4th

4th

FLEX

Christian McCaffrey (SF)

39.29%

278

2nd

 

 

Total

 

836

 

 

After this third round (our version of golf's moving day), there are far more contenders for the Black & Brew crown than there are for the NFL title.  

 

The top 16 entering the final round of competition:  As you can see, a lot can happen in a week!

#

 

Team

WildCard

Divisional

Conference

Total

Selected

1

↑11

Lewon, Jeff

1645

1531

1334

4510

6

2

↑18

Schroeder, Kelly

1721

1363

1322

4406

7

3

↓2

Kennedy, Dick

1829

1575

987

4391

4

4

↑66

Hoekstra, Mike

1429

1228

1726

4383

4

5

↑37

Gates, Joseph

1552

1343

1458

4353

6

6

↑12

Laures, Chris

1481

1627

1238

4346

8

7

↑8

Schroeder, Sam

1503

1643

1197

4343

8

8

↑21

Specter, Corey

1497

1473

1330

4300

6

9

↑13

Laures, Katie

1575

1483

1231

4289

7

10

↑9

Schroeder, Everett

1747

1344

1132

4223

9

11

↑2

Murphy, Sarah

1709

1449

1049

4207

4

12

↑22

Burnett, Bob

1339

1617

1224

4180

5

13

↓4

Hegarty, Dave

1523

1700

946

4169

4

14

↑10

Duggan, Ryan

1949

1089

1123

4161

5

15

↑21

Cavanaugh, John

1573

1346

1239

4158

5

16

↑61

Schultz, Miles

1343

1266

1524

4133

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More than half of all participants are within 750 points of the leader, so it really still is wide open.

 

Rosters for the Super Bowl can be assembled at the roster builder page.

Players previously selected by you are automatically excluded from the list for selection but please let me know if you see any issues.

 

No guarantee is being made that injured or inactive players have been removed from those lists or the roster builder.

I have removed players that are on the longer term injured reserve list, but I have done nothing else to purge any questionable or potentially inactive players from the list.  If the player scored a point this season, they are shown on the list.  I encourage everyone to check on the injury status of their desired player before selecting them.

 

Roster are due before kickoff of Super Bowl LVII on Sunday 2/12 at 5:30PM CST.  Neither roster submissions nor changes will be allowed after that point.

 

PLEASE turn in your roster before this time.  It happens every year that a roster will come in after the lock. Submissions will not be accepted after the weekend has kicked off and teams have been posted.  If you are someone who tends to forget about this sort of thing, submit one right now here.  You can change it as many times as you want between now and the freeze. Only the last submitted team before the lock will be used.

 

Once kickoff occurs, live scoring will be available at blackandbrew.net.

 

Thanks and good luck this week!

 

Ben Schroeder

"God bless fantasy football.  There are many things a man can do with him time...this is better than those thing"