It comes down to this! After a grueling 13 weeks of the Regular Season and another 2 of playoffs, Fantasy Bowl XI comes down to two: Fireseed and Ice Cold Bruschis. After battling their way through the season, we remain with a tie-breaking Crittenden Division grudge match for the right to be enshrined in AldenLeague history as the 2010 League Champion. In Week 15, Fireseed blew past the BountyHunters in a lopsided affair due to a strong week paired with an injury-riddled BountyHunter collapse. This is the Crittenden Divison Champion's third Fantasy Bowl appearance, and first since 2003. The Ice Cold Bruschis took out the top-scoring team in the league, C-Men, by 17 points that could have been the result of a last-minute declaration of C-Men WR Malcom Floyd as inactive. Had the inactive label been announced earlier, there were a total of four free agent WRs that would've given Maras the edge had he picked them up. It was not meant to be so, as the more-vigilant Ice Cold Br...

Only 4 games in AldenLeague playoff history have ever been decided by fewer than 2 points. This week, Yahoo! projections is calling for BOTH semi-final matchups to join that list. Of the four teams remaining, 2 of them just scored their first-ever playoff victories last week, while the other 2 are postseason veterans who met in Fantasy Bowl III. If these games are even half as even and exciting as they're laid out to be, this will still be one hell of a weekend. Week 14 Recap Woe is Andy! The regular season's top scoring team had gotten the season-long shaft in the W-L department, but finally as the season wound down the Fantasy Gods decided to make things right by getting him into the playoffs on the strength of a Week 13 win. But the post-season was no friendlier than the regular one, as QB Aaron Rodgers left his game early with a concussion (after being ineffective anyhow) and QB Jay Cutler shat the bed royally in the snowy conditions of his game. The result? The lo...

After the finale of perhaps the tightest AldenLeague season in its 11-year history, the smoke has finally cleared to reveal the playoff field. Congratulations to C-Men, Fireseed, BountyHunters, Andy's Red Hots, Ice Cold Bruschis, and Most Murderous for making up the 2010 post-season. Also, best of luck to everyone else in the Consolation Bracket in the fight for the #1 draft pick in 2011. This is your official (and extremely subjective) team-by-team preview of the playoff field, and then a look at this week's Wild Card Matchups. But first, be sure to click here to take a look at some facts and figures about the 2010 season in a special playoff version of Behind the Numbers . #1 seed - C-Men (11-2 overall, 6-0 divisional, Westwood Division Champion, 2nd place in points race) It's tough to find statistics that make the C-Men look bad. Perfect divisional record, perfect record against playoff foes, only 5 points back in the points race, tied for the all-time league reco...

Here's a bit of facts and history from our statistics department: Fact #1: With their 11-2 record, the C-Men have tied the AldenLeague record for best single season record ever, equaling the 2005 seasons for both CheektoWojo and The Skyns. Fact #2: With their 10-3 record, Fireseed moves into a 4-way tie for 2nd best record of all time with '03 Fireseed, '03 Syn City, and '03 Mayumi (Brian Fix). Fact #3: Considering Facts #1 and 2, the seven best records in league history were set over the course of only three individual seasons. Fact #4: For the first time since the league expanded to 12 teams, the 6 playoff teams are also the top 6 points-scorers during the regular season. Fact #5: Last season, Most Murderous ended the regular season on a 6-game losing streak, but made the playoffs. This season, they ended on a 3-game losing streak, but also made the playoffs. Fact #6: The BountyHunters missed the playoffs for the first four years of their existence, but have now ...