Greetings and salutations, Razzballians! Do you know what time it is? Time… of year, I mean? I don’t know what time it is where you are, or when you’re reading this. That wouldn’t make sense. I’m not a wizard. But time of year? Do you know what time of year it is?
It’s Cutline time.
After the All-Star Break next week, the top six contenders in each RazzSlam league will move on to the RazzSlam Playoffs. There, they’ll have a real chance at glory, and continue on their RazzSlam journey.
In addition, everyone who finishes 7th through 12th in their league will have one last chance: those teams will play a single-scoring-period Consolation Round, where just two teams will move up to the Wild Card Bracket in the 2nd round of the Playoffs. Just two, of 132 teams. Good luck!
But we’re here to take a look at the Playoffs. I thought, like last year, that I could look at the top of the Overall and talk about how similar those teams are, but then… that seemed kind of boring?
How about instead, we go through all 22 RazzSlam leagues, and look at the Cutline from that perspective: how do the 6th and 7th place teams in each league look going into the final days of the RazzSlam “regular season”?
As I say in the Two Start Dive Bar: let’s dive in.
Note: These standings/points are from before the games of Friday, July 15.
League 1
In sixth place, Skyler Carlin of FantasyPros has a healthy 90-point lead over fan Nick Pacchioli.
League 2
Aaron Knight of Rotoballer is sitting comfortably, 75 points ahead of 7th place, fan John Wallace.
League 3
In 6th place, Rotoheaven’s Kevin Daly has a commanding 315-point lead over Fantasy Alarm’s Ryan Hallam.
League 4
In the biggest gap of the tournament, NBC’s Matt Williams is sitting pretty, with more than 400 points separating him from Razzball superfan Mike Eckard.
League 5
In 6th, RotoWire’s Jacob Dunne is doing just fine, with 72 points separating him from FantasySixPack’s Mike Schneider.
League 6
Now here’s a tight race: Rototrix’s Ryan Owen is just 24 points clear of Regular Joe, Mike Stencel. Anything can happen with four days of games left…
League 7
Just 40 points separates fan Rick Garlinghouse in 6th from RotoFanatic’s Michael Richards. That kind of showdown is exactly what the RazzSlam is all about!
League 8
Another close contest, as 28 points is all that keeps fan Curtis Jones in the Playoffs, and high stakes stalwart John Fish out. Can the shark chomp up that gap in four game days? We’ll know next week!
League 9
I swear I’m not making this one up… in League 9, sixth place Scott Pianowski of Yahoo is just a single point ahead of The Fantasy Fix’s Alan Harrison. Just one. Anybody’s ballgame!
League 10
SP Streamer’s Doug Ishikawa finds himself in sixth here, but just 29 points ahead of Regular Joe, Kurt Brown.
League 11
Here, high stakes player Anthony Gialde is 96 points clear of fantasy football analyst Jeff Smith, which is a comfortable gap.
League 12
In League 12, we have another Pro vs Joe bubble, as fan Derek Blake finds himself a very nice 69 points clear of industry giant, Jeff Erickson of RotoWire.
League 13
A battle of big names as RotoWire’s Mike Barner is leading NumberFire’s Kenyatta Storin by 116 points, which should be enough to allow Mike to hold on.
League 14
Why, here’s a familiar name! Yours truly, Razzball’s Steve Paulo, finds, err, himself/myself, just 45 points above Fantrax’s Chris Clegg… and yeah… I’m sweating it. Perhaps acquiring a grand total of zero players in FAAB wasn’t a great strategy…
League 15
NumberFire’s Matt Kupferle finds himself a comfortable 92 above 7th place, fan Joseph Camp, in this league.
League 16
Ed Rice finds himself sitting pretty here, a massive 311 points ahead of BaseballHQ’s Ray Murphy.
League 17
In League 17, fan Josh Herman is 76 points ahead of another BaseballHQ analyst, Brant Chesser.
League 18
Mike Sollicito finds himself with an insurmountable 241-point lead over Razzball fan Pat Reynolds.
League 19
364 points separates sixth place, RotoWear’s Ken Cashman, from Van Burnett of Pitcher List. Looks like Ken is still in the running to win one of his own shirts!
League 20
FantasyPros’ Joe Pisapia finds himself leading fan Leonard Tang by a comfortable 99 points in League 20.
League 21
Friends With Fantasy Benefits’ own Zach Meyer is 96 points clear of Pitcher List’s Stephen Gesuele.
League 22
In this, the final of RazzSlam’s 22 leagues, Regular Joe, Mark Devitt has plenty of padding, 198 points’ worth, separating him from DraftBuddy’s Chris Spencer.
And that’s it. 22 leagues, 15 bubble gaps of less than 100 points, six of less than 50 points, and of course, League 9’s statistically-improbable single-point bubble.
Good luck to all the bubble teams! Except for Chris Clegg. Not you. I hope you don’t clear that gap. Sorry man. I gotta look out for number one.
