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Season 6
The 6th Tecmo Season is finished. The Chicago Penguin Kings have won. Chicago used home field throughout the play-offs to it's advantage, easily dispatching Cleveland in the semi-finals 16-0, and then San Fransico 20-3 in the Tecmo Bowl. Mike Gentry returned the opening kick-off in both games and won the play-off MVP award for his efforts.
Season 6 Spreadsheet -
Week by Week Results - Final Standings - The Play-Offs - The Awards
The Rules 3 human players each with 4 teams battle it out for the Tecmo Bowl. 2 divisons (6 teams each), with 2 of each guys team in each, play a 10 week season to determine who goes to the play-offs. The 10 week season is broken up into playing your 4 non-controlled teams in your divison twice each (1 home, 1 away) and 2 inter-divisons games (1 vs. each other human player). At the end of the 10 week 60 game sched the top 3 teams in each divison make the play-offs with the 1st place team in each divison getting a bye for the first round of the play-offs. Play-offs are single game elimination and feature the #2 vs. the #3 in each divison, with the #2 seed getting the game at home. The winner of each game faces their divison's winner with the #1 seed at home. The 2 winners face in the Tecmo Bowl.The play-off tie breakers are as follows: Head-to-head record, record vs. common opponets, PF-PA, Opposition Win%. If it is still tied after that then we have no contengency plan, but what are the odds? The Draft
To determine who gets what teams we held a draft for teams. Non-snaked and in the order of Kyle, Cam, Derek every round. The order was pre-determined that way based on playing ability (after much complaining and deliberating), least to most, which now a days is shot to hell. Next season is going to be messy to get right. Anyway the draft order is as follows:
Draft Analysis
In Round 2 there were some tougher decisions to be made. Kyle took his favourite team, the Browns, as he can't get enough of their being good at everything. The 5th selection was one of the tougher in the whole draft as both Denver and San Fran were very close. After much deliberation Cam decided on the John Elway led Broncos. Leaving San Fran as the obvious 6th pick.
Round 3 saw Seattle go 7th, as they should, and left Cam with another tough call at #8. Miami or Indy. Miami was coming off a remarkable 9-1 Season 4 campaign but had been slumping in recent games. In a somewhat shocking move Cam selected the Colts based on their awesome offense and the fact that with Indy he would have loads of Miami-beating teams (Chicago, Denver and Indy). Derek quickly snapped up Miami at #9 proclaiming to be very happy to get a team that made the Tecmo Bowl Finals in Season 4 with the 9th overall pick.
The last round (aka the doledrums). Kyle took the all-offense, no-defense Cowboys with his 4th round selection, leaving Cam to take gay Minnesota, and Derek to take worst team in the game Washington. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Other then the fact of how quickly Washington has fallen. The Season 2 Tecmo Bowl victors (via crook, but none the less) are now the last overall selection in Season 6.
The Divisions To determine the divisons a random draw was held with the only rules being that obviously only 2 of the same human teams per divison. Divisions play a MAJOR factor in determining who will come out on top and what teams will have play-off hopes and dreams.
The Divisons The East: Chicago, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Cleveland, Dallas
The West: New York, Seattle, Denver, Minnesota, San Francisco, Washington
The Divison Analysis The East is clearly the stronger of the divisons with no fewer then 5 teams coming in with play-offs hopes (CHI, LA, MIA, CLE and IND). The West has the 2 last teams in the draft, 2 mortal locks for the post season in the Giants and 49ers, and has Denver and Seattle in a likely battle for the 3rd play-off spot. Standard John Elway rules applied here as they always do, that is, Denver ALWAYS lands in the weaker divison. Never fails. It will be going up on the immutable laws page soon. The All Important Inter-League Games Weeks 4 and 7 are the inter-division games and play a big part in what teams have the easy road to the play-offs and what teams are getting the shaft. More notable Week 4 games include: Dallas vs. Denver, Cleveland vs. San Francisco, and most notable of all: Los Angeles vs. New York. Some bigger Week 7 games are: San Francisco vs. Indianapolis, Washington vs. Cleveland, and Chicago vs. New York.
The Big Winners: Denver (DAL, MIA). Well yeah that is about it, everyone else is facing at least 1 tough game. Vegas Weighs In Normally we give each team odds of winning the whole thing before the season started but stupidly we didn't this time (it was everyone's fault but mine), instead we'll just opt for a generic order favourite to underdog. Here it is:
Yeah powerful Chicago coming in as the pre-season favs. New York is the clear best team but everyone still has their doubts as to whether Kyle can pull out another season victory with a Giants team that quite frankly has dropped a bit in recent weeks. If you wanted to try to win a ton of money you should probably bet on Indy. Way down the list they should pay out huge odds and realisticly can beat stronger teams. Do not bet on Minnesota, Washington or Dallas, they can't win. Repeat: can't win. To illustrate the point:
What will not happen. At all. The Results
Week 1
A couple of big Week 1 upsets. LA over CHI has to be considered an upset, and a big win for LA. Minnesota beating the New York Giants is outrageous. A demoralizing loss for the Giants, not the way to start the new season.
Game of the Week: MIN-NYG
Week 2
Minnesota used the momentum they got from that Week 1 victory to scare the hell out of SF only to lose on a questionable play. WSH scores 10 points(!) and manages to lose!! And IND beats MIA on the road in an important divisional game.
Game of the Week: WSH-SEA
Week 3
SF beats DEN in an exciting game. Minnesota wins another game, sparking talk of a mircle season. And McConkney does something. Wild and crazy week.
Game of the Week: SF-DEN
Week 4
Inter-division week saw the West having all the home games, and saw them
go 5-1 against the East. Cleveland won a close one, Dallas shocked Denver,
and the Giants spanked LA around.
Game of the Week: CLE-SF, DAL-DEN
Week 5
SEA beat DEN convincingly in a huge play-off implications game, the Giants
outlasted SF in a big game, Minnesota's dreams of a good season were shattered
with a loss to WSH, and Bo Jackson decided to bust some heads. A big week of
Tecmo action.
Game of the Week: SF-NYG
Week 6
The NYG get some revenge on a demoralized MIN squad. The dice vanquish
CLE, Denver gets their first home game of the season, Bo still busting heads,
and IND completes the sweep of MIA.
Game of the Week: CLE-CHI
Week 7
The DAL-MIN game shocked everyone by actually being good. Kyle totally destroys the Penguin Kings but forgets to actually get his points, leading to a big OT victory for CHI, and the likely #1 seed. LA lets Denver down in a big gay way, courtesy of everytime. Denver is rattled and loses to Miami at home shamefully. And Indy finally beats San Fran as their big push to make the play-off continues. A very good week of Tecmo. Should have played 2. Game of the Week: NYG-CHI
Week 8
A good week of Tecmo sees Cam go 4-0, and a rusty Kyle go 0-4, despite playing well enough to win 2 of his games. LA losing to IND at home is shocking, and really shows the power of Indy in recent weeks. 2 weeks to go and only 2 teams mathematically out.
Week 9
Week 10
Final West Standings
Final East Standings
The Play-Offs
The play-offs opened with a close game, that saw Cleveland beating Indy in overtime on the back of a McNeil KR to the Indy 30, putting them in field goal range. The New York Football Giants made it into field goal range very early in the game and decided to attempt the FG right away to get points on the board. The FG was arguably the shortest kick ever to be counted, many think it clearly didn't make it through the uprights. The Giants held the 3-0 lead throughout and kicked another field with just seconds remaining. Awards
The Bo Knows Offense Award - Awarded to the Team Scoring the Most
Points in the Regular Season - Chicago.
PF-PA Award - Given to the Team With the Best PF-PA in the Regular
Season - Chicago
The John Elway Award - Awarded to the Team Recording the Most Regular Season Wins - Chicago
The MVP Award - Awarded to the Regular Season's Most Valuable Player -
Undecided.
The West Play-Offs - DEN over SF, NYG over DEN.
The East Play-Offs - LA over CLE, CHI over LA.
Tecmo Bowl VI - CHI over NYG.
Play-Off MVP - Mike Gentry
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