Week 16: Semifinal boxscores

SERKUS 45, GAGA 33

Gaga (33)
QB Manning NYG 5
RB Powell NYJ 11
RB Coleman ATL 6
WR Hopkins HOU 6
WR D. Thomas DEN zero
PK Dawson AZ 5

Serkus (45)
QB Brady NE 9
RB E. Elliott DAL 3
RB Gurley LAR 24
WR D. Bryant DAL zero
WR Baldwin SEA 6
PK Walsh SEA  3

QUAGS 40, EGGERS 39

Quags (40)
QB Rivers LAC 8
RB Hunt KC 9
RB Ingram NO 6
TE Gronkowski NE 6
WR Gordon CLE zero
PK Gano CAR 11

Eggers (39)
QB Roethlisberger PIT 9
RB Bell PIT 6
RB Kamara NO zero
WR Hill KC 5
TE Ertz PHI 3
PK Gostkowski NE 16

Week 16: Semifinal previews

BRADY GAGA (8-7) at SERKUS ACT (12-3)
at Baraboo West High School, Baraboo, Wis. (Home of Circus World Museum)

Playoff records: Gaga owner Sean King (0-0); Serkus owner Stan Goff (8-8)

Head to head: Serkus 47, Gaga 19 (Week 10)

The skinny: King makes his Finks League postseason debut in his third season... Gaga enters the playoffs short-handed with the loss of WR A. Brown PIT, one of the NFL's top receivers, due to an injury... Goff won his fifth division title after winning the Tomlinson Division by a points tiebreaker over Quags... Goff's playoff wins ranks second behind Matt Simo (nine wins). He also has appeared in the second most postseason games behind Mike Miazga (17).

Projected starters: Gaga -- Taylor, Mixon, Powell, Hopkins, D. Thomas, Dawson. Serkus -- Brady, E. Elliott, Gurley, Baldwin, D. Bryant, Zuerlein.

The pick: Serkus 45, Gaga 30.

HURRICANE QUAGS (12-3) at HAM N EGGERS (12-3)
At Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh



Playoff records: Quags (4-6); Eggers owner Mike Miazga (7-9-1)

Head to head: Quags 56, Eggers 44 (Week 3); Eggers 41, Quags 20 (Week 9)

The skinny: With three record-setting 12-win teams in the league this season, this semifinal is a first for a Finks postseason. ... The Eggers went on a record 10-game win streak after losing to Quags in Week 3. The Eggers lost their last two in the regular season. ... The Eggers won the Warner Division by four games. Miazga is making his seventh consecutive playoff appearance.

Projected starters: Quags -- Rivers, Hunt, Ingram, Gronkowski, Gordon, Gano. Eggers -- Roethlisberger, Bell, Kamara, Hill, Ertz, Gostkowski.

The pick: Eggers 50, Quags 45.

Week 15: Playoff races down to final week

The original QB Finks PIT

Coming into the final weekend of the regular season, the only known thing is that the Ham N Eggers have clinched the Warner Division title. Who the Eggers will face in the playoffs and much more will be determined after Monday Night Football.

The Eggers (12-2) have already equaled a Finks League record for wins in a season and could own the record by itself with a victory against Brady Gaga (7-7).

The Tomlinson Division champion will be determined after Week 15. Hurricane Quags and Serkus Act are tied with 11-3 records. The two teams split their season series and Serkus has the advantage over Quags in the tiebreaker (points scored in the season). Entering Week 15, Serkus leads 644-569. Both teams are in the playoffs. The division runner-up will play the Eggers in the semifinals. Quags seeks his first division title since 2008 while Serkus last won a division title in 2014 while going on to win Finger Bowl 21 with a 54-30 victory over the Eggers. 

In Week 15, Quags meets defending Finger Bowl champion Just a Fantasy (7-7) while Serkus plays the Portsmouth Spartans (5-9).

The other key playoff race determines the runner-up in the Warner Division between Fantasy and Gaga. The Warner runner-up will meet the Tomlinson Division champion (Quags or Serkus) in the Week 16 semifinals. In the event of a tied record, Gaga owns the series advantage with two wins over Fantasy, 25-20 in Week 1 and 64-42 in Week 11.

Fantasy must win and needs a Gaga loss to advance,

Week 14: Eggers quietly setting records

While the Eggers have run away to clinch the Warner Division championship, veteran owner Mike Miazga's HNEs won their 10th consecutive game with a 62-49 victory over the Jays in Week 13.

The Eggers have broken one of the Finks League's oldest records when former owner Mike Wilcox won nine consecutive games in 1995 with his Kansas City Kings in our second season. During the streak, the Eggers have been an offensive juggernaut by scoring over 50 points in their last three matches. The Eggers appear to be peaking at just the right time with back-to-back 60-point plus efforts.

HNE could break one more major record in Week 14 with another win. With a 12-1 record, the Eggers have tied six other teams with a 12-win season in Finks regular season play. No team has ever won 13 games in a Finks season. This season's 12 wins is a Ham N Eggers' franchise record for a regular season. Miazga has previously won a career-high 10 games in 1998 and 2015.

The only loss for the Eggers this season was in Week 3, a 56-44 defeat to Quags.

In Week 14, the Eggers face Fantasy (6-7) in a must-win for defending Finger Bowl champ Jeff Newton to keep his playoff hopes alive.

Week 12: Serkus vs. Quags Showdown

In what could be a preview of the Finger Bowl, the second meeting between Serkus Act and Hurricane Quags was just enjoyable as the first meeting.

Serkus had a one-point lead and the win entering Monday Night Football and tacked on an additional six points on a WR Baldwin SEA touchdown.

But the biggest fluke was the battle between PKs, Quags' Tavecchio OAK and Serkus' Zuerlein LAR. Make that lack of a battle. Their kickers combined for one point in the match courtesy of the Rams' Legatron. 

Quags: "hate to say this, but I would have been better off having Barth as my kicker yesterday."

Serkus owner Stan Goff: "I really do not recall a Finks matchup EVER where the two teams' kickers combine for one point.

And the Rams and Raiders each have two potent offenses....

Crazy."

The match's high scorer was Serkus QB Brady NE (16 pts).

CLINCHERS: With Week 12 wins, the Eggers (10-1) and Serkus (9-2) clinched playoff berths and lead each of their divisions, Serkus by one game and the Eggers by a wide margin. 

Week 12: When your only bad football team is in Finks League

RT Ramczyk NO

Every fall, I have three favorite football teams to root for : The New Orleans Saints, Wisconsin Badgers and My Finks League Leatherheads.

Well, I'm settling just fine with two out of three this season. I've been thinking quite a lot lately about starting Saints right tackle Ryan Ramczyk, who was drafted out of Wisconsin and has started all 10 games this season for the current NFC South leaders. Ramczyk started off at left tackle when Terron Armistead was injured and then he shifted to the right side when Zach Strief went down.

The Saints have won eight in a row after their thrilling OT win against Washington and the Badgers are having their best regular season in school history. Bucky needs wins against the rival Gophers and probably Ohio State to reach the CFP semifinals.

I can't recall enjoying Monday mornings any better when I've seen Bucky and the Who Dats win nearly every weekend.

Of course, this year's Portsmouth Spartans in Finks League have lacked any magic on my part. Call it Dah Commish errors when I gave up too soon on RB Ingram NO, who was just dreadful as long as RB A. Peterson NO was around. My biggest auction bust was WR Cooper OAK, who got me so excited when I was entering Week 1. WR Diggs MIN dropped off due to a mid-season injury. All of my Spartans RBs (Miller HOU, Crowell CLE, Montgomery GB, J. Allen BAL, Stewart CAR, Collins BAL, Darkwa NYG, McKinnon MIN) have stunk.

The only thing keeping me around .500 has been QB Stafford DET and pick a PK.

There is still plenty of football to be played, but how terrific would be a Saints trip to the NFC championship game and a Bucky appearance in a playoff bowl that matters? Despite my Finks League failures, football has been fun to watch again.

Week 8: Jinxed

Distillers PK Butker KC

Dah Blog put the jinx on Hurricane Quags after Week 7 with a post about the Quags' potential record-breaking winning streak. With seven wins to start the season, the Canes needed two wins to tie former owner Mike Wilcox's record of nine consecutive league wins.

But the Distillers beat Quags 58-43 in Week 8. The Distillers picked up PK Butker KC in Week 8 to add to a roster of three PKs. Distillers owner Dan Cassidy was forced to start Butker due to byes for his other kickers (Crosby GB and Succop TEN).

Butker, who was only added to the KC roster in Week 4, kicked five field goals of 42, 51, 43, 32 and 25 yards on Monday night against DEN. That single performance turned the Distillers from a possible loser to an upset winner. Butker's Player of the Week 25 points is the second greatest POW total of the season behind RB Hunt KC's 26 points in the opening week for Quags.

Butker is 18-for-19 on field goals this season and perfect on all 11 of his extra-point attempts. 

Butker's 25 points also eclipsed another great Week 8 performance. The Brawlers won their second game of the season with a 53-46 win over the Jays behind QB Watson HOU's 21 points.