Week twenty-five wrap-up: Playoff consolation game: no consolation for the heartbroken

TEAM WHODATS                    441
ATLANTIC CITY SHARKS     335

Finishing in fourth hurts.  Hard.  Deja Vu all over again as the lineup was spectacularly bad and I took some serious missteps on the waiver wire.

Lineup:  The lineup was mediocre to wretched posting a total of 150 points.  Yikes.  Granted last weeks loss was so devastating I couldn't make myself even log in to my account until late Tuesday afternoon. As such I missed a 7 point Monday from Kendrys Morales.  Didn't make many waiver wire moves and the two moves that I did make netted a big fat -1.

The big stinkers for the week: Anthony Rendon (-4), Josh Reddick (4), Ender Inciarte (5), Ben Zobrist (9) and Buster Posey (4).  Rendon was absolutely gawd-awful with three hits and ten strikeouts in a full seven games, the others missed multiple starts because of either injury or their respective team was no longer in contention, or had their playoff spot wrapped up.  Regardless, what began the year as a bad lineup ended the year as a bad lineup.

Pitching:  the pitching staff was better than last week, but still way off the design threshold, posting a total of 185.  The bullpen was shaky once again, with Osuna (-5), Axford (3), Rosethal (7) and Ken Giles (5) all having off weeks.  King Felix didn't pitch at all, but the my waiver wire picks weren't horrible with 10 of fourteen posting starts of 14+.   Unfortunately the other four starts were a combined -31. Chris Heston (-16) and Roenis Elias (-12) being the big missteps of the week.

Conclusion:  Both the lineup and the pitching staff were bad so its hard to find one particular thing to point to and say, hey, if I fix that, I can roll into next year with a better team. Then again, I didn't start playing in earnest til Wednesday, so perhaps, next year, don't wait til the middle of the week to start playing.

FINAL LEAGUE STANDINGS
RANK	TEAM		REC	PF	PA	PF/G			PA/G	DIFF
1	Team TUNNEY		14-8	7889	7156	358.6			325.3	+33.3
2	Team Margot		12-10	8139	8494	370.0			386.1	-16.1
3	Team WhoDats		13-9	8620	8026	391.8			364.8	+27
4	Atlantic City Sharks		16-6	9075	8109	412.5			368.6	+43.9
5	The New York Metropolitans		10-11-1	7705	7815	350.2			355.2	-5
6	Veracruz Posse		12-10	8156	8004	370.7			363.8	+6.9
7	Team Virginia		9-13	7588	7734	344.9			351.5	-6.6
8	Space Wranglers		8-12-2	7666	8007	348.5			364.0	-15.5
9	Team Habs		8-13-1	7696	8110	349.8			368.6	-18.8
10	Team timotswan		6-16	7304	8383	332.0			381.0	-49