NHNP: 2011 League Awards

League Awards for 2010

No Helmets No Pads
League Champion: daddypoopypants
Silver: Girlz Rule
Bronze: Jcougs

Regular Season Champion: Jcougs
Second Place: No Homers
Third Place: daddypoopypants
Fourth Place: Girlz Rule


League High Scorer: Jcougs
Golden Doughnut: Jcougs (Most high scores, 5)
Most Improved: Girlz Rule (9th to 4th)
The Rodney King Beatdown Award: No Homers (Most blowouts)**
The Mummy's Hand: No winner in 2011*
Toughest Schedule: benchwarmer
League MVP: No winner in 2011*

Wow! What a year! Lockouts, injuries, and record passing statistics in the NFL and in fantasy.  In the No Helmets No Pads league, it was also the first time in league history that both the Minnesota Americans and the No Homers franchises walked away without any hardware.

Ugh.

First, congratulations again to daddypoopypants, Girlz Rule, and Jcougs. Poopypants has been knocking on the door for a while, so it was only a matter of time. Jcougs had a strong showing his first time out in the league, and only next year will tell if he can repeat.  As for Girlz Rule, I swear I don't know how she does it, but just when you count her out .....what the.....is that Girlz???! Her silver trophy this year makes her tied for the all-time lead in hardware with the unfortunate gentlemen mentioned in the first paragraph.


Next year is going to be u g l y.


For those of you new to the league, you'll notice that I also list the regular season champion. I do this because getting the best record during the regular season is a big deal in a competitive league like this, and has a lot of talent/merit content to me.  Jcougs managed an excellent 11-3 regular season record, and No Homers was not too far behind at 10-4. Kudos.

This year's award for most blowouts goes to No Homers.  There was a actually a 3-way tie for this award, with Jcougs, and daddypoopypants, broken by the strength of schedule tie-breaker.  For the second year in a row, no Mummy's Hand was awarded, though I thought it was cute that Devil Dogs had such a high score the last week of the season. There was no MVP selected this year, although I was tempted to select everyone, but thought that might be a bit corny.


I'm looking forward to next year (2012), so I can erase any memory of what happened to me during "The Season the Lockout Ruined!"


See you in the summer!