Fantasy Report: Week 12 final

With just one more week of regular season before the fantasy play-offs start many of the play-off ladder positions remain undetermined. It looks, however, as if teams with records under .500 will not be playing games in the post-season. Interosseous Membrane raised out of the ashes this week, getting onto the scoreboard for the first time all week with Mario Matt winning the gold medal in the final race of World Championships and providing enough points in the slalom position to give the Moser-Proell Division leader its tenth win of the season. The Membrane was nearly the only team to get benefit from the men's slalom due to the large DNF rate. The Destroyers stretched its win streak to six games with a narrow win over Ribbons in a battle of GS gold medals. The Destroyers got the women's gold from Hosp and 45 points from Julia Mancuso.

 
WITH JUST ONE MORE WEEK of regular season before the fantasy playoffs start, many of the playoff ladder positions remain undetermined. It looks, however, as if teams with records under .500 will not be playing games in the postseason. Interosseous Membrane raised out of the ashes this week, getting onto the scoreboard for the first time all week with Mario Matt winning the gold medal in the final race of World Championships and providing enough points in the slalom position to give the Moser-Proell Division leader its 10th win of the season. The Membrane was nearly the only team to get benefit from the men's slalom due to the large DNF rate. The Destroyers stretched its win streak to six games with a narrow win over Ribbons in a battle of GS gold medals. The Destroyers got the women's gold from Hosp and 45 points from Julia Mancuso. Ribbons countered with the men's GS win from Svindal but got just 10 from Hermann Maier and tasted defeat. Hilary's Hellacious Hardcore snagged a win away from the Birds of Pray when a the latter gambled heavily on men's slalom results and got tagged for it. The Hardcore got a bronze medal from Anja Paerson and 26 more from Genevieve Simard while the Birds management could only look on in horror as Marc Berthod and Markus Larsson failed to bring in any points. The Balloon Animal Commandos dispatched The Blacks mostly through the overall positions with Kathrin Zettel bringing in a two race total of 74 and Tanja Poutiainen a two race total of 36.

Moser-Proell Division standings
1 Interosseous Membrane    10-2-0              2234           W5*
2 Destroyers                       7-4-1                 1987          W6*
3 Hilary’s Hellacious             7-5-0                2002           W2
4 Birds of Pray                     6-6-0                  2283         L2
5 Ribbons                            6-6-0                  2037        L4
6 Balloon Animal                 4-8-0               1695           W1
7 White Circus Watch           4-8-0               1655            L1
8 The Blacks                       3-8-1                1330           L2
*assured playoff position

Moser-Proell Division results
Week ends Feb. 17
Balloon Animal Commandos 126 vs The Blacks 86
Interosseous Membrane 100  vs White Circus Watch 20
Hilary's Hellacious Hardcore 94 vs Birds of Pray 42
Destroyers 145 vs Ribbons 110

Moser-Proell Division schedule
week ends Feb. 25.
The Blacks vs White Circus Watch
Interosseous Membrane vs Hilary's Hellacious Hardcore
Birds of Pray vs Balloon Animal Commandos
Ribbons vs Destroyers

Stenmark Division
Sammyz Slammers ran its win streak to eight, topped the 3,000 point mark and took commanding lead of the top of the Stenmark Division assuring itself a top seed in the playoffs with a 220-71 shellacking of Ranger Rick. With Marlies Schild's silver medal points in both an overall and the slalom position and Didier Cuche's bronze in the other overall slot it was a cakewalk for the Slammers.
   Smokin' Mirrors edged by Rand Corp thanks to a huge two race tally of 104 from Maria Pietila Holmner, Bennie Raich finishing the slalom for 50 more and a 36 point contribution from Anna Ottosson in GS. Rand Corp pushed back with a formidable effort and 114 from Hosp in overall plus 50 from Ted Ligety in GS, but couldn't quite turn the corner. Team PMS dusted Dave's Dumpster Divers thanks largely to a crafty pick up of Ana Jelusic who brought in 50 just missing the slalom podium. The Kevlar Lederhosen took big bites all week with Raich and Ligety each tossing in 50 for the races they did finish, Resi Stiegler adding 32 more and Mancuso 45, any one of which was enough to throw out the Hammer who had Hermann Maier, with 10, leading the roster. 

Stenmark Division standings
1 Sammy'z Slammers          10-2-0           3098         W8*
2 Smokin Mirrors                 7-5-0             2079         W1
3 Kevlar Lederhosen            7-5-0            1839          W3
4 Rand Corporation             6-6-0            1825          L1
5 Team PMS                        6-6-0           1796          W1
6 Dave’s Dumpster Divers  &
nbsp;  4-8-0           1551           L1
7 Ranger Rick                     4-8-0           1418            L3
8 The Hammers                  4-8-0           1193            L4
* assured playoff position

Stemark Division results
Week ends Feb 17
Team PMS 93 vs Daves Dumpster Divers 16
Sammyz Slammers 220 vs Ranger Rick 71
Smokin Mirrors 190 vs Rand Corporation 173
Kevlar Lederhosen 177 vs Hammers 14

Stenmark Division schedule
Team PMS vs Sammyz Slammers
Ranger Rick vs Rand Corporation
Smokin' Mirrors vs Dave's Dumpster Divers
The Hammers vs Kevlar Lederhosen

League Transactions: Birds of Pray 2/13 drops Nyman OV2 replacing with Markus Larsson.
Smokin Mirrors 2/11 drops Staudacher OV1, Sponring OV2 replacing with Byggmark and Pietila Holmner

League Rosters:
Ranger Rick: Palander OV1, Buechel OV2, Maier DH, Palander SL, Maze GS, Maze SG
Hammers: Walchhofer OV1, Grandi OV2, S Berthod DH, Larsson SL, Maier GS, Meissnitzer SG
Birds of Pray: M Berthod OV1, Lsarsson, OV2, Walchhofer DH, M Berthod SL, Poutiainen GS, Kildow SG
Interosseous Membrane: Goetschl OV1, Scheiber OV2, Guay DH, Matt SL, Paerson GS, Svindal SG
Smokin' Mirrors: Byggmark OV1, Pietila Holmner OV2, Kildow DH, Raich SL, Ottosson GS, Kucera SG
Ribbons: Svindal OV1, Maier OV2, Nyman DH, I Kostelic SL, Raich GS, Maier SG
Destroyers: Mancuso OV1, Strobl OV2, Grugger DH. Ligety SL, Hosp GS, Ludlow SG
Balloon Animal Commandos: Zettel OV1, Poutiainen OV2, Strobl DH, Rocca SL, Miller GS, Clark SG
The Blacks: E Goergl OV1, VanderBeek, OV2, Mancuso DH, Borssen SL, Kirchgasser GS, Mancuso SG
Daves Dumpster Divers: Miller OV1, Rocca OV2, Fill DH, Grandi SL, Rienda GS, Hosp SG
Kevlar Lederhosen: Raich OV1,Ligety OV2, Svindal DH, Stiegler SL, Mancuso GS, Fill SG
Sammyz Slammers: Schild OV1, Cuche OV2, Goetschl DH, Schild SL, Blardone GS, Gruber SG
White Circus Watch: Kildow OV1, Defago OV2, Kernen DH, Minagawa SL, Simoncelli GS, Fischbacher SG
Rand Corporation: Hosp OV1, Maze OV2, Aufdenblatten DH, Sasaki SL, Ligety GS, Guay SG
Hillary's Hellacious Hardcore: Paerson OV1, Fill OV2, Buechel DH, Tissot SL, Simard GS, S Goergl SG
Team PMS: Jelusic OV1, Meissnitzer OV2, Hosp DH, Hosp SL, Zettel GS, Goetschl SG.

Forum League Report
    Kashalot roared back from an off week with a massive 280 score centered on Hosp's win in GS, Schild's silver in slalom and Raich and Ligety each contributing fourth place results. Tristate Alumni did not put up much fight with only Bode Miller and Hermann Maier offering any points at all, and those darned scant. Sbtski shut out Skibum thanks for Svindal's win, Mancuso and Simard contributing. NY8738jr helped tighten things in the standings by downing Extremeskier, getting scoring from every possible team position headlined with Paerson. Dewitt Cave powdered MGB with Svindal in the GS position and Zettel adding a two race tally of 74.

Forum League standings
1 Kashalot            9-3-0                2539        W1
2 Sbtski               8-4-0                2733        W1
3 Extremeskier     7-5-0               2731        L1
4 NY8739jr          6-6-0               2365         W2
5 Dewitt Cave       6-6-0             2106         W1
6 Skibum             6-6-0                2007       L1
7 Tristatealumni   3-8-1             1423        L4
8 MGB                  2-9-0             1530     L1

Forum League results
NY8738jr 165 vs Extremeskier 116
Kashalot 280 vs Tristatealumni 26
Dewitt Cave 174 vs MGB118
Sbtski4 171 vs Skibum 0

Forum League schedule
week ends Feb. 25
NY8739jr vs Tristate Alumni
Kashalot vs Dewitt Cave
MGB vs Extremeskier
Skibum vs Sbtski

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League Rosters
NY8739jr:  Paerson OV1, Buechel OV2, Walchhofer DH, Raich SL, Zettel GS, Svindal SG
Kashalot: Raich OV1, Ligety OV2, Miller DH, Schild SL, Hosp GS, Fischbacher, SG
MGB: Hosp OV1, Aamodt OV2, Aufdenblatten DH, Poutiainen SL, Paerson GS, Maier SG
Skibum: Kildow OV1, Meissnitzer OV2, Buechel DH, Sasaki SL, Blardone GS, Meissnitzer SG
Sbtski: Svindal OV1, Mancuso OV2, Strobl DH, Tissot SL, Simard GS, Kildow SG
Extremeskier: Schld OV1, Palander OV2, Goetschl DH, Rocca SL, Raich GS, Mancuso SG
Tristate Alumni: Miller OV1, Maier OV2, Maier DH, Palander SL, Rienda GS, Reichelt SG
Dewitt Cave: Zettel OV1, Walchhofer OV2, Kildow DH, Grandi SL, Svindal SG, Hosp SG.