The 2008 DFFL Awards
Here are the results of the 2008 DFFL
News award-winning award winners.
Most Valuable Player
- Drew Brees (Flaming Liberals) The 24th player selected in
the 2008 draft was the top point producing player for the season, with 134 fantasy points 24 TD's and 7
games with at least 12 points. Runner up was QB Jay Cutler (Mean Machines)
who ended up with 107 Fantasy points in his 12 starts. Tony Romo - last year's MVP runner up, was a close third (105
in 9 starts)
DFFL Most Valuable Player - Past
winners:
|
1990 |
Warren Moon |
1999 |
Kurt Warner |
|
1991 |
Warren Moon |
2000 |
Duante Culpepper |
|
1992 |
Steve Young & |
2001 |
Jeff Garcia |
|
|
Dan Marino |
2002 |
Priest Holmes |
|
1993 |
no award given |
2003 |
Priest Holmes |
|
1994 |
no award given |
2004 |
Peyton Manning |
|
1995 |
no award given |
2005 |
Shaun Alexander |
|
1996 |
Terry Allen |
|
2006 |
LaDainian Tomlinson |
|
1997 |
Terrell Davis |
2007 |
Tom Brady |
|
1998 |
Steve Young |
|
|
Least Valuable Player - Torry Holt (Mountain Magic) The 51st selection
of the draft seemed like a decent pick at the time, but the artist formerly known as "Big Game" captured this season's
Ashely Lelie Award by racking up an impressive 13 fantasy points in his 12 starts.
Finishing a close second was Donald Driver (Lambeau's Leap) with 12 points spread
over 9 starts
DFFL Least Valuable Player - Past winners:
|
1996 |
Troy Drayton |
2002 |
Chris Chambers |
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|
1997 |
Eric Bjornson |
2003 |
Plaxico Burress |
|
|
1998 |
Michael Irvin |
2004 |
Donte' Stallworth |
|
|
1999 |
Kevin Dyson |
2005 |
Ashley Lelie |
|
|
2000 |
No award given |
2006 |
Ashley Lelie & Troy Williamson |
|
2001 |
Keyshawn Johnson |
2007 |
Laurence Mauroney |
|
Rookie(s)
of the Year - Matt Forte & Steve Slaton (Cosa
Nostra) Forte, picked 63rd overall, was the leading rookie scorer with 64 fantasy points
in 11 starts. Slaton, selected 135th, finished a close second with 53 fantasy points in his 7 starts. Also receiving
consideration were RB Chris Johnson (Mountain Magic)
with 42 points in 9 starts and Tim Hightower
(Mountain Magic/Cheeseheads from Hell) 24 points from 7 appearences.
Late Round Steal - Steve Slaton
& Tim Hightower - Both selected in the 12th round, the rookie RB's were two of
the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal back half of the draft. The other players taken in round 12 were Tony Scheffler,
JaMarcus Russell, Tony Gonzalez, Jeremy Shockey, Shayne Graham, Ted Ginn Jr., Warrick
Dunn, Indianapolis Defense, Travaris Jackson and Jacob Hester
First Round Draft Bricks - Tom
Brady (Mountain Magic) & Steven Jackson (Puppet Meat Reloaded) While not as disastrous as last year's
first round, no one put up anywhere close to the numbers expected from a #1 pick. While Brady's selection
couldn't be helped, Jackson earned his spot by putting up 31 fantasy points in his 7 starts - 23 of those coming in one
game.
Free Agent pick up of the Year - Kurt
Warner (Threat Level Orange/Cosa Nostra) Picked up prior to week #1 by Threat
Level Orange, Warner is currently the 2nd highest scoring player in the league overall, and scored 88 fantasy points
in his 8 starts - all of which came after being traded.
Waste of Space Award - Congratulations
to Pierre Thomas (Flaming Liberals), Ricky Williams (Gamblers) and JaMarcus Russell
(FTC)
All 3 will share this year's Chuck Evans Memorial
Award, given annually to the player(s) who are drafted by a DFFL team, spend the entire year on the
roster, but never make it into the starting lineup.
Blindfold Award - Matt
Schaub (Threat Level Orange) wins this year's award - given
annually to the player who makes the most out of their single start. Schaub came off the bench in week #8 and put up
15 fantasy points - 3 TD's and 280 passing yards. Finishing second was Gamblers QB Matt
Cassell, who only played during week #7 and managed to toss 3 TD passes - good for 12
fantasy points
Award for the Most Awards Award - This award is given annually to the team(s) who appear most often in the Bogus Move
of the Week column - Mountain Magic runs away with this year's
award with a league record 7 BMOTW mentions this season. Other teams receiving votes were Gamblers (4
mentions) Puppet Meat (3), Threat Level Orange (2) Mean Machines (2), Lambeau's Leap (2), Cosa Nostra (1) and Axis
of Weasel (1)
