Final results, the championship

Championship match
Ponch: 41 points vs. Isaac, Your Bartender: 41 points (tie)

Third-place match
Carol Seaver: 40 points vs. A.J. Simon: 17 points

So our final ended up in a tie. Congrats to Ponch and Isaac!

Celebrity scores, Playoff week 3

Aniston: 10
A. Baldwin: 0
V. Beckham: 0
Bono: 1
Borghese: 1
Cruise: 1
Damon: 0
Dempsey: 2
S. Evans: 6
Federline: 1
Holmes: 4
K. Hudson: 2
Johannsen: -1
Jolie: 4
Kidman: 1
Lachey: 1
Longoria: 1
Madonna: 7
Pitt: 2
N. Richie: 1
J. Simpson: 1
Timberlake: 0
Urban: 0
Vaughn: 2
O. Wilson: 0

Cover, Playoff week 3

Britney: 13 points (it's about time)
Aniston: 3 points
Sara Evans: 3 points
Mr. Evans: 3 points
Madonna: 3 points

Isaac, Your Bartender: 9 points
Ponch: 9 points
Carol Seaver: 9 points
A.J. Simon: 0 points

We Are Not Alone

It seems that Bill Simmons has inspired numerous fantasy leagues as reported here. Why no love for us?

Carol Seaver, Playoff Week 3

Women
Aniston
S. Evans
Kidman
Holmes
Madonna
Jolie
Richie

Men
Cruise
Dempsey
Federline
Lachey
Urban
Vaughn
O. Wilson

Ponch, Playoff Week 3

Men
Alec Baldwin
Tom Cruise
Patrick Dempsey
K Fed
Nick Lachey
Vince Vaughan
Owen Wilson

Women
Jennifer Aniston
Sara Evans
Katie Holmes
Kate Hudson
Angelina Jolie
Madonna
Nicole Ritchie

Isaac, Your Bartender, Playoff Week 3

Men
Bono
Patrick Dempsey
KFed
Nick Lachey
Brad Pitt
Vince Vaughn
Owen Wilson

Women
Jennifer Aniston
Sara Evans
Katie Holmes
Kate Hudson
Scarlet Johansson
Angelina Jolie
Madonna

Final matchups, Playoff Week 3

Championship match
Ponch (2) vs. Isaac, Your Bartender (4)

Consolation match
Carol Seaver (1) vs. A.J. Simon (3)

There are payouts for first, second and third place.

Results, Playoff Week 2

Ponch (2) 50 points vs. A.J. Simon (3) 16 points
Carol Seaver (1) 11 points vs. Isaac, Your Bartender (4) 32 points

Celebrity scores, Playoff Week 2

Aniston, Jennifer: 10
Beckham, Victoria: 3
Borghese, The Bachelor: 1
Cruise, Tom: 1
Damon, Matt: 0
Federline, Kevin: 2
Foley, Mark: 0
Holmes, Katie: 8
Hudson, Kate: 2
Johansson, Scarlett: 2
Jolie, Angelina: 5
Lachey, Nick: 1
Longoria, Eva: 2
Parker, Tony: 1
Pitt, Brad: 7
Richie, Nicole: 4
Simpson, Jessica: (-12)
Smith, Anna Nicole: 0
Spears, Britney: 1
Spelling, Tori: 1
Stern, Howard K.: 0
Timberlake, Justin: 0
Vaughn, Vince: 4
Wilson, Owen: 1

Fantasy league payouts

1st place: $260
2nd place: $40
3rd place: $20

This means that the two losing teams this week will play each other for third place.

Cover, Playoff Week 2

Tara Reid: 10 points
Jennifer Aniston: 3 points
Brad Pitt: 3 points
Angelina Jolie: 3 points
Katie Holmes: 3 points

Ponch: 12 points
AJ Simon: 6 points
Isaac, Your Bartender: 6 points
Carol Seaver: 3 points

AJ Simon, Playoff Week 2

Women

Katie Holmes
Kate Hudson
Scar Jo
Angelina Jolie
Eva Longoria
Posh Spice
Jessica Simpson

Men

Lorenzo Borghese
Tom Cruise
Matt Damon
Kevin Federline
NicK Lachey
Justin Timberlake
Vince Vaughan

Carol Seaver, Playoff Week 2

Women:

Victoria Beckham
Katie Holmes
Kate Hudson
Eva Longoria
Jessica Simpson
Anna Nicole Smith
Tori Spelling

Men:

Tom Cruise
K-Fed
Nick Lachey
Tony Parker
Howard Stern
Vince Vaughn
Owen Wilson

Isaac's Picks, Playoffs Week 2

Tom Cruise
KFed
Mark Foley
Nick Lachey
Tony Parker
Justin Timberlake
Vince Vaughn

Victoria Beckham
Katie Holmes
Kate Hudson
Scarlet Johansson
Anglina Jolie
Eva Longoria
Britney Spears

Playoff Week 2 match-up

Carol Seaver (1) vs. Isaac, Your Bartender (4)
Ponch (2) vs. AJ Simon (3)

Results, Playoff Week 1

AJ Simon (3) 47 points vs. Colt Seavers (6) 39 points
Isaac, Your Bartender (4) 45 points vs. Moogie (5) 36 points

Celebrity Scores, Playoff Week 1

Women
Christina Aguilera 1
Katie Holmes 3
Whitney Houston 0
Kate Hudson 6
Scar Jo 5
Angelina Jolie 2
Lindsay Lohan 1
Eva Longoria 8
Amanda Peet 2
Nicole Ritchie -1
Jessica Simpson 4
Anna Nicole Smith 3
Britney Spears 2

Men
Orlando Bloom 1
Aaron Carter 0
Nick Carter 0
Tom Cruise 3
Patrick Dempsey 2
Dustin Diamond 2
Kevin Federline 1
NicK Lachey 2
Tony Parker 5
Howard K. Stern 6
Justin Timberlake 2
Vince Vaughn 10
Owen Wilson 0

Playoff week 1 results to come

Sorry--I have been searching and can't manage to find the new copy of Us Weekly anywhere. I continue my quest. Results to follow.

COLT SEAVERS 3
AJ SIMON 6

ISAAC 6
MOOGIE 6

Nothing much gets decided here . . .

IMPRESSIONS

It was definitely a fun season, and the general idea that Red and everybody that worked on it developed works well.

One problem with the Rotisserie format (just adding up total points) is that all weeks are not the same -- for example Red made a really good call and started Kristin Bell in the final week and earned 8 points. In an earlier week, people also made a good call and started Jessica Simpson, who produced 30 points. Rewarding the Jessica Simpson pick 4 times as much seems out of whack. A 34-17 win is just as impressive as a 68-34 win.

And I'm not sure that I would exactly define my season as "lucky". I was no good at the game in the beginning, was 2-5 with so few points that I had to avoid losing the rest of the way. I ended up going 7-0-1 from there, in almost every case against teams in the race that were submitting teams each week. In the playoffs, however, there certainly was a huge element of luck in having the Bears on Sunday night football. Thankfully, the Lions have put up no such distractions . . .

I would still like to try a draft . . . drafts are fun and they would add a prediction factor as well as requiring more than just running Wilhud and Tomkat out every week.

AJ Simon, Playoff Week 1

Women
Katie Holmes
Scar Jo
Angelina Jolie
Eva Longoria
Amanda Peet
Jessica Simpson
Anna Nicole Smith

Men
Aaron Carter
Tom Cruise
Patrick Dempsey
NicK Lachey
Tony Parker
Howard K. Stern
Justin Timberlake

Isaac's Picks, Playoffs Week 1

Katie Holmes
Kate Hudson
Angelina Jolie
Eva Longoria
Amanda Peet
Anna Nicole Smith
Britney Spears

Orlando Bloom
Tom Cruise
Dustin Diamond
KFed
Nick Lachey
Tony Parker
Howard K. Stern (Not the King of All Media)

Playoff match-ups, week 1, and thoughts on the season

So the playoffs are set. Carol Seaver and Ponch, the top two seeded teams, get byes this week. Next week, Carol will face the lower-seeded team to come out of this week's first round of playoffs, and Ponch will face the higher-seeded team to prevail.

Playoff week one match-ups:
AJ Simon vs. Colt Seavers
Isaac, Your Bartender vs. Moogie

Some general thoughts on this season:

I thought that this league worked well. There were some issues to be ironed out early on, but in all I thought this was fun and successful.

It does seem that A.J. Simon and Colt Seavers are really quite lucky. They would have been the ninth and tenth seeded teams, respectively, had we done a rotisserie league, but instead they both made the playoffs. And will be playing each other, in a battle of the low scorers.

Rudy, on the other hand, must be the most unlucky person who played this season. She had the most points of any player in the league, but didn't manage to make the playoffs. Neither did Mrs. King, who would have been the fifth seed had we just used cumulative points. And despite all of my complaints with choosing the head-to-head format, I would have missed the playoffs either way (although I would have been in seventh place had we used cumulative points).

This has been a long season, and for those who continued to post teams week after week, even after being eliminated from the playoffs, I thank you. I think that involved participants makes for a far more interesting league. I definitely want to do this again, although I think we should take a little break between seasons.

I think that this season was a bit long, so next time around I would like to shorten the season and use a rotisserie format, rather than head-to-head. But we can discuss all of that when we start planning for season two.

For now, good luck to the eight teams that made the playoffs. And there won't be an accessory of the week throughout playoff season.

Overall (and final) Standings, Week 15

1. Carol Seaver, 12-3-0, 768 points
2. Ponch, 10-5-0, 722 points
3. A.J. Simon, 9-4-1, 644 points
4. Isaac, Your Bartender, 9-6-0, 750 points
5. Moogie, 9-6-0, 715 points
6. Colt Seavers, 9-6-0, 643 points
7. Rudy Huxtable, 8-6-1, 772 points
8. Mrs. King, 8-7-0, 733 points
9. Red Fraggle, 8-7-0, 698 points
10. Snarf, 7-8-0, 511 points
11. Laura Ingalls Wilder, 6-9-0, 664 points
12. Ferris Bueller, 6-9-0, 570 points
13. Laura Holt, 6-9-0, 546 points
14. Blair Warner, 5-10-0, 615 points
15. Spellbound, 4-11-0, 490 points
16. Willis Jackson, 3-10-0, 482 points

Week 15, Head to Head

Laura Holt 24 points vs. Mrs. King 19 points
Red Fraggle 26 points vs. Rudy Huxtable 20 points
Laura Ingalls Wilder 28 points vs. Willis Jackson 20 points
Isaac, Your Bartender 21 points vs. Ponch 19 points
Moogie 27 points vs. Blair Warner 16 points
Carol Seaver 16 points vs. A.J. Simon 26 points
Colt Seavers 30 points vs. Ferris Bueller 19 points
Snarf 18 points vs. Spellbound 16 points

Celebrity Scores, Week 15

Aaron Carter 3
Angelina Jolie 1
Anna Nicole Smith 0
Ashlee Simpson 3
Ashton Kutcher 1
Ben Affleck 1
Beyonce 3
Bobby Brown 1
Brad Pitt 1
Britney Spears 0
Cameron Diaz 3
Carmen Electra 3
Christina Aguilera 8
Colin Farrell 0
Dane Cook 1
Denise Richards 3
Eva Longoria 1
George Michael 0
Gwen Stefani 0
Harry Morton 2
Janet Jackson 0
Jessica Simpson 9
John Mayer 0
Josh Hartnett 0
Justin Timberlake 3
Kate Bosworth 0
Kate Hudson 1
Katie Holmes 3
Kevin Connolly 1
Kevin Federline 0
Kid Rock 0
Kristin Bell 8
Lance Bass 0
Lindsay Lohan 2
Marcia Cross 0
Mario Lopez 0
Mathew McCaunahey 1
Matt Damon 3
Mel Gibson 0
Mischa Barton 4
Nick Lachey 2
Nicky Hilton 1
Nicole Kidman 0
Nicole Richie 2
Orlando Bloom 0
Owen Wilson 1
P Diddy 0
Pam Anderson 1
Paris Hilton 1
Rosie O'Donnell 4
Scarlett Johannsen 5
Sean Preston Spears Federline 0
Sir Richard Branson 0
Suri Cruise 0
Tom Cruise 2
Tori Spelling 2
Vanessa Minnillo 1
Vince Vaughn 2
Whitney Houston 1

Playoffs this week, instructions for going forward

The playoffs begin this week. The format is easy. The first and second place teams get a bye this week, and the third place team plays the sixth place team, while the fourth place team plays the fifth place team. Only the top six teams make the playoffs. No other teams else play on.

I am in the process of scoring the league from last week but might not be able to finish until later today. If you aren't going to be around when I post last week's results (and therefore won't be around to know for sure who made the playoffs), then just post your team now. If you end up not making the playoffs, your team just won't count.

And if you are Jewish and have to be celebrating tonight and can't be on the computer, post your team before the sun goes down. I won't honor any "it was Yom Kippur, I couldn't post" excuses.

Finally, please note the word verification at the bottom of your post. Last week someone didn't notice it and posted a late team. That excuse won't work this week. Make sure your post goes through before midnight.

Thanks!