1st Place / Gold Medal - Next Stop, Bottom of The Barrel

Patrick Smith, 1841.98 points. 4 players in the top 25.

Patrick finished strong, as he:

• Registered his first "Performer of the Week" award with 160.38 points
  
• Registered the second highest weekly score of the year (let the record reflect Fusco's greatness as he set the record at 179.03 points)
• Founded and is sole member of the 1800 Point Club
• Logged the most weeks in the lead (7, including the final 6)
  
• Refrained from beating Roxy, his chocolate lab, for Christmas
• Successfully held off a charging Tim Ashby who had vowed to "get Pat from behind"

The Commissioner's Office congratulates Pat on his win and has been petitioned by the other owners to classify his victory as a statistical anomaly stemming solely from his abundance of fortune/luck/karma and remove any evidence of the victory from the league archives. The Commissioner's Office is considering the petition.

Pat's Keys To Victory:

• The Great QB Heist of 2008 as pulled on poor, unsuspecting Devo (P. Rivers and L. Moore for T.J. Houshmanzadeh and F. Gore).
• Fire Sale-Gate 2008 - he dazzled poor, unsuspecting Eric/Sunny with the kind of poetry that brings tears to the eyes of a sixth grade girl, arranged for Graham to get hurt on his first play back, milked Barber for 20+ points, and then gave back Barber and arranged for him to get injured upon his return to play. You didn't think I was going to let that one go did you?
• One additional count of waiver wire manipulation in the acquisition of Pierre Thomas which proved accretive to his point total and damaging to the Commissioner's.
• Playing dumb but acting smart.
• Threatening to beat family pet unless the Barber trade was allowed by Commissioner's office.