Headhunters 4: The Final Four

## Introduction

No QBs, no problems. Two QBs...problems? Quarterback was just about the only thing to go right for the last defending champion to leave us in 2022.

## In Memorium: Wildcat (no QBs no problem)

Four years. Four different champions. That's what Wildcat has blessed us with now that the no QB kid has left the game. But he did not go quietly into the Arizona night.

Hasta Laviska did the world a huge favor by setting the low-water mark early in week 14. His team was done by SNF, leaving Luck, Wildcat, and McBungalow all with a shot to break 203.63 or go home.

The next team to finish was Wildcat, with two SNF players going in what was billed to us as a high-scoring affair between Miami and LAC. And while the Dolphins didn't hold up their end of the bargain, they did enough for McBungalow to break through Hasta's floor and survive. That left Wildcat and Luck to duke it out.

Tyreek Hill took a fumble to the house, a play that counted for the touchdown (+6 points) but not for the yardage. Meaning all those juicy points, including 40+-yard TD bonus bucks, were not added to the total score for Wildcat (this is a standard NFL practice and not a setting that could be changed in fantasy). Lucky for him, Hill housed another one later that put him near 30 total points. Luck could do nothing but watch and hope as Wildcat built a buffer he hoped would be enough to withstand a MNF onslaught.

The other player to go Sunday night for Wildcat was Justin Herbert, who complimented Geno Smith's 34pt game with 38FP of his own. All in all, it was a good night for Wildcat.

But it wasn't good enough. Recent acquisition Nick Chubb could not perform in that awful Browns offense. Dalvin Cook came up small for the third time in four weeks. CeeDee Lamb failed to breach 10 points for just the 3rd time all season. And most disappointing of all was Stefon Diggs, whose 6.90 total was by far the worst of his year. All that added up to 190.12, just short of Hasta Laviska's total but perhaps still enough to fend off Out of Luck.

Out of Luck just needed Kyler Murray and James Conner to basically both not tear their ACLs. Sure enough...three plays into the game and Kyler Murray's leg buckled, putting Wildcat and Out of Luck on pins and needles as now elimination was not a sure thing.

It wouldn't be the first time an elimination came down to an Arizona runningback (who can forget the Kenyan Drake run to knock out McBungalow in 2020?).

Later on, needing just 9 more points, James Conner went down on the sidelines and was writhing in pain. Out of Luck was out of luck...until he wasn't. Because Conner just had the wind knocked out of him and he came back with the wind to his back and knocked the wind out of Wildcats sails with a go-ahead TD late in the 2nd quarter to secure the win(d).

Wildcat surprised many a doubter in 2022. He started with no QBs, worked some magic deals and stayed alive long enough to give people the sense that maybe he was going to repeat as champion. But just when he had his QB situation figured out, he caught some bad matchups with his star players. Still, for a season many expected would end early, this deep run for Wildcat is commendable.

Wildcat:

## Dead Money

Keeping track of all the cash that never got spent by teams that are now eliminated.

Dead Money 2022

Last year 42% of the cash went unspent. After next week that will be close to the same here in 2022.

## New Releases

1. Tyreek Hill
2. Stefon Diggs
3. Nick Chubb
4. Dalvin Cook
5. Justin Herbert

## Week Fourteen Bidding Results

Week Fourteen Bidding Results
 Nick Chubb
 Tee Higgins

* Big nothing-burger of bidding this week, with most players going for free (Lawrence, Allen, Pacheco, Etienne, and Schultz were all added as free agents (Schultz by Out of Luck, the rest by CP).
* Hasta Laviska continues to bid for high-end QB talent. The man is GREEDY with quarterbacks. Allen and Mahomes not enough for you??
* Can we also talk about how this team is named after a player currently ranked as the 237th best fantasy football player of 2022? Hilarious.

## Week Fourteen Results

Out of Luck is the only team to finish in the top-4 in consecutive seasons and has the most top-5 finishes (3) in HH history. It remains to be seen if he has what it takes to bring it all the way home.

## Narrow Defeats

Margin of Defeat for Last Place Teams:

A very narrow late season elimination for Wildcat.

## Rulers of the Kingdom

2022 first place finishers:

It was a long gap between first place finishes for CP, but he is atop the charts for the first time since week 4.

## Dungeon Dwellers

2022 teams that finished second-to-last, narrowly avoiding elimination:

This man is addicted to being the second-worst team. Very NK Anacondas style run being had here (the real ones get that reference).

## Single Season Scoring Records

As teams get eliminated, their single season performance will appear here.

Beach McBungalow has broken 3,000 points in 2022 and is two weeks away from breaking the single-season record, but will have to survive in order to do so. deCaPitated, meanwhile, is hot on his tail and chasing down his own record-setting 2019 season.

## All-Time Combined Points Scored

Same as above: eliminated teams will have their 2022 season added to the total.

DeCaPitated does in fact become the first team to break 10,000 total points in HH history. Based on the teams remaining and the margin of points they'd need to cover, it is unlikely that any team will be abl eto top CP's lifetime score even if he is eliminated in week 15.