FANTASY REPORT: Week 17: Team PMS rules season

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FANTASY REPORT: Week 17: Team PMS rules season{mosimage}Ski Racing Magazine Fantasy Ski Racing League

Final report

Week 17 results
Rick’s Rangers 445 vs. Birds of Pray 114
Team PMS 587 vs. The Hammers 274
Interosseous Membrane 358 vs. Smokin’ Mirrors 252
The Blacks 417 vs. The Ribbons 254
Weekend Warriors 335 vs. The Destroyers 192
Hawk’s Harem 339 vs. The Schwarzeneggers 148

PL Team W-L-T Points Streak
1 Team PMS 14-3-0 4,895 W3
2 Interosseous Membrane 12-5-0 3,574 W2
3 The Blacks 11-6-0 4,224 W1
4 Weekend Warriors 10-7-0 3,870 W6
5 Smokin’ Mirrors 9-8-0 3,383 L1
6 Ribbons 9-8-0 2,755 L4
7 Rick’s Rangers 8-9-0 3,624 W2
8 Hawk’s Harem 7-9-1 2,751 W2
9 Birds of Pray 7-10-0 2,984 L2
10 Hammers 6-11-0 2,869 L3
11 Schwarzeneggers 4-12-1 2,574 L7
12 Destroyers 4-13-0 2,683 L2

Seasonal point totals
Team PMS 4895
The Blacks 4224
Weekend Warriors 3870
Rick’s Rangers 3624
Interosseous Membrane 3574
Smokin’ Mirrors 3383
Birds of Pray 2984
The Hammers 2869
Ribbons 2755
Hawk’s Harem 2751
Destroyers 2683
Schwarzeneggers 2574

Week 17 recap
The top three weekly scores of the season were accumulated in this final week of competition. It will come to no one’s surprise that the top tally went to Team PMS, which has schooled the league throughout the season and continued to do so at World Cp Finals with an incredible 587 score. But it should also be noted Rick’s Rangers culminated an incredible final surge with a 445 total and three straight weeks over 300 points.

The Blacks posted 417 for the Are series for the third-best score of the week and the season.

There was no winning margin less than 100 points, so we’ll just roll to the top of the standings and work our way down. Team PMS pounded on the Hammers, getting more than 200 points from both overall positions with Janica Kostelic posting 250 and Nicole Hosp 210. Add in points from every team member and let the celebration begin. The Hammers put up some fight with Lindsey Kildow grabbing 120 and the 80-point podium from Marlies Schild, but it was far from enough.

Interosseous Membrane posted a 358 total that had huge potential to be bigger. Membrane got the GS win from Benjamin Raich and a solid 172 from Aksel Svindal to generate the power from the overall positions. The vanquished foe was the Smokin’ Mirrors, which had a couple of highlights, with 136 from a coasting Michaela Dorfmeister and 80 from Bode Miller in the DH slot but got stung by Giorgio Rocca’s second-run disaster, a lackluster final showing from rookie Andrea Fischbacher and zip from Kathrin Zettel in the GS.

The Blacks were strong in three of the four discipline positions, with Kostelic contributing the maximum in the slalom position, Nicole Hosp placing third in GS and Dorfmeister second in super G. Add in 109 from Marlies Schild in an overall post and a 68-point two-race effort from Hermann Maier and the Blacks slid away with an easy win over the Ribbons. Daron Rahlves helped the Ribbons’ cause with 156 over three races but the squad required podiums to stave off the Black and one second-place finish from Rahlves was all that came in.

The Weekend Warriors wrapped up the season with a six-week win streak and also did very well in the discipline positions, connecting for Raich’s GS win, Rahlves’ second place in SG and Anja Paerson in third in slalom. There was also 71 points from Zettel in an overall post. The Destroyers needed the win to sneak out of the league basement and did tally points in four categories, but didn’t have the power to stay with the Warriors. Kjetil Aamodt’s 72 from two races in the overall position highlighted the week, though Aksel Lund Svindal did fulfill obligations with a third-place SG finish.

Rick’s Rangers benefited from Anja Paerson’s push to challenge Kostelic, grabbing 196 points over three races from the No. 1 draft pick. That total would surely have gone higher had the Swede not skied out in the SG. The Rangers also had Miller in the SG position for 100 points and collected a GS position podium from Tanja Poutiainen and 89 points in two races from Martina Ertl-Renz.

The Birds of Pray stuck with a passel of slalom men grabbed before last week’s all-slalom weekend, but the strategy backfired big time when all three skiers — Ted Ligety and Giorgio Rocca on the overall positions and Kalle Palander in the slalom slot — failed to gain a point. The pious Birds did get a GS podium from Fredrik Nyberg, but that was a day late and a dollar short.

The remaining victor of the week was Hawk’s Harem, which saw strong contributions from five of the six team members. Poutiainen posted 110 and Julia Mancuso 67 from the overall positions and Lindsey Kildow notched an 80-point podium in DH. Recent aquisition Resi Stiegler put up a career-best 50 points in slalom, prompting team manager Hawk to remark “Boom-shaka-laka,” which may have been the limit of his command of language at the time. Maria Jose Rienda Contreras closed out the scoring with 32 GS counters. The Schwarzeneggers got 84 from Elisabeth Goergl in an overall position and collected 32 from Alexandra Meissnitzer in both an overall and the SG positions.

That closes out the inaugural season. Congratulations to Team PMS and manager Peggy Shinn. You draft last next year. See you all next season.

Top weekly scores of the season
Team PMS 587 Week 17
Rick’s Rangers 445 -17
The Blacks 417 -17
Team PMS 415 -10
Team PMS 390 -9
Smokin’ Mirrors 381 -9
Smokin’ Mirrors 380 -3
The Blacks 376 -8
The Blacks 375 -11
Team PMS 373 -11
The Ribbons 370 -10
Weekend Warriors 369 -16
Smokin’ Mirrors 362 -10
Inerosseous Membrane 358 -17
The Blacks 354 -14
Weekend Warriors 350 -11

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