The real Quince Bowl XII is being played this week between TenQ and BQP. It’s a joke that either SOQ or QBC will make a Quince Bowl appearance. Think about this. The third lowest scoring team is playing the fifth lowest scoring team for a Championship berth. It’s pathetic.
There isn’t a single team in the final four this year that appeared in the final four last year.
The North division is 75% of the final four.
This is TenQ’s first final four since 2007, QBC’s since 2006, SOQ’s since 2004 and BQP’s since 2003. With a win in week 15, it would be SOQ’s first Quince Bowl appearance since 2004, TenQ’s since 2003 and QBC’s since 2001.
BQP has never made a Quince Bowl and is the only hope to avoid another repeat Champion. Only FahQ, QU and BQP are without trophy (FahQ lost to FRNQ in QBVII). Quince and QUnet are the only repeat Champions in QFL Nation history.
TenQ appeared in 4 of the first 5 Quince Bowls, winning once. That score (136) in Quince Bowl II is still #1 in QFL1 all-time scoring history despite repeated rule changes designed to increase scoring. Since 2003 however the team has struggled, only placing third twice in ’05 and ’07.
TenQ was instrumental in handing the 2006 Championship to OrigQ via the Larry Johnson trade and may have done the same thing for SOQ in 2010 via the Peyton Hillis trade (but without the tears and bloodshed). It’s important to point out for the record that SOQ finished dead last in 2009. The team’s last Championship was Quince Bowl VI in 2004.
Double C is a vocal proponent of a QBC team that is only relevant by default and hasn’t placed better than fourth since 2006 and that was a fluky year under the old rule system that allowed a 1-2 record in the playoffs to still come in 4th.
This is BQP ‘s second playoff appearance in a row and can’t do worse than last year’s fifth place finish. How can any team with AP and Jones-Drew look so bad? Loser bracket teams should note BQP went 3-10 in 2006, but won out in the loser playoffs and drafted Adrian Peterson #1 overall in 2007. It doesn’t hurt the team drafted Jones-Drew #16 overall the previous year.
Editor’s Note: The League on FX is hilarious. Also. Hoping to publish a complete history of QFL regular season and playoff records and final standings back to 2001 (200o and 1999 are spotty) this week. There are also rookie draft picks and other good historic stats for a perusal.
Email for a password if you want to post here. Comments are open too. I know there’s more about the loser bracket and Ted wants it on the record about how if he had not benchcd Floyd at the last minute before week 4 that he would be the North division Champion and #2 seed bye in the playoffs. Benching Floyd in week 14 was also a very bad idea.
Shades
I didn’t finish in last place in 2009. I finished in 4th place in the loser’s bracket (10th place overall), which is why I ended up with the 6th overall pick in the rookie draft this year.
Also, while you are at least the 4th person (including my own brother) to recommend “The League” as a good show, I still find it very difficult to believe. The commercials are so mind numbingly stupid that they make me want to hang myself. However, I’m going to give it a shot and report back. If only out of respect to its time slot neighbor, the best show on television, Sunny in Philadelphia.
@SOQ you were definitely last place. Rookie picks are based on regular season finsih.
There is no way I could have finished last in the playoffs because I had a first week bye in the loser’s bracket. So did you. We both proceeded to lose our first game and then played each other to see who got #3 overall and who fell all the way to #6 overall. You won and got the #3 overall. I fell to #6 because only the first 3 picks go to the toilet bowl top 3. Then it switches back to regular season finish and I was the highest seed and therefore got the lowest pick. So to summarize; I finished 7th overall in the regular season and 10th overall in the playoffs. You finished 8th overall in the regular season and 9th overall in the playoffs.