Good morning everyone, welcome to the Pot Cakes Dynasty League Awards Banquet. We had another great year, learned a lot about ourselves, our teams, and things to improve on as a league. Without a doubt Year 3 will be the best year yet, but before we prepare for the upcoming season we have to finish off last season. We have to look at awards from a season of a lot of ups and downs. We will see who wins the most coveted award, Manager of the Year, but before that we will look at miscellaneous awards that highlight some of the memories of Year 2.
Big Spender
This award looks at who paid up for a guy that did not pan out. Our candidates are:
Bruce – $53 Tyler Huntley
Batman – $75 Duke Johnson, Jr.
Bruce – $55 Taysom Hill
Trashman – $51 Cam Newton
Batman – $21 Olamide Zaccheaus 11/10
Batman – $23 Olamide Zaccheaus 12/8
Mush – $41 Le’Veon Bell
JonnyDIII – $131 Chris Carson
Bottom Bunk – $120 Adrian Peterson
Bruce – $11 Gerald Everett
Pistol – $11 Ryan Fitzpatrick
We have a lot of candidates, but we can rule out a couple right away. Batman pulling the trigger on Duke Johnson was the right move, not starting him was the wrong move. Bruce spending money on QBs is a bad move but there were worse, including his $11 spend on an old tight end prior to Week 1. Trashman on Cam was bad, but you never know. Mush on Lev Bell, that RB room was a mess at the time so worth a shot. JD3 on Chris Carson did not work this year, but if he comes back it is all worth it. Pistol’s $11 pre-season spend on a QB when he has Kyler was odd too. This leaves us with two candidates.
Bottom Bunk and Batman.
Bottom Bunk spent $120 on Adrian Peterson when he is clearly in a rebuild year. Batman spent $42 on Olamide Zaccheaus total but on two different occasions.
The obvious winner is Bottom Bunk and Adrian Peterson. This was an unnecessary spend, do not pay any attention who was right behind him in spending.
Best Trade
This award goes to the best trade for both sides, one where both guys can walk away happy.
Our candidates are:
Batman receives Elijah Mitchell and 2 Second Round Picks and Touchdown Guy receives James Conner and Robert Woods. This trade was good for both sides because TDG was in a win now mode and Batman is in a mini rebuild. He’s not rebuilding completely, but some youth and a couple picks is all he really needs to get his team back on track. It worked for both sides this year.
Bruce receives Rob Gronkowski and Pistol receives Brevin Jordan and a Third and Fourth Round Pick. This trade works because Pistol is in a rebuild and Bruce was making his playoff push. Bruce got the #2 seed and Pistol has tons of picks and two good rookie Tight Ends.
Mush receives a First and Second Round Pick and Touchdown Guy receives Josh Jacobs and a Third Round Pick. This trade worked well because Mush had too many RBs and Touchdown Guy needed a guy after the Derrick Henry injury.
While all these trades are good, I have to give the slight nod to Batman and Touchdown Guy. Batman has a chance at Elijah Mitchell being the RB1 for the 49ers next year. Touchdown Guy has a WR and a reborn James Conner. The offseason hype for these three players is all good. Robert Woods will help boost TDG’s WRs, Conner will be an easy third RB option, Batman can have Mitchell be his RB2, plus draft picks are so exciting.
Worst Trade
This one goes to the guy who really dropped the ball. We do not need candidates, the winner of this award goes to Daddy Wombat. Pistol traded Daddy Wombat James Robinson for Kahlil Herbert and a First Round Pick, the 1.02 pick actually. James Robinson is a great RB, but the Jaguars had no draft capital in him, drafted an RB, and have a Coaching issue at the time. Now that Coach is gone. James Robinson is now injured with an achilles. This was the worst trade and is going to hurt Daddy Wombat for years to come.
Worst Loss
This award goes to the close losses, bad losses, or maybe something else.
Bruce loss to Daddy Wombat 106.19 to 105.95.
PeePaw loss to CrossFit 210.75 to 127.15.
JD3’s two losses to Bottom Bunk.
Each loss has its own issue. JD3’s losses to Bottom Bunk are just embarrassing. PeePaw’s loss to CrossFit is more to do with how PeePaw’s season began. PeePaw lost early and it was always to teams who played their best week. Bruce’s loss to Daddy Wombat was the closest loss, and this loss caused Bruce to be the #2 seed. The winner is:
Bruce.
Bruce’s loss was closest and caused him a championship. If Bruce wins he gets JD3 in the second round and wins, then beats TDG in the championship. Barely losing paired with the shot at a title on the line has to eat at a guy.
Drafter of the Year and Worst Drafter of the Year
We are going to base this off of the best picks, obviously draft picks fail, it is really about getting the most out of your best picks and/or finding a diamond in the rough. A player who was drafted then traded will not factor into this.
We will submit everyone as a nomination and their best draft pick(s).
Bruce: 1.01 Najee Harris, RB, Steelers and 2.01 Rashod Bateman, WR, Ravens.
Batman: 1.07 DeVonta Smith, WR, Eagles and 2.11 Chuba Hubbard, RB, Panthers.
JonnyDIII: 1.02 Ja’Marr Chase, WR, Bengals and 2.02 Elijah Moore, WR, Jets.
Trashman: 4.04 Jaret Patterson, RB, Football Team.
Mush: 1.05 Javonte Williams, RB, Broncos and 2.08 Josh Palmer, WR, Chargers
Pistol: 1.06 Kyle Pitts, TE, Falcons.
Bottom Bunk: 2.12 Dyami Brown, WR, Football Team.
CrossFit: 3.08 Pat Freiremuth, TE, Steelers.
Teach: 1.09 Jaylen Waddle, WR, Dolphins and 2.13 Rhamondre Stevenson, RB, Patriots.
Daddy Wombat: 1.10 Rondale Moore, WR, Cardinals and 5.10 Jaelon Darden, WR, Buccaneers.
PeePaw: 3.02 Zach Wilson, QB, Jets.
Touchdown Guy: 2.06 Amon-Ra St. Brown, WR, Lions.
And the best drafter is, well it goes to two people, Touchdown Guy and JonnyDIII.
Ja’Marr Chase won weeks, set records, and fell in the draft. Amon-Ra St. Brown was a guy people hoped would play, but he could be the 1a or 1b for the Lions moving forward. That is a steal and a perfect hit if you only have a mid-second as your first pick.
Worst drafter, this award goes to Trashman.
His best drafted player is Jaret Patterson, maybe the Football Team gives up on Gibby, but either way not adding a single player that can help out your team now hurts your team, especially when you had the 1.04.
Manager of the Year
This is our most coveted award. The candidates are:
Touchdown Guy took his championship from the year before and finished as the top seed and battled through injuries and still finished with the best record.
Bruce went from worst to second seed and grabbed some young backs that should allow him to focus on WR this offseason as his “weakness”.
Pistol played the rebuild perfect acquiring 4 First round picks and future firsts. He also traded for Michael Carter, A.J. Brown, Kadrius Toney, and drafted Kyle Pitts. He has a good young core going forward.
And the winner is…
Touchdown Guy
Touchdown Guy is still in prime position for another top seed push next year. This is a regular season award and no one had a better regular season than Touchdown Guy.
That does it for this year’s awards. A lot of fun this year. A lot of things were learned this year. A lot of things were lost and a few were won. We already have an early candidate for worst trade of the year. D.J. Moore for K.J. Osborn, Tyler Huntley, the 11th pick, and the 34th pick. D.J. Moore is a WR2, K.J. Osborn is at best the Vikings WR2, Tyler Huntley is at best a QB2 on the Ravens, Pick 11 is the rookie WR5 maybe, pick 34 might not even make a roster. That worst trade belongs to Teach giving up D.J. Moore to Bruce for nothing. What a start to the 2022 season.
We will start looking at team needs and some mock draft stuff in the coming months. Unitl then I hope you and yours have a better tomorrow.
Let’s Go!
JonnyDIII
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