Midseason Wager Tracking
Welcome to the 2020 Season from Karl Farbman
(Editor’s note: The 2019 winner, Karl Farbman, has penned some words of wisdom as we kick off the 2020 season. His message is below.)
It’s great to be back in the winner’s circle as the reigning champion of the Funny Money Football League.
First off, it is an honor to join The People’s Champ and Kiko Garcia as a two-time winner of the FMFL. It is truly elite company and I am grateful to join you with multiple titles.
Secondly, I salute all of the other past champions of the FMFL. I would like to mention them by name: Yaz, Larisa Oleynik, Bayonnaise, Kimmy Gibbler, Gordon Bombay, Babe, and the late, great Dr. Oge. For the rest of the league, take a look at this list, along with The People’s Champ, Kiko Garcia, and me, Karl Farbman. We are winners. We have each succeeded when it meant the most.
There’s plenty of people in the FMFL who are great at talking. There are ups and downs for those franchise owners, but what I see as their biggest downfall is this: Talking is what they do best. They talk because they can’t win.
Another season begins, and all totals are back at $0. Now the “talkers” may say, “It’s all luck….”, or “I’m great in the regular season….”, or “This is fixed.” To me, there are only two groups in the FMFL: the winners and the losers. I’ve listed the winners above. The losers know who they are and need not be mentioned.
Best of luck to everyone this season.
2020 FMFL Divisions
Below are the 2020 FMFL divisions, as chosen by the 2019 division winners.
East Division
Boss Hardigan
Chris B. Corey*
Judge Smails
Mr. Marbles
OJ
Patrick Bateman
T-Ferg
The Big Hurt
North Division
Babe
Bud Fox*
Don Mattingly
Donnie Jeffcoat
Gordon Bombay
Kenny Powers
Larisa Oleynik
Shecky
South Division
Chalky Studebaker
Karl Farbman
Karl Hungus
Neon Boudeaux
Rick Moranis
The Notorious ABT
Thine*
Waldo Geraldo Faldo
West Division
Bayonnaise
Blossom Russo
Kiko Garcia
Kimmy Gibbler
Luther Lavay
The Beard of Zeus*
The People’s Champ
Yaz
*Denotes 2019 division winner
2020 Divisional Draft Chat Recap
The following is an edited transcript from this year’s divisional draft, which was held on August 30, 2020.
The Executive Director: Let’s get started – snake draft with the order – Beard of Zeus, Thine, Chris B Corey, and Bud Fox. Then the order reverses the next round (Bud, Chris, etc.) until we are done.
The Executive Director: The Beard of Zeus is on the clock
The Beard of Zeus: Blossom Russo
The Executive Director: Excellent – Thine is up
Thine: Because he is mathematically and historically bad at this- my first pick this year is The Notorious ABT
The Executive Director: Great pick – CBC on the clock
Chris B Corey: Judge Smalls
The Executive Director: Now onto Bud for two picks
Bud Fox: Don Mattingly and Shecky for our two
The Executive Director: Back to CBC
Chris B Corey: Frank Thomas
The Executive Director: The Big Hurt is yours. Now to Thine.
Thine: Karl H.
The Executive Director: Karl Hungus is yours
The Executive Director: The Beard for two picks
The Beard of Zeus: The People’s Champ and Bayonnaise
The Executive Director: Two former champions
The Beard of Zeus: I prefer competition
The Executive Director: Back to Thine
Thine: Chalky
The Executive Director: The other expansion franchise, Chalky Studebaker goes to Thine
The Executive Director: CBC is up
Chris B Corey: T-Ferg
The Executive Director: Now to Bud for two picks
Bud Fox: Powers and Jeffcoat
The Executive Director: Kenny Powers and Donnie Jeffcoat will go to the North. Back to CBC
Chris B Corey: OJ
The Executive Director: Over to Thine now
Thine: Waldo Geraldo
The Executive Director: To the Beard for two
The Beard of Zeus: Yaz and Luther Lavay
The Executive Director: Back to Thine
Thine: Rick M.
The Executive Director: Rick Moranis to Thine. CBC is up
Chris B Corey: Mr Marbles
Bud Fox: Bastard….I was hoping to make him the early pick….
Chris B Corey: I will call him each Monday for his poor picks
Bud Fox: He’ll be thrilled he went so late…
The Executive Director: Bud Fox for two
Bud Fox: Babe & Larisa
The Executive Director: Babe and Larisa Oleynik to Bud
The Executive Director: back to CBC
Chris B Corey: Boss
The Executive Director: Boss Hardigan to CBC
The Executive Director: Thine is up
Thine: Goddamit. Neon.
The Executive Director: Neon to Thine
The Executive Director: Beard of Zeus for his last two
The Beard of Zeus: The classic male/female K duo
The Beard of Zeus: Kiko and Kimmy
The Executive Director: Back to Thine for his final selection
Thine: I choose the one true Karl
Thine: Respectfully.
The Executive Director: Excellent – Karl Farbman goes to the South. CBC has between Gordon Bombay and Patrick Bateman
Chris B Corey: Bateman
The Executive Director: And that means Bud is left with Gordon
The Executive Director: Thanks all – good luck this season
Chris B Corey: Boosh
Thine: Gentlemen. Good luck.
Bud Fox: Hope you all suck. Out.
Chris B Corey: Good luck all, off to work
Welcome to the 2020 Season!
Welcome to the 14th Season of the Funny Money Football League!
