RazzBowl7 Week 17 Update

And just like that…

Razzball’s premier football tournament, RazzBowl7, is over! The picture attached is of the highest-scoring NFL player on the roster of our weekly leader.

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Happy New Year, everyone, and welcome to 2026! After 17 weeks, our 2025 tournament has come to a close. Congratulations to our winner, @Nrok10307, who rode an impressive season to the championship! @WazNFL was the high scorer of the Final Round, but came up just short! The leader in the Wildcard Tier was @ColbyConway!

Here is the final RazzBowl7 Championship Tier:

I didn’t mention this last week, but half of our Championship finalists drafted 10th or later. None drafted first or second, and only three drafted on the top half of the first round. Way to make a “disadvantage” work for you!

And the final Wildcard Tier:

And now the postscript I promised last week.

I finally figured out a way to see what was happening with our playoffs. Unfortunately, doing that meant I had to wait for each round to begin. We had a rules page for all leagues which went out the window once the playoffs began.

I’ll confess: I’ve never made it far enough in the three other RazzBowls I participated in to have a sense if this has always been the case.

On the rules page, the playoffs would begin with either the top 2 or top 3 teams (both conditions, regrettably, are on the rules page) in each division after the regular season ended, advancing to the first Championship Tier for the playoffs.

That statement was a red flag, but I did not anticipate it being only the first.

Below is how the rules posted implied the playoffs would proceed:

Round 1 would have been three weeks. The “Teams” column has the number of teams participating in each round. “Champ” is the number of teams in the Championship Tier, “Stay” is the number of teams that would continue in the Championship Tier for the next round, and “Go” is the number of teams that would move to the Wildcard Tier. “Wildcard” is the number of teams at the beginning of each round in the Wildcard Tier. “Go” is the number of teams that would move to the Championship Tier for the next round, “Stay” is the number of teams that would remain in the Wildcard Tier, and “Elim” is the number of teams that would exit the tournament at the end of the round.

“EXPECTED” is not what happened.

Round 2 started at the beginning of Week 13. Okay. But the presentation for Round 2 was different. I went through all the tables at the beginning of each round, which I could not see until that week’s games had started and data was populating. I came up with a scenario I call “IMPLIED” because I inferred these from the tables that were being presented in NFFC:

This was based on cutlines presented for each round.

“IMPLIED” is not what happened.

I was able to piece together what happened from round to round only in looking back, and that is what I’m showing below:

If this confuses you, then you’ve arrived where I’ve arrived. For the most part, the number of teams in the Championship Tier followed the rules page, but the distribution of the tiers varied. We did not have teams being eliminated until after Round 3.

I have what I think is a simple first goal for RazzBowl8: consistent messaging. If we’re going to ask you to join our tournament, we should be clear about what is going to occur throughout.

We want to thank each and every one of you who joined us for RazzBowl7, and you’ll be receiving invites for RazzBowl8. Goal two is giving people more time to register and recruiting more people to join us.

If you’re not in RazzBowl7 and have an interest in participating in RazzBowl8, reach out to me here for details.

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