We are pretty late with the final fantasy roundup of the season, so just to be clear – these statistics are from the final regular season weekend of conference play. The Quarterfinals that took place on Saturday had no impact on our fantasy matchup.
Heading into last weekend, I held a 5-3 advantage over Adam, but many of those leads were by the slimmest of margins. For instance, I was up just 19 assists, 1.1 percent from the stripe, 1.9 percent from the field and a measly one rebound.
Thinking that I would be able to hold onto my percentage advantages on the strength of Luke Westman ’16 and Lucas Hausman ’16, in addition to a couple of efficient big men, I threw all my efforts into the rebounding category believing that it would make the ultimate difference.
Also, with Joseph Lin ’15 unfortunately suffering a season-ending injury, I had to drop my team’s namesake, and in Lin’s place I slotted in Ryan Jann ’16, a good rebounding guard who could also hit some threes for me. I decided to roll with the resurgent Matt Daley ’16, double-double machine that he is. It killed me to sit Connor Green ’16, but he only had one game this weekend. It turned out to be a great performance, but I had to give the nod to the two Mules guards and Hausman.
| Position | Lord of the ‘CAC (Adam) | Lin and Tonic (Joe) |
| G | H. Rooke-Ley | L. Westman |
| G | G. Safford | R. Jann |
| G | J. Brown | L. Hausman |
| F | J. Swords | Mal. Delpeche |
| F | Mar. Delpeche | M. Daley |
| F | T. Palleschi | D. George |
| F | J. Kuo | Z. Pavlin |
| Bench | J. McCarthy | H. Merryman |
| Bench | D. Wohl | C. Green |
| Bench | A. Santos | J. Starks |
I was able to lock up rebounds, the only category that I thought I was in danger of losing, thanks to 20+ rebounds from Daley, David George ’16 and Zuri Pavlin ’17. I had a shot at steals being down just seven, but Adam beat me in that category this week. What I didn’t anticipate was the abysmal performance my team put together from the line. Those same three big men combined to go 21-36 (58.3 percent) from the stripe. So what appeared to be my strength ended up costing me big time.
Week Five
| Category | Lord of the ‘CAC | Lin and Tonic | Leader |
| Points | 148 | 221 | Joe |
| Assists | 34 | 32 | Adam |
| Rebounds | 72 | 105 | Joe |
| Steals | 13 | 11 | Adam |
| Blocks | 17 | 14 | Adam |
| FT% | 75.5% (37/49) | 68.0% (51/75) | Adam |
| FG% | 40.9% (52/127) | 52.9% (31/153) | Joe |
| 3PT Made | 7 | 8 | Joe |
As you will see below, Adam edged me out in free throw percentage. And there you have it. A rotten 4-4 tie. This leaves a worse taste in my mouth than the Graham Safford ’15 jumper at the end of the game that put the nail in the Middlebury coffin in 2014. I guess there’s nothing to do about it now, though. I suppose we now have to turn out attention to the so-called “real” basketball games coming up this weekend.
| Category | Lord of the ‘CAC | Lin and Tonic | Leader |
| Points | 977 | 1120 | Joe |
| Assists | 159 | 176 | Joe |
| Rebounds | 490 | 524 | Joe |
| Steals | 82 | 73 | Adam |
| Blocks | 82 | 62 | Adam |
| FT% | 74.3% (231/311) | 73.9% (317/429) | Adam |
| FG% | 44.9% (340/758) | 48.5% (399/823) | Joe |
| 3PT Made | 85 | 48 | Adam |
Final: Tie 4-4