The final standings Pos Team Owner Score 1 Uncle Buc Mike Davidson 1365.01 2 The Borg Paul Stewart 1310.31 3 Welsh Dragons Tim Lewis 1300.11 4 Big Girls Blouses John Davies 1296.07 5 The Alvin Harpers Adam Ryan (NFL Films) 1256.70 6 Gruden's Playcallers Richard Vickers 1211.72 7 Pass The Buc Richard Britton 1205.00 8 Love Glazer hate United! John Tillyard 1204.11 9 Barrow Raiders David Courtney 1202.82 10 Tampa Bay Yuks Edward Dennis (non Bucs UK) 1200.69 11 Los Buccandyros Andy Coish 1200.37 12 The Irons Darren Valet 1189.37 13 Truckers United Gary Botteley 1188.68 14 The Bad Bucs. Andrew Roberts 1176.12 15 Battlestar Gramatica Wayne Maw 1165.84 16 The Creamsicles Mark Muenchinger 1154.37 17 Erin Andrews Home Videos INC. Ryan Collings 1149.89 18 Off Line Bandits unknown entry 1141.96 19 Bucco Bruce unknown entry 1135.99 20 4thand15 Nigel Smith 1116.76 21 Non Traveling Wilburys Gary Woollard 1103.84 22 Brummie Darkside David de Winter 1100.22 23 better late than never unknown entry 1094.78 24 Dynamo Digby Ross Beglin (non Bucs UK) 1084.82 25 Tractor Boy Steve Reeder 1079.80 26 The Crazy Train Gang Stephen Heslop 1078.09 27 sheep shag army Dominic Hodgkinson 1068.45 28 Pocket Rockets Alex Howells 1067.67 29 Saracen Hornets John Moran 1062.21 30 Alton Cobras Phil McKenzie 1053.10 31 pervysboys Ian Papworth 1037.20 32 Stooperdale Pirates Steve Garget 1025.72 33 Mike Hunt's All Stars Daniel Money (non Bucs UK) 1016.18 34 bucsandbolts Nathan Cartmel 1011.42 35 Big Bucs14 Craig Proto 1007.37 36 Orpington Cavaliers Kieron Hyams 998.26 37 Marden Wombles Bob Ferrier 998.15 38 Just Being Ruud David Cambridge 994.26 39 Scarlet Buccaneers Mair Wilson 989.42 40 weallhateleedsscum unknown entry 971.13 41 Glasgow_Buc David Hogg 923.81 42 Peejays Pirates Phil Jones 922.17 43 Awol Buc Chris Grant 919.62 44 FTM Buccaneers Stuart Fletcher 903.85 45 Sinkin Magners Mark Woollard 834.71 46 Tartan Bucs Neil Ferguson 828.77 47 Always Next Year unknown entry 791.63 48 Josh's Giants Joshua Heslop 735.41 49 Richard Head unknown entry 611.87 50 Kokkies Buccaneers Jan de Kok 393.87 And at the end of a long season, it is a third title in four seasons for Mike Davidson and his Uncle Buc team who fought a season-long battle against my Borg squad who were defending champions from the 2008 campaign. The story of the season Nigel Smith was the early leader over the first two weeks, closely followed at that point by Mark Woollard. Neither would content in the long-term with Nigel ending up 21st and Mark all the way down in 45th although he did take over the lead in Week 3 for a brief period. Mike moved to the top of the pile in Week 4 and won the September prize in the process although the contenders were starting to mass behind. The Borg moved into the top spot in Week 5 and held the advantage for the next three months. Stephen Heslop was in 2nd place in early October but fell away to 26th overall by the end of the year. Week 9 saw Adam Ryan of NFL Films move into a temporary second place buoyed by a weekend of British beer but Mike was soon whittling down by 57 point lead and moved back in front for good in Week 14 holding off all comers to the end. The Hunt for Big November prize was won by David Courtney for the best score in Weeks 9 to 12 and the Christmas Knockout Cup was won by Darren Valet after all but one of the top five were knocked out in the early rounds. Best scores of the year Andrew Roberts scored 144 in Week 15 and Wayne Maw scored 141 in Week 6 for the two highest scores of the season, whilst Andrew, myself and Tim Lewis all twice were top dogs in a particular week. The Phil Jones watch Phil only briefly made it out of the bottom 20% all season and finished in a lowly (ie: crap) 42nd place. Summing up This was by far the most successful season the league has had and I know a lot more Bucs UK members who did not take part in 2009, have already stressed their intentions to be part of it in 2010. I will definitely run a pair of knockout competitions alongside the regular league as well as the monthly prizes as these were particularly well received. But for now, it is congratulations once again to Mike for winning another Bucs UK Fantasy League championship. The bragging rights are yours for the next 12 months! A word from the champion "Thanks to everyone who took the time to play and cheers to Paul for organising the Cup competition which ran alongside (congrats to Darren on winning that one). Three titles in four years - fu*king hell, I need to get a life. "