Donn Johnson Wins Debut NFBC Platinum League

[Greg Ambrosius]

The tag team of Donn Johnson of Atlanta, Georgia and Gino Yu won the debut NFBC Platinum League and the $200,000 first place prize. This is the biggest prize we've ever presented during our 11 years of baseball and football, so congrats guys. It was a wire-to-wire run as they jumped into the lead in April and for the most part held onto the lead throughout the year. Congrats guys.

Finishing second and winning $60,000 was Ken Norred, our 2013 NFBC overall champion. Kenny worked this team throughout the year after a rough, rough start and didn't get into second place until the final day. David DiDonato, our 2006 overall champion and a two-time Ultimate League champion, finished third to win $25,000.

This was a fantastic debut season and we hope to fill up the Platinum League again next season. It was incredible competition with an incredible group of owners. Here were the final standings:

Platinum League Standings (Last Update - SEP 29, 02:29 A.M. E.T.)
Rank Team Batting Pts Pitching Pts Overall Pts Change
1 Team Johnson 59.0 57.0 116.0 -2.5
2 Bama Platinum 57.5 54.0 111.5 +2.5
3 The Last Resort 65.0 45.0 110.0 +1.5
4 Cocktails & Money 55.0 53.5 108.5 -1.0
5 Plataeans 37.0 57.0 94.0 0.0
6 King of Queens 50.0 42.0 92.0 -1.5
7 Going Number Two 47.0 42.0 89.0 -2.0
8 Upton or Hawkins? 48.0 38.0 86.0 +0.5
9 **PALEHOGS** 45.5 37.5 83.0 +3.5

[King of Queens]

Congrats to Donn and Gino! Great job pulling ahead of the pack and taking 1st place. Also good job by Ken/Dan and David to secure those 2nd and 3rd place spots.

[Hells Satans]

Awesome job Donn. Well-deserved.

[Cocktails and Dreams]

Tremendous job managing down the stretch. Found the key pitchers to get the strikeouts you needed. Never seen such a dominant stretch of pitching. It literally was demoralizing. Tremendous job holding it together through the turmoil you endured. Very few could have found a way to hold it together. Well done guys.

[MadCow Sez]

Congrats Donn!

I'll be honest, I was talking to Kenny about the miracles we needed on the last Sunday to creep up 4 more points (1 more HR, your BA to fall, one more win from the 2 guys who also ended with 84 wins)...never saw the miracle but every dang at bat the last day made my pucker factor increase.

This was a hoot...what an amazing array of the best of the best.