Jon Stadtmueller Wins Debut NFBC Cutline Title

[Greg Ambrosius]

Congrats to Jon Stadtmueller of Little Rock, Arkansas for winning our debut NFBC Cutline Championship League title. Jon bested 1,450 teams to win the $40,000 grand prize. John finished 22.64 points ahead of Robert Sargent, who earned $20,000. All 20 of the Championship Tier teams earned prize money.

Jon's March 10th Cutline team entered the Championship Round in 9th place among the 20 finalist teams and was 57.64 points out of first place. But his Texas Connection team was 9th in Week 22 with 681 points and 4th in Week 23 with 709 points to move into contention. He won the title with a big Week 24, finishing 2nd among all teams with 809 points and a total of 2,940.84 points. That was enough to vault past everyone else for first place and the $40,000 grand prize.

Here's a look at the final Cutline Championship Tier standings:

Championship Tier Final Standings Of NFBC Cutline Championship
1 Texas Connection - Cutline Championship Mar 10 8:00 pm Lg.3885 Jon Stadtmueller 2940.84 -
2 John Rogers - Cutline Championship Feb 06 8:00 pm Lg.3667 Robert Sargent 2918.2 22.64
3 PGoldschmidtMBetts Combo - Cutline Championship Mar 13 7:00 pm Lg.3908 Tom Zarogiannos 2908.64 32.2
4 Team Geoffroy - Cutline Championship Mar 21 1:00 pm Lg.3997 Matthew Geoffroy 2874.94 65.9
5 Zefurs || CL - Cutline Championship Mar 02 9:00 pm Lg.3814 KJ Duke 2807.97 132.87
6 GV-MS - Cutline Championship Jan 30 8:00 pm Lg.3641 Robert Sargent 2806.41 134.43
7 Gamma Martins - Cutline Championship Jan 23 8:00 pm Lg.3621 Mike Martin 2794.42 146.42
8 Team Brussow - Cutline Championship Mar 26 9:00 pm Lg.4081 Michael Brussow 2754.26 186.58
9 Noodler Fun Monkey8 - Cutline Championship Mar 27 9:00 pm Lg.4055 Matt Jensema 2743.48 197.36
10 GV-HS - Cutline Championship Feb 07 8:00 pm Lg.3670 Robert Sargent 2735.66 205.18
11 Team Pauly - Cutline Championship Mar 06 9:00 pm Lg.3853 Shane Pauly 2726.93 213.91
12 Team Cook - Cutline Championship Apr 02 1:00 pm Lg.4210 Jeffrey Cook 2692.45 248.39
13 Bancroft - Cutline Championship Jan 23 1:00 pm Lg.3617 Robert Sargent 2663.84 277
14 Password is Eckstein - Cutline Championship Mar 12 5:00 pm Lg.3899 Sam Grant 2657.93 282.91
15 A Quest Called Tribe - Cutline Championship Feb 25 9:00 pm Lg.3771 Bruce Carlson 2598.4 342.44
16 Boston Harbor - Cutline Championship Feb 10 10:00 pm Lg.3683 Robert Sargent 2581.05 359.79
17 HEDELGOTIT - Cutline Championship Mar 09 10:00 pm Lg.3876 joseph palazzo 2530.73 410.11
18 Team Lochowicz - Cutline Championship Feb 24 10:00 pm Lg.3764 Bradley Lochowicz 2522 418.84
19 Sloppy Lobsters - Cutline Championship Apr 02 9:00 pm Lg.4203 Ethan Vaade 2519.98 420.86
20 EA Sports C9 - Cutline Championship Mar 13 9:00 pm Lg.3906 Eric Albright 2438.71 502.13

Here's a look at the final prize payouts for this format:

Championship Tier

First Place = $40,000
Second Place = $20,000
Third Place = $10,000
Fourth Place = $7,000
Fifth Place = $5,000
Sixth Place = $3,500
Seventh Place = $2,500
Eighth Place = $2,000
Ninth Place = $1,500
Tenth Place = $1,250
Eleventh Place = $1,100
Twelfth Place = $1,000
Thirteenth Place = $950
Fourteenth Place = $900
Fifteenth Place = $850
Sixteenth Place = $800
Seventeenth Place = $750
Eighteenth Place = $700
Nineteenth Place = $650
Twentieth Place = $600

Rick Panda won $3,000 for winning the Wild Card Tier with 3,000.21 points. Here's a look at the Top 5 finishers:

1 Panda2 - Cutline Championship Mar 27 9:00 pm Lg.4055 Rick Panda 3000.21 -
2 SAMCRO - Cutline Championship Mar 25 7:00 pm Lg.4061 Jeff Himself 2957.2 43.01
3 MustSeeTV314{CUT} - Cutline Championship Mar 20 9:00 pm Lg.3993 Derek Pierson 2922.77 77.44
4 K9 / J5 - Cutline Championship Jan 31 8:00 pm Lg.3638 KJ Duke 2874.01 126.2
5 Team king - Cutline Championship Apr 03 1:00 pm Lg.4238 chris king 2836.12 164.09

Here's the payouts for this contest:

Wild Card Tier:

First Place = $3,000
Second Place = $1,500
Third Place = $1,000
Fourth Place = $750
Fifth Place = $500

Congrats all. This was a great debut contest and we look forward to growing it in 2017. Thanks.

[Yah Mule]

Very cool. Great player and a very nice guy.

Congratulations, Jon!

[76erfan]

met Jon for first time this past spring in Vegas and I agree with Jim....great great guy. Great fantasy player and well deserved win. Congrats!

[ToddZ]

Yeah, yeah, yeah...

When do we start drafting 2017 cutlines?

Great pull Stadts - nice job.

[Rainiers]

Nice going Jon. That was exciting. In the final game last night, thought I might have had you with that early Sanchez HR. But you trumped us all with the 2 dingers from Hanley.

Hats off too to Tom and Matthew. A great battle down to the final day...even the final hour. You all had great teams...

[Edwards Kings]

Congratulations Jon!

[Catch]

Congrats Jon and Robert!!!
A terrific weekend following live scoring; especially, the final game.
Jon's Hanley Ramirez with two bombs, Robert's Gary Sanchez with his rocket and unfortunately my Mookie/Xander combo did not come through for me. We all three had first place during the last day.
Looking forward to this Cutline contest next year.
Again, congratulations to you guys and all prize winners!!!

[Fourslot40]

Congrats Jon!!

[Ando]

Nice work, Jon!

[Rog]

Congrats Jon

[low talkers]

Don't mess with Jonny Baseball!

[Glenneration X]

No surprise. Year after year Jon proves to be one of the best players in the NFBC no matter the format. Figures he'd do great in this one as well. Congrats Stadts, see you next year in Sin City.

[DOUGHBOYS]

He walks softly and carries a big sticdk.
He puts the d in Stats. And makes it look normal.
Anybody who has played against Jon in a league knows how good he is at our game.
When sitting next to him at a draft, don't be taken in by his smile and "Goodt Mornindg" greeting.
You'll be thinking what a nice guy!
But at the end of the season, when atop the standings, you'll be thinking, "Damn, he's goodt!"

Congradts Jon!
One of the besdt!!

Edit- Spellcheckers have no sense of humor at all.

[DOUGHBOYS]

If somebody has Jonny Stadts number, can you let him know that he is up in the PreMature Draft?

THANKS MUCH

[DOUGHBOYS]

Thanks All.
Jon has selected his player.
When the first round is through, it will be posted.

[Texas Connection]

Thanks all for the kind words. For those that didn't play this year.....I challenge you to enter just one league. It's kind of like trying to eat one potato chip. It was really addictive. Just find a 2 hour window to draft and look for a league without Robert Sargent or KJ Duke and you have a chance. I mention those 2 because if you didn't play you may have missed their astounding exploits. I believe KJ entered 30 times. Half of the teams make the post season in this contest. You know how many of his teams were in the top half? All of them. He went 30 for 30. Finally we get down to the top 20 teams that were left and I felt like any of the 20 teams could have won it. You just never know which player will have a good week or a bad one. I believe every owner had only one team in the final 20 except for Robert Sargent. Robert had 5 teams there. Wow! I click on some of his teams to see who some of his guys are. What? He has Gary Sanchez on almost all of them. Again only 2 faabs in this thing and the last one was a long time before Gary was called up. I was just frantically trying to make the cut. He had the foresight to pick up a guy that wasn't even playing to help him way down the road. Shout outs also go to Matthew Geoffroy and Tom Zarogiannos who along with Robert all had a good chance of winning on the final day. Also a great thing about this game is the pitchers getting obliterated didn't seem to bother me as much in this game. James Shields was a lot easier to own in the cutline than in roto.

Jon