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Bob Catsiroumpas Wins 2021 NFFC Cutline & $75,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:26 am

Bob Catsiroumpas of London, Ontario won the 2021 NFBC Cutline Championship and the $75,000 grand prize with a monstrous final week as he moved up three spots to take the title. Bob beat a record field of 1,960 teams to become our first two-time NFBC Cutline Champion as he also won the overall title in 2019. This was the 6th year of the NFBC Cutline Championship.

Bob qualified for Round 3 of the Championship Round by finishing 5th overall through Round 2. He trailed Wood Lay by 146.2 points entering the final three-week sprint, but moved into 2nd place after one week as he trailed Aaron Jones by just 23 points. He fell to 4th overall after Week 2 and trailed Aaron Jones by 160.5 points heading into the final week.

But then he had a record-breaking week as his team scored 815 points during the final week of Sept. 13-19. He outscored every other team in the Championship Round by at least 76 points to vault up three spots and take the title. He finished 85.5 points ahead of Aaron Jones, who also had a remarkable Cutline season, finishing 2nd and 3rd overall to win $40,000. Wood Lay won $10,000 for finishing fourth, Rick Bay won $7,500 for finishing fifth and Bruce Carlson won $5,000 for finishing sixth as we paid the Top 20 finishers in the Championship Round. Twenty teams were at "the final table" for the Cutline's Round 3 Championship Round.

Aaron Jones also won the Consolation Round to win $3,500 AND he finished second in the Consolation Round to win another $2,000. We also paid the Top 5 in the Consolation Round. A total of 102 teams were still alive in the final round of the Wild Card Tier.

Congrats to all of our Cutline winners as this was a record-breaking year for this contest. And we have even bigger plans for 2022. Stay tuned, but until then, all hail Bob Catsiroumpas, our first two-time Cutline National Champion.

NFBC Cutline Championship
National Champions

2016 - Jon Stadtmueller
2017 - Rian Lange
2018 - John Magnozzi
2019 - Bob Catsiroumpas
2020 - Mike Dirkman
2021 - Bob Catsiroumpas
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Re: Bob Catsiroumpas Wins 2021 NFFC Cutline & $75,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:48 am

Bob had 15 Cutline teams and 9 of them made the Championship Round, with five of them winning league titles and the $250 league prize. Seven of those teams made it into Round 2 and two of those teams then made it into Round 3 of the Championship Round. That's a pretty amazing feat. His second team finished 15th overall to win another $1,100.

This overall championship team did win a league title. Here was his gamma winning team that drafted from the 5th spot:

Trout, Mike 1 5 OF gamma
Story, Trevor 2 16 SS gamma
Realmuto, J.T. 3 25 C gamma
Castillo, Luis 4 36 P gamma
Devers, Rafael 5 45 3B gamma
Arozarena, Randy 6 56 OF gamma
Perez, Salvador 7 65 C gamma
Blackmon, Charlie 8 76 OF gamma
Olson, Matt 9 85 1B gamma
Berrios, Jose 10 96 P gamma
Swanson, Dansby 11 105 MI gamma
Semien, Marcus 12 116 UT gamma
Gallo, Joey 13 125 OF gamma
Corbin, Patrick 14 136 P gamma
Alcantara, Sandy 15 145 P gamma
Mountcastle, Ryan 16 156 CI gamma
Solak, Nick 17 165 2B gamma
Donaldson, Josh 18 176 3B gamma
McCutchen, Andrew 19 185 OF gamma
Riley, Austin 20 196 3B gamma
Calhoun, Kole 21 205 OF gamma
Polanco, Jorge 22 216 SS gamma
Means, John 23 225 P gamma
Montgomery, Jordan 24 236 P gamma
Gurriel, Yuli 25 245 1B gamma
Hicks, Aaron 26 256 OF gamma
Keller, Brad 27 265 P gamma
Ray, Robbie 28 276 P gamma
Haniger, Mitch 29 285 OF gamma
Turnbull, Spencer 30 296 P gamma
Pearson, Nate 31 305 P gamma
Lowe, Nathaniel 32 316 1B gamma
Berti, Jon 33 325 2B gamma
Cease, Dylan 34 336 P gamma
Bumgarner, Madison 35 345 P gamma
Belt, Brandon 36 356 1B gamma
Ahmed, Nick 37 365 SS gamma
Weaver, Luke 38 376 P gamma
Maldonado, Martin 39 385 C gamma
Gibson, Kyle 40 396 P gamma
Lester, Jon 41 405 P gamma
Cobb, Alex 42 416 P gamma

His two FAAB period pickups included:

April 13th:
Luis Arraez 113
Wade Miley 11

June 8th:
Tyler O'Neill 520
Martin Perez 80
Antonio Senzatela 40
Josh Rojas 120
Adam Frazier 100
Josh Harrison 2

His last week lineup consisted of:

Pos. Name Team Pts
C J.T. Realmuto PHI 35
C Salvador Perez KC 46
1B Matt Olson OAK 35
2B Josh Rojas ARZ 25
SS Trevor Story COL 35
3B Rafael Devers BOS 33
OF Ryan Mountcastle BAL 27
OF Mitch Haniger SEA 30
OF Adam Frazier SD 36
OF Joey Gallo NYY 63
OF Tyler O'Neill STL 79
CI Brandon Belt SF 42
MI Josh Harrison OAK 40
UT Nathaniel Lowe TEX 25
Total Starting Hitters 551

P Sandy Alcantara MIA 49
P Jose Berrios TOR 40
P Robbie Ray TOR 34
P Luis Castillo CIN 28
P Dylan Cease CWS 25
P Kyle Gibson PHI 24
P Alex Cobb LAA 22
P Jon Lester STL 21
P Garrett Richards BOS 21
Total Starting Pitchers 264
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Re: Bob Catsiroumpas Wins 2021 NFFC Cutline & $75,000

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:51 am

Here was the prize pool for the 2021 NFFC Cutline Championship

Overall Prizes
Championship Round:
Overall Prizes
1 $75,000
2 $25,000
3 $15,000
4 $10,000
5 $7,500
6 $5,000
7 $3,000
8 $2,500
9 $2,000
10 $1,500
11 $1,400
12 $1,300
13 $1,250
14 $1,200
15 $1,100
16 $1,000
17 $950
18 $900
19 $850
20 $800

Wild Card Tier:
1 $3,500
2 $2,000
3 $1,500
4 $1,000
5 $750

League Prizes:
1 $350
2 $150
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