Peter Jennings Wins 2022 NFFC Cutline Championship & $100,000

[Greg Ambrosius]

Peter Jennings of Las Vegas, Nevada won the 2022 NFFC Cutline Championship and that $100,000 grand prize with his only Cutline team of the season. Peter beat a field of 2,120 teams to win the grand prize as his team was consistently at the top of the standings all year long. When the final table of 12 owners was completed on Monday Night, Peter was standing at the top and holding the $100,000 grand prize.

The NFFC Cutline Championship was one contest where the cancellation of the Monday Night Game likely didn't change the overall champion, although we don't know that for sure. Peter's team finished 28.12 points ahead of Fred Pagani for the title, but Fred still had Buffalo's kicker going. It would have been tough to score 28.12 points from a kicker, but anything is possible. Chad Schroeder finished fifth in the final standings, but his team was 100.88 points out of the lead and he still had Joe Burrow and Tee Higgins. Unlikely that they could have posted 100+ points, but certainly possible and definitely possible that Chad could have moved into the Top 3 and maybe even Top 2.

But we'll never know because the NFL cancelled the Bills-Bengals Monday Night Game last night. Of course that game was stopped in the middle of the first quarter when Damar Hamlin was seriously injured and the league chose not to resume the game at a later date. No stats from that shortened Monday Night Game were used in the NFFC because the NFL completely cancelled that game.

Peter's team "The Fish" won his September 2nd Cutline league title and the $350 league prize, while finishing second overall at the end of the regular season with 1,955.90 points. The Fish fell to 93rd overall after Week 2, but survived the first "cut" and then was 33rd overall after the second "cut" of Week 14. The Fish rose to 7th after Week 15 and entered the final table of 12 in Week 17 after leading everyone through Week 16. His team scored 182.90 points in Week 16 and then finished with the most points in Week 17 with 201.10.

The NFFC Cutline Championship is a unique 10-team format where you have to finish in the Top 5 of your league to advance to the playoffs and Top 2 to get into the Championship Round. Then you have to survive the cut through Weeks 11-12, Weeks 13-14 and then again in Weeks 15 and 16. Peter did all of that to win the $100,000 grand prize against 11 other teams in Week 17. Great fun.

Fred Pagani finished second and won $25,000, while Tom Zarogiannos finished third to win $17,500. Rounding out the Top 6 were Russel Smith ($15,000), Chad Schroeder ($12,000) and Henry Muto ($10,000)

This was Peter's only entry in the 2022 Cutline Championship. He did have six Rotowire Online Championship teams and one Guillotine, but he turned that single Cutline entry into the $100,000 grand prize. This marks the second straight year that an owner won the Cutline overall title with only one entry. Steve Merrifield did the same thing last year.

Wow. We will be back with the Cutline in 2023 with another $100,000 grand prize and we expect a record year for this contest. It's so good. Thanks all and congrats to everyone who won money in this contest.

Here's the final standings from Week 17:

2022 NFFC Cutline Championship Week 17 Final Standings:
1 Peter Jennings THE FISH 561.89
2 Fred Pagani Philly Faithful 93 533.77
3 Tom Zarogiannos Jefferson Kelce Combo 499.75
4 Russel Smith PBTrillionaires 488.92
5 Chad Schroeder Cocktails & Dreams 461.01
6 Henry Muto Vipers 454.77
7 Adam Kleeberg Kleeberg Cutline 1 454.45
8 Ian Hubbard Hubbard 448.28
9 Gregory Tarascio Pub FCL1 445.89
10 Anthony Mazzochi Red Zone Stoners 440.51
11 Vincent Staffilino vcstaff 4 407.14
12 Stephen Ranaghan ESR1 403.43

[Greg Ambrosius]

Here was the payout for the NFFC Cutline Championship's Championship Round and Consolation Round for 2022:

2022 NFFC Cutline Championship
Overall Prizes
1 $100,000
2 $25,000
3 $17,500
4 $15,000
5 $12,000
6 $10,000
7 $6,000
8 $5,000
9 $4,000
10 $3,000
11 $2,500
12 $2,000

Consolation Prizes:
1 $3,000
2 $2,000
3 $1,500
4 $1,200
5 $1,000
6 $900
7 $800
8 $750
9 $700
10 $650
11 $600
12 $500

League Prizes:
1 $350
2 $150

[Greg Ambrosius]

Peter drafted from the sixth spot in this Cutline Championship league. Here was his complete draft:

The Fish:
1 6 Ekeler, Austin RB THE FISH
2 15 Kelce, Travis TE THE FISH
3 26 Hill, Tyreek WR THE FISH
4 35 Etienne, Travis RB THE FISH
5 46 Mahomes, Patrick QB THE FISH
6 55 St. Brown, Amon-Ra WR THE FISH
7 66 Edmonds, Chase FLEX THE FISH
8 75 Kirk, Christian WR THE FISH
9 86 Smith, DeVonta WR THE FISH
10 95 Patterson, Cordarrelle RB THE FISH
11 106 Pickens, George WR THE FISH
12 115 Claypool, Chase WR THE FISH
13 126 Lawrence, Trevor QB THE FISH
14 135 Tagovailoa, Tua QB THE FISH
15 146 McKinnon, Jerick RB THE FISH
16 155 McKenzie, Isaiah WR THE FISH
17 166 Jordan, Brevin TE THE FISH
18 175 Davis, Corey WR THE FISH
19 186 Alie-Cox, Mo TE THE FISH
20 195 Ingram, Mark RB THE FISH
21 206 Packers, Green Bay TDSP THE FISH
22 215 Buccaneers, Tampa Bay TK THE FISH
23 226 Bengals, Cincinnati TDSP THE FISH
24 235 Chargers, Los Angeles (LAC) TK THE FISH
25 246 49ers, San Francisco TK THE FISH
26 255 Raiders, Las Vegas TDSP THE FISH

[Greg Ambrosius]

Here were Peter's free agent pickups during the season:

Week 2 None
Week 6 Joshua Kelley 242
Week 6 Caleb Huntley 67
Week 6 Josh Reynolds 48
Week 6 Will Dissly 38
Week 10 Chuba Hubbard 188
Week 10 Tyquan Thornton 78
Week 10 New England Patriots TK 6

[Greg Ambrosius]

Peter Jennings now joins our elite list of past champions as we have 10 different Cutline champions in 10 seasons.

Here's the great list of champions:

NFFC CUTLINE CHAMPIONSHIP OVERALL CHAMPIONS:

2013 - Ted Neff, VentureBros, 549.18
2014 - Chris Baker, Baker, 500.26
2015 - Thomas Greenwald, ONE GOAL 6, 524.93
2016 - Jared Daniels, 524.24
2017 - Nicholas Izzo, 511.31
2018 - Matthew Bayley, 608.65
2019 - Ronald Chan, 560.63
2020 - George Melbrod, 607.79
2021 - Steven Merrifield, 557.24
2022 - Peter Jennings, 561.89

[Greg Ambrosius]

Daniel Cox won the top prize of $3,000 in the NFFC Cutline Consolation Round as we paid the Top 12 finishers in that bracket. Danny Bronski had Tee Higgins left and was just 4.55 points out of the top spot as he was the only other owner in this bracket to have a shot at the top prize. Here's the final standings:

2022 NFFC Cutline Championship Final Consolation Round Standings:
1 Daniel Cox Cox 532.33
2 KJ Duke Duke CT 529.45
3 Danny Bronski Uncle Wiggily B 527.78
4 MICHAEL KROGER KROGER 524.55
5 John Drew Johnnie From Astoria 518.45
6 Aaron Jones Jones 516.94
7 William Elder BillyVonEldsCUT01 514.44
8 William Sovak Spirit Breakers 508.29
9 Thomas Greenwald Valhalla of Decadence CL7 505.87
10 Anthony Venuti NORTH SOUTHERN 503.15
11 Robert Rassbach Big Wheels 496.11
12 Adam Stredney Area216 495.98
13 William Sovak Spirit Breakers 494.59
14 Jason Funkhouser New England Machine Cut 493.55
15 Wes Quinio World Wide Wes3 492.99
16 Aaron Banach Kingfisher Cutline 487.78
17 Chester Mui CM7 487.54
18 Danny Bronski Uncle Wiggily D 484.7
19 Timothy BRAULT Bulldogs IV 484.17
20 John Pausma JP CUT3 482.04