League Champion: Macho Madness / Brandon Harnish
Runner-Up: Ladydestroyers / Dave Boyer
Best Record: Mordor Mongrels (11-2) / Corey Palmer
Great Golden Ball Scoring Champion: Mordor Mongrels (1883.5) / Corey Palmer
🏈 2012 was Harnish's back-to-back championship year. The Macho Madness remain the only repeat champions in league history. 2012 was also the year Chandler Harnish was drafted by the Colts to the NFL and the first year for the Chandler Harnish Bowl! The Krull Championship Title was refashioned into a regular season championship, awarded each year to the team with the best win-loss record.
🏈 The best regular season win-loss record in FantasyMania history (since matched by Harnish's 2016 Ultimate Wario squad) belongs to the 2012 Mordor Mongrels (Corey) They went 11-2 but were upset in the Final Four 159-140.5 by the defending champion Macho Madness. Corey was hurt by disappointing performances from Hakeem Nicks (5.5), Wes Welker (8), and Jimmy Graham (8.5).
🏈 There are a number of rivalries in our league, but none is quite as bitter as Boyer vs. Harnish, a.k.a. The Swamp Water Shootout. In 2012, after weeks of Facebook trash talk and video threats, they met in FantasyMania IV’s championship game, where the Macho Madness edged out the Ladydestoyers 165-161 in an instant classic. The previous year, though the official records are lost, Boyer’s Shomer Shabbos defeated Harnish's Runnin’ Wild Hulkamaniacs in the playoffs by a fraction of a point (about half a tackle) when a Ravens-Texans game went into overtime. There were at least 2 scoring corrections and a final winner wasn’t declared until Wednesday of the next week. This was when the league adopted Corey's exotic scoring system.
🏈 Corey’s Mordor Mongrels began the 2012 season an incredible 7-0. In week 8, Boyer and Corey met in a clash of the titans: The Mongrels (7-0) vs. The Ladydestoyers (6-1). Boyer’s only loss on the season came at the hands of Corey in week 1 (139-114.5), but he would get his revenge. With the help of a 36.5 point output from Doug Martin, he won the big showdown 139.5-97.
