2006

Season Summary

The 2006 season reads like one complete chapter in the CBS era. It ended with Troll Hoppers holding the title for Kenneth Hendershott. The regular season was set by Too Fresh, which went 9-5 with 897.0 points for in a 8-team field.

The division map mattered. GNG does not treat the standings as a simple top-six sprint: the East Side and West Side each send their own top three, so a manager has to survive his side of the league before worrying about the full table. Big Tex's Pillow Biters led West Side at 8-6, with 4th Company Ultramar sitting on the cut line; Too Fresh led East Side at 9-5, with Troll Hoppers sitting on the cut line. That structure created the kind of NFL-style tension GNG has always liked: Spacelords had a stronger overall profile than at least one playoff qualifier, but the divisional cut line still made the path unforgiving.

The weekly results give the year its pulse. The Brainers was the scoring heavyweight at 960.0 points for, a reminder that raw power and the final standings do not always tell the same story. Across 63 scored games over 17 weeks, the biggest combined score was Week 9, Troll Hoppers vs The Brainers at 186.0 combined points (106.0-80.0). The closest finish was Week 5, Homesick Abortions over Too Fresh, 39.0-37.0 by 2.0. The widest gap was Week 9, Big Tex's Pillow Biters over 4th Company Ultramar, 105.0-32.0 by 73.0. The playoffs added 4 bracket games across 3 rounds, ending with Troll Hoppers over Future Icons in the final.

Draft night left a trail of 120 picks across 8 teams and 15 rounds. Those roster choices are where the season starts to feel personal: the held-over stars, the missed bets, and the managers who had to live with both.

The board is quiet for this year, so the standings and weekly scores carry most of the memory. That makes the close games, scoring spikes, and final order especially important for anyone trying to relive how the season felt.

Taken together, the title race, the week-to-week swings, the roster choices, and the board chatter turn the season into more than a list of standings. It is a memory map for the managers who lived through it.