IT'S ON!

It's the matchup everyone expected and everyone wanted. Today, the championship round of the REGJB Justice League Fantasy Football concludes with the Honorable Judge De La O and his De La Fins taking on yours truly and his rag-tag band of players on the MAGA-MAGA team.
It's been a year of streaks for Rumpole, winning the first two games, then losing the next three, before superior managing skills righted the ship and his team tore off nine straight wins, for a 11-3 record. 
So who will win today? The respected and bespectacled jurist, with a  quiet and steady hand and who is known for the monk-like intensity  he brings to any problem- legal or fantasy-football related? Or the brash, outspoken, robe-dissin blogger who came from no-where to shock the league and  whom legions of judges are rooting against? 

This is season is a story of Qbs and RBs. De La Fins made a solid pick in Saints QB Brees, and then a late round stunner of Steeler RB James Conner who emerged as a true superstar when Pittsburgh let their superstar RB Bell walk. But in a late season set-back, Conner went down and De La O quickly nabbed off the free agent list his rookie replacement who merely tore up the Patriots for 144 yards  last week. Does De la O and his RB have one more breakout performance in him which could push the Judge over the top and allow him bragging rights for the year? 
Or will Rumpole's dynamic combo of breakouts- QB Patrick Mahomes and  rookie RB Barkley- come through once again and give Rumpole the 70-80 points this dynamic duo have provided in his remarkable run to the top of the Justice League?
The Steeler- Saints matchup is the 4:15 game, while the Chief play the late Sunday night game at 8, so this matchup will go into the wee hours of the weekend. And all eyes are on Rumpole as his ponders what to do with the injury to one of his top WRs - Steeler JuJu Schuster-Smith who has a nagging groin injury but who bravely tweeted yesterday to all of his FF owners that he was a go today and he would not let them down in the championship week?

Meanwhile back at the courthouse...
courtesy of FACDL prez Carmen Vizcaino who never rests, is this lineup of judges and coverage for the end of the year:

XMAS WEEK

1. Judge Simon will cover Zilber (5) then Del Pino (16) then her own (1) on 12/24.  She will cover Johnson (9) then Del Pino (16) then her own (1) on 12/26-12/28.

2. Judge Fine will cover Wolfson (21) then Venzer (11) then his own (2) all week.

3. Judge Zilber will cover Diaz (21) then his own (5) on 12/26-12/28.

4. Judge Multack will cover Hersch (13) then Diaz (20) then his own (6) on 12/24. Judge Multack will cover Hersch (13) then his own (6) on 12/26-12/28.

5.Judge Glick will cover Milian (18) then her own (12) all week.

6.  Judge M. Hirsch will cover Schlesinger (19) then his own (14) on 12/24.  Judge M. Hirsch will cover Schlesinger (19) then Miranda (7) then his own (14) on 12/26-12/28.

7.Judge Walsh will cover Hendon (4) then her own (15) on 12/26-12/28.

8. Judge Tinkler Mendez will cover Blumstein (17) then Rodriguez-Fonts (10) then Ward (3).

 (On Xmas eve only, Judge Rudolph will be available for backup in case one of the other judges cannot make it because of foggy conditions. Ho. Ho. Ho.)

WEEK OF 12/31 AND 2019

1. Judge Fine will cover Zilber (5) then Del Pino (16)  then his own (2) on 12/31.  Judge Fine will cover Del Pino (16)  then his own (2) on 1/2-1/4.

2. Judge Ward will cover Hersch (13) then Diaz (20) then her own (3) on 12/31. Judge Ward will cover Hersch (13) then her own (3) on 1/2.

3.Judge Zilber will cover Diaz (21) then his own (5) on 1/2-1/4.

4. Judge Multack will cover Wolfson (21) then Venzer (11) then his own (6) all week.

5. Judge M. Hirsch will cover Simon (1) then Miranda (7) then his own (14) all week.

6. Judge Milian will cover Walsh (15) then Rodriguez-Fonts (10) then his own (18) all week.

7.Judge Tinkler Mendez will cover Blumstein (17) then Johnson (9) on 12/31 only.