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Fantasy Soccer Bootroom is a weekly column devoted to the ins and outs of fantasy soccer, especially the game played on www.mfls.com, and the RevMFLS division.

It’s hard to believe I started doing this 34 weeks ago, and managed to get one written every week. This will be my final installment of FSB. I’d like to thank Chowda for giving me the opportunity to take over the Bootroom this year. I hope I met his expectations. It has been fun.
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Columbus finishes in the top spot, where they have been for 11 weeks. They have been in the top 3 since week 4.  KC’s final push brings them up to six. They haven’t been that high since week 7.
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Fantasy Soccer Bootroom is a weekly column devoted to the ins and outs of fantasy soccer, especially the game played on www.mfls.com, and the RevMFLS division.

And so we approach the final week of the season. This is spending week: use up your unused transfers, spend that slush fund, because after this week, it is gone. I had four transfers left going into this week, and I used all four.

My thinking is to pick up players for teams that have something to play for this weekend. Columbus has been good to me this year, but they already have the Supporters Shield in hand, so this week’s game is meaningless to them (as was last week’s, as evidenced by their 3-1 loss to NY).
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Top eight remain the same, while the bottom six shake it up.
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Fantasy Soccer Bootroom is a weekly column devoted to the ins and outs of fantasy soccer, especially the game played on www.mfls.com, and the RevMFLS division.

I thought I was smart, benching Landon Donovan for the week because he was away with the US National Team. But LA didn’t play until Sunday, so LD made a cameo appearance and ended up +1. Meanwhile, the player I subbed in for him (Kheli Dube) got me -2 points, so I lost 3 points in the move.

I also thought I was smart dropping Dave van den Bergh a few weeks ago when he went out with an injury. Not only was he back in the lineup this week, he scored a goal. Meanwhile, the player I replaced him with, Jorge Rojas, was away on international duty.
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Only two teams are different from last week, as KC moves ahead of Dallas.
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Fantasy Soccer Bootroom is a weekly column devoted to the ins and outs of fantasy soccer, especially the game played on www.mfls.com, and the RevMFLS division.

There are 3 weeks left in the fantasy season. I’ve got four roster moves remaining, but overall I am pretty happy with my roster right now, so I am not looking to make any changes yet. I usually try to save a few so I can go for broke the final week of the season, load up my roster with advantageous matchups, and drop some of the guys who might take the final week off to rest for the playoffs once their position is secure.
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Top seven are unchanged, while DC and Dallas flip spots (8 and 12).
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Fantasy Soccer Bootroom is a weekly column devoted to the ins and outs of fantasy soccer, especially the game played on www.mfls.com, and the RevMFLS division.

The loyalties of a fantasy owner to his or her favorite MLS team are sometimes tested, similar to the age old debate of club versus country. Do you keep the players from your favorite team in the lineup despite any runs of poor performance? Do you bench their opponents with the hopes that your team will prevail? Or, do you play both sides, thinking that “if my MLS team doesn’t do well, at least my fantasy team will benefit.” That way, no matter what happens, you will have something to be happy about.
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Chivas moves up to their highest place since week two, Top three and bottom two remain unchanged.
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Basically, there were two kinds of fantasy teams this week: those that had Landon Donovan, and those that didn’t. LD’s hat trick and assist in LA’s 5-2 drubbing of DC netted a whopping 18 points to teams with him in the starting lineup.

I was one of the fortunate ones to have LD starting, although my week took a turn for the worse last Thursday when I discovered that Schelotto was out for another week, and the Houston/San Jose game had been postponed due to Hurricane Ike. I got home as soon as I could that night, ran to the computer and submitted my roster change just as the clock struck 6pm EDT. Alas, when the transaction registered, it was credited to week 27, not week 26. As Maxwell Smart would say, “Missed it by that much.”
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