And your 2009 Champion is Robio Murray as he defeated….oh wait, wrong league.

Your 2009 Champion is Matt Neatock. Of course this comes as a shock to not a single person in this league.

It became official at 10:26 tonight, as Adrian Peterson scored a one-yard touchdown midway through the third quarter.

For Matt, his success started before the season even began, as he walked into the year with the best keepers. Peterson, Welker and Rogers were all top-five players at their respected positions.

While someone might thing I’m minimizing Matt’s title because he had great keepers…I’m not. Who was it that drafted those great players? Matt. It was he in 2007 who figured out the second round wasn’t too early for rookie Adrian Peterson. It was he in 2007 who took Wes Welker in the 13th round the same season he joined the Patriots. It was he who took Aaron Rogers, the new starting QB for the Packers (as his backup behind Carson Palmer) in the 10th round. He was the 12th QB taken in last year’s draft.

Of course, Matt had all three players last year and won three games, which just goes to show, it’s not just about keepers. You still have to draft that year,

With the top pick in the draft, there were plenty of busts to grab, Westbrook, LT, Jacobs…but Matt made the right call grabbing Frank Gore.

In the third, he nailed it with DeSean Jackson. It wasn’t a fluke pick. Matt told me weeks earlier he would take Jackson early. I had D-Jax falling to the fifth-round in my mock draft.

While not all the picks worked out (let’s not forget he drafted Willie Parker, Lee Evans and LenDale White with picks 5, 6 and 8), he did grab a solid TE in Gonzalez and one of the better defenses (NY Jets) in the 7th round.

Why is rehashing his draft so important? Because like we’ve pointed out already, Matt becomes the only team to start in the finals the same exact same team he started with in week one, minus the kicker (everyone dumps their kicker at some point).

While Matt being Matt picked up about half-a-dozen players and performed what seemed like a dozen trades, he didn’t really have to do to that. Outside of Gore and Welker missing a couple weeks early in the season, Matt’s had no reason to change or adjust his starting lineup (excluding byes).

How good was that starting lineup (Rogers, AP, Gore, Welker, Jackson, Gonzalez and Jets D)? Matt started that lineup eight times and they went 8-0. All three of his loses, Matt was missing one of these guys). In the week three-loss to Don, he had no Welker (and Gore had one carry before getting hurt). In the week-nine loss to Masterson, Peterson was on a bye. In his week-12 defeat to Calderon, Jackson was injured.

None of those defeats were blowouts. He lost those games by 123, 203 and 92 points.

That 8-0 starting lineup averaged a stunning 1,675ppg this season. Ouch.

So now the question that needs to be asked…was this the greatest fantasy team in league history?

– He became only the second three-loss championship team in league history.

– His 1,497ppg in the regular season is the second best ever.

– However, when you count all the games (Regular and Playoffs), Matt’s team produced the most points ever in a single season, passing 2005 Griff. He’s team averaged an amazing 1,553ppg, blowing away Griff’s 1,526ppg in 2005.

If numbers don’t lie, you have to argue this squad was the best ever, right? I’ll let you all debate that.

Anyhow, I’ll have a few more write-ups soon before we wrap up the 2009 season. Looking ahead, the new champ should again be a favorite heading into 2010 with another solid keeper class.

He’ll have Aaron Rogers one more year in the 10th round, plus DeSean Jackson for two more years in the third round. The fact D-Jax is in the third round is important because Matt will be picking last in the third round, so Jackson (a top-eight receiver) will fall to the 36-pick.

On top of the keepers, he’ll have the 12th and 13th pick, so he’ll basically have four starters 13 picks into the draft.

Congratulations Matt…enjoy your second mug.