WEEK NINE REPORT     The trading window for this 2001 season closed Sunday morning right before the early games in the NFL kicked off. But all week long teams were scrambling to make deals before the deadline. Playoff bound squads looked to improve their teams while a couple of owners tried to lock up franchise players for next season -- mainly because they knew they were going nowhere this year. In the league's history, never before had so many trades occurred in the last week of trading and never before had so many big name players changed teams. The week's trading began late last Monday night as Eighty-Eight, Late!, NGL©, and Marshall's Maulers pulled a three-way shocker that involved quite a few top quality players. Then later in the week, Dippity Doo and The Fruit Baskets made a blockbuster deal of their own.   Quite possibly, a couple of squads hurt their chances to play in the postseason by making trades, but it might be too early to know for sure. One thing is for certain, PTP: Peyton's Trailerpark Posse! salvaged a Week Nine tie by giving RB Lamar Smith and WR Laveranues Coles to Corey Dillon The Ball Carrier. In exchange, PTP received RB Ron Dayne and WR Keyshawn Johnson, a tandem that outscored Smith/Coles by 6 points. Obviously, PTP's highly questionable trade has already paid dividends. We'll see if it will hold up over the upcoming crucial portion of the season.      This new weekly feature will summarize who got the chisel on Monday Night -- and how bad it was! This week the fantasy gods did indeed decide to unsheath their tool of taunt. Unfortunately for The Savants, they were the primary victim for Week Nine. Leading by 7 points heading into the final game of the week, The Savants' had to sit back and see if their opponent, Bullseye, could close the gap with WR Derrick Mason of the Titans. Mason has been injured for most of the year, and before Monday his biggest weekly receiving tally was 62 yards. That all changed last night as Mason caught pass after pass and finished with a total of 99 receiving yards. That's gotta hurt!     Here are the league's full results for Week Nine:     Eighty-Eight, Late! (4-5) defeated Jo-Boo's Browns Backers (3-6), 96-88. Jo-Boo was making a valiant run at the playoffs before they decided to get trade happy. Right before the deadline, the Browns Backers traded away some key players to try and improve their squad. It cost them -- dearly. This week, had they kept WRs Willie Jackson/Keenan McCardell and RBs Tiki Barber/Warrick Dunn they would have surely won this contest. In their stead, the Backers relied on Eric Moulds and James Jackson (among others) who pretty much shit the bed for their squad. With the victory, Eighty-Eight, Late! now is in a solid position to challenge The Savants for one of the remaining playoff berths.     Bullseye (7-2) defeated The Savants (4-5), 97-94. Six wins in a row! Bullseye is not letting up at all, despite the obvious lack of production they are getting at running back. Perhaps Terrell Owens has something to do with that. This week's win pretty much assures the defending champs of a playoff berth while the loss puts The Savants on the outside looking in. As predicted in the report a few weeks back, The Savants lost their third game in a row. They will need to try and stop the bleeding next week when they face off against Dippity Doo.    NGL© (6-2-1) defeated Marshall's Maulers (1-7-1), 151-88. What a week for Shaun Alexander and what a week for NGL©! Behind the running back's record tying 44-point performance, NGL© coasted to an easy Week Nine win and set the 2nd highest regular season score in the process. At this point, the only thing the Maulers are playing for is pride and a possible overall points prize. They have been mathematically eliminated from the postseason.     Dippity-Doo (6-3) defeated Corey Dillon The Ball Carrier (5-4), 111-65. Dippity-Doo is looking good these days folks! After their controversial trade this week, they come out of the blocks with an 111 point effort that easily earned them a win against an overmatched Corey Dillon franchise. Corey Dillon, "the ball carrier" as he likes to be called, has struggled all year to put up points. Maybe they should stop carrying the ball and throw it down field once or twice. Couldn't hurt. It's a statistical anomaly that this team has five wins while sitting at the bottom of the overall points standings.     The Fruit Baskets (2-6-1) tied with PTP: Peyton's Trailerpark Posse! (5-3-1), 107-107. The fruity, fruity, Fruit Baskets. They just can't catch a break. This week they put up the 2nd highest scoring total and they wound up tying their opponent. Right about now they have to be scratching their heads and cussing out the Corey Dillon franchise. It just isn't fair, I tell you! Meanwhile, PTP is right in the mix to win a Lip Conference championship. If they can use the chicken coop wire from their trailer park farm to wire their QB's jaw shut -- well, then, they just might pull it off.     That's it for this week...          The Commish