Heh no need to be sorry! You play to achieve your goals! I thought about BB-mailing you but I thought that begging other managers to let me win so I could auto promote was obviously unbecoming and unsportsmanlike, even if the other manager had nothing at stake.
You actually surprised me with the LI... I had planned to receive an outside offense, and went a little overboard with the 1-3-1 defense. But I went overboard because I had used up too much enthusiasm in the run-up to this game.
In fact, losing the SK game was more consequential for my plans than losing to you. For one thing my enthusiasm was still high then, for another it was tactically an easier matchup for me. In fact, my plan had been to get to the game vs. you undefeated, then punt vs you so I could recover tenth, and CT the last game (as I did anyway). The narrow loss to SK tossed a big fat wrench in this plan.