Recap

Week 15, 2015 John Vs Irving

Consolation: Hitters Ekes Out Win over BrotherTheodore

 

 

 
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Week 15

 

• Hitters
• 7-7
• Weekly Grade: B
• 120.21

 

 

• BrotherTheodore
• 5-9
• Weekly Grade: B
• 117.78

Hitters picked up 33.65 points from Eli Manning and 21.00 from the Cincinnati Bengals Defense, stealing one from BrotherTheodore 120.21 to 117.78. The thin 2.43-point playoff victory was the 10th-smallest difference over all matchups this season. The GM of Hitters can sleep well tonight after getting revenge for a Week 7 93.15 to 86.20 loss to BrotherTheodore. BrotherTheodore ended the regular season with a record of 5-9, good for 12th place. When considering points per game, they ranked slightly worse (13th with 91.61). BrotherTheodore will start their vacation earlier than they hoped, as they lost their only postseason game.

Top Players

• • Eli Manning
  • 33.65
 
• • Brandin Cooks
  • 28.88
 
• • Cincinnati Bengals Defense
  • 21.00
 
• • Bilal Powell
  • 20.90

Smooth Moves by Hitters

• Eli Manning brought in 33.65 points, which was good enough to rank sixth in the league in scoring this week and fifth-best of any player on Hitters this season.
• Took Richard Rodgers out of the starting lineup, who scored 1.70 points on the bench, fewer than the starting TE.
• With 16.40 points, Rob Gronkowski had the fourth-highest score of any TE in the league this week.
• Beat BrotherTheodore, which had their highest-scoring week of the season.
• 5 of 8 players in the starting lineup for Hitters topped their projected points.

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• We searched your league's browser history, and guess who studied our articles? Hitters did, 120.21 times.
• Left Teddy Bridgewater on the bench, where he exceeded his scoring projection by a league-leading 247.5%.
• The lowest score by a player for BrotherTheodore this week was 3.70 points from Malcom Floyd. The score was below his projected points of 10.56, which marks the fifth straight week where that has happened.
• BrotherTheodore lost despite having only 2 of their 8 starters score less than their projected points.
• The 14.30 points scored by Matt Ryan fell short of his 18.31-point projection, the fourth straight game where that has happened.

What If

• If Hitters played BrotherTheodore every week, they would be 10-5 this season.
• Hitters would have beaten only three other teams besides BrotherTheodore this week.
• Were they resting their players for this week? Hitters would have defeated BrotherTheodore 110.15 - 55.50 had they played each other last week.
• If they played the same schedule as BrotherTheodore, Hitters would be 7-6.
• Hitters would be 95-122 if they played every team every week.
• In addition to Hitters, BrotherTheodore would have lost to just three other teams this week.
• If they played the same schedule as Hitters, BrotherTheodore would be 6-7.
• BrotherTheodore would be 74-143 if they played every team every week.

Game Notes

• Six of the 10 losses for BrotherTheodore this season have come when their opponent scores higher than their season average.
• It was a tough loss for BrotherTheodore, which put up the eighth-biggest score for a losing team in the league this season.
• The loss is the sixth straight for BrotherTheodore and extends the longest current losing streak in the league.
• Hitters stays undefeated in close games this season at 2-0.
• Hitters won even though BrotherTheodore performed better against their scoring projection. BrotherTheodore beat their 88.53 projected points by 33.0%, while Hitters outscored their 99.75-point projection by 20.5%.
• BrotherTheodore falls to 1-1 in close games this season.
• The 120.21 points scored by Hitters ranked fourth in the league this week.
• The 2.43-point margin of victory by Hitters was the fourth-biggest win in the league this week.