Recap

Week 13, 2015 Pitch Vs Adrian

Week 13

• Pulled Pork Mafia
• 6-7
• Weekly Grade: A
• 129.55

• PITCH
• 7-6
• Weekly Grade: B
• 127.3

Pulled Pork Mafia (6-7, 1,255.42 points) picked up the third-highest score on the season from Cam Newton to slip by PITCH (7-6, 1,509.53 points) 129.55 to 127.30. Pulled Pork Mafia took the early lead, up 54.50 to 33.50 after the first set of Sunday games. The lead was lost by the end of the Sunday night game and PITCH had a 127.30 to 120.35 edge. However, Pulled Pork Mafia pulled off the comeback victory on Monday night, with 9.20 points from Dez Bryant.

Top Players

• • Cam Newton
  • 47.45
 
• • Ben Roethlisberger
  • 45.50
 
• • DeAngelo Williams
  • 18.50
 
• • Frank Gore
  • 18.40

Smooth Moves by Pulled Pork Mafia

• The GM of Pulled Pork Mafia will be talking about this one for years. Cam Newton played like a superhero, posting the most points of the year for Pulled Pork Mafia with 47.45.
• Sat TE Jason Witten on the bench, where he had the lowest TE score on the team with 9.50 points.
• Do you put a LB or DB on him? You might have to put both on him if this continues. Charles Clay scored 16.60 points to rank fourth among TEs in the league this week.
• This is the bar, and this is the team jumping over it. Pulled Pork Mafia had 5 of their 8 starters exceed their projected points.
• Frank Gore exceeded scoring projections by 53.0%, with 18.40 points against a projected 12.03.

Toyota Roster Tune-up

• Losing is a proven way not to win a game. For a more successful season, try not losing.
• Larry Fitzgerald has now failed to reach his projection for three straight games. This week he scored 13.50 points versus a projected 18.96.
• Of the 8 starters on PITCH, 6 underperformed versus their projections.
• Emmanuel Sanders could not reach his projected point total, scoring only 42.1% of his 12.82-point projection with 5.40 points.
• All of the WRs on PITCH failed to reach their point projections.

What If

• If Pulled Pork Mafia played PITCH every week, they'd be 3-10 this year.
• Pulled Pork Mafia would have beaten 11 other teams besides PITCH this week.
• If they played the same schedule as PITCH, Pulled Pork Mafia would be 3-8.
• If Pulled Pork Mafia had played every team in the league each week, they would be 76-119.
• In addition to Pulled Pork Mafia, PITCH would have lost to just three other teams this week.
• And they say procrastination doesn't pay off! Had they played each other last week, Pulled Pork Mafia would have lost to PITCH 114.60 - 73.95.
• If they played the same schedule as Pulled Pork Mafia, PITCH would be 6-5.
• If they played every team every week, PITCH would be 127-68.

Game Notes

• Pulled Pork Mafia has won three times this year when their opponent scored higher than their season average.
• PITCH has lost six times and five of them have come to teams who beat their scoring average in that matchup.
• Although PITCH lost, they did put up the fourth-highest score for a losing team in the league this season.
• Despite being on the winning team, the St. Louis Rams Defense had a season-low 2.00 points against a projected 7.83 and has now underachieved in five straight games.
• The margin of victory of 2.25 points was the smallest in the league this week.
• Although Pulled Pork Mafia won, it was no thanks to Dez Bryant, who scored 9.20 points and has now scored below his projection in four straight weeks.
• With the win, Pulled Pork Mafia improves to 1-1 in comeback games this season.
• With the loss, PITCH falls to 1-3 in close games this season.