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Week 1 Chip vs Adrian

Week 1

 

• Pulled Pork Mafia
• 117.2 pts, 1-0
• Weekly Grade

 

 

• TexasTide
• 88.45 pts, 0-1
• Weekly Grade

Doug Baldwin and Danny Woodhead are going to have sore backs tomorrow after carrying Pulled Pork Mafia to a victory over TexasTide 117.20 to 88.45. They scored 24.20 and 23.00 points, respectively. TexasTide failed to live up to expectations and scored only 85.1% of a projected 103.93, while Pulled Pork Mafia put up 9.3% more points than projected (107.22). TexasTide was led by the tag team of Carson Palmer, with 22.65 points, and Lamar Miller, who scored 15.70. Pulled Pork Mafia (1-0) starts off the season in seventh place while TexasTide (0-1) opens in 14th place.

Top Players

• • Doug Baldwin
  • 24.20
 
• • Danny Woodhead
  • 23.00
 
• • Carson Palmer
  • 22.65
 
• • Cam Newton
  • 21.10

Smooth Moves by Pulled Pork Mafia

• If this were a dream sequence, you'd hear a deep voice announce, "Pulled Pork Mafia, the Toyota Hall of Famer." But it's not.
• The 24.20 points scored by Doug Baldwin was the seventh-highest score by a WR in the league this week.
• Danny Woodhead put the team on his back with 23.00 points, the seventh-highest score among RBs in the league this week.
• Did you use any black magic this week? Pulled Pork Mafia was still able to pull out a win with only 4 of their 8 starters exceeding their projected points.

Toyota Roster Tune-up

• Somehow, all of your players had two bye weeks this week. The Toyota Hall of Fame calls that a bye bye week. Yes, it's a bad joke, but it's still better than your score.
• Did not start Alex Smith, who led the matchup in scoring with 31.65 points.
• Picked up Jacob Tamme but left him on the bench, where he scored 11.10 points against a projected 6.40.
• 6 of the starters on TexasTide scored less than their projected points.
• Brandon Marshall fell short of his scoring projection with 6.20 points, just 36.1% of his projected 17.19.

What If

• Pulled Pork Mafia would have beaten eight other teams besides TexasTide this week.
• Hypothetically speaking, if Pulled Pork Mafia had scored 24.08 more points, they would have beaten every team in the league this week.
• TexasTide would have lost to 12 other teams besides Pulled Pork Mafia this week.
• If TexasTide had scored 20.01 fewer points, they would have lost to all teams in the league this week.

Game Notes

• The 28.75-point win by Pulled Pork Mafia beat the 3.29-point spread.
• Pulled Pork Mafia had two starters score more points than the highest-scoring starter for TexasTide.
• TexasTide ranked 14th in the league in scoring this week.
• Although TexasTide lost, Stephen Gostkowski played well, bringing in 36.8% more points than was projected (11.00 points against a projected 8.04).
• No it's okay, you don't have to get up and help us out. Despite being on the winning team, Chandler Catanzaro scored only 3.00 points against his projected 8.19.
• TexasTide failed to reach their projected total, while Pulled Pork Mafia exceeded their scoring projection.