RECAP

Week 1 Dustin vs Pitch

Week 1

 

• PITCH
• 134.9 pts, 1-0
• Weekly Grade

 

 

• Bullock Bulls!
• 108.55 pts, 0-1
• Weekly Grade

PITCH, down 27.55 on Monday night, gave Bullock Bulls! a glimmer of hope, then ripped it away and defeated Bullock Bulls! 134.90 to 108.55. PITCH picked up 35.10 points from DeAngelo Williams and 33.40 from Brandin Cooks. While each team met their expectations, PITCH scored 18.6% more than a projected 113.70 points to get the win. Bullock Bulls! was led by the tag team of Larry Fitzgerald, with 28.10 points, and Derek Carr, who scored 27.55. The outcome could have been worse, PITCH had a starter score zero points (Gary Barnidge). PITCH kicks off the campaign with a 1-0 record, good enough for third place. Bullock Bulls! debuts at 0-1 and in 11th place.

Top Players

• • DeAngelo Williams
  • 35.10
 
• • Brandin Cooks
  • 33.40
 
• • Ben Roethlisberger
  • 28.80
 
• • Larry Fitzgerald
  • 28.10

Smooth Moves by PITCH

• The Toyota Hall of Fame would have its eyes on you for this week's win. But the Toyota Hall of Fame doesn't have eyes. Obviously.
• With 35.10 points, DeAngelo Williams got the fifth-largest point total in the league and beat his projected points by 123.4%, which was the ninth-biggest percentage in the league.
• We won't judge you if you want to bow to Brandin Cooks. He ranked seventh in the league in scoring with 33.40 points.
• By scoring 28.80 points, Ben Roethlisberger beat his 21.86 projected points by 31.7%.
• Starter Gary Barnidge put up a zero, but PITCH still won.

Toyota Roster Tune-up

• Don't worry, Bullock Bulls!, the Toyota Hall of Fame says losing isn't contagious. But it is embarrassing. And you should be embarrassed.
• Missed out on an opportunity by leaving the 27.80 points scored by Theo Riddick on the bench this week. He outperformed his projected point total by 150.5%, the eighth-highest percentage in the league.
• Terrance West, who Bullock Bulls! picked up this week, scored below his 8.01-point projection with 5.80 points.
• Bullock Bulls! lost despite having only 4 of their 8 starters score less than their projected points.
• The 2.00 points scored by the Los Angeles Rams Defense was just 21.4% of their 9.34-point projection.

What If

• PITCH would have beaten 12 other teams besides Bullock Bulls! this week.
• Hypothetically speaking, if PITCH had scored 6.38 more points, they would have beaten every team in the league this week.
• Bullock Bulls! would have lost to eight other teams besides PITCH this week.
• If Bullock Bulls! had scored 40.11 fewer points, they would have lost to all teams in the league this week.

Game Notes

• PITCH had three starters who scored more points than the highest-scoring starter for Bullock Bulls!.
• PITCH won by 26.35 points, covering the 5.93-point spread.
• PITCH had the third-highest score in the league this week with 134.90 points.
• Bullock Bulls! could not close out the win even with the help of Larry Fitzgerald, who scored 28.10 points, the fifth-highest score among all WRs in the league for the week.
• Even in the loss, the 23.20 points scored by David Johnson was the sixth-highest score of any RB in the league this week.
• The 47.30 points put up by the RBs on PITCH was the second-highest combined score by a team's RBs this week.
• The Kansas City Chiefs Defense did not contribute much to the win by PITCH. They only scored 1.00 point of a projected 9.51.
• The matchup saw both teams exceed their scoring projections.