Recap

Week 10, 2016 AD vs Rick

Week 10

 

• AD
• 112.55 pts, 5-5
• Weekly Grade

 

 

• Hooligans
• 92.2 pts, 6-4
• Weekly Grade

AD, down 5.35 on Monday night, gave Hooligans a glimmer of hope, then ripped it away and beat Hooligans 112.55 to 92.20. AD got 27.05 points from Drew Brees and 25.70 from Odell Beckham Jr. AD has beaten expectations three weeks straight and put up 5.7% more points than projected in this matchup. Following a 134.15 to 122.70 win against PITCH, Hooligans saw their scoring shrink this week. Adding insult to injury, Hooligans had a starter score zero points (Nick Folk). Hooligans (6-4, 954.18 points) drops to seventh place and AD (5-5, 1,161.50 points) remains in eighth place.

Top Players

• • Drew Brees
  • 27.05
 
• • Odell Beckham Jr.
  • 25.70
 
• • Dez Bryant
  • 23.60
 
• • Julio Jones
  • 23.50

Smooth Moves by AD

• Fantasy Football is a game where the high score wins. So keep doing what you have to do, the Toyota Hall of Fame will turn a blind eye.
• Took Christine Michael out of the starting lineup, who scored 3.60 points on the bench, fewer than the starting RB.
• Drew Brees scored 27.05 points against a projected 17.93 and has now overachieved in five straight games.
• What do Apache helicopters, F-117 Nighthawks and Odell Beckham Jr. have in common? They are all dangerous aerial weapons. He ranked sixth in the league in scoring among WRs this week with 25.70 points.
• Dez Bryant scored 23.60 points, the eighth-highest WR score in the league this week.

Toyota Roster Tune-up

• The fact that you're reading this means you have internet connection. Unfortunately, that's one less thing to blame your loss on. Don't tell the Hall.
• Hooligans left the 24.90 points scored by LeGarrette Blount on the bench this week. He beat his projected point total by 369.8%, the fourth-highest percentage in the league.
• Even though Hooligans lost, only 3 of their 7 starters scored less than their projected points.
• Hooligans got a zero from Nick Folk after expecting a projected 6.75-point total.
• With 7.10 points versus a projected 14.11, Randall Cobb scored only 50.3% of his projected point total.

What If

• If AD played Hooligans every week, they'd be 7-3 this year.
• Besides Hooligans, AD would have defeated seven other teams this week.
• Had they played each other last week, AD would have defeated Hooligans 140.21 - 134.15.
• If they played the same schedule as Hooligans, AD would be 7-2.
• If AD had played every team in the league each week, they would be 89-61.
• Hooligans would have lost to nine other teams besides AD this week.
• If they played the same schedule as AD, Hooligans would be 2-7.
• Hooligans would be 58-92 if they played every team every week.

Game Notes

• The top players for AD were elite in the matchup, as three of their starters outperformed the leading scorer for Hooligans.
• AD bested their projected points again, the fifth time this season they have done so, including a streak of three straight games.
• A silver lining in the loss: Hooligans had their highest losing score of the season with 92.20 points.
• The 20.35-point win by AD beat the 13.51-point spread.
• Hooligans had 51.6% of their total score come from the WR position (47.60 points).
• Hooligans remains winless in comeback games this season, falling to 0-2.
• AD overachieved in the win, improving to 4-1 when beating their projected points this season, while Hooligans falls to 2-4 when scoring below their projected points.
• In the loss, Julio Jones had the ninth-highest WR score in the league this week with 23.50 points.