Recap

Week 8, 2016 LaRon Vs Matt

Week 8

 

• Hash
• 125.07 pts, 4-4
• Weekly Grade

 

 

• Big Breakfast
• 95.42 pts, 4-4
• Weekly Grade

Hash put up the highest score they've earned all season on the way to their third straight win when they defeated Big Breakfast 125.07 to 95.42 in a Monday night comeback. The streak, which has been a windfall for Hash, has allowed them to move up from 14th place in Week 6 to 10th place now. Big Breakfast goes to 4-4 and falls to seventh place. Hash has now run over $OONER$ (86.50 to 80.80) and TexasTide (96.45 to 85.72).

Top Players

• • Jordan Howard
  • 30.20
 
• • Tyreek Hill
  • 24.62
 
• • Travis Kelce
  • 23.10
 
• • A.J. Green
  • 21.10

Smooth Moves by Hash

• Reading this matchup recap is indicative of potential Toyota Hall of Famers. You're making Hash look really good right now.
• Coaches always preach that projections go out the window when the ball is kicked off. Tyreek Hill was a true testament to this, scoring 482.0% of his projected score, the highest percentage among the two teams.
• One man's trash is another man's treasure? Hash picked up Jordan Howard, who led the matchup in scoring with 30.20 points.
• Travis Kelce had the third-highest TE score in the league this week with 23.10 points.
• The 12.00 points scored by Cairo Santos were a season-high.

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.
• The 12.80 points scored by Carson Wentz fell short of his 18.68-point projection, the fourth straight game where that has happened.
• The Cincinnati Bengals Defense was last on the team in scoring with 4.00 points against a projected 6.31 and underachieved for the sixth time this season.
• Big Breakfast lost despite having only 4 of their 8 starters score less than their projected points.
• Kelvin Benjamin fell short of his scoring projection with 9.30 points, just 72.8% of his projected 12.77.

What If

• If Hash played Big Breakfast every week, they would be 3-5 this season.
• Besides Big Breakfast, Hash would have defeated 11 other teams this week.
• Hash would be 3-4 if they played the same schedule as Big Breakfast.
• Hash would be 58-62 if they played every team every week.
• Besides Hash, Big Breakfast would have been defeated by 10 other teams this week.
• And they say procrastination doesn't pay off! Had they played each other last week, Hash would have lost to Big Breakfast 113.70 - 96.45.
• Big Breakfast would be 5-2 if they played the same schedule as Hash.
• If they played every team every week, Big Breakfast would be 71-49.

Game Notes

• The top players for Hash were elite in the matchup, as three of their starters outperformed the leading scorer for Big Breakfast.
• Despite being on the winning team, Russell Wilson had a season-low 9.75 points against a projected 22.00 and has now underachieved in three straight games.
• With 125.07 points, Hash had their highest score so far this season.
• Hash had their largest margin of victory so far this year at 29.65 points.
• After scoring 14.20 points against a projected 10.36, Frank Gore has now exceeded his projection in three straight weeks.
• In the loss, Caleb Sturgis scored 11.00 points against a projected 6.36 and has now overachieved in four straight games.
• Just because Robert Horry has seven NBA championship rings, doesn't mean he's one of the greats. Despite being on the winning team, DeSean Jackson scored 7.80 points against a projected 12.14 and has now underachieved in five straight games.
• Hash has now won three straight games.