Recap

Week 15, 2016 Ryan Vs Rick

Week 15

 

• Hawks
• 112.86 pts, 6-8
• Weekly Grade

 

 

• Hooligans
• 72.26 pts, 7-7
• Weekly Grade

Hawks got 32.50 points from Devonta Freeman and 28.56 from Tyler Lockett, destroying Hooligans 112.86 to 72.26. Hooligans now has five blowout losses on the season. Hawks has put a nice string together after winning their last three matchups in a row. Adding insult to injury, Hooligans had a starter score zero points (Randall Cobb). Hooligans must have some good karma from a previous season or event. They finished the regular season in ninth place with a record of 7-7, despite ranking just 15th in the league in scoring at 89.34 points per game. Hooligans was bounced early this postseason, losing in their only playoff matchup.

Top Players

• • Devonta Freeman
  • 32.50
 
• • Tyler Lockett
  • 28.56
 
• • New England Patriots Defense
  • 23.00
 
• • Ted Ginn Jr.
  • 18.76

Smooth Moves by Hawks

• 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.
• The 32.50 points scored by Devonta Freeman ranked fourth in the league in scoring. It was also his highest output of the season.
• Tyler Lockett laughed in the face of the experts this week, beating his scoring projection by a matchup-leading 170.2% and scoring the sixth-most points in the league with 28.56 points.
• With 23.00 points versus a projected 13.62, the New England Patriots Defense exceeded their scoring projection by 68.9%.
• Apparently playing within themselves was good enough. Hawks won despite having only 4 of their 8 starters exceed their projected points.

Toyota Roster Tune-up

• Some teams are destined to beat teams like Hooligans and move on to Toyota Hall of Fame greatness. Ironically, you are included in that destiny, because you played yourself.
• Should have started LeGarrette Blount, who underachieved, but still had more points than the starting RB with 9.10 against a projected 9.68.
• At the DEF position, Hooligans got outscored by Hawks 23.00 - 5.00.
• It was a season-low scoring total for Antonio Gates, who had 2.10 points. He had a projected total of 11.18 points and this week was the third straight game of underperformance versus his projection.
• It's times like these when it's important to support your players when they're down. So move the mouse pointer away from the DROP button. Jay Ajayi scored a season-low 5.10 points, 40.4% of his projected 12.61, which is his lowest percentage of the year.

What If

• If Hawks played Hooligans every week, they'd be 9-6 this year.
• Hawks would have beaten only four other teams besides Hooligans this week.
• Had they played each other last week, Hawks would have defeated Hooligans 113.34 - 59.76.
• Hawks would be 8-6 if they played the same schedule as Hooligans.
• If Hawks had played every team in the league each week, they would be 92-125.
• Hooligans would have lost to six other teams besides Hawks this week.
• Hooligans would be 6-8 if they played the same schedule as Hawks.
• Hooligans would be 69-148 if they played every team every week.

Game Notes

• Hooligans has lost eight times and three of them have come to teams who beat their scoring average in that matchup.
• The top players for Hawks were elite in the matchup, as three of their starters outperformed the leading scorer for Hooligans.
• Hawks had the week's widest margin of victory (40.60 points) for the first time this season.
• Hooligans lost by the biggest margin of the week for the second time this season.
• Hawks is on the longest active win streak in the league, winning three straight games.
• Hawks beat their scoring projection for the eighth time this season by scoring 112.86 points against a projected 97.24. They have now overachieved four weeks in a row.
• When the going gets tough, the tough are supposed to get going. However, Hooligans stalled out again and extended their losing streak to four games.
• It was the third time this season that Hooligans has had the lowest score in the league.