Recap

Week 16, 2016 LaRon vs Pitch

Week 16

 

• Big Breakfast
• 111.2 pts, 7-7
• Weekly Grade

 

 

• PITCH
• 102.65 pts, 6-8
• Weekly Grade

Big Breakfast overcame a 13.01-point projected spread, defeating PITCH 111.20 to 102.65 for the upset. They picked up a team-leading 25.50 points from LeSean McCoy and 19.30 from Sterling Shepard. PITCH concluded the regular season in 11th place with a record of 6-8. In terms of scoring average, they ranked slightly better (ninth with 106.35). In their only other postseason game of the season, PITCH beat $OONER$, 124.50 to 90.80.

Top Players

• • Ben Roethlisberger
  • 25.85
 
• • LeSean McCoy
  • 25.50
 
• • Ezekiel Elliott
  • 22.20
 
• • Sterling Shepard
  • 19.30

Smooth Moves by Big Breakfast

• 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.
• LeSean McCoy put the team on his back with 25.50 points, the third-highest score among RBs in the league this week.
• Those were the projections? We thought that was the starting point. 6 of the 8 starters on Big Breakfast exceeded their projected points.
• By scoring 19.30 points, Sterling Shepard beat his 11.46 projected points by 68.4%.
• Big Breakfast will gladly take the win, but shouldn't thank their WRs. All three scored less than projected.

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.
• Left Tyrod Taylor on the bench, where he scored the second-most points in the league and beat his projected point total by 163.2%, the sixth-highest percentage in the league.
• Steven Hauschka has now failed to reach his projection for three straight games. This week he scored 5.00 points versus a projected 7.25.
• Who needs offense when the defense is so dominant!? PITCH got outscored 13.00 - 1.00 by Big Breakfast at the DEF position.
• PITCH had only 4 of their 8 starters underperform versus their projections, but they still lost.

What If

• If Big Breakfast played PITCH every week, they'd be 6-9 this year.
• Besides PITCH, Big Breakfast would have defeated five other teams this week.
• Big Breakfast would be 5-9 if they played the same schedule as PITCH.
• Big Breakfast would be 104-117 if they played every team every week.
• Besides Big Breakfast, PITCH would have been defeated by seven other teams this week.
• PITCH would be 9-5 if they played the same schedule as Big Breakfast.
• If they played every team every week, PITCH would be 122-106.

Game Notes

• Five of the nine losses for PITCH this season have come when their opponent scores higher than their season average.
• Big Breakfast beat their scoring projection for the 10th time this season by scoring 111.20 points against a projected 95.50. They have now overachieved three weeks in a row.
• The margin of victory for the matchup ended up being the smallest in the league this week at 8.55 points.
• In upset games this season, Big Breakfast is now 2-3, including wins in their last two such matchups.
• PITCH got a combined 39.90 points from their RBs, the highest combined scoring output from the RB position for any team this week.
• PITCH falls to 1-3 in upset games this season.
• The draft continues to pay off for Big Breakfast, which got 82.6% of their points from players they drafted.
• In the loss, Ezekiel Elliott had the fifth-highest RB score in the league this week with 22.20 points.