Recap

Drewid Breeserkers vs Hitters

Week 8

 

• Hitters
• 100.35 pts, 5-3
• Weekly Grade

 

 

• Drewid Breeserkers
• 86.35 pts, 7-1
• Weekly Grade

Hitters benefited from 26.30 points from Travis Kelce and 20.25 from Matthew Stafford to beat Drewid Breeserkers 100.35 to 86.35. Hitters came into the Monday night game facing a 9.50-point deficit, but scored 26.30, picking up an unlikely win as a 16.55-point underdog. Drewid Breeserkers failed to live up to expectations and scored only 75.4% of a projected 114.49, while Hitters put up 2.5% more points than projected (97.94). Drewid Breeserkers, coming off a 118.27 to 116.25 win against Hawks, saw their scoring fall off this week. Hitters earned a sportsmanship trophy, starting Willie Snead (0 points) to prevent the result from being even worse. Hitters (5-3, 846.07 points) falls to fourth place and Drewid Breeserkers (7-1, 851.93 points) stays in first place.

Top Players

• • Travis Kelce
  • 26.30
 
• • Jerick McKinnon
  • 26.20
 
• • Buffalo Bills Defense
  • 21.00
 
• • Matthew Stafford
  • 20.25

Smooth Moves by Hitters

• Hitters is a winning name, which might be why you just won. Next step is figuring out if Hitters is a Toyota Hall of Fame name.
• Travis Kelce had 26.30 points, the second-highest TE score of the week and the third-highest TE score in the league this season.
• Alvin Kamara put the team on his back with 16.60 points, the 10th-highest score among RBs in the league this week.
• By scoring 20.25 points, Matthew Stafford beat his 16.39 projected points by 23.6%.
• Hitters won even with Willie Snead in the starting lineup, who didn't score any points.

Toyota Roster Tune-up

• Drewid Breeserkers, you can't win 'em all. But you can't lose 'em all if you wanna be in the Toyota Hall of Fame.
• Whoever gave you this advice, you might want to lose their number. Picked up and started Randy Bullock, who then scored below his 8.11-point projection with 6.00 points.
• This is how people lose everything in casinos. Drewid Breeserkers thought their luck would change and went back to the well with Stefon Diggs. However, he scored 6.60 points against a projected 15.56 and has now underachieved in three straight games.
• The TE position was a letdown for Drewid Breeserkers, where they were outscored 26.30 - 3.10 by Hitters.
• With 2.80 points, Tyreek Hill had his lowest output of the season and tallied just 16.4% of his 17.12 projected points, his lowest percentage of the year.

What If

• If Hitters played Drewid Breeserkers every week, they'd be 6-2 this year.
• Besides Drewid Breeserkers, Hitters would have defeated nine other teams this week.
• Hitters would be 5-2 if they played the same schedule as Drewid Breeserkers.
• If Hitters had played every team in the league each week, they would be 69-51.
• Drewid Breeserkers would have lost to eight other teams besides Hitters this week.
• Timing really is everything. Hitters would have lost to Drewid Breeserkers 118.27 - 80.38 had they played each other last week.
• Drewid Breeserkers would be 5-2 if they played the same schedule as Hitters.
• If they played every team every week, Drewid Breeserkers would be 76-44.

Game Notes

• Drewid Breeserkers saw their seven-game win streak come to an end.
• The WRs on Hitters collectively had their worst week of the season with only 11.00 points.
• It was a season-low point total for Drewid Breeserkers.
• Just because Robert Horry has seven NBA championship rings, doesn't mean he's one of the greats. Despite being on the winning team, Chris Hogan scored 11.00 points against a projected 14.72 and has now underachieved in three straight games.
• Hitters improves to 2-0 and remains undefeated in upset games this season.
• Drewid Breeserkers falls to 1-1 in comeback games this season.
• Drewid Breeserkers is in first place, the fourth week that they have sat atop the standings.
• Drewid Breeserkers could not pull out the win, but Jerick McKinnon did perform well with the second-best RB score in the league this week, scoring 26.20 points.