Recap

The Only Bull vs Pulled Pork Mafia

Week 8

 

• Pulled Pork Mafia
• 106.21 pts, 6-2
• Weekly Grade

 

 

• The ONLY Bull
• 101.79 pts, 0-8
• Weekly Grade

Pulled Pork Mafia got 22.46 points from Jamison Crowder and 20.80 from Adam Thielen to edge The ONLY Bull 106.21 to 101.79. "You play to win the game. Hello! You play to win the game." Someone please tell this to The ONLY Bull, who is currently winless. The ONLY Bull was led by the tag team of LeSean McCoy, with 29.30 points, and Melvin Gordon, who scored 20.90. Pulled Pork Mafia (6-2, 830.37 points) remains in second place and The ONLY Bull (0-8, 727.38 points) is still looking up at everyone from the cellar.

Top Players

• • LeSean McCoy
  • 29.30
 
• • Jamison Crowder
  • 22.46
 
• • Melvin Gordon
  • 20.90
 
• • Adam Thielen
  • 20.80

Smooth Moves by Pulled Pork Mafia

• Pulled Pork Mafia, winning proved that The ONLY Bull is no matchup for you. But the Toyota Hall of Fame would prove that no Fantasy players are your equal.
• Pulled Pork Mafia appears to be some sort of fantasy prophet in the making. Blair Walsh, who was picked up by Pulled Pork Mafia, scored 11.00 points against a projected 7.61, topping his projection by 44.5%.
• What do Apache helicopters, F-117 Nighthawks and Jamison Crowder have in common? They are all dangerous aerial weapons. He ranked sixth in the league in scoring among WRs this week with 22.46 points.
• Look, there in the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's just Adam Thielen posterizing opponents. He had the seventh-highest score of any WR in the league this week with 20.80 points.
• Pulled Pork Mafia won despite having only 3 of their 8 starters exceed their scoring projection.

Toyota Roster Tune-up

• Losing leave you feeling defeated? Set your sights on something better than winning: the Toyota Hall of Fame.
• Left Will Fuller V on the bench, where he scored the sixth-most points in the league and beat his projected point total by 196.6%, the ninth-highest percentage in the league.
• The Oakland Raiders Defense was last in the matchup in scoring with a season-low -1.00 point.
• The ONLY Bull could have used more points from the TE position, where Pulled Pork Mafia beat them 13.40 - 6.20.
• The ONLY Bull lost despite having only 3 of their 8 starters score less than their projected points.

What If

• If Pulled Pork Mafia played The ONLY Bull every week, they'd be 7-1 this year.
• Pulled Pork Mafia would have beaten 12 other teams besides The ONLY Bull this week.
• Had they played each other last week, Pulled Pork Mafia would have defeated The ONLY Bull 104.60 - 91.83.
• Pulled Pork Mafia would be 2-5 if they played the same schedule as The ONLY Bull.
• If Pulled Pork Mafia had played every team in the league each week, they would be 83-37.
• The ONLY Bull would have lost to just two other teams besides Pulled Pork Mafia this week.
• If they played the same schedule as Pulled Pork Mafia, The ONLY Bull would be 4-3.
• The ONLY Bull would be 47-72-1 if they played every team every week.

Game Notes

• Looks like teams bring their A game when they see them on the schedule. Of the losses The ONLY Bull has had, four were against opponents who topped their season scoring average that week.
• Hey, I'm sure Pulled Pork Mafia appreciates the tough competition. In the loss, The ONLY Bull had the 10th-highest losing score in the league this season with 101.79 points.
• With a combined 61.60 points from the RB position, The ONLY Bull got the highest combined scoring output from the RB position for any team this season.
• In the loss, LeSean McCoy ranked eighth in the league in scoring with 29.30 points against a projected 18.04 and has now overachieved in three straight games.
• Pulled Pork Mafia won but failed to cover the 27.93-point spread, winning by 4.42 points.
• The 56.56 points by the WRs on Pulled Pork Mafia was the season-high for combined points from the position.
• Pulled Pork Mafia didn't quite meet expectations in the win, recording 91.7% of their projected 115.80, while The ONLY Bull performed better than expected, beating their 87.87-point projection by 15.8%.
• Pulled Pork Mafia improves to 1-1 in close games this season.