Recap

South Park Cows vs Hawks

Week 8

 

• Hawks
• 122.03 pts, 5-3
• Weekly Grade

 

 

• South Park Cows
• 74.1 pts, 4-4
• Weekly Grade

Hawks mercilessly danced on the burned-out remains of South Park Cows 122.03 to 74.10, sniffing the record books in the process with the highest point total this week. This was a blockbuster of a beatdown, with the 47.93-point margin of victory being the 10th-highest recorded in the league this season. For South Park Cows, Rob Gronkowski and James White played the roles of Maverick and Goose, scoring 16.70 and 13.70 points, respectively. Hawks (5-3, 854.68 points) climbs into third place and South Park Cows (4-4, 760.30 points) drops to ninth place.

Top Players

• • Paul Richardson
  • 28.50
 
• • Kansas City Chiefs Defense
  • 27.00
 
• • Rob Gronkowski
  • 16.70
 
• • Derek Carr
  • 15.65

Smooth Moves by Hawks

• A win like that is a great first step, Hawks. A baby step toward the ultimate achievement: becoming a Toyota Hall of Famer.
• Picked up Paul Richardson, who led the matchup in scoring and beat his projection by a matchup-leading 183.3%.
• The 27.00 points scored by the Kansas City Chiefs Defense ranked 10th in the league in scoring. It was also their highest output of the season.
• Took Ed Dickson out of the starting lineup, who scored 6.40 points on the bench, fewer than the starting TE.
• With 14.30 points, Jeremy Maclin had his highest score of the season and beat his projected point total by a season-high 73.8%.

Toyota Roster Tune-up

• It's OK, South Park Cows. Losing happens. Not necessarily to Toyota Hall of Famers, but to other folks, sure.
• Left Isaiah Crowell on the bench, where he led the team in scoring with 18.80 points, beating his scoring projection by 116.8%, which also led the team.
• Could have started Alex Smith, who underachieved, but still had more points than the starting QB with 15.40 against a projected 19.94.
• Picked up and started Nick Novak, who scored a matchup-worst 15.0% of his projected point total for 1.00 point.
• South Park Cows had 7 starters fail to reach their projections.

What If

• If Hawks played South Park Cows every week, they'd be 5-3 this year.
• Hawks would have beaten every other team in the league this week.
• Were they resting their players for this week? Hawks would have defeated South Park Cows 116.25 - 97.85 had they played each other last week.
• Hawks would be 5-2 if they played the same schedule as South Park Cows.
• If Hawks had played every team in the league each week, they would be 75-45.
• South Park Cows would have lost to 11 other teams besides Hawks this week.
• If they played the same schedule as Hawks, South Park Cows would be 2-5.
• South Park Cows would be 51-69 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 South Park Cows has had, three were against opponents who topped their season scoring average that week.
• Hawks led the league in scoring for the first time this season with 122.03 points.
• The margin of victory of 47.93 points was the largest in the league this week and 10th-biggest in the league this season.
• South Park Cows scored 74.10 points against a projected 100.08 and underachieved for the seventh time this season, including the last six weeks in a row.
• How nice of you to offer a free win! This was the first time this season that South Park Cows lost by the biggest margin of the week.
• Devonta Freeman scored a season-low 7.10 points and underachieved for the fourth straight week.
• With the win, Hawks snapped their three-game losing streak.
• Hawks got a combined 42.80 points from their WRs, their highest combined scoring output from the WR position this season.