Friends in fast breaks,

Multiple 60 and 70 point games in a week! What's in the Gatorade? Last season, when Dame and Mitchell went off for huge games, it was a little sad because none of out happened during our picking windows.

When Embiid and KAT blew up, I thought we were going to have the same outcome this year, big performances that we didn't get to capture. Then Luka and Booker said "I got this" and used their penchant for piling points to post preposterous totals for us.

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RESULTS SUMMARY

Points One-And-Done

L-L-L-Lukaaaaa! L. Doncic posted 73 points, and 32 of us picked him. That pick alone was worth about 3x an average pick, meaning our standings get a super interesting shakeup as the Interval gets close to ending.

D. Booker wasn't far behind, scoring 62 points for 22 pickers.

The best possible weekly performance was 135 points, taking Doncic and Booker. If you'd managed to grab those two (like just one person, @JSV did), you'd have bagged about 2.5x a standard week of picking. Absolutely crazy!

Our other top scorers were S. Curry (46 pts), A. Simons (40), C. Thomas (37), L. James (36), and J. Green (36).

Our top pick, K. Leonard was a disappointment, posting 16 points for 52 pickers. Board Man did not get us paid.

Best value pick goes to C. Thomas, who scored 37 points for for 4 pickers. Worst value pick goes to B. Miller, posting 5 points for one picker.

We scored 27.9 points per pick, just a shade under our high this SZN. 

For DNPs, 7 pickable players from our roster didn't play, leading to 52 DNP picks. This was driven heavily by Kyrie (27), which was actually a decent reduction from my last hour email sent about his missing the game, I tried to help out. This cause 2 Double DNPs, resulting in zero points.

As always - Double check the injury report (linked on the pick page) on Thursday or Friday to make sure your picks aren't out. We leave a note on known injured players during the week and remove players with longer-term injuries to try and help prevent this issue, but you have to take control of your destiny here.

Overall Standings Check In - @Dufresne lost their iron grip, and we now have a two-way tie at 772 points for @ihalpern and @aphanson7. Prizes cut off at 20th, which sits at 741 points right now. But with the scoring explosion, this is anyone's game!

Interval 2 Check In - @Jscala jumped into the lead with 462 points. Interval 2 runs through Week 16 (just before the All Star game), so a few more weeks to go to try and get in the running. There are three Intervals and five places each, meaning every few weeks you've got something new to play for.

Squads Check In - Team SZN is now in first with 2,137 points (thanks Luka!). We can't win though, so DFS Sweatshop is currently in the lead with 2,102 points.

Survivor #1

There were 22 incorrect picks this week, resulting in 17 eliminations. We had a 73.5% win rate, a solid outcome. We lost 5.0% of the Pool in the process. We now stand at 19.3% remaining.

Our top picks of LAC and UTA won, which was great. Our brave 8 DET pickers sadly lost, as did the 7 trusting MIN.

Overall Standings Check In - There are still 66 players alive, 20 with no mistakes and 46 with one mistake. Double picks are coming soon!

Squads Check In - DFS Sweatshop stayed in the lead with 36 wins, but now all Squads are down to 2 or fewer alive pickers.

All 30 One-And-Done

Our DET faith was punished heavily, with our 52 pickers losing. But it was a beautiful and valiant effort we made!

Our win rate was 53.6% this week, another new low, even though we went 14-7 on our teams picked.

Overall Standings Check In - There's now a 5-way tie for the lead with 13 wins. Reminder that the NFL's All 32 Pool lasted through 11 weeks and 18 total picks with perfect records. We don't start double picks until Week 19, so we'll see if anyone can last until then staying unbeaten.

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel is in the lead with 35 wins. 

Survivor #2

There were 107 incorrect picks this week, leading to 42 eliminations. We lost 17.4% of the Pool after clocking a terrible 49.3% win rate.

Three of our top four picks lost, with MIN, ORL, and DET driving 34, 18 and 17 losses respectively.

Overall Standings Check In - There are 169 players alive, 66 with no mistakes and 103 with one mistake. 

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel took the lead with 8 correct so far.

Weekly Pick'em

Another rought week, hitting on only 55.9% of our picks. That averages our to 10.1 correct picks out of 18 games.

Our biggest miss was MIN @ SAS, where only 4.2% correctly picked SAS to win. 

Congrats to @DanielVannostrand, who went 14/18 to take home our weekly prize for best record!

Overall Standings Check In - @mwetherbee kept the lead again at 38 wins so far. Only three wins separate 1st and 20th so far.

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel took a 1 win lead with 102 correct picks.  

Yours in Roundball Rock,
The GM