Friends in fast breaks,
We bounced back from a rut in multiple pools this week. It's not ALL sunshine and rainbows, but we're showing what we're made of. We started the season like the 7 Seconds or Less Suns. Now we're slowing down and fighting hard like the Grit and Grind Grizzlies. It's going to take both to take home a crown this SZN.
RESULTS SUMMARY
Points One-And-Done
K. Durant went vintage as a single, notching 45 points. He's always been a model of consistency with his scoring so frequently in the 25-35 range. The fact his career high is only 55 is crazy considering what he's capable of.
D. Murray went off without T. Young this weekend, grabbing 41 points. Out other big scorers were L. Doncic (39 pts), SGA (37), and J. Murray (37).
That means our best possible weekly performance was 86 points. We didn't manage to hit that, but @RJthegreat got RIGHT under it at 84 points with the Luka + Durant combo.
K. Irving was disappointing again as our top pick (44 picks), only scoring 21 points. Kuzma ties the pick total, but scored a much better 28 points.
We scored 24.7 points per pick, a nice spike after nearly 9 weeks below 24 points. With 5 weeks remaining, injuries piling up, and our options dwindling, I'm not sure we're going to crest this point many more times.
For DNPs, a huge 15 pickable players from our roster didn't play. Luckly they were mostly low volume, causing, only 41 DNP picks. This caused 6 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 - @aphanson7 still has the lead, but it has shrunk to only 2 points! Prizes cut off at 20th, which sits at 967 points right now.
Interval 3 Check In - @Farmdogs takes the lead this week with a total of 189 points. Interval 3 runs through the end of the regular SZN, let's see who finishes strongest.
Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel jumped into the lead with 2,840 points this week!
Survivor #1
There were 8 incorrect picks this week, resulting in 5 eliminations. We had a 83.8% win rate. We lost 1.5% of the Pool in the process. We now stand at 5.6% remaining.
Our top 5 picks all won, helping us scrape by.
Overall Standings Check In - We're down to 19 players, we officially hit the podium! Congrats to those who made it into the Top 20. 3 players have no wrong picks and 16 have one mistake.
Squads Check In - DFS Sweatshop holds the lead with 42 wins!
All 30 One-And-Done
Another rough week for us, with a win rate of 62.3%. We went 13-10 on our teams picked. Three of our top eight teams lost, hurting 46, 28, and 24 pickers just for those teams. We're trying here, but the challenge of the pool is on full display!
Overall Standings Check In - @NEELERSBTB1 refuses to be mortal, still rocking an unscathed 20 perfect picks. The NFL All 32 Pool ended perfection after 18 picks, so this is our new best performance! How long can they keep it up?
Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel is in the lead with 52 wins.
Survivor #2
There were 53 incorrect picks this week, leading to 34 eliminations. We lost 14.1% of the Pool after a 66.9% win rate. We're hitting triple picks this week. In other words, even our perfect pickers aren't safe - One bad week can take you out!
Overall Standings Check In - There are 46 players alive, 11 with no mistakes and 35 with one mistake.
Squads Check In - Team SZN takes the lead with 30 (and can't win). So Basket-Balling with Nigel is the real leader with 29 wins.
Weekly Pick'em
We dropped a bit, with a 61.1% win rate this week. That averages out to 9.2 correct picks out of 15 games.
Our biggest miss was SAS @ GSW, where only 5.8% of us got it right for the Wemby-less SAS. And with 15 games, no one managed to go perfect. Still no perfect week for us this SZN.
Congrats to @ETB2090 and @jamescattrysse5 who went 13/15 this week. They'll split the weekly prize!
Overall Standings Check In - And all of a sudden, a pileup! @ETB2090, @aphanson7, @jdrobny, and @Barblovesbb are all tied up at 89 wins. 5 weeks left!
Squads Check In - Air Ballers Anonymous takes the lead with 244 wins!
Yours in Roundball Rock,
The GM