Friends in fast breaks,
We came out swinging for Week 12! We knocked it out of the park when it came to TEAM picking, with our Survivor, All 30, and Pick'ems going well. But our PLAYER picks were bad, hitting a new low for this SZN. Let's dig in on all the new action!
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RESULTS SUMMARY
Points One-And-Done
D. DeRozan takes the scoring crown this week with 39 points. It sadly wasn't enough to pull CHI to a victory over GSW though. Only 3 pickers got this one right.
SGA took second place AGAIN AGAIN this week, with 37 points. Dude just can't stop coming in second. That's the 3rd straight week. P. George also score 37.
The best possible weekly performance was 77 points, taking DeMar and SGA. But the best we managed this week was 69 (nice), for @Beandog and @nosimit.
Our other top scorers were G. Antetokounmpo (33 points), K. Irving (33), J. Brown (32), Z. WIlliamson (30), and K. Thompson (30).
Our top picks were a HUGE letdown. A. Davis scored 15 points for 46 pickers, and T. Maxey scored 21 for 39 pickers. A. Edwards gets an honorable mention for 9 points for 36 pickers. Just terrible out there!
Best value pick goes to D. DeRozan getting 39 for only 3 pickers. Worst value pick goes to B. Miller, dropping a single point for 1 picker.
We scored 21.4 points per pick, a new low for this SZN. Let's go up!
For DNPs, 11 pickable players from our roster didn't play, leading to 60 DNP picks. J. Brunson and L. James drove the vast majority of misses. This did cause 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.
Reminder - With J. Morant out for the season, MEM is left with only D. Bane as a representative. Our rules require a minimum of 2 players per team, so Jaren Jackson Jr has been added to the roster for the rest of the season.
Overall Standings Check In - @Dufresne holds the lead at 668 points. Prizes cut off at 20th, which sits at 629 points right now. There's half the SZN to go, so still plenty up for grabs!
Interval 2 Check In - @trashking is still at the top with 332 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 - Basket-Balling with Nigel sits in first at 1,847 points. But the top 3 are all close!
Survivor #1
There were 7 incorrect picks this week, resulting in 4 eliminations. We had a 93.8% win rate, a new high for the SZN. We lost 1.2% of the Pool in the process. We now stand at 31.9% remaining.
ATL was our biggest loss this week, with 4 pickers. Gotta savor this low damage weeks!
Overall Standings Check In - There are still 109 players alive, 45 with no mistakes and 64 with one mistake. Lots of ball left to survive through!
Squads Check In - DFS Sweatshop is in the lead with 32 wins. The top of the board is all within 1 win right now.
All 30 One-And-Done
CHA was our worst pick this week, driving 10 losses. Lots of smaller losses this week, but our big picks pulled through.
Our win rate was 87.4% this week, despite our picked teams going 15-8.
Overall Standings Check In - We're now at a 19-way tie for the lead with 11 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 is still in the lead with 32 wins. Still a lot of season left!
Survivor #2
There were 47 incorrect picks this week, but thankfully the double elimination gods let everyone stay safe at least one more week. We had a 80.5% win rate.
Overall Standings Check In - Everybody is still alive. On to next week!
Squads Check In - Multiple Squads with 3 wins so far.
Weekly Pick'em
A great showing in our first week! Our overall win rate was 70.3%, just a bit under my guess of 75% being "good". We averaged 12.7 correct picks out of 18 games.
Our biggest miss was WAS @ ATL, where only 10% got WAS correct. The next closest was NOP @ DAL, where 29.1% were right about NOP. That's a big gap.
Congrats to @mwetherbee, who went 17/18 to take home our first weekly prize for best record!
Overall Standings Check In - Obviously, @mwetherbee sits on top this week. Lots of picking remaining to do.
Squads Check In - Hoopsters starts off in 1st with 45 correct picks.
Yours in Roundball Rock,
The GM