Friends in fast breaks,

Call it a bye week, call it load management. Whatever you call it, we're on a break! This weekend is the All Star Game, and that means no picking this week. Enjoy the festivities, pray for no boring competitions, and rest up to pick again next week. I'll send another update once picks are open next week.

Reminder: Pick numbers are about to increase in a bunch of pools. Things are about to get harder as we hit the home stretch.

RESULTS SUMMARY

Points One-And-Done

J. Brunson topped the charts this week, posting 39 points in a rough loss to IND. He's been great all year, but since Randle and Anunoby went down, he's put the team on his back.

T. Young was in second with 37 points. That means our best possible weekly performance was 76 points. We didn't manage to hit that combo, but @Frajon was JUST under by netting 74 points.

Our other top scorers were F. Wagner (36 pts) and J. Tatum (35), with a smattering of players in the low 30s.

Our top pick, P. Banchero, only scored 19 points. That's two weeks in a row our top pick posted 19, weird. Even more frustrating that his partner Wagner posted such a big line.

Best value pick goes to Wagner - Only one brilliant picker was riding that train.

We scored 22.9 points per pick, a middling result.

For DNPs, 7 pickable players from our roster didn't play, leading to 49 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 held the lead with 886 points. Prizes cut off at 20th, which sits at 835 points right now. But with the scoring explosion, this is anyone's game!

Interval 2 Check In - @Jscala takes Interval 2! Congrats to them and the other top 5 placers, and let's see who has what it takes in Interval 3 to close out the SZN. 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 still in first with 2,426 points. We can't win though, so DFS Sweatshop is currently in the REAL lead with 2,396 points.

Survivor #1

There were 8 incorrect picks this week, resulting in 6 eliminations. We had a 87.7% win rate. We lost 1.8% of the Pool in the process. We now stand at 17.3% remaining.

All our losses happened on teams picked 1 or 2 times. No big damage this week.

Overall Standings Check In - There are still 59 players alive, 18 with no mistakes and 41 with one mistake. Double picks are coming soon!

Squads Check In - DFS Sweatshop and Basket-Balling with Nigel are tied with 38 wins.

All 30 One-And-Done

A solid week, with a win rate of 82.2% this week. We went 11-9 on our teams picked, with our biggest loss being MEM with 18 picks.

Overall Standings Check In - There's a 5-way tie for the lead with 15 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 41 wins. 

Survivor #2

There were 11 incorrect picks this week, leading to 6 eliminations. We lost 2.5% of the Pool after a STRONG 92.8% win rate.

Our biggest loss was spread across several teams at 2 picks each. Solid.

Overall Standings Check In - There are 147 players alive, 55 with no mistakes and 92 with one mistake. 

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel is in the lead with 14 correct so far.

Weekly Pick'em

We continued our improvement this week with a 65.4% win rate. That averages out to 11.1 correct picks out of 17 games.

Our biggest miss was IND @ NYK, where only 23.0% of us got it right. It's the first week where we haven't missed BIG time - Every other week we had a game where 10% of less of us got it right.

We had a 5-way tie for first this week with 15/17 - Congrats to @Barblovesbb, @BigDaddy, @EZMONEY4ME, @Hanothehotstepper, @Noahcarroll3412. They'll split the weekly prize.

Overall Standings Check In - @mwetherbee returned to tie @RDH24 in 1st with 61 wins so far. Still lots of time to rack up wins.

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel has a 1 win lead with 164 wins.  

Yours in Roundball Rock,
The GM