Friends in fast breaks,

We're heading into Week 20. We're tired from carrying the team on our back all SZN. The competition is as tough as ever. We're going to stumble from time to time.

Our Points OAD numbers are weak and our top picks are flopping. Our Survivor picks are ramping up in volume and we're leaning on bad lottery teams.

But pressure turns coal into diamonds. This is where champs are made! You've got 6 more weeks to make it to the Playoffs, finish strong!

RESULTS SUMMARY

Points One-And-Done

G. Antetokounmpo came back strong with 46 points this week for 4 pickers. It had been a few weeks since he was anywhere near the top.

Huge props to M. Bridges, coming in second with 38 points. Our other big scoreres were L. Doncic (37), J. Butler (37) and N. Jokic (35).

That means our best possible weekly performance was 84 points. We didn't manage to hit that, but @Jp2099 got RIGHT under it at 83 points with the Luka + Giannis combo.

K. Irving continues the streak of our top pick (60 picks) being a disappointment with a measley 19 points.

We scored 21.7 points per pick. We've been treading water since about Week 11 here. Some of it comes from moving to double picks this year, meaning we used up the best players faster. But even the average points scored by the players on our roster has shrunk a bit over the same time span. So it's not just "we're picking bad" or "no good players left", but also "players are scoring less good".

For DNPs, 8 pickable players from our roster didn't play, leading to 50 DNP picks - Heavily driven by the late scratch on J. Jackson Jr. This caused 5 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 holds the lead by 10 points now. Prizes cut off at 20th, which sits at 924 points right now. 

Interval 3 Check In - @Jp2099 is in the lead thanks to that strong performance this week with a total of 131 points. Interval 3 runs through the end of the regular SZN, let's see who finishes strongest.

Squads Check In - DFS Sweatshop takes the lead with 2,671 points!

Survivor #1

There were 39 incorrect picks this week, resulting in 27 eliminations. We had a 61.8% win rate. We lost 7.9% of the Pool in the process. We now stand at 7.0% remaining. 

Our top pick, MEM (27 picks) was our worst loss this week. Like I said in the Picks email - POR and MEM are both bad, but without JJJ MEM had literally none of their ideal starting lineup available. Disaster was bound to strike.

Overall Standings Check In - We're down to 24 players, so close to knowing who makes the podium! 6 players have no wrong picks and 18 have one mistake. Beware the double picks!

Squads Check In - DFS Sweatshop takes the lead with 41 wins!

All 30 One-And-Done

We flopped here to, with a win rate of 61.0% this week. We went 12-11 on our teams picked, with our biggest loss being MEM with 60 picks. And then PHX also lost with 35 picks. A real rough week for some of our top picks.

Overall Standings Check In - AND THEN THERE WAS ONE! @NEELERSBTB1 takes the top spot with 18 wins, the only flawless picker left. The NFL All 32 Pool also stayed perfect through 18 total picks, will we follow the same pattern and lose perfection next week?

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel is in the lead with 47 wins. 

Survivor #2

There were 52 incorrect picks this week, leading to 32 eliminations. We lost 13.3% of the Pool after a 76.8% win rate. We double pick one more time, then in Week 21 we'll escalate to 3 picks - HORROR - and will increase more shortly after that.

Overall Standings Check In - There are 80 players alive, 26 with no mistakes and 54 with one mistake. 

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel is in the lead with 25 correct so far.

Weekly Pick'em

We held steady with a 63.8% win rate this week. That averages out to 8.9 correct picks out of 14 games.

Our biggest miss was HOU @ PHX, where only 5.3% of us got it right for HOU. And despite the small 14 game slate, we didn't manage to go perfect - That still eludes us!

Congrats to @lferola who managed to go 13/14 this week. They'll take the weekly prize!

Overall Standings Check In - @Redhawk jumps into first place with 79 wins. 6 weeks left!

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel has a 1 win lead with 218 wins.  

Yours in Roundball Rock,
The GM