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Week 5

Weekly
Grade
Easy Drake Oven
2-2-1 121.8
127.79
 
VS
proj
Bad JuJu
121.8 2-2-1
125.66

Easy Drake Oven, Bad JuJu impersonate Packers and Vikings, play to a 121.8-121.8 tie

Easy Drake Oven and Bad JuJu fought to the end, but it wasn't enough to declare a winner as the two teams impersonated the Packers and Vikings and ended up deadlocked in a 121.8-121.8 tie. Easy Drake Oven (2-2-1) next face The Toddfather, while Bad JuJu (2-2-1) will take on Flexecution.

Matchup Timeline

  Easy Drake Oven   Bad JuJu

Inside the Matchup

Matchup Player of the Week

Drake scored 24.5 points in a 27-17 loss to the Bengals to more-than-double his 9.05-point projection. He racked up 115 yards from scrimmage and caught a touchdown pass to beat his projection by the highest percentage of any RB in the league this season. In Week 6, Drake and the Dolphins will play the Bears.
Kenyan Drake

Top Player Comparison

Easy Drake Oven
Points
% of total points 121.8
1
Kenyan Drake
RB
24.5
9.05
20.1%
2
Melvin Gordon III
RB
22
20.1
18.1%
3
Matt Ryan
QB
16.4
25.25
13.5%
4
The Miami Dolphins defense
DEF
13
5.44
10.7%
Bad JuJu
Points
% of total points 121.8
1
Ben Roethlisberger
QB
27.6
26.64
22.7%
2
Stefon Diggs
WR
21.6
16.76
17.7%
3
Emmanuel Sanders
WR
16.2
13.02
13.3%
4
Nyheim Hines
RB
16
11.47
13.1%

Matchup Highlights

Sunday Early
Both teams had several players with standout plays early Sunday, but it was Easy Drake Oven who grabbed the lead, 121.8-86.1. Kenyan Drake had a 22-yard touchdown catch for Easy Drake Oven, while Matt Ryan had a 43-yard touchdown pass. Meanwhile, Ben Roethlisberger had a 47-yard touchdown pass for Bad JuJu, while Austin Ekeler had a 44-yard touchdown catch.

Points By Position

  Easy Drake Oven   Bad JuJu

StatSmack

We heard scoring helps you win. Bad JuJu need some help then, averaging just 118.4 versus Easy Drake Oven's 136.83.
Even the machines think Easy Drake Oven have a better lineup. They have a higher projected points average (125.05) than Bad JuJu (118.8).
Easy Drake Oven see projections as no real threat. They've got more upset wins this season (1) than Bad JuJu (0).
Easy Drake Oven should change their team name to "The Overachievers" since they have scored higher than projected in more weeks than Bad JuJu (3 vs 1).
Bad JuJu have worked hard with little to show for it, making more transactions (4) than Easy Drake Oven (1) this season and still losing the matchup.
By position, Easy Drake Oven have outscored Bad JuJu at QB, RB, and DEF this season.

Next Week Preview

Easy Drake Oven
Easy Drake Oven (2-2-1) will go up against The Toddfather (3-2) in Week 6. Each team will have three players with byes next week, as Kenny Golladay, Golden Tate, and Matt Prater are off for Easy Drake Oven, while The Toddfather will be missing Matthew Stafford, Michael Thomas, and Wil Lutz. In terms of scoring production, these two teams have posted eerily similar results recently. Easy Drake Oven have scored 138.33 points per game over the last three weeks, while The Toddfather have averaged 136.85 per outing over that same period.
Bad JuJu
Looking ahead to Week 6, eighth-place Bad JuJu (2-2-1) will square off against 10th-place Flexecution (2-3). Through five weeks of action, Bad JuJu are ranked second-to-last in points scored, while Flexecution have put up the 10th-highest point total in Its Just a Fantasy World VIII league. Over the last three weeks, Bad JuJu has put up 113.19 points per game, while Flexecution has averaged 136.13 per contest.