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Week 1

Weekly
Grade
Play With Fire
1-0 244
259.05
 
VS
proj
Cake
114 0-1
145.62

Cake come up short of projections, succumb to Play With Fire in 244-114 rout

Cake underachieved compared to expectations, as Play With Fire rolled to a 244-114 victory. Cake pulled out to a 3-point lead on Thursday, but it was all Play With Fire after that. They were led by Kyler Murray, who passed for 230 yards , ran for 91 yards and scored 2 touchdowns for 31 points, and Demario Davis, who made 6 tackles and recorded a sack (27 points). Alvin Kamara (18 points) and Elandon Roberts (15) carried the flag for Cake in the loss. Play With Fire (1-0) will look to maintain their winning ways against The wtf team, while Cake (0-1) will attempt to develop some positive momentum against 2inDaPINK 1inDaStink.

Matchup Timeline

  Play With Fire   Cake

Inside the Matchup

Matchup Player of the Week

Booker (29 Rush Yds, 23 Rec Yds) scored 8 points against the Panthers in Week 1. His scoring output crushed his 0.01-point projection. Booker will face the Saints next week.
Devontae Booker

Top Player Comparison

Play With Fire
Points
% of total points 244
1
Kyler Murray
QB
31
18.88
12.7%
2
Demario Davis
LB
27
29.56
11.1%
3
Daniel Jones
QB
24
16.52
9.8%
4
Cordarrelle Patterson
WR
23
10.01
9.4%
Cake
Points
% of total points 114
1
Alvin Kamara
RB
18
15.05
15.8%
2
Elandon Roberts
LB
15
12.27
13.2%
3
Everson Griffen
DE
11
10.63
9.6%
4
Justin Tucker
K
9
10.28
7.9%

Matchup Highlights

Sunday Early
Daniel Carlson had a 54-yard field goal for Play With Fire, contributing to a 122-53 lead for the team.
Sunday Late
Kyler Murray had a 22-yard touchdown run for Play With Fire, helping the team to a 200-82 lead.
Monday
Daniel Jones had a 41-yard touchdown pass for Play With Fire on Monday night, helping to pad the margin of victory for the team.

Points By Position

  Play With Fire   Cake

Game Notes

Just nine of the 23 starters on Play With Fire scored more than their point projections.
Cake had only five of their 21 starters score higher than their projected points.
The final outcome could've looked differently, as Play With Fire had four starters score zero points, while Cake had three.
Play With Fire had six players score more points than the leading scorer for Cake.
Neither team was able to achieve its projected point total.
The matchup's 130-point margin was the largest in the league this week.
Not only did Play With Fire earn the win, but they also covered the 113.43-point projected margin of victory.

Coach Talk

Play With Fire
A big key to success in football is finding (and exploiting) the mismatches. We really took that to heart this week by tripling Cake at the wide receiver position (67 points to 22).
Cake
It's entirely possible that Cake might be a better GM in the NFL than in fantasy football. Accumulating only 26 total targets in Week 1, their six wide receivers apparently did a superb job running decoy routes and blocking downfield.