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Week 6

Weekly
Grade
Snakebitten!!!
3-3 104.8
126.53
 
VS
proj
Started from the top
73.38 3-3
110.51

Snakebitten!!! come up short of projections, come back to defeat Started from the top in 104.80-73.38 rout

Both teams fell short of their projected point totals, but Snakebitten!!! did enough to beat Started from the top. Predicted to win 126.53-110.51, Snakebitten!!! rolled to a 104.80-73.38 win over Started from the top. Snakebitten!!! nabbed an 8.92-point lead early Sunday afternoon. Started from the top came back to take the lead late afternoon Sunday, powered by Myles Gaskin (14.6 points). Not to be deterred, Snakebitten!!! rallied when it mattered most on Monday night, as Patrick Mahomes (23.6 points) and Clyde Edwards-Helaire (20.9) put them back on top for good. Snakebitten!!! (3-3) will look to keep it rolling against Huy's Expert Team, while Started from the top (3-3) will attempt to get back in the win column against DarwinThompsonLIVMVP.

Matchup Timeline

  Snakebitten!!!   Started from the top

Inside the Matchup

Matchup Player of the Week

Projected to score 15.24 points, Edwards-Helaire scored 37.1% more than that amount by scoring 20.9 points as the Chiefs beat the Bills 26-17. He ran for 161 yards to beat his projection by the highest percentage of any player on Snakebitten!!! this week. Edwards-Helaire will play the Broncos next week.
Clyde Edwards-Helaire

Top Player Comparison

Snakebitten!!!
Points
% of total points 104.8
1
Patrick Mahomes
QB
23.6
27.3
22.5%
2
Clyde Edwards-Helaire
RB
20.9
15.24
19.9%
3
James Conner
RB
17.7
15.13
16.9%
4
Stefon Diggs
WR
13.6
13.76
13%
Started from the top
Points
% of total points 73.38
1
Myles Gaskin
RB
14.6
13.07
19.9%
2
Ben Roethlisberger
QB
10.98
19.76
15%
3
Darius Slayton
WR
10.8
11.83
14.7%
4
DeAndre Hopkins
WR
8.3
16.66
11.3%

Matchup Highlights

Sunday Early
Ben Roethlisberger had a 28-yard touchdown pass for Started from the top, while Darius Slayton had a 23-yard touchdown catch for the team, who trailed 38.70-29.78 after the early games.
Monday
DeAndre Hopkins had a 60-yard catch for Started from the top.

Points By Position

  Snakebitten!!!   Started from the top

StatSmack

This wasn't even their best effort. Snakebitten!!! scored fewer points in this one (104.8) than their season average of 122.04.
We heard scoring helps you win. Started from the top need some help then, averaging just 107.54 versus Snakebitten!!!'s 122.04.
Even the machines think Snakebitten!!! have a better-constructed roster. Their projected average points is higher (126.08) than Started from the top (114.44).
You won't win many matchups if you don't play. Snakebitten!!! has left fewer points on the bench this season (276.3) than Started from the top (323.52).
Started from the top are like a set of bad ACLs. They've been blown out more times than Snakebitten!!! (3 vs 2).
Snakebitten!!! should change their team name to "The Overachievers" since they have scored higher than projected in more matchups than Started from the top (3 vs 2).
By position, Snakebitten!!! have outscored Started from the top at QB, RB, TE, and K this season.
There's not much good to say about Started from the top this week. Maybe they'll get their act together, and we'll see something different next week!

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