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Week 12

Weekly
Grade
McAfrican American
4-8 87.86
113.69
 
VS
proj
landon's Choice Team
82.66 1-11
77.94

Offensively challenged McAfrican American come back to defeat landon's Choice Team, 87.86-82.66

McAfrican American staged an impressive comeback for an 87.86-82.66 win over landon's Choice Team in spite of ranking only 11th in the league in points scored for the week. Trailing 82.66-82.46 heading into Monday night, McAfrican American came back behind Pat Freiermuth (5.4 points). Kirk Cousins (299 Pass Yds, 3 Pass TDs) and DJ Moore (4 Rec, 103 Rec Yds, 1 Rec TD) led the charge for landon's Choice Team in the loss. This marks the first time this season McAfrican American have knocked off landon's Choice Team, after falling 85.48-81.9 in their last matchup. McAfrican American (4-8) will look to build on their success against The Hurts Locker, while landon's Choice Team (1-11) will face mason's Legit Team in an effort to get back in the win column.

Matchup Timeline

  McAfrican American   landon's Choice Team

Inside the Matchup

Matchup Player of the Week

McPherson (2-2 FG, 47 long, 2-2 XP) scored 9 points in a 20-16 win over the Titans in Week 12. His scoring output was right around his 9.03-point projection. McPherson ranks #10 among fantasy Ks this season and will face the Chiefs next week.
Evan McPherson

Top Player Comparison

McAfrican American
Points
% of total points 87.86
1
Tee Higgins
WR
20.9
13.94
23.8%
2
Tua Tagovailoa
QB
16.96
20.96
19.3%
3
David Montgomery
RB
12.8
12.66
14.6%
4
A.J. Brown
WR
10.6
13.15
12.1%
landon's Choice Team
Points
% of total points 82.66
1
Kirk Cousins
QB
24.86
19.33
30.1%
2
DJ Moore
WR
18.3
9.1
22.1%
3
Adam Thielen
WR
16.6
9.61
20.1%
4
Tony Pollard
RB
7.1
11.72
8.6%

Matchup Highlights

Sunday Early
There were players with big-time moments on both teams early Sunday, after which landon's Choice Team had a 77.66-64.96 lead. For McAfrican American, Tee Higgins had a 27-yard touchdown catch. DJ Moore made the highlight reel for landon's Choice Team with a 52-yard catch.

Points By Position

  McAfrican American   landon's Choice Team

Game Notes

McAfrican American got the W despite the fact that only two of their nine starting players scored higher than their projected point totals.
landon's Choice Team had only four of their nine starters score higher than their projected points.
landon's Choice Team can partially blame the loss on Joe Mixon, who didn't score any points.
Both teams put up fewer points than their season scoring average.
McAfrican American won despite scoring fewer points than projected, while landon's Choice Team outscored their projection.
This matchup included the two lowest scores of the week.
The matchup's 5.2-point margin was the second-closest in the league this week.
McAfrican American managed to earn the win, but failed to cover the 35.75-point projected margin of victory.
McAfrican American moves to (2-0) in comeback games this season, while landon's Choice Team falls to (0-2).
For landon's Choice Team, Kirk Cousins put up 24.86 points, the fourth-highest score for a signal-caller this week.

Coach Talk

McAfrican American
Identifying mismatches is a big component to winning in football. Case in point: we really took that to heart by almost tripling landon's Choice Team at running back this past week (19.7 points to 7.1).
landon's Choice Team
Logging just a couple of targets this past week, it seems like the starting RBs for landon's Choice Team clearly should smooth things over with their QBs... and remind them to start checking down more frequently.