Nathan's Nits - Week 8

Come on in boys, the waters fine.

This season is pretty depressing, and my muse is mostly silent these days. So this column is bound to get even more navel-gazy than before, as we inspect the grizzly details of our circling the drain season. A couple notables on Week 8 before we look at the numbers.

• 5 of the 10 highest scoring losing efforts season-to-date came in Week 7.
• Week 8's average score of 106.1 in the league is highest since week one of 2013, when the league averaged a ridiculous 112.7 points per team. 106.1 is 11.0 points higher than the overall league average score this season. This was all despite a pathetic 69.6 points from CHUNDER BEAR.

2014 Week 8 Numbers

All Play

• Top of the All Play Table isn't historic, but the bottom is.
• THUNDER BEAR's 21 All Play Wins and 618.4 total points is worst in the recent history of the league through eight weeks since 2011, when Norris' fledgling RazorToothed RobotGorillas started a paltry 17-87 with 563.5 total points. It's comforting to know my ineptitude has only been recently surpassed by a clearly sandbagging first year expansion franchise.
• THUNDER BEAR's failure to break through into triple digits for a weekly high score is the first to do so through eight weeks since 2011, also a claim to fame for Norris' year one squad, which had only climbed a little more than three-quarters of the summit, with a high of 77.7 through that season's first eight contests.
• So, if I follow Norris' model, I'll be on top of this table in 2017. Only I don't have all that young talent that Mr. Bunn hoarded in the early rounds of the expansion draft.
• Patrick still has the highest high, Rookie the highest low, Norris the highest average, and Mark is still Mr. Explosive with the highest standard deviation.
• All the lowlights belong to me, except Mark has the lowest low (which shouldn't be bested, er, worsted). Thanks for loosening the noose just a bit, buddy.

Luck

• Lucky and Unhappy.
• Seven total teams more than one game of "luck". That seems excessive.
• As unlucky as Russ has been, he hasn't stepped out of Ms. Von Oÿ's bed for a few weeks now. That can't feel that unlucky, right?

Hotness

• This would be so much more effective as a bar graph.
• OK why not:

BARF

• Russ can't control the schedule, but he is putting in work scoring points. Control what you can control.
• Derrick, dotting the i and crossing the t on exactly how little I know about fantasy football.

Jenna

• Still a few teams in play, with Chad and Patrick still within weekly striking distance.
• For reference, the average point differential between the weekly highest and lowest scoring teams this season is 64.3, with a high of 82.2 (thanks to Mark's Week 2 limbo) and a low of 47.0. So, precedent indicates Derrick and Ben aren't too far off the pace, as well.
• The problem with all that math is that the Stick is the hottest team in the league right now. He ain't leaving Jenna alone at the bar, that's for sure.