Monday Night Football gave Burd a Perfect DD and rocketed him from 12th all the way up to the top spot for the week, with a score of 175. Fellow cellar dweller Brad came home 2nd with 162, followed by Beany (155), DMC (152) and Animagus (also 152).

After a brief hiatus from the top of the standings, DMC is once again back in the lead - although I'm only 2 points behind him and Pebbles is just 5 points behind me. It's tight at the top, and there are some nice battles scattered throughout the standings. We're only halfway through the regular season, so there's still plenty of time for positions to change hands.

There was a rather odd result this week - Jethro, Pebbles and I all ended up with 125 points. The odd thing? Our picks were all VERY different. In fact, the 3 of us picked the same team on only 5 of the 13 games. Guess it's proof that you can take very different paths and still end up in the same place!

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

• Perfects this week: Burd/Freeze (2), Gibbie/MaMa/Swiff/Brad (1)
• Winners this week: Burd/Pebbles/Jethro (8), 8 others with 7 each

• Best Double Downs: Burd (+35), Beany/Animagus/Nang/Brad (+25)
• Incorrect Double Downs: Poopnoodle

• Biggest jumps in the standings: DMC/Moppy/Burd (+2)
• Biggest drops in the standings: Zman (-4), Poopnoodle (-2)

• Overall Leaders in Perfects: MaMa (8), Game/Freeze (7), Blue/Gibbie/Worms (6)
• Overall Leaders in Winners: DMC/Pebbles (74), Blue/Beany (72), Game/Gibbie/Moppy (70)

DOUBLE DOWN UPDATE:

Here's where we stand in DD land after 8 weeks. We've had 37 Misses and only 2 Perfects...

114 - Game (0 P & 0 M)
087 - Moppy (0 P & 1 M)
085 - Pebbles (0 P & 1 M)
075 - Nang (0 P & 1 M)
060 - Burd (1 P & 2 M)
054 - Freeze (0 P & 1 M)
039 - DMC (0 P & 2 M)
037 - Animagus (1 P & 3 M)
037 - Zman (0 P & 2 M)
036 - Swiff (0 P & 1 M)
032 - MaMa (0 P & 2 M)
030 - Blue Eyes (0 P & 2 M)
027 - Worms (0 P & 2 M)
005 - Turq (0 P & 1 M)
005 - Beany (0 P & 3 M)
002 - PoopNoodle (0 P & 2 M)
-10 - Brad (0 P & 4 M)
-15 - Gibbie (0 P & 4 M)
-45 - Jethro (0 P & 3 M)

MARGIN ACCURACY RATING:

And here's the latest on our MAR, including the change since the last update 4 weeks ago. Virtually everyone has improved, so the real telltale is if you've improved more than the average of +1.10. A "plus" below that isn't really a good thing, because you're losing ground to the pack...

17.73 - Gibbie (+1.33)
17.49 - Jethro (+1.18)
17.06 - MaMa (+1.30)
16.97 - Worms (+2.41)
16.96 - Game (+1.72)
16.76 - PoopNoodle (-0.50)
16.74 - DMC (+1.54)
16.39 - Blue Eyes (+2.01)
16.33 - GTF Average (+1.10)
16.32 - Freeze (+1.56)
16.24 - Beany (+0.92)
16.03 - Pebbles (+0.47)
15.98 - Swiff (+0.95)
15.97 - Zman (+0.91)
15.83 - Nang (-1.31)
15.71 - Brad (-0.11)
15.68 - Animagus (+1.20)
15.40 - Turq (+3.52)
15.20 - Moppy (+1.50)
15.10 - Burd (+0.60)

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Don't forget - Thursday games start next week!