← 2005 standings & weekly recaps
Week 8, settled.
Final scores, weekly indignities, and the standings after the dust cleared.
This recap is rebuilt from the recovered ESPN team-level scoreboard. Scores, opponents, standings, awards, power, luck and all-play are on file; weekly player ownership, starts, optimal lineups and bench decisions begin in 2018 and are intentionally omitted here.
Awards
| Highest score | Durham Bubbs | 149.0 |
| Lowest score | Mario and Manny Fan Club | 38.0 |
| Biggest blowout | Durham Bubbs | +111.0 |
| Heartbreaking loss | Your Worst Nightmares | −1.0 |
Standings after week 8
| 1 | Durham Bubbs | 7-1 | 938.0 |
| 2 | Death by Glass Ingestion | 6-2 | 758.0 |
| 3 | P RIVERS NAS NAS | 5-3 | 767.0 |
| 4 | The Penthouse Panda Bear | 4-4 | 669.0 |
| 5 | Team 2 | 4-4 | 619.0 |
| 6 | The Penguins | 3-5 | 670.0 |
| 7 | Your Worst Nightmares | 2-6 | 501.0 |
| 8 | Mario and Manny Fan Club | 1-7 | 479.0 |
Power, luck & all-play after week 8
| # | Team | Power | Luck | All-play |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durham Bubbs | 0.8512 | +0.31 | 6.7-1.3 |
| 2 | Death by Glass Ingestion | 0.7088 | +0.64 | 5.4-2.6 |
| 3 | P RIVERS NAS NAS | 0.6821 | -0.29 | 5.3-2.7 |
| 4 | The Penthouse Panda Bear | 0.5715 | -0.26 | 4.2-3.8 |
| 5 | Team 2 | 0.5325 | +0.36 | 3.6-4.4 |
| 6 | The Penguins | 0.5208 | -0.57 | 3.6-4.4 |
| 7 | Your Worst Nightmares | 0.3638 | 0.00 | 2.0-6.0 |
| 8 | Mario and Manny Fan Club | 0.3010 | -0.29 | 1.3-6.7 |
These are reconstructed from team scores and opponents only. Power uses the same model as every other season; luck compares actual wins with schedule-neutral expected wins; all-play is scaled to the number of games actually played.
Old business
The week’s most-established manager matchup. Through this game, the series stood 1-1 from Samuel Nye’s side across 2 meetings. In 2005, the teams were P RIVERS NAS NAS and Team 2.
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