@andieangel I am going to call you realistic and sane. Today's draw certainly was disappointing in terms of the number of ITAs issued which is why the score didn't drop, but you all need to remember that the government workers just got back from summer vacation and are getting back into the swing of things. They don't want to issue too many ITAs before they are ready to handle a higher workload. But they will need to ramp up in the upcoming months to start filling 2018 targets that are supposed to increase from 2017, just as last year after the summer, they kept issuing more and more ITAs per draw and averaged a draw every other week.
Ontario is even admitting that there have been holidays and they are still going through a high volume of applications:
http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/oinp-hcp-stream-application-submitted-in-july-2017.505290/page-101#post-6334215
Although this was OINP, they sound like American government workers as well. Here in North America, government workers clock in at 9 and out at 5, have plenty of vacation days, and especially love to take them in the summer.
So, get your documents ready to jump on the opportunity when it comes. Or, if you want to give up hope, please deactivate your EE profile and get out of the pool so that I will get my ITA sooner ...