A Look Back at Jim's Streak.

Jim's Beaners had an amazing win streak for the first two and a half months of the season. I mean, who goes 10-0 to start the season? And he wasn't just getting lucky and winning by a category or two each time, he was dominating people. Since it was so unbelievable, I thought I'd take a look back at some of the numbers that made it all possible.

		PCT	PF	PA
Beaners	10-0	1.000	93.0	27.0

Just look at that line. The Beaners won by an average on 9.3 points to 2.7. Round that and he's beating people 9 to 3 each week. He did have a couple of close calls so if you took those out it would probably look more like 10 to 2. That's domination.

Since we are a bit new to this Head-to-Head thing, lets compare how he did during the streak in standard roto terms. On the week of his 10th win, here's his placement in each of the 12 categories that we use:

Hitting

Runs:
2nd with 423 runs ( 7 behind leader )

RBIs:
1st with 461 RBI ( 26 ahead )

HRs:
1st with 123 home runs ( 5 ahead )

Ave:
1st with a .290 average ( .007 ahead )

OPS:
1st with an .856 OPS ( 0.005 ahead )

SBs:
1st with 64 stolen bases ( 3 ahead )

Pitching

Wins:
2nd with 40 wins ( 5 behind leader )

Saves:
4th with 28 wins ( 16 behind leader )

IP:
4th with 558.3 innings pitched ( 30 behind leader )

ERA:
1st with a 3.16 ERA ( 0.51 ahead )

WHIP:
1st with a 1.110 WHIP ( 0.141 ahead )

K-BB:
1st with 312 K-BB ( 13 ahead )

OK, so he's first in about two-thirds of the categories. And he's especially dominating in hitting. Probably the only two categories he consistently lost were Saves and Innings Pitched. But he's no slouch in either of those.

I'm curious about what this would have translated to in standings in the old roto style we're used to, so here are the standing through the first 10 weeks:

	Hitting	Pitching	Total
Beaners	47	41	88
Poppers	37	32.5	69.5
FKAKY	30	30.5	60.5
Utility Men	22.5	28	50.5
Diggleturb	30.5	19.5	50
Heaters	15	32.5	47.5
Pickle Weasels	14	25	39
Full Flanull	20	7	27

Yea, that's pretty dominating. The crazy thing is that this is pretty much the team he drafted. He's only purchased one player during the streak: Kazuhisa Ishii. So who did he draft that lifted him to these heights? Was it rookies, sleepers, or established players? Here's a look at Jim's current roster stats:

Team report for Beaners

Hitters
Year-to-Date Stats

Player	Team	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
BSchneider	Was	21	4	19	1	.265	.739
JEstrada	Atl	21	3	30	0	.275	.731
DLee	ChC	60	22	64	10	.390	1.20
CTracy	Ari	30	8	30	0	.300	.832
DWright	NYM	40	10	38	6	.291	.882
JSpivey	Was	27	6	19	8	.237	.700
JCastillo	Pit	4	1	2	0	.211	.558
NPerez	ChC	26	4	17	4	.256	.645
BAbreu	Phi	51	16	48	18	.312	.982
CLee	Mil	40	20	67	8	.278	.907
JBay	Pit	51	13	36	4	.302	.932
BHawpe	Col	13	4	24	1	.263	.744
JDubois	ChC	4	2	4	0	.214	.695
PBurrell	Phi	28	15	56	0	.297	.921

--> Stats of Previously Active Hitters

CBarmes	Col	40	8	34	4	.329	.886
JHardy	Mil	10	1	7	0	.151	.490
JLane	Hou	15	5	17	5	.218	.660
JSnow	SF	9	1	7	1	.354	.886
Total:		490	143	519	70	.287	.8495

Looks like he got some serious contributions from some established guys who are goin' off. Derek Lee, Carlos Lee, and Pat Burrell are all doing better than their career average. Bobby Abreu has a good start as well and could be off to career highs in SBs and HRs. On the other hand, Jason Bay, Clint Barmes, David Wright, and even Chad Tracy are doing very well. When you draft those guys you hope one of them goes off or at least doesn't suck. All of them are solid or way above average. Too bad Barmes got hurt (not for the rest of the league though!).


Pitchers
Year-to-Date Stats

Player	Team	W	SV	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB
PMartinez	NYM	8	0	109.0	2.72	0.798	97
RClemens	Hou	6	0	101.0	1.51	0.950	67
DWillis	Fla	12	0	107.7	1.76	1.096	61
DDavis	Mil	7	0	76.7	4.34	1.330	33
THoffman	SD	0	19	25.3	4.26	1.224	19
CHammond	SD	5	0	35.7	1.77	0.897	17
TJones	Fla	1	12	20.3	1.33	0.787	13
BMoehler	Fla	0	0	35.3	4.58	1.528	6
KIshii	NYM	2	0	41.3	5.44	1.476	7

--> Stats of Previously Active Pitchers

DSanchez	LAD	1	0	13.7	2.63	1.171	3
VPadilla	Phi	1	0	21.3	8.44	2.203	-1
AHeilman	NYM	3	0	48.7	4.07	1.130	28
BBruney	Ari	0	1	11.3	5.56	1.588	1
Total:		46	32	647.3	3.14	1.132	351

Well, this one is obvious. He got two studs in Clemens and Pedro, then Dontrelle is having a monster season. Apparently he can throw any other crap out there and still dominate. The only real boost from a strange place would be Chris Hammond dominating in middle relief. I'd say Brian Moehler because he's doing well, but he has stunk it up for the Beaners while active.

Looks like Jim had the "Perfect Storm", vets who perform at or above average supplimented by rookies or young players who are having career years. Basically, mix some luck with a decent draft and you've got the recipe for total domination.

Congrats Jim on a great run. We'll see how the team deals with their first loss of the season :). Next stop, the All-Star break!