Finals Wk1 Recap and Wk2 Preview

The Finals Week 1 featured a 6-6 tie between the Poppers and Slumpbusters. So it's all up to the final 6 days. Jason must win 6.5 categories to finish first, otherwise Calvin becomes the first 4-time champion.

RECAP: Even in HRs and SBs, the Slumpbusters scratched by in Runs on the final day while the Poppers offense crushed the rest of the hitting categories by a very wide margin. A better-than-average week for Slumpbuster pitching resulted in 1 more win and 2 more saves, and getting 9 more IP helped top the K-BB category by 4. However, a solid Poppers rotation gave Jason the edge in ERA/WHIP despite Scott Olsen's mishap on Saturday.

HITTING PREVIEW: Going into the final 6 days, the Slumpbusters offense takes a huge hit as team MVP Nick Johnson goes down with a broken femur, joining fellow stud 1B Derrek Lee on the pine. Can super-subs Mark Sweeney and Russ Branyan save the Slumpbusters from another crushing at the hands of (gulp!) Luke Scott and Barry Bonds? Baserunning should be a toss-up, with Hanley Ramirez and Endy Chavez running for the Poppers versus Felipe Lopez and Eric Byrnes for the Slumpbusters.

PITCHING PREVIEW: Poppers will get 7 starts from their 5 SP, while the Slumpbusters get 6 from 6. The nod goes to the Poppers if Maddux can survive a trip to Coors and then beat ROY candidate Matt Cain on 3 day's rest. Calvin's closing trifecta of Borowski/Cordero/Wickman should get ample opportunities as the Fish, BrewCrew and Braves try to spoil the Phils, Cards, and Astro's postseason hopes. Popper closers Flash and Wheeler should keep it close, as PHI/HOU are white hot and can smell October.

CALVIN'S CALL: Poppers 10-2 in the final week to take the trophy. Slumpbusters manage to tie in Runs and SBs, while winning only the Saves category outright. 'Carpenter & the Kids' can't overcome the steady veteran presence of Zambrano, Maddux and Webb, as Pedro again implodes and the kids (Hamels, Anibal, James, R.Hill) crumble under pressure.

FINAL WEEK MVP: Brandon Webb, with 2W, 1 SHO, 12 K-BB and winning the Cy Young over the Slumpbuster's Chris Carpenter.

Semifinals Results

One comeback and one sweep setup an interesting championship between a semi-underdog and a team that should have got there.

Calvin followed up his 7-5 win over Andy to smash him 9.5-2.5 and head into the championship round.  Andy had a horrible week as his strength, pitching, let him down.  Calvin left the door open with his average hitting week, but Andy couldn't capitalize and is out of the playoffs.

Jason parlayed a great pitching week into a 8.5-3.5 comeback win after losing 7-5 in week one.  Kelley tried to keep it close with a great power week, but poor pitching and poor hitting overall did him in.  It was a close series the whole way.

The final matchup in the BVRRL championship will be Calvin's Slumpbusters versus Jason's Poppers.

Semifinals

Couple close game 1's.  Both 7-5.

Kelley hung on for the victory against the Poppers as both teams were very even.

FKAKY 7 - Poppers 5

 

Calvin took one pitching category from Andy and all the hitting categories which was good enough for the 7-5 win.

Slumbusters 7 - Full Flanal 5

Round 2 Results

Great comeback by Calvin to push into the third round of the playoffs.  Everyone else pretty much held status quo and the winners won both games.

Poppers - 7.5, Utility Men - 4.5
Poppers - 8.5, Utility Men - 3.5

FKAKY - 9.5, Faux`s Footlongs - 2.5
FKAKY - 8, Faux`s Footlongs - 4

Heaters - 8,  Slumpbusters- 4
Slumpbusters - 11, Heaters - 1

Full Flanull - 8.5, Box Chowers - 3.5
Full Flanull - 10.5, Box Chowers - 1.5

 

Matchups are set and look like this:

Poppers vs. FKAKY

Slumpbusters vs. Full Flanull

First Game, Round 2

Well, the first game in round 2 is complete and there are two major upsets in the making.  Both Calvin and Mike are on the verge of elimination.

FKAKY - 8.0
Faux`s Footlongs - 4.0

Heaters - 8.0
Slumpbusters - 4.0

Poppers - 7.5
Utility Men - 4.5

Full Flanal - 8.5
Box Chowers - 3.5

The games are definitely not as close as last round.  It's going to take some serious effort to make up those deficits.

Round 2 Matchups Set

 

Full Flanal vs. BOX CHOWERS
Slumpbusters vs. Heaters
Faux's Footlongs vs. FKAKY
Utility Men vs. Poppers

Playoffs: Round 1 Finished

Playoffs round 1 is over.  Here's the final results:

Box Chowers edged the Beaners with a good final week win to secure the series.  That last week was so close that a few runs allowed or hits could have turned in the Beaners way.

Box Chowers - 6, Beaners - 6
Box Chowers - 8, Beaners - 4

Box Chowers Win

Todd completed a nice little turnaround by coming back to beat Dustin on the second week.  They went down in a close game the first week, but Dustins pitching got rocked in the second week and the Heaters cruised in for the win on points.

Diggleturb - 6.5, Heaters - 5.5
Heaters - 8, Diggleturb - 4

Heaters Win

Kelley dominated Dan to cruise on to the second round.  He will need a similar performance against Mike to pull off the upset, but it looks like he is peaking at just the right time.

FKAKY - 8, Pickle Weasels- 4
FKAKY - 10, Pickle Weasels- 2

FKAKY Win

Playoffs: Round 1, Game 1

There were some heated battles in the first round of the playoffs.


Beaners and Box Chowers are tied at 6-6.
Next week determines the winner who gets to play Andy.

Dustin edged Todd 6.5 – 5.5 to take the lead in the two game series.

Kelley took a commanding 8-4 lead over Dan to see who will play Mike. Dan has to win 8-4 next week to move on (he’s the higher seed).

Baseball Stats, Graphs, Analysis

Just found this cool site called Fan Graphs. Very visual and pretty interesting. More SABR type stuff.

Baseball Stats, Graphs, Analysis | Fan Graphs

MVP Candidates

Time to vote for the MVP of the Beaver Roto league regular season. (In this case it's really voting for the best hitter)

I only used "Roto Stats" so they had to get the stats for your team. Most good players haven't been benched anyways. But it does affect players who were traded and weren't the best for their team due to a small # of ABs.

The stats are through this Friday because I couldn't get stats for only through Monday.

Feel free to "write in" someone you think should be on there, but this is a pretty big list.

Everybody Vote!!!


Carlos Beltran, OF, Faux's Footlongs, $34
380 ab, 85 r, 29 db, 33 hr, 97 rbi, 64 bb, 14 sb, 0.282 ave, 1.01 ops

Alfonso Soriano, 2B, Faux's Footlongs, $27
459 ab, 86 r, 29 db, 36 hr, 73 rbi, 50 bb, 28 sb, 0.290 ave, 0.964 ops

Nick Johnson, 1B, Calvin's Slumpbusters, $17
378 ab, 73 r, 35 db, 17 hr, 58 rbi, 81 bb, 9 sb, 0.291 ave, 0.945 ops

Brian McCann, C, Andy's Full Flanal, $12
286 ab, 40 r, 20 db, 14 hr, 52 rbi, 28 bb, 2 sb, 0.353 ave, 0.986 ops

Chase Utley, 2B, Matt's Utility Men, $27
464 ab, 96 r, 33 db, 21 hr, 74 rbi, 41 bb, 12 sb, 0.328 ave, 0.940 ops

Miguel Cabrera, 3B, Jason's Poppers, $35
412 ab, 78 r, 38 db, 17 hr, 78 rbi, 64 bb, 7 sb, 0.337 ave, 0.992 ops

David Wright, 3B, Jim's Beaners, $39
427 ab, 73 r, 29 db, 22 hr, 86 rbi, 52 bb, 14 sb, 0.311 ave, 0.939 ops

Aramis Ramirez, 3B, Dustin's Diggleturb, $29
417 ab, 61 r, 24 db, 27 hr, 79 rbi, 37 bb, 1 sb, 0.276 ave, 0.887 ops

Ryan Howard, CI, Dan's Pickle Weasels, $31
413 ab, 63 r, 16 db, 39 hr, 102 rbi, 61 bb, 0 sb, 0.293 ave, 1.010 ops

Adam Dunn, OF, Kelley's FKAKY, $32
413 ab, 78 r, 19 db, 34 hr, 80 rbi, 82 bb, 5 sb, 0.254 ave, 0.930 ops

Adam LaRoche, 1B, Todd's Heaters, $12
342 ab, 58 r, 26 db, 23 hr, 64 rbi, 35 bb, 0 sb, 0.269 ave, 0.885 ops

Albert Pujols, CI, Brian's Box Chowers, $46
288 ab, 75 r, 22 db, 30 hr, 80 rbi, 57 bb, 5 sb, 0.326 ave, 1.160 ops

if this were roto...

if this were traditional rotisserie instead of head-to-head, here's how our 'final', 'regular season' standings would look:

Cumulative	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS	W	SV	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB
Footlongs	659	192	648	94	0.2794	0.8528	45	14	790	4.1	1.342	253
Slumpbusters	680	136	624	107	0.2839	0.8229	57	50	840.7	4.4	1.377	338
Full Flanull	551	122	529	90	0.2755	0.7757	51	55	877.3	4.19	1.362	403
Utility Men	652	138	562	116	0.2709	0.778	54	49	979.3	4.44	1.339	376
Poppers	646	137	564	81	0.2806	0.8339	50	43	855.3	4.01	1.295	427
Beaners	577	125	527	83	0.2707	0.7642	54	25	949.3	4.52	1.38	457
Diggleturb	696	180	658	60	0.2867	0.8276	45	27	809.3	4.97	1.484	267
Pickle Weasels	669	167	669	70	0.2778	0.8027	44	40	782.3	4.31	1.423	338
FKAKY	709	179	637	108	0.2698	0.8002	48	43	795.7	4.51	1.445	277
Heaters	634	163	660	49	0.2655	0.7699	49	1	947	4.6	1.423	291
BOX CHOWERS	608	131	607	44	0.2647	0.7649	47	34	846.7	5.1	1.475	305
Average Team	644	152	608	82	0.2750	0.7993	49	35	861	4.47	1.395	339

Rotisserie	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS	W	SV	IP	ERA	WHIP	K-BB	Pts
Slumpbusters	10	4	7	10	11	9	12	11	5	8	8	6	101
Poppers	6	5	4	5	10	11	8	8	7	12	12	11	99
Utility Men	7	6	3	12	5	5	10	10	12	7	11	9	97
Footlongs	8	12	9	9	9	12	2	2	2	11	10	1	87
Full Flanull	1	1	2	8	7	4	9	12	9	10	9	10	82
Pickle Weasels	9	9	12	4	8	8	1	7	1	9	4	6	78
FKAKY	12	10	8	11	3	7	5	8	3	5	3	3	78
Average Team	5	7	6	6	6	6	7	6	8	6	6	8	77
Diggleturb	11	11	10	3	12	10	2	4	4	2	1	2	72
Beaners	2	2	1	7	4	1	10	3	11	4	7	12	64
Heaters	4	8	11	2	2	3	6	1	10	3	4	4	58
BOX CHOWERS	3	3	5	1	1	2	4	5	6	1	2	5	38

2006 Playoffs

The first round of the playoffs will look like this:


Beaners vs. BOX CHOWERS

Diggleturb vs. Heaters

Pickle Weasels vs. FKAKY


All other games are "friendlies" that don't count towards playoffs. 1st - 5th place get byes for the first round (2 weeks).

Final Standings

Here's the final standings for 2006:

OVERALL STANDINGS for Beaver Roto League
Through games of 08.07.06

             TEAM     WIN LOSS TIES     PCT        PF        PA
Faux`s Footlongs       13    4    1   .7500     116.0     100.0
Slumpbusters           11    6    1   .6389     126.0      90.0
Full Flanull           10    7    1   .5833     112.0     104.0
Utility Men             9    7    2   .5556     117.5      98.5
Poppers                 9    7    2   .5556     115.0     101.0
Beaners                 8    9    1   .4722     112.5     103.5
Diggleturb              7    8    3   .4722     103.5     112.5
Pickle Weasels          7    9    2   .4444      98.5     117.5
FKAKY                   7   10    1   .4167     109.0     107.0
Heaters                 5   10    3   .3611      93.5     122.5
BOX CHOWERS             5   12    1   .3056      84.0     132.0

Playoff matchups coming.

The Coorspiracy

Are the Colorado Rockies cheating? Are the waterlogged balls affecting play? Interesting blog post about the whole story.

The Denver Sports Zone » Off Day: The Coorspiracy*

Harold Reynolds responds to firing by ESPN

USATODAY.com - Reynolds focusing on future

Goin off a lil bit

This made my Monday...

POTW

Here they are...


Hitter:

Jason Bay, Jim's Beaners
9R, 6HR, 14RBI, .444AVG, 1.63OPS

(Ryan Howard was really close)


Pitcher:

No one was worthy :)



WOW:

Andy's Full Flanal
Juan Pierre .192 ba, .22 oba

Matt's Utility Men
Chris Young - 3in, 6 ER, 3 HR, 1L
Jamie Wright - 3.7in, 6 ER, -2 K-BB, 1 L

Players of the Week for week 7

Hitting:

Jason Bay, Jim's Beaners

7 runs, 4 hr, 12 rbi, .357 ave, 1.24 ops


Pitching:

It's a tie:

Carlos Zambrano, Jason's Poppers
2 wins, 2.40 era, 0.867 whip, 15 ip, 12 k-bb

Jamey Wright, Matt's Utility Men
2 wins, 15 ip, 2.40 era, 1.067 whip, 6 k-bb


Worthless of the Week:

Edwin Encarnacion, Todd's Heaters
0.174 AVE, 1 RBI, 3 Runs, 23 AB's

David Bush, Utility Men
2L, 10 IP, 9.9 ERA

AND...

Dan's entire team for getting the first huge loss to the average team!

White Sox and Cubs brawl

Here it it is. The Basebrawl in South Chicago...

Bonds 714...

POTW Week 6

OK, so this is based off of the nominations only:

Hitter:

Jason's Poppers
Nomar Garciaparra, LAD
.464 ave, 1.46 ops, 3 hr, 9 rbi, 7 runs


Pitcher:

Dan's Pickle Weasels
Tony Armas Jr, WAS
13 ip, 0.69 era, 2 wins, 0.615 whip, 7 k-bb


Jim wins the Worthless of the Week award (in his own words):

WOW - Worthless of the Week: J. J. Hardy: 0 for 11 with a walk. .000
AVG, .083 OPS

WOW2: Scott Mitre --- threw 3 pitches, got pulled and went on the DL

WOW3: Woody Williams --- pitched 1 inning then ripped his calf running the bases

Best baseball blog

This blog gets a vote for the best baseball blog I have seen, it is updated every day, and the guy who does it must spend lots of time researching and digging up stats.

http://plunkbiggio.blogspot.com/

An interview with Fantasyland author Sam Walker

This is a great article / chat with the author of Fantasyland. It's a good read and makes me want to read the book now!

Fantasy Baseball - RotoTimes.com

Nate Ravitz: One of the things I found really interesting about the book was the lengths you were willing to go to try to win, and one of them was obviously your front office. But one tactic you employed at the draft is something I’ve dubbed the “cleavage gambit,” so maybe you can tell our readers about that.

Sam Walker: Well, Christine Price is a friend of mine, and she’s a yoga instructor and a model and actress. Part of our draft strategy was to load up on top pitchers, and we wanted to accomplish it early before anyone figured out what we were doing. So we tried to figure out a way to distract the other touts during the draft and came up with Christine. So I brought her in as a videographer, and she wore tight jeans and a low-cut shirt. It basically worked well, as everyone’s attitude and demeanor changed as they knew that every move they made might be judged by this beautiful woman in a roomful of fantasy experts.

Nate Ravitz: There are a lot of funny quotes in the book about how the other touts reacted to Christine. But draft day wasn’t the only time you went above and beyond normal fantasy effort. You also spent some time trying to coach up your own players. Did it work?

Sam Walker: Well, of course, none of the players were taking much of what I said to heart. But I did catch Jacque Jones and Josh Phelps sort of talking to themselves about some of the problems they were having on the field. But I did try to keep their spirits up in a number of ways, whether it was handing out team jerseys or buying Bill Mueller a six pack of Schaffer, which was his favorite college beer.

But I did feel that I had a little bit of an effect on some of the managers. I remember talking to Tigers pitching coach Bob Cluck about Jason Johnson, who always seemed to fade in August and September. I had some stats about Johnson’s pitch counts, which had been excessively high the year before. And Cluck took me in to show it to Alan Trammell, and they basically told me that they weren’t going to let Johnson throw more than about 105 pitches anymore, or at least not two starts in a row.

Freakin' hilarious. Now I know what the Jack and Mike in Brazil were all about. Damn distractions!

Pitcher of the week, week 4

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Bronson Arroyo is the winner of the Pitcher of the week for week 4.

Bronson Arroyo, 2 wins, 17 ip, .5 era, 12 so, .58 whip

If anyone elses pitcher did better speak up or forever hold your peace.

Player of the Week (POW): Week 4

I was attempting to do the Player of the Week awards for this past week but i cant figure out how to view last weeks stats. I was slammed with studying yesterday for a midterm that I had and I was planning on doing them today (Wednesday) but our TQstats isnt very user friendly and wont allow me to view last weeks stats anymore.

Sorry for slacking off! if anyone has any nominees please nominate them. If I cant figure them out, I wont be doing them this week.

Kelley

John Hunt baseball blog

Ol’ John Hunt is an Oregonian writer these days but still talks about baseball. He’s got a blog here:

John Hunt Blog

For those who don't remember USA Today's Baseball Weekly, John was a Fantasy baseball god about 6-8 years ago. His blog is pretty interesting so far.

Delmon Young throws bat at umpire after striking out

In case you missed it, here's the bat throwing incident...

YouTube - Delmon Young throws bat at umpire after striking out

Player of the Week (POW): Pitching: Week 3

This weeks POW for pitching goes to the whole pitching staff of the Poppers. Congratulations!

5 Wins, 56.7 INN's, 28 K-BB, 1.59 ERA, and a 1.112 WHIP

Previous Winners:
Week 1:
Utility Men: Brad Penny: 1.50 ERA, .833 WHIP, 12 INN, 13 K-BB, 2 WINS

Week 2:
Stumpbusters: Pedro Martinez: 2 W's, 13.7 IP, 11Ks, 2.63 ERA, .878 WHIP and 200th career victory

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WOW award this weeks goes to Victor Zambrano, 2 Loses, 12.00 ERA, 2.11 WHIP

Player of the Week (POW): Hitting: Week 3

I was hoping people would notice that I changed a few teams names around the past couple of weeks. It's my version of trash talking. This weeks player of the week goes to someone who I believe hit 8 hrs in 8 games, I lost count after the eight game. Congrats to Morgan Ensberg!

Utility Men: Morgan Ensberg: 5 HR's, 9 RBI's 7 R's, .318 AVG, and 1.42 OPS

Other noteworthy guys:
FA: (now a FKAky) Brandon Phillips: 3 HR's, 13 RBI's, 5 R's, .387 AVG, and 1.161 OPS.

Heaters: Edwin Encarnacion: 2 HR's 11 RBI's, 8 R's, .304 AVG, and 1.12 OPS

Box Chowers: Albert Pujols: 3 HR's, 9 RBI's, .300 AVG, 1.27 OPS

FKAky: JD Drew: 3 HR's, 7 RBI's, .400 AVG, 1.38 OPS

Previous Winners:
Week 1:
Beaners: David Wright: 2HRS, 9 RBI's, .474 AVG, 1.420 OPS,
and 1 SB

Week 2:
Box Chowers: Albert Pujols: 5 HRs, 10 RBI's, .429 AVG, 1.79 OPS
FKAky: Craig Wilson: 5 HRS, 10 RBI's, .320 AVG, 1.39 OPS

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Worthless Player of the Week (WOW): After being the WOW for the first two weeks of the season Barry Bonds finally hit his first homerun of the season. Since I told the Poppers that he would stay as the WOW until he hit a HR, I have to hold true to this. Barry I love you so this weeks WOW award goes to Derek Lee for getting hurt and being out for two months. Congratulations and thanks for ruining my season.

FKAky: Derek Lee

The First Trade!

Dan and Todd just completed the first trade of the year:

Todd traded Jim Edmonds to Dan for Willy Taverez.


Any post-trade analysis?

Another stats site

For anyone just wanting to browse old stats check out this site:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/

It pretty much rocks the kasbah for stats.

Who the?

Alright...who is TwoFreeHeels and ROTO JACK?

I'm calling ROTO JACK = BOX CHOWERS due to the heavy use of all caps.

TwoFreeHeels = Beaners? Which coincidentally is one letter away from Beavers.


Did anyone else notice Kelley renamed Calvin's team to the Stumpbusters this week? Coincidentally, that is only one letter away from Slumpbusters...

Player of the Week (POW): Pitching: Week 2

This weeks winner goes to Pedro Martinez. Pedro won his 200th career
game this week.

Stumpbusters: Pedro Martinez: 2 W's, 13.7 IP, 11Ks, 2.63 ERA, .878 WHIP
and 200th career victory

Note Worthy:
FKAky: Brian Bannister: 2 W's, 12 IP, 1.50 ERA, 1.167 WHIP

Stumpbusters: Jason Marquis: 2 W's, 14 IP, 2.57 ERA, 0.786 WHIP

Poppers: Greg Maddux: 2 W's, 14 IP, 1.29 ERA, .571 WHIP, 11 K-BB

Utility Men: Chris Young: 2 W's, 13 IP, 1.38 ERA, .846 WHIP, 10 K's

Previous Winner:
Week 1: Utility Men: Brad Penny: 1.50 ERA, .833 WHIP, 12 INN, 13 K-BB, 2 WINS

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WOW: Worthless of the Week:
Diggleturds: Oliver Perez: 4.7 IP, 11.57 ERA, 3.00 WHIP, -1 K-BB

Player of the Week (POW): Hitting: Week 2

Player of the Week (POW) for hitting: Week 2

This week goes to two guys. Pujols for his amazing 4 HRs in 4 AB made
this a tie with Craig Wilson. Craig Wilson stepped in for the injuried
Sean Casey and goes off this past week for 5 HRS and 10 RBI's. He was
also drafted for $1.

Box Chowers: Albert Pujols: 5 HRs, 10 RBI's, .429 AVG, 1.79 OPS

FKAky: Craig Wilson: 5 HRS, 10 RBI's, .320 AVG, 1.39 OPS

Other note worthy performances:

Adam Dunn - FKAky: 6 HRS, 8 RBI's, .261 AVG, 1.48 OPS

Ryan Freel - Full Flannels: 11 R's, 2 RBI's, 6 SB's

Previous Winners:
Week 1 Beaners: David Wright: 2HRS, 9 RBI's, .474 AVG, 1.420 OPS, and 1 SB

I forgot to do the WOW (worthless of the week) award for hitting on the
previous posting. This weeks WOW goes to the same player that won it
last week.

Poppers: Barry Bonds: 14 ABs, 3 Hits, 6 BBs, .214 AVG, 0 HRs, and 1
RBI.

Until he hits a HR, He will get this award.

Bronson Arroyo has more HR's then him (2 HRs).

Got Stats?

Did you guys know there's a downloadable database of baseball stats?

"This database contains pitching, hitting, and fielding statistics for
Major League Baseball from 1871 through 2005. It includes data from
the two current leagues (American and National), the four other "major"
leagues (American Association, Union Association, Players League, and
Federal League), and the National Association of 1871-1875."

They have MS-Access, spreadsheet, and comma-delimited versions. Not sure what you'd do with it, but if you want to know most HBP in 1947 by a batter over 6'2", here you go.

Interesting Chart on the Distribution of Stats from the draft

I thought I'd throw the draft list into Excel and do a little PivotChart action. Pretty interesting results.

Here's the chart:




Dustin takes the prize for least $1 players. Look at all those guys in the $6 - $10 range. What will be interesting to see is which strategies pay off. Obviously, there's a lot of luck involved but this does shed some light on strategy a bit.

A couple of other things of note, Andy and Matt didn't draft a player over $30. We'll see if that works out for them. Also, Brian an Jim spent the most money on high $$$ players and tied for the most $1 players. That will be interesting to watch early on to see if that paid off.

Man, nearly all of Dusty's players went between $6 and $15.


Anyone else see anything interesting? If you want the spreadsheet to play around with, let me know.

J

Player of the Week (POW): Pitching: Week 1

Player of the Week: Pitching: Week 1

Utility Men: Brad Penny: 1.50 ERA, .833 WHIP, 12 INN, 13 K-BB, 2 WINS

Noteworthy:

Full Flannel: Derek Turnbow: 4 G, 4 SAVES, 0.00 ERA, 1.750 WHIP (The WHIP is the reason he didnt win this week)

Full Flannel: Tom Glavine: 2.25 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 12 INN, 10 K, 1 WIN

Heaters: Dontrelle Willis: 1.38 ERA, .846 WHIP, 13 INN, 7 K, 0 WINS

Poppers: Brandon Webb: 2.77 ERA, 1.308 WHIP, 13 INN, 0 WINS

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WOW (Worthless of the Week):
Faux's Footlongs: Tim Hudson: 12.38 ERA, 2.50 WHIP, 1 LOSE, -3 KK-B, 8
INNs

Player of the Week (POW): Week 1

I thought that I would start up the Player of the Week Awards for this
season. Here they go. If you disagree, go screw yourself!

POW (Hitting):
Beaners: David Wright: 2HRS, 9 RBI's, .474 AVG, 1.420 OPS, and 1 SB

Note Worthy
Faux's Footlongs: Ryan Langerhans: 2 HRs, 7 RBI's, .476 AVG, 1.400 OPS, and 4 SB

Full Flannels: Preston Wilson: 4 HRs, 7 RBI's .296 AVG, 1.110 OPS

FKAky: Derek Lee: 3 HRs, 7 RBI's. .375 AVG, 1.520 OPS, and new contract with Cubs

BOX CHOWERS: Albert Pujols: 4 HRs, 9 RBI's, .304 AVG, 1.310 OPS, and 1 SB

BOX CHOWERS: Andrew Jones: 3 HRs, 13 RBI's, .302 AVG, .984 OPS

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WOW (Worthless Player of the Week):
Poppers: Barry Bonds: 0 HR, 0 RBI, 7 BB, .167 AVG

Step by step, how fantasies turn into nightmares

A week into the 2006 baseball season, we haven't learned much about which teams will thrive and which will disappoint. We can make but wild guesses as to which players' fast starts will endure and which will fade like so many stonewashed dungarees. The only thing we can say with any degree of certainty is that your Fantasy team sucks, violently and godlessly. Read more...

How Playoffs for 2006 Will Work

Here’s how the playoffs would work. There will be 8 weeks of playoffs.

Playoffs (seeds)

Round 1 8 v. 9 7 v. 10 6 v. 11
8 v. 9 7 v. 10 6 v. 11

Round 2 1 v. 8/9 2 v. 7/10 3 v. 6/11 4 v. 5
1 v. 8/9 2 v. 7/10 3 v. 6/11 4 v. 5

Round 3 1/(8/9) v. 4/(5/-1) 2/(7/10) v. 3/(6/11)
1/(8/9) v. 4/(5/-1) 2/(7/10) v. 3/(6/11)
Round 4 Winner of above v. Winner of above

The money is distributed like this:

1st place share (50%) – Given to the playoff champion
2nd place share (25%) – Given to the playoff runner-up
3rd place share (15%) – Given to the highest playoff seed not in the championship game
4th place share (10%) – Given to the second highest playoff seed not in the championship game

The 3rd and 4th place awards give some consolation to those teams who did well in the regular season but got upset in the playoffs. I.e. if the first place team in the regular season (1 seed) gets beat in the second or third round, then he will get the 3rd place share.

Rosters Loaded

The rosters are now fully loaded into the TQStats site. Please verify your rosters and let me know if there are any problems.

Thanks!

2006 Draft List

I've posted an Excel file which contains draft results here:

Roto2006.xls


Enjoy!!

2006 Finances

Here's the final entry fees owed for the 2006 season:

Calvin $50
Mike $50
Andy $20

Keeper info

Forgot to add the keeper info.


Keepers

We decided that we will keep up to 5 players next year.

They will be on 2 year contracts which means the year following the year you
draft them (or pick them up via free agency) you can keep them at the salary
you drafted them (or $10 for free agents). That salary will be subtracted
from your starting $260 draft money next year.

After next year you have an option to continue to keep players for a 3rd,
4th, 5th year but you will be raising their salary by $10 each additional
year you keep them.

If players are traded they will keep they contract status they had with
their previous team.

League Constitution 2006

The Draft


* You get $260 of fake money to draft 23 players(14 batters, 9 pitchers)

* One guy opens a player, then we go around the table bidding until no one wants to bid any higher. Then the guy with the highest bid gets the player.

* Then the next guy over opens a player, and so on...

* The reserve draft is a serpentine draft with no bidding that occurs after all the rosters have been filled (i.e. the regular auction style draft is done). The order is drawn from a hat and reverses every round. So round 1 is ascending, round two decending, and so on.



Eligibility


* Position players must play 20 games the previous season or 5 games in the current season at a position to be eligible to be played at the position.

* If the player doesn't get 5 games at a position by April 30 he must be moved out of the position to a position he is eligible for.

* For pitchers to be eligible to start they must get 1 start every two weeks.

* If a relief pitcher gets two starts in a row then he must be moved to a starter or put on reserve.



Transactions


1. All transactions must be made on Tuesday by midnight. Do them through the TQStats website.

2. Once you put a new player on your active roster his stats will be counted starting on Tuesday and the old player’s stats will stop on Monday. Thus, our rotisserie week is from Tuesday to Monday.

3. Costs of transactions:

$3 - Free Agent pick-up
FREE - Bring a player up from the reserve roster
$3/team - Trade Fee
FREE - Change player position
FREE - Put player from active to reserve roster.


Stats


1. We have these stats:

Batting
Average, Home Runs, Runs, RBI, Stolen Bases, OPS (On Base Percentage+Slugging Percentage)

Pitching
ERA, Innings Pitched, WHIP, Saves, Wins, Strikeouts-Walks

2. Stats are updated daily.

3. The starting fee is $50. This money goes into the pot and will give you about $40 credit for transactions during the season. The other $ goes toward the TQStats league service of $99.



Free-agent Acquisitions


You now have $100 of fake money to spend on free agents (FAAB - free agent acquisition budget). You get them by a closed bid. Its all done through the TQStats website.



Trades


Trades can be made between two or more teams. The $3 cost to the pot is a per team fee. Any number of players can change hands, but each trade has a two day waiting period where if a majority of owners object to the trade it will be voided.

The trade deadline is July 31 and after that point only teams 1-5 can trade with each other and teams 6-10 can trade with each other.

Draft this Saturday

The 2006 Beaver Roto League draft is this weekend.

When: Saturday, April 8th at 8:30am
Where: ProWorks Conference room (15th and Western)


Don't forget to bring your cash you owe on Saturday!

Actual 2005 financial results

OK, so the TQStats Finances weren't quite right. They didn't take the entry fee (cost of the TQStats service) into account. So the amount you will owe is about + $12. Also, the entry fee didn't have an even split so I added $1 to the top three spots entry fees.

Here's what each place won out of the pot (gross).

1st: $156
2nd: $ 78
3rd: $ 47
4th: $ 31


Here's what each team won/owes from last season:

Rank	Team	SPENT	PAID	ENTRY	NET	WON	$ GET	$ PAY
1	Jim	$39.00	$20.00	$13.00	($32.00)	$ 156.00	$ 124.00	$ -
2	Matt	$33.00	$20.00	$13.00	($26.00)	$ 78.00	$ 52.00	$ -
3	Jason	$33.00	$20.00	$13.00	($26.00)	$ 47.00	$ 21.00	$ -
4	Todd	$78.00	$20.00	$12.00	($70.00)	$ 31.00	$ -	$ (39.00)
5	Andy	$30.00	$20.00	$12.00	($22.00)	$ -	$ -	$ (22.00)
6	Kelley	$48.00	$20.00	$12.00	($40.00)	$ -	$ -	$ (40.00)
7	Dustin	$18.00	$20.00	$12.00	($10.00)	$ -	$ -	$ (10.00)
8	Dan	$33.00	$20.00	$12.00	($25.00)	$ -	$ -	$ (25.00)

This is the correct amount owed or won (net) after pot winnings are applied and entry fees taken into account.

Feel free to PayPal me any $$$ owed or write a check before the draft.

Draft weekend set - April 8th

Looks like we have a consensus on the weekekdn we will draft. We will draft Saturday, April 8th with a back up of Sunday, April 9th in case something unforeseen happens.

Now we can get going on draft prep!

2006 Beaver League Transactions

Here's the final financial results for the Beaver Roto League last season. Let me know if there are any discrepancies.

If you need to look at your tranasction list, I think this link will work:

2005 Results

Transaction Record For Beaver Roto League
through 12.30

Team Name	Init Fee	MOV	WAI	TRD	DIS	RES	ACT	PUR	FAAB	PRR	ADD	ADR	ACQ
Poppers	$12.00	20	0	1	0	37	30	6	$76.00	7	0	0	0
Diggleturb	$12.00	15	0	0	0	23	23	2	$60.00	4	0	0	0
Pickle Weasels	$12.00	18	0	1	0	23	22	6	$30.00	2	0	0	0
Full Flanull	$12.00	3	0	2	0	9	8	4	$8.00	0	0	0	0
Heaters	$12.00	25	0	4	0	44	30	18	$98.00	3	0	0	0
Beaners	$12.00	17	0	0	0	25	22	9	$100.00	1	0	0	0
FKAKY	$12.00	27	0	3	0	36	31	9	$93.00	5	0	0	0
Utility Men	$12.00	20	0	3	0	43	43	4	$100.00	8	0	0	0

Team Name	ACR	ACA	CLA	CLR	REL	MIN	ADM	SUP	SUR	Adjust	Tot Spent	Tot Paid	Tot Owed
Poppers	0	1	0	0	13	0	0	0	0	$0.00	$33.00	$20.00	$13.00
Diggleturb	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	$0.00	$18.00	$20.00	$-2.00
Pickle Weasels	1	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	$0.00	$33.00	$20.00	$13.00
Full Flanull	0	2	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	$0.00	$30.00	$20.00	$10.00
Heaters	0	4	0	0	21	0	0	0	0	$0.00	$78.00	$20.00	$58.00
Beaners	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	$0.00	$39.00	$20.00	$19.00
FKAKY	0	3	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	$0.00	$48.00	$20.00	$28.00
Utility Men	0	3	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	$0.00	$33.00	$20.00	$13.00

Total league charges:	$312.00
Total league paid:	$160.00
Total league owed:	$152.00

New book on Fantasy Baseball

Thought you guys might be interested in this new book on fantasy baseball. Looks like a good one.

Amazon.com: Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe: Books: Sam Walker

In 2004, Sam Walker, a sports columnist for The Wall Street Journal, decided to explore this phenomenon by talking his way into Tout Wars, a private league generally reserved for the nation’s top experts. Using his baseball contacts and access to locker rooms, Walker spent a year trying to dredge up information that might give him a competitive edge over his eccentric cast of competitors. But in his quest for victory he also endeavored to settle the great question that divides modern baseball thinkers: Can excellence be predicted by statistics alone or is the human element more important?

Together with his crack research team, Sig (a statistician) and Nando (a baseball savant), Walker finds himself possessed by the game and determined to win at any expense, spending weeks on the road interacting with his real Major League players and trying to "manage" them. We follow his descent into sleeplessness, panic, triumph (temporarily), treachery, and even consultations with an astrologer as he keeps his ever-blearier eyes on his elusive goal. The result is one of the most entertaining sports books in years and a matchless look into the heart and soul of our national pastime.

2005 Final places

Here's last season's final standings:

1. Beaners
2. Utility Men
3. Poppers
4. Heaters
5. Full Flanull
6. FKAKY
7. Diggleturb
8. Pickle Weasels

The Utility Men sneaked into 2nd by upsetting the Beavers in the semi-finals.


I'll get the finances up by this weekend I hope.

2006 season

Hey everyone!

It’s almost baseball season! Pitchers and catchers are reporting soon so it must be time to start thinking about the Roto Draft!

Just a few things we need to iron out.


1. When can we draft?

We need to get the draft schedule for all of our personal planning purposes. I like to draft right after the season starts. Hopefully no more than two weeks after it starts. I’m open to drafting before opening day as well.

Possible Dates: April 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th, 15th, or 16th. We could also go early and do March 25th or 26th.


2. Can we continue to use the TQStats site?

Are we all OK with the baseball commissioner site we used last season? It takes a huge load off of the commissioner with it’s transaction options and the price is right. But if you really hated it, let me know and I’ll see what our options are.


3. Do we want to change anything about our league rules?

Fees OK? Anything else?


4. What do you think about a keeper league?

The only thing I was thinking that might be interesting is starting to do a keeper league. Basically we could keep up to 5 or 10 players we drafted at the cost we paid for one more season (2 year contract). All free agents/reserves would be $10. Each additional year (after the second) would mean a $10 raise. Their salaries would be subtracted off of the $260 you start with at the draft.

This would bring another cool aspect to the league…and keep the draft shorter. Which would be nice.


What do you think?