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!