Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Week 17 Results

Jim kept his half game lead going into the final week of the regular season with a win over Andy. Meanwhile, Jason pulled out a win vs. Calvin with a huge weekend and took sole possession on 2nd place. Kelley sqeaked out a 6.5-5.5 win over Todd to tie Andy for 3rd place.

This week's matchups:

Jim's Beaners vs Todd's Heaters
Kelley's FKAKY vs Prothero's Poppers
Matt's Utility Men vs Dan's Pickle Weasels
Brian's Box Chowers vs Andy's Full Flanull
Calvin's Slumpbusters vs Dustin's Diggleturb

Kelley vs. Jason is a huge matchup. Andy has another tough matchup with Brian on deck. Jim gets the easiest matchup against Todd.


10.5 Jim's Beaners
1.5 Andy's Full Flanull



6.5 Kelley's FKAKY
5.5 Todd's Heaters



3.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
9.0 Prothero's Poppers



8.5 Matt's Utility Men
3.5 Dustin's Diggleturb



7.0 Brian's Box Chowers
5.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Week 16 Results

The two teams tied for first are now tied for second as Jim beat Jason and passed both Andy and Jason. This week will be huge as Jim plays Andy.



7.0 Matt's Utility Men
5.0 Andy's Full Flanull

Andy could have had the win with just a little more hitting. Hopefully his team steps it up against Jim!



9.5 Brian's Box Chowers
2.5 Todd's Heaters

Todd had a bad week... Brian is coming on strong down the stretch.


6.5 Jim's Beaners
5.5 Prothero's Poppers

Arg! 1 run, or 1 save, or 1 win away from a tie.



9.0 Kelley's FKAKY
3.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Kelley is in 4th. Challenging for 2nd. He put up the numbers last week.


7.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
5.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Calvin's pitching overcame Dan's monster hitting week.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

How long until...

Andy picks up Julio Franco?

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Chris Carpenter

Chris Carpenter will undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the rest of the season.

How's that five-year extension looking now? The Cardinals gave Carpenter a $63.5 million deal last winter, even though he was already under control through 2008. Maybe he'll come back and be something worth close to that. However, as many arm problems as he's had over the course of his career, there's just no guarantee that he'll ever again be a dominant starter. Tommy John surgery will put him out through at least the All-Star break. It's probably about 60-40 that he'll come back and make a positive impact over the final two months of 2008.

From Rotoworld.com

Three weeks to go....

I was interested to see the strength of schedule for the remaining three matchups. I have compiled each teams remaining opponents records to formulate a magically number. I will then come up with predictions based on these numbers to what I think the seedings will be for the playoffs.


Team

Teams Left (Record)

Record

PCT

1

Poppers

(9-4-2)

Beaners

(9-5-1)

Slumpbusters (5-9-1)

FKAky

(7-6-2)

21-20-4

.512

1

Full Flanull

(9-4-2)

Utility Men

(6-8-1)

Beaners

(9-5-1)

Box Chowers

(5-7-3)

20-20-5

.500

3

Beaners

(9-5-1)

Poppers

(9-4-2)

Full Flanull

(9-4-2)

Heaters

(4-7-4)

22-15-8

.595

4

FKAky

(7-6-2)

Diggleturb

(4-8-3)

Heaters

(4-7-4)

Poppers

(9-4-2)

17-19-9

.472

5

Pickle Weasels

(7-7-1)


Slumpbusters

(5-9-1)

Box Chowers

(5-7-3)

Utility Men

(6-8-1)

16-24-5

.400

6

Utility Men

(6-8-1)

Full Flanull

(9-4-2)

Diggleturb

(4-8-3)

Pickle Weasels

(7-7-1)

20-19-6

.513

6

Box Chowers

(5-7-3)

Heaters

(4-7-4)

Pickle Weasels

(7-7-1)

Full Flanull

(9-4-2)

20-18-7

.526

8

Heaters

(4-7-4)

Box Chowers

(5-7-3)

FKAky

(7-6-2)

Beaners

(9-5-1)

21-18-6

.539

9

Diggleturb

(4-8-3)

FKAky

(7-6-2)

Utility Men

(6-8-1)

Slumpbusters

(5-9-1)

18-23-4

.439

9

Slumpbusters

(5-9-1)

Pickle Weasels

(7-7-1)

Poppers

(9-4-2)

Diggleturb

(4-8-3)

20-19-6

.513



It looks like the Beaners have the toughest schedule for the remainder of the season. The Pickle Weasels have the easiest schedule by far. The look to move up in the standings. Here are my predictions for the final standings. The Beaners made the biggest drop (dropping two spots) while the Pickle Weasels made the biggest jump (up two spots). This should make for an interesting three weeks.

1) Full Flanull
2) Poppers
3) Pickle Weasels
4) FKAky
5) Beaners
6) Box Chowers
7) Utility Men
8) Heaters
9) Diggleturb
10) Slumpbusters

The battle for the last spot could be determined on the final week as Calvin and Dustin square off against each other. That should make for an interesting matchup.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Week 15 Results

Team of the week: Kelley's FKAKY. He had good ratios and lead the week in HRs with 13. Unfortunately Andy had a monster pitching week and got the tie.

With Andy and Jason both ending up with a tie (how weird is that?), Jim moves in for a virtual tie at the top. All three teams are tied on wins with Jim having that extra loss.


6.0 Kelley's FKAKY
6.0 Andy's Full Flanull



8.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
4.0 Todd's Heaters



6.0 Matt's Utility Men
6.0 Prothero's Poppers



7.0 Brian's Box Chowers
5.0 Dustin's Diggleturb



9.0 Jim's Beaners
3.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Old Roto Format - Half Way Mark

I did some calculations and I came up with the old point format. Here are the standings if we still went with those standings. I uploaded the excel spreadsheet that I used to tabulate the stand to the google group if you are interested in viewing it.



Hitting Pitching Total
Poppers
51.0 42.0 93.0 1
Diggleturb
22.5 42.0 64.5 7
Pickle Weasels 38.0 9.0 47.0 8
Full Flanull 29.5 45.0 74.5 3
Heaters
15.0 29.0 44.0 10
Beaners
41.5 32.5 74.0 4
FKAky
49.0 32.0 81.0 2
Utility Men 31.0 40.0 71.0 6
Box Chowers 26.0 46.5 72.5 5
Slumpbusters 26.5 18.0 44.5 9

Team MVP's - 1st Half

I decided to put together a list of who I thought was each teams MVP for the first half of this season. I am hoping that Jason can put together a Poll so that we can vote on it this week. There is a new feature that allows you to post polls to our blog but Jason has to add it. So get out and vote as soon as the polls open. Enjoy!

Hanley Ramirez - Poppers
14 Hrs, 35 Rbi's, 70 R's, 27 Sb's, .3314 Avg, and .926 Ops

Adrian Gonzalez - Diggleturb
14 Hr's, 52 Rbi's, 47 R's, .2639 Avg, and .809 Ops

Ryan Howard - Pickle Weasels
21 Hr's, 67 Rbi's, 39 R's, .2559 Avg, and .933 Ops

Brad Penny - Full Flannull
10-1, 116.2 Ip, 18 Gs, 2.391 Era, 1.191 Whip, and 48 K-Bb's

Ken Griffey Jr - Heaters
23 Hr's, 59 Rbi's, 49 R's, 3 Sb's, .2857 Avg, and .958 Ops

Brandon Phillips - Beaners
17 Hr's, 47 Rbi's, 60 R's, 16 Sb's, .2784 Avg, and .811 Ops

Jake Peavy - FKAky
9-3, 119 Ip, 18 Gs, 2.193 Era, 1.059 Whip, and 91 K-Bb's

Prince Fielder - Matt Utility Men
29 Hr's, 70 Rbi's, 62 R's, .284 Avg, and .996 Ops

Carlos Lee - Box Chowers
16 Hr's, 73 Rbi's, 48 R's, 6 Sb's, .2965 Avg, and .869 Ops

Russell Martin - Slumpbusters
11 Hr's, 60 Rbi's, 51 R's, 16 Sb's, .3062 Avg, and .865 Ops

POW Pitching: Week 14!

Congratulations goes out to Dustin for having a Baby Girl on Monday evening. Here name is Barretha Larkin Sculatti....ok her real name is Josephine June Sculatti but I wanted everyone to know how much Dustin loves Barry Larkin. Congrats!

This weeks Player of the Week for pitching is....Wandy Rodriquez.

Wandy Rodriquez - Box Chowers
1 Gs, 1 W, 9 Ip, 0 Er, 7 K-bb's, 0.00 Era, and .556 Whip

Noteworthy:
Ted Lilly - Heaters
1 Gs, 1 W, 7.1 Ip, 1 Er, 5 K-bb's, 1.227 Era, and 1.227 Whip

Chris Young - Utility Men
1 Gs, 1 Nd, 7 Ip, 0 Er, 9 K-bb's, 0.00 Era, and .714 Whip

Cole Hamels - Beavers
1 Gs, 1 W, 7 Ip, 1 Er, 8 K-bb's, 1.286 Era, 1.143 Whip

POW Hitting: Week 14!

This weeks POW for hitting goes to Hanley Ramirez of the Poppers. The guy went off this week, check his stats!

Hanley Ramirez - Poppers
3 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 5 R's, 2 Sb's, .5238 Avg, and 1.660 Ops
DAMN!!! That isn't a typo in regards to his average and ops

Noteworthy:
Ryan Howard - Pickle Weasels
2 Hr's, 10 Rbi's, 2 R's, .280 Avg, and .829 Ops
Only bright spot on the PWs team this week, it had to be noted.

Adam LaRoche - Diggleturb
3 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 7 R's, .3684 Avg, and 1.402 Ops
10 Hr's, 44 Rbi's, and 31 R since joining Team Diggleturb. One Dustin made the trade for LaRoche and Hart, people thought that he got the raw end of the deal. Guess who's laughing now!

Andruw Jones - Box Chowers
2 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 8 R's, 2 Sb's, .381 Avg, and 1.291 Ops
Don't call me Andrew!

Garrett Atkins - Slumpbusters
2 Hr's, 8 Rbi's, 5 R's, .4091 Avg, and 1.213 Ops
He is staying hot...I still think Colorado is going to trade him by the end of this month.

Ryan Braun - FKAky
4 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 6 R's, 1 Sb, .400 Avg, and 1.364 Ops
I was hoping he would win it this week but until I say Hanley's stats...well, I have to be bias.

WOW: Week 14!

Wow of the week for week 14. There were some pathetic stats put up by some teams this week and they are noted below. This weeks WOW goes to someone who got demoted to AAA this past week. Hopefully this will give him some time to fine tune his skills. This weeks loser is Carlos Quentin of the Slumpbusters.

Carlos Quentin - Slumpbusters
0 for 4, got demoted to AAA

Noteworthy:

Team Heaters
.230 Avg, .676 Ops, 4 Hr's
See below.

Team Diggleturb
.2389 Avg, .681 Ops, 5 Hr's
Dustin beat Todd with these stats but they ended up with a tie for the week.

Team Pickle Weasels
8.126 Era, 2.010 Whip
I had to laugh when I read this line. The Pickle Weasels got man handled this past week.

Rickie Weeks - Pickle Weasels
1 for 17, 6 K's, .0588 Avg, and .170 Ops

Jose Valentin - FKAky
2 for 18, 2 R's, 3 K's, .111 Avg, and .367 Ops

Justin Germano - Slumpbusters
1 Gs, 4 Ip, 1 L, 7 Er, 10 Hits, 15.75 Era, 3.00 Whip

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

POW half way mark?

Are people interested in seeing a POW for the first half of the season? If so, I will try to put something out after I get the POW for week 14 done. I should be able to get something out before Friday. School is keeping me busy with two midterms and a final in the span of 24 hours.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Week 14 Results

Oops. Got this one up late.

Team of the week was a tie between Andy's Full Flanull.


10.5 Andy's Full Flanull
1.5 Dan's Pickle Weasels


6.0 Todd's Heaters
6.0 Dustin's Diggleturb


3.0 Brian's Box Chowers
9.0 Prothero's Poppers


4.5 Calvin's Slumpbusters
7.5 Kelley's FKAKY


5.0 Matt's Utility Men
7.0 Jim's Beaners

Friday, July 06, 2007

POW Hitting: Week 13

If you haven't seen the movie Transformers yet...stop whatever you are doing and go see it immediately. It's FREAKING AWESOME!

Here are the nominees for Week 13's POW:

Carlos Beltran - FKAky
4 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 5 R's, 3 Sb's, .2593 Avg, and 1.051 Ops
Low average hurts his chances this week.

Ryan Braun - FKAky
2 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 6 R's, 2 Sb's. .3929 Avg, and 1.183 Ops
This guy is the future of MLB!

Chase Utley - Utility Men
3 Hr's, 8 Rbi's, 7 R's, 2 Sb's, .3448 Avg, and 1.187 Ops
Great all around performance by Utley this week.

Garrett Atkins - Slumpbusters
3 Hr's, 7 Rbi's, 6 R's, .2593 Avg, and 0.930 Ops
He is finally starting to heat up.

Carlos Lee - Box Chowers
3 Hr's, 10 Rbi's, 4 R's, 1 Sb, .3462 Avg, and 1.155 Ops

There were lots of great stats this week but a lot of them that weren't named had just ok stats, that is why they were left out. Plus I was crunched for time.

This weeks winner goes to Lance Berkman. The guy had an incredible week. Here are his stats.

Lance Berkman - Box Chowers
4 Hr's 10 Rbi's, 9 R's, .3214 Avg, and 1.317 Ops

POW Pitching: Week 13

This weeks winners of the Player of the Week award goes to Trevor Hoffman and Tim Lincecum.

Tim Lincecum - Slumpbusters
1 Gs, 7 Ip, 1 W, 0.00 Era, and .429 Whip, 12 K-Bb's

Trevor Hoffman - Utility Men
5 G, 5 Sv's, 1.80 Era, and .600 Whip

Noteworthy:
David Wells - Slumpbusters
2 Gs, 12.2 Ip, 1 W, .711 Era, and 1.342 Whip

John Maine - Utility Men
1 Gs, 8 Ip, 1 W, 1.125 Era, .500 Whip, and 8 K-Bb's

Tim Hudson - Pickle Weasels
1 Gs, 7 Ip, 1 W, 1.286 Era, and 1.143 Whip

Greg Maddux - Pickle Weasels
1 Gs, 7 Ip, 1 W, 1.286 Era, and .857 Whip

Jeff Francis - Beaners
1 Gs, 7 Ip, 1 W, 0.00 Era, and 1.00 Whip

Carlos Marmol - FKAky
4 G, 4.2 Ip, and 9 K-Bb.

WOW: Week 13!

I thought that I would do something different this week. I usually do the WOW last and it always shows up on the top of the blog page. So this week I am doing it last so that it doesn't over shadow the POW's.

This weeks nominee's (according to Andy) Everyone besides me!!!

But in reality here are the nominee's and the loser are Brain Fuentes and Adrian Gonzalez. Fuentes gets the award for temporarily losing his closing role. Here are there stats for this past week. Adrian gets the award for being in a horrible slump.

Brian Fuentes - Heaters
3 G's, 2 L's, 0 Sv, 2.1 Ip, 8 Er's, 30.848 Era, and 3.856 Whip
It seems like if you are a closer on Todd's team that you are destined to lose your closing position sometime during the season. (He got rid of Dan Wheeler at the right time, Thanks Todd!)

Adrian Gonzalez - Diggleturb
1 for 23, 1 Rbi, 7 K's, .0435 Avg, and .241 Ops
He has been in 4 for 47 slump of lately. Ouch!

Noteworthy Losers:
Armando Benitez - Pickle Weasels
4 G's, 2.1 Ip, 1 L, 7 R's, 6 Er's, 23.146 Era, and 4.286 Whip
Different setting and still sucking!

Taylor Tankersley - Pickle Weasels
2 G's, 1 Ip, 4 Er's, 36.00 Era, and 5.oo Whip
What is in the drinking water in Florida?

Rickie Weeks - Pickle Weasels
1 for 15, 1 Rbi, 1 Sb, .0667 Avg, and .367 Ops.
No comment here.

Homer Bailey - Diggleturb
2 Gs, 2 L's, 13 Er's, -5 K-bb's, 21.935 Era, 3.937 Whip
Looks like he might need to head back to AAA for some more seasoning

Sean Marshall - Slumpbusters
1 Gs, 1 L, 7 Er's, 27.00 Era, and 4.50 Whip

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Baseball Video Games?

I was just curious if anyone has played any of baseball game titles that are out this year?

I have been playing MLB 2k7 for the PS3 and it is awesome. I havent had a chance to play MLB The Show 07 yet so I wanted to see if anyone else has. If so, is it worth buying or renting?

I am hoping that some day that they will incorporate fantasy baseball into one of the games. I think this would be a great feature. How cool would it be to track your fantasy team through your video game, like player updates and game lines??

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Week 13 Results

Andy beat Jason to move into a tie for first. Jim lost so he stays in second. Dan won so he moves into a tie for second.

Team of the week: Brian's Box Chowers. 19 HRs, 53 RBI. Good all around. Close second was Kelley.


9.0 Andy's Full Flanull
3.0 Prothero's Poppers


4.5 Todd's Heaters
7.5 Dan's Pickle Weasels


5.0 Jim's Beaners
7.0 Dustin's Diggleturb


4.5 Calvin's Slumpbusters
7.5 Brian's Box Chowers


3.5 Matt's Utility Men
8.5 Kelley's FKAKY