Round 2, Week 1

Ouch. I got rocked by Dan. 10-2. Hopefully there's some magic left in my team. I need an epic comeback.


In other news, the favorites are all up 1-0.

Playoffs Round 1, Week 2 - The favorites win

Well, both Dustin and Todd got a major beating at the hands of the higher (lower?) seeds. Dustin was leading over the weekend, but somehow slipped way back and lost convincingly.


2.0 Dustin's Diggleturb
10.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels


3.0 Todd's Heaters
9.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters




Here's the updated playoff bracket:

Jose Offerman goes Off!

Man with bat in hand is Jose Offerman. Want to learn more, click the following link. Steroids = Roid Rage.

Interesting Article about trade deadline pickups

I was reading and interesting article that was posted on USA Today's fantasy baseball section and I liked this quote.

"In general, waiting on one player to lift your Roto team to a championship is a long-shot proposition. The strongest teams are assembled over the course of the season, and the most valuable free agent acquisitions are the ones made early in the season, when they have several months, not weeks, to contribute."

The whole article can be found here.

Playoffs Round 1, Week 1

Dan was the big winner in week one. Dustin will have a tough time coming back from that deficit.

Meanwhile, Calvin just held on against Todd to get the early lead in week 1. A veerrrry close week. Should be an interesting week 2.


2.0 Dustin's Diggleturb
10.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels


5.0 Todd's Heaters
7.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters

Playoffs Round 1 Update

Things are going according to plan so far in the first week of the playoffs. Both Dan and Calvin are the higher seeds and both are ahead early.

8.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
4.0 Todd's Heaters

Todd isn't that far behind and with 3 wins and a great pitching week so far, he could make a comeback. Calvin is up early on the strength of Garrett Atkins who has 7 RBI and is hitting .875 in two days and Felipe Lopez who has 2 HRs and is batting .625.

10.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels
2.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Dustin isn't doing bad in hitting so he's got a shot to make things closer. Unfortunately Ryan Howard (2 HRs), Troy Tulowitzki (2 HRs .666 BA), and new acquisition Luis Castillo (.429 BA) are hot this week. Its the pitching that isn't even close so far. Dustin has a shot there too though because Dan has no wins and Dustin has had no starters pitch.

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Playoff Bracket filled out and weekly points results and analysis

I calculated all of the points last night and as a side project I decided to calculate some stats with it. Pretty cool stuff in there (click image to expand).



Check out Dustin. He seemed to rarely go outside his 5-7 point range. He hardly ever lost by more than 7-5 until the last three weeks of the season. He needed to draft two more categories!

Who's hot at the end of the season? Jim, Kelley, Matt, Brian, and Calvin are all over .500 in the last 5 weeks of the season.

How about Brian's start to the season? Three 10-2 wins and three ties. Wild.


Here's the Playoff bracket:



So the first two weeks will be:

Calvin vs. Todd

Dan vs. Dustin


Everyone else gets a bye for round 1.

Week 18 Results (Final Regular Season Games)

Brian pulled out a tie with Andy on the last day which essentially dropped Andy from a 2 seed to a 4 seed. Ouch. Kelley tied Jason in the standings, but Jason gets the higher seed based on head-to-head points. Matt's win moves him above Brian into 5th and Dan's loss tied him with Calvin in the standings. However, Dan kept his higher seed due to head-to-head points.

Team of the week is: Brian's Box Chowers. His massive IP total won it out for him. That's how he tied Andy on the final day of the week.


6.0 Brian's Box Chowers
6.0 Andy's Full Flanull


8.5 Jim's Beaners
3.5 Todd's Heaters


6.5 Kelley's FKAKY
5.5 Prothero's Poppers


8.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
4.0 Dustin's Diggleturb


6.5 Matt's Utility Men
5.5 Dan's Pickle Weasels


Final Standings:

                                                        Categories
Seed  Team               Win  Loss   Tie  Points* For   Against Difference
1     Jim's Beaners           12     5     1     37    127.5   88.5     39
2     Prothero's Poppers      10     6     2     32    116    100       16
3     Kelley's FKAKY          10     6     2     32    117     99       18
4     Andy's Full Flanull      9     6     3     30    111    107        6
5     Matt's Utility Men       9     8     1     28    107    109       -2
6     Brian's Box Chowers      7     7     4     25    108    108        0
7     Dan's Pickle Weasels     7    10     1     22    103    113      -10
8     Calvin's Slumpbusters    7    10     1     22     99    117      -18
9     Todd's Heaters           4    10     4     16     92.5  123.5    -31
10    Dustin's Diggleturb      4    11     3     15     99    117      -18

*3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie

Playoff Bracket

The playoffs will look like this: (click image to zoom in)




That means the top six teams will get a bye in the first round (first two weeks).

If two teams tie then in the regular season standings, then the first tie breaker is head-to-head points in each week. For example, two teams are 1-1. The first week, team A won 9-3. The second week, team B won 7-5. Team A gets the higher seed.

In three way ties (or more), I'm not exactly sure of the best way to calculate. I'll post something on the Google-group. I'm thinking that we could use largest win differential (over the course of a season - points for/points against). But that may be a pain to calculate. Otherwise it will be some crazy head-to-head-to-head formula. That might be easier to calculate.

For now I think I'll go with head-to-head-to-head. If there's not a clear winner (no one team beat all other teams its tied with, then go with season point differential.

Whew!