PoW Pitching!

And the winner is.....

Tom Gorzelanny (Andy's Full Flanull)
14.0 ip, 1 w, 8 k-bb, .64 era, .93 whip

Honorable Mention:

Brandon Webb (Prothero's Poppers)
9.0 ip, 1 w, 9 k-bb, 1.00 era, .78 whip

Randy Wolf (Dan's Pickle Weasels)
7.0 ip, 1 w, 11 k-bb, 0.00 era, .57 whip

Jake Peavy (Kelley's FKAKY)
7.0 ip, 8 k-bb, 1 w, 0.00 era, .71 whip

PoW Hitting!

Better late than never.

Ken Griffey Jr. (Todd's Heaters)
3 hr, 10 rbi, 1 sb, .375 ba, 1.202 ops

Honorbale Mention:

J.J. Hardy (Brian's Box Chowers)
4 hr, 11 rbi, .280 ba, 1.096 ops (Higher ba and he would have taken it.)

Alfonso Soriano (Kelley's FKAKY)
2 hr, 3 rbi, 4 sb, .345 ba, 1.062 ops (Lead off homeruns = low rbi's)

RJ

Ran-dy John-son! clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!
Ran-dy John-son! clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!

Aw yea!

6 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 9 K, 1 Win

Week 6

Crazy week this week as we had two ties and two 7-5 wins. It looked like all blowouts just a couple of days ago. Dusty and Brian get their second tie of the season, Jason gets back on the winning side, and Jim cruises in for the easiest victory of the week (8-4).

Team of the week:

Prothero's Poppers for taking first overall in 3 pitching categories and not having a last place finish in any other category. The 2.49 era and 0.98 whip was big this week.



5.0 Kelley's FKAKY
7.0 Andy's Full Flanull

This was a very close week. Andy seems to have a lot of these. They very nearly split the hitting and pitching categories evenly.


6.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
6.0 Todd's Heaters

Calvin had one great day. Otherwise, it was a deadlock all week. A fitting tie.


5.0 Matt's Utility Men
7.0 Prothero's Poppers

Jason looked like he would run away with this week, but Matt made a huge last day comeback and nearly pulled out the tie. Jason's pitching and rbi lead was too strong in the end.


6.0 Brian's Box Chowers
6.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Dusty had a great week in the averages (.305 ave, .821 ops, 1.13 whip), but couldn't beat the sheer number of HRs, RBI, R that Brian's team pounded out over the week.


8.0 Jim's Beaners
4.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Dan had an amazing week in a few things (14 hrs!) but couldn't get it all together, so Jim's good week overall took the prize.

Charts going into the weekend

Here are the week 6 charts going into the weekend:



Best games to watch are Calvin/Todd and Jim/Dan.

Week 5 Recap

Week 5 Recap

Here's what happened this week: I lost for the first time (ok, I got killed), Calvin and Dusty dug themselves a bigger hole, and we had another tie.

Teams of the week were too close to call. So everyone's a winner this week (almost). Best teams this week: Full Flanull, Box Chowers, Utility Men, and FKAKY.

I'm not sure if I'll do this every week, but I thought it would be cool to chart the points over the course of the week. That way we can see who made a dramatic comeback or just a good weekend. It's actually pretty cool. Too bad TQ doesn't do something like this (or give us a nice API to plug in to).



6.0 Andy's Full Flanull
6.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

This was a cool tie. Dan took all of the hitting categories and Andy took the pitching ones. Still, Andy was 1 RBI from winning. Ouch.


7.0 Todd's Heaters
5.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Dusty made a nice late week comeback, but couldn't quite pull it out in the end. Todd led all week and rode his week leading 7 saves in for the win.


10.0 Brian's Box Chowers
2.0 Prothero's Poppers

Jason started off super fast and fizzled after that. Brian had a super week all around hitting .327 / .865 with 50 runs. Meanwhile he also had a 3.10 / 1.140 pitching week with 28 k-bb.


2.5 Calvin's Slumpbusters
9.5 Kelley's FKAKY

Kelley had a great weekend and zoomed past Calvin for the win. Calvin's pitching is killing him. Of course, so was his hitting this week.


8.5 Matt's Utility Men
3.5 Jim's Beaners

Jim had a great pitching week, but so did Matt. Plus, Matt's hitting week was very good. This was much closer all week than the final tally.

Week 5 - Worthless of the Week

This weeks award goes to someone who has a bounty on his head for hitting Prince Fielder, this weeks loser is Matt Capps. Cecil Fielder was asked what he thought of the pitch that nailed his son and was quoted "I be going ta smoke him, an' dem eat him, git in muh ma (expletive) belly this (expletive)" Those are some strange remarks, thanks Cecil. (For the rated R version of his comment, add a word starting with the letter F for the first one, and the letter S for the second.)

Matt Capps - Pickle Weasels
3 G's, 1.2 IP, 16.20 ERA, 2.40 Whip and 10 game suspension.

Notheworthy:
Matt Cain - Heaters
1 G, 3.0 IP, 21 ERA, 4 Whip, and -2 K-BB's.

Andruw Jones - Box Chowers
1 for 21, .048 Avg, .248 OPS. (enough said)

Previous Losers:
Trevor Hoffman - Utility Men (Week 4)
Brett Myers - Full Flanull (Week 3)
Zach Duke - Utility Men (Week 2)
Jorge Julio - Pickle Weasels (Week 1)
Brad Lidge - Box Chowers (Week 1)

Week 5 - Pitcher of the Week

This week's pitcher of the week is provided by The Cream and the Clear lite, 100% satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

This week I was threatened, they shall remain nameless, that if I didn't pick Brad Penny for pitcher of the week that all my future selections would be protested for ever. I believed I cracked under his pressure, here is this weeks pitcher of the week.

Brad Penny - Full Flanull
2 G's, 1 W, 13 IP, 0.00 ERA, 0.92 Whip, 14 K-BB.

Noteworthy:
Francisco Cordero - Full Flanull
4 G's, 3 Sv's, 3.1 IP, 0.00 ERA, 0.00 Whip, 4 K-BB.

Bret Myers - Full Flanull
3 G's, 2 Sv's, 2.2 IP, 0.00 ERA, 0.75 Whip, 2 K-BB.

Previous Winners:
Jake Peavy - FKAky (Week 4)
Cole Hamels - Beaners (Week 3)
Brad Penny - Full Flannel (Week 2)
Ted Lilly - Diggleturds - (Week 1)

Week 5 - Hitter of the Week

This weeks hitter of the week is sponsored by Big Papi's steroid shakes. Available in three distinct flavors, enlarged testes, big header, and chocolate. Offer vaild in the Dominican Republic only.....hmmm...steroids in a shake. (If you don't know what I am talking about check out Big Papis's article at ESPN.com.)

This weeks winner is the Prince of Fielder.
Prince Fielder - Utility Men
3 Hr's, 11 Rbi's, 6 R's, .360 Avg, 1.187 OPS. (also helped pay off part of his fathers huge gambling debt)

Noteworthy:
Shane Victorino - Box Chowers
1 Hr, 5 Rbi's, 7 R's, 6 Sb's, .417 Avg, 1.023 OPS. (One more homerun and Shane would have taken this weeks award. )

JJ Hardy - Box Chowers
2 Hrs, 9 Rbi's, 8 R's, .536 Avg, 1.424 OPS. (This guy is on fire, someone bring him back to reality)

Adam Dunn - Full Flanull
3 Hr's 7 Rbi's, 8 R's, 1 Sb, .296 Avg, 1.147 OPS. (only struck out 9 times though)

Ken Griffey Jr - Heaters
3 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 5 R's, 1 Sb, .444 Avg, 1.346 OPS. (wrestling with kids on yacht - 0)

Alex Gonzalez - Beaners
4 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 6 R's, .241 Avg, 1.037 OPS. (almost had more homeruns this week then the past two years combined, 5).

Benji Molina - Poppers
2 Hrs, 8 Rbi's, 3 R's, .500 Avg, 1.374 OPS. (20 atbats, really one great game but still enough to get noteworthy status)

Previous Winners:
Alex Gonzalez - Heaters (Week 4)
JJ Hardy - Box Chowers (Week 3)
Rickie Weeks - FKAky (Week 2)
Miguel Cabrera - Poppers (Week 1)

April Transaction Totals

Here are the totals as of April of the money spent on transactions so far.


Andy's Full Flanull - $6.00
Brian's Box Chowers - $9.00
Calvin's Slumpbusters - $9.00
Dustin's Diggleturb - $12.00
Jim's Beaners - $15.00
Kelley's FKAKY - $9.00
Matt's Utility Men - $6.00
Prothero's Poppers - $6.00
Todd's Heaters - $12.00
Dan's Pickle Weasles - $0.00

Worthless of the Week

This week's worthless of the week goes to Trevor Hoffman of the Utility Men. Even though he saved two games he got worked on Trevor Hoffman bobble head night. He ended up with a 20.25 ERA, 2 Loses and a WHIP of 2.25. He had a two game stretch where he gave up 6 ER's in 1.3 innings pitched too. That is an ERA of over 40 over those two outings.

Noteworthy:
Bob Wickman - Poppers
16.87 ERA. 4.50 WHIP, 2.2 IP.

Carlos Delgado - Slumpbusters
.091 Avg, .258 OPS, 2 hits in 22 ab's

Previous Worthless:
Brett Myers - Full Flanull (Week 3)
Zach Duke - Utility Men (Week 2)
Jorge Julio - Pickle Weasels (Week 1)
Brad Lidge - Box Chowers (Week 1)

Week 4 - Pitcher (Hancock) of the Week

I am thinking about renaming the Pitcher of the Week to the Hancock of the Week. This is in memory of Josh Hancock. Hopefully this isnt an objection to this. There were a lot of outstanding performances this past week but I am only going to mention two. If your feelings are hurt to bad.

This weeks winner is a dual winner between Jake Peavy and Jeff Suppan.

Jake Peavy - FKAky
2 G's, 14 IP, 1 W, 1.93 Era, 0.93 Whip, 21 K- BB (26 total K's).
Peavy stroke out nine consective batters in a row in his first game this past week. He ended up with a total of 16 in 7 innings. He followed that up by striking out 10 in his next outing. He almost averaged 2 strikeouts per inning last week. CRAZY INSANE! He even had a better ratio of K-BB's then half the other team's in our league.

Jeff Suppan - Box Chowers
2 G's, 17 IP, 2 W's, 0.53 ERA, 1.06 Whip, 6 K-BB
Didn't the Box Chowers get Suppan for a buck??? That is a nice dollar menu item.

Noteworthy:
(insert your game changing performance here)

Previous Winners:
Cole Hamels - Beaners (Week 3)
Brad Penny - Full Flannel (Week 2)
Ted Lilly - Diggleturds - (Week 1)

Week 4 - Hitter of the Week

I am going to start breaking up the Hitter of the week and Pitcher of the week awards to make it easier to read.

This week winner is Alex Gonzalez. Once you compare his stats against everyone else for the past week it is hard not to give it to him.

Alex Gonzalez - Beaners
3 Hr's, 6 Rbi's, 9 R's, .520 Avg, and 1.578 OPS.
Dang...quite impressive

Noteworthy:
Troy Tulowitzki (it took me four times to figure out how to spell his name) - Pickle Weasels
2 Hr's, 2 Triples, 6 Rbi's, 5 R's, .360 Avg, and 1.227 OPS
He also had an unassisted triple play last week which he didn't believe that he done it and that is why he was seen retouching second and then throwing to first. Quite funny if you got to witness it.

Barry Bonds - FKAky
2 Hr's, 5 Rbi's, 5 R's, .385 Avg, 1.538 OPS, (and maybe the most impressive stat) 12 BB's and 7 IBB's. Teams are starting to fear Barry. He is at 742 total homeruns for his career just in case you weren't aware.

Stephen Drew - Heaters
1 Hr, 7 Rbi's, 4 R's, .385 Avg, and 1.061 OPS
He had some clutch hits last week.

Andrew Jones - Box Chowers
2 Hr's, 8 Rbi's, 4 R's, .318 Avg, 1.110 OPS.

Previous Winners:
JJ Hardy - Box Chowers (Week 3)
Rickie Weeks - FKAky (Week 2)
Miguel Cabrera - Poppers (Week 1)

REEL BASEBALL

From the NYTimes:

REEL BASEBALL: 1899-1926

I know about as much about baseball as I do about quantum physics, but I found much of the material in this two disc-set, recently released by Kino, absolutely fascinating. Cinephiles who reflexively avoid sports movies (not the most distinguished of genres) will find “Reel Baseball: 1899-1926” a thinly disguised attempt to smuggle some lesser-known early films onto the DVD market. Baseball fans will be delighted by the dramatic presence of a young, slim Babe Ruth, playing an imaginary version of himself in the 1920 feature “Headin’ Home,” and by the great New York Giants manager John McGraw, playing himself in an excerpt from the 1917 Edison feature “One Touch of Nature.”

More here: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/01/movies/homevideo/01dvd.html

Week 4 Recap

Week 4 featured the first major match-up of the season when the two remaining unbeatens, Andy and Jason, faced off. In other news, Dustin nearly completed a comeback against Jim for the win, but had to settle for the tie as he gets some points.

TEAM OF THE WEEK

Prothero's Poppers.

Jason's team had the best totals in 5 categories this week. They would have beaten every other team this week.



4.5 Andy's Full Flanull
7.5 Prothero's Poppers

The matchup started off heated, but the Poppers simply wore the Full Flanull down as the week went on. It's tough to beat the team of the week.


7.0 Todd's Heaters
5.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels

Todd squeaked by on his pitching this week in a very close week.


6.0 Jim's Beaners
6.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Dusty was hoping for his first win this week, but had to settle for his first tie. I thought he was destined for another L after Monday's pitching performance, but somehow he pulled it out.


2.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
10.0 Brian's Box Chowers

Brain flexed his pitching muscles and swept pitching. Unfortunately, Calvin is still mired in a hitting slump, so he got killed this week. Time for a slumpbuster Kuo!


5.5 Matt's Utility Men
6.5 Kelley's FKAKY

Kelley overcame being last in the league for the week in 2 categories to pull out a win against the Utility Men. Matt had a decent week. Just a few more RBI and he would have had at least a tie.

Grease is the Word!

Some of you might be familiar with Greasemonkey, which lets you take javascript and have it applied to whatever page you want. Inspired by Jason, I wrenched up a script to automatically show the actual score right on the TQ Results page, like the good ol' days. While I was in there, I replaced the clutch... no, wait, that was John & Phil's suburu, no, while I was in there, I made it so that in each category, the better score is green and ties are blue. Also, for each matchup, the winning team name is bold. Gives a quick picture of what's going on.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Use Firefox
   
2. Go to Greasemonkey and click the Install Now button.
   
3. Restart your browser
   
4. Find the Greasemonkey script here: http://groups.google.com/group/Beaver-Roto-League/web/TQGameScore.user.js
   
5. When you click on the above, if all went well so far it should say, hey, that's a grease monkey script and give you an option to install it
   
6. After that, whenever you go to the summary results page it should show 7.5 - 4.5 or whatever instead of the lame 1 - 0
   
7. Let me know if it works!
   

Needless to say, it's pretty much of a hack job, and totally dependent on TQ not changing their page layout, etc. If they do, lord only knows what the page will look like after being greased.

SO, IF THINGS GO WRONG:

• There should now be a Greasemonkey selection from the Firefox tools menu. Go to "Manage User Scripts..." and disable or uninstall the TQGameScore script. Reload the results page.
  
• Or, click on the little Monkey face (bottom right on Firefox status bar) to disable Greasemonkey. Reload the results page.

Here's the before and after:

Huge matchup with the Full Flanal for the Poppers

The Poppers have the biggest matchup of the early season as they take on the only other 3-0 team in the league in the Full Flanal.

It's starting off quick for both teams in the first day. Both teams are hitting big and barely scraping by with their pitching.

The Big Unit is back and put up a sorry ass performance in game 1: 5.0 IP, 6 ER, 2.00 WHIP. At least he got me 3 K-BB.

Meanwhile, Kelly Johnson is looking like a nice keeper for next season. He's hitting like .500 over the last 10 days or so and already has 5 HRs on the season. Between him, Matt Holliday and Hanley Ramirez the Poppers are rollin!


And now a moment of silence for Mark Prior......


...BTW, who didn't see that coming?

And how does Jimmy Rollins have 8 HRs and Ryan Howard has 3 HRs?

PoW Week 3

Here are the players of the week for week 3, voted on by me!

Hitter:

J.J. Hardy (Box Chowers) He was the main reason for Brian pulling out a tie this week.
5 HR, 6 runs, 10 rbi, .290 ba

Honorable mention:

Carlos Beltran (FKAKY)
2 HR, 8 runs, 9 rbi, .424 ba

Moises Alou (Diggleturbs)
2 HR, 8 runs, 7 rbi, .520 ba

Alex Rodriguez
7 HR, 13 runs, 16 rbi, .438 ba


Pitcher:

Cole Hamels (Beaners)
9 IP, 13 k -bb, 1.00 era, 1 W

Honorable Mention

Francisco Cordero (Full Flanull)
4 IP, 3 k -bb, 0.0 era, 3 saves

Bob Wickman(Poppers)
3 IP, 1k -bb, 0.0 era, 3 saves

Tim Hudson(Pickle Weasels)
8 IP, 1k -bb, 0.0 era, 1 W

Week 3 Results

Week 3:


7.0 Andy's Full Flanull
5.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

Andy rode a sweet hitting week (+.300 ave) and split the pitching categories to pull out the close win.


7.5 Matt's Utility Men
4.5 Todd's Heaters

Matt pulled this win out...barely. Some big totals here. Both teams had 9 SBs, over 60 IP, and Matt had 10 HRs and 37 K-BB.


4.0 Dan's Pickle Weasels
8.0 Prothero's Poppers

Jason dominated hitting with a huge week despite Dan's big hitters.


5.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
7.0 Jim's Beaners

Calvin lost this one in the pitching area. 6.1 ERA and 1.77 WHIP will do that to you.


6.0 Brian's Box Chowers
6.0 Kelley's FKAKY

They deserved to tie this one. Both teams had monster weeks. 10HRs each, over 5 W, and lots or R & RBI.

Weekend standings update

I wanted an easier way to calculate the points my team was up/down, so I created a spreadsheet connected to the "Previous Results" page on the TQStats site. You should be able to use the spreadsheet if you have Excel 2003 or greater. It's in the "Files" section of the Google Group. The file is here. You can refresh the data automatically by pressing the "Refresh All" on the External Data toolbar


Points going in to Sunday:

OVERALL
7.0 Andy's Full Flanull
5.0 Dustin's Diggleturb

4.5 Matt's Utility Men
7.5 Todd's Heaters

2.5 Dan's Pickle Weasels
9.5 Prothero's Poppers

4.0 Calvin's Slumpbusters
8.0 Jim's Beaners

7.0 Brian's Box Chowers
5.0 Kelley's FKAKY