Friday, August 17, 2007

Offerman's Bat

Welcome to another edition of the Friday Follies. While most 'happening' persons are using their Friday for less noble causes, I will sit and run my calculator and look at numbers. And who cares. I enjoy it.



Team
Points
Bats
Slot
Arms
Start
Week
1.
Mudville Nine 170108595
6.97
8415
25.59
891
2.
The Congrega 167918186
6.63
8605
26.17
970
3.
Sonic Death M 167228311
6.74
8411
25.58
934
4.
EVIL EMPIRE 166788581
6.95
8097
24.62
850
5.
Wizzard of Oz 166158422
6.83
8192
24.91
831
6.
Bru Cru 161828217
6.66
7965
24.22
813
7.
Banana Slugs 158347290
5.91
8544
25.98
889
8.
Little Leaguer 156578029
6.51
7628
23.19
788
9.
Florida Pirates 155778213
6.66
7364
22.39
750
10.
Mac & Zack A
148357885
6.39
6950
21.13
833
11.
Columbus Mad
143117324
5.93
6987
21.25
603
12.
Rosies Angels 139727155
5.80
6817
20.73
702

I came out on top with 970. But how can I have TWO shutouts and still not break 1000? Pathetic. Columbus had the worst week. Bru is falling back. He is 380 back with less than a month and a half to go. He has a shot but ... This isn't 1968 and ESPN's show isn't called 'The Brunx is burning'. So that leaves us with 5. They are withing 270 points. Not insurmountable. Although Ozzie is going to have to pick up the pace or he will be the next one mercilessly tossed out of the party.

Bats for the week were pretty steady. Movement at this point will be minimal. I think Mud won this award with an advance of .03. Wow. His HUGE jump propelled him into first place over Evil. Those two are a full .1 over Ozzie and He is almost a full .1 over Sonic. They are significantly ahead of us.

I have taken the lead on 'arms'. In fact my two shutouts spiked my line up .35. By far the biggest gain. While we were generally up, only Sonic and I had any significant gain. I have decided that we should give awards for leading a particular stat. Maybe the 'Hitting Instructor' award for who has the highest 'slot' number and um.. 'Pitching Coach' for the guy who takes the 'Start' category. I would take great satisfaction in winning the 'Start'. My 'rotation' has almost completely turned over from last year. Burnett and Webb are the only two starters I had last year. O wait, I had Pettitte too. Putz was on there as well. So I had a turnover of 66%

I got Buchholz today!!!! Now he hasn't been as great this year but earlier I was looking over where I was in the waiver wire and who might be coming up this year that I would have a chance of getting. Buchholz was the guy I had my sights set on (is that sites or sights?). I ended up being at #2 but Mud didn't put a claim in. yay. Looks like he had a decent outing today.

Well we are getting close to the end. Five guys still in the hunt. Will Mud just continue to cruise along keeping us all at bay? Or will a dark horse shoot out of the pack and surprise us all. Man every start is crucial. Every points gained or lost because they were sitting on your bench is a tragedy. (I bet Mudville has lost more points on his bench than the next three combined). These are the times when good luck charms are tossed aside for desperate and fervent prayer!

P.S. Drop a line. I always intended for these posts to be the instigation for conversation. This wasn't intended to be a one man show. Talk smack. Commiserate. Make bold predictions. Just say something!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Well we are getting down to the wire. I boldly predict that Clemens will not carry Mudville to the title. A dark horse will rise out of the mists !!! It will be either Congregationals or the Death Monkees that will pull it out on the final day !!!! While Mudville slides to 3rd!!!!

Anonymous said...

Ha, I want whatever Gary is on-or maybe I don't!? Don't count the Ozz out just yet. I'm looking at GameChannel(9:57pm)and I just leap-frogged Monkees and Evil and the Wizzards are now in third! I've been watching Webb completely master the Braves. 42 straight scoreless innings!!!! WOW-not bad to have on your fantasy team right now when you are in the hunt for the title. It is definetely still open for the taking, although it seems Mud has dominated most of the year, Congregationals are only fifty points back as of now. I know what mean about the points sitting on the bench thing. This year has been rough for me in picking my batting lineup. I have left so many points on the bench I could cry-I just did...I feel better...not really...I just cried again :(

ConGregation said...

Lol.

If I actually end up winning this year, I will it completely to Webb and this streak. Three shutouts in a row!!!! I feel like I won the fantasy lottery. I remember trading Abreu for Webb... and I didn't even offer it.

Even though I had a great night my lack of attention cost me two slots. sigh.

Anonymous said...

Screw all of you! I went to bed early last night and was happily in 1st enjoying over a hundred point lead. Flash to this morning, where from my morning stupor I awoke to the smell of applejuice-urnine wafting down the hall and the stench of my perfomance from last nights fantasy effort.
"I came through and I shall return." Douglas MacArthur (avid fantasy bb pioneer) Behind the Ricket er Rocket I'll ride back to first!

-Mud

ConGregation said...

It is more of a case of me just keeping your seat warm.

So if you are MacArthur, does that make me the Death March Japs? um. I cannot think of anything clever to say to that.