Fantasy Nerdfest: July 2010

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Freeze-Frame! Now Freeze!

This week’s music: Freeze Frame by J. Geils Band – Because I’d like the scoring to freeze

My Take:

Average Ranks For the Week

	Batters	Pitchers
Hello and BaZambo	515	310
Basement Dwellers	506	366
BeanBallers	323	489
Monroe Struts	416	435

Last Week’s Batting Hotties: (according to Yahoo!)
Hello and BaZambo: Aramis Ramirez-3B (#4 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
9/25	5	4	10	0	.360	1.233

Basement Dwellers: Mark Teixeira –1B (#2 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
5/10	6	1	2	1	.500	1.715

BeanBallers: Rickie Weeks - 2B (#9 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
7/27	7	3	7	1	.259	1.098

Monroe Struts: Jose Bautista – 3B, OF (#22 for the week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
10/30	3	2	9	1	.333	.988

Free Agent: Luke Scott– 1B, OF (#1 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
13/27	6	4	8	0	.481	1.537

Last Week’s Batting Notties:
Hello and BaZambo: #1441 Miguel Olivo -C (1/15, 0R, 0HR, 0RBI, 1SB, .067, .192)
Basement Dwellers: #1501 Brandon Phillips -2B (3/25, 1R, 0HR, 0RBI, 0SB, .120, .385)
BeanBallers: #1024 Marlon Byrd-OF (5/24, 1R, 0HR, 2RBI, 0SB, .208, .571)
Monroe Struts: #1488 David Wright-3B (5/29, 0R, 0HR, 1RBI, 0SB, .172, .460)

Last Week’s Pitching Hotties:
Hello and BaZambo: Brian Wilson -RP(#12)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
14	0	4	0.00	0.92	12.46	0

Basement Dwellers: Neftali Feliz-RP (#39)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
3.2	0	4	2.45	0.82	7.36	0

BeanBallers: Tim Hudson –SP (#70)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
7.0	1	0	0.00	0.71	5.14	1

Monroe Struts: John Axford-RP (#26)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
4.2	1	3	1.93	1.07	9.64	1

Free Agent: Johnny Cueto –SP (#19)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
14.0	2	0	1.29	.093	6.43	2

Last Week’s Pitching Notties:
Hello and BaZambo: #1512 Tim Lincecum-SP (12.2IP, 0W, 0SV, 4.97 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 4.97 K/9, 1QS)
Basement Dwellers: #1509 Matt Garza-SP (6.1IP, 0W, 0SV, 9.95 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 7.11 K/9, 0QS)
BeanBallers: #1542 Ubaldo Jimenez-SP (7.1IP, 0W, 0SV, 12.27ERA, 2.45WHIP, 8.59 K/9, 0QS)
Monroe Struts: #1421 Jonathon Broxton-RP (2.1IP, 0W, 0SV, 11.57 ERA, 2.14WHIP, 7.71 K/9, 0QS)

Graph Time!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Chug-a-Lug

This week’s music: In honor of the upcoming lake weekend, Chug-A-Lug by Roger Miller

My Take: Post All Star Game these teams, especially pitchers were dogs. In trying to calculate weekly average ranks, I decided I would leave out players on the DL and who didn’t post any stats. That complicated the mess this week. Each team had several players, especially pitchers, who haven’t played because of the All Star Break. That said, pitching this week was Horrid, yes, capital “H” Horrid. Greg’s team “pitched” the best and only averaged a ranking of 604. When you consider that in the weeks that I’ve calculated average, only two teams have been above 600 for the week, this week’s pitching effort truly stands out as terrible.

Batting was in line with where it has been in the past. Nick’s team definitely slowed down. Dad had a great week for batting stats, leading weekly totals and showing improvement in every category except steals. Are the BeanBallers gearing up for a second half run?

This may or may not come back, I can’t really find any easy way to do this that is readable so we’ll see. This chart just shows the change from last week’s totals to this week’s total. I don’t know if it’s useful, but coupled with the graphs, it may give you idea of what is happening in each category or it may just be rubbish. Who knows?

Average Ranks For the Week

	Batters	Pitchers
Hello and BaZambo	609	654
Basement Dwellers	305	604
BeanBallers	256	745
Monroe Struts	438	678

Last Week’s Batting Hotties: (according to Yahoo!)
Hello and BaZambo: Robinson Cano– 2B (#78 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
4/12	3	1	3	0	.333	1.218

Basement Dwellers: Chase Headley-3B,OF (#3 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
5/10	6	1	2	1	.500	1.715

BeanBallers: Rickie Weeks - 2B (#4 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
7/17	5	2	4	0	.412	1.298

Monroe Struts: Ryan Howard-1B (#1 for the week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
6/15	4	4	8	0	.400	1.674

Free Agent: Carlos Pena– 1B (#5 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
6/13	3	2	6	0	.462	1.577

Last Week’s Batting Notties:
Hello and BaZambo: #1450 Hanley Ramirez-SS (2/10, 0R, 0HR, 0RBI, 0SB, .200, .533)
Basement Dwellers: #1370 Magglio Ordonez-OF (3/15, 1R, 0HR, 1RBI, 0SB, .200, .627)
BeanBallers: #1313 Denard Span-OF (4/18, 1R, 0HR, 2RBI, 0SB, .222, .485)
Monroe Struts: #1408 Ichiro Suzuki-OF (2/15, 0R, 0HR, 3RBI, 0SB, .133, .435)

Last Week’s Pitching Hotties:
Hello and BaZambo: Tim Lincecum-SP (#12)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
9.0	1	0	0.00	0.78	5.00	1

Basement Dwellers: Chris Carpenter-SP (#13)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
8.0	1	0	1.12	0.50	6.75	1

BeanBallers: Josh Johnson-SP (#33)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
6.0	1	0	0.00	1.17	10.50	1

Monroe Struts: Adam Wainwright-SP (#57)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
6.0	1	0	0.00	1.00	4.50	1

Free Agent: Barry Zito-SP (#2)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
8.0	1	0	0.00	0.50	11.25	1

Last Week’s Pitching Notties:
Hello and BaZambo: #1535 David Price-SP (5.0IP, 0W, 0SV, 12.60 ERA, 2.20 WHIP, 5.40 K/9, 0QS)
Basement Dwellers: #1525 Clayton Kershaw-SP (4.1IP, 0W, 0SV, 8.31 ERA, 2.54 WHIP, 2.08 K/9, 0QS)
BeanBallers: #1523 Tim Hudson-SP (6.2IP, 0W, 0SV, 8.10ERA, 1.50WHIP, 2.70 K/9, 0QS)
Monroe Struts: #1500 Jonathon Broxton-RP (1.1IP, 0W, 0SV, 13.50 ERA, 4.50WHIP, 0.00 K/9, 0QS)

Graph Time!

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

We’re Back

This week’s music: We’re Coming Back by Cock Sparrer
                                   We’re Back by Bobby Brown
                                   We’re Back by In-Equality
                                   Baby Got Back by Sir Mix a Lot

My Take: Good God, What was I thinking when I started this thing!?

There aren’t really any trends that stand out this week. Greg scored 46 RBI’s and 13 HR’s this week, most for a week this season, but his average and OPS both dropped. Nick saw the biggest gain in OPS and average and steals, but had fewest HR’s and RBI’s.

There weren’t really any changes in this week's pitching. Everyone’s ERA (but Greg) and WHIP are continuing to go down. Really there isn’t anything exciting to report. Some weirdness though, Matt Garza (Basement Dwellers) scored a win, a save, and a quality start in 6.2 innings, don’t see that very often.

These stats are going to be skewed because I’m not pulling the data until Wednesday instead of Monday. Ok, I’m not sure how Yahoo! decides player rankings because Chase Utley who didn’t play because he’s on the DL was better than 2 of players who actually played.

Average Ranks For the Week

	Batters	Pitchers
Hello and BaZambo	214	94
Basement Dwellers	501	941
BeanBallers	428	271
Monroe Struts	473	350

Last Week’s Batting Hotties: (according to Yahoo!)
Hello and BaZambo: Carlos Gonzalez – OF (#14 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
10/21	5	2	5	0	.476	1.357

Basement Dwellers: Matt Holliday-OF (#4 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
7/21	6	4	9	0	.33	1.316

BeanBallers: Carlos Quentin-OF (#5 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
5/10	5	4	8	0	.500	2.283

Monroe Struts: Carl Crawford (#3 for the week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
7/20	6	3	7	2	.350	1.259

Free Agent: Buster Posey – C, 1B (#1 for the Week)

H/AB	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS
12/20	7	4	12	0	.600	2.002

Last Week’s Batting Notties:
Hello and BaZambo: # 924 Justin Morneau (2/4, 0R, 0HR, 0RBI, 0SB, .500, 1.000)
Basement Dwellers: #1374 BIG Jorge Posada-C (4/17, 0R, 0HR, 1RBI, 0SB, .235, .644)
BeanBallers: #1438 Mike Aviles-2B, SS (0/9, 0R, 0HR, 1RBI, 0SB, .000, .167)
Monroe Struts: #1393 Joe Mauer-C (2/15, 2R, 0HR, 0RBI, 0SB, .133, .321)

Last Week’s Pitching Hotties:
Hello and BaZambo: Roy Halladay-SP (#28)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
9.0	0	0	0.00	0.67	9.00	1

Basement Dwellers: Matt Garza–SP (#21)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
6.2	1	1	0.00	.060	2.70	1

BeanBallers: Josh Johnson-SP (#22)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
8.0	1	0	0.00	0.88	9.00	1

Monroe Struts: Billy Wagner-RP (#23)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
3.0	0	2	0.00	0.00	9.00	0

Free Agent: John Danks-SP (#7)

IP	W	SV	ERA	WHIP	K/9	QS
9.0	1	0	0.00	0.22	7.00	1

Last Week’s Pitching Notties:
Hello and BaZambo: #281 Rafael Soriano-RP (1.0IP, 0W, 0SV, 0.00 ERA, 0.00 WHIP, 0.00 K/9, 0QS)
Basement Dwellers: #1491 Chris Carpenter-SP (6.0IP, 0W, 0SV, 6.00 ERA, 1.83 WHIP, 4.50 K/9, 0QS)
BeanBallers: #1426 Dan Haren-SP (6.2IP, 0W, 0SV, 4.05ERA, 1.80WHIP, 8.10 K/9, 1QS)
Monroe Struts: #1525 Mike Pelfrey-SP (4.0IP,0W, 0SV, 9.00 ERA, 3.75WHIP, 4.50 K/9, 0QS)

Graph Time!