Quasi-weekly update - 2012.

[Oz-iz-God]

There have been times that I've been curious how the league has gone over the course of a season or even a month or two. We really don't have a good way to do that, so I figured I'd give this a try. I'll try to get one of these in here every week or so (probably when I do a lineup setting for my weekly league).

EDIT:

Well crap, this is a subforum so we can't post images. RBF - any way we can get the settings for our subforum changed so we can just put a screen capture of the standings?

[Wainwrightimus III]

I don't have an answer to your problem but I really like the idea. I've been curious what the monthly splits have been for various places over the past few seasons.

This would be a good way to do that.

[Redbirdfan1]

I can not change it. Our 2 site mods would have to change it.

[LOB]

This years closers have been crazy. You think you have one and then you don't and then you do, then you might.

[Redbirdfan1]

I knew I had no chance at the newest quasi-closer for the Jays when I had very limited access WED. Of course he was snapped up before noon that day.

[Oz-iz-God]

I had an SP/RP for 36 glorious hours. In that time he was brought in with 2 men on in the 8th inning for an attempted 6 inning save, gave up 0 ER and still took a BS.

Now he's getting an MRI and 24 hours later the news isn't out yet (which is never a good thing).

Closers suck.

[Redbirdfan1]

Sale is starting Saturday....the white sox have no idea how to run their BP right now or even a guy like Sale.

[LOB]

Sale is starting Saturday....the white sox have no idea how to run their BP right now or even a guy like Sale.

Ventura is no Matheny

[Redbirdfan1]

I fully expect the sox to find another random guy to close. How bout Nate jones? Anyone but the guy who shoulda had the job out of ST.

[LOB]

I fully expect the sox to find another random guy to close. How bout Nate jones? Anyone but the guy who shoulda had the job out of ST.

I hear they are now going with a committee, between 3 guys. Crap, it's like having a running back in a Shanahan offense.

[Redbirdfan1]

I hear they are now going with a committee, between 3 guys. Crap, it's like having a running back in a Shanahan offense.

This makes no ****ing sense to me. First he goes and names a rookie lefty that nobody considered a closer the closer. He failed like everyone predicted. Then he's trying to put Sale into the role..all the while the best guy for the job is seemingly hated by ventura. Why does he hate Reed so much? Unbelievable. He doing the best he can to outsmart himself. You can name a no name guy a closer but not Reed when he's been the best option all along??? **** you Robin! you dick.

[Redbirdfan1]

So I must have jinxed the poor SOB. 6 runs in like .1 IP today I think.

[Oz-iz-God]

I sent an Email to HC in his moderator gear but got no response. Guess I'll have to deal with typing it in.

Here is last week's split:

Tennessee Jeds (WW):______1659
Sonic Underachievers:_______1640
Guinea Pirates (Oz):_________1630
Smitty's Lumber Co:_________1582
GreenEggs & HAMilton(Row): 1559
The Flying Shirtli (Shirtless): 1531
High Cards Cards:__________1510
Hutch's Hedgehogs:_________1480
Marmol's Marmots (LOB):_____1474
Jobu Needs a Refill:_________1355

[Oz-iz-God]

I sent an Email to HC in his moderator gear but got no response. Guess I'll have to deal with typing it in.

Here is last week's split:

Tennessee Jeds (WW):______1659
Sonic Underachievers:_______1640
Guinea Pirates (Oz):_________1630
Smitty's Lumber Co:_________1582
GreenEggs & HAMilton(Row): 1559
The Flying Shirtli (Shirtless): 1531
High Cards Cards:__________1510
Hutch's Hedgehogs:_________1480
Marmol's Marmots (LOB):_____1474
Jobu Needs a Refill:_________1355

And here are this week's splits; first column total points, 2nd column being points change from last split and third being points back:

Standings as of Monday, May 14 (week 7)

1.               Guinea Pirates          2001    371     -       
2.              Tennessee Jeds          1994    335     8       
3.              Sonic Underachievers    1920    280     81       
4.              GreenEggs & HAMilton        1841    282     160     
5.              Smitty`s Lumber Co.     1824    242     177      
6.              High Cards Cards        1753    243     248
7.              Hutchs Hedgehogs        1742    262     259      
8.              Marmol's Marmots        1722    248     279      
9.              The Flying Shirtli      1707    177     294     
10.             Jobu Needs A Refill     1658    303     343

I'm just figuring out that code tag, so bear with me. Ultimately I may be too lazy to do this every week but such is life - you'll survive without it.

[riskrow]

Well done Oz!


...row

[high card]

I sent an Email to HC in his moderator gear but got no response. Guess I'll have to deal with typing it in.

Here is last week's split:

Tennessee Jeds (WW):______1659
Sonic Underachievers:_______1640
Guinea Pirates (Oz):_________1630
Smitty's Lumber Co:_________1582
GreenEggs & HAMilton(Row): 1559
The Flying Shirtli (Shirtless): 1531
High Cards Cards:__________1510
Hutch's Hedgehogs:_________1480
Marmol's Marmots (LOB):_____1474
Jobu Needs a Refill:_________1355

Hello Oz,

Sorry I don't check my messages in the mod PM's, if anyone needs to contact me they can through my regular PM's. The only time I sign is as the mod is if I see something I need to address when I am sighned in as HC. So not very often.

With that being said I couldn't help ya anyway, all I can do is make changes to the main board.

Gotta talk to Mike or Scott about the other stuff.

[Oz-iz-God]

I assume Scott is Judge, would Mike be GoCards?

I can never remember who the Mods are these days. In either event, with the coding thing working alright, I can actually put in a real 'split' for the previous week and I think I like that a little better. It just takes a little more time.

I'll worry about it if I get tired of doing the math. Thankya, sir.

[high card]

I assume Scott is Judge, would Mike be GoCards?

I can never remember who the Mods are these days. In either event, with the coding thing working alright, I can actually put in a real 'split' for the previous week and I think I like that a little better. It just takes a little more time.

I'll worry about it if I get tired of doing the math. Thankya, sir.

Actually and Technically I am the only Mod as far as I know. Yes Scott is Judge and Mike is IndianaMIke, they are Administrators. They do Moderate the other boards at times.

[Redbirdfan1]

I want my #1 pick back. Moore looks like shit and Soria broke before I even took him out of the wrapper. bullshit

[Oz-iz-God]

I want my #1 pick back. Moore looks like shit and Soria broke before I even took him out of the wrapper. bullshit

I'll send you Dylan Bundy for Moore.

Last year's next big thing for this year's next big thing...

[Wainwrightimus III]

Shirtless,

You haven't logged onto the Yahoo site for 10 days.

First off, I hope everything is ok.

Second off, are you interested in the trade offer I sent you.

[Oz-iz-God]

Like I said - quasi-weekly

Standings and splits as of 5/24:

1.               Tennessee Jeds          2565    571     -       
2.              Sonic Underachievers    2537    617  28  
3.              Guinea Pirates          2522    521     43              
4.              GreenEggs & HAMilton        2393    552     172             
5.              Smitty`s Lumber Co.     2352    528     213             
6.              Hutchs Hedgehogs        2302    560     263             
7.              McCann's Marmots        2197    475     368             
8.              High Cards Cards        2138    385     427             
9.              Jobu Needs A Refill     2112    454     453             
10.             The Flying Shirtli      2077    370  488

Rankings over the last split period:

Sonic
WW
Hutch
Row
Smitty
Oz
LOB
RBF
HC (damn, tough week)
Shirtless (check out for 2 weeks and that will happen)

[Sonicblast12]

This is cool, I like this.

Wish my innings weren't so high, but at least most starters are healthy right now. A departure from last year when Bartolo Colon was my ace for two months.

[Oz-iz-God]

This is cool, I like this.

Wish my innings weren't so high, but at least most starters are healthy right now. A departure from last year when Bartolo Colon was my ace for two months.

Stop getting saves, dick.

You've doubled me up in SV points and I'm still within spitting distance of you despite having about 70 fewer innings pitched. If you could just quit getting 2 saves every night, I could go ahead and ignore you, figure out how the hell to fix my streaky as hell OF and wobbly SP, then go after WW while waiting for Hutch's team to finally get it's shit together and try to chase us down from the rear (all while wondering how the hell Row's team isn't doing better than it is).

I think my favorite element of it will be the weekly(ish) splits. Every year a team just slowly creeps up on folks and next thing you know someone's moved from 7th to 2nd without anyone really noticing it. I believe you were that guy last season, Hutch is certainly looking to be that guy this season. But no matter who it is, it should be far less of a surprise when we can see how those splits are coming down.

[Sonicblast12]

I was actually dead last after the all-star break last year and climbed to 2nd before slipping behind s.f. on the last day.

[riskrow]

Thanks again Oz for your fine split works here. My SP is hurting me this year, I can't complain about much else though.


...row

[Redbirdfan1]

man if Robertson didn't get hurt I'd have 3 closers! I guess I'll just wait for Hernandez to take over for putz. That time should be nearing...which will help out everyone fighting Sonic.

[Oz-iz-God]

I'll try to ratchet this back towards Mondays again this week...

Standings and Splits as of Tuesday, May 29 and the unofficial beginning of the summer:

1.               Sonic Underachievers    2798    261     -               
2.              Guinea Pirates          2768    246     30              
3.              Tennessee Jeds          2754    189     44              
4.              GreenEggs & HAMilton        2746    353  52          
5.              Smitty`s Lumber Co.     2603    251     195             
6.              Hutchs Hedgehogs        2583    283     215             
7.              McCann's Marmots        2483    286     315             
8.              High Cards Cards        2439    301     359             
9.              Jobu Needs A Refill     2284    172  514                 
10.             The Flying Shirtli      2264    187     534

Rankings over the split period:

Row (yes, I had to recalculate to make sure it wasn't a typo; nice week sir)
HC
LOB
Hutch
Sonic
Smitty
Oz
WW
Shirtless
RBF

Shirtless has now not checked in since May 12. It's not a head to head league, so if we leave the team dead, the only thing it does to competitive balance is preclude trades with one team. That's hardly catastrophic. But at some point we probably need to figure out a contingency option.

[LOB]

I was starting to feel better about my chances, then I watch my best pitcher go down with back injury last night. Hope Wainer and Santana's lastest success continues.

[riskrow]

Thanks again Oz for doing these splits on a weekly basis, and thanks for your compliment. You know a blind team like mine gets lucky once a decade, this might be my time.

On shirtless being missing in action, I for one don't like it. And if he continues to be incognito we need to have someone step in and take over. I do hope it is nothing serious that has prohibited him from being around though.


....row

[Hutch Fan]

Shirtless has now not checked in since May 12. It's not a head to head league, so if we leave the team dead, the only thing it does to competitive balance is preclude trades with one team.

The same noob who was lecturing us on how the league should be scored? Next year, you guys should have a rule requiring people to be in the league for 6 months before voting on rule changes.

[Wainwrightimus III]

[QUOTE=Hutch Fan;949072]The same noob who was lecturing us on how the league should be scored? Next year, you guys should have a rule requiring people to be in the league for 6 months before voting on rule changes.[/QUOT
That's exactly what I said at the time of his lecturing. Its frustrating to have someone blatantly check out. I say give him to the all-star break.

The general caveats related to him being away for a serious reason obviously apply.

[Redbirdfan1]

not sure what his deal is. I sent him a PM which he never confirmed receipt but he did sign onto the board a day later w/o replying or confirming.

[LOB]

Somebody shoot me. I had one closer left and he was getting points...

[Oz-iz-God]

And we're back to Mondays. As of approximately 1/3 of the way through the season, here we are:

1.               Guinea Pirates          3128    360  -           
2.              GreenEggs & HAMilton        3071    325     57              
3.              Sonic Underachievers    3022    224     106             
4.              Tennessee Jeds          2930    176     198             
5.              Smitty`s Lumber Co.     2929    326     199             
6.              Hutchs Hedgehogs        2894    311     234             
7.              High Cards Cards        2757    318     371             
8.              McCann's Marmots        2731    248     397             
9.              Jobu Needs A Refill     2547    263     581             
10.             The Flying Shirtli      2438    174  690

Rankings for the week:

Oz
Smitty
Row
HC
Hutch
RBF
LOB
Sonic
WW
Shirtless

Man, WW took it in the shorts a bit this week. Giving up almost 200 pts to the leaders when you have a pretty good team is a rare thing indeed. HC refuses to die and Hutch just keeps churning. Row with another strong week, just not quite enough to hold the pole (thank you, Chris Sale).

[Redbirdfan1]

hey get a couple closers and look at what happens. No more sitting in the bottom 2 for the splits.

[Oz-iz-God]

Forgot my splits last week - my bad.

Here they are for the week of June 18 (week 12), approximately 40% of the way through the season

1.               Guinea Pirates          3892    764  -           
2.              GreenEggs & HAMilton        3818    747     74              
3.              Sonic Underachievers    3737    715     155             
4.              Smitty`s Lumber Co.     3633    704     259             
5.              Tennessee Jeds          3538    608     354             
6.              Hutchs Hedgehogs        3494    600     398             
7.              High Cards Cards        3398    641     494             
8.              McCann's Marmots        3217    486  675                 
9.              Jobu Needs A Refill     3136    589     756             
10.             Blessed with Grace      2972    534     920

Rankings for the 2 week period:

Oz
Row
Sonic
Smitty
HC
WW
RBF
Hutch
24
LOB

Turns out Shirtless's team was only 1/2 as lousy as the record indicates; all it needed was someone paying attention to move up the splits a little bit, or at least not get blown out of them. The top 4 teams all had a strong split period so it's created a bit of distance there, but nothing a bad week or two won't close up in a hurry (Personally, I'm looking at you, Jason Motte...). LOB had a pretty rough couple of weeks; just one of those seasons it seems.

Merrily we roll along...

[LOB]

This season is what could of been. To think I ended up with Berkmange and Marmol vs guys I could of had.

I wish I could post the Picard face palm on myself.

Screw you Marmol and the Cubs team you play for.

[Oz-iz-God]

This season is what could of been. To think I ended up with Berkmange and Marmol vs guys I could of had.

I wish I could post the Picard face palm on myself.

Screw you Marmol and the Cubs team you play for.

We're still not even on the Billingsley for Shields trade...

@#$%ing move could be the reason I don't win this thing this season and it kept me out of 2nd last year.

It's the gift that keeps on giving...

[LOB]

We're still not even on the Billingsley for Shields trade...

Yeah, you're probably right but Hutch and I are now square. Marmol for the flying Hawaiian. What the hell was I thinking? The guy I could of had, had just had a horrible blown save...I wasn't thinking.

I compounded the horrible deal by trading then depth (Perkins) for Berkmange and then proceed to lose 2 closers to injury/ failure at role. I think I killed my chances right there. Ugh.

[Oz-iz-God]

Yeah, you're probably right but Hutch and I are now square. Marmol for the flying Hawaiian. What the hell was I thinking? The guy I could of had, had just had a horrible blown save...I wasn't thinking.

I compounded the horrible deal by trading then depth (Perkins) for Berkmange and then proceed to lose 2 closers to injury/ failure at role. I think I killed my chances right there. Ugh.

The problem wasn't trading Capps/Perkins, but for selecting Berkman when I offered either Berkman or Beltran.

So instead of Perez and Beltran, you ended up with Marmol and...well nothing, because Berkman's back on my roster now. Yeah - that's a couple of tough calls.

I once gave Sonic Ryan Braun instead of Alex Gordon....oops.

[Oz-iz-God]

Splits for the week of June 25 - week 13 (1 week short of basically halfway).

1.               Guinea Pirates          4320    428     -               
2.              GreenEggs & HAMilton        4240    422     80      
3.              Smitty`s Lumber Co.     3970    337     350     
4.              Sonic Underachievers    3967    230     353     
5.              Hutchs Hedgehogs        3959    465  361         
6.              Tennessee Jeds          3942    404     378     
7.              High Cards Cards        3776    378     544     
8.              McCann's Marmots        3506    289     814     
9.              Jobu Needs A Refill     3342    206     978     
10.             Blessed with Grace      3088    116    1232

Split period ranks:

Hutch
Oz
Row
WW
HC
Smitty
LOB
Sonic
RBF
24

There he is...was waiting for that charge from Hutch. Biting 50 points into the lead without burning any innings buffer is pretty damn impressive. That said - I'll take it. Pro-rate that week over a season and Hutch would put up 12K points. If you can get to 12K Hutch - I'd say you have a pretty good shot....

Only losing 40 points to Hutch last week is almost as encouraging as only gaining 6 on Row is irritating. Dammit, Row - just go away already. And with a massive weekend, WW kept himself on life-support after looking like his slow fade was going to continue.

Speaking of slow-fades, can we just euthanize SF's team? Good lord, what a mess.

Last week 'till the mid-point.

[Oz-iz-God]

And so comes the mathematical halfway point (or so near as to make no difference). It will really be half-way on Wednesday, but I'm trying to keep us on Mondays so the splits remain meaningful and so I can !@#$ around for a few minutes before actually working on Monday mornings.

1.               Guinea Pirates          4794    474  
2.              GreenEggs & HAMilton        4649    409     145     
3.              Sonic Underachievers    4348    381     446     
3.              Hutchs Hedgehogs        4348    389     446     
5.              Smitty`s Lumber Co.     4266    296     528     
6.              Tennessee Jeds          4222    280  572                 
7.              High Cards Cards        4126    350     668     
8.              McCann's Marmots        3801    295     993     
9.              Jobu Needs A Refill     3640    298     1154    
10.             Blessed with Grace      3476    388     1318

Split period ranks:

Oz
Row
Hutch
24 (still wonder how this team would've done with competent mgmt all year)
Sonic
HC
RBF
Smitty
LOB
WW

Man, everytime WW starts to get some traction, he loses it. Much tighter grouping this week than most; a low of 280 appears to be the best we've done and a majority of the league was above 350. I'll be curious to see if the points go up or down as the season progresses. As parks heat up, will the damage done to SPs be offset by the increases in offense production? I tend to think that better pitchers (i.e. the fantasy relevant ones) can lessen the damage caused by heat more than bad pitchers, meanwhile good hitters (again, the fantasy relevant ones) are better able to take advantage of it. On balance, I would think point totals would go up a little over the last 13 weeks.

We shall see.

[riskrow]

Oz, you got even futher ahead on me after that great week you had. I just don't see how anyone is going to catch you.....but I'm sure all will be giving it their all............


...row

[Oz-iz-God]

Oz, you got even futher ahead on me after that great week you had. I just don't see how anyone is going to catch you.....but I'm sure all will be giving it their all............


...row

It's the best offensive half I can remember having (in relation to the league). These guys just spent the entire month of June hitting the ever-living !@#$ out of the ball. I had 2,000 point month without any of my relievers doing a damn thing. Jansen hasn't had a save in 2 weeks.

They offense almost has to regress a bit and I'll have to find a way to get some innings from 5 and 6 in my staff (while hoping that my relievers get more opps and Aceves/Myers lose their jobs). Hutch has been smart with his innings and I've not been able to shake free of you. Sonic always has something in reserve and Smitty seems to have more talent than he's had results thus far.

If the bats have another month like they did in June, I'd be pretty excited about my chances, but there's a hell of a lot of time left and I have a couple of pretty sketchy major contributors (Melky, the walking implosion that is Yu Darvish, Motte's stubborn ass, Beltran's knees, etc...).

[Redbirdfan1]

Oz, you got even futher ahead on me after that great week you had. I just don't see how anyone is going to catch you.....but I'm sure all will be giving it their all............


...row

you are easily in striking distance by just looking at the numbers. Lots of time left.

[Wainwrightimus III]

My team fell off a f#%@ing cliff halfway through May.

Gotta do something to pull myself out of this slide.

[Oz-iz-God]

And the splits as of the 'unofficial' halfway point. As of the AS Break, the numbers are:

1.               Guinea Pirates          5182    388     -               
2.              GreenEggs & HAMilton        4984    335     198     
3.              Hutchs Hedgehogs        4696    348     486     
4.              Sonic Underachievers    4646    298  536         
5.              Smitty`s Lumber Co.     4585    319     597     
6.              Tennessee Jeds          4566    344     616     
7.              High Cards Cards        4526    400  656         
8.              McCann's Marmots        4104    303     1078    
9.              Jobu Needs A Refill     3951    311     1231    
10.             Blessed with Grace      3774    298  1408

Split period rankings

High Card
Oz
Hutch
WW
Row
Smitty
RBF
LOB
Sonic
24

Sort of a Pyrrhic week for me - I expanded my lead but burned a bunch of my innings cushion on Row in so doing. The offense is starting to regress a little bit and had 4 sub-standard days last week. HC with probably his best week of the year so far; it's a start but time's really starting to tick away on anyone south of Sonic in the standings right now.

[Redbirdfan1]

Row swaps out a struggling 2 time Cy winner for a steady point producer on a highly talented offensive team. He's making a push for a title and sitting w/ a SP/RP closer.

will be interesting to see how that deal and the season shakes out. He doesn't have the top notch starters Oz or others have. He needs Dickey and Lynn to continue their 1st half success and needs Kennedy to have a little more luck and for Gallarrdo to pick it up a notch or 2. But his closer situation has stabilized unlike earlier in the season. having 4 helps make up for problems in other areas. He should get Kent back for a late season push.

[Oz-iz-God]

Row swaps out a struggling 2 time Cy winner for a steady point producer on a highly talented offensive team. He's making a push for a title and sitting w/ a SP/RP closer.

will be interesting to see how that deal and the season shakes out. He doesn't have the top notch starters Oz or others have. He needs Dickey and Lynn to continue their 1st half success and needs Kennedy to have a little more luck and for Gallarrdo to pick it up a notch or 2. But his closer situation has stabilized unlike earlier in the season. having 4 helps make up for problems in other areas. He should get Kent back for a late season push.

Yeah, but he could've just grabbed Nova off waivers. Nova has the same advantages that Harrison has, but appears to have figured out how to strike people out. The curve he was throwing against Boston last night was a legit power-curve that I hadn't seen from him in the past. The Harrison trade still made sense for him, but I still don't know that I trust him. K-Rates that low during that 6 week late-summer stretch in Arlington don't tend to have happy endings.

I want Bailey back in the worst way if for no other reason than it gets Aceves out of that SP/RP chair. I probably won't even start him, I'm just tired of watching Row get a spare save every 3 days. Unfortunately it looks like he's still at least 3 weeks away. I'd also be a pretty big fan of Liriano getting traded to Atlanta, but that appears to be less and less likely.

Eh, if Berkman can come back healthy and give me that extra OFer I need to survive the slumps that Heyward and Bruce are prone to, I'll be in pretty solid shape. I just need the closers that I do have to get a few more opportunities. Kemp coming back could actually help me as much as Row if it means that the Dodgers start winning again.