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Fantasy Baseball Recap: Week Three (April 15 – April 21)
Fantasy Baseball Recap: Week Three (April 15 – April 21)
These short prologues to the stats are becoming a venting session for myself. Last week was a brutal week in Chicago, but it was successful so that’s all that matters. When I got home on Friday, I had to make another Emergency Room visit. I am getting very annoyed at the frequency of my medical mishaps.
Really, I am doing fine. I just can’t eat any solid foods and have constant chest and back pain. Things are growing great. If anyone knows any good smoothie recipes hit me up because I am on a liquid diet until further notice. Just thought of this though….perhaps the guttural pain I feel comes from looking at how bad my fantasy baseball team is? I think that’s a fair hypothesis.
I don’t know how wrestlers do it. The weight control I mean. Going through a rapid weight change accidently sucks ass, so to do it to yourself seems like insane people behavior.
Enough about my life. Looking at this week’s results, the biggest takeaway is the three big drubbings. DiMaio, Billy and Bove all won handily and naturally, all rank top four in the early picture of the standings. List earned his first win of the season, as did Billy. Bove has yet to lose this season.
But the season is a long one. Can’t let one bad week get you down all-the-way bad. Baseball is a streaky game, and trying to predict the ebbs and flows is difficult, to say the least.
If anyone has any thoughts, comments, concerns or ideas, please feel free to let me know.
WEEK THREE SCOREBOARD
- Billy Drakeley beat me over like a drum, 10-1-0.
- Listen, when Houston pitcher Hunter Brown goes 0.2 innings, allowing 11 hits, and nine earned runs…you aren’t going to win any pitching categories.
- This adds insult to injury because my first-round draft pick Spencer Strider is out for the year.
- Mike Trout, Josh Naylor and Isaac Paredes each had two home runs for Billy.
- Ronald Acuna Jr. had all six steals for Billy to win him that category.
- Listen, when Houston pitcher Hunter Brown goes 0.2 innings, allowing 11 hits, and nine earned runs…you aren’t going to win any pitching categories.
- Huntley won his second straight matchup, taking down Eric, 6-4-1.
- Huntley won five of the six hitting categories, which isn’t too much of a surprise seeing how Eric had the fewest hits of the week.
- Julio Rodriguez, Paul Goldschmidt, and Xander Bogaerts combining to go 7-for-61 will do that to you, Eric.
- Pete Alonso had four home runs for Huntley and drove in seven runs.
- Hunt also hd Bobby Witt Jr. score 10 runs while driving in six and hitting two home runs.
- Huntley won five of the six hitting categories, which isn’t too much of a surprise seeing how Eric had the fewest hits of the week.
- List tabulated his first win of the season over Kenney, 6-4-1.
- If you finished the week with a WHIP below one, then your pitching staff dealt.
- Nestor Cortes, Tyler Glasnow and Dylan Cease all tossed six innings or more with zero runs allowed.
- List also had Elly Da La Cruz hitting four home runs and driving in seven while scoring eight times himself.
- Kenney didn’t have a single pitcher record more than six strikeouts over the course of the week.
- Kenney’s weirdest quirk is that his team hit 10 home runs…and they all came from 10 different people.
- If you finished the week with a WHIP below one, then your pitching staff dealt.
- DiMaio destroyed Michaud, 10-1-0.
- The only category that Michaud won was OBP.
- He had four players with 15+ at-bats have an OBP of .438 or higher.
- DiMaio dominated the week as you will see in the analytics below. No weaknesses in his game this week.
- Juan Soto had six runs scored, two home runs and eight runs batted in.
- Jose Altuve had 11 hits to lead DiMaio’s team, scoring six runs and having four RBI.
- The only category that Michaud won was OBP.
- Bove defeated himself, 9-2-0.
- I fucked up the analytics for the first time with these two teams facing each other. Had to redo more than a few categories.
- Bove had Jose Berrios pitch two starts, and Berrios delivered with 13.2 innings of scoreless baseball and 13 strikeouts. Pretty good.
- The only categories Vaghi won were Stolen Bases and Saves. The all-or-nothing categories went the loser’s way this time around.
WEEK THREE STATISTICS DEEP DIVE
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Overall Summary
- DiMaio’s average category rank this week is 2.000. I mean that is just absurd. Nobody was beating home.
- He led the league in hits, runs, home runs, saves and WHIP.
- Set new season-bests in hits (75), runs (51), and saves (5)
- He led the league in hits, runs, home runs, saves and WHIP.
- Bove led the league and set a new season-best this week with 44 runs batted in.
- He also did well on the rubber with a new season-best six wins from his pitching staff.
- Bove was the only team this week to have an ERA under 2.0.
- DiMaio had the second best ERA at 2.764…which was the only ERA under 3.00 besides Bove.
- DiMaio and List had WHIP underneath 1.000.
- Nobody got jipped out of a win this week.
- The top five average categorial rankers all earned wins.
- Eric finished the week ranked top-five in all the pitching categories, but won only one category against Huntley.
- List and Vaghi are the only two teams to not have an average weekly category rank of 5.0 or better thus far this season.
Average Statistical Rank For Week
(Averaging All the Ranks From All The Categories)
- DiMaio – 2.000
- Bove – 3.364
- Billy – 4.545
- Huntley – 5.000
- List – 5.455
- Kenney – 5.545
- Vaghi – 6.182
- Eric – 6.273
- Michaud – 6.273
- Stanko – 7.273
Average Statistical Rank For SEASON
(Averaging All the Ranks From All The Categories)
- DiMaio – 3.576
- Bove – 4.333
- Michaud – 4.848
- Kenney – 5.030
- Eric – 5.212
- List – 5.576
- Billy – 5.667
- Huntley – 5.697
- Vaghi – 5.727
- Stanko – 6.091
PLAYER REPORT CARDS
Billy
Bove
DiMaio
Eric
Huntley
Kenney
List
Michaud
Stanko
Vaghi
WEEK FOUR MATCHUPS
FINAL OVERALL STANDINGS
- What’s the phrase in baseball? You don’t the standings till May? That is what I am choosing to believe.
- Bove’s team ERA thus far this season is 1.971 and he has a clean WHIP of 1.000. Those numbers can’t be maintainable right?
- Bove and DiMaio are the first two teams to 20 category wins.
- I am the only one to not reach double digit category wins. Turns out I am just bad at this now.
CATEGORY LEADERS
Week Three CATEGORY LEADERS (Including Ties)
- DiMaio: Hits, Runs, RBI, OBP, Saves (4)
- Bove: Wins, ERA, WHIP (3)
- Kenney: Home Runs, Stolen Bases (2)
- Drakeley: Strikeouts (1)
- List: Stolen Bases (1)
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