Just a quick hitter this week as we come out of the All-Star Break. Hope everyone is feeling energized for a the final 40% of the season. Because there is very little movement during a 3 day week, I’m going to take a look at the current stats that VinWins has collected and we’ll compare those to the overall records for the RCLs and see if anyone has a shot at RCL glory. Let’s dive in!
Each week we’ll peek in at our resident ‘perts to see who is laying claim to best “expert” RCLer in the land. We’ll take notes, check the standings and generally stalk them. The heading is also hyperlink, so feel free to follow along as we go.
No movement in the short week. Son did come back to earth a little, losing 2.5 points and it’s quite a bunch at the top again with eight points separating Son (first) and me (fifth)
Each week we’ll also take a look at the top ten overall standings in our other Razzball sponsored league, the RazzSlam. This is our NFBC Best Ball league with managers from all across the industry, from content providers to fans and readers just like you.
We finally have the overall standings set-up for the Championship and Wild Card tiers, now with real numbers. Our current top ten and the five who are looking to break back into the Championship Tier for round 2 can be seen above.
TRADES
All the trades that have gone down in the past week. Public ridicule is not only allowed, but encouraged.
| DATE | LEAGUE | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|
| 7/15/2024 | RCL 21 |
OBWon traded Jose Caballero to SkidMarks134 for Bo Bichette |
| 7/16/2024 | Original Recipe |
Bcyph traded Clay Holmes & Gleyber Torres to Ping Bodie Gluttons for Cole Ragans & Byron Buxton |
| 7/16/2024 | RCL 21 |
Bend the Knee traded Clarke Schmidt & Kyle Finnegan to OBWon for George Kirby |
| 7/19/2024 | RCL 24 |
The Sneetches traded Steven Kwan to Bibee Broken Bieber Bumpers for Tanner Bibee |
| 7/21/2024 | COUGS R US |
Again and again traded Hunter Brown & Hunter Harvey to Dunphy’s Joint Venture for Gleyber Torres & Josh Lowe |
Five trades this week with Bo Bichette being traded for Jose Caballero in one. Bichette has been dropped in four of my RCLs, so this isn’t much of a surprise. I moved Kwan for Bibee in a league where I need innings and am second in batting average. We’ll see how that works out for me.
WEEKLY LEADERS
The best of the best from the week that was.
R – 30 – Stumble Drunks (RCL 22)
HR –14 – JKJ (RCL 14)
RBIs – 34 – Stumble Drunks (RCL 22) & TRUSS (Writer’s League)
SB – 13 – Duck Snorts & Jimmy Jacks (RCL 34)
AVG – .383 – JKJ (RCL 14)
K – 52 – runtheezstreets (RCL 5)
W – 5 – Man or Stroman? (COUGS R US), Little Lebowski Urban Achievers (FCL), CPWinos (RCL 32)
SV – 8 – The Great Knoche (RCL 5)
ERA (Min. 18 IP) – 0.00 – Here We Go Again (FCL) (in 22 IP)
WHIP (Min. 18 IP) – 0.500 – Hometown Hero (RCL 8) (in 34 IP)
JKJ hitting near .400 this week moved his average up 3 points in RCL 14, something that neither Vin nor I thought was possible in so few ABs and this late in the season, but here we are.
As for the season-to-date stats, VinWins collected those for us to look at:
61.4% of the schedule has been completed. 614 IP would be on pace for the 1000 IP minimum. 860 IP is on pace for the maximum 1400 IP.
MOVES: The average # of moves is 85. 307 moves would be on pace for the maximum 500. 10 teams are ahead of the pace.
The most active team: 363 moves: password is taco ( 17 )
HOME RUNS
217 B_don (PERTS), She’s KEELIN me, Smalls! (RCL 15)
STOLEN BASES
180 TagEmAndBagEmRCL14 (RCL 14)
RUNS
768 Touch ‘em all, Joe (RCL 33)
RBI
737 password is taco (RCL 9)
AVERAGE
.283 JKJ (RCL 14)
WINS
80 Imaginary Sportsball (RCL 8) 1043.67 IP
SAVES
125 Stretch Run Punchouts (RCL 10)
STRIKEOUTS
1149 prymal2 (RCL 27) 1139.33 IP
WHIP (600 IP Min)
1.025 ejendres (RCL 14) 854.33 IP
ERA (600 IP Min)
2.88 Ding Dong Johnsons (RCL 8) 921.67 IP
HOME RUNS: 2024 Average: 168 2024 Pace: 353 (2023: 381) Record: 440
STOLEN BASES: 2024 Average: 103 2024 Pace: 293 (2023: 303) Record: 303
RUNS: 2024 Average: 624 2024 Pace: 1251 (2023: 1276) Record: 1454
RBI: 2024 Average: 599 2024 Pace: 1200 (2023: 1246) Record: 1300
AVERAGE: 2024 Average: .2516 (2023: .281) Record: .297
WINS: 2024 Average: 55 Record: 122 (2023: 111)
SAVES: 2024 Average: 47 Record: 258 (2023: 185)
STRIKEOUTS: 2024 Average: 836 Record: 1851 (1400 IP limit Record: 1769) (2023: 1689)
WHIP: 2024 Average: 1.186 Record: 0.986 (2023: 1.112)
ERA: 2024 Average: 3.69 Record: 2.56 (2023: 3.22)
I’m a bit surprised we aren’t closer to beating last year’s stolen base record. I guess we’re only ten off the pace, but still. I would have guessed we were ahead there based solely on the high weekly totals.
TEAM OF THE WEEK
Our weekly shout out to the team that killed it the previous week.
Team: The Tatis Tuckers
League: DFSers Anonymous
Stats: AVG: .299, R: 26, HR: 9, RBI: 29, SB: 0
IP: 31.2, ERA: 1.14, WHIP: 0.789, K: 36, W: 3, SV: 6
Summary: A short week, but a good week for the Tuckers. They went from 80.5 to 85.5 points and jumped from 5th to 2nd in DFSers Anonymous. Their recent trade for Finnegan is already paying dividends as he added two saves this weekend. Alec Burleson, Jarren Duran, and Marcell Ozuna powered the offense. Meanwhile, Taj Bradley, Gerrit Cole, Shota Imanaga, and Jack Flaherty all had solid starts on the pitching side. Paul Sewald also chipped in three saves.
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