Happy Dylan Crews week, Razzballers! Hope you were able to snag him in every RCL except the ones I am playing in with you. Twenty-two weeks are in the books and we’ve got five weeks left to go. We’ve finished 80.7% of the season. If you’re planning to hit the 1400 IP max, you should be around 1129 IP, plan accordingly. If your ratios are pristine and you only want to hit the minimum, you should be sitting at 807 IP. As of right now, we’re looking pretty good on the IP min front: 417 teams have reached the 1000 IP minimum (79%) and only 28 teams are on pace to fall below 1000 IP. Most of those are probably abandoned, but if one is you and you’re reading this, go pick up some starters ASAP! Meanwhile, 192 teams are on pace to hit 1400 IP. Two teams won’t have to worry about that as they have already hit the 1400 IP max. The first to do so was prymal2 (RCL 27) on Thursday. Here is their pitching staff in order of IP for the team:
Logan Webb
Cole Ragans
Nestor Cortes
Luis Severino
Cristopher Sanchez
Garrett Crochet
Jared Jones
Reynaldo Lopez
Luis Gil
Emmanuel Clase
Gerrit Cole
Yu Darvish
And several more under 25 IP. They finish with a 3.41 ERA, 1.188 WHIP, 1401 Ks, 88 Wins, and 47 Saves in 1405 IP. Pretty darn good, though they probably could have traded a starter for some more saves at some point. Maybe now they can stream the heck out of offense and make up ground there. They currently sit in second place, three points out of first.
Dillondobies (RCL 28) hit the limit on Sunday and are currently in third place, 1.5 points off the lead. Here’s the rest of what happened in week 22 in the Razzball Commenter Leagues:
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.
Another BIG week from Grey who led the league in Runs, HRs (thanks, B_don), and RBI as well as IP, Wins, Saves (despite trading away 22 closers), Ks, and WHIP. Grey added 5.5 points to move into the 90s, with 91 points and is now just 1.5 points out of first. Son gained 2.5 points this week as well or we’d be looking at a new leader. Going the other way this week was Kirksey, who lost 7.5 points and fell to a season low, seventh place.
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.
Our final twenty teams if my math is correct:
These twenty will be battling it out for RazzSlam glory! Stay tuned!
WEEKLY LEADERS
The best of the best from the week that was.
R – 57 – Not Enough (RCL 25)
HR –22 – Lake Titticaca Bungholes (RCL 31)
RBI – 62 – Larry Miller (RCL 24)
SB – 20 – PlatanoPowers (RCL 12)
AVG – .297 – One Trick Pony (ECFBL)
K – 97 – mrschaef (RCL 35)
W – 11 – Dunphy’s Joint Venture (RCL 24)
SV – 10 – Ducks In A Row (RCL 18), gilsonschmilsson (RCL 32), & Bayou Chocs (RCL 1)
ERA (Min. 40 IP) – 0.49 – Razzkai (Mookie Monsters) (RCL 35) (in 55.1 IP)
WHIP (Min. 40 IP) – 0.671 – fat Elvis (RCl 15) (in 53.1 IP)
Dunphy tied the weekly wins record this week with eleven and PlatanoPowers continued to run wild, swiping twenty more bags this week. They are now on pace for 324 steals! Razzkai came within 0.05 of the ERA record and did it in a good chunk of IP. Here’s how their week broke down:
Bowden Francis – 8 IP – 1.13 ERA
Shane Baz – 7.2 IP – 0.00 ERA
Hunter Brown – 6 IP – 1.50 ERA
Zac Gallen – 6 IP – 0.00 ERA
Carlos Rodon – 6 IP – 0.00 ERA
Kyle Harrison – 6 IP – 1.50 ERA
Freddy Peralta – 5 IP – 0.00 ERA
Emmanuel Clase – 3 IP – 0.00 ERA
Kirby Yates – 3 IP – 0.00 ERA
Carlos Estevez – 2 IP – 0.00 ERA
Jeff Hoffman – 1.2 IP – 0.00 ERA
Daniel Hudson – 1 IP – 0.00 ERA
Some more stats from the week courtesy of VinWins:
22 teams had an ERA under 2. (Last Week there were 48)
10 teams had an ERA over 6. (Last Week there were 25)
15 teams hit under .200 (Last Week there were 13)
0 teams hit over .300. (Last Week there were 6)
Vin also went and found some of the closest races in the RCLs with five weeks to go:
RCL 4
85 Springfield_Isotope
83 Zero Upside
83 Jtminutes
80 RaleighRoundFamily PocketFullOfSnell
80 Homefree Bogaerts
RCL 26
86 joeban117
86 Royce and Shine
84.5 STL Cardinals
84 Los Torenados!
RCL 28
87 Ippei’s 22-Leg Parlay
86 Lord Bacon Von Beefsweats
85.5 dillondobies
82 Ernocl
WRITERS
94.5 Vin Hemingway
94 TRUSS
93 LatchKeyKid
90 BillyAngel
RCL 18
90.5 Shout
90 Vin One Eight
86.5 Bulls on Parade
RCL 30
96 lelandaiken
95 Clyde
94.5 cubeee
CRAB ARMY
87 Sea Pilots
87 Big Daddy Truss
86.5 The Bananas
NIGHT OF THE LIVING ZOMBINOS
86 DonSlaughtOnslaught
84.5 St Votto’s Blue Maple Leaf
82.5 Backdoor Cutters
Vin and I are involved in a few of these. Good luck to everyone fighting to the finish!
TEAM OF THE WEEK
Our weekly shout out to the team that killed it the previous week.
Team: gilsonschmilsson
League: RCL 10
Stats: AVG: .268, R: 54, HR: 16, RBI: 57, SB: 6
IP: 81.2, ERA: 2.64, WHIP: 1.029, K: 95, W: 6, SV: 7
Summary: A very across the board great week for gilsonschmilsson, I enjoy when a balanced team takes the TOW. Corey Seager led the way with three home runs and seven RBI. Mark Vientos, Jeremy Pena, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and Jake McCarthy each chipped in a couple homers. The six steals came from six different players. Talk about team players! Gavin Stone (Win/17 K/0.64/0.643), Bowden Francis (Win/12 K/1.13/0.50), and Bryan Woo (Win/12 K/2.02/0.60) led the pitching staff. Shane Baz and Kyle Harrison also made nice contributions. Mason Miller added three saves, while Ryan Walker had two saves and ten strikeouts in four innings. With 95.5 points gilsonschmilsson now has a 9-point lead atop RCL 10. Good luck finishing strong!
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