As promised, this week you get my super in-depth analysis of the first half of the season (technically we are well past the halfway point, but whatever).
Hitters
Damn, Jason’s team is pretty much dominating the hitting categories. His only “weak” category is stolen bases, but that makes sense when you consider how much power his team has. My team? Almost no power and it definitely shows. Unfortunately, my team does not steal bases either. I enjoy when you see something odd, such as Sean’s team leads in home runs, but is near the bottom in runs scored. His team has scored 311 times that were not the home run. It works out to 35% of his runs comes from the long ball. On the flip side, my team gets 23%. These are useless stats, but they jumped out at me.
Pitchers
Sean has the dominant pitching team, followed by Jason and myself. One of the things that stands out to me is that James leads in strikeouts because of streaming pitchers, I have just started streaming the past few weeks. I am leading in wins, I wonder if I can pass him in strikeouts? Another thing I noticed? The leaders in saves (Offord and Lindsey) are not as high on ERA/WHIP. I find that to be a little odd. Usually those great closers will help drive down those rates statistics. Maybe they have some really bad starting pitching.
Standings
How do these numbers compare to the actual standings?
If this were a rotisserie style league, the standings would look a little different. Not for me, but for almost everyone. I suppose Adam2 and Lindsey like the head-to-head format, whereas Jason does not. Ryan definitely has some shitty luck so far this season. He has a losing record in Runs despite having the sixth most. Unfortunately for him, he is getting spanked in most of the pitching categories (except strikeouts).
KOW–Jose Ramirez–KOW
I realize that Mookie Betts is the best fantasy fantasy player right now (according to Yahoo), but the MVP of the league so far has to go to Ramirez. Jason’s team is in third place (and first in the stat rankings) and it is in large part because of his keeper, JRam. The dude has 30 HRs, 70 Runs, 72 RBIs, 20 SBs, .304 AVG, and a .401 OBP. Is he looking to hit the 40/40 club this year?
Best Move So Far
This one is pretty easy. It happened on May 29th, Offord picked up Matt Carpenter. At that point he was batting .221 with 6 HRs. He was available because Lindsey dropped him. She only had him because of a trade with Ryan (Carpenter/Judge for Arenado/Archer). She did not really want Carpenter, so after a few days she dropped him. He was hitting in the .160 area at that point. Can you really blame her? A few weeks later, Offord snatched him up. Since then Carpenter has been on fire. Here is his stat line for Offord: 44 Runs, 18 HRs, 32 RBIs, .329, .433. At that point in the season Offord was 48-54-6 and in 8th place. Since then he has went 40-29-3 and moved into fifth place. I definitely think the majority of that is due to Carpenter.
Upcoming
My team needs some power. I have no clue where to find some power. No one ever wants to give up a power hitter. My only trade chips are Aaron Nola or Gerrit Cole. Not sure if someone is willing to go for a trade of one of those guys for someone who can hit 20 HRs the rest of the season. I think my team is in trouble.
