Week 18 Recap

We are about 70% done with the RTTC regular season...Week 18 saw some big movement...

STUDS OF THE WEEK - Todd Guelde, Banks, Tim Krauss, Pennington

They all went with Adrian Gonzalez who was 11/28 with 2 HR and 14 RBIs.. (27 PTS)  That was the best possible pick possible this week...It was Banks 4th SOTW in the last 7 weeks..he is absolutely on fire...He is now 6th in BA, 1st in HR and 3rd in RBI..strong MVP candidate...Tim K has his 3rd SOTW and 2nd in a row....He is .410, 8HR and 27RBI in the last 2 weeks...and has found himself being chased now as he is 1st in BA, 6th in HR, and 2nd in RBIs...Guelde and Pennington both got their 2nd SOTW...TG is now 3rd in BA and 5th in RBIs....JP is still way back in BA, but is now top 15 in HRs and RBIs... Congrats on a huge week by you guys..

DUDS OF THE WEEK - PUJOLS OWNERS

Too many to list on here...but in total, there were 9 of them..Big Albert only had 1 hit all week in 234 ABs..The biggest name to fall in that group was Matt Badenhop who had been atop the BA leaderboard for some time...To give an example of how quick things can change in the BA department: Prior to week 17, Badenhop was at .355 and T Krauss was at .330...2 weeks later (today) TK is at .341 and MB is at .329...that is a swing of .37 pts...pretty crazy this late in the year...moral of the story..never give up in BA especially, as that can swing big in a short time..Notable - Staley has his 4th DOTW...

Consistency is Key

STALEY 14 Non Dud weeks - .331, 21 HR, 64 RBI
STALEY 4 Dud weeks - .095, 0 HR, 1 RBI

TEAM STUD PICK OF WEEK - RAYS

6-0 Ty Meyer and Tim Guelde were the only ones to go undefeated this week...TYMY now only 4 games out of the last wild card spot...Timmy G is now only 2 games out of that last spot...

TEAM DUD PICK OF WEEK - CUBS

1-6 Bindel was the lone Cubby pick...he is way back...14.5 GB of the last playoff spot

.600 CLUB

It is looking like a .600 winning percentage will be a good indicator of making the playoffs...That has been pretty close to the last wild card spot all year..we will see if that sticks...

REMINDER -

On the spreadsheet, the far right column is GR, which means games remaining...Most of us should finish with 162 without a problem...but if the season is done and you only have 160 total games played..the final 2 games will automatically be losses... There is no penalty to finishing early obviously.  Example Mathews has 39 games left...there are 7 full weeks left and week 26 has 3 games in it..looks like he will be getting done in week 24ish..which is fine..On the other hand, someone like Ty Meyer has 49 games left, which could be cutting it close...