Week 20 Results - Timmy G Salvages Season

Stud of the Week - Tim Guelde

It has been a pretty brutal year overall for Tim G....but this week he salvaged his season with a solo SOTW performance, its his 1st of the season...Unless he can go on a HR binge, its not looking likely he will finish in the top 3 ... He is currently 11 HRs behind 3rd place right now...Congrats Tim on your $50...(Google Pic - Timmy G)

DUDS of the Week - Stout, Todd G., Finkes, T Krauss, Curlis, Holbrook, D Rychener, Roach

The early week injury struck again taking out 8 guys this week...6 of the guys picked Big Papi, who has a bad foot (don't think on the DL) and one guy picked J Kipnis, he was placed on the DL on Monday night..The other, Roach, didn't even get a pick in so he went 0-21, really hurting his BA chances...A few of those guys are in the hunt in the season ending awards, so this week was a bad blow to them.

Last 3 weeks - HOT OR NOT

BA
HOT - PRICE - 28/67 - .417 - Has gained 17 pts on his AVG and is now in 2nd place

NOT - R JONES - 10/61 - .164 - Has lost 17 pts on his AVG and is now in 42nd place

HR

HOT - PUNCHES - 8 , Now has 35, 1st place

NOT - 4 Players have 0, Notable: D Rychener has 31 HRs, still in 4th despite the drought

RBI

HOT - E KRAUSS - 22, Now has 75 on the year, good for 32nd...too little too late

NOT - D RYCHENER - 3, In 26th place with 80

Week 15 Results

Sorry for the mess up yesterday, the "last 7 days stats" on MLB.com Fantasy for some reason was counting July 14th games twice, very strange...so i guess just a good reminder to always double check what your stats are in case their is a mess up...so the revised week 15 SOTW are...

STUDS OF THE WEEK - Doug Krauss, Derek Meek

Both of these guys get their 1st SOTW of their careers...Markakis was the man for Doug and Hanley Ramirez for Meek as they both pulled in 12 pts in the 4 day week, which would equal 21 pts during a normal week, which sounds about par for the course...Doug is having his best success this year on the BA side of things where he is at .285 and definately capable of making a run there...look for him to start picking all high average guys in the 2nd half...Meek (and his silent "partner" Shipley) are probably having their best success in HRs where they are only 6 back from 3rd place right now....so there is plenty of time climb the board...Congrats on the $25 each....(Google Pic - Double D)

DUDS of the WEEK - Tim Guelde, Kyle Krauss, Krista Krauss

Rough short week for these 3...Tim and Krista went with A Gonzalez who went 1 for 15, and Kyle went with C Pena who also went 1 for 15...Of the 3, Kyle is in the best shape overall being in the top 10 in HRs and RBIs, but any more weeks like this and the SOTWs will be the only way to get some cash...Tim has had a forgettable past month and half as he has 3 Duds in the last 6 weeks, and now finds himself 2nd to last in BA...speaking of slumping bad....Krista has 7 pts in the last 3 weeks!...I think that is karma for talking trash at home to me throughout this whole season...live and learn KJ...

MLB VS RTTC - Where we rank

BA

RTTC - W Rychener - .324
MLB - J Reyes - .354

HR

RTTC - D Rychener - 28
MLB - J Bautista - 31

RBI

RTTC - D Riether - 79

MLB - A Gonzalez - 77

Week 10 Recap -

You know there were some big numbers out there this week when someone picks Tulowitzki and gets 27 points...and doesn't win the SOTW...

STUDS OF THE WEEK - Kyle Krauss, John Zeitz

It was a bad week for the "King", but a great week for the "Prince"...Prince Fielder was THE pick this week as he went 10/20 with 6 HRs and 13 RBIs (29 pts) ...The 6 HRs ties the RTTC single week record...This is the 2nd SOTW for Zeitz, and in week 6 he also had 6 HRs....So take a look at Zeitz week 6 and 10 totals: .457, 12 HR, 22 RBI...and now the other 8 weeks - .221, 4 HR, 26 RBI...talk about getting them in bunches...Kyle also is heating up bigtime...last 2 weeks he is .400, 10 HR , 20 RBIs...congrats on the SOTW and splitting the $50. (Google Pic - KKJZ)

DUD OF THE WEEK - Tim Guelde

He went with Matt Joyce last week and was let down as he only mustered 2 hits, but had 2 RBIs though...His 3 week drought is continuing as in that span he is .182, 0 HR, 6 RBIs...he looks to break out this week and make a run before the all-star break...

Stat that may only amaze me -

Andre Perrotta has 9 HRs and 41 RBIs

Doug Krauss has 9 HRs and 18 RBIs...Doug must be the king of solo HRs???

Week 26 Results

STUD OF THE WEEK - Emmons, Tim Guelde

They both picked Mike Stanton and he delivered with a 12/28, 1 HR, 7 RBI week...that HR would prove to be a big one for Emmons...Timmy G had a quiet year...as this was his first SOTW and only had 1 DOTW as well...good way to end the year...$12.50 is better than $0.00...pic - timmy E

DUDS OF THE WEEK - Anyone who picked Longoria..

He was a little banged up following last weekend and the Rays decided to rest him this week for the playoffs...tough break....hard to see that coming...

Week 21 Results

We are closing in on the last month of the season, and while I know a lot of people are gearing up for the football season to get going, there is still a lot of $$ on the line in RTTC...still 5 more SOTWs to be given out, along with the 12 season long winners....This weeks winners were....

STUDS OF THE WEEK - Sunderman, Graven, T Krauss, Keller, Pennington, Curlis

They all went w MLBs leading HR hitter (Bautista) and he came up huge for them..10/20, 4 HR, 7 RBIs...21 total...one of the lowest SOTW totals all year...This was Kellers 4th SOTW and leads the HR race w/33....This was Sundermans 3rd SOTW, Graven and TKrauss' 2nd, and Pennington and Curlis both got thier 1st of the year....Pennington stayed on Kellers trail and now has 32 HRs...(pic - 6 pack)

DUDS OF THE WEEK - Tim Guelde

Timmy G went w - Ryan Howard who sucked this week...2-25 is all he could do...Prior to this week he was about 15 pts out of 4th place in BA, but now he dropped from .299 to .288, and is 31 pts out of 4th....He is only 4 HRs out of 4th place w/24, so I expect to see some power hitters picked by him in the last month....This was his 1st DOTW

Multiple SOTW Picks

Cabrera - 4

Pujols - 3

Ethier - 2

Teixeira - 2

Cano - 2

A Rod - 2

Bautista - 2

Hamilton - 2

Multiple DOTW Picks

Utley - 2

Heyward - 2

8/16 Recap

Since we are coming up on the last quarter of the season, the daily(ish) blog updates will be more RTTC Race based then overall MLB studs and duds of the day...so....

Last Nights Recap:

The only RTTC HR was Miguel Cabrera hitting a bomb as the Tigs beat the Bombers...

Thats #14 for Punches....#21 for Timmy Guelde, and #17 for Doug Krauss...

Week 17 Results

What a huge week for a few...we had 1 weekly record broke and 1 tied....The best weekly performance of the year goes to...

STUD OF THE WEEK...ANDY BRINK

Andy went 12/22, with 5 HR and 13 RBIs...for a total of 30!(Bautista)...That sets the record for most points in a week...The big week now puts him into 2nd place in BA at 338, 13th in HRs at 19, and 4th in RBIs at 76...This is Andy's 2nd SOTW...congrats....(Emmons also picked Bautista but missed the deadline last week, so was not eligible for the SOTW) (google pic - Brink)

DUDS OF THE WEEK...BROOKS, KAPCAR

These guys both went 4/20, and that is it(Fielder)...This is also the 4th time for each that they are the DOTW...

TOUGH LUCK OF THE WEEK...TIM GUELDE

How about Tim's week...16 hits, 4 HRs, and 7 RBIs..total of 27....He would have won every week prior to this week, and ties the hit record at 16...tough luck Timmy G, great week though!

WEEK 21 RESULTS

STUDS OF THE WEEK: Zeitz, TKrauss, Whittlesey, Prigge

.393, 5HR, 12RBI....HUGE week for these guys...TKrauss and JWhitt, now find themselves 1-2 in RBIs...Prigge is 5th..Whitt is also tied for 1st in HR...making a strong case for Rookie of the year and MVP...Zeitz starting to heat up...like last year, when we called him Mr September...may be too late for him though...Google Pic-ZKWP

DUDS OF THE WEEK, KKrauss, Tim Guelde

.000 0HR 0RBI...Ichiro was supposed to play this week, but could not make it on the field...day-to day all week...tough break for these two, which leads me to....

STAT THAT MAY ONLY AMAZE ME AGAIN..KKrauss is 1-3 in his last 3 weeks!!!! What are the chances of picking 3 straight players who get hurt that week!?!?

HOT

Zeitz... .393 8HR, 17RBI last 2 weeks

Persinger..... .418 last 3 weeks

TKrauss 24 RBI last 3 weeks

NOT

KKrauss.... .178 0HR 5RBI last 6 weeks(has to be worst stretch in RTTC history)

Rossi 0HR last 4 weeks

Josh Bieder..3HR last 8 weeks

WEEK 16 RESULTS

STUD OF THE WEEK: RYAN JONES

.385 3HR 8RBI...Big week for RJ as he was the only person to hit 3HR...that matches his year high as he did the same back in week 5. He is only 7 HRs back from the leaders, so he could use a couple more Stud weeks to catch up...but there is still alot of baseball to be played. (google pic-RJ)

DUD OF THE WEEK: TIM GUELDE

.222 0HR 0RBI...Tim was the person to not collect an RBI this week, so that gave him the Dud status...his average only dropped 4 points, and he is only 10 pts out of third place in BA...everyone is hoping for a Hernandez collapse in that category.

HOT LAST 3 WEEKS

Leonard .379 5HR 18RBI

NOT LAST 3 WEEKS

Rychener 9-69 (.130) last 3 weeks

WEEK 12 RESULTS

STUD OF THE WEEK: JAY PERSINGER

14-28(.500) 1HR, 1RBI...Usually the stud of the week has big time power numbers, but this week no one had more than 2HRs...also no one came close to Jay's 14 hits, 2 off of the all-time record...He bumped his average up from .285 to .305 going from 24th place to 7th place. (google pic-J Pers)

DUDS OF THE WEEK: TIM G., COWAN, PLYMALE, PRIGGE, CLARK

.261, 0HR 0RBI...This is probably the highest average a Dud will ever get, but, they were the only players to go for 0-0...All 5 of these guys are in the bottom half of the standings in HR and RBI...this week sure didnt help things...

WHERE WE RANK?

BA

Ichiro .372

Hernandez .347

HR

Pujols 28

Brooks 23

RBI

Pujols 74

Brooks 70

WEEK 8 RESULTS

STUD OF THE WEEK: KYLE KRAUSS

.333-4HR-10RBI...In a somewhat average week for everyone...KK was the only one to get 4 HRs and is now only 4 behind the leader with 14. He is well ahead of his pace last yr when he hit 32 HRs. (Google Pic- KK)

DUD OF THE WEEK: DAVE KRAUSS, TIM GUELDE

2-10, 0HR-1RBI...Dave and Tim had a rough week and only got 10 ABs. This is the 2nd time DK has had an injury come up in his week, but last years batting champ is still around .315. If he keeps that up, he will be in the hunt come September. Tim hasn't found his power this year with only 4 HRs....he hit 30 last yr...he is due for a breakout week.

HOW WE STACK UP:

Batting Average:

Brandon Hernandez .378

Jason Bartlett .373

Kevin Youkilis .366

Home Runs:

Adrian Gonzalez 20

Jeremy Whittlesey 18

Raul Ibanez 17

RBIs

Evan Longoria 55

Jodi Biederstedt 52

Jason Bay 49

WEEK 6 RESULTS

STUDS OF THE WEEK: Clark Carroll and Dave Krauss

They both went for .407, 3HRs and 8RBIs...Clark bumped his BA up 27 points to .321, while Dave, the defending BA Champ raised his average to .346. Both players are also in the top 3rd in HRs and RBIs..(google pic: Dave Clark)

DUD OF THE WEEK: Brent Punches

.000-0-0...Punches literally had nothing this week. Last year's MVP went w/Delgado who was day-to-day up until Friday as he went on the DL...Below is a true email quote from Punches prior to week 6:

"carlos delgado or david wright?? Flipping the coin now....heads delgado, tails wright:

....heads, delgado"

Should have went best of three Punches.

STAT THAT MAY ONLY AMAZE ME:

Tim Guelde and Brent Williamson who I am pretty sure do not know each other at all, so would have no way of talking about thier picks have made identical picks the last 3 weeks. What are the odds?