Week 24 Results - Back 2 Back Edition

STUD OF THE WEEK - Tom Zgela

Back to back studs for Tommy Z, as he was the lone player to pick Josh Hamilton this week, who went off for 10 hits, 4 HRs, and 10 RBIs...(24 pts)...He doesn't have a shot at any year end honors, but he did just climb into 4th place on the money leaders list...not bad for a down year for him...Actually in the past 3 weeks he is hitting .393 with 6 HRs and 22 RBIs....Its been a good run for him, as he also walked his youngest daughter down the aisle this past weekend as well, and I will go ahead and assume that he had a couple cold ones that night as well... Double Congrats Z - Man (Google Pic -Z-Man)

DUDS OF THE WEEK - Biederstedt, Price, People that didn't submit a pick??

Bieder had some bad luck and picked Tulo who got hurt on Monday...one of those years for the Bieder Bunch...Price picked a Rangers outfielder that didnt get an at bats??? He is still shy of the minimum of 550 at bats needed to qualify for the batting title....And then about 4 or 5 people didnt even submit a pick, which is pretty strange...oh well better for the rest of us....

BA RACE-

1st Mathews - .333 Pretty much wrapped up this title unless Price goes off this week...

2nd Price - .320 Could still catch Mathews if he goes 10/20 or something?? No way loses 2nd

3rd Jess Kapcar - .309 Can she hang onto 3rd? The 4 others below are the only ones that I

4th Sigler - .309 ...see catching her

5th Smith - .308

6th Dillaman - .305

7th D Rychener - .303

HR RACE -

1st Punches - 43...1 more HR sets a new RTTC Record...

2nd Wyse - 38....Needs at least 6 in 2 weeks to win, and that assumes Punches hits 0...tough

3rd Riether - 36...1 HR ahead of 5 guys who have 35...gonna be a good race here..5 others have 33 as well that still have a slight hope...

RBI RACE -

1st Riether - 127 - 10 away from breaking the record of 136...Graven still hanging around?

2nd Graven - 119 - Looking for his 1st top 3 finish since 2008

3rd Burger - 116 - Same as Graven...his last top 3 finish was in 08'...in RBIs

5 others have over 110, and 13 others have over 100...all it takes is a 12 spot to make a huge jump

9/14 Recap - Z Man Going For Back 2 Back

STUD OF THE DAY - JOSH HAMILTON

He only had 1 hit last night but it was a big one...a grand slam, so he had a nice 6 pt night...Zgela(who was a STUD last week) was the lone picker of Hamilton this week and already has 12 pts on the week (4 hits, 2 HRs, 6 RBIs)...Zgela may go back2back??

Week 23 Results - Chasing the Top

STUDS OF THE WEEK - ZGELA, EMMONS, WYSE

These guys all went with Ellsbury who went 13/32. 2 HR, 6 RBIs (21 pts) The Z Man gets on the board finally after having a rough year...Emmons has his 2nd SOTW in the past 3 weeks, and is only 4 HRs away from 2nd place...Wyse with his 3rd SOTW on the year, and is now the overall money leader on the year so far at $116.66...He also is right in the hunt in HRs and RBIs...could be a very nice payday for Wyse in a couple weeks...(Google Pic - ZEW)

DUD OF THE WEEK - ROACH

Roach continued his streak of picking Tribe players and Grady Sizemore didn't dissapoint...He had a big affect on the Tribe lineup coming back from the DL last week...He did have a big RBI, in 15 at bats...but, you and I both had as many hits last week..yep 0...

LEADERS PULLING AWAY -

BA - Mathews up 20 pts on Price with 3 weeks to go(2.5 really since week 26 is a shorty) at .340...he just has to avoid a big bust week like an 1-25 or something...Price is in a similar boat in 2nd place as he up 9 pts on Jess Kapcar...7 others are above .303 and are in the mix for a spot in the top 3...(ML LEADER - A GONZALEZ - .339)

HR - Big Punches pulling away much like his beloved Detroit Kitties with a career hi 40 HRs...can he get 4 more and break the RTTC single season record? 4 others are tied for second at 35...and about 15 others within shouting distance of 3rd... - (MLB LEADER - BAUTISTA 41)

RBIs- Riether pulling away here with 121 RBIs...8 ahead of Graven and 9 ahead of Mathews...15 others have over 100 and have a legit shot at a top3 finish...RBIs can pile up in a hurry, all it takes is someone with a 13 RBI week to shoot up the board...(see Mathews last week with 11) (MLB LEADER - HOWARD 112)

Week 2 Recap

Lets get right into it...short morning with the 11AM game....

STUDS OF THE WEEK - W Rychener, Brink, Salvatore...

All 3 of these guys finished with a crazy 26 pts (14/27, 4HR, 8RBIs via Tulo)...This has put each of them in the top 10 of all 3 categories...lets see how long they can stay up top....Congrats on all 3 for splitting the $50...(Google Pic - RBS)

DUDS OF THE WEEK - Zgela, Leonard

Each of them only got 2 pts this week via Crawford and Kinsler...Zgela is still at .340 though, but Leonard fell below the .200 mark at .191...

STAT THAT MAY ONLY AMAZE ME -

W Rychener has 28 hits this season so far, getting 14 each week...M Badenhop has 3...total...he is due for a breakout week.

Week 23 Results

And down the stretch we come....this is where the marathon turns into that last stretch and becomes a sprint....and the big winners in WEEK 23 were....

STUDS OF THE WEEK - ZGELA, PENNINGTON

Big week for these 2, as they picked Ryan Howard (10/29, 3 HR 11 RBIs - 24pts)...Zgela is getting hot as he wins his 4th SOTW and also for the 2nd straight week...in just 2 weeks he has gained 36 to his BA and is up to .309...15 pts out of 4th place...Speaking of hot...Pennington gets his 2nd SOTW in the last 3 weeks...and in the last 4 weeks he has 11 HRs and 27 RBIs...he is the season leader in HRs w 36...can he hang on for 3 more weeks?! (Pic Z-Pen)

DUDS OF THE WEEK - MANGAS, EMMONS, PRIGGE, KAPCAR, BINDEL

These 5 guys had a combined 0 hits this past week in a total of 12 at bats...some picked a player that got injured on Sunday, or just didnt get a pick in at all for whatever reason?? Makes it easier for the rest of us to win SOTW....but I do know Kapcar claims that he just had Tommy John Surgery and is out for the year....he isn't the smartest guy out there...and not the happiest as he saw the Wolverines beat his Irish Saturday..rough week Kappy

Handicapping the Races...

BA

To me I'd say if you are above .310 you have a chance at the end of year $..so that puts 13 players in contention here...with a few others close behind that mark...every year this category comes down to the last day...Also a player that is injured cannot be picked to "not lose any ground"...so let me know if you see any injured players selected from here on out...I will say the winner will finish at .325...

HR

On this one, I'd say above 26 HRs still gives you a shot at which means 20 players still alive for some $$...also going to go out on a limb and say Pennington cashes in even if he hits 0 HRs the rest of the way....final HR leader #...I'm going with 40

RBI

The last category..I'd say anyone above 85 right now can get finish in the top 4...every few weeks in seems there is a 10+ RBI week by someone...its easy to make ground up in this one...Winner will have....lets go with 120...

9/8 Recap

Deja vu....PICK OF THE DAY - Ryan Howard...again for the 2nd straight day... he goes 3-5, with a HR and 6 RBIs...talk about a quick 10 pts for Pennington and Zgela...and Pennington takes the HR lead at 35(unofficially...i dont compile the stats daily) They are the midweek favs to earn the SOTW right now....

9/7 Recap

RTTC PICK OF THE DAY - Ryan Howard - 2/4 with a HR and RBI....Zgela and Pennington are liking that...also CarGo went deep again, and a handful of players picked him as well...RTTC HR lead now is at 34...

Week 11 Recap

STUDS OF THE WEEK - Smith, Sunderman, Zgela, Brooks, TKrauss, Mathews, CJones

Huge week for these guys as they put up a record tying performance. They all went 16/27, 1 HR and 6 RBIs (Hamilton). Those 16 hits tie the most in a week of RTTC...Last who did it was Punches in Week 5 of 2009....It is the 2nd SOTW for Smith, Sunderman, Zgela, and CJones....1st of the year for Brooks, TKrauss, and Mathews...They all jumped in BA about 35-40 points each...(google pic - 7 guys)

DUD OF THE WEEK - TY MEYER

Ty My with only 3 points this week (Carter) marks the 2nd straight week he is the dud...and 3rd DUD week since week 3....Last 2 weeks he has 4 hits and has dropped a total of 27 pts down to .232...still only 5 HR behind the leader though...

Stats of the week:

Number of weeks E KRAUSS has hit better than .223 - (1) - unreal

Current Number of weeks in a row with a HR - Sunderman - (8)

Number of players w/at least 2 RBI each week - (1) - Keller

Week 5 RESULTS

STUDS OF THE WEEK: ZGELA, CARROLL, BANKS, PRICE, EMMONS

These 5 split the Pot and get $5 each for their efforts of attaining the high of 17 this week...Zgela raises his AVG 50 pts...Carroll raises AVG over .400...Banks doubles his HRs to 6 and earns 2nd check in 3 weeks...P-Diddy Price doubles HRs to 4 and now has 20 RBIs...and Emmons raises AVG 43 points and also earns 2nd check in 3 weeks...Google pic -

DUD OF THE WEEK: BINDEL

He continues his dreadful streak with a total of 3 this week...He was the STUD in week 1, and since is .158-0HR-1RBI...This is his 2nd DUD award in the last 3 weeks...

MLB vs RTTC

AVG

RTTC Carrol .402

MLB Ethier .383

HR

RTTC D Rychener 10
MLB Konerko 13

RBI

RTTC D Rychener 28
MLB Cabrera 33

9-15 POD

Derrek Lee was 2-2, 3RBIs.....Thats big for Zgela as it puts him in 4th place with 108...

WEEK 18 RESULTS

This is a week that could be the turning point of the 2009 season. We had 4 players come up with a 7 day output that may never be duplicated for a long time...Our BA leader went 1-18 and lost 13 points on his lead...what a week it was...that brings us to.....

STUDS OF THE WEEK: ZGELA, BROOKS, WHITTLESEY, HERLIHY

.448, 6HR, 10RBI...Arguably the best week in RTTC history...what makes it even bigger the top 2 HR leaders before the week started pulled this off. Brooks and JWhitt now have a commanding lead on the rest of the HR field...Herlihy is now 3rd in HR and 2nd in RBIs....Zgela just gave himself new life as he just 2HR shy of 3rd place...the 6HRs in the week is a new RTTC record....Brooks now stands at 5th place on the single season HR Record....with 8 weeks to go...4 more HRs and he is the new champ, unless JWhitt passes him....this could be a McGwire-Sosa-ish HR finish. (Google Pic- Six)

DUDS OF THE WEEK: ROSSI, KAPCAR, S. GUELDE, DAVE KRAUSS, HERNANDEZ

.056, 0HR, 0RBI....On the opposite end of the spectrum than the STUDS...these guys really struggled this week getting only 1 hit(1-18)...the biggest news of this group is that Hernandez dropped 13 points in his BA lead and is now at .336....Bindel stayed steady at .322 in 2nd place...

STAT THAT MAY ONLY AMAZE ME

There were those four STUDS that had 6 HRs this week...Zorn has had 8....ALL YEAR!!

3 UP

Leonard... .412 last 5 weeks...raised BA 37 pts in that time

Brooks 26 hits last 2 weeks...25RBI last 3 weeks

Cowan...8HR last 3 weeks....11 total, prior that

3 DOWN

KKrauss... .171 0HR - 5RBI...last 3 weeks

Josh Biederstedt... .194 1HR - 8RBI..last 5 weeks

Laymon...8RBI last 4 weeks

WEEK 14 RESULTS

STUD OF THE WEEK - JARED BINDEL

.455 - 2HR - 8RBI...Bindel topped every category this week taking top Stud honors...He is within striking distance of the triple crown...4th in BA...5HRs back, and 6RBIs back....Other than last week, he has been very consistant. (GOOGLE PIC - JRB)

DUDS OF THE WEEK - ERIC KRAUSS, TOM ZGELA

.120 - 0HR - 0RBI..ouch for me, double ouch for Zgela...This ends my streak of at least 2 RBIs every week, and for ZMan, this is the 8th time he has had 5 hits or less in a week.

STREAKING

Kyle Krauss has hit at least 1 HR in 12 straight weeks...He is due for a dud.

WHERE WE RANK

BA

Mauer .373

Hernandez .355

HR

Pujols 32

Whitt-Sunder-Brooks-23

RBI

Pujols 87

T Krauss 73

WEEK 13 RESULTS - MIDSEASON REPORT

STUD OF THE WEEK - SHAWN HERLIHY

.480 4HR 8RBI....Herlihy had the highest BA, and HR this week, and that carried him to Stud of the week honors...he is at .305 19HR and 65RBI for the first half, which has him in great position in all 3 cats....His huge week in RBIs gave him his first All-Star selection...Prime candidate for Rookie of the Year...(google pic...Herl)

DUDS OF THE WEEK- TOM ZGELA, JARED BINDEL

0-6, 0HR 0RBI...The injury bug strikes again...this is the 2nd time for Zgela this year...also he is in danger of not qualifying for the BA Title...A minimum of 503 ABs is needed per RTTC Rules...3.1 ABs per game X 162 games) Despite the bad luck, ZMan and Bindel both are sitting pretty good overall, just need to avoid the injury bug.

ALL-STAR SELECTIONS

Well, we are halfway done with season...time to unleash the 2009 RTTC All-Star Team...This is determined by the top 5 in each category....(the career total is in parenthesis)

B.Hernandez .355 (2nd selection)

S. Clark .316

Dave Krauss .315 (2nd selection)

K. Graven .313 (2nd selection)

C. Mathews .311

J. Whittlesey 23HR-64RBI

T. Brooks 23HR-70RBI

Jodi Biederstedt 22HR-67RBI

S. Sunderman 21HR-64RBI

E. Krauss 21HR

Tim Krauss 66RBI

S. Herlihy 65RBI

Overall 5 Rookies and 3 second-time All-Stars

2ND HALF PREDICTIONS...

I am going to keep it simple and go off of last years standards that were set..

.320 is what it is gonna take to win BA
40 is what it is gonna take to win HR
130 is what it is gonna take to win RBI

WEEK 5 RESULTS

What a crazy week 5 we had. The weekly hit record was broken, the at bats record was tied, and the RBI record was broken by 3 different people. Also, 2 players got suspended, and a few more had the dreaded Monday night injury...

STUD OF THE WEEK: Troy Brooks

.379, 4HR 14RBI...Troy Boy was one of the 3 people that broke the RBI record. After this huge week, he is now tied with the league lead in HRs with 11 and 2nd in RBIs with 32. (Google Pic-Troy Boy)

Honorable Mention: I normally don't do this but had to give props to the other record breakers this week. Punches went off with 16 hits raising his average 70 points...and Jodi Bieder and Jay Persinger also ended the week with 14 RBIs, which actually doubled both of their totals for the year.

DUDS OF THE WEEK: Tom Zgela, Mike Meyer, and Sean Clark

0-3, 0HR, 0RBIs...This is what happens when the Monday injury comes into play...nothing you can do but watch

CHEATERS OF THE WEEK: Ryan Smith, and Clark Carroll

Both of these guys were suspended on Thursday for performance enhancing drugs, although by looking at them you wouldn't know...Per RTTC rules they were only required to sit out the remainder of the week and are reinstated as of today.

WEEK 3 RESULTS

STUD OF THE WEEK: TOMMY "The Z-Man" ZGELA

.450 3 HRS 11 RBIs...Big week for Zgela as he goes on vacation and still kicks our A$$. Anytime you can reach double digits in RBIs you are gonna be making a move up the list. He is tied for 4th now in RBIs.

DUD OF THE WEEK: BRENT "Willie" WILLIAMSON

.182 0 HRs 0 RBIs...Willie was one of two people that had a 0-0 week but took the dud status as he failed to top .200. Its a good thing that he had a big opening week because since he is: 9-49, 0 HR, 2 RBIs.

STAT THAT MAY ONLY AMAZE ME:

Stout's power surge. He needs only 12 more HRs to match his total from last yr.