The updated standings can be found here.
So, since my projections are based on a team's lineup for a given day and presume "here's what will happen if no one could make any batting changes the rest of the season", it's subject to an abundance of fluctuation. Let's say your best player is in the lineup one day, and has a day off the next. Well your projections are gonna smell a little funky.I apologize. Take Riley's team for instance. As of last week, they were projected to win 57% of their hitting categories for the rest of the season, and now they're only at 49%. Why? Joe Votto went on the DL. If that's the case, then we know that he's worth 8% over a replacement player for all hitting categories over the course of the rest of the season.
8% * 6 categories * 16 weeks left = 7.7 wins in the standings.
Better hope he gets back soon, Riles.
But we're not here to talk about Riley, we already talked about him. We're here to talk about our newest member of the top 4, Yung's $1 Store.
Coming into the season, the limitations on weekly transactions were a big talking point in regarding to whether it would affect Joe's strategy. He was certainly the dominant force to be reckoned with last year, and now we see him clawing up the standings. Well, what's he got in his arsenal?
Well firstly, Joe has YET TO LOSE A STOLEN BASES CATEGORY this year. (No other team is totally undefeated in any one category, so congrats Joe!)
So he must have a lot of good speedsters then? Well not exactly.
He's only tied for 4th in the league in total SB this year. If anyone should be undefeated it's the FCG, who have 8 more than 2nd place and is also projected to churn out the most SB for the rest of the season.
But we're not here to talk about Mike, we already talked about him.
So if Joe isn't a particularly fast team, what are they good at?
While they are particularly strong at SBs, they really don't have much left for offense. They are projected to have the 2nd least HRs and the 2nd least RBIs from here on out. Granted, I haven't checked his starting lineup to see if he's playing his best players today.
Pitching-wise, things get a little better, but it's still only mediocre. Joe is another relatively low SP, high RP kind of guy. But like with JP (though not as extreme), the K category is his biggest pitfall ....
HOWEVER HOWEVER HOWEVER the regular rules don't pertain to Joey Ballgame.
We've played 7.5 weeks of baseball with 7 max acquisitions per week. Joe has made 50 moves already. Almost the maximum each week. While it doesn't particularly boost his hitting stats, his pitching stats have been shored up quite a bit. To put it into context, he's projected to win 34% of his Ws categories and 30% of his K categories for the rest of the season, and yet he's .500 and .714 in those categories respectively.
You all should keep that in mind when you look at my projections, they don't yet take into account the streaming tendencies of managers. So while the numbers say Joe is finishing 9th, he has 112 moves left to make before the regular season is over.