Armchair Thoughts

Welcome all. We're back to give you what you crave, the Week In Review. We saw some shakeup this past week, as teams are starting to settle into their places. Let's take a look at the current standings:

Division	WeekCatW%	ActW%	PredW%	DeltaW	MatchupW%
DS	Joe's Torn Ligament	0.625	0.690	-2.3	0.931
TK	Make It Rain (TFP)	0.611	0.599	0.4	0.761
TK	Sexual Napalm	0.597	0.583	0.5	0.733
DS	Maewyn Succat	0.417	0.494	-2.8	0.481
DS	La Furia Roja	0.514	0.481	1.2	0.441
TK	Dmitri Petrovich	0.361	0.457	-3.4	0.381
TK	Winston Wolfe	0.611	0.454	5.7	0.372
TK	The Master Baker	0.389	0.434	-1.6	0.306
DS	Enter Sandman	0.486	0.418	2.4	0.275
DS	Drunk Hot Girl Scout	0.389	0.390	-0.1	0.196

DeltaW=Number of difference in Actual Wins vs Predicted Wins. Positive numbers means overrated.
MatchupW%=ComboW% from last week. The percent chance the given team beats a team (wins 7 categories or more) that has a 50% chance of winning every category.

Joe still maintains his top spot in our standings, albeit with authority. Joe had the best hitting week anyone will probably ever see, ever. Joe came in first place in every offensive category this past week. Impressive, indeed. Observe:

Raw	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	OPS	BG
Make It Rain (TFP)	35	9	39	9	0.296	0.887	53
Enter Sandman	30	4	22	3	0.282	0.741	56
Sexual Napalm	35	7	32	5	0.271	0.767	59
Maewyn Succat	24	6	18	7	0.277	0.801	51
La Furia Roja	29	6	23	6	0.289	0.821	52
The Master Baker	22	5	33	5	0.23	0.669	55
Drunk Hot Girl Scout	22	2	16	1	0.197	0.538	54
Winston Wolfe	30	6	37	6	0.308	0.916	49
Dmitri Petrovich	34	4	29	2	0.271	0.796	52
Joe's Torn Ligament	39	10	42	11	0.326	0.943	61

Quite a feat. But you may be asking yourself what that far right category is. Any guesses? It is exactly the number of games started for all the batters of each team. So if you have a player in your starting 9 for a night, and he does not start his MLB game, then that is not counted. If a player pinch hits later in the night, it is not counted. It's a crude way of seeing how many total ABs your team got for a week. Joe, as we can see, had almost every spot on his roster filled for every day last week. Basic math says that there are (9 roster spots * 7 days)=63 maximum possible starting games for batters on your team each week (Not including doubleheaders since it usually means usually the day before was a rain out). Joe almost had the maximum possible games, falling 2 short. So if he has the best counting stats, and the most games played, how do the averages compare? Let's look:

Per Game	R/BG	HR/BG	RBI/BG	SB/BG
Make It Rain (TFP)	0.66	0.17	0.74	0.17
Enter Sandman	0.54	0.07	0.39	0.05
Sexual Napalm	0.59	0.12	0.54	0.08
Maewyn Succat	0.47	0.12	0.35	0.14
La Furia Roja	0.56	0.12	0.44	0.12
The Master Baker	0.40	0.09	0.60	0.09
Drunk Hot Girl Scout	0.41	0.04	0.30	0.02
Winston Wolfe	0.61	0.12	0.76	0.12
Dmitri Petrovich	0.65	0.08	0.56	0.04
Joe's Torn Ligament	0.64	0.16	0.69	0.18

As we can see, on a per game basis, Joe put up great numbers. However, he only ranks first in stolen bases if we look at how many games his batters started. Make It Rain (TFP) had almost an equally impressive week on a per game basis. I hope this shows how important it is to make sure you have the right players starting on a given night.

[Note: It's important to understand that if I were to only start my best player and bench everyone else, I would also get very high numbers on a per game basis. The goal of this fantasy game is to get the highest totals, unless the categories are AVG,ERA, etc.]

As for League Strength, the Tom Kocon Division has taken a slight lead. Let's look at their average stats:

LeagueASS 3.0	ActW%	PredW%	MatchupW%	Batter	Pitcher
Tom Kocon	0.514	0.505	0.510	0.500	0.510
Dan Stuart	0.486	0.495	0.490	0.500	0.490

As we can see, it all comes down to the pitching categories where they have the advantage. It'll be interesting to watch this race unfold throughout the year.

Well, with a scary midterm tomorrow and finals week next week, this weeks' WIR must stop here. Soon and very soon I will start throwing out some predictions for the upcoming weeks. I also hope to give "playoff odds"; but that may have to wait until midsummer.

Special shout out to Make It Rain (TFP) for going 11-0-1 against Luke. If only he could have won that Losses category, eh? With that tie on there I feel this is more equivalent to a no hitter than a perfect game. But good work nonetheless.

MEDIA!

Mr. Cafferty wrote to me this past week saying I should have included the FAU vs WKU rain delay in my last week's post. However this information was not received until after my work went to the press. If you haven't seen it yet, you can catch it here.

But this week I'll feature one of my favourite segments, Unnecessary Censorship:



And lastly, in honor of the draft, we have this disturbing gem:



Good night everyone. And hey, how about them Twins?