[Lucky]

Last week...
In the opening week of the 2009 season Solly got off to the best start with a 12-2 victory over rival Moose to lead the Bananas. In a matchup of the 1 and 2 teams last season for the Cupcakes division Lucky took an 11-2-1 victory off of 2008 Division Winner Pun to lead the Cupcakes. A battle of the 2008 Champion GM and 2006-2007 Champion AA left the old man on top with an 8-4-2 victory while last season's worst record holder Army took down Dev to start the season up 8-5-1. To round out the action Mike inched by MKid 7-5-2 after a big weekend for MKid and Vols took down Grover 8-6.


This week...
Second week of the season saw more of the new unblanced schedule in play as folks who made a hot start attempted to increase their division lead while others attempted to recover and avoid digging themselves a hole.

Cupcakes Division

Grover's New Day Co-Op (6-8-0) vs Lucky's Spreadsheet Studs (11-2-1): Two teams on the opposite side of the rankings for Week 1 face off as the division leader looks to hold on. Grover held a narrow lead most of the week but neither team took control. By the end of the week Grover's injury ravaged team was unable to hold on, allowing Lucky and his 14 HRs to take away a 7-5-2 victory.


Pun's It Byrnes When I Peavy (2-11-1) vs Mike's Tarheel's Blue Sox (7-5-2): After finishing the regular season with the best record last year Pun wanted to recover from a bad start of the season but continues to get a rough schedule. A close contest that saw multiple ties and a number of categories decided by narrow margins Mike came away with his 2nd winning week of the season thanks to his much lauded focus on pitching in the draft. A 6-4-4 victory is narrow but keeps him on top and digs the hole a little further for Pun.


MKid's Dual National Champions (5-7-2) vs Vols' Schewtty Vols (8-6-0): Rounding out the Cupcakes action was the #3 and #4 teams facing off and neither managed to gain ground. MKid put up a .319 AVG/.991 OPS/18 HR week but also had 5 Ls, a 7.61 ERA, and 1.61 WHIP. Vols took advantage of that despite an otherwise unspectacular pitching week and the matchup ended in a draw, 7-7.

Bananas Division

Dev's Jersey Cold Fusion (5-8-1) vs AA's 3-Time! 3-Time! 3-Time! (8-4-2): Two time league champion AA looked to keep up his winning ways while Dev looked to rebound from a loss to Army. Dev found the answer with a stellar pitching performance. 71 K, 7 W, 2.13 ERA, and 1.11 WHIP. AA's team managed to rack up 5 HLDs and 6 SB not much us. 10-2-2 win for Dev.


Army's Balad Shithooks (8-5-1) vs Solly's Beat Me Solly (12-2-0): Two big loses from last season won big in Week 2 but something had to give. Or maybe it didn't. Solly's amazing 12 SB proved useless against Army's 13 but his 5.65 ERA proved enough to beat Army's 7.10. Army managed to nudge out 4 of 7 offensive categories while Solly's quantity managed to take in 4 of the pitching categories. In the end it was a 7-7 draw, the 2nd of the week.


Moose's One Eyed Jacks (2-12-0) vs GM's Dual National Park (4-8-2): Last year's Champion and last year's Consolation Champion faced off, each hoping to rack up their first winning week of the season. GM's 3.71 ERA and 1.33 WHIP was a nice start but Moose answered back with a 9-2 W-L record and 73 Ks. In what became the theme of the week another close battle resulted in neither team managing to get in the winning ways. The 3rd 7-7 draw of the week.


Standings

Cupcakes: The division's order remained the same for the 2nd week. Lucky holds on to a 3.5 game lead while Mike remains 1 game ahead of Vols. Vols and MKid remain on either side of the .500 mark after their draw. Grover and Pun take their 2nd losses in a row to fall to the back of the pack, with Pun a full 11 games behind in this early going.


Bananas: Solly remains on top of the division despite his draw but Dev jumps up to 2nd 1 G ahead of Army and 2.5 behind the lead with his big week. The two league champs GM and AA sit even for a tie at 5th while Moose remains a distant 10 Gs behind.

Mike's Statistical Breakdown


Next Week...
Solly and Lucky seek to further their division leads against AA and MKid respectively. In the rest of the Cupcakes division its a match up #2 Mike vs #3 Vols and #5 Grover vs #6 Pun as the division tries to shape out itself. Moose looks to get his first win of the season against Army and avoid digging a hole for himself even without his #1 overall pick A-Rod. Dev looks to keep up his momentum against GM.

[Lucky]

This is boring and useless at the moment. My hope is that as the weeks go on I (a) start adding some cool features like a way to incorporate Mike's Stats and (b) can use it as a nice way to look back across the season. Right now its nothing and probably a waste of time but hopefully it shapes up.

Anyone have any suggestions of things to add or improve this, feel free to speak up.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

I like it, I don't need the bells and whistles.

[Lucky]

Yeah, I don't want to overload it with crap but at the same time I want to have something worth reading in it. I'll screw with the format as the weeks go on and see what shapes up. I intend to go back across the seasons and compile as much head-to-head info as I reasonably can so I can do previews that amount to "Lucky and Pun face off for the 2nd time this season. Lucky won the first matchup of this season but Pun holds the most wins in their head to head matchups with X-X-X." Crap like that.

Plus maybe I start paying more attention and take notes so I can say things like "Mike was dominating all through th eweek and seemed set to take a 5+ W but MKid rallied with a huge weekend including X HRs from Y to cut the overall score to X-X-X."

I don't know. Stuff like that. Plus previews for the upcoming week might be easier and more interesting than recaps of the past week. I don't know. Its a work in progress but my hope is that by mid season its something that is kind of cool to look back on. Plus then the trade deadline stuff comes in and the playoffs shape up and real commentary and "news" can be covered. "Solly has won 3 straight weeks since firesaling his team meanwhile since acquiring Jose Reyes Lucky has been barely above .500 and has lost ground in the division race. When or if will this trade pay off and be worth the 3rd Rd pick Lucky gave up?"

It will probably flop and in Week 5 I'll be too busy to do it. But we'll see.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

It's really up to you on how in-depth you want to go but it seems like Friday is a good day to gauge how the week is shaping up, who got a monster performance from X, Y, or Z, etc.

[Lucky]

Yeah. Weekends have a tendency to chase the face of a matchup so I think I can cut corners by just taking inventory and starting my writeup on Friday. Than the end result can basically be my Sunday reactions to Friday. Or were you suggesting I just do the writeup as a Friday thing?

I've got like a dozen different ideas that I'm probably going to try so I expect the format will change up fairly drastically the next few weeks (assuming I even stick with it) as some stuff seems like good ideas to me and some sucks. I can already be next week's being 1 or 2 paragraphs about this week's results and instead full previews of all of next week's matchups.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

I was actually suggesting your first response - starting your writeup on Friday, especially when it seems like Sat or Sun can make or break your week.

This is going to be a trial and error format anyway, see what works and what doesn't. I just hope you're not going to the trouble of doing this just for me. I hope everyone else is digging this.

[Lucky]

Eh, at the moment I'm doing it for me. I like the idea of being able to go back to Week 4 and see how the league looked vs Week 16. So simply taking down the standings and scores is an easy way to do that. And I like the idea of saying "So and so is on an X week winning streak" or "So and so has never beat his opponent in 2 seasons." So this is the most effective way of starting to keep track of that.

[Jack Quinn]

Apr 21, 2009 18:13:52 GMT -5 Lucky said:

"So and so has never beat his opponent in 2 seasons." So this is the most effective way of starting to keep track of that.

I am 6-1-1 against Solly

[Mikey]

But that middle 1 was a bad one.

[The Jewish Cunthead]

Yeah a 12-2 asskicking in Week 1 should be worth like 3 wins or so.

[Jack Quinn]

what difference will that make? its one series in April. When Solly chokes it all away in September, this won't even matter

[Mikey]

Because the games in April don't count as much in the standings?

[Jack Quinn]

clearly they do not. And again, it's solly you know he is going to fuck it up