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RCT Fantasy BASEball Update

Fantasy Baseball Update

Ok, so I know I volunteered to do monthly updates. That was obviously a fail. But in all fairness, fizzle, our esteemed commissioner, could have shown some ambition and done this monthly just as easily as I could have ...

No, that's not fair, I'm sorry fizz. But seriously, you should have done it.

Anyhow, let's go ahead and get y'all (and myself) caught up on RCT Fantasy Baseball. I just logged in and checked my team for the first time in at least a month. I assume most of the rest of the league is the same way, but who really knows.

As a refresher, it is a weekly head-to-head league. We just started and are currently in Week 17 of 22. Playoffs are weeks 23, 24, and 25. The trade deadline (of which there have been none this year) is August 17. Just FYI to everyone in the league, I'm the only one with "Trading Block" information filled out. Brandon Phillips is killing me.

Anyway, back on point. Let's take a look at the standings.

Team RCT Owner W L T PCT GB
Team PenHawk PenHawk 96 64 16 0.591 -
FLJhawk's Manatees FLJhawk 99 72 5 0.577 2.5
Cubicle Distraction jayhawkrex 97 70 9 0.577 2.5
Deep Space Niners mikeville 92 74 10 0.551 7
One and Dunn ?? 84 77 15 0.52 12.5
Strathclyde's Team strathclyde 81 83 12 0.494 17
Fizzle's Team fizzle406 75 87 14 0.466 22
S J's Superb Team ?? 69 94 13 0.429 28.5
Team Gonzo ?? 66 96 14 0.415 31
Byron's Bold Team byronkewel 60 102 14 0.381 37

Somehow three of the RCT usernames of our competitors have escaped me. Also, half of the league has the word "Team" in their name. That's a big fat FAIL, you guys.

The top six teams will make the playoffs. Top two seeds get a bye. With five weeks left, there's still plenty of time for the bottom four teams to make a move. But they gotta move now! The best a team can do in any given week is 11-0, so technically, no one is eliminated YET. But Byron, SJ, and Gonzo are pretty close. Give it another week or two and barring a miracle these three will be goners.

Fun Fact - S J's Superb Team and Byron's Bold Team have both failed to record any transactions. No adds, no drops, no trades. S J's Superb Team has three guys on the DL, and Byron has two inactive players to go along with the three on his DL. Guess who won't be invited back next year?

Fizzle is currently the last team out of the playoffs. Come on, fizz, you're only 5 games back (out of the playoffs) with something like 66 to play. Get it together!

PenHawk has been a fixture in the top four of the standings all year. At least, I'm pretty sure he has. I haven't exactly checked my team every week even though I have by far the best team logo. Anyhoodle, PenHawk currently occupies first place all by his lonesome. FLJhawk and jayhawkrex are close behind in a win percentage tie for second place. The dangerous Deep Space Niners of mikeville are only 7 games back of the top of the standings in fourth.

Let's look at a few fun facts from prior weeks.

Week 1 - PenHawk beats fizzle 8-3.

Week 2 - mikeville beats fizzle 6-4.

Week 2 - PenHawk keeps the wheels rolling with an 8-3 win over Gonzo.

Week 2 - jayhawkrex smokes strathclyde 9-1.

Week 3 - fizzle finally has a plus week with a 6-3 win over byronkewel.

Week 3 - mikeville knocks off PenHawk 6-4.

Week 4 - strathclyde obliterates S J's Team 10-1.

Week 6 - PenHawk suffers his worst defeat of the year, 10-1 to jayhawkrex.

Week 8 - mikeville pastes strathclyde 9-2.

Week 9 - PenHawk handles FLJhawk 8-3.

Week 10 - FLJhawk bounces back vs mikeville with an 8-2 win.

Week 10 - PenHawk smokes fizzle again 9-1 in a rematch of Week 1.

Week 11 - Fizzle has his revenge on mikeville, swapping Week 2's score, 6-4.

Week 11 - Another 10-1 score is posted by FLJhawk over byronkewel.

Week 12 - mikeville still has PenHawk's number, posting a 6-3 win.

Week 13 - mikeville posts the first (and so far only) perfect 11-0 week vs Team Gonzo.

Week 13 - PenHawk settles for a disappointing 4-4 split with last place byronkewel.

Week 14 - PenHawk has hit a rough stretch, dropping a 7-3 week to One and Dunn.

Week 15 - One and Dunn is still hot, dropping mikeville by a commanding 8-2 tally.

Week 15 - fizzle also drops an 8-2 decision to strathclyde.

Week 15 - PenHawk rebounds with an 8-3 win over jayhawkrex.

Week 16 - PenHawk stomps strathclyde with a 8-2 domination.

Week 16 - fizzle keeps, well, fizzling along, splitting 5-5 with S J's Superb eighth place team.

Who knows what the future holds? All I know is fizzle better be scouring that waiver wire. It might help if he didn't have Brett Lawrie (DL) and Alfonso Soriano (NA) in starting positions. Get it together, commish.