HACKING MASS, a reverse fantasy contest

HAHAHAHA, that's fucking awesome!

The Swingin' Misses are locked & loaded! (Roster to be revealed when I feel like it.)

Catcher Mike Matheny
First Base Jay Gibbons
Second Base Jose Castillo
Third Base David Bell
Shortstop Royce Clayton
Left Field Bobby Higginson
Center Field Luis Matos
Right Field Alexis Rios
Pitcher 1 John Lackey
Pitcher 2 Elmer Dessens

Catcher: Mike Matheny
First Base: Doug Mientkiewicz
Second Base: Craig Counsell
Third Base: Rob Mackowiak
Shortstop: David Eckstein
Left Field: Scott Podsednik
Center Field: Tike Redman
Right Field: Jacque Jones
Pitcher 1: Eric Milton
Pitcher 2: Shawn Estes

Last Year's ESPN total: 612

I have to double-check on JJ & Redman, tho.

Catcher -- Brad Ausmus
First Base -- Scott Spiezio
Second Base -- Craig Counsell
Third Base -- Morgan Ensberg
Shortstop -- David Eckstein
Left Field -- Mike Tucker
Center Field -- Endy Chavez
Right Field -- Aaron Guiel
Pitcher 1 -- Brian Anderson
Pitcher 2 -- Chris Capuano

Whoa, thanks! I switched to Marquis Grissom instead.

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Matheney's actually at 1. The highest scoring catcher is John Buck.

My team seems to have 3 of the most popular picks on it (Milton, Estes, & Minky).

Brian Schneider -- 6
Eric Hinske -- -3
Brian Roberts -- -31 [BURNINATED!]
Vinny Castilla -- -17
Pokey Reese -- 0
Scott Podsednik -- 8
Craig Biggio -- -8
Jacque Jones -- -23 [DAMN YOU JJ!]
Darrell May -- -2
Brett Myers -- -23 [BLESS YOU BM!]

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/hm/index.php?mode=team&owner=mlpowell&noncache=1118348681

Mike Matheny: 21
Doug Mientkiewicz: 29
Craig Counsell: -5
Rob Mackowiak: -26
David Eckstein: 6
Scott Podsednik: 24
Tike Redman: 14
Jacque Jones: -9
Eric Milton: 81
Shawn Estes: 11
Total: 146

And just so I remember where my team is.

HITTERS = (800 - OPS) * PAs
PITCHERS = (ERA - 4.00) * IP / 3

Mike Matheny: 9
Doug Mientkiewicz: 25
Craig Counsell: -5
Rob Mackowiak: -6
David Eckstein: 17
Scott Podsednik: 30
Tike Redman: 13
Jacque Jones: 8
Eric Milton: 108
Shawn Estes: -7
TOTAL: 192

Damn you Shawn Estes.

I'm 10th from the bottom! Nelson Cruz is killing my team.

Even the guy in last place was obviously making serious picks, choosing DJ LeMathieu and Mike Moustakas is easily defensible.

Only one other person picked Cruz, if I understand it correctly. At the start of 2014 no MLB teams wanted him! Last year easily could have been a fluke, and it was really only a couple of great months, in the second half he was terrible IIRC.

The 12 players who have Jeremy Guthrie are inordinately happy today.

btw RIP Tuffy Gosewisch (torn ACL)

Kyle Lohse is the first player to 100 points, nosing out Kyle Kendrick (97)!

Note to self: pick more Kyles.

(not Ricky Nolasco, looks out for the year)

your 2015 HM All-Stars

Rene Rivera C
Adam LaRoche 1B
Omar Infante 2B
Casey McGehee 3B
J.J. Hardy SS
Ichiro Suzuki LF
Billy Hamilton CF
Alex Rios RF
Kyle Kendrick P
Jeremy Guthrie P

For my squad, Kendrick and Hamilton came through with a combined 185 points. My other 8 picks: minus 54. Finished 311th out of 536.

it's back

you got a team picked out yet?

I'm in:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/hm/index.php?mode=team&alias=6afc&nocache=1459371691

i have not, tt, but i have learned from last year in particular i'd say

just minutes to finalize those rosters (allegedly)

my squad, Run Dusty Run (tho i picked no Nats, as Ben Revere is disabled)

Catcher Cameron Rupp
First Base C.J. Cron
Second Base Omar Infante
Third Base Aaron Hill
Shortstop Alcides Escobar
Left Field Yasmany Tomas
Center Field Billy Hamilton
Right Field Eddie Rosario
Pitcher 1 Chris Tillman
Pitcher 2 Wily Peralta

it looks like Hamilton has learned to walk a little, tho! :o

Chris Tillman is gonna be a fucking All-Star this year, i just know it

lol

coulda picked a Rockies pitcher! ANY Rockies pitcher!

Rick Porcello is killin' me

i am literally middle of the pack, #197

i almost picked Alfredo Simon over Chris Tillman, which is currently a swing of 88 points.

down to 55 pts from 92 a month ago!

Cron, Tillman, Y Tomas, Philly catcher Rupp all been afire

refresh my memory. in reversyland hacking baseball; more points is better, right? the worse your guys are doing, the better = more points.

yep

tillman, rick porcello, angel pagan, and kurt suzuki are killin' me

Yasmany Tomas and Cron have passed Tillman as my worst picks

thx to the above and Rupp, down to 34 pts, and 312th out of 394. Sad!

your all-stars

Derek Norris C
Ryan Zimmerman 1B
Daniel Castro 2B
Juan Uribe 3B
Adeiny Hechavarria SS
Jake Marisnick LF
Ben Revere CF
Jason Heyward RF
James Shields P
Tyler Duffey P

Heyward! Yikes.

now open at BP!

they finally froze the rosters this weekend, here are my picks

C Martin Maldonado
1B Yulieski Gurriel
2B Dee Gordon
3B Jose Reyes
SS Alcides Escobar
LF Travis Jankowski
CF Leonys Martin
RF Matt Joyce
P 1 Ubaldo Jimenez
P 2 Josh Tomlin

welp, Leonys Martin sent down to Tacoma, fuck me

yet i'm in 5th place...

Thanks to 'sterling' outings by Josh Tomlin and Ubaldo yesterday, I'm #1.

maintaining my lead by a mere 2 points (damn Jhoulys Chacin)

retaken the lead by 8 points! thank you Josh Tomlin, for your 5-inning, 4-ER win yesterday.

if i win, mookie will get the Tebow t shirt.

I swooned mightily and finished 27th, presuming they don't let the hacker who put James Shields at every position win...

My worst picks were Yuli Gurriel, Matt Joyce, and surprisingly Jose Reyes, whose horrendous first 2 weeks lured me into picking him.

27th out of, what, a few hundred (?) ain't bad!

just... not bad enough.

lol, right

i already have confidence in a couple of the position leaders for next year.

the all-stars (the only ones picked by more than 11 players were the DUH! perennials, Escobar and Jimenez)

Matt Wieters C
Albert Pujols 1B
Tyler Saladino 2B
Darwin Barney 3B
Alcides Escobar SS
Alex Gordon LF
Adam Engel CF
Jose Bautista RF
Ubaldo Jimenez P
Chris Tillman P

play by midnight tomorrow!

https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/hm/index.php?mode=rules

A shit ton of players earned 20+ points last night, but not me. So I checked the box scores and learned that Texas is still mysteriously letting Matt Moore pitch, and he gave up 6 ER in 1.2 IP.

Elvis Andrus has to be on some sort of leaderboard for this season's fall from grace?

he's just at the low end of mediocre? True Avg has slipped to .241, which is weak but not awful.

btw i am currently tied for 20th...

i never know if that's good or bad – but congrats?!

It's good for the contest... but I have no real chance of winning, bcz most of the leaders have some of the key players I do (eg, Alcides Escobar, Tim Beckham).

What pisses me off is they always close the rosters 2 weeks into the season, and some smartass always picks his roster as the ten players leading at their positions through 10-12 games. The guy who did that this year is still running 2nd! Chris Davis sucked through mid-April, and guess what?

it's back, and the strategy is interesting this season bcz

1) some guys like HM perennial Alcides Escobar are finally gone

2) are the Orioles really gonna let Chris Davis repeat last year?

I finished 5th out of 125 players, best showing ever. If I'd just had the brains to pick Jarrod Dyson in RF instead of Kole motherfuckin' Calhoun, I'd have won going away.

All Stars:

Jeff Mathis C
Chris Davis 1B
Chris Owings 2B
Travis Shaw 3B
Nicky Lopez SS
Curtis Granderson LF
Lewis Brinson CF
Jarrod Dyson RF
Antonio Senzatela P
Jordan Zimmermann P

Like everyone in the top 10, I've been rewarded with a year of BP Premium. Unexpected! I don't read the rules much.

One of my fantasy teams that autodrafted an incredible amount of busts probably would have done pretty well in HM:

Bellinger, Rendon, Flaherty, Mondesi, Torres, Laureano, Kela, Yates, Alfaro, Villar, Carlos Santana, JD Davis, etc.