HACKING MASS, a reverse fantasy contest

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.

- copy the URL to my HM team into your browser's Address bar
- delete everything after "owner=" in the URL
- type in your Baseball Prospectus login name after the equal sign
- GO to that URL

(out of 1859)

xpost - so it's good??? urgh! *head explodes*

Also, two members of my Hacking Mass team played on my Fantasy Team this year. That's a bad sign.

Mike Matheny: 48
Doug Mientkiewicz: 22
Craig Counsell: 50
Rob Mackowiak: 38
David Eckstein: 30
Scott Podsednik: 57
Tike Redman: 60
Jacque Jones: 25
Eric Milton: 153
Shawn Estes: 33
Total: 516

Damn you Mienktwiciziweicz.

Guzman was the most popular pick at SS:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/hm/index.php?mode=allstar

Mike Matheny -1
Jay Gibbons 7
Jose Castillo 3
David Bell 15
Royce Clayton 10
Bobby Higginson 8
Luis Matos -1
Alexis Rios 4
John Lackey 22
Elmer Dessens --

so where is it?

its back

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=23226

well there goes my weekend

(this is the only fantasy league I've ever played)

harder to draft a HM team w/ Dusty Baker no longer making out lineups

p satisfied with my provisional picks, but waiting to see how this week's pitching goes before I commit.

No more framed Bud Selig photos as prizes, no credibility.

I will still enter though, HM has been sorely missed.

I am really torn about a few selections, for reasons we can discuss after Friday night. At least one position is kinda short on obviously bad players who will play a lot.

I am happy with my team name, but it's not as good as The Bingo Long Unravelling No-Stars (2008 i think)

less than 12 hrs to finalize your roster

deadline pushed back a week! I was ready to go, goddammit.

ooh - that gives me time to do this!

Deadline is tomorrow night (April 14), not in a week.

Entered my team today.

Yesterday and this morning it said the 18th! Very smooth op, BP.

got my team set! (not as many Astros as I would have expected)

tomorrow we can discuss how the hell our picks will still have jobs in 2 months

presenting THE WILLS TO WIN! I was really torn about picking Arencibia, but decided not to, bcz surely Texas will not be stupid enough to give him 250+ PA even with the Soto injury, right? Yeah, no idea why I didn't remember it's Texas. Lost several points last night due to Popeye Uggla's 2 HR, which can't happen every night.

Also tempted to take 2 Twins pitchers, but I hadda get a Rockie in there.

Catcher Dioner Navarro TOR
First Base Yonder Alonso SD
Second Base Dan Uggla ATL
Third Base Mike Moustakas KC
Shortstop Alcides Escobar KC

Left Field Robbie Grossman HOU
Center Field B.J. Upton ATL
Right Field Josh Reddick OAK

Pitcher 1 Mike Pelfrey MIN
Pitcher 2 Jorge De La Rosa COL

the Astros sent down my LF Grossman

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

C: Kurt Suzuki
1B Jesus Guzman
2B Ryan Goins
3B Casey McGehee
SS Adeiny Hechavarria
LF Grossman (he'll be back, don't worry)
CF Lorenzo Cain
RF LJ Hoes
P1 Lucas Harrell
P2 Edison Volquez

Harrell went down too.

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.