HACKING MASS, a reverse fantasy contest

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.

Bring Back the original Jays Theme Song

Catcher J.P. Arencibia

First Base James Loney

Second Base Cliff Pennington

Third Base Chris Nelson

Shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria

Left Field Ichiro Suzuki

Center Field B.J. Upton

Right Field David Murphy

Pitcher 1 Edwin Jackson

Pitcher 2 Kyle Kendrick

my team: The Whostown Lastros

I have zoomed into the top 10 thanks to Star of the Day Mike Pelfrey, but he needs to have a couple mediocre outings or even the Twins will release him by Fathers Day.

Arencibia is at an .071 BA and plunging, but he drove in two runs with ground balls yesterday, so yeah, Texas will probably platoon him all fucking year.

Texas signed him despite his historically bad OBP, so I figured it's unlikely that they'll have that "AHA Arencibia sucks!" moment anytime soon.

But they didn't expect to be missing G Soto for 3 months....

Alcides Escobar has hit .395/.413/.674 in his last 46 plate appearances.... regression anticipation

My team is in free fall, not sure what I can do other than wait for Moutsakas and Escobar to stop hitting.

ungood free fall or reverse bad free fall?

what do you think?

9-point gain last night! a record for me and I have Pelfrey going today.

up another 13 today (10 of em from Pelfrey), tied for 41st.

hey, not bad. i've dropped almost 100 points since they sent Goins down!

Did anyone pick this guy

http://i.imgur.com/nORpu9T.gif

who?

Billy Hamilton

he was a p popular CF pick, after BJ I think

It's funny to see most of the teams near the top losing points yesterday, since Alcides Escobar and Yonder Alonso had 4 hits and a homer between them.

really kicking myself for not picking Nate Schierholtz

Robbie Grossman is back up! Getting hits so far, alas.

Why the fuck did I pick De La Rosa? Did I think he'd be bad or something? He needs to pitch only at Coors.

At last, De La Rosa got knocked around and my hitters sucked! Up 12 points in a day. (just discovered Reddick was DL'd tho)

do you have all-star shortstop derek jeter

no, Alcides Escobar.

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/hm/index.php?mode=browse_players&bypos=SS

collected 24 pts on Wednesday (17 from De La Rosa), a personal record. Now tied for 13th; I'd be sitting pretty if I'd only taken Zack Cozart and Jose Molina.

I'm up to 84th after picking up 102 points in the past month. Morbs' team still looks solid at #29.

yeah, but I'm likely getting absolutely nothing in the second half from Pelfrey, Uggla, Alonso.

i've dropped all the way into the 600's :(

Brutal night, lost 16 points and dropped about 40 places. That's what happens when Navarro and Moustakas both have great nights.

I picked up another 18 points and moved up to #38. There's still room for improvement -- James Loney is still in negative points!

I find that the two pitchers' performance is really key. and of course De La Rosa is doing well again today....

my spiral into oblivion continues as Reddick and Navarro keep hitting.

I think I'm done -- my team picked up minus 30 points last week, I'm down to 105th place after peaking at around 38th place a couple of weeks ago.

yeah, you were tied with me a couple days ago, that's a bad sign.

really kicking myself for thinking Jose Molina and Nate Schierholtz wouldn't play enough. And now Yonder Alonso is hitting.

My team "rebounded" with 32 points over the past seven days. I'm up to 55th place. Nobody on my team really stood out this week, it was general suckage all around, a true team effort.

It's kind of amazing you have six players with 18 pts or less, and are that high. Carried by Edwin Jackson!

Wow, Edwin Jackson is really dominating Hacking Mass so far. He has 103 points, with Buccholz twenty points behind.

And I think the Cubs have just pulled Jackson from the rotation! When his ERA was about to hit the Number of the Beast.

Oh no, he's my star player!

Tough break

i'm sure he'll give up a couple slams outta the pen

In the top 30!

nice!

goddamn your Edwin Jackson, not being put on the DL til late August :)

BJ Upton homered and drew 2 walks last night, and nearly all the leaders in HM lost points.

(plus with Dioner Navarro homering, I have dropped to a new low)

Minus-16 points over the past week. I've dropped to 81st. Oh well, it was a decent run.