HACKING MASS, a reverse fantasy contest

(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.

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