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We’ve just got a quick hitter this week for our Razzball Commenter League update.  With only three days in the previous week’s schedule, thanks to the All Star Break, everything is abbreviated.  There weren’t a lot of changes, but there are still some goodies to go over.  Plenty of trades were made and some decent mini weeks were had as we’ll see in the weekly leaders.  It’s pretty impressive what teams can pull off in just three days.  Let’s jump into all the juicy data from our mini week that was, week 15:

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Happy Sunday degens.  Yesterday was a bonkers day in baseball and we’ll be working through the aftermath of some of that today.  What a scary scene outside of Nationals Park.  Hug your loved ones people.  Once you’ve hugged it out, settle in with some brunch, and let’s build some lineups to win us some cash.  Our main building block today will be Zack Wheeler ($11,000).  Expensive?  Absolutely, but he’s also been completely studly this year and he’s got a primo match-up.  I’m not touching Scherzer vs the Padres (more on that later) or Rodon vs the red-hot Astros.  The Marlins are bottom five in team OPS and Wheeler is at home.  Toss in the fact that the Marlins strike out the fourth most of any team in baseball and we have ourselves a winner.  Stack Zack in cash games and use him as your main building block in GPPs for some easy cash.

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Happy All Star Break my fellow RCLers.  The Razzball Commenter Leagues can take a toll on your time, your social life, and your personal hygiene.  I hope you’re using the break to take a shower, get out of your sweat pants, and get reacquainted with your roommates, also known as, your family.  They’ve missed you.  Spend a moment and remind them that you are in fact, alive and well.  Show those that love you that you haven’t been lost in the wilderness for the past 14 weeks, being cared for by a pack of wolves.  In fact, you’ve just been winning fantasy baseball leagues.  You know, just like your idol, Son, current ‘Perts League leader who has two teams in the top five overall. Or, perhaps your idol might be Frank Grimes, current Master Standings leader.  GRIMEY!  Maybe you’re partial to Laura Holt, currently in eighth place in the Master Standings.  Or maybe you look up to VottomanEmpire, one of the better RCL players I know, currently sitting in sixth in the Master Standings.  Whomever it may be, hopefully, you’re kicking butt just like them and getting ready to keep it up in the second half.  Check out the current Master Standings and the rest of the All Star Break stats in the week that was, week 14:

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Pardon the typos today, I am typing this article through eyes filled with tears over the loss of Ronald Acuna.  What a sad way to enter the All-Star break.  I will be coping with the loss the only way I know how, betting a whole bunch of money on DFS and hoping that my screen turning green washes away the pain.  Starting off that process we have everybody’s favorite DFS pitching target the Detroit Tigers facing our main squeeze, Jose Berrios ($9,900).  We all know that the Tigers are dreadful (and they strike out the second most of any team) and Berrios has been hot of late.  His last time out he put up 52 FanDuel points vs the White Sox.  The last time he faced the Tigers he only managed 19 points in Detroit, but this game is at home and I really like Berrios to shine.

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Happy weekend friends, it’s our final weekend of action before the break, so let’s go out on a winning note.  My winning strategy tonight is saving some serious cash with Patrick Sandoval ($7,700) and stacking all the choice bats.  Sandoval has been a DFS goldmine on the cheap since June and I fully expect that to continue tonight against the Mariners.  With their bottom two team OPS and their top five team strikeout marks, they make for easy pickings.  Pickings that Sandoval’s 9.7 K/9 should tear apart.  Looking at the top pitchers on the slate, I’m very willing to pay down at SP and pay up everywhere else.  Let’s dig into the everywhere else.

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I hope you all had a Happy 4th of July weekend, my fellow Razzball Commenter Leaguers!  This weekend not only marked the birthday of our fine U.S. of A., but more importantly, marked the halfway point of the fantasy baseball season!  We just finished ~13 weeks and there are ~13 weeks remaining.  While we typically use the All-Star Break to mark the halfway point, this week is the real deal.  If you were exactly on pace with your innings pitched, you would have 700 on the button.  You can use that as a nice gauge to see if you need to be streaming your buns off the next 13 weeks or if you can chill out a bit and wait for the choice match-ups.  This week, in addition to the weekly leaders, we will take a look at our halfway leaders.  It will be a quick shoutout to those teams that have started hot in each of the roto categories.  Obviously, our team of the halfway point is the leader of our Master Standings.  Who might that be you ask? Let’s take a look at that and the rest of the week that was week 13 in the Razzball Commenter Leagues:

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The tight pants bursting on the mound, gave proof through the day, that our DFS plays were still there.  Oh, sorry, you caught me in a moment of singing about my favorite DFS play today, Robbie Ray ($10,800).  What a stud Ray has been this year huh?  11.7 K/9 and a 2.2 BB/9 will do that for a pitcher.  I remember it was a bit of a running joke during draft season how high the Razzball crew was drafting Ray, but who’s laughing now?  Ray gets to face the, uh…Rays today, interesting.  The Rays rank at the top of the league in team strikeouts and I am just drooling over what Robbie Ray is going to do them.  Expect fireworks and expect many points in your DFS lineups.  I hope everyone has a happy and safe Fourth of July and we all make a little extra moolah.

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Shake up alert, shake up alert, shake up alert!  We have a new number one sitting on top of the Master Standings!  It’s been the Son show since week three, so this is some big news.  After one week without Master Standings, we’re back and things are all shaken up.  Maybe Son’s moves are catching up with him as he slows down a bit to preserve a few for the final month of the season.  Son still leads all RCLers with 311 moves and he has three of the top four move-making teams.  League Competitive Index came into play also, as the new top team has a slightly higher LCI in their league compared to the ‘Perts League.  Typically the number of moves a league makes has a good correlation to a high LCI.  This makes sense, right?  A league making the most moves would be a league full of attentive managers, racking up counting stats, and thus have a high LCI. There are currently 12 leagues with over 1,000 moves made and surprisingly, the top league is not one that Son is in.  We’ll take a look at the top ten move-makers, the most active leagues, and take a look at the new top ten, all that in more in the week that was week 12 in the Razzball Commenter Leagues.

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I’m dead serious that I don’t think FanDuel could make Jacob deGrom ($11,500) expensive enough that I would move off of him on any slate.  What deGrom is doing right now is just unreal.  You could get cute, and drop down to another pitcher, but do you really want to start the day out behind 30 points when deGrom goes for 75?  I’d rather have some fun digging up cheap bats than risk fading deGrom right now.  deGrom is at home and the Phils are middle of the pack in team OPS while also ranking in the top ten in team strikeouts.  Bryce Harper is the only threat we have to worry about, he has taken deGrom deep twice in his career, but I’m not worried, deGrom is just on another planet right now.

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With so much talk of sticky stuff, the state of the game of baseball, and how many runs are or aren’t being scored these days, I thought I’d take a look at our very own data sample and see what our average ERA in the Razzball Commenter Leagues looks like this year versus years past.  One of my favorite things about keeping all the RCL data over the years is being able to look back at it for things likes this.  Let’s start with 2016 where our average ERA was 3.72.  Not too shabby.  2017 saw a bump to 3.88 but 2018 fell back down to 3.79.  2019 got ugly and we had an average team ERA of 4.07.  A shortened 2020 season was even worse with an average of 4.18.  We’ve been slowly creeping up over time.  So, how are we looking this year?  As of right now, we’re looking at an average team ERA of 3.51.  I’d say they sure deadened the ball alright.  What will the hot, humid summer months and umpires patting pitchers down do to these numbers?  I’m going to guess we end up somewhere right in the 3.85 ERA range, in other words, get ready for some offense.

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I hope everyone had a wonderful tenth week of fun in the Razzball Commenter Leagues.  It was at this point last season that we were all done with the RCLs and fantasy baseball.  I still can’t believe we played a 60 game season, stopping at this point in this season would just feel silly.  Some of my teams are just finally getting their shizz together.  Is it from this point forward we start seeing even more injuries than we already have?  Do even more pitcher’s arms start falling off?  As someone who recently traded for Jacob deGrom in one RCL and drafted Max Scherzer in another, I was holding my breathe this weekend.  Don’t worry though, the Mets say deGrom is fine for his next start after playing some catch.  If that doesn’t make you rest easy, I don’t know what will.  This, combined with the MLB attack on Spider Tack and we could be in for some major offense this summer!  I know my RCL teams that are currently batting under .250 will approve.  Let’s take a look at how offense and pitching alike faired this week and the rest of the week that was, week 10:

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We’ve got ourselves a massive slate for a Saturday.  We typically have some early games and a handful of late games, but today we’ve got all but two teams playing from 4 o’clock on making for a 15 game main slate.  I love these massive slates, more options give us more opportunity to create an edge.  We’re going to create that edge today by kicking things off with Joe Musgrove ($8,300).  Musgrove saves us a ton of money over the top options today, allowing us to load up on all the bats.  Musgrove has a couple knocks going against him, but that’s baked into the cheap price.  Musgrove is on the road and facing a Mets team that doesn’t strike out a ton.  However, Musgrove has the ability to overcome these bumps.  The 2.94 FIP and 12.2 K/9 are well worth the $8,300.  We just have to hope Tingler doesn’t pull him in the fourth.

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