RCL Champion — Colicky Fuddruckers!

It’s official. The 2014 Razzball Grand Champion has been crowned. How close was it, you ask with those child-like eyes.  Great question.  The final tally on points was 115.93 to 115.85.  A difference of… Drum roll please… Well, I’m not good in math, but that’s pretty damn close.  If Rudy were as bad in math as me, we’d just round those both to 116 and have a co-champion.  Okay, wanna go even further into how close this was?  Of course you do.  If Cody Allen had been credited with a win on September 22nd, The Dynasty would’ve won.  You might say to yourself, “Why pick September 22nd?  Seems random to mention that specific date.”  Actually, Cody Allen did have a win on September 22nd.  It was for a makeup game from August.  Only ESPN doesn’t count stats for games that end more than 6 days past their start date.  So, I should say if Cody Allen had been given the win in ESPN that he earned, The Dynasty would’ve been the champion.  All stats from ESPN are final, and ESPN’s specific note on this is, “Statistics from the completion of that Indians-Royals Aug. 31 game will not count towards head-to-head matchups or league standings, as those fall beyond ESPN’s six-day window for finalized fantasy stats.”  For whatever it’s worth, Yahoo did credit Cody Allen with a win for that game, because, ya know, he earned it.  So, there ya go.  As Jeff Probst would count it down… 162 games, 1008 RCL teams, and one survivor… Colicky Fuddruckers!  Please give him good tidyings in the comments or wish him fantasy seppuku for beating everyone else.  Grey asked that Colicky comment here with an email so he can be reached for the details to receive his ginormous, badass trophy supplied by Far Out Awards.  Oh, and our very own Rudy Gamble not only beat that handsome mustachioed man, Grey Albright, but he came in third out of 1008 teams.  I’d only think that were fishy if he were the one devising the Competitive League Index.  Hey, wait a minute!

The RCL Top 10

Why the top-10? Because they’re the top-10 teams out of 1,000+? And that’s pretty amazing? I’m Brian Fantana giving you the news! Simply put, they’re the best of the best of the best, and I think they deserve a little bit recognition. BUT NOT TOO MUCH. Just a taste.  Oh, and yeah Colicky made the top ten twice.  Someone buy this man a bottle of booze for every day next year so he’s too drunk to beat all of us again.

The 2014 Razzball Commenter League Master Standings (Click on it. Seriously. Do it.)

The RCL Top 20

Wait! What? Yup, I’m doing the top 20. I want to give a little extra love to those that just missed the top 10. We have the Razzball Writers League winner (Mike), the winner of the RCL Champions League (Big Magoo) and last year’s Grand Champion (Traveling Riverside Blues AKA Mauled by Pandas) in this list. It’s a big gluttony of love today from the original man of hate…ME!

Vin Wins Leaves His Mark…Again

As I have said before I am just holding this spot for Vin in hopes he returns someday to do the analytics we all love to read. We had 16 winners (15 champs and 1 co-champ) if you had the first pick and took Mike Trout. The next best spot with 15 winners (12 champs and 3 co-champs) was the 8th pick where 7 different players were selected among those leagues. Personally, I love the middle of the draft, because you never have to reach and can pick up the missed gems from people who have to overreach when they are the bookends. The next best spot was the 4th pick that produced 10 winners (7 champs and 3 co-champs) where you went with AuShizz or the Dread Pirate and the one guy that took Beltre. (Huh?  Um, okay.) Don’t be discouraged though, the last spot produced 9 champions as many of the players drafted there were quality players that dropped for whatever reason. You can view all sorts of Vin gems in our fantasy baseball forums and I hope it helps you next year as you plan out your strategies.  So, that’s it, now give Colicky hell for being so much better than the rest of us normal-brained people.