We are approaching the halfway point of the season. It is officially time to panic if you’re in the bottom half of your league. A couple hot weeks can still turn things around, but it’s got to happen fast. I hope you had a restful weekend, maybe the dads out there were treated to some pampering, I’m still recovering from a Father’s Day/Wedding Anniversary combo weekend, which was a lot of fun and quite a whirlwind. Now, it’s time to buckle in, check those standings pages, and figure out what these teams need to move up. I hope it’s not pitching ratios like most of my teams because all I can manage is to stream Lance Lynn when he’s terrible and drop him before he strikes out 16, so I clearly know nothing. Improving ratios has to be the hardest thing in this game, one Braxton Garrett 11-run tank job and your ERA will never be the same it seems. Still, we march on and hope to find a Julio Tehran 7 IP, 0 ER lurking on our waivers. Let’s see who made a splash this week in the week that was, week 11.
Each week we’ll peek in at our resident ‘perts to see who is laying claim to best “expert” RCLer in the land. We’ll take notes, check the standings and generally stalk them. The heading is also hyperlink, so feel free to follow along as we go.
Cram It continued his hot run from two weeks ago when he picked up 13.5 points, adding 14 this week to move into third place, just 3.5 points behind Grey. Crammy led the league in Runs, HRs, RBIs, and WHIP in a massive week. The Great Knoche seemed to be on the receiving end of Cram It’s onslaught as he dropped 9.5 points and three places to fifth.
Each week we’ll also take a look at the top ten overall standings in our other Razzball sponsored league, the RazzSlam. This is our NFBC Best Ball league with managers from all across the industry, from content providers to fans and readers just like you.
Ryan Beck held onto the top spot, but Curtis Jones made a huge splash this week, picking up a Slam-best 822 points to move up ten places to second overall, dropping Yatta to third. Heck of a week from Curtis. Josiah Tindor had the biggest jump this week, moving up 59 spots to 105th place thanks to a 748-point week.
TOP 10
Vin’s approximation of Master Standings while we work to get the official ones up and running.
| BURANK | TEAM | LEAGUE | VINPTS | LG PTS | VINDEX |
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| 1 | Starfish & Coffee | RCL 33 | 109.47 | 110.5 | 99.38 |
| 2 | Wake – N – Rake | RCL 12 | 106.18 | 105.5 | 100.43 |
| 3 | Merry Band of Schmohawks | COUGS R US | 105.89 | 99 | 104.57 |
| 4 | Vin 34 | RCL 34 | 102.77 | 101.5 | 100.83 |
| 5 | Stolen Vortex | RCL 6 | 102.67 | 101 | 101.1 |
| 6 | Son | Perts League | 101.56 | 98.5 | 102.06 |
| 7 | TheSpaceman | RCL 31 | 100.96 | 100 | 100.64 |
| 8 | Tuck It In | RCL 29 | 100.88 | 99 | 101.26 |
| 9 | Kiwi King | Crab Army | 100.22 | 102 | 98.83 |
| 10 | FANTASY ICON 5.0 | RCL 17 | 99.87 | 101 | 99.25 |
I managed to hold onto the top spot this week as the Schmohawks fall a little in Cougs. Wake-N-Rake managed to leapfrog the Schmohawks as they slipped under 100 points. VIn holds onto his top ten spot, as does Son. I snuck another team into the top ten this week with my Crab Army team, who has been on a tear the past couple weeks. (Thank you, Ohtani).
TRADES
All the trades that have gone down in the past week. Public ridicule is not only allowed, but encouraged.
| DATE | LEAGUE | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|
| 6/12/2023 | COUGS R US |
AllRice traded Dansby Swanson & Masataka Yoshida to Jeremy Gibbs for Raisel Iglesias
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| 6/12/2023 | RCL 31 |
Pitch Slapped traded Jose Altuve to chronosaurus for Zach Eflin & Byron Buxton
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| 6/16/2023 | RCL 15 |
All Who Wander traded Starling Marte & Gunnar Henderson to edg88 for Adolis Garcia
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| 6/17/2023 | RCL 21 |
Analyzing Unathletic Success traded Adam Duvall & Andrew Abbott to The Thundercats for Tanner Bibee
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Only four trades this week and nothing too crazy, aside from what feels like a huge overpay for Raisel Iglesias. What do you think?
WEEKLY LEADERS
The best of the best from the week that was.
R – 65 – cubbiebluez (RCL 22)
HR –25 – Turning Japanese (RCL 5)
RBIs – 74 – DFresh (NOTLZ)
SB – 17 – Bayou Bombers (RCL 26), Rube Waddell’s Shiny Objects (RCL 36), & Gascoin (RCL 18)
AVG – .358 – Kitten Mittens (RCL 1)
K – 85 – Dunphy’s Joint Venture (RCL 36) (Back to back weeks leading the RCLs)
W – 8 – Science, Bitch! (RCL 33), wanderlust (RCL 9), & Diamond Archers (RCL37)
SV – 9 – 4 Teams Tied
ERA (Min. 40 IP) – 1.46 – Stolen Vortex (RCL 6) (in 55.1 IP)
WHIP (Min. 40 IP) – 0.709 – EarlThePearl#3 (RCL 3) (in 42.1 IP)
AB – 371 – Stolen Vortex (RCL 6)
Hits – 111 – GMoney Squared (RCL 20)
We set new records in RBIs, batting average, and WHIP (by 0.001) this week and Turning Japanese tied the HR mark. That .358 batting average by Kitten Mittens (great team name, btw) is mind-blowing.
TEAM OF THE WEEK
Our weekly shout out to the team that killed it the previous week.
Team: Kitten Mittens
League: RCL 1
Stats: AVG: .358, R: 61, HR: 19, RBI: 50, SB: 11
IP: 53.2, ERA: 3.35, WHIP: 1.118, K: 49, W: 6, SV: 7
Summary: First my mind was blown by the .358 batting average that set a new weekly record and then I looked at the rest of the stats and saw this wasn’t a one-trick pony. Power, speed, batting average, wins, saves, and ratios that in this pitching dystopia are basically a sub-2 ERA and sub-1 WHIP…I’m more than impressed. What a week from the Mittens. A surging Michael Harris II and Corey Seager led the way offensively for the Kittens while Bryce Miller and Eury Perez helped keep the ratios clean. The big week netted the Mittens 11 points and pushed them into first place in RCL 1. Excellent work, keep those Kittens warm!
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