RCL Update: The Week That Was, Week 16, 2025

Happy All-Star break, everyone!  Hope you’re enjoying the restful week, or at the very least are spending it staring at all your Razzball Commenter Leagues rosters and wondering what went wrong.  Just me?  Despite no baseball scores, we still have lots of stats to cover from the past week, and it’s a good time to check in on our season long leaders.  Next week’s update will only be for three days, so expect a smaller version.  This week, however, we’re biggie-sized.  Let’s get to it!

‘PERTY ‘PERTS

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.

Some teams made some big moves this week, some of them even in the positive direction!  Cram It was the big winner this week, racking up 11 points and jumping from ninth to fifth as we head into the break.  He pretty much swapped spots with Grey, who lost three points and fell three spots to 11th place.  He’s just keeping Blair company down there as Blair heads into his summer hibernation.  Son lost four points and Mike C gained three as Mike made a push for first place heading into the break, but came up 3.5 points shy.

RAZZSLAM STANDINGS UPDATE

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.

I believe that is a wrap on league play.  Razzslam scoring and cutlines always confuse me, but I’m pretty sure you need to be top two in your league right now to move into the Championship bracket.  Everyone else hits the conciliation bracket.  Taylor Case held onto the top spot and will take that lead into the Championship round.  Matt Poole and Chris Oliver had top three scoring weeks to move up the rankings and get hot at the perfect time.  Joseph Camp had the most points this week with 770, pushing him to 56th overall.  Good luck in the next round, everyone. I’ll be prepping for RazzBowl.

TRADES

All the trades that have gone down in the past week.  Public ridicule is not only allowed, but encouraged.

Six deals were made this week, including a few big ones!  We had a big deal for Austin Riley right before he got injured.  That’s bad luck.  B_don has been trying to make a trade for a while, but wouldn’t accept my deal for Bo Bichette.  Instead, he lands Juan Soto for Bobby Witt.  This will be a fun one to look back on at the end of the season.  Bregman netted some big names this week too, getting swapped for Devers and Harper, and also Paul Skenes.  I’m no longer the only manager to trade Skenes this year.

WEEKLY LEADERS

The best of the best from the week that was.

R – 70 – Gunk Squad (The Laura Holt Challenge)

HR –25 – IronRipken (RCL 25)

RBIs – 69 – Blow Jobes or Rosterbation? (RCl 34)

SB – 18 – IronRipken (RCL 25)

AVG – .328 – Satchel Rages (NOTLZ)

K – 94 – Maximum Bubic (RCL 18)

W – 12 – STL Squat Cobblers (ECFBL)

SV –  10 – Texas Flood (RCl 21)

ERA (Min. 40 IP) – 1.27 – Ptown High Heat (RCL 19) (in 49.2 IP)

WHIP (Min. 40 IP) – 0.617 – TheDirtyWaterman (RCL 14) (in 47 IP)

Some seriously impressive numbers this week and some very nice numbers from Joe.  IronRipken leading the RCLs in slams and legs (leggies?) is ridiculous.  STL Squat Cobblers has a crazy win week, besting the old mark by two wins.

Some more weekly and year-long stats from VinWins:

31 teams had an ERA below 2.00. 24 were above 6.

10 teams hit under .200  (6 last week)

26 teams hit over .300.  (39 last week)

59.5% of the schedule has been completed. 595 IP would be on pace for the 1000 IP minimum. 833 IP is on pace for the maximum 1400 IP.

MOVES:

32 teams have made 0 moves.

The average # of moves is 78.

298 moves would be a 500-move pace for the season.

The most active teams:

317 moves: The Gas Station (RCL 29)

312 moves: Son (COUGS R US)

301 moves: Afternoon Delights (COUGS R US)

299 moves: HoosierBoss (RCL #25)

YEARLY LEADERS

Let’s do a midseason check-in on our best teams in each category.

HOME RUNS – 275 – JamScandal (Night of the Living Zombinos)

STOLEN BASES – 167 – gilsonschmilsson22 ( RCL 22 ), password is taco ( RCL #12)

RUNS – 760 – Isotopes ( RCL #33 )

RBI – 795 – JamScandal ( Night of the Living Zombinos )

AVERAGE – .277 – cjsullivan3 ( RCL #13 )

WINS – 81 – cpierce77 ( RCL #31 )

SAVES – 118 – Texas Leaguer ( RCL #25 )

STRIKEOUTS – 1229 – cpierce77 (RCL #31 ) 1149.67 IP

ERA (600 IP Min) – 2.61 – Benchbat ( RCL 2025 #14 ) 654.67 IP

WHIP (600 IP Min) – 0.981 – Lindorphins ( RCL 2025 #30 ) 781.67 IP

And finally, if you’d like to take a look at each league race (as well as check out all Vin’s stats), you can scroll to the bottom of THIS PAGE and see how close some leagues are and how much some managers are pulling away.  Thanks, Vin!

TEAM OF THE WEEK

Our weekly shout out to the team that killed it the previous week.

Team: Blow Jobes or Rosterbation?

League: RCL 34

Stats:   AVG: .284, R: 68, HR: 24, RBI: 69, SB: 9

IP: 78.2, ERA: 2.52, WHIP: 1.119, K: 87, W: 3, SV: 2

Summary: Bad week for Joe haters out there.  This week, Joe moved up from 3rd place, 8.5 points out, to 1st place, 5.5 points ahead in a top 5 LCI league.  This is the league where Joe drafted both Rooker and Schwarber and had to keep one benched for 2 months, and he’s still beating us.  Definitely not bitter about that at all.  Props where they are due, though, Joe was all-in on Kurtz at the time of his callup and also nailed the stashing of Zach Neto, both of whom helped this week.  Nick Kurtz was the offensive leader, hitting .381 with four home runs, nine runs batted in, eight runs scored, and a stolen base. Zach Neto hit .400 and scored ten runs with two homers and two steals. Also putting up impressive numbers were Brent Rooker (.409/2 HR) and Tyler Soderstrom (.391/3 HR). Cal Raleigh also added three bombs and eight ribbies, despite hitting .136. Dominic Canzone went 7 for 13 (.538) after being added on Thursday.  On the pitching side, Freddy Peralta won twice and struck out 14 with excellent ratios of 0.71/0.789. Nick Pivetta added 15 strikeouts in 12 and a third scoreless innings, and also had a WHIP under 1.00. Cristopher Sanchez also threw two fine games, winning one, allowing two runs, and K’ing 14 in 14 1/3 innings. Chase Burns (6 IP/10 K) and Sean Manaea (3.1 IP/7 K) contributed nicely to the 9.95 K/9. Tanner Scott and Will Vest added saves.  Joe plays high risk, high reward, with a bit of crazy thrown in for good measure, and sometimes that all clicks.  He also talks a lot, consider him the Will Kassouf of the RCLs.  Love him or hate him, he’s having a very nice season.

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