Unlike the bad idea to make the movie that inspired the lede today, this weeks update is chock full of useful stuff for you. No, not you Magoo, you already know all the bonus content, but I know you are chomping at the bit to talk about bad 80’s movies. Seriously, even if you have no chance to appear on any of these lists, there is good stuff for RCL strategy, or really any game starts and/or “daily moves no limit on games played” leagues. Damn, that’s a mouthful… and finger full? That’s what I said! I don’t want to hear all the blah blah blah about your tough home league or H2H mumbo jumbo. This is RCL snitches! Before I get to the content, I have to humor my colleague the Big Magoo. He has a thing for bad 80’s horror flicks like a have a thing for bad 80’s b-movie comedies and all their gratuitous boob shots and short shorts. Saturday the 14th combines all those elements in the worst possible way. Silver lining moment of the flick was the appearance of Jeffrey Tambor. It was so bad they decided to make a sequel years later that was worse than the original. If these movies wanted to get it right, they would of gone the Transylvania 6-5000 route. Anythehoo, enough of all that, on to the update…

CATEGORY LEADERS, WEEK 13

* ERA and WHIP are based off 40 innings pitched minimum

For the third time this season the HR leader and the RBI leader are one in the same. What a great week from one of the OG RCL leagues playas’. Hey look! A five way tie in saves. Is it me or does it feel like we have a massive tie every week in one category or another? Does any one even really care besides the names that get on the list? Kidding, I know everyone who misses out is green with envy. Everything else is pretty standard for the update until we get to the bottom of the list. Brawlin’ and Carnac have recorded the best ERA and WHIP on the year. I know, pretty exciting stuff, balloons are dropping and baby’s are smiling everywhere. Speaking of babies, congratulations to old school Razzballero Royce! on the birth of his second child.

The RCL Top-10, Week 14

This is the best around!… For the season… so far. Do you want to be Daniel Larusso? Then you got to beat all the Cobra Kai’s and win the All Valleys RCL Championship. Word around the office is that the grand prize is Sky jumping out of a cake in your living room and doing a strip tease to the the tune of Moment of Truth by Survivor. The table below contains the rank, team name, league name, RCL points, League Index and League Points.

Razzball Commenter Leagues 2015 MASTER STANDINGS

Well, would you look at that. Wake has finally jumped up to second place sliding past backdoor by the slimmest of margins (0.65 pts). RA the Dick holds tight again to the 4th spot while our bear/bull master the Big Magoo jumps up to 5th. Astros to Mouth jumps two spots to 6th while Soler Powered falls two spots to 7th. The drunc from Euro Razzball holds steady in the top ten for another week while I’ve got Wood makes a return to the top and newcomer Wood Street Warriors rounds out the top 10. Great job everyone, keep up the good work.

RCL Strategy Stats

K/9

Last week I popped in K/9 when I did category leaders…so far. I thought it would be a good idea (I also got a little nudge from Grey) to go in depth about K/9 and AB’s. I’ll talk about AB’s below with the other table. K/9 is how we create an apples-to-apples relationship between the teams in the RCL. I like to take it a step further and try to stay up on my K/GS ratio as I never want to fall below 8. Obviously the more starts we make the lower that ratio gets, but staying as close to 8 as possible is important. I achieve this by only keeping 2-3 high quality starting pitchers on my team, have a shizz ton of bullpen arms (closer + high K/9 MR’s), stream high K/9 middle relievers whenever I can, and stream starting pitchers heavily after June 1st when we have lots of data to make our calls. You can also employ the services of the Stream-o-Nator who from what I hear will be doing our taxes next year too. When you are playing in the RCL’s, the game starts average should be roughly 30 a month, you can stay low early but better ramp it up after the break. For the list below I did filter a few teams out to keep it relevant. Teams on the list needed to have at least 600 K’s and have at least 70 league points. We have one team from the top ten (Soler Powered) one of the all time great RCL players Mauled by Pandas (Odin’s Virulent Man Beard) and myself ( You Got SKUNKED).

AB’s

The batty call is the key to any successful run at a league title. Unless you play standard yahoo, which sucks, that does a limited game starts per position…BLAH! I went to Rudy on this one and I wanted to quote him, even though he said I didn’t need to: My research has shown that maximizing AB’s is the #1 most effective way to improve your fantasy team’s hitting success that is completely in your control in daily roster change leagues. Comparing team ABs gives some indication which managers are grinding the most. The link I posted is one of the most important reads for RCL players. We always have the hitter-tron at your disposal but there are other ways of making the calls. I hit up Magoo and Sky on a group text to collaborate on this subject. Here is a run down of things to consider when making a batty call: exploitable splits, manager lineup tendencies, ballpark factors, pitchers to stack and attack, speedsters going up against starters who struggle to control the running game (Lester, Burnett, Ross), and of course hot schmotatoness. To be honest, if you are paying attention to Grey every day there are many batty call hints to jump on. If you notice, on the list below, are players from 6 of the highest indexed RCL’s.

Top Offensive Performances of the Week

Top Pitching Performances of the Week