Week 12 Real Rankings

It finally happened – I lost a matchup. This time in the worst way possible. I was up 7-3 going into Sunday, then three bad pitching performances from me and a dream day by Moose – 7 HR, 14 RBI, 2 QS send me upside down in a devastating 2-7-1 loss. =( So, the Revenge get bumped from the top spot, but as the Real Rankings show, it is as it should be. My team had been lucky with matchups, but now I’m in third in the standings and third in the real rankings.

While it is tight at the top, the real rankings show really only two teams that are potential powerhouses. Jason is on a tear and Gibby is not far behind him in the real rankings. Meanwhile, Dave and I are 1.2 behind them – not a small amount by any means. Those two have been red hot as of late with Real Rankings of 4.1 for Jason and 4.6 for Gibby over the last four weeks:

	Last 4 Weeks
1	One Nut Wonders	4.1
2	Sexual Napalm	4.6
3	Urban Achievers	6.5
4	Anal Hershiser	6.7
5	Cowhide Joyride	6.9
6	Ring of Fire	7.1
7	Moose is Loose!	7.1
8	Montezuma's Revenge	7.4
9	Brokeback Moundmen	7.4
10	Thor's Hammered	8.0
11	Keepin it REAL...	8.1
12	Stroman my Cobb Odor	8.2
13	The Angry Pirates	8.5
14	Donkey Punchers	9.8

Are the Donkey Punchers out of it? Shannon sold a piece this week, but overall it wasn’t a huge swap in terms of talent (Grandy vs. Holliday), so it’s definitely not a clear sell at this point. But it may not be far off as he sits 30 games out.

Big cluster of six teams within 0.6 of each other in the real rankings. May come down to who is willing to mortgage next season. That said, they also all make up the top 8 teams in the Real Rankings so maybe they won’t have to. Urban and Thor both have some bad luck they need to cash in before the season is over, while Keepin is riding some good fortune to the 6 spot in the actual standings.

We are 57% of the way through the season and exactly one month away from the start of the open trading period (begins July 31 at midnight).

Over the last 30, days – top 10 players:

1.       1B Wil Myers, Napalm

2.       1B Edwin Encarnacion, One Nut

3.       OF Adam Jones, One Nut

4.       3B Josh Donaldson, Anal

5.       SP Max Scherzer, Keepin

6.       SP Jon Lester, Napalm

7.       OF Carlos Gonzalez, Moose

8.       OF Charlie Blackmon, Stroman

9.       SP Jose Fernandez, Urban

10.   OF Ian Desmond, One Nut