Week 14 Real Rankings

NOTES

We’ve officially entered the last third of the fantasy baseball season.  At 12:01 am on Monday July 30, the open trading period will start. Every team can trade up to two picks in the 7-10 rounds.  There is no limit on the number of picks you can receive.

With that in mind, it’s a good time to take a look at where you are and where you think you’ll be in three weeks.  Most teams are in it at this point, with only the bottom three looking in and selling. 11^th place Anal is only 2.5 games out of a playoff spot, while the top three teams are essentially even and Montezuma’s isn’t far behind. Could get mighty competitive for the assets that end up on the market. Frankly, there may not be much of a market unless one of the 6-11^th teams really starts a nosedive.

The real rankings are eerily accurate this year. Only one team is out of position by more than one spot, with Napalm in 7^th in the Actual and 5^th in RR. As I indicated earlier, the Real Rankings actually provide proof that head-to-head is a perfectly viable setup for a league, as it shows very little difference between the two rankings. It is very useful on a week to week basis to show relative production, but in the end basic mathematics prevails and luck is evenly distributed.

It is interesting to look at the RR in segments. For example, the second “trimester” of the season reveals how the standings have fluctuated recently with Kyle pulling away from the pack in a big way and my team making moves away from the next tier of top teams.  

LAST 7 WEEKS

1	The Angry Pirates	5.07
2	Montezuma's Revenge	6.09
3	Sexual Napalm	6.53
4	Tomahawk chops	6.56
5	One Nut Wonders	6.64
6	Thor's Hammered	6.76
7	Keep Off Groin	7.26
8	Ring of Fire	7.33
9	Take the Knebel	7.53
10	Moose is Loose!	7.67
11	Anal Hershiser	7.77
12	Donkey Punchers	7.80
13	Brokeback Moundmen	8.03
14	Cowhide Joyride	8.41

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