Week 17 Real Rankings

NOTES

There’s a lot of jostling for playoff positioning going on. With Moose and Anal calling it quits, we’re down to 9 teams fighting for 8 spots (though, keep in mind, there have been instances where sellers make the playoffs).  While the standings says Take the Knebel should be hanging it up, the Real Rankings say otherwise as he has the second highest ranking in the past four weeks.  The breakdown below shows he also has the top pitching and sixth best hitting team over the last four.

Meanwhile Kyle’s band of Angry Pirates are firmly entrenched at the top and have started to separate in the actual standings.

The trade deadline is Sunday at midnight. It’s been oddly quiet this year with teams unsure which way to go and prices sky high. Only 5 restricted picks have been traded and four were by two teams, and now the market has more sellers. Should be an interesting final three days.

The Real Rankings are interesting when you consider it attempts to remove luck from the output, except, when it comes down to it, baseball championships – fantasy or real – are often fueled by players getting hot at the right time. (Perhaps that explains by one certain team with the league’s top winning percentage in its history and that hasn’t missed the playoffs in 12 seasons only has one championship… but I digress). Therefore, lets take a look at the hot players over the last month. 

It’s very compelling that one seemingly inconsequential swap of disappointing players earlier in the season has become such a critical trade for the two teams. Yes, Jason, Matt Carpenter has been awesome, but #18 on this list has been pretty darn good too.  

RK	NAME	TEAM
1	José Ramírez Cle - 2B,3B	The Angry Pirates
2	Matt Carpenter StL - 1B,2B,3B	One Nut Wonders
3	Rougned Odor Tex - 2B	Tomahawk chops
4	Kole Calhoun LAA - OF	Cowhide Joyride
5	Christian Yelich Mil - OF	The Angry Pirates
6	Khris Davis Oak - OF	Anal Hershiser
7	Zack Greinke Ari - P	Moose is Loose!
8	Mike Trout LAA - OF	Montezuma's Revenge
9	Joey Gallo Tex - 1B,3B,OF	Moose is Loose!
10	Mookie Betts Bos - OF	Sexual Napalm
11	Francisco Lindor Cle - SS	Take the Knebel
12	Jacob deGrom NYM - P	Thor's Hammered
13	Bryce Harper Was - OF	Thor's Hammered
14	J.D. Martinez Bos - OF	Sexual Napalm
15	Dereck Rodríguez SF - P	Keep Off Groin
16	José Abreu CWS - 1B	One Nut Wonders
17	Chris Sale Bos - P	The Angry Pirates
18	Jon Gray Col - P	Take the Knebel
19	Max Scherzer Was - P	Montezuma's Revenge
20	Juan Soto Was - OF	Montezuma's Revenge
21	Javier Báez ChC - 2B,3B,SS	Anal Hershiser
22	Gregory Polanco Pit - OF	The Angry Pirates
23	Mallex Smith TB - OF	Moose is Loose!
24	Giancarlo Stanton NYY - OF	Cowhide Joyride
25	Carlos González Col - OF	Sexual Napalm

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