Every year my twin brother and I have a fantasy baseball league with just the two of us. It’s really weird, every year we alternate who wins.
1992 erik
1993 matt
2000 erik
2001 matt (thank you barry bonds)
2002 erik
2003 matt (erik gets distracted and married)
2004 erik
2005 matt (helton tanks)
Who’s gonna win in 2006? matt.
This is the place where we will have our talk about the league. Feel free to listen in, or maybe even drop a comment.
The draft is tonight. Erik has the first pick. Who’s he gonna pick?
Here’s the 2006 draft results from April 1. Erik Khans 1) Alex Rodriguez, SS 2) Albert Pujols, 1B 3) Vladimir Guerrero, OF 4) Manny Ramirez, OF 5) Chase Utley, 2B 6) Andruw Jones, OF 7) Miguel Tejada, SS 8) David Wright, 3B 9) Ken Griffey Jr, OF 10) Felipe Lopez, SS 11) Derek Lee, 1B 12) Amaris Ramirez, 3B 13) Javier Valetin, C 14) Carlos Beltran, OF 15) Pat Burrell, OF 16) Jorge Cantu, 2B Matt’s Mighty Mashers 1) Victor Martinez, C 2) Mark Teixeira, 1B 3) Miguel Cabrera, 3B/OF 4) Jason Bay, OF 5) Michael Young, SS 6) Hideki Matsui, OF 7) Todd Helton, 1B 8) Gary Sheffield, OF 9) Chone Figgins, 2B/3B 10) Adam Dunn, 1B 11) Bobby Abreau, OF 12) Vernon Wells, OF 13) Carlos Lee, OF 14) Alfonso Soriano, 2B 15) Raul Ibanez, OF 16) Eric Chavez, 3B
To see who had a better draft, let’s take the starting lineup and look at the points each player got from last year (2005) and their 2006 projected stats. Khans 2005 2006 Player, Pos 293 283 Javier Valentin, C 912 843 Albert Pujols, 1B 731 680 Chase Utley, 2B 767 735 Miguel Tejada, SS 923 801 Alex Rodriguez, 3B 735 732 Vladimir Guerrero, OF 828 725 Manny Ramirez, OF 735 622 Pat Burrell, OF 5924 5420 Mighty Maulers 2005 2006 Player, Pos 642 595 Victor Martinez, C 896 857 Mark Teixeira, 1B 720 612 Chone Figgins, 2B 830 777 Michael Young, SS 829 743 Miguel Cabrera, 3B 844 755 Jason Bay, LF 791 711 Hideki Matsui, LF 751 689 Adam Dunn, LF 6303 5738 The Maulers have the Khans beat based on 2005 stats by 379 points. And based on 2006 projections, the Maulers are projected to win by 318 points. However, this is based on the Khans catcher performing way below the league standard for catchers. A decent catcher should rack up 500 points in one year. So let’s figure in a 500-point catcher for the Khans in 2005 and 2006. The scores will now be: last year 2005: Maulers win by 172 points projected 2006: Maulers win by 101 points
The 172/101 alot better than last season where the Maulers had an advantage of 347/310 (2004/2005).
Here’s all the 2005/2006 stats in a nice bar graph.
It really looks like the catcher position is the one that is going to make a difference this year. Everything else is pretty even across the boards.
day one albert pujols two homers, four rbis, two walks mark teixeira one single, zero rbis, zero runs, zero wallks how’s your projection of teixeria doing better than pujols doing? i screwed up and didn’t start my #3 outfielder, vlad guerrero. he hit a homer today too. that was purely an accident.
oh by the way, i JUST watched arod hit a GRANDSLAM!
The Khans may have started the season with the best ever point total with 79 points against the Maulers decent 35, but the second day the Mashers got an impressive 49 points versus the Khans wimpy 22. The Khans totally wimped out on the second day after their tirade on the first day. Did they get too tired? Summary: Day One: 79 Khans 35 Mashers Day Two: 22 Khans 49 Mashers
Looks like this might be an interesting year The Mashers scored 52 to the Khans 45 yesterday bringing the Mashers to withing just THREE POINTS of the Khans. 178-175.
LEAD CHANGE: With yesterday’s win 32-24, the Mashers are now in the lead! 207-202!!!