Fantasy Baseball-- Last Day Headlines

Week by Week Results

The baseball season ended. Kyle Farnsworth and our Tampa Bay Rays held on against the Yankees in 12 innings to advance. The Cardinals, behind Chris Carpenter's complete game shutout, also advanced. This made for a quite unlikely end to the regular season. But, you ask, tell me about your fantasy teams?

Ballywood had a huge closing day, advancing in ERA points where no chance was foreseen. Chris Carpenter (W, 9ip, 0r, 3br, 11K) and Stephen Strasburg (W, 6ip, 0r, 3br, 10K) led the low ERA day. The final totals are first place, 99 points. Second place has 89 points.

The primary obsession is the CBS league. The stakes are 25% for second place, 20% for third place, 10% for forth place. Neftali Feliz picked up a key save and two strikeouts, worth 1.5 points. Second place at 94.5 points was achieved with a 2.5 point margin. As I am checking the IPod during Monica's murder shows, here is the drama in the quest for second place.

No save opp for Cordero in a Reds loss. Four closers remain.

Reyes 1-1 on way to batting title, so my team has a batting champion, FWIW.

An article claims Farnsworth is not a keeper? What will Monica think?

Strasburg 10 Ks, 3 br, 6 ip. Happy to see him leave as 10 more Ks give Montreal another point. Can the Marlins take away his win? 2-1 in 7th with 2 on 2 out, but the inning ends. Strasburg gets the win for Montreal. The Asakusabashi lead in W is one. Storen pitches the ninth and gets the save for Anchorage, which now leads Asakusabashi by one save and Montreal by two saves. Anchorage has no more closers. Asakusabashi needs at least two saves for 12 points. At least one save is critical.

K lead now three. Need David Price to not have many Ks, but assume this point is lost.

Lead over Montreal is just one and perhaps not for long. Hope to get points back with Farnsworth, Motte, Perez, and Feliz.

David Price strikes out three before he exits, so the K point is still in play. Rays behind 7-0. Looks like no Farnsworth.

Hope for saves from Feliz, Perez, Motte

Mavericks lost a BA point, at least for now

Dempster doing well. Losing WHIP point. Up 91.5 to 91 over third place.

Tight races: 1182 Ks to 1182 Ks. Up 3 SB.

Dee Gordon gets a SB.

Walden relieves. His strikeouts can cost. Walden: 0 K, 2 r. Texas leads 3-1.

Feliz strikes out M. Izturis for 1183 K and a lead

Feliz: 2Ks and S #123. The save is worth at least a first place tie (11.5 points), pending Montreal closers.

The Dempster outing (5.2 ip, 9 er, 12 br) is worth a WHIP point, pending Guerra.

Opposing closers to watch: League, Papelbon, Hanrahan, Peralta

Farnsworth strikes out three in the top of the 11th inning. A win may be worth 0.5 points, pending Gio Gonzalez of Oakland, but the game goes to 12 innings.

Papelbon gives up a run. A win by Papelbon may be worse than a save. Papelbon loses. League is the only opposing closer still out, so I project second place for myself, just as elections are sometimes called.

In progress: Oakland/Seattle and Arizona/Dodgers game, where Matt Kemp has a shot for 40/40 in the ninth inning. Kemp strikes out, rather than hitting homerun #40.

At 94.5 points, the lead is 2.5 points.

The 2.5 point lead holds. During period 25, the previous week and one-half, Asakusabashi has advanced 7.5 points. Six of the top 100 players, this period, hit for Asakusabashi-- Kemp, Reyes, Phillips, Fielder, Gordon, Pence. Five of the top 100 pitchers, including top ranked Javier Vazquez, pitch for Asakusabashi. The others are Feliz, Halladay, Perez and Garcia. (Kuroda and Morrow, not active, were also top 100 players. CC Sabathia, is the only starter active this period who is not ranked as having top 100 results.)


Pitching: K ERA WHIP W SV
Pace 45 ---- ----- 3.4 5
Starting Total 849 3.511 1.2687 65 84
Place 8th(-1), 7th(-1), 9th, 5th , 5th
Week 20 62 3.074 1.1287 5 5
Total Week 20 911 3.484 1.2599 70 89
8th, 7th, 9th, 5th, 5th
Week 21 52 4.365 1.2575 3 5
Total Week 21 963 3.527 1.2598 73 94
7th(+1), 6th (+1), 9th, 5th, 5th
Week 22 55 2.827 1.1937 5 6
7th, 6th , 9th, 4th(+1/2) , 5th
Week 23 55 4.373 1.4155 2 2
Week 24 53 3.321 1.400 2 7
Total 1126 3.514 1.2687 82 109
6th, 7th, 9th, 5th, 5th
Week 25 61 2.540 0.9653 6 14
Final 1187 3.466 1.2538 88 123
6th, 6th (+1), 8th (+1), 4th (+1), 1st (+3.5)


Hitting: BA HR RBI R SB
Pace 12 43 45 8
Starting Total 0.2700 233 812 854 147
4th 1st (+1/2) 2nd 1st 2nd (+1/2)
Week 20 0.3019 15 50 54 11
Total Week 20 0.2717 248 866 904 158
4th 1st 2nd 1st 2nd
Week 21 0.2904 15 49 52 5
Total Week 21 0.2726 263 915 956 163
4th, 1st, 1st (+1/2), 1st, 3rd (-1)
0.2730 12 38 40 12
Total Week 22 0.2726 275 953 996 175
4th, 1st, 2nd (-1/2), 1st, 2nd(+1)
Week 23 0.2633 8 32 38 8
Week 24 0.2857 12 34 48 10
Total 0.2727 295 1019 1082 193
4th, 1st, 3rd, 1st, 2nd
Week 25 0.3077 19 55 68 13
Final 0.2745 314 1074 1150 206
3rd (+1), 1st, 3rd, 1st, 2nd