Fantasy Baseball, 2012, First 25%

It is a quarter through the season.  Time to look at the big picture.  Actually, it was time to look at the Grand Canyon and the solar eclipse (in Albuquerque), so a week or two of analysis was missed.
The Darfish had some great pitching.  The Yakking Muggers also climbed a bit due to good pitching.  Moore Ons and Adho Muhka are dropping due to innings pitched and games played (injuries), but this should be recoverable.

Team	Place	Points	Pts Behind	Last Week Place	Last Week Points	Last Week Pts Behind
Yakking Muggers/Ottoneu	6	4717.5	900.4	7	3088.9	529
Darfish/CBS money	1	84	(+3.5)	1	87.5	(+6)
MooreOns/Yahoo Winners	7	60	42	4	71	23.5
Adho Mukha/Yahoo	2	78.5	9.5	2	83.5	6.5

Darfish jumped into first place while I was on vacation.  Injuries to Kevin Youkilis, Matt Kemp, Emilio Bonafacio, Allen Craig, Matt Carpenter, Chipper Jones, Ryan Doumit and Dee Gordon interrupted my vacation.  Adam Lind was sent to the minors.  I changed the format for the Darfish report below.  More recent weeks show ytd points rather than weekly points.  The lack of playing time (injuries, injuries, injuries) shows in week 8 hitting results. 

Week	BA	Pts	HR		RBI		R		SB
1 and 2	0.2115	2	2	1	17	2	22	6	8	12
3	0.2584	7	8	5	30	4.5	36	2	8	10
4	0.2572	5	11	7.5	40	7	32	2	7	6
5	0.2801	9	10	9	41	10	43	10	5	6
6	0.2543	5	15	8	37	6	42	7	11	11.5
7	0.2742	7	15	9.5	43	8	53	8	5	12
8	0.2500	5	7	7	27	6	30	4	10	12
Total	0.2592		69		246		251		54

The wins, saves and overall great pitching explain the rise to first place.

Week	K		ERA		WHIP		Win		SV
1 and 2	31	7	2.776	10	1.0654	9	2	8.5	2	8
3	62	11	3.954	5	1.4697	2	4	10.5	4	7.5
4	44	5	3.436	7	1.3273	3	3	6	5	8.5
5	49	7.5	2.679	8	1.1679	8	3	3	5	9.5
6	63	12	3.590	8	1.3179	3	4	7	2	7
7	53	12	2.208	10	1.2075	4	4	10	4	7
8	55	11.5	2.563	11	1.1203	8	5	11	8	8.5
Total	354		3.132		1.2599		24		30

Here are the top players on my teams, so far.

Hitter	Team	Rank	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG
Matt Kemp	Darfish	9	29	12	28	2	0.359
Josh Reddick	Darfish	26	28	11	24	5	0.272
Hanley Ramirez	Muggers, 251 pts	31	26	7	29	9	0.256
Adam Dunn	Muggers, 318 pts	36	25	14	33	0	0.243
Hunter Pence	Moore Ons	38	28	10	28	3	0.26
Miguel Cabrera	Adho Muhka	39	21	8	34	1	0.306
Elvis Andrus	Muggers, 255 pts	54	28	1	21	8	0.31
Jay Bruce	Moore Ons, Muggers- 245 pts	58	22	10	28	3	0.258
Ian Desmond	Muggers, 247 pts	63	24	8	21	5	0.275
Giancarlo Stanton	Darfish, Adho Muhka	66	22	9	29	1	0.274
Freddie Freeman	Adho Muhka	67	29	7	32	0	0.254
Jose Altuve	Darfish	69	24	3	15	9	0.309
Matt Joyce	Muggers, 258 pts	79	24	8	24	2	0.274
Dan Uggla	Darfish	89	31	6	25	0	0.26

Pitcher	Team	Rank	W	SV	K	ERA	WHIP
Cole Hamels	Darfish	8	7	0	66	2.17	1.01
Brandon Beachy	Adho Muhka	14	5	0	44	1.77	0.90
Matt Cain	Moore Ons	25	4	0	62	2.94	0.90
Brandon Morrow	Muggers, 315 pts	27	5	0	54	2.63	0.96
Jim Johnson	Moore Ons	43	0	16	14	0.87	0.77
Chris Sale	Adho Muhka	49	5	0	46	2.50	1.05
Kenley Jansen	Adho Muhka	52	3	6	36	2.38	0.84
Jason Motte	Darfish	65	3	8	18	2.00	0.83
Madison Bumgarner	Adho Muhka	76	5	0	40	2.85	1.07
Santiago Casilla	Darfish	77	1	11	17	1.37	0.97
Jordan Zimmermann	Moore Ons	88	3	0	40	2.47	1.06
Jeff Samardzija	Adho,Moore,Fish	94	4	0	57	3.00	1.18
Chris Perez	Moore Ons	96	0	15	18	2.95	1.09