Week 3: Panic time?

	t			h			p			Manager	Team
1	Dave	3.000	1	Dave	2.625	1	Cory	2.833		Arthur	Another Loss
2	BJ	4.214	2	Keith	3.625	2	Dave	3.500		Max	#beatingDave
3	Marcley	4.929	3	Marcley	3.875	3	BJ	4.500		Marcley	China Basin
4	Keith	5.286	4	BJ	4.000	4	Arthur	4.833		BJ	Good Betts
5	Cory	5.286	5	Dean	5.750	5	Paul	4.833		Keith	Bourbon St
6	Dean	5.429	6	Michael	6.250	6	Dean	5.000		Paul	soflagators
7	Paul	6.000	7	Max	6.500	7	Marcley	6.333		Dean	Bad Hammy
8	Arthur	6.071	8	Paul	6.875	8	Michael	7.000		Cory	Hebrew Ntl
9	Michael	6.571	9	Arthur	7.000	9	Max	7.500		Dave	Hates Fantasy
10	Max	6.929	10	Cory	7.125	10	Keith	7.500		Michael	Bringing up Rear

 Panic has a different meaning to everyone and can occur at a number of different levels.  Looking at the chart above, you can clearly see two teams that are not panicking: Dave and team BJ. These two teams gained a large amount of ground on the rankings last week, and are currently ranked 1 and 2.  As for everyone else, the teams at the bottom of the rankings are probably panicking the most. To see what these rankings meant, I went back and looked at rankings from years past (I have data back to 2011) and there is actually a significant amount of precedent for teams that are ranked below 6.000 to come back and make a run to the top of the rankings. In fact, since 2012 at least one team went from below 6.000 in the first month to 2^nd place by the second half of the season, and in all years but one, a team went from below 6.000 to 1^st place. So, Paul, Michael, and Max are not out of it yet...Whew, because your boy was getting worried.

Here is an observation from each matchup last week:

Dave over Michael: became a tight matchup by mid-day Sunday; Dave pulled away and then picked up and dropped Joey Gallo to taunt Michael; Dave is now enemy number one

Cory over Dean: surprise of the week after Dean’s pitching faltered; Cory is now legit contender

Paul and Marcley tie: ho hum hitting, great pitching by all lead to halved week

Max over Keith: underwhelming numbers over all, Garret Richards and Cole Hamels help Max squeak by; oh and Miguel Sano woke up, that could be the real story here

BJ over Arthur, leading to a depressing team name change for Arthur: BJ mashes 13 HRs and puts up elite pitching numbers en route to blowout. BJ didn’t even need 6 shutout innings from Maeda who BJ benched in Coors; BJ is now the team to keep an eye on

Monster of the Week: didn’t see too much so I’ll point back to some adds earlier in the year that are paying dividends. Colby Rasmus by Arthur, Mark Trumbo by Cory, Maeda by BJ, Gerardo Parra by Michael

Max of the Week: Michael picked a bad pitcher to stream on Sunday but I’ll stand by it was still a good decision on paper. Anyway some of the bad drops so far: Maeda by Michael before opening day to hold a spot for the Braves-now-middle-reliever Jason Grilli, Gerardo Parra and Steven Souza by Cory, Tyler White by Arthur on April 5^th bit Arthur, even if White has cooled off, Neil Walker by Keith.

No regrets. Long ways to go.