Week 24: A First Time Champions!!
Brian and Josh, who will get a whole-blog-reprieve from the
‘BJ’ label, pulled off their first Floored Fantasy Baseball League Championship
yesterday! It’s not how you start but how you finish. Brian and Josh were in 9th
place in the Power Rankings after week 1 and were in 7th place five
weeks into the year. Week 6 was the beginning of their climb up the rankings
and they rode that climb through week 15. They coasted into the playoffs a
little bit but thanks to their great run that was OK. Smoak that Ish’s playoff
heroes were their best draft pick (and the guy they refused to let me pry away
from them all year) Jose Ramirez and Jose Abreu who carried them in their
semi-final. In the end they didn’t need a hot August and September pickup
because their base offense and pitching strategy came through for them. The
Championship was a landslide, more on that in a minute. Congratulations to
Brian and Josh, welcome to the winner’s circle.
You all know by this point that I try really hard to stay
impartial in this blog. I provide the facts, I analyze the trends and numbers,
and I point out noteworthy ideas. There are some things that need to be said,
and some that really don’t need to be said regarding how that Championship
match played out and the...behavior...of the Championship participants. Let’s
start with the managing. In a week in which a smart manager would have
recognized the need to save his 8 pickups for strategic moves and streaming
pitchers, Arthur made 4 pickups the first day on some pretty marginal hitter
and pitcher acquisitions and was all out of his pickups by Wednesday night,
spending his last move on a last-place White Sox pitcher versus the Astros, a pretty poor streaming option.
This allowed Brian and Josh to sit back and watch Arthur blow up. Arthur’s
pitching indeed blew up and Brian and Josh cruised through the week with a few
good pickups of their own…not that they needed them. Arthur streamed very well
against Michael in the semi-final, and it single-handedly allowed him a berth
into the final, but from there Arthur blew this one pretty hard. As far as
Arthur’s team names go, I’ll let you all draw your own conclusions.
In the other big news of the week Paul pulled off a great
upset in the Bourbon Street Championship! Dead last in the Power Rankings most
of the year, Paul rode a hot hitting Justin Upton and streamed his way to 9
pitching wins to get the victory. Paul will now have his choice of Trout or
Mookie or Goldy or Harper or whoever and whatever draft slot he wants next
March. Congratulations, pops!
BSC Standing
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1
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Paul
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2.9286
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2
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Dean
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3.0000
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3
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Keith
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3.0000
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4
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Cory
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3.2857
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5
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Max
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3.9286
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6
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Matt
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4.5000
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After what was one of the tightest Championship semi-final
weeks in Floored history last week, the BSC came through with its own drama
this week. Keith and Dean tied for second! This put me in a pretty weird place
because we didn’t have any tiebreakers set up. So, I kinda made it up on the
fly. The most logical tiebreaker was to see who would have won a matchup
between these two teams this week. Remember, the BSC includes 6 teams so just
because they tied in the 6 team tournament doesn’t necessarily mean they’d tie
head to head…except they did.
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Tiebreaker
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SCORE
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Dean
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77
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139
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18
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66
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11
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56
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89
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0.283
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7
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10
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78
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163
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4.30
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1.30
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7
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Keith
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68
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146
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17
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59
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13
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31
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98
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0.289
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8
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0
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27
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80
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2.84
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0.97
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7
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The next tiebreaker that made the most sense, since this is
a Power Rankings driven competition was to see who was the higher Power Ranked
team at the end of the year and give them the nod, Dean
won this. Sorry Keith.
Therefore, drumroll, the Draft Slot Selection order for next
year:
Draft Pick Order
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Manager
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1
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Paul
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2
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Dean
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3
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Keith
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4
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Cory
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5
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Matt
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6
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Max
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7
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Michael
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8
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Dave
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9
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Arthur
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10
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Brian/Josh
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