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Time’s up!  Pencils down!  Trade deadline is over.  We enter into the 20s for weekly recaps and we have seven weeks to go in the Razzball Commenter Leagues.  As a group we made 113 trades, that’s down thirty from last season.  Those 113 trades involved 302 players, 187 of them unique.  Want to guess the most traded player this year?  I won’t keep score, you can just say it in your head, I’ll tell you in the TRADES section down below.  RCL 24 made the most trades this year with nine, COUGS R US was next with eight, and RCL 34 was right there with seven.  Nine leagues made no trades…what are they even doing?  With no more trading, we now have to focus solely on the waiver wire to find those late-season gems.  Could Coby Mayo be a league winner down the stretch?  Maybe another rookie gets some run and leads teams to victory.  We’ll see, with seven weeks to go in this marathon season, still plenty of time to make a charge, just ask Grey, who had a very impressive week.  More on that and the rest of the stats for the week that was, week 20, below:

 

‘PERTY ‘PERTS

Each week we’ll peek in at our resident ‘perts to see who is laying claim to best “expert” RCLer in the land.  We’ll take notes, check the standings, and generally stalk them.  The heading is also hyperlink, so feel free to follow along as we go.

As mentioned, Grey had a week this week, gaining the most points (5.5) and moving into third place thanks to leading the league in strikeouts and wins (but not IP, I always enjoy when that happens).  A late surge from Grey could be enough to take the title.  I gained five points this week and moved into fourth, but I don’t have the horses.  My K/9 is atrocious and my batting average is worst in the league.  Grey has innings to play with and needs to drop about a half point in ERA to get from 4.00 to 3.50.  Mix in some SBs and he could make a serious run.  B_don went the other way this week, dropping 5.5 points and falling four places to seventh.  Is it a coincidence these two teams going different directions this week?

 

RAZZSLAM STANDINGS UPDATE

Each week we’ll also take a look at the top ten overall standings in our other Razzball sponsored league, the RazzSlam.  This is our NFBC Best Ball league with managers from all across the industry, from content providers to fans and readers just like you.

We are into cutline round two now, with round three just two weeks away.  Here are our current twenty teams who would be playing for the championship right now (18 from the Championship Tier and 2 from the Wild Card Tier).

 

TOP 10

For those too lazy to check the MASTER STANDINGS, I present to you, the current top 10

RK	TEAM	LEAGUE	RCL PTS	LG PTS	LG INDEX	MASTER PTS	MOVEMENT
1	cubbiehead	RCL 31	109.2	108.5	104	104.1	Up from 6
2	Gunk Squad	RCL 13	108.8	108.5	102	105.9
3	Afternoon Delights	RCL 34	103.8	99.5	106	99.8	Up from 31
4	Revenge of the Witt	RCL 12	99	99.5	99	100.1	Up from 10
5	Bluefield Baby Birds	RCL 13	98.7	97.5	102	97.1	Down from 3
6	password is taco	RCL 5	98.4	100	98	99.4	Down from 4
7	rloyod	RCL 24	97.3	91	103	99	Down from 1
8	password is taco	RCL 2	97.2	98.5	100	96.1	Up from 14
9	Stop looking at me Kwan!	RCL 20	95.9	95.5	102	93.8	Up from 25
10	The Highlanders	RCL 3	95.8	98.5	102	90.8	Up from 26
11	Norwich Partridges	RCL 6	95.6	96.5	102	92.3	Up from 19
12	dwightford	RCL 1	95.5	98.5	98	95.7	Up from 15
13	Backdoor Splitters	ECFBL	95.5	91.5	105	93.1	Up from 50
14	Capital Offense	ECFBL	95.3	91	105	93.2	Down from 7
15	password is taco	RCL 17	94.3	96	101	90.6	Up from 72
16	Row Cubbies Row	RCL 8	93.7	103.5	91	97.1	Up from 17
17	Man or Stroman?	Original Recipe	93.6	92.5	101	92.9	Up from 88
18	Son	Perts League	93.6	91	103	92.1	Up from 108
19	Mr. Wu`s Little Piggies	DFSers Anonymous	93.6	93.5	103	88.8

There’s a new name at the top of the heap, congrats to cubbiehead, who takes the lead with seven weeks to go.  There are some teams coming on strong, though.  Afternoon Delights is riding a 106 LCI in RCL 34 to a top three standing.  I’m not sure what’s gotten into RCL 34, but it’s them and NOTLZ at the top of the LCI heap.  I’m in RCL 34 and there are some solid managers in there, but I had no idea this $20 league was that competitive.  I don’t feel so bad about sitting in second right now.  Password is taco is having a huge year, with three teams in the top twenty, any of those could pop off and make a charge.  The low LCI is going to hold them back I think.  Password should seek out a more competitive league next season!  Backdoor Splitters is making his late season surge.  Backdoor is one of the best managers I’ve ever played against and I would place a bet he’s in the top five to finish the season.  Man or Stroman? and Son also both made huge surges since July and I’ll be very curious to see where they end up in the final standings.  My thinking is we’ll have an update in three weeks, Septemeber 3rd and if we can get one more in on the 17th of Septemeber I’d be thrilled.  I think that will give the teams in the hunt a nice little glimpse before the final two week sprint to the finish.  That’s the plan, let’s see what happens.

And finally, our current leaders:

HOME RUNS
282 oldrock (RCL 29)

STOLEN BASES
217 PlatanoPowers (RCL 12)

Last week’s leader, TagEmAndBagEmRCL14 only had five steals this week, allowing PlatanoPowers to surge into the lead.

RUNS
906 Touch ‘em all, Joe (RCL 33)

RBI
883 DFresh (RCL 20)

AVERAGE
.285 JKJ (RCL 14)

WINS
90 dillondobies (RCL 28)

SAVES
139 Stretch Run Punchouts (RCL 10)

STRIKEOUTS
1309 prymal2 (RCL 27) 1305.2 IP

WHIP (730 IP Min)
1.044 Lipmanpike (RCL 28) 980.2 IP
1.044 ejendres (RCL 14) 1002.2 IP

ERA (730 IP Min)
2.99 RIPGrimey (DFSers Anonymous) 883.1 IP

TRADES

All the trades that have gone down in the past week.  Public ridicule is not only allowed, but encouraged.

DATE	LEAGUE	DETAILS
8/5/2024	RCL 24	rloyod traded Luis Gil to Science Bitch for Bryson Stott & Byron Buxton
8/5/2024	RCL 30	Balls. Just Balls. traded Andres Munoz to lelandaiken for Taj Bradley
8/5/2024	RCL 26	Hoboknives 26 traded Luis Arraez to Royce and Shine for Hunter Brown
8/5/2024	RCL 17	Flaming Marshmallows traded Yandy Diaz & Bobby Witt Jr. to Idaho Tater Tots for Josh Smith & Freddie Freeman
8/6/2024	FCL	Vincom traded Isaac Paredes to Organic Pringles for Brice Turang
8/6/2024	RCL 32	S. Central traded Lane Thomas to gilsonschmilsson for Jorge Soler & Jake Cronenworth
8/6/2024	RCL 10	VegA’s Baby! traded Corbin Carroll to gilsonschmillson for James Wood & Xander Bogaerts
8/7/2024	ECFBL	Capital Offense traded Brandon Lowe to I’m not black, I’m O.J. for Coby Mayo
8/7/2024	Writer’s League	BillyAngel traded Lane Thomas to TRUSS for Alex Bregman
8/7/2024	RCL 11	IrishCurt traded Edwin Diaz & Griffin Jax to Rowers for Zac Gallen & Zach Eflin
8/8/2024	RCL 25	VIN Garbage traded Chad Green to As Good As It BETTS for Alec Burleson
8/8/2024	RCL 24	Rube Foster’s Barnstormers traded Jack Flaherty to tberkman for Jazz Chisholm Jr.
8/8/2024	ECFBL	Backdoor Splitters traded Emmanuel Clase to Des Morts-Vivants for Tarik Skubal
8/9/2024	Perts League	MarmosDad traded Hunter Greene to Grey for Chad Green
8/9/2024	RCL 33	Diamond Archers traded Jose Miranda & Logan Webb to WatchMeWitt WatchMeNaylor for Marcus Semien
8/9/2024	RCL 25	SHOhei Money traded Carlos Estevez to VIN Garbage for Triston Casas

The trade deadline went out with a bang, the most trades we’ve ever had in a week this season, sixteen total.  There were some good ones too!

I can’t imagine what Freddie Freeman gives you that Bobby Witt doesn’t other than the Flaming Marshmallows must have really needed a first basemen.

I really like the return for Corbin Carroll.

Remember how Grey has innings to spare and needs to lower his ERA?  Now everyone has traded him their aces for “closers” and I have to believe Grey is a master negotiator.  I imagine it goes something like this: “Hey, send me Hunter Greene”…”OK”.  Or something like that.

Lane Thomas moved twice at the deadline.  I’m very curious to see how he finishes the season in Cleveland.  I hope it’s with a bang!

Finally, WatchMeWitt WatchMeNaylor might be my current favorite team name, well done.

Ready for the answer to the most traded player in the RCLs this year?  Robert Suarez was dealt seven times.  I would have guessed closer, but I probably would have gone with Kyle Finnegan who was traded four times.  Coming in as the second most traded player was another closer, Carlos Estevez with six deals.

 

WEEKLY LEADERS

The best of the best from the week that was.

R – 64 – Vin OneFive (RCL 15) & MrBig&BudGoode (RCL 34)

HR –27 – Creative Chaos (ECFBL)

RBIs – 71 – Stone Wizards (RCL 32) & Can’t Truss It (RCL 34)

SB – 21 – Revenge of the Witt (RCL 12)

AVG – .337 – surfdoc37 (RCL 9)

K – 101 – Vin Friday (RCL 27)

W – 9 – bellow (RCL 35)

SV –  10 – B_don (Perts League)

ERA (Min. 40 IP) – 1.25 – Blue Squadron 6 (RCL 6) (in 57.2 IP)

WHIP (Min. 40 IP) – 0.810 – BuckRunAllStars (RCL 32) (in 45.2 IP)

A new record in HRs was set this week and if the name Creative Chaos sounds familiar, it’s because they also led the RCLs last week, giving them 52 HRs in two weeks.  CC has 250 HRs on the year, ? of them in the past two weeks.  Jake Burger’s nine ding-dongs lead the way.

Vin came two strikeouts from tying the weekly record this week, so close, Vin.  Revenge of the Witt came within one steal of tying the weekly record as well.

It’s hard to argue with B_don’s process, even if the results aren’t there yet.  He traded for all the closers and leads the RCLs this week with ten.  He’s just four saves from gaining three points in the standings though, so the results are coming, despite my razzing him for the trades.

 

Some more tidbits from the week, courtesy of Vin:

15 teams had an ERA under 2. (Last Week there were 4)

47 teams had an ERA over 6.  (Last Week there were 82)

2 teams hit under .200   (Last Week there were 7)

58 teams hit over .300.  (Last Week there were 48)

 

TEAM OF THE WEEK

Our weekly shout out to the team that killed it the previous week.

Team: Webber13

League: RCL 30

Stats:   AVG: .322, R: 63, HR: 23, RBI: 64, SB: 15

IP: 70.0, ERA: 3.60, WHIP: 1.186, K: 71, W: 4, SV: 3

Summary: Weeks like this are what roto dreams are made of.  Even with a little elevated ERA, this is still enough to win you leagues.  The nice week moved Webber13 up seven points and one spot in RCL 30 to now sit in fourth place.  Jackson Merrill led the way, hitting .417 with four home runs and eight runs batted in.  Zach Neto (3 HR/10 RBI) and Cal Raleigh (3 HR/9 RBI) were also stellar.  Jose Ramirez, James Wood, and Andres Gimenez each added three stolen bases.  Spencer Arrighetti’s 13-strikeout game paced the pitching staff.  He recorded the win and allowed just 3 baserunners.   Also securing wins were James Paxton, Jose Berrios (8 K/1.29/1.00), and Tyler Anderson (7 K/1.50/0.67). Emmanuel Clase picked up two saves.  Well done, Webber!

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