A brief history of winning

I took a few minutes to tally up the winning percentage of all the current members.

Here they are.

As you'll notice, Kovacs holds the highest winning percentage in a single year (0.600) and the best overall percentage (0.575). Although Chu and I are a bit behind Kovacs, we both have championship rings (bling, bling).

Charlie went from winning 123 games and the championship one year to a 0.395 winning percentage the next. Quite a swing.

Finally, Kid had his best year in the league using the Pittsburg Pirates three years ago. I'm thinking he's going to better that mark with the Halladay, Lee, Hammels, Oswalt rotation this year.

Enjoy.

-The Commish

P.S. I'm email everyone soon about keepers and such.

2010 Champion

Congrats, Chu-ston Astros!

What's that I smell? It's...baseball. Pitchers and catchers have reported. Fantasy experts are trying to be useful. And you better start thinking about your home town team because it's gonna take a ton of research and a lot of talent to beat this guy:

See how hard he works, that's preparation. I expect nothing else.

-The Commish

Charlie is a winner!

CONGRATULATIONS
2009 League Champion!

New York Yankees
Owner(s): Charles Costanzo
Regular Season Record: 123-84-13

God, it hurts to say that. Sharp pain right in that ole' heart muscle.

But that was last year. I'm not here to talk about the past, I'm hear to discuss the future.

First MLB Trade of the Year

And once again, Andy B. gets shafted by his Pirates. Last year, they traded away Bay for a case of light bulbs, this year they 'unloaded' the multi-talented, affordable McLouth for a gift certificate to Outback Steakhouse. Well done, sirs. I know Thacker is happy to know that he'll get his hands on McLouth next year.

The real life trade has implications for our league. Basically, it forces Andy B. to add another crappy Pirate player to his roster to reach the minimum for home team players. Sorry bout that, man. Not all the Pittsburgh teams can be champions.

Come to think of it, I'm so tired of hearing about how good the Pittsburgh teams are right now, of how many titles they've won this year. This Pennsylvania media bias is killing me!

Three weeks in and we're runnin'

Return of the Ryan Express?

Not since the days of Nolan Ryan have we seen an Astros team as good as the one that Chu is putting out there. The fantasy Stros have 20 wins in 3 weeks. Impressive. Leading the league in 5 categories. Impressive. Starting only 3 real life Astros. Not so impressive.

Let's take a look at the team stat leaders of our early season.

Houston Astros: leading league in R, HR, SB, ERA, WHIP, and obnoxiousness of team logo. Pujols and Kinsler are absolute studs so far. Victor Martinez has power again. Bedard doesn't suck. And Chu stills stars in those AT&T commercials.

Tampa Bay Rays: leading league in RBI, SV, and annoying comments. Seriously, who let this guy in the league? Nothing but trouble. On the field, the Rays are playing the part of the World Series loser letdown. Upton and Burrell combined for 1HR and 3SB so far. Carlos Pena's 9HR and 24RBI have been the key to the Rays success so far.

Washington Nationals: leading the league in starting retired players. Like spelling your team name wrong on your jerseys, starting a retired player is just plain wrong. Welcome to the league, son. Time to step it up.

Pittsburgh Pirates: leading the league in W. The Pirate pitching has been excellent this year (both real life and fantasy) but as Kid will tell you, it's all gonna implode at some point. Otherwise, this is a solid team that might just possibly be able to overcome the injury to Jack Wilson.

New York Yankees: leading the league in unsold front row seats. Gotta love the new Yankee stadium, acts like steroids for players with the ability to loft lazy fly balls to right field. Although Posada and Cano have returned from the land of the living dead, the autodrafting of two underperforming shortstops could haunt this team all year.

Detroit Tigers: leading the league in players named Ryan. That's a stat, right? The Tiger offense is fierce...like a tiger. The pitching however is as stable as the Detroit real estate market. Jerod Washburn ... tick, tick, tick ... Tim Wakefield ... tick, tick, tick ...

Chicago Cubs: leading the league in underachievement. Soto didn't realize the season started, D Lee hasn't hit a fastball in nearly three years, the ace and the closer have 1W and 1Sv between them. You have to believe this team is going to get much, much better as the season goes on.

Boston Red Sox: leading the league in OBP and pitchers with ERA's over 6.oo. Seriously, half of the staff have stats that would be bad in beer league softball. But, the biggest problem is the 0HR, 0SB, .300OBP production of David Ortiz and Matt Holliday. That's bad, that's real bad.

Atlanta Braves: leading the league in K and underachieving lefty pitching. Liriano, Mike Gonzalez, and Randy Johnson have given up approximately 213 earned runs so far this year. Watch out for Andre Ethier, though. That kid can play. I smell keeper material.

Chicago White Sox: leading the league in wildness. Gavin Floyd and Umbaldo Jimenez have combined for 31 walks in 42 innings. Lindstrom adds another 8 walks in 6 innings. Throw a fucking strike! (I'm just bitter cause I have Floyd and Jimenez in another league. Fuckers.) Bright spot = Carlos Quinten and his bat of thunder. He hits the ball like a fat kid eats cake.

That's all for now. Comment below. I will read all the positive ones.

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

April is a great month: the end of March Madness, NBA starting to matter a little bit, hockey playoffs (does anyone care?), and best of all, Opening Day!

Good luck to everyone!

Hope all set their lineups correctly, although the massive rain cloud over the US is gonna reek havoc. Just ask Kovacs about that.

Draft moved to Sunday!

Just a quick reminder that the draft was moved to Sunday, March 29 at 8:45pm ET. See league site for more details.

P.S. Try not to do this on Sunday: