Archive for September, 2008

Are your players "in the game"?

Monday, September 15th, 2008

No, I’m not talking about the newest version of Madden.

Rather, I want to know, are your fantasy football players into fantasy football themselves? If so, maybe they care about getting stats for your team.

Don’t believe me? Check out Chris Cooley leading a fantasy draft for his Redskins teammates – Campbell probably is going to care how Cooley does now..

My favorite part’s at about 1:50 in when one of the guys picks a Cowboy and the rest of the team jumped on his back.

 

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Can A-Rod Do It?

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Last week I was scanning the HR leaders and Alex  Rodriguez, the perennial HR competitor leading the A.L. with 54 in 2007 was not on the list. What? Could the reality be catching up to the hype.

Say what you will about the end of the steroid era (see our post on if the Steroid Era really happened..) or the probability of an off year or the weakest Yankee batting order since the short and painful Garry Sheffield era… I know all these thoughts are going through your mind.

To address the most prestigious and recently tainted crowning achievement in all of sports, the HR record, we have to talk about pace.

Here is what I did. I plotted HRs/AB as the critical pace metric for Bonds, Aaron, A-Rod, and Pujols  – why not, right?

Take a look and draw your own conclusions. I want to hear what you think. Is A-Rod on track?

HR per AB

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