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0 Subject: RIBC 2010: Retrospective

Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Mon, Oct 04, 2010, 10:33

Congrats to HOLT, winner of the 2010 RIBC.

Final standings appear in the table below.

Please use this thread for several purposes

  • RIBC managers may post a recap of their season, if they wish. What worked well, what went wrong, what would you do differently the next time, and what did you learn?
  • I'd appreciate it if someone from each of the qualifying leagues would post the final standings of their league. This will make it easier for me to locate when I go about deciding on qualifications for next season. (If your team names do not easily identify the related team manager, please provide those linkages as well.)
  • If there were any managers in any league who failed to live up to standards in behavior or activity level, I'd like to know about it. Bad behavior is never tolerated. Failing to follow through for the season can also be grounds for declining an invite to the RIBC or a AAA league, depending on circumstances. If you feel uncomfortable about "ratting out" any other manager in this thread, you may also send me a confidential email.
Thanks to everyone for a great season.

RIBC FINAL Standings through games of Oct 3
RankTeamRRBISBOBPSLGWSVKERAWHIPTOTAL
1HOLT1415714.5151416169.511.5132.5
2slackjawed yokels1616121616138746.5114.5
3LAD636141310.5106.512.5101614112.5
4filthyrich151289136.51511136.5109
5Uptown Bombers138910.58162141216108.5
6MBT Outkasts11415124124151414105
7Endangered Species791114.561058151499.5
8TD Dragons101353124.510.513119.591.5
9Guru95.521391512.5129.5390.5
10JeffG RIBC41018148.51496.56.581.5
11SANFORDORS1211101118.5961170.5
12Tosh55.5166.534.510.5259.567.5
13Tequila's Underdogs87143527326.557.5
14Tilt232335711343344
15Gold Bats3266.523656.5343
16JL11431111811.532.5


Stats through games of Oct 3
RankTeamRRBISBOBPSLGWSVKERAWHIPIPAB
1HOLT981942131.347.4519311212663.581.2313236666
2slackjawed yokels10451111149.351.459917411263.811.271347.27042
3LAD63872939150.340.432848511513.231.2213586627
4filthyrich1012911139.339.445849911753.421.271364.16982
5Uptown Bombers965888140.340.4221012912043.471.211364.17071
6MBT Outkasts946802173.343.415904912173.341.221348.16583
7Endangered Species879895146.347.417865711303.291.221329.26652
8TD Dragons940921107.333.443838111883.571.2613576756
9Guru89882486.344.429988511843.581.2813396451
10JeffG RIBC86090571.338.448858811383.761.2713616483
11SANFORDORS955909143.332.433858010924.031.361367.16693
12Tosh869824180.337.41183819553.791.261342.16688
13Tequila's Underdogs882845155.333.41672739743.941.2713076530
14Tilt2379473989.334.420893810653.841.281254.15975
15Gold Bats826688117.337.406786310673.761.2813105985
16JL764595104.333.3925969233.641.239275303
1JL
      ID: 4491756
      Tue, Oct 05, 2010, 07:17
I'd like to apologize for my absence this season. I've slowly been caring less and less about fantasy sports for the past few seasons, while still maintaining hope that one day it would come back to me; but it came to a screeching halt this year. This will most likely be my last season in the Guru leagues.

The majority of my players started the season very slowly, and then I moved to Japan, which made it nearly impossible to see the games/highlights. I eventually lost interest, stopped following the waiver wire, and fell into a deep last-place hole. Apologies for not living up to my end in an otherwise great league.

Congrats to Holt for dominating once again.
2mjd
      Leader
      ID: 501381415
      Fri, Oct 08, 2010, 18:26
RIBC AAA PCL Final Standings 2010

1. mjd 123
2. coldwater coyotes 120
3. Graydog 117
4. Toral Wheatfarmers 107
5. GHOSTWOOD-102
6. Tax ribc AAA 101
7. Nerfherders 93.5
8. Da Bomb Squad 93
9. Bean's Boys 81
10. The Red Scorpions 80.5
11. Rangers_Homer 69.5
12. Valkyrie Pyrite 62.5
13. youngroman's Luschen 60.5
14. Rotten Amoebas 58
15. Electro Twins 46.5
16. Adam 45
3holt
      Donor
      ID: 308491916
      Mon, Oct 11, 2010, 20:50
RIBC is the fantasy league that I look forward to the most each year, so winning this league again is something I take great pride in. I know that climbing Mt. Everest is more difficult, but the feeling must be about the same! It doesn't matter that there is no money on the line. The competition is top notch, and the format is perfect. Kudos to Dave Hall for making this whole thing happen year in and year out.

I felt a lot of pressure throughout most of the season to get all the right moves done and get the best lineup set every day. Trading for Halladay and Oswalt was absolutely crucial. There is no way I win this season without Halladay.

MBT and Slackjaw - you both had your periods of dominance this season - times when it looked like you'd be hard to catch. Thanks for making this a memorable season. Loki - you scratched and clawed your way through the whole season to a well-deserved third-place finish. Filthy Rich, you made almost as many moves as Loki did. You and Uptown Bombers finished just a stone's throw out of 2nd place. Looking foward to playing with all of you guys again next season.

As always, Thanks Dave for everything you do. There is no place on the net like RotoGuru.com. I'd hate to imagine what fantasy sports would be like without this forum.

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This is a bunch of data mostly for my own use, somewhere down the road.

1.16 Carl Crawford OF good

2.01 Matt Holliday OF good

3.16 Jason Bay OF NOT good, underperformed, then got hurt

4.01 Jose Reyes SS traded for Halladay so very good

5.16 Manny Ramirez OF NOT good, too few AB's

6.01 Cole Hamels SP good

7.16 Jake Peavy SP good til he got hurt

8.01 Carlos Marmol RP AWESOME

9.16 Huston Street RP good but missed time early

10.01 James Shields SP TERRIBLE

11.16 Nick Swisher 1B Great - one of the biggest bargains of the draft

12.01 Rafael Furcal SS Evan considering the lost playing time, he was great when he played. Good

13.16 Matt Capps RP major bargain, traded him for Oswalt at some point

14.01 Conor Jackson 1B TERRIBLE

15.16 Brian Matusz SP Has his moments, not the pitcher I thought he was though

16.01 Shaun Marcum SP Great great bargain

17.16 Scott Rolen 3B Another major bargain

18.01 Randy Wolf SP shot in the dark, not good

19.16 Justin Duchscherer SP just can't stay healthy

20.01 Skip Schumaker 2B hurt me for a while, slumped hard early on, bad pick

21.16 Akinori Iwamura 2B worthless

22.01 Jeff Clement C can't come close to his AAA numbers, even while playing 1B

23.16 Delmon Young OF well, great pick, but I cut him when he started to slump and his stats started to match his mediocre career stats. Shouls have hung on a little longer!


24.01 Felipe Lopez 2B worthless

25.16 Mike Fontenot 2B blah



Biggest contributors (my team log stats, not their full stats):

Nick Swisher
162/555 89 89 1 .363 .519

Scott Rolen
133/467 66 83 1 .358 .499

Rafael Furcal
111/367 65 43 22 .369 .469

Matt Holliday
185/595 94 103 9 .388 .531

Carl Crawford
184/596 110 90 47 .358 .498

Luke Scott
96/321 52 54 1 .386 .561

Neil Walker
108/371 49 60 1 .347 .447

I also managed to grab both Napoli and Monterro as free agents early in the year. They gave me a pretty good catching combo (and I actually got a lot of play out of Napoli at the CI slot).



Cole Hamels
200.2 12 0 204 3.18 1.22

Jake Peavy
96.1 7 0 81 3.92 1.11

Matt Capps
54.0 4 29 47 2.50 1.30

Carlos Mármol
77.2 2 38 138 2.55 1.18

Shaun Marcum
188.1 13 0 159 3.63 1.17

John Axford
32.2 6 16 36 3.03 1.22

Huston Street
46.0 4 20 44 3.72 1.07

Roy Halladay
120.2 12 0 107 2.46 0.97

Roy Oswalt
63.1 6 0 59 1.42 0.81

4Great One
      ID: 19930148
      Thu, Oct 14x, 2010, 14:06
Did my best here, but not sure exactly who everyone was.

RIBC Southern AA
1. s R
2. Great One
3. Red Barons - Ken J
4. Diddy
5. Michian Magicians - x -
6. Prophets - mailedfoot
7. Dilligad - mikeV
8. Dry Gulch Canyons - Toral
9. reeb - reebertxx
10. wiggs
11. Springfield - dkowbel
12. ksoze
13. Khahan
14. Perm Dude
15. Norfolk - mattg
16. NYMetsSlugger - Aaron L
5Khahan
      ID: 13126822
      Mon, Oct 18, 2010, 02:30
I'm so disappointed with a 13th place finish. Given my team was a patchwork of waiver wire and fa pickups. By the end of April I didn't have a single drafted OF going and was in last place. You'd think climbing to 13th would be good. Nope. I climbed as high as 3rd and was rocking 100+ points as late as August. But my team just stopped producing and nothing I did seemed to stop the bleeding. I wonder if an active manager ever had such a sharp drop off w/out being burdened with injuries so late in the season.

Congratz to s R for taking the title. Despite the points there was a period near the end where things were very close for the top 3. And for 4-9 there was a lot of movement every day. It was very competitive.
6Great One
      ID: 2751238
      Mon, Oct 18, 2010, 09:18
I was 45 points out of first place with 6 weeks to go, and got all the way back to within a point of 1st place. I am pretty sure that would have been the greatest comeback ever.

Mainly because I was about 150 IP behind everyone else. And traded all my power for SB's (where I was trailing) at the trade deadline. Pedroia finally being declared out for the year allowed me to take that spot and really rotate the hell out of a couple bench spots to make up IP and Games Played.
7Tosh
      Leader
      ID: 057721710
      Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 12:22
They say that it's not the first 6 picks that make a fantasy champion ... but the last 6 picks.

That's not always true ... when your first 6 picks include ...
Round 2 - Jimmy Rollins (88 games played)
Round 3 - Grady Sizemore (33 games played)
Round 4 - Chone Figgins (161 games, 158 of them sucky)
Round 5 - Brian Roberts (59 games played)
Round 6 - Francisco Rodriguez (Ends season on DQ list, after slugging his girlfriend's father)

Thanks Guru for another fun season. I'll be back in 2012!
8Seattle Zen
      ID: 10732616
      Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 12:27
Thanks Guru for another fun season. I'll be back in 2012!

Not if you draft like that again...
9Great One
      ID: 2751238
      Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 12:28
Tosh taking a year off?
10Tosh
      Leader
      ID: 057721710
      Wed, Oct 20, 2010, 12:32
GO [9] - I'm heading back to the long bus rides in AAA for 2011. We'll be back into the bigs in 2012!

SZ [8] - Brian Roberts has bitten me on the arse in other seasons as well. He's close to getting added to my "poop list".
14Fosten
      ID: 1411090
      Wed, Dec 15, 2010, 09:47
RIBC 2010 AAA International Final Standings
1.ywk Taiwan OneTail 141
2.gurudan team fear the monkey 115
3.JKaye Cleveland Spiders 113.5
4.Kokeshis Vashon Kokeshis 112
5.jseth333 Team vmprweekend 100
6.Fosten Munson Mobsters 99.5
7.wazaaap_guy Team Simha 91
8.RoBoGuRu Team Biter 89
9.blue hen Blue Hen Rules 88.5
10.revvingparsonRev's Redbirds 74
11.Aman John Galt's Ashes 70
11.Rheo Team whaley 70
13.Donkey HunterTeam Heilman 68
14.Philsphan Jason Werth's Beard 49.5
15.I hate PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia Zeroes 43
16.wolfer Wolfers Wild Things 36
15filthy
      ID: 568191312
      Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 04:09
1. Thanks a million to Guru for running this league. I haven't looked around but this has to be one of the best leagues out there.

2. Congrats to Holt for winning. Grueling season, knew I shouldn't have traded with you, but I was too blinded by my shortstop hole at the time. Reyes is now forever banished, and I will never again trade Halladay. And even worse, I dumped Bumgarner before he started doing well. Anyways, I don't even need to see our draft to predict Holt to win it again next year.

3. High fives to everyone else who qualified for next year as well. And thumbs up for those who played out the season, regardless of league or standing.
16filthy
      ID: 568191312
      Fri, Jan 07, 2011, 04:48
As for my team, 4th place in RIBC. Very proud to have done so well, but it is bittersweet since first was in reach until the final week or two. It's easy to point out a bad trade or two that cost me, but there were also just as many, or more moves made that helped me get 4th place. Hard to say I want to be less aggressive next season, because it all starts with the draft. I would obviously love to be less aggressive next season, but it would be nice to have a good draft for once, and have the ability to be selectively aggressive rather than having to swing from my heels.

Draft: Halladay- 1, good, packaged for Reyes(bad); Greinke- 2, average; Santana- 3, average, traded for Dunn (good); McCann- 4, good, packaged for Tulo (bad); MYoung- 5, average; HBell- 6, great, traded for ?; Aardsma- 7, good; CGonzalez- 8, good, packaged for Tulo (bad); NJohnson- 9, horrible; Prado- 10, good, traded for ?; Cuddyer- 11, average, traded for ?; Scutaro- 12, average, packaged for Tulo; Callaspo- 13, averaged, traded for ?; Snider- 14, bad; Hudson- 15, average; Cameron- 16, bad; Lindstrom- 17, good, traded for ?; SRodriguez- 18, bad; League- 19, bad; Chapman- 20, bad; Rzepczynski- 21, bad; JBaker- 22, bad; Bailey- 23, bad; Francisco- 24, bad; Thome- 25, bad;

Some of the ones that I call bad, had good seasons, but bad starts, so basically, they had good seasons for other managers.

Trading for Dunn was huge, my team was too pitching heavy at the time. Also nabbed Jose Bautista early, that turned out amazingly. Tulo got hurt the day I traded for him. He still did quite well, but I ended up still needing a shortstop and ended up going big for Reyes, who also was hurt and a huge fail. Another trade landed me Ichiro, and Logan Morrison was a huge acquisition for a while. I had a huge stretch, mostly fueled by Coco Crisp, where I was getting 4-5 steals every day. Went up about 10 spots in a month, it was unbelievable. Lack of speed and shortstop depth was my weakness in the draft, and I addressed both but it was too late and too costly in both cases.

Ready to rock again in 2011 whenever the time comes. 2010 was as exciting as it gets, and I feel strongly like I know what I did wrong in my draft last year, and even though I went with a crazy pitching heavy strategy, I still don't think that was the biggest flaw.
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