Quote of the day
"It didn't look like he took two years off. -- Atlanta 1B Freddie Freeman, after Ben Sheets allowed two hits and one walk with five strikeouts in his first start since July 2010Daily blurb
Not a very gentle re-entry into life as a RotoGuru. As I was flying back from the west coast on Saturday, the server network which hosts the rotoguru domains was hit by a large-scale denial of service attack (not targeting rotoguru, but with similar impact), severely limiting site accessibility. The attack lasted throughout most of Sunday as well. I am told that the attack has been eliminated now, but some (critical) site functionality has yet to be fully restored. In particular, any data that needs to be accessed and updated from external sources (e.g., weather data, daily stats) is still extremely limited. Thus, some features at both RotoGuru and DailyBaseballData.com are still either empty, limited, or out of date. I hope that this will all be resolved by the end of Monday, but I have not yet received any definitive timetable for restoration. Welcome back.
Here is the current status of data as of this morning:
Baseball stats (sortables, etc): Updated through Saturday night’s games.
Fireleague: Salaries still reflect Saturday morning resets.
Daily contest salaries: I believe these are all current for Monday contests.
DailyBaseballData.com: Kind of a mess.
Somehow, in the midst of the madness, I was able to complete the tournament processing for GuruGolf. Since this was the final tournament prior to the next major, here are the results of the “Open Faced Sandwich” Contest:
"Open Faced Sandwich contest" prize winners:
Best ball: brassies (tiebreaker)
Worst ball: Sand traps (tiebreaker)
Note that in both cases, the tiebreaker was needed to break a tie. The winner is the team with the greatest team value increase during the contest period.