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October 06, 2012
MLB Post-Season Pick 'Em, LDS Edition: No time for chit-chat! Games start tonight!
posted by DrJohnEvans to fantasy at 12:44 PM - 15 comments
In the previous thread, I have game picks for:
grum@work
cixelsyd
bender
bperk
tommytrump
If you are not on that list and should be, please point me to where you picked. Thanks!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:48 PM on October 06, 2012
Detroit in 4
Baltimore in 5
San Francisco in 4
Washington in 4
90%
NL
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:57 PM on October 06, 2012
Detroit in 4
Os in 5
Giants in 3
Nats in 5
35%
AL
posted by ursus_comiter at 01:02 PM on October 06, 2012
Detroit in 4
Yankees in 5
Reds in 5
Cards in 4
65% successful steals.
AL more blown saves.
posted by Ufez Jones at 01:29 PM on October 06, 2012
Darvish beats out Medlen by a third of an inning to grab the pitching bonus. In Triple Crown land, it's Nate McClouth and David Ross with 2 RsBI each.
| SpoFite | STL @ ATL | BAL @ TEX | Pitcher | Total Points |
| DudeDykstra | St Louis by 3 | Darvish | 3 | |
| holden | St Louis by 3 | Darvish | 3 | |
| tommytrump | St Louis | Baltimore | Darvish | 3 |
| bender | Baltimore | Darvish | 2 | |
| BoKnows | St Louis | Baltimore | 2 | |
| cixelsyd | Baltimore | Darvish | 2 | |
| Debo270 | Baltimore | Darvish | 2 | |
| DrJohnEvans | Baltimore | Darvish | 2 | |
| jjzucal | Baltimore | Darvish | 2 | |
| bperk | Baltimore | 1 | ||
| grum@work | Baltimore | 1 | ||
| hincandenza | Darvish | 1 | ||
| myshtigo | Baltimore | 1 | ||
| rcade | Darvish | 1 | ||
| Ufez Jones | St Louis | 1 | ||
| ursus_comiter | Baltimore | 1 | ||
| flannelenigma | 0 | |||
| tahoemoj | 0 | |||
| Ying Yang Mafia | 0 |
As always, please double-check your picks and points.
CORRECTING MY OWN MISTAKE
In my haste to get the post up, I screwed up the Molina Bonus instructions. It should NOT be CS / SB. That is just silly. It should in fact be:
Stolen Bases / Stolen Base Attempts
or SB / (SB + CS) if you prefer. Sorry about that!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 01:39 PM on October 06, 2012
Detroit in 5
Baltimore in 5
St. Louis in 4
San Francisco in 5
25%
AL
posted by BoKnows at 02:02 PM on October 06, 2012
Oakland A's over the Detroit Tigers in 4
Baltimore Orioles over the New York Yankees in 4
San Francisco Giants over the Cincinnati Reds 4
Washington Nationals over the St. Louis Cardinals in 3
I think the managers will be conservative on steals, and only try when it seems very safe, so I pick 85%
The National League will have the most blown saves.
posted by hincandenza at 03:25 PM on October 06, 2012
Oakland in 5
Cincinnati in 4
Washington in 4
Baltimore in 5
60% SB/SBA
NL more blown saves
posted by rcade at 03:33 PM on October 06, 2012
Detroit 5
Baltimore 4
St. Louis 4
San Francisco 5
Yadier bonus: 72%
Buck bonus: AL
posted by holden at 03:56 PM on October 06, 2012
Just got access to the PC, so my Molina/Buck picks are a tad late. I hope they are acceptable, nonetheless.
Molina: 75%
Buck: AL
posted by grum@work at 08:36 PM on October 06, 2012
As I was going by your CS/SB metric in my original post, please allow me to change my Molina pick to what it would be by the proper metric: 75%
posted by ursus_comiter at 09:28 PM on October 06, 2012
Baltimore in 5
Washington in 3
Cincinnati in 4
80%
AL
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 10:44 PM on October 06, 2012
grum@work: Accepted! Happy Thanksgiving!
ursus_comiter: Accepted! It was your pick that flagged the mistake for me, after all.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 12:34 PM on October 09, 2012
I'm still working on the results table and will post it as soon as it's done. In the meantime, I present:
THE LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES
Detroit Tigers (88-74) vs Oakland Athletics (94-68) - begins October 6, 6:00pm
Baltimore Orioles (93-69) vs New York Yankees (95-67) - begins October 7, 6:00pm
Cincinnati Reds (97-65) vs San Francisco Giants (94-68) - begins October 6, 9:30pm
St Louis Cardinals (88-74) vs Washington Nationals (98-64) - begins October 7, 3:00pm
THE PICKS
Pick the winner of each series, and the number of games which said victory would require.
THE YADIER MOLINA MAGIC BONUS PICK
Pick the stolen base success ratio (CS / SB) for all players in the LDS, rounded to the nearest 5%. Example: 80%.
THE BUCK SHOWALTER MAGIC BULLPEN BONUS PICK
Pick the league, AL or NL, that will amass the greatest number of blown saves in their LDS.
Total points available: 10 (8 LDS + 1 Molina Bonus + 1 Buck Bonus)
Given the short turnaround, I will allow bonus picks to submitted up until the beginning of Monday's games. I've picked bonus questions which use stats that can be a little more volatile in small sample sizes, so it should still be a fair challenge.
Good luck!