"Atta boy Harper" indeed. I'm watching him on TBS rn, shirtless, surrounded by be-goggled teammates flipping off the world, and I can't help smiling; this team is fun!
Less fun for people who didn't pick them, I'll grant you, but there's maybe something to be said for having fun/a more fuggit attitude towards the postseason, because you know who was not in the same time zone as having a good time? (Besides the Dodgers, and that cause/effect relationship is a bit different.) Atlanta. Maybe a whole season of hearing how legendarily great your line-up is, how impossible to beat, how inevitable your march to October glory...maybe it's hard to enjoy yourself if the only thing you can definitely do is disappoint.
Or maybe the universe thinks your racist team name and chop bullshit need to eat some shit until ownership figures it out. Who knows.
I know about some points, though!
Acuña 0
Albies 0
Olson 1
Riley 5
Castellanos 9
Harper 1
Schwarber 0
Stott 0
Turner 8
Aaaaand the dreaded italics return, not for the last time in this entry.
Tempting to stick Ronald Acuña Jr. with the LVP for this series, but in fact Schwarber and Stott fared worse this round, with 1 point each to Acuña's 3. Olson, a seeming slam-dunk pick before play began, didn't do much better with 4.
MVP is Castellanos, but Turner made it close.
Okay, let's have a look at the money...and the morgue.
69 (...nice) Crase
52 SDB 2
47 YOLO Joe
42 Wonsetler 1
Everyone else after the jump!
38 Bingham 1
34 Fell 2
33 Yuhan
31 Bauer Spoon and SDB 1
29 Stempel and Dunn
28 Shotwell 2
26 Tormey
25 Cameron 1
23 Quinn and Cayenne 2
22 MArbour 1
21 MArbour 2 and Brady
20 Bingham 2
18 O'Reilly
16 Cayenne 1
14 Richardson and LyonCorn
12 Fell 1 and Wonsetler 2
10 Bauer Spice
9 Cameron 2 and Wakefield's Ghost
8 Chalky Joe and Stuart-Hodges
So that's another 9 slates knocked out, and it does seem to sting more this year, no? Like, it's not just that so many slates got dusted; it's that so many of the picks on those slates, which were perfectly reasonable and promising 10 days ago, did squat-ola, and I'm not sure they could have come back all the way even if Atlanta had hung in longer/won the series. Yeah, a couple big-name picks crap out every year, but I don't remember this many doing this poorly.
But that's why they play the games; my condolences to the italicized, who will not appear in future updates but who I hope will come back next year (or to the comments the rest of the way). Thanks so much for playing, and I'm sorry this was such a weird one this year!
And as to said rest of the way: Crase's lead is healthy but not insurmountable, and we have a bunch of different picks in play and ways it could shake out...I have a few days to think about it/futz with Excel formulae, but as of this writing, I think we're standing pat with the current set-up.
See an error/weird math? Don't see a slate that should be here? Drop a comment or an email! Otherwise I'll see you in a day or two, Saturday at the latest for the ALCS premiere. Good luck, everyone.
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As a lifelong Phils fan, yay! And also, yes to their being fun, pretty much always. As a shmuck who never bets on her faves and has since fallen out of the money bc she was afraid to add another Fightin’ to her one functional slate (never having had a chance on the other), I say: Get it together, Schwarbs.
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