Week 11 MSSSMRMoW

If you aint first, your last.  The top and bottom teams batting is the
Mike Shaw Subaru Super Mo Replay Matchup of the Week 11.

When the week began, I instinctively circled this as a win for Bob (in the pick'em game that I will pretend in this moment that I do before the weeks begin).  Bob has been the top team in the league over the past month or so by a pretty comfortable margin, and, though Tom's team has been playing well, they had found ways to lose their way into the league basement.  As I mentioned in Goulet, Vol II, Tom's team seems to have been the recepient of extremely bad luck, as they have been above average in each category almost every week, but they have faced teams that have simply outperformed them.  This week, Les Moles flipped the script and took it to the AutoTrackers, winning 5 of 6 hitting categories and splitting the pitching ones.

Team	R	RBI	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	W	K	ERA	WHIP	QS	SV+H	Score
Lester The Molesters	24	28	5	0.268	0.327	0.438	6	51	3.66	1.19	7	1	8
Bob's AutoTrackers	25	15	4	0.247	0.310	0.371	3	50	1.13	0.89	6	8	4

Runs - Despite being on the Cubs, Anthony Rizzo scored 7 runs this week to lead Bob to a 1 run victory.  Billy Hamilton contributed 5 more runs to Bob's bottom line.  Coco Crisp scored 6 times for Tom, but Les Moles couldt overcome the goose egg put up by Josh Donaldson

RBI- Andrew McCutchen.  Thats how Tom won this category this week.  Bob's entire lineup knocked in 15 runs, led by Hamilton's 5.  Anthony Rendon, Elvis Andrus and Brandon Moss all contributed 0 RBI to the team this week.  When Billy Hamilton is leading your team in RBI for any length of time (even an inning), things likely arent going well for you.  McCutchen on the other hand knocked in 13 this week.  I havent checked, but I think that might be amongst the single week league leaders.

SB - Cutch and Ben Revere each stole a pair of bases and Ian Desmond added the deciding swipe for Les Moles.   Hamilton and Andrus each stole a pair of bags, but Dee Gordon was on the bench (0 SB anyways) and Alex Rios struggled to get on base this week.

AVG/OBP/SLG- Cutch - 483/559/1034. BOOM (Drops the mike) Nuff said.  Cutch propped up the ratios to a point where even Josh Donaldson's Kittle (042/042/042) couldnt drag them down.  For Bob, Yan Gomes Yan-MO burned those ratios to the ground with his 095/167/095 week. Bob didnt have anyone go CutchCrazy to pull them back up.

W- Tom got single win from 6 different pitchers including RP/FP(Fresh Prince) Will Smith.  Bob got solid work from his rotation, but got QS losses from 2 starters and didnt pick up a single win from the bullpen.

K- Tom won by a single K. David Price struck out 20 over 2 starts against Seattle and Houston.  In other news, 1+1=2.

ERA- Bob dominated ERA thanks to his entire bullpen posting 0.00 ERAs on the week, as well as Adam Wainwright posting a 0.00 ERA.  No pitcher on Bob's staff had a weekly ERA higher than Hisashi Iwakuma's 2.35.  Tom's ERA for the week was 3.66.

WHIP- If you arent giving up runs, theres a good chance not many guys are on base.  That is definitely the case here as Bob had 8 pitchers post WHIPs of 1.00 or under and only Wade Davis's 2.50 stands out as poor.  Les Moles were stellar as well, but Brett Cecil's 3.00 and Tony Cingrani's 1.65 were enough to pull Tom up to 1.19, .30 points higher than Bob's 0.89.

QS- Here is where volume helps Tom.  Tom had 9 starts (7 quality) and Bob had 6 starts (all quality).  Thanks SP/RP!!!!

SV/H - The other side of the volume approach is that you dont have many RPs to get SVs or holds.  Tom's 2 actual relievers only managed to get 1 between them.  Bob 4 players each get 2.