LetsPlay3 2019

MLB opening day is was Thu Mar 28, MLB announces 2019 regular season schedule.

The highlight of opening day: Javier Baez Hits Pair of Opening Day Home Runs for Cubs.

Final standings

Rock and roll...into the playoffs!

Fun stats

The stat fun starts with pulling the raw data out of Yahoo. Here it is:

season_data.pdf

Raw data in hand (or spreadsheet), these fun stats are then created each week:

Week 1: standings ~ averages ~ totw=Naperville Jellyfish
Week 2: standings ~ averages ~ totw=Bay City, Plano (tie)
Week 3: standings ~ averages ~ totw=Noto Beard
Week 4: standings ~ averages ~ totw=Southern Rocket
Week 5: standings ~ averages ~ totw=Southern Rocket
Week 6: standings ~ averages ~ totw=Vatican City Pope
Week 7: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ totw=Killer Maltese
Week 8: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ totw=CRYOGENIC TED
Week 9: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ totw=Boston Poindexter
Week 10: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ totw=NOTO Beard
Week 11: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ totw=Vatican City Pope
Week 12: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ totw=Boston, Killer Maltese (tie)
Week 13: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ totw=Vatican City Pope
Week 14: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ totw=Boston Poindexter
Week 15: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ totw=Southern Rocket
Week 16: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ totw=Boston Poindexter
Week 17: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ heat map (new!) ~ totw=Killer Maltese
Week 18: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ heat map (pretty new) ~ totw=Southern Rocket
Week 19: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ heat map (meh) ~ totw=Boston Poindexter
Week 20: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ heat map ~ totw=RBI All Day
Week 21: standings ~ averages ~ nipr ~ heat map ~ totw=Boston Poindexter

A little bit about the NIPR stat above:

NIPR stands for "New and Improved Power Ranking".
The goal of NIPR is to provide a statistical measure of teams, one that is independent of head-to-head competition.
NIPR is a Z-score or "standard score". You can google it, but here's a freebie for you: stattrek.com/statistics/dictionary.aspx?definition=z_score
A NIPR score of 0 means that your team is average in that stat. A NIPR score of 100 means that your team is 1 standard deviation better than average. And a score of -100 means that your team is 1 standard deviations worse than average.
Now, you can apply NIPR to one category or as many as you like. The base NIPR ranking covers all 10 cats. NIPR-1 is interesting; it's all cats but excludes your worst category. And so on.

Stats questions? Email me, dood. I'm at: williamt@williamt.com

thanks...yow, bill

LP3 All-Star team

The LetsPlay3 All-Star Team is comprised of the highest-Yahoo-ranked player(s) at each position. I trolled Yahoo on Mon Jul 8, 2019 to create this list. Go!

Boppers

C - G Sanchez (nyy); Killer Maltese, yahoo #85
1B - Josh Bell (pit); Killer Rabbit, #3
2B - Javy Baez (cub); Plano Tiburon, #11
3B - Raffie Deevs (bos); Naperville Jellyfish, #10
SS - T Story (col); RBI All Day, #13
OF - C Yelich (mil); Boston Poindexter, #1
OF - Cody B (lad); Naperville Jellyfish, #2
OF - M Trout (laa); Bay City Brawler, #4
DH - Freddie Freeman (atl); Killer Rabbit, #5

Pitchers

SP - Mad Max (was); SATX Elephant, #8
SP - Verlander (hou); Killer Maltese, #9
RP - K Yates (sdg); PTBNL, #32
RP - J Hader (mil); PTBNL, #36
P - Ryu (lad); NOTO Beard, #12

Honorable Mention

The top 7 players in Yahoo are all 1B or OF. That left these worthy guys off the AS team.

Pete Alonso (nym); Vatican City Pope, #6
Ronald Acuña Jr (atl); KGG Baseball, #7

The next 3 pitchers in the Yahoo ranks all have something in common. See if you can spot it.

Charlie Morton (tam); Boston Poindexter, #18
Zack Greinke (ari); Boston Poindexter, #22
G Cole (hou); Boston Poindexter, #26

All-LP3 team and MVP

The All-LP3 Team are the highest Yahoo-ranked guys at each position at the end of our fantasy regular season (aka, Sep 2, 2019). Here we go.

Bopping

C - JT Realmuto (phi); SATX Elephant, yahoo #85
1B - Cody B (lad); Naperville Jellyfish, #4
2B - Eduardo Escobar (ari); CRYO TED, #16
3B - Raffie Deevs (bos); Naperville Jellyfish, #7
SS - Xander (bos); Boston Poindexter, #9
OF - Ronald Acuña Jr. (atl); KGG Baseball, yahoo #1 = MVP!
OF - C Yelich (mil); Boston Poindexter, #2
OF - M Trout (laa); Bay City Brawler, #5
DH - Freddie Freeman (atl); Killer Rabbit, #6

Some honorable mentions here: #8 A Rendon (was) Bay City; #11 N Arenado (col) PTBNL; #12 P Alonso (nym rook) Vatican City; #13 T Story (col) RBI All Day; #14 Josh Bell (pit) Killer Rabbit; #15 Juan Soto (was) KGG

Pitching

SP - Verlander (hou); Killer Maltese, #3
SP - G Cole (hou); Boston Poindexter, #10
RP - K Yates (sdg); PTBNL, #48
RP - F Vazquez (pit); Boston Poindexter, #55
P - S Strasburg (was); Naperville Jellyfish, #31

Other worthy pitchers include: #31 The Biebs (cle) SATX Elephant; #34 Mad Max (was) SATX Elephant; #36 J deGrom (nym) PTBNL; #37 Ryu (lad) Notorious Beard; #39 Zack Greinke (hou) Boston Poindexter; #41 Charlie Morton (tam) Boston Poindexter

Your MVP of the 2019 season is Ronald Acuña Jr. of The KGG.

This is a perfect reflection of the times and the youth movement in baseball. Acuña is just 21 years old. (gasp!) With a month to play, dood already has a 30-30 season (36 dinger, 33 sb). Yow!

That's a wrap on the regular season. I highly recommend you proceed to zee playoffs. Cha!

thanks...yow, bill