I love consuming everything baseball. Whether it’s documentaries, movies, TV shows, or video games; as long as it’s baseball, I’m in. Each character created for these platforms have their own unique personalities. So here we have it, a case for a number of fictional baseball players, to eventually decide who the best truly is. In honor of Disney's upcoming launch of their new Disney+ streaming service, we're going to keep things right here, with the Disney classic, Angels in the Outfield (1994). Ben Williams is the California Angels Center Fielder in the 1994 classic, Angels in the Outfield. He is played by none other than Matthew McConaughey. Williams is not known for his bat, but rather his quality defense.
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After a 21 week regular season, and two playoff round, we have our Field Series matchup. And no, this is not deja vu. We do indeed have a rematch of the 2018 Field Series Championship, between the Clarksville Crushers and Westport Pilots.
In 2018, the Pilots ran away with the season, finishing 225-95-16 (.693), good for the best record in BFBL history, and 53 games ahead of the second-place team. As a result of the dominating regular season, the Pilots handled the Field Series playoffs with ease, winning the semi-finals 10-6, and topping the Crushers 11-4 in the finals. Flip the script to the 2019 season, the Crushers have been the more dominant regular season team, entering the playoffs with the number two seed, earning one of the two first-round byes. The Crushers 205-113-18 (.637) record is good for the third-best record in league history, only behind the aforementioned 2018 Pilots, and this season's pennant-winner, Montenegro's Team (220-101-15 (.677)). Let's take a look at how the two teams stack up against each other this season: The 2019 Boston Fantasy Baseball League came to an exciting finish. Montenegro's Team, with new Manager, Carlos M., finished with an impressive 220-101-15 record, winning the pennant by 13.5 games. With a win percentage of .677, Montenegro's Team finished with the second-best record in BFBL history. Following Montenegro's Team, the Crushers, Bombers, Clout, Pilots, and Aliens rounded out the playoff positions. The Leaguers, Pujols, Bail Bonds, and Chickens fell short, into the Consolation Bracket. The Chickens, unfortunately finished the season with a 87-234-15 (.281) record, setting a new record, for worst of all time.
I love consuming everything baseball. Whether it’s documentaries, movies, TV shows (R.I.P. Pitch), or video games; as long as it’s baseball, I’m in. Each character created for these platforms have their own unique personalities. So here we have it, a case for a number of fictional baseball players, to eventually decide who the best truly is.
Ray Mitchell is the California Angels slugger played by Stoney Jackson, in the movie Angels in the Outfield (1994). I won’t spend this time going into how great this movie is…but it is. Mitchell sports a phenomenal, wet, slicked back, Jheri curl hair style, that would have made N.W.A. proud, when this look rocked the late 1980's. Week two's Game of the Week features a rematch of the 2016 Field Series between the Bay City Bombers and Asparagus Piss Bombs.
In 2017, both Asparagus and Bay City were primed for a Field Series rematch sitting atop the number one and two seeds respectively, heading into the playoffs. However, both teams ran into the red hot Featherless Chickens, who took the playoffs by storm, winning the franchise's third Field Series title. The Featherless Chickens' Field Series repeat campaign starts with an Opening Week matchup against Mayor McCheese.
Featherless finished the 2017 regular season in sixth place with a .500 record (160-160-16), which was enough to clinch the final playoff spot. From there, Featherless made the strongest playoff push in BFBL history, winning the franchise's third Field Series title, and first for Manager, Ron D. Mayor finished the 2017 regular season with a 146-168-22 record, one spot behind Featherless to miss the playoff cut. Mayor did make a run at the Consolation Championship, before eventually running into the hottest team in the second half, The New Guy. With a loss in the Consolation Championship, Mayor did at least get awarded the second draft position for the 2018 season.
It's that season. The season that EVERYONE loves! Fantasy baseball season. Better than that, it's keeper season, before fantasy baseball "officially" gets underway for the 2018 season.
Okay, maybe I layered it on a bit thick just then. Honestly, fantasy baseball doesn't have the lure, the attraction, or even the excitement week after week that fantasy football achieves. Fantasy baseball is a marathon. In my opinion, the only fit way to play fantasy baseball is daily lineup changes through the 162 game, 21+ week season that the Boston Fantasy Baseball League thrives on. Sure, the day-to-day format is certainly not for everyone. Let's face it, a fantasy baseball manager has to check their lineup every…single…day. They have to check the pitcher vs batter match-ups, measure if their player is on a hot/cold streak, or even which teams are playing any given, random, middle of the week day game to make sure their player is accruing the appropriate counting statistics. There's a lot of time that goes into managing a fantasy baseball team. Much more time than what's required for running a fantasy football team. As we ring in the new year, it is once again time to turn the page to another fantasy baseball season in the Boston Fantasy Baseball League!
Above, are the final standings for the 2017 Season. The Featherless Chickens celebrated their third Field Series Championship in franchise history, notching the first for Manager, Ron D. since taking the helm in 2011.
I classify myself as a cash game player when it comes to Daily Fantasy Sports. I personally tend to stick to multiple head-to-head entires each week.
In my experience, I feel that playing head-to-head contests over 50/50 or double-up contests tends to yield a better return on investment in cases where my lineup in any given week does not perform well. When my lineup does not perform well, I would likely not win any 50/50 or double-up contest as my lineup would always fall under the 50th percentile of lineup scores. Head-to-head contests, on the other hand, I may run into a few lineups just as bad as mine and salvage a couple losses there. The flip side to playing like this: If my lineup does perform above the 50th percentile I would likely win 100 percent of 50/50 contests, whereas it is a guarantee that head-to-head contests would yield opponents that will score better and I would not take 100 percent of the contests I enter. My goal here is to share my result with everyone. I will try to post this every week whether I win or lose (hopefully more win than lose).
Each week in NFL DFS has its own unique story. This week featured two games in particular that had shootout potential in the Patriots@Saints and Packers@Falcons. On top of that, we had some seemingly great stackable games that can create a lot of distinctive lineups in GPP's.
For me, I wanted to see how much exposure I could get to those projected shootouts and high scoring team totals as hard as it would be to stack the high salaries.
I classify myself as a cash game player when it comes to Daily Fantasy Sports. I personally tend to stick to multiple head-to-head entries each week.
In my experience, I feel that playing head-to-head contests over 50/50 or double-up contests tends to yield a better return on investment in cases where my lineup in any given week does not perform well. When my lineup does not perform well, I would likely not win any 50/50 or double-up contest as my lineup would always fall under the 50th percentile of lineup scores. Head-to-head contests, on the other hand, I may run into a few lineups just as bad as mine and salvage a couple losses there. The flip side to playing like this: If my lineup does perform above the 50th percentile I would likely win 100 percent of 50/50 contests, whereas it is a guarantee that head-to-head contests would yield opponents that will score better and I would not take 100 percent of the contests I enter. My goal here is to share my result with everyone. I will try to post this every week whether I win or lose (hopefully more win than lose).
Every year, I find Week 1 of the NFL to be one of the hardest weeks to gauge. No matter how many conclusions can be drawn about usage projections or offense and defense upgrades we still have not seen how it translates to the playing field accurately (Yes, that is correct. I do not put much stock into the NFL Pre-Season). This particular week, I felt strongly enough about four lineup spots in particular. This made lineup construction this week a relatively simple process for me.
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