Fantasy & MLB Predictions 2011

So this blog is still active and if Jason will kindly do some updating you'll never know it was from last baseball season. As long as you ignore the URL. I'll also post roto scores here each week as long as my team is competitive. It just gets depressing when they sux.

Since last night's draft is behind us I thought it might be a good idea to make our yearly predictions about how this season will play out, both in fantasyland and in real life. Here are my predictions about Battlefield Baseball 2!

Division 1 Rankings:
1. Ray Lankford Thunder (duh.)
2. Moose Tacos (Crazy pitching & CarGo)
3. Harry Doyle (New guy creepin on the come up)
4. Champions of America (This team could really go either way)
5. Jim Abbotteers (Only because this team looks a lot like my team from last year and that didn't go well)

Division 2 (Little League) Rankings:
1. Chin Music (Although a few too many White Sox for my liking)
2. Gilkey's Eyeballs (I think daily roster changes will benefit Luke most, i.e. he'll actually play this season)
3. HENNNDERSON! (Everyone else imagines Superintendent Chalmers yelling this right?)
4. ICanHazBaseball (Can't trust a guy who eats salt lines candy)
5. Jabberwocks (I refuse to believe you can win if you don't spend over $30 on at least one guy in the draft)

Of course in interdivision match-ups Division 1 will dominate landing 4 of the 6 play-off spots until you are all forced to bow down and accept Ray Lankford Thunder as your champion! Here's real baseball:

AL East
BoSox
Crankees*
Os
Rays
Jays

AL Central
Los Tigres
Los Twines
Los Soxes
Los Racistes
Las Royales (notice feminine article)

AL West
Ringers
A'ss
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, California, Unites States of America, North America, Earth
Submariners

NL East
Green Man
Bravos
Pond Scum
Nacionales
Fishies

NL Central
Birds of Red
Men of Red
Bears of Blue
Men of Beer
Men of Space
Men of below .500

NL West
Andre the Giant
The Rock*
Million Dodger Man Ted Dibiase
Rey Mysterio Jr. (He's hispanic and Padres is Spanish?)
Jake the Snake Roberts

Divisional Serieses
Boston over Texas (Steven kills himself)
Detroit over New York
Phillies over Giants
Cards over Rockies

LCSes
Boston over Detroit
Phillies over Cards

WS
Phillies over Boston

MVPs
Albert Pujols
Adrian Gonzalez

Cy Youngs
Cliff Lee
David Price

Add your predictions to the comments!!!!

Predictions That Count

Now that most everyone's made a prediction about how actual baseball will play out, why not make some predictions about this league. Below are my completely biased guesses as to just exactly who I'll be dominating and by how much.

2010 La Liga Predictions
1. Tito Landrum Express
Offensive balance and a dominant pitching staff with 2 kick-ass closers make this thing a no contest by late June.
2. The Josh Hamiltoes
The game's best player and a set of ridiculous starters keep this team close, until Aaron Hill remembers that last year was a fluke.
3. Jason Bere's Sluggers
This band of misfits overperforms for the first half of the season keeping them up in the standings.
4. The Old Mill
A team powered by 4 top 10 players rocks the offensive stats but gets rocked on the mound.
5. Gilkeys Eyeballs
Surprising pitching performances are the highlight of this team that is in need of, well, highlights.
6. Doc's LSD No-No
A phenomenal pitching staff just can't seem to carry the offense. A late season trade with The Old Mill is too little too late.
7. Jabberwocks
A starting line up featuring an Elvis, a Shin-Soo, an Ichiro, and a Chone is laughed off the field during the announcement of the batting order.
8. Olerud Helmeteers
This sucky team just sucks all year long. You hear me Jake!?! You're going down! Sux.

Last Year's Predictions

You should check out Matt's post from yesterday and comment on it so that next year at about this time, I can do this:

Last Year's Predictions:

Zero is a perfect score. To calculate your total places off, I found the number of places above or below the actual that you predicted each team within their division.

Reality Luke Matt Jake Jason Brett AL EAST NYY TAM 2 NYY 0 BOS 1 BOS 1 TAM 2 BOS* BOS* 0 TAM 1 NYY* 1 TAM 1 BOS* 0 TAM NYY 2 BOS 1 TAM 0 NYY 2 TOR 1 TOR TOR 0 BAL 1 BAL 1 BAL 1 NYY 3 BAL BAL 0 TOR 1 TOR 1 TOR 1 BAL 0 AL CENTRAL MIN MIN 0 DET 1 CLE 4 CLE 4 MIN 0 DET KAN 2 CLE 3 MIN 1 KAN 2 KAN 2 CHW CLE 2 MIN 2 CHW 0 CHW 0 CLE 2 KAN DET 2 CHW 1 DET 2 MIN 3 DET 2 CLE CHW 2 KAN 1 KAN 1 DET 3 CHW 2 AL WEST LAA LAA 0 LAA 0 LAA 0 LAA 0 LAA 0 TEX OAK 2 TEX 0 OAK 2 TEX 0 OAK 2 SEA TEX 1 OAK 1 SEA 0 OAK 1 TEX 1 OAK SEA 1 SEA 1 TEX 2 SEA 1 SEA 1 NL EAST PHI PHI 0 NYM 3 PHI 0 PHI 0 FLA 1

FLA ATL 1 PHI 1 NYM 2 NYM 2 PHI 1 ATL FLA 1 FLA 1 ATL 0 ATL 0 NYM 1 NYM NYM 0 ATL 1 FLA 2 FLA 2 ATL 1 WAS WAS 0 WAS 0 WAS 0 WAS 0 WAS 0 NL CENTRAL STL CHC 1 STL 0 CHC 1 CHC 1 CHC 1 CHC STL* 1 CHC* 0 STL* 1 STL 1 MIL* 1 MIL MIL 0 HOU 2 MIL 0 MIL 0 STL 2 CIN HOU 1 MIL 1 HOU 1 CIN 0 PIT 2 HOU CIN 1 CIN 1 CIN 1 HOU 0 HOU 0 PIT PIT 0 PIT 0 PIT 0 PIT 0 CIN 2 NL WEST LAD LAD 0 LAD 0 LAD 0 ARZ 4 ARZ 4 COL* ARZ 3 ARZ 3 ARZ 3 LAD 1 LAD 1 SFG COL 1 SFG 0 COL 1 COL 1 SFG 0 SDP SDP 0 SDP 0 SFG 1 SDP 0 COL 1 ARZ SFG 2 COL 3 SDP 1 SFG 2 SDP 1 World Series NYY STL STL LAA TAM FLA PHI KCR NYY ! LAD PHI !! BOS

TOTAL OFF 28 30 30 34 37

Luke took the cake last year, and also tied best division honors, by only being 2 places off in the NL East. Jason was only 2 off in the AL West (an easier task, with only 4 teams), but also was only 2 off in the NL Central (the hardest division - 6 teams). Jason and Matt were the only managers to predict correct entries in the world series. Jason accurately predicted Philadelphia would lose, and Matt predicted the Yankees to be there.

By the way, check out matt's awesome spring training photo. I'm nominating it as a possible league header. That is, unless Jason took that picture currently in the header, which would be awesome.

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