five sledgehammers to win

The rumored WWE e-fed fantasy game turned out to be your run of the mill Fantasy Sports League. $10 to enter for eight weeks of game play. Winner gets a belt. hahahahaha ten dollars hahahaha FOR A BELT hahahahaha (and yet…I have too much money in my pocket if I’m even considering it) I think … Continue reading “five sledgehammers to win”

The rumored WWE e-fed fantasy game turned out to be your run of the mill Fantasy Sports League. $10 to enter for eight weeks of game play. Winner gets a belt.

hahahahaha ten dollars hahahaha FOR A BELT hahahahaha (and yet…I have too much money in my pocket if I’m even considering it)

I think the WWE name could make a nice percentage profit (it’s $250 belt – they get 500 people, they’re fine), but I don’t think it’s going amount to much. It blows my mind that Stats, Inc. is involved in this, which doesn’t say much for what I think of WWE I guess.

The Point Scoring System is HERE, but I’ll steal the important stuff.

RAW/Smackdown
Appearance: 3
Match: 5
Win: 7

Heat/Velocity
Match: 2
Win: 3

(that’s 2 and 3 points more than they’re really worth)

PPVs
Match: 8
Win: 12

All Shows
Win a Title: 20
Retain a Title: 13
Finishing Move: 5
Finishing Move Kick Out: 3
Foreign Object Shot: 3
Final Match: 3
Disqualification: -4
Suspension: -10

They’re using a salary cap system to limit rosters. Start the countdown to the first comment in the Torch about people complaining their salary is too low compared to someone (or, optionally, making hilarious comments about how they wish they really WERE paid that high.) I’d think it would’ve been better if they created some groups to limit your choices, but I’d thought it’d be wise to give away free to show that it actually works too and they didn’t ask me about that one. They don’t have the salaries up yet, but if someone spies ’em and would feel like passing them along…

It goes without saying that this is completely vulnerable to manipulation. I have no idea why they’d bother but it is.

My big curiosity is trying to put together a scouting report for this – running point totals for an equal eight weeks. You know I have the data, you know I have the insanity for the irrelevance. Time might be another matter.

(My smaller curiosity is seeing if I could do that myself and if I’m below the radar enough not to get a message from the WWE legal team. I’m supposed to be doing other mySQL things tho’.)

This means they’ll actually have to publicize C-level guy’s finishers, right? I’ll get to find out if Maven is using the missile dropkick or the second rope bulldog? I think I win.

MEL KIPER SLEEPER: Mark Jindrak. You can bank on getting 10 points a week, each and every week. Too bad there’s no one stuck on the B-Show treadmill now that’s using a foreign object weekly to win. Evil Godfather hitting people with a cane as his finisher would be unbelivable.

entertainmentspn

A pilot for “ESPN Hollywood,” a half-hour show that will focus on the intersection between the worlds of sports and entertainment, will be shot Sept. 13. If it makes the cut, “ESPN Hollywood” would land in the 6 p.m. ET slot Monday-Friday on ESPN2. “Think ‘Entertainment Tonight’ or ‘Access Hollywood’ but for sports,” said Mark … Continue reading “entertainmentspn”

A pilot for “ESPN Hollywood,” a half-hour show that will focus on the intersection between the worlds of sports and entertainment, will be shot Sept. 13. If it makes the cut, “ESPN Hollywood” would land in the 6 p.m. ET slot Monday-Friday on ESPN2.


“Think ‘Entertainment Tonight’ or ‘Access Hollywood’ but for sports,” said Mark Shapiro, executive vp programming and production at ESPN. – Reuters

Oh, screw off.

The proposed schedule ESPN schedule is
06:00p: cheese personality features crap (working title)
06:30p: news show hosted by a “Strong Personality”, which could mean any number of bad things (“it’s the Stu Scott hour! HOLLA!”), but would be much more fun to speculate about if they had let Olberman do Old School week.
07:30p: ACTUAL SPORTS!
12:00p: night time talk show
They’re aiming for early next year.

The best part of the whole article is this paragraph about Scott Christ’s favorite show:

“It has been what we envisioned it to be,” Shapiro said. “The feedback is that the viewers want more sports out of it.” Added to the staff to give it more of a sports flavor are Woody Paige and Skip Bayless. Instead of being a variety show with heavy sports sprinkled in, Shapiro said, “Cold Pizza” will now become a heavy sports show with variety sprinkled in.

The people who watch ESPN2 want to watch sports! I sure hope they didn’t spend too much money on market research for that one. I wonder if Mark Shapiro debates having a pizza with sausage and cheese or a pizza with cheese and sausage.

(The second best part is Tony and Wilbon have gotten five year deals. Yay, money. Boo, not having to do a radio show for it, Tony.)

They’re sending Kenny Mayne to IRAQ (as part of a SportsCenter deal.) He must’ve been said something unfortunate on the horceracing.

I’ve watched 30 minutes of Baseball Tonight in the last month, and not only did I immediately regret it, so did all the people I was chatting with.

F4

CHC — 29 OFF SFG — 27 Schmidt v COL Kennedy SDP 0.5 30 Peavy @ STL Suppan FLA 3.0 31 Pavano @ NYM Seo HOU 3.0 29 OFF I have 52 minutes to do this before the games start. I like to do this in a more leisurely pace. You…don’t care. This was Kerry’s … Continue reading “F4”

CHC --- 29 OFF
SFG --- 27 Schmidt v COL Kennedy
SDP 0.5 30 Peavy @ STL Suppan
FLA 3.0 31 Pavano @ NYM Seo
HOU 3.0 29 OFF

I have 52 minutes to do this before the games start. I like to do this in a more leisurely pace. You…don’t care.

This was Kerry’s best game of the season, and it came at a time when the club needed (gotta win this series) and he needed it (didn’t make it out of the 5th last two times out, gave up 8 runs last time out.)

It’s also one of those times where I can’t believe anyone who watches baseball on a regular basis takes pitcher wins and loses seriously.

Highly unlikely the Cubs are alone and in first place at the end of the night. Cardinals have owned the Padres this series, thus the (panic) short rest start for Jake Peavy. Peavy’d be ERA leader if he had enough innings (2.25 ERA in 120 – I believe it’s an 1 IP/G, so he could catch up by the end of the season.) Peavy’s only had one game where he’s given 4 runs, though he has a relatively low QS rate because he hasn’t made it thru the sixth a fair bit. The IP is the reason he’s not getting Cy talk

BPro doesn’t have a VORP/IP metric – it’d be really biased towards closers and situational guys – but my quick excel math says among starters with 50IP, the top 10 guys are

Orlando Hernandez	NYA	0.382
Jake Peavy		SDN	0.377
Ryan Madson		PHI	0.359
Johan Santana		MIN	0.337
Freddy Garcia		SEA	0.329
Al Leiter		NYN	0.329
Tim Hudson		OAK	0.322
Jason Schmidt		SFN	0.313
Curt Schilling		BOS	0.306

Ryan Madson had one start and good bullpen work to make the list, in case you were wondering. I know I was. RJ isn’t on here despite having a nice huge VORP because he pitches so many innings. That’s kind of the reason I suppose this metric isn’t used; for batting, we theorize that a .200 VORP/PA guy is going to get around that number (plus or minus luck – environment is factored out), regardless of the at bats. Doesn’t work with pitching; Shingo the Frisbee Man’s VORP/IP is going to drop the more he pitches, just because more people will have shots at his wacky pitch.

Schmidt should beat these Rockies in SF nine times out of ten, with the tenth time perhaps being a reoccurrence of his groin injury. (Actual line is SFG -260) I kinda think he’ll be okay and kinda hope he won’t.

Cubs went home last night, instead of going to Miami for the series. If by some miracle, the hurricane misses land, they’d fly down Friday morning. No one really thinks they will. The Marlins game notes made it sound like they were going home, which was kind of a surprise to me until I realized they were a day game and had no real choice.

Weather.com says: “Present thinking puts landfall on the central or southern portion of the east coast of Florida, possibly as early as late Friday”. That’s a problem. If it was going to hit Saturday afternoon, you have the Cubs fly in tonight, play a doubleheader (starting at 9AM if they’d let you), and get them out of town before the hurricane hits. If it was going to hit Friday afternoon, you have the Cubs wait it out in Chicago, come in Saturday to play a late game, and do the doubleheader on Sunday.

In between Friday and Saturday’s really bad, because you can’t play Friday (no sense flying people into the path of a hurricane) and you probably can’t play Saturday (too many things shut down to get a team to the ballpark, and about 5 people will be in the stands.) You may not even be able to play Sunday, if the airport gets messed up or the storm is slow to pass.

I feel sorry for whoever’s got to figure this out. I’d bet heavily on the Cubs working out the stadium tomorrow, because there won’t be a game.

Done with seconds to spare.