Welcome to the Ding Dong Challenge, a game were we try and correctly predict who will hit the most home runs in a given week, keep score throughout the entire season and win a free, awesome t-shirt. Here’s last week’s report card and this week’s list of “elites”. If you want to play, just pick one player from the “elites” and two players from the “everyone else” category (which is just everyone who’s not elite), then list your team in the comments. The sooner you create your team, the better as you only get the homers from when your team is posted till the end of the week.
Week 4 report card
Name | Week 4 Total | Elite | Everyone Else 1 | Everyone Else 2 | Total Ding Dongs |
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Name | Week 4 Total | Elite | Everyone Else 1 | Everyone Else 2 | Total Ding Dongs |
The Real Slim Shaney | 9 | Manny Machado (4) | Anthony Rizzo (2) | Travis Shaw (3) | 16 |
Sixtus74 | 7 | Bryce Harper (1) | Freddie Freeman (3) | Giancarlo Stanton (3) | 12 |
Heath Capps | 6 | Nolan Arenado (0) | Giancarlo Stanton (3) | Kris Bryant (3) | 6 |
Pete Rogers | 3 | Mookie Betts (0) | Cody Bellinger (1) | Aledmys Diaz (2) | 17 |
Salti Cracker | 3 | Mike Trout (0) | Giancarlo Stanton (3) | George Springer (0) | 14 |
Mark Abell | 0 | Kyle Schwarber (0) | Paul Goldschmidt (0) | Ryan Braun (0) | 11 |
Feslenraster | 0 | Mike Trout (0) | -- | -- | 1 |
It was not a great week for the elites as only Manny Machado and Bryce Harper produced any homers (though Machado did his fair share of work). On the flip side, boy did some of the everyone elses produce! Three homers from Stanton, Freeman and Bryant plus another two homers from Rizzo and Diaz. We’re finally going to have both the Bronx Bombers in the elite category for the first time this season. That’s gonna change up some people’s strategies...
Shoutout to The Real Slim Shaney who gets his first week win behind Machado and an expertly picked bench. Also shoutout to Heath for just starting this week and already making some noise putting up six points this week.
Also shoutout to Mark for going dinger-less across the board. LOVE YOU MARK!
This week’s perfect lineup could’ve been (drum roll please):
Elite: Machado (4)
Everyone Else 1: Francisco Lindor (4)
Everyone Else 2: Scooter Gennett (4)
Props to anyone who thought a dude named Scooter could rake like that.
Week 5 Elites
Name | Team | G | PA | HR | R | ISO |
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Name | Team | G | PA | HR | R | ISO |
Mookie Betts | Red Sox | 36 | 159 | 13 | 42 | 0.412 |
Mike Trout | Angels | 40 | 180 | 12 | 33 | 0.336 |
A.J. Pollock | Diamondbacks | 39 | 162 | 11 | 23 | 0.336 |
Javier Baez | Cubs | 36 | 151 | 10 | 27 | 0.331 |
Matt Davidson | White Sox | 34 | 141 | 11 | 18 | 0.33 |
Manny Machado | Orioles | 41 | 181 | 13 | 25 | 0.318 |
Jose Ramirez | Indians | 38 | 172 | 12 | 26 | 0.313 |
Bryce Harper | Nationals | 41 | 185 | 13 | 30 | 0.307 |
Francisco Lindor | Indians | 39 | 185 | 12 | 34 | 0.303 |
Ozzie Albies | Braves | 39 | 185 | 12 | 37 | 0.297 |
Trevor Story | Rockies | 41 | 169 | 10 | 20 | 0.297 |
Kris Bryant | Cubs | 33 | 154 | 7 | 26 | 0.293 |
Aaron Judge | Yankees | 40 | 184 | 11 | 33 | 0.291 |
Gary Sanchez | Yankees | 36 | 152 | 10 | 25 | 0.29 |
Didi Gregorius | Yankees | 39 | 172 | 10 | 29 | 0.288 |
Mitch Haniger | Mariners | 39 | 165 | 10 | 20 | 0.286 |
Charlie Blackmon | Rockies | 36 | 160 | 11 | 31 | 0.283 |
J.D. Martinez | Red Sox | 38 | 165 | 10 | 24 | 0.282 |
Eduardo Escobar | Twins | 33 | 145 | 7 | 23 | 0.282 |
Teoscar Hernandez | Blue Jays | 28 | 128 | 6 | 19 | 0.277 |
Nolan Arenado | Rockies | 36 | 153 | 8 | 22 | 0.275 |
Eddie Rosario | Twins | 36 | 149 | 9 | 26 | 0.273 |
Joey Gallo | Rangers | 41 | 168 | 12 | 23 | 0.272 |
Francisco Cervelli | Pirates | 32 | 128 | 6 | 15 | 0.267 |
Giancarlo Stanton | Yankees | 40 | 177 | 10 | 28 | 0.265 |
Anyone not on this list is an Everyone Else. Reminder: you pick one Elite and two Everyone Else each week so choose wisely! Leave your team in the comments if you want to play this week (and feel free to leave your twitter handle as we’ll give a shoutout each week to the previous week’s winner).