The Ding Dong Challenge: Goldi-scmidt and the four dingers

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.

After missing a week, Real Slim Shaney came back in a big way, tying with Mark for best score of the week thanks to a 4 dinger week from Paul Goldschmidt, who easily wins MVEveryoneElse for the week. Meanwhile Mike Trout wins biggest letdown as Sixtus, Salti Cracker and Feslenraster all picked him as their Elite and he wound up being very un-Elite knocking zero homers. Probably the only time in the history of his career Trout has been called a disappointment.

This is what happens when I pick a team without any Red Sox players on it. I score two points and my Elite gives me hot garbage. Serves me right for picking anyone other than Just Dingers Martinez as my elite. No one to blame but myself. And Javier Baez.

Best lineup from last week is.... (drum roll)...

Elite: Khris Davis (4)
Everyone Else 1: Paul Goldschmidt (4)
Everyone Else 2: Jose Martinez (4)

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).