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 7 report card
Name | Week 7 Total | Elite | Everyone Else 1 | Everyone Else 2 | Total Ding Dongs |
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Name | Week 7 Total | Elite | Everyone Else 1 | Everyone Else 2 | Total Ding Dongs |
Pete Rogers | 4 | J.D. Martinez (2) | Charlie Blackmon (0) | Scooter Gennett (2) | 28 |
Mark Abell | 4 | Jose Ramirez (3) | Charlie Blackmon (0) | Giancarlo Stanton (1) | 23 |
Sixtus74 | 4 | Aaron Judge (2) | Giancarlo Stanton (1) | Juan Soto (1) | 23 |
Feslenraster | 4 | Mike Trout (1) | Jesus Aguilar (1) | Brandon Nimmo (2) | 11 |
Salti Cracker | 2 | Mike Trout (1) | Freddie Freeman (0) | Giancarlo Stanton (1) | 25 |
The Real Slim Shaney | 0 | -- | -- | -- | 24 |
Heath Capps | 0 | -- | -- | -- | 11 |
It was only a matter of time before we had ourselves a tie and here we are! Four 4 point performances this week and the impressive thing is that most of the teams are very different. Mark could’ve won off the bat of Jose Ramirez had he just paired him with someone better than Charlie Blackmon. I guess I could’ve won off of the bats of J.D. Martinez and ol’ Scoots had Blackmon gotten me anything. Charlie Blackmon, you let the whole team dowwwwn. Though not as much as Mike Trout. One homer from Trout, while still scoring, is a let down. Do better Mike.
Heath and Slim Shaney just forgot to set their lineups this week so no points for them. Mark and Sixtus are in a heated battle in total points while Salti Cracker used Shaney’s week off to jump ahead. And Feslenraster is now in double digits! WOOT WOOT!
Here was the best lineup from last week:
Elite: Jose Ramirez (3)
Everyone Else 1: Edwin Encarnacion (5)
Everyone Else 2: Eddie Rosario (4)
I had even thought about Encarnacion last week... DAMN!
Week 8 Elites
Name | Team | G | PA | HR | R | ISO |
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Name | Team | G | PA | HR | R | ISO |
Mookie Betts | Red Sox | 48 | 213 | 17 | 52 | 0.391 |
Mike Trout | Angels | 60 | 264 | 19 | 49 | 0.370 |
J.D. Martinez | Red Sox | 57 | 243 | 19 | 37 | 0.333 |
Jose Ramirez | Indians | 57 | 257 | 18 | 42 | 0.326 |
Manny Machado | Orioles | 58 | 254 | 18 | 32 | 0.305 |
Christian Villanueva | Padres | 52 | 190 | 15 | 25 | 0.305 |
Aaron Judge | Yankees | 55 | 251 | 16 | 42 | 0.298 |
Bryce Harper | Nationals | 58 | 256 | 18 | 37 | 0.296 |
Javier Baez | Cubs | 54 | 222 | 14 | 35 | 0.294 |
Edwin Encarnacion | Indians | 53 | 225 | 16 | 30 | 0.271 |
Gary Sanchez | Yankees | 49 | 203 | 12 | 31 | 0.267 |
Teoscar Hernandez | Blue Jays | 42 | 186 | 8 | 25 | 0.260 |
Francisco Lindor | Indians | 57 | 271 | 14 | 45 | 0.259 |
Nolan Arenado | Rockies | 54 | 235 | 12 | 37 | 0.257 |
Eddie Rosario | Twins | 55 | 231 | 13 | 36 | 0.257 |
Kyle Schwarber | Cubs | 49 | 198 | 11 | 29 | 0.256 |
Joey Gallo | Rangers | 60 | 242 | 15 | 33 | 0.256 |
Travis Shaw | Brewers | 58 | 238 | 13 | 34 | 0.255 |
Jeimer Candelario | Tigers | 47 | 208 | 9 | 29 | 0.254 |
Khris Davis | Athletics | 51 | 221 | 13 | 26 | 0.250 |
Eduardo Escobar | Twins | 52 | 222 | 10 | 29 | 0.246 |
Ozzie Albies | Braves | 59 | 275 | 14 | 50 | 0.243 |
Mitch Haniger | Mariners | 58 | 245 | 12 | 29 | 0.242 |
Andrew Benintendi | Red Sox | 56 | 252 | 9 | 41 | 0.241 |
Brandon Belt | Giants | 53 | 226 | 11 | 32 | 0.240 |
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).