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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 3 report card
| Name | Week 3 Total | Elite | Everyone Else 1 | Everyone Else 2 | Total Dongs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Week 3 Total | Elite | Everyone Else 1 | Everyone Else 2 | Total Dongs |
| Pete Rogers | 8 | Cody Bellinger (2) | Khris Davis (5) | Mookie Betts (1) | 14 |
| Ghoji Blackburn | 6 | Cody Bellinger (2) | Aaron Judge (2) | Edwin Encarnacion (2) | 20 |
| Heath Capps | 6 | Mike Trout (0) | Khris Davis (5) | Nolan Arenado (1) | 16 |
| Ezra Laemmle | 6 | Cody Bellinger (2) | Michael Conforto (1) | Ronald Acuna (3) | 12 |
| Punk is Dead | 6 | Mike Trout (0) | Khris Davis (5) | Nolan Arenado (1) | 14 |
| GratefulMatt | 5 | Mike Trout (0) | Freddie Freeman (0) | Khris Davis (5) | 14 |
| Calvin C | 2 | Mike Trout (0) | Javier Baez (0) | Aaron Judge (2) | 3 |
| Salti Cracker | 1 | Mike Trout (0) | Aaron Judge (1) | J.D. Martinez (0) | 9 |
| Mark Abell | 1 | Christian Yelich (0) | Jose Ramirez (0) | Christin Stewart (1) | 11 |
| Feslenraster | 1 | Gary Sanchez (0) | Wil Myers (0) | Daniel Vogelbach (1) | 10 |
HA round of applause for me for bucking the Mike Trout trend and picking the winning team this week. I’d like to dedicate this win to Mookie Betts whose single homer made no difference in me winning but still, I want to reward Mookie and the Sox somehow since they are trash.
Loser this week is Trout who’s hamstring injury all but destroyed everyone’s team. I’m actually really impressed with Heath for taking the big zero from Trout and still managing to finish near the top, thanks again to Khris Davis who was by far and away this week’s MVP.
Also shoutout this week’s Big Donger as only Jose Altuve wins the award with his six homers this past week. Well done sir.
Onto Week 4’s Elites!
Week 4 Elites
| Name | Team | G | PA | HR | ISO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | G | PA | HR | ISO |
| Mike Trout | Angels | 12 | 49 | 5 | 0.531 |
| Cody Bellinger | Dodgers | 17 | 76 | 9 | 0.485 |
| Anthony Rendon | Nationals | 14 | 63 | 6 | 0.473 |
| Peter Alonso | Mets | 15 | 62 | 6 | 0.455 |
| Willson Contreras | Cubs | 13 | 46 | 5 | 0.447 |
| Khris Davis | Athletics | 18 | 77 | 10 | 0.431 |
| Mitch Moreland | Red Sox | 15 | 52 | 5 | 0.426 |
| Joc Pederson | Dodgers | 16 | 63 | 6 | 0.412 |
| Jay Bruce | Mariners | 16 | 68 | 7 | 0.390 |
| Austin Meadows | Rays | 15 | 64 | 6 | 0.375 |
| Rhys Hoskins | Phillies | 14 | 64 | 5 | 0.373 |
| Trey Mancini | Orioles | 16 | 70 | 6 | 0.371 |
| Jose Altuve | Astros | 16 | 70 | 7 | 0.359 |
| Marcell Ozuna | Cardinals | 13 | 53 | 5 | 0.353 |
| Ronald Acuna Jr. | Braves | 15 | 67 | 5 | 0.340 |
| Kolten Wong | Cardinals | 15 | 59 | 4 | 0.340 |
| Christian Walker | Diamondbacks | 15 | 52 | 4 | 0.340 |
| Freddy Galvis | Blue Jays | 16 | 60 | 5 | 0.333 |
| Mitch Haniger | Mariners | 18 | 84 | 5 | 0.329 |
| Dansby Swanson | Braves | 15 | 57 | 4 | 0.326 |
| Victor Robles | Nationals | 14 | 52 | 3 | 0.326 |
| Jason Heyward | Cubs | 12 | 50 | 4 | 0.325 |
| Paul Goldschmidt | Cardinals | 15 | 69 | 6 | 0.322 |
| Fernando Tatis Jr. | Padres | 16 | 64 | 5 | 0.321 |
| Bryce Harper | Phillies | 14 | 64 | 4 | 0.320 |
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).