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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 6 report card
| Name | Week 6 Total | Elite | Everyone Else 1 | Everyone Else 2 | Total Dongs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Week 6 Total | Elite | Everyone Else 1 | Everyone Else 2 | Total Dongs |
| Punk is Dead | 5 | Christian Yelich (1) | Trevor Story (1) | Nolan Arenado (3) | 25 |
| Calvin C | 4 | Joey Gallo (2) | David Peralta (1) | Randal Grichuk (1) | 13 |
| Ezra Laemmle | 4 | Cody Bellinger (0) | Trevor Story (1) | Michael Chavis (3) | 23 |
| Heath Capps | 4 | Joey Gallo (2) | Mike Trout (1) | Mookie Betts (1) | 31 |
| Pete Rogers | 3 | Peter Alonso (1) | Mike Trout (1) | Mookie Betts (1) | 31 |
| Salti Cracker | 3 | Marcell Ozuna (1) | Mike Trout (1) | Mookie Betts (1) | 15 |
| Dark Passenger | 2 | Rhys Hoskins (2) | Daniel Murphy (0) | 2 | |
| GratefulMatt | 1 | Christian Yelich (1) | Bryce Harper (0) | Jose Altuve (0) | 29 |
| Mark Abell | 1 | Yandy Diaz (0) | Bryce Harper (0) | Kris Bryant (1) | 25 |
| Feslenraster | 1 | Eddie Rosario (0) | Luke Voit (1) | Tommy La Stella (0) | 18 |
| Ghoji Blackburn | 0 | -- | -- | -- | 20 |
Another slow week of dingers but well done Punk is Dead for winning this week and for drafting Nolan Arenado, one of the only guys to go over two home runs last week. Shoutout to Ezra who, despite getting their lineup in on Wednesday, still managed to score three homers thanks to rookie-phenom and the greatest player in major league baseball right now Michael Chavis.
Can Bryce Harper and Mike Trout start reliably knocking dingers please? Seriously you guys, don’t you know this game exists and that people are expecting you to put up big time stats? It’s like they don’t even care. Tisk tisk.
The BIG Donger:
- Alex Bregman (5)
TO WEEK 7 AND HOPEFULLY MORE DINGERS!
Week 7 Elites
| Name | Team | G | PA | HR | ISO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Team | G | PA | HR | ISO |
| Christian Yelich | Brewers | 31 | 129 | 15 | 0.458 |
| Cody Bellinger | Dodgers | 34 | 142 | 14 | 0.429 |
| Joey Gallo | Rangers | 29 | 126 | 11 | 0.390 |
| Willson Contreras | Cubs | 29 | 111 | 9 | 0.367 |
| Joc Pederson | Dodgers | 32 | 116 | 10 | 0.357 |
| Jay Bruce | Mariners | 29 | 116 | 11 | 0.356 |
| Rhys Hoskins | Phillies | 32 | 144 | 10 | 0.342 |
| Javier Baez | Cubs | 31 | 140 | 11 | 0.338 |
| Marcell Ozuna | Cardinals | 32 | 136 | 11 | 0.333 |
| Josh Bell | Pirates | 31 | 132 | 8 | 0.330 |
| Hunter Dozier | Royals | 31 | 130 | 8 | 0.324 |
| Peter Alonso | Mets | 34 | 143 | 10 | 0.320 |
| Eddie Rosario | Twins | 31 | 129 | 11 | 0.314 |
| Mitch Moreland | Red Sox | 32 | 117 | 9 | 0.314 |
| Matt Chapman | Athletics | 36 | 151 | 9 | 0.302 |
| Franmil Reyes | Padres | 35 | 113 | 9 | 0.301 |
| Nelson Cruz | Twins | 28 | 112 | 7 | 0.299 |
| Christian Walker | Diamondbacks | 32 | 131 | 7 | 0.297 |
| Mike Moustakas | Brewers | 30 | 124 | 8 | 0.288 |
| Jesse Winker | Reds | 34 | 124 | 9 | 0.288 |
| Anthony Rizzo | Cubs | 31 | 141 | 8 | 0.284 |
| Ketel Marte | Diamondbacks | 33 | 143 | 9 | 0.282 |
| Alex Bregman | Astros | 32 | 140 | 9 | 0.281 |
| George Springer | Astros | 34 | 153 | 10 | 0.280 |
| Mitch Haniger | Mariners | 34 | 159 | 8 | 0.275 |
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).