For the third week in a row a new single-week scoring record has been set. Eric is back on top of the Aces Only Association after racking up 172.25 points over seven days to claim his second Rickey Henderson Award. His squad set new single-week league highs in batting average (.297), OPS (.952), tied the single-week league high of 13 home runs, and his pitchers did pretty well, too, posting a 2.84 FIP.
Cory Frontin and Andrew Perez suffered their first losses of the season, in part because they only used four and five pitcher starts, respectively. Cory wound up with just 24 innings pitched and Andrew had 33, a big disadvantage when the rest of the league averaged 46 innings pitched.
Alex Mayo scored 130.75 points this week, contributing to a new record combined score of 303.00 points he and Eric scored in their matchup this week. It was a stroke of bad luck for Alex who remains winless after posting his first Top 4 score of the year.
Cory Puffett won this week’s Manny Ramirez Award for beating Andrew in the game of the week. Cory’s team has been remarkably consistent, finishing as a Top 3 scorer every week so far. His squad has double digit home runs in every week, this plate appearances and innings pitches have increased every week, and his team’s FIP has fallen every week. His team also leads the AOA in consistency, a power metric that debuts this week as part of our rankings calculation.
To calculate consistency for our purposes, we subtract the league average score for the season from a team’s average and then divide that difference by the team’s standard deviation. If the standard deviation is 0, that team gets a consistency score of 1.
Cory leads the league with a 1.71 consistency score through three weeks. Interestingly, the two worst consistency scores belong to the only two teams with lower standard deviations than Cory’s team. Sam Martin and Andrew Perez have standard deviations of 6.37 and 6.98, respectively, which certainly indicate consistent teams on a week-to-week basis. But our consistency metric is measuring consistency vs league average, and neither Sam nor Andrew have had a week yet in which they scored more points than the league average through Week 3, leaving them with consistency scored of -1.13 and -1.09, respectively.
Check out our Week 3 recap below followed by this week’s power rankings:
Game of the Week: Cory Puffett at Andrew Perez
The final matchup between unbeatens for this season wasn’t as close as we hoped, partly because Andrew left two pitcher starts on the table. Cory had a huge advantage offensively, though, and had a 42-AB advantage over his opponent.
-Cory Puffett