Hacking Mass 2010

[NCCubFan]

It is once again time to celebrate mediocrity. For those not familiar with Hacking Mass, the objective is to assemble your dream team of hitters with the lowest OBPs and slugging percentages and pitchers with the highest ERAs but who still somehow get playing time (since hitting scores are weighted by PAs and pitching scores weighted by IPs). You can change your team until midnight Pacific time on Friday, April 11 (that's what it says on the Hacking Mass home page; I know that there isn't actually a Friday, April 11 this year). After that time (or whatever they actually mean for the deadline to be) teams are frozen and cannot be changed for the rest of the year. As usual Colorado Rockies starting pitchers are ineligible. The winner gets $399 and a signed, framed photo reproduction of Bud Selig. The top 10 receive a one-year BP Premium subscription. Since they don't allow formation of leagues we can post our teams in this thread and update scores periodically throughout the year as we have in the past.

 

Introducing the Aaron Miles All-Stars:

 

C--Jason Kendall

1B--Garrett Atkins

2B--David Eckstein

3B--Nick Punto

SS--Ronny Cedeno

LF--Austin Kearns

CF--Rick Ankiel

RF--Jeff Francoeur

P--Fausto Carmona

P--Dave Bush

[Clem Fandango]

Team Triple Bypass

 

C Jason Kendall

1B Casey Kotchman

2B David Eckstein

3B Kevin Kouzmanoff

SS Alex Gonzalez

LF Melky Cabrera

CF Carlos Gomez

RF Travis Buck

P Felipe Paulino

P Carlos Silva

[A-Cal]

C - Jason Kendall

1b - Mike Jacobs

2b - David Eckstein

3b - Nick Punto

SS - Tommy Manzella

LF - Scott Podsednik

CF - Rick Ankiel

RF - Garrett Jones

P1 - Jeremy Guthrie

P2 - Randy Wells

[Cubswin11]

C- Jason Kendall

1B- Geoff Blum

2B-Kazuo Matsui

3B- Jhonny Peralta

SS- Orlando Cabrera (Dusty Ball!)

LF- Juan Pierre

CF- Carlos Gomez

RF- Jeff Francoeur

SP- Jeff Suppan

SP- Dontrelle Willis

[Vanilla Ice]

C Jason Kendall

1B Garrett Atkins

2B Kazuo Matsui

3B Pedro Feliz

SS Yuniesky Betancourt

LF Austin Kearns

CF Carlos Gomez

RF Jeff Franceour

SP Dave Bush

SP Craig Stanmen

[NCCubFan]

I've replaced Parra with Carmona since Parra isn't in the Brewers' rotation.

 

And the Hacking Mass home page now shows a deadline of midnight Pacific time on Tuesday, April 13 (which is a real day, unlike the original Friday, April 11).

[NCCubFan]

One more reminder. You have until midnight Pacific time tomorrow night to enter or make changes to your existing team.

[NCCubFan]

Despite BP's claims to the contrary the game is still open and you can still make changes. Looks like anybody's guess as to when the real deadline is. Accordingly I changed from Kendall to Zaun at catcher.

[Schwarber Fan]

Austin Kearns laughs at your failure.

[NCCubFan]

Yes, he and Carmona are going to be my downfall this year. I have 64 points, but without them I'd have 90.

[Clem Fandango]

Aramis Ramirez is tied for 4th best (or is it worst?) player in this competition.

 

Sadface

[NCCubFan]

I haven't been updating this since interest was so low this year, but with the season over now it seems like time. Bad year for me (tied for #449 out of 550). Carmona (-59) was my downfall. All of my other players gave me positive points, although a couple of them were only single digits.

 

I find it interesting to look at the last place team. That team's manager obviously doesn't understand how this contest works. His team was Joe Mauer, Albert Pujols, Chase Utley, Evan Longoria, Hanley Ramirez, Ryan Braun, Matt Kemp, Justin Upton, Roy Halladay, and Tim Lincecum.