Roto Standings thru Halfway Point

If you are wondering whether or not your team is riding a wave or getting drenched by the wave, the look at these stats at the midway point of the season. Is your team possibly heading for a fall or ready to make a run in the 2nd half? Take a look and check it out.

The numbers consist of a roto style format with totals on both offense and defense. Then there is a little summary of how each team's outlook. If a team is on the plus side of the numbers, then they are playing a little over their heads. If your team has a negative number, then look for better results in 2nd half assuming your team's output continues. Some teams are even in the Head to Head and Roto formats.

Offense:
Stars 59
Hardballers 54
Plaz 51
Utica 49
Hitters, Ageless, and Squirrels 44
Champs 37
Zonk 30
BASEMAN 26
Woodie 18
REDS 15

Defense:
BASEMAN 57
Woodie 54
Squirrels 46
Hardballers and Ageless 41
Zonk 39
Stars and Champs 38
REDS 36
Plaz 33
Utica 29
Hitters 27

Totals:
Stars 97
Hardballers 95
Squirrels 90
Ageless 85
Plaz 84
BASEMAN 83
Utica 78
Champs 75
Woodie 72
Hitters 71
Zonk 69
REDS 51

Summary:
Stars (Even) Right where he needs to be. Killer offense and mediocre pitching. If pitching improves with last trade, then that spells T-R-O-U-B-L-E. He's not going anywhere except with a #1 or #2 seed.

Hardballers (Even) Same as Stephen and right where he should be. Not to say he can't capture first. #2 on offense and #4 of defense means "Hard to Beat."

Squirrels (-4) Talk about some misfortune. Juan has good roto numbers, but sits 7th in the standings. How is that for bad luck if the season ended today? Well, both the offensive and defensive #'s speak for themselves. Third on defense and tied for 5th on offense. Look for Squirrels to start gathering acorns from the teams above him!

Ageless (-1) Pretty darn close to where he sits in standings. Like Squirrels, Mike's team is solid on offense and defense, #5 and #4 respectively. The team is good as the numbers don't lie.

Plaz (Even) Tied for 5th in the league and sits in 5th in the roto standings. Obviously the offense is steady. If gets more power then watch out. Pitching needs to pick it up a bit, so the team doesn't slip.

BASEMAN (+2) This number means I am overachieving in the standings a bit. Plaz is right on about some things. Offense has to climb from #10 and the pitching has to continue to be one of the best down the stretch. Don't count B-Man out though as the offense is picking it up.

Utica (+2) Another team that is currently in the playoffs tied for fifth, but is overachieving. Let's just say the offense must continue as Utica is 4th in that dept. Now with some injuries hitting, the pitching needs to start stepping it up as it has been piss poor. Look for the possibility of B-Man or either Utica to tumble based on the numbers!

Champs (-2) Ed's team shows to be better than his current 10th place in the standings. 5.5 games back of where he should be, so Ed has had some tough matchups. 8th on offense and tied for 7th on defense, so some of the knock on your pitching is deserved. Again, the problem with this team is that the roto numbers are all over the place. Proof that this team has some holes that need to be fixed soon or it will be all over, and the team that had so much promise will have underachieved.

Woodie (Even) Pitching is #2, while the offense is #11. Even though the pitching has been solid, the offense has been not very good to put it kindly. Looks like the last trade with Stars was the right thing to do. Something has to change.

Hitters (+2) Tommy is overachieving a bit and when a team is in the lower tier of the standings, then that is not necessarily a good thing. It is hard to overachieve for a full season. The offense is good,tied for 5th, but the pitching is downright awful being dead last. I don't think Tommy can keep it up with the staff he has. The numbers ain't good!

Zonk (-1) Stephen's team is underachieving a bit, but not by much. Being 12.5 games out means there needs to be some good matchups come his way in the 2nd half. Doesn't look real good. But, it is hard to believe that Zonk's pitching is 5th and the offense 8th. That does look good, but the numbers, especially in pitching are real close to teams below him. Tells me the team needs the offense to get real hot.

REDS (+1) According to the numbers, Rick should easily be dead last. The offense has been putrid and is way down the bottom of the totem pole. The pitching is 9th, so REDS has been relying on some defense to overachieve. It is really hard to say overachieve, when only a 1/2 game out of last, but that is what REDS is doing. If the offense doesn't pick it up, the the basement will be Rick's home by the end of the year if not sooner.

It is intriguing to look at the numbers. There is some luck involved for sure, but things tend to balance themselves out somewhat to. We'll see what happens the rest of the way.

BASEMAN