Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, June 2
With only seven games scheduled, today’s slate is light even for a Thursday.
You know what that means: The sharks smell blood in the water. Your streaks are bobbing around helplessly in a vast ocean, and any number of catastrophes could befall them.
We’ve sent out some lifeboats below, but it’s up to you to swim over and climb in. Oh, and we guess there’s always the Coast Guard-helicopter-rescue “Holliday option.” But we could never endorse such a maneuver.
________________
Thursday’s picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
Johnny Damon: .563 (9-for-16) since ’06 vs. Mariners starter Felix Hernandez
Albert Pujols: .571 (4-for-7) since ’06 vs. Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez
Carlos Beltran: .429 (6-for-14) since ’06 vs. Pirates starter Paul Maholm
Jayson Werth: .500 (4-for-8) since ’06 vs. Diamondbacks starter Zach Duke
Andrew McCutchen: .444 (4-for-9) since ’06 vs. Mets starter Mike Pelfrey
Feeling kinda spicy?
Chone Figgins: .370 (10-for-27) since ’06 vs. Rays starter James Shields
You’ll thank me later …
B.J. Upton: .056 (1-for-18) since ’06 vs. Mariners starter Felix Hernandez
Jose Tabata: .000 (0-for-7) since ’06 vs. Mets starter Mike Pelfrey
Neil Walker: .125 (1-for-8) since ’06 vs. Mets starter Mike Pelfrey
Leaderboard time!
Current leader jsmnapoli became the sixth Streaker to reach 28 games this season, inching one day closer to campaign kings buddycrise and jngmz733 in the process. Also one day closer: $5.6 million in U.S. currency.
Top MLB streakers
Ryan Theriot: 15 games
Hunter Pence: 13 games
Chase Headley: 11 games
Mike Morse: 10 games
Jhonny Peralta: 10 games
Home Run Beat the Streak pick:
Josh Hamilton: (1 HR this season) vs. Indians starter Carlos Carrasco
(Make a BTS pick)
Beat the Streak Report 
Keith. I’ll pull stats for today then email yesterday and today’s files. Not going to have time to post.
Check that. Had a bit of down time so I’ll post today’s. I’ll still email todays files to you.
kewl. Send them b4 you leave. Have a good trip
sent
Today is going to be a tough day. Hamilton will be in top 15 for tonight along with Young and the Picks Of The Day and Ichiro. I’m torn myself but I know I’m going with the early game.
Highest no selections 2 on page 7 with streaks of 15.
Today’s leader taking a calculated risk. Going with Kubel but on rotoworld yesterday, manager said he was going to put either Kubel or Thome on the DL this week. In other words, odds are Kubel is not starting, but could pinch. Anticipation…
UPDATE: Both Kubel & Thome now on the DL per rotoworld. Leader remains idle today
LaV’s List
Thursday’s Top Picks of the current Top2500,
100 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Albert Pujols 347 14.02 (3RD)
Michael Young 229 9.25
Andrew McCutch 205 8.28
Josh Hamilton 202 8.16
Carlos Beltran 133 5.37
Jose Reyes 117 4.73
Asdrbal Cabrera 116 4.69 (2ND)
Jason Kubel 113 4.57 (1RST)
Matt Holliday 100 4.04
Ichiro Suzuki 85 3.43 (5TH)
Hunter Pence 81 3.27 (4TH)
No Selection 59 2.38
——————————————-
Highest “No Selection” 😛 pg# 7 with streak of 15 back to zero.
Yesterday’s Top2500 Reset rate was 23.12% with RYAN BRAUN reseting the most.
There was also 6.39% PPD due to players not playing. These streakers do not reset, but did not increase either.
——————————————–
Got Pinched OR 1 AB Wonders
TOP2500 saved or reset by PHA (going to include any pinch hitters and/or double switch, 1 AB or More)
J Rollins PHI, SAVED 22, HIGHEST WAS 18 GAMER
X Nady ARI, RESET 4, 9,9,9,8 GAMERS
M Izturis LAA, RESET 3, 11,8,8 GAMERS
A Jackson DET, RESET 2, 14,11 GAMERS
B Gardner NYY, RESET 2,DEF SWITCH 11,8 GAMERS
J Lopez TB, RESET 1, 13 GAMER
A Craig STL, SAVED 1, 12 GAMER
J Sands LAD, RESET 1,DEF SWITCH 8 GAMER
W Bloomquist ARI, SAVED 1, 9 GAMER
——————————————–
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick, (Times picked in top2500)
Yanksgiantsdevils33, 12, pg 18, 428, BELTRAN (PICKED 133X)
——————————————-
Bloggers Reset Yesterday
Tolvar, 9,RESET BYNO SELECTION
GL to all
M
——————————————-
I should have taken McCutchen, he’s already 2 for 2 and the Mets have only had 3 batters including an 0 for 1 Beltran.
No worries bro. Carlos belted a 3run jack to left. Let the 2nd guessing cease.
Beltran is 2 for 3 with a 3 run blast and a double! 🙂 🙂 🙂 I was just worried before that the Pirates would have all the fun.
Mets are coming back game tied 7-7 for those who are Mets fans.
I had Beltran on HR Beat the Streak too. 🙂 🙂
I went with Pagan today and he has come through already.
Some notes about Top2500 top picks
:: Pujols. 8 Apr vs. Sanchez. 0-3 with a strikeout. Got single late in game off reliever. How soon people forget
:: Hamilton & Young. Pretty much picks of faith; no pitcher history. Hamilton 0-for-last 12 ABs
:: Holliday. Safe-pick. Announced full day in advance he’ll be on the DL today.
Above noted, could set tables for some unexpected resets today. But this is BTS and we all know, you can’t play the game on paper
The PIT/NYM high picks already got hits in the early game.
A bit bored waiting on the nite games to start. So scrolling thru the Top2500 streakers found something quite interesting. Look at these user-names and their current streaks:
jvairo_18 @ 18 games
jvairo_78 @ 13 games
jvairo_38 @12 games
jvairo_26 @ 11 games
jvairo_34 @ 10 games
jvairo_11 @ 10 games
jvairo_17 @ 10 games
jvairo_35 @ 9 games
jvairo_31 @ 9 games
jvairo_41 @ 9 games
jvairo_29 @ 8 games
jvairo_70 @ 8 games
So, think some cheating is going on or does jvairo have like 80 family members playing 😉
I wouldn’t even worry about it because if he does win he won’t because u can only use one email and they monitor it.
Oh, I totally agree. Before MLB insurance kicked out 5.6 big ones, they’d do some verification. But what about those monthly prizes or mlb.tv prizes? Wonder if MLB puts in the effort to identify “cheaters” then? Just putting it out there. It’s MLB’s problem, not mine.
Actually, either the rules changed or I didn’t pay close enough attention last year. Playing multiple accounts does not disqualify you, based on my interpretation of the rules. Here is an excerpt from the rules page: “In case of multiple registrations received from any person or email address, only the first registration received from such person or email address will be considered.” Reading that, I would assume that jvairo’s first registration is the only valid one, all the others are basically ‘for fun’. However, if javiro is playing 100’s of accounts, probably some sort of scripting is in play and that’s a rules violation. Also, there is a generic cheaters rule: “Any incidence of collusion or cheating, as determined by MLBAM in its sole discretion, will be subject to disqualification from the Contest without limitation to any other rights or remedies available to MLBAM.”
This might be way off base, but I sort of wonder if MLB would allow people to use multiple accounts as long as they put each pick in themselves?
I say this because every pick they put in generates another 5 or 6 clicks for the site and another set of views for the ads on the site. All that clicking might help inflate how much money they can receive for selling ads on the site.
But if a script was putting everything in, then no one is seeing the ads at all and so MLB would not benefit that way.
I noticed that back near the beginning. It was either that name or another one.
Same guy/gal. I believe Yanks brought it up in the 1st week or two when a few of those accounts showed up on the 1st and 2nd pages of the overall standings
Ok, that’s why it looked familiar. 😉
Anyone notice that new section hovering over the Standings button after you log in? It’s called “Featured”. Kinda neat. You’ll see some past $10K winners are still playing and who they picked and what their streaks are, along with some celebrities too.
lol @ Hazel Mae: No Selection
Maybe she could help explain why people forget to put picks in everyday!
1st AB bullet single by Span moves me to 3!