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RESULTS: Week 5 Stat Challenge

Posted by Andy on May 10, 2010

Here are the answers:

1) Total number of complete games pitched by all teams excluding rain-shortened games: 6, including a perfect game:

Rk Player Date Tm Opp Rslt App,Dec IP H R ER BB SO HR Pit Str GSc
1 Dallas Braden 2010-05-09 OAK TBR W 4-0 SHO9 ,W 9.0 0 0 0 0 6 0 109 77 93
2 Gil Meche 2010-05-08 KCR TEX L 2-3 CG 8 ,L 8.0 6 3 3 7 3 0 128 73 54
3 Jamie Moyer 2010-05-07 PHI ATL W 7-0 SHO9 ,W 9.0 2 0 0 0 5 0 105 71 88
4 C.J. Wilson 2010-05-07 TEX KCR W 4-1 CG 9 ,W 9.0 5 1 1 2 4 0 113 69 75
5 Dan Haren 2010-05-06 ARI HOU W 6-3 CG 9 ,W 9.0 7 3 2 1 9 0 111 81 71
6 Nick Blackburn 2010-05-04 MIN DET W 4-3 CG 9 ,W 9.0 11 3 3 1 2 1 95 67 54
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 5/10/2010.

I had no idea we'd have such memorable complete games this past week.

2) Total number of games in which both teams score at least 10 runs (such a game counts as 1, not 2 because 2 teams are involved.): just 1

3) Total number of games in which each team steals at least one base: 11

Rk Tm Opp Date #Matching
1 CHW TOR 2010-05-09 2
2 NYM SFG 2010-05-09 2
3 CLE DET 2010-05-09 2
4 HOU SDP 2010-05-08 2
5 KCR TEX 2010-05-08 2
6 COL LAD 2010-05-07 2
7 KCR TEX 2010-05-06 2
8 LAD MIL 2010-05-06 2
9 CHW KCR 2010-05-04 2
10 FLA SFG 2010-05-04 2
11 CHW KCR 2010-05-03 2
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 5/10/2010.

4) Total homers combined for Billy Butler and Jose Guillen, both KCR: 2 (1 for each)

5) Total saves combined for Matt Capps, WSN and David Aardsma, SEA 3 (3 for Capps and none for Aardsma, who had a rough week.)

Here are the top 6 finishers:

1. Elkboy - 2
2T. Brian O - 4 (2)
2T. Russell - 4
3. Adamrr - 5
4T. Dances w vowels - 6
4T. KennO - 6 (2)

Brian O and KennO join the multiple-top-five-finishes club.

Elkboy blew away the competition by guessing 3 questions exactly correctly--complete games, both teams score 10+ runs, HRs by Butler and Guillen. He missed the other 2 questions by just 1 point each.

Three other entrants got 3 questions exactly right--two of them were Dances w vowels and Steve B, who finished with a great score of 8 which was good for only a 3-way tie for 9th place. The other was two-time winner Josh W, who unfortunately way way overguessed on question #3 (both teams with at least one stolen base) and finished near the bottom of the pack.

Just about everybody overguessed on that question #3. The average guess was 17 but the answer was 11.

Johnny Twisto threw in a last-second entry was WAY WAY WAY overguessed #3 at 40. It's a shame because his other 4 answers yielded only 3 points.

Related posts:

    RESULTS: Stat Challenge Week 5
    Results: Stat Challenge Week 3 (spring training)
    Results: Week 4 Stat Challenge (spring training)
    RESULTS: Stat Challenge, Week 1 (spring training)
    RESULTS: Stat Challenge Week 3

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4 Responses to “RESULTS: Week 5 Stat Challenge”

  1. Johnny Twisto Says:
    May 10th, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    Oops.

  2. Josh W Says:
    May 11th, 2010 at 9:59 am

    Can I ask you to add all the stat challenges to that category? It's getting tougher to find the old entries and keep up with them. Thanks for running these!

  3. Josh W Says:
    May 11th, 2010 at 10:03 am

    Yup, me too: oops.

  4. Djibouti Says:
    May 11th, 2010 at 10:22 am

    Only 8 of 43 people under-guessed #3, with 4 people guessing 9

    Jamos - 7
    Adamrr - 10
    Dunnowhat2type - 7
    BLWinborn32 - 9
    Brian O - 9
    KennO - 9
    CJ - 8
    Djibouti - 9

    And only RichardKC got it exactly right with 11

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