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(A quick note: this is a weekly contest so you can participate even if you missed last week.)

Time for your guesses for Week 2 of the stat challenge. If you want to review the rules, check out the Week 1 post. (Incidentally, Week 1 winners will be posted on Monday or maybe Tuesday depending on how busy real life keeps me.)

Week 2 considers games from Monday April 12 through Sunday April 18th. You must post your entry for Week 2 in the comments to this post before the first pitch of the week, scheduled for 1:05 PM ET on Monday.

Post your guesses for the following in Week 2:

1. Total number of hits for White Sox as a team

2. Total number of relief pitcher appearances for the Dodgers

3. Total number of walkoff wins in regulation by all teams (i.e. wins inthe bottom of the ninth inning)

4. Total RBI for Ryan Howard, PHI

5. Total plate appearances for Jose Reyes, NYM

This season I will be running a weekly contest. It's quite simple. I give you some categories and you guess how players will perform during the following week's games. I'll post weekly winners and keep a tally across the whole season.

Here's how it works:

• Each week's contest will cover games from a Monday through the following Sunday, with the exception of this Week 1 contest, which will also include the NYY-BOS game on Sunday April 4th.
• I will pose stat questions that cover the entire week's games such as: Doubles hit by the Cardinals hit as a team. Your score will be the difference between your guess and the actual answer. Let's suppose the Cardinals actually hit 10 doubles during the week. If you guessed 7, then you score 3 points (10-7). You also score 3 points if you guessed 13 doubles (13-10). So it doesn't matter if you are over or under. Your total score for the week will be the sum of the points on all the questions, and obviously the lower your total, the better.
• To enter, you must post a comment on the contest post page (this page for Week 1) BEFORE the first pitch of the first game for that week. So for Week 1 this deadline is Sunday evening before the NYY-BOS game but most weeks it would be Monday mid-day if there's a day game. I will be keeping cumulative score by the username you put on your posts. Be sure to use the same email address (which nobody but me can see) so that I can verify your identity. That way nobody can post pretending to be you and mess up your score.
• There are a bunch of other technicalities that I won't list in detail. These are things like: games count even if they finish late--for example a west coast game starting at 10PM EST on Sunday night still counts as being from that week, not spilling over into the following week starting on Monday, however suspended games will count on the days they actually finish since otherwise I cannot tally scores, etc.
• There are no prizes other than your own pride! 🙂

Week 1 contest

Covers games (regular season only) from Monday April 5 to Sunday April 11, plus also the NYY-BOS game on Sunday April 4th. Entries must be posted in the comments before the first pitch, scheduled for 8:05 PM on Sunday the 4th.

Post your guesses for:

1) Innings pitched for Johan Santana, rounded down to full innings (so X.1 or X.2 innings would be simply X)

2) Total plate appearances by Mike Lowell, Jason Varitek, and Jeremy Hermida.

3) Hits by Rick Ankiel

4) Total wins by the Pirates and the Nationals

5) Total strikeouts by Twins pitchers while pitching in save situations