Morning Wood an Underdog?

The Week 2 Match-Up of the Week featured the Brooklyn Robins and Morning Wood; League voting tallied the Robins a 9 to 4 favorite. The Robins gathered support after putting up the League’s 3rd most points in Week One, while Morning Wood put up the 6th most. But Morning Wood being an underdog just doesn’t feel right, and sure enough they came out on top 441 to 418.33. This will most likely be the difference maker when the first Monthly Payout is determined; the four managers that casted their Pick-Em vote in Morning Wood’s favor will have to tally up points over the next two weeks if they want to win the tie-breaker. Sidenote: The poor Brooklyn Robins start the season 0-2 despite scoring the 2nd most points in the League through two weeks … brighter days ahead for sure.

Hot Starts

Hum Babe Dynasty’s list of Top 10 performers through Weeks One and Two, has some obvious inclusions like Ronald Acuna Jr, Shane Bieber and Gerrit Cole, but a couple of the other names may surprise you…

1. Ronald Acuna, Jr. (140 pts) – Say Hey Kids – acquired in 1st Round of 2021 New Manager Draft
2. Shane Bieber (127 pts) – Sarasota Splitters – acquired in 10th Round of Hum Babe Inaugural Draft
3. Gerrit Cole (106 pts) – Sarasota Splitters – acquired in 2nd Round of Hum Babe Inaugural Draft
4. J.D. Martinez (104 pts) – Somalia Pirates – acquired in 1st Round of Hum Babe Inaugural Draft
5. Tyler Glasnow (104 pts) – Sarasota Splitters – acquired in 12th Round of Hum Babe Inaugural Draft
6. Justin Turner (103 pts) – Pebble Beach Mulligans – acquired in 4th Round of 2020 New Manager Draft Draft
7. Trevor Bauer (102 pts) – El Paso Border Patrol – acquired in 3rd Round of Hum Babe Inaugural Draft
8. Mitch Haniger (93 pts) – Wally Mash – acquired in 2nd Round of 2021 FAR Draft
9. Jacob deGrom (93 pts) – Straight outta deGrompton – acquired in 1st Round of 2020 New Manager Draft
10. Vlad Guerrero, Jr. (88 pts) – Jackal Attack – acquired in 3rd Round of Hum Babe Inaugural Draft
11. Whit Merrifield (87 pts) – Morning Wood – acquired in 4th Round of Hum Babe Inaugural Draft
12. Mark Canha (86 pts) – El Paso Border Patrol – acquired in 2nd Round of 2021 FAR Draft
13. Starling Marte (85 pts) – Super Smash Stros – acquired in 3rd Round of Hum Babe Inaugural Draft
14. Manny Machado (85 pts) – Morning Wood – acquired in 1st Round of Hum Babe Inaugural Draft
15. Eduardo Escobar (85 pts) – Pebble Beach Mulligans – acquired in 2nd Round of 2021 FAR Draft

Jackal tops LeBronto

Jackal Attack took to Twitter after beating the LeBronto Blue James 454.92 to 336.42 in Week Two… but LeBronto couldn’t be bothered. Jackal Attack put up 64 more hitting points than LeBronto over the course of the week and 54.5 more pitching points; led by a 45 point effort from Yu Darvish (two start week) and 37 points from the reigning MVP Freddie Freeman. LeBronto’s top point getters from their Week One win over Pablo, Byron Buxton and Jose Berrios had anything but a good Week Two. Buxton tallied just 4.5 points in 5 at-bats over the week and Jose Berrios made one start, good for 4.1 IP a Loss and 6.42 fantasy points. Without a single LeBronto player over the 30 points mark in Week Two, you can understand the yawning emoji response the Blue James GM posted to Jackal’s tweet… this week was an outlier for the defending Hum Babe champ and shouldn’t happen too many more times, if at all, down the road.