Alternatively titled the rise and fall and rise of Grey Albright and Perry Van Hook in the 2015 Tout Mixed Draft League. Let’s take a look at the standings for this 15-team mixed, 5x5 league with on-base percentage instead of batting average.

On July 5, my team had 86.5 points, 8th in the standings, while Albright’s team had 84 points and was in 9th place. The leader at that point was Adam Ronis with 116 while Rudy Gamble was in 2nd with 104. Let’s call that the baseline and look at the points by category for both teams.

Cat R HR RBI SB OBP W Sv ERA WHIP K Tot
PVH 11 9 8 15 15 4.5 2 8 6 8 86.5
GA 7 7 12 9.5 9 10.5 9 4 4 12 84

George Springer had just gone on the DL the week prior, and Freddie Freeman was still on the DL. At that point, I was still trying to gain in the saves category with Tyler Clippard and hoping Fernando Rodney might get his job back and I even added Neftali Feliz (although that experiment lasted two weeks). From that point on, I used Clippard only as the best pitcher available until mid-August, when I dropped him entirely and went to nine starting pitchers.

One month later on August 2:

Cat R HR RBI SB OBP W Sv ERA WHIP K Tot
PVH 9 7 3 11 12 5.5 2 11 7 10 77.5
GA 5 4 10 9.5 8 10.5 10 7 11 12 81

Freeman was back but would never get back to playing the way he was at the beginning of the year while Springer was still on the DL and Devon Travis was back on the DL, where he would stay for the rest of the year.

Here is how both teams looked on September 6:

Cat R HR RBI SB OBP W Sv ERA WHIP K Tot
PVH 8 6 4 9.5 11 13.5 2 14 11 12 91
GA 9 4.5 9.5 9.5 9 11 11 8 9 13 93.5

Springer came off the DL in the prior week and I was now up to 6th place. Albright was up to 4th place. Last week, I gained 2.5 points and moved up to 5th place but Albright had gained ten points and was in 3rd place.

The standings to start this week were:

Rudy Gamble 111.5
Adam Ronis 111
Gray Albright 103.5
Greg Ambrosius 94.5
Perry Van Hook 93.5

But after Monday’s games, they had changed again:

Adam Ronis 110.5 -0.5
Rudy Gamble 108 -3.5
Grey Albright 103.5 NC
Perry Van Hook 95 1.5

With two weeks to go (absent any play in games), the question will be how many points will be lost above me and how many points I can gain. I looked at the categories yesterday and saw that with continued performance I might gain eight points on points I can gain. That would mean taking some points away from all three teams above me, but of course they may also gain points in other categories.

Should be an exciting end to the season. You can always check the progress of all six of the Mastersballers playing in the four different leagues at www.toutwars.com, or click on the heading on our “You Look FAABulous” column each Monday. {jcomments on}