Hi all,

I've got my quasi children's story The Existential Giraffe up at kickstarter.com. Please check it out, any support is appreciated!

Congratulations to Clark for winning the first place prize and taking home a $12,500 profit!

A well deserved win, and a very enjoyable season. Thanks everyone!

So it's going to be a pretty anti-climatic concluding article as its hard to find much to criticize in the top two teams. 

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It's neck and neck as we go into the last 9 days of the season, with Clark and Derek in a virtual dead heat and well ahead of the pack.

I've updated standings for anyone interested.

3 more teams get discussed…….

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Scott-

I've been kind of mystified by this team most of the year as well. Scott has generally hovered in the middle of the pack, usually between 5th and 8th. Everytime I look at his offense I think it must be smoke and mirrors.

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Two more teams put under the Gimpscope ™….

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At the end of last year I did a series of articles called 'Where We Blundered', going team by team with a commentary of what I thought were each team's possible mistakes. I can't say I did any painstaking analysis, just offered some opinions from the season and a quick review of the standings. I thought the articles prompted some interesting discussions. 

The intent is to generate interesting discussions and improve our games, not to make anyone look bad. I'd also like to note that to a man, each of these teams did countless things well and this year's league was without question the toughest I've ever played in. However, I'm going to focus on perceived errors for the most part, because I tend to think thats more interesting and hopefully edifying. 

Like last year, my focus for mistakes is going to be on evaluation of category management. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on player valuation (which is problematic to debate), and will instead procceed from the inital assumption that wasted capital (high category totals accruing a suboptimal amount of points) creates at least a suspicion of some mismanagement.  

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The action was fast and furious at the deadline:

Shawn traded Ellsbury Connor Jackson Slowey and Sogard to Trevor/Jaime for Crawford, Montero, Moustakas, and Trout.

Gimps traded R Romero and R Santiago to Clark for M Young and R Soriano.

Larry traded Span to Derek for thome.

Gimps traded Buehrle and Dirks to Derek for Span and Getz.

Gimps traded Pierzinski and Willingham to Jason/Paul for Hafner and Arrenciba.

Larry traded Blackburn for Bard.'

Also in recent trades:

Wiggins/Hastings traded Alexei Ramirez for Alcides Escobar.

Derek traded alex gordon to Larry for Juan Pierre.

Dalton traded Nathan and Valverde to Trevor/Jaime for Colon and Magglio.

Derek traded Brandon Allen and M Izturis to Larry for Mariano Rivera and Getz.

Peter trades Bautista Jose Bell and Andrew Miller to Derek for Figgins Haren and Juan Rivera.

Andrew/Brian trade Sergio Santos to Clark for Austin Jackson