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EP 358: MLB Trends and Champions League Action w/ Josh Pettersen

EP 358: MLB Trends and Champions League Action w/ Josh Pettersen

Episode 358 Published 1 month ago
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  • Interesting trends in 2026

    • Closers or the complete lack of closers

      • 80th% pace in ME is 65 - 67 in 2025, 72 in 2024

      • 50th% pace in ME is 48 - 54 in 2025

    • Emergence of young stud pitchers

      • Schlittler, Misiorowski, McLean, Hancock, Messick, Burns Top 20 in K-BB %

  • Champions League Draft Strategy

    • Your approach to your drafts this year

      • Multipliers

        • Josh - more willing to draft same players across multiple leagues

    • Taking risk vs being safe

      • Josh - Took way more swings this year in OC & DC

        • Wheeler, Snell on OC/Wheeler, Cole, McGonigle

  • Champions League Qualifier

    • 2,676 is the current line to gain - just under 63% of the points

    • Last year's line to gain was around the same point at this time of year and slowly rose through the season to 65%. Same as 2024.

    • 65% of points would be 2,769. 2,800 is what I’m aiming for (just over 930 per contest)

    • Fun list of people in the top 14 thus far

      • John Pausma - 3,156 and his OC is his worst format so far

      • Jared Radbel - 3,066 and first in the DC

      • Russell Withers - 2,946 with OC driving

      • Mark Northan - 2,899

      • Michael Thompson - 2,891

      • Dustin McComas - 2,874

      • Michael DeCavalcante - 2,866

      • Dustin Anderson - 2,816

      • Aaron Jones - 2,800 (at final table currently)

      • Todd Hoppe - 2,774

      • Doug Gruber - 2,740 (would be fun to see him vs John at final table)

      • Ian Hubbard - 2,728 with 1,776 in pitching

      • Rob DiPietro - 2,708

      • Justin Aspite - 2,676

      • Michael Brophy 16th at 2,653 only has Sale on 2 of 3 teams

      • Steve Weimer 19th

      • Phil Dussault 21st

  • Champions League 

    • Aaron Jones - 1st at 112 points

      • Solid squad, healthy for the most part and good balance

    • Michael Hughes - 2nd at 101

      • Solid roster, working to figure out saves (14th) after losing Diaz

    • Andrew Geller - 3rd at 94.5

      • Super balanced, Fairbanks on IL

    • Michael Brophy - 4th at 92.5

      • Solid Pitching, looking for some gains on offens



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