Saturday update

If the head-to-head season ending today, the playoff seeds would be: 1, Fresh Fish; 2, Misfits; 3, Rookies; 4, BAWG; 5, Halladay Road; 6, Pitch You Blockhead; 7, Hammerin Hank; 8, Arbitration Losers. These seedings are based on all of the teams leading right now winning this week. All have comfortable but not insurmountable leads. The other battle is the overall points tiebreaker between the Losers and T-A's. The Losers must finish ahead of T-A's to make the playoffs, and right now they hold a six-point lead.

Head-to-head scores

Rookies 148, Triple-A's 116

Arbitration Losers 136, Pickle Bugs 101

Misfits 156, Hammerin Hank 100

Pitch You Blockhead 137, Fresh Fish 99

BAWG 134, Halladay Road 91

Overall standings

1. Fresh Fish (Rick) 3380

2. Misfits (Reid) 3094

3. BAWG (Rich-Brian) 2965

4. Rookies (Henry) 2917

5. Pitch You Blockhead (Scott) 2815

6. Hammerin Hank (Pete) 2757

7. Halladay Road (Bill) 2755

8. Pickle Bugs (Jon) 2696

9. Arbitration Losers (Tim) 2510

10. Triple-A's (Ken) 2504

Players acquired

• SS Danny Espinosa, by Pickle Bugs (July #1)
• C Wilin Rosario, by Pitch You Blockhead (July #3)
• SS Paul Janish, by Halladay Road (August #1)
• RP Jason Motte, by Misfits (July #3)

Week 18 roster changes

Players acquired

• 3B Todd Frazier, by Halladay Road (July #1)
• C Yasmani Grandal, by Pitch You Blockhead (July #2)
• OF Carlos Gomez, by Misfits (July #2)
• SP Matt Harvey, by Arbitration Losers (July #3)
• SP Mike Leake, by BAWG (July #3)

Players released

• C Jesus Flores
• SP Trevor Bauer
• C Geovany Soto

Midweek replacements

Halladay Road -- On Wednesday, placed 3B Pablo Sandoval on disabled list; activated 3B Todd Frazier

Pickle Bugs -- On Wednesday, activated SP Aaron Harang as emergency pitcher for SP Matt Garza

Arbitration Losers -- On Thursday, activated C Jonathan Lucroy from disabled list; benched C Geovany Soto


Trade

Billy Ashley Wind Generator traded OF JD Martinez and SP Edwin Jackson to Hammerin Hank for OF Alfonso Soriano


Week 18 active roster changes

ROOKIES: No changes

PICKLE BUGS: No changes

PITCH YOU BLOCKHEAD: Released C Jesus Flores; benched 1B Anthony Rizzo and SP Anibal Sanchez; activated 1B Yonder Alonso C Yasmani Grandal and sP Yovani Gallardo

HAMMERIN HANK: Traded OF Alfonso Soriano; benched SP Randy Wolf; activated OF JD Martinez and SP Edwin Jackson

FRESH FISH: Benched OF Chris Young and SP Wade Miley; activated OF Justin Ruggiano and SP Trevor Cahilll

BAWG: Benched OF Alex Amarista and SP Adam Wainwright; activated OF Alfonso Soriano and SP Michael Fiers

MISFITS: Benched OF Carlos Quentin and SP Lance Lynn; activated OF Carlos Gomez and SP Kyle Lohse

HALLADAY ROAD: Benched OF Norichika Aoki and SP Josh Johnson; activated OF Drew Stubbs and SP Bud Norris

TRIPLE-A'S: Benched 1B Lance Berkman, OF Logan Morrison and SP Jeff Samardzija; activated 1B Garrett Jones, OF David DeJesus and SP Jon Niese

ARIBTRATION LOSERS: Benched 1B Bryan Lahair and SP Ross Detwiler; activated 1B Brandon Belt and SP Matt Harvey

Week 17 scoring update

Sorry for the delay. The Commish was on vacation. But here's the situation heading into week 18, the final week of the head-to-head regular season

Overall standings

1. Fresh Fish (Rick) 3281

2. Misfits (Reid) 2938

3. BAWG (Rich-Brian) 2830

4. Rookies (Henry) 2769

5. Pitch You Blockhead (Scott) 2678

6. Halladay Road (Bill) 2664

7. Hammerin Hank (Pete) 2657

8. Pickle Bugs (Jon) 2595

9. Triple-A's (Ken) 2388

10. Arbitration Losers (Tim) 2374

Week 17 head-to-head finals

Triple-A's 161 Pickle Bugs 149

Misfits 173, Pitch You Blockhead 171

Billy Ashley Wind Generator 225 Rookies 183

Hammerin Hank 201 Halladay Road 184

Fresh Fish 170, Arbitration Losers 130

Head-to-head standings

1. Fresh Fish 15-2

2. Misfits 10-7

3. Rookies 9-8

4. Halladay Road 9-8

5. BAWG 8-9

6. Hammerin Hank 8-9

7. Pitch You Blockhead 7-10

8. Triple-A's 7-10

9. Pickle Bugs 6-11

10. Arbitration Losers 6-11

Playoff possibilities

• Fresh Fish has clinched No. 1 seed to playoffs, and Misfits has essentially clinched No. 2 seed.
• Rookies and Halladay Road will be seeds No. 3 to 6.
• BAWG, Hammerin Hanks have clinched playoff berths.
• Pitch You Blockhead has essentially clinched a playoff berth
• Triple-A's will clinch playoff berth with a win or with loss and Arbitration Losers win, as long as Losers don't outscore Triple-A's by 14 points.
• Pickle Bugs clinch with win and Triple-A's loss.
• Arbitration Losers clinch with win and Triple-A's loss and  Losers outscore Triple-A's by 15 points in Week 18.