FOOL-X 1985 Season

[EddieK]

What a crazy race in both leagues! Too bad I can't have my PYT record

[Alan T]

9/23:

Mexico City 6, Boston 3 (11 innings)
Balzac 8, Indianapolis 2


Mexico City 97-60 (M# 1 for playoffs and homefield advantage)
Balzac 92-65 (5 GB)
Boston 92-65 (5 GB)


Spring 4, Cleveland 2
Virginia Beach 11, Cumberland 5 (12 innings)
Maricopa 5, Ann Arbor 4


Maricopa 100-57 (M# 4 for playoffs / m# 5 for homefield)
Cleveland 99-58 (1 GB / M# 5 for playoffs)
Virginia Beach 98-59 (2 GB)

[Alan T]

9/24:

Boston 6, Mexico City 5
Indianapolis 12, Balzac 4

Mexico City clinches a playoff spot with Balzac's loss!

Mexico City 97-61 (M# 1 for homefield advantage)
Boston 93-65 (4 GB / M# 4)
Balzac 92-66 (5 GB)



Spring 6, Cleveland 4
Cumberland 6, Virginia Beach 5
Maricopa 10, Ann Arbor 2


Maricopa 101-57 (M# 2 / M# 3 for homefield)
Cleveland 99-59 (2 GB / M# 4)
Virginia Beach 98-60 (3 GB)

[Alan T]

9/25

Mexico City 7, Boston 5
Indianapolis 9, Balzac 8

Mexico City clinches homefield advantage in the CLCS with their win!

Mexico City (clinched)
Boston 93-66 (M# 3)
Balzac 92-67 (1 GB)

Cleveland 4, Spring 3
Virginia Beach 16, Cumberland 10 (10 innings)
Ann Arbor 5, Maricopa 1


Maricopa 101-58 (M# 2 / M# 3 for homefield)
Cleveland 100-59 (1 GB / m# 3)
Virginia Beach 99-60 (2 GB)

[Alan T]

Sorry for the dramatic pause. Work issue real quick

[Alan T]

Final Series of the year:

Boston plays at home vs Washington

Balzac has 3 games on the road vs Stafford


Cleveland plays at home vs Portland

Maricopa and Virginia Beach play 3 games at Maricopa

[Alan T]

9/27:

Washington 14, Boston 11
Balzac 10, Stafford 7

Mexico City (clinched)
Balzac 93-67
Boston 93-67

Cleveland 4, Portland 1
Virginia Beach 13, Maricopa 3

Cleveland 101-59
Maricopa 101-59
Virginia beach 100-60

[Alan T]

9/28:

Boston 16, Washington 6
Balzac 4, Stafford 2


Mexico City (clinched)
Balzac 94-67
Boston 94-67


Portland 6, Cleveland 5 (11 innings)
Maricopa 5, Virginia Beach 4 (10 innings)

Maricopa clinches a playoff spot with their win over Virginia Beach
Maricopa 102-59 (M# 1 for homefield)
Cleveland 101-60 (1 GB / M# 1)
Virginia Beach 100-61 (2 GB)

[Alan T]

Final day of the season!

If Balzac and Boston both win, they'll go to a best of 3 playoff series vs each other to determine who makes the postseason.

In the Republic League:

If Maricopa wins they get homefield advantage.
If Maricopa loses and Cleveland wins, the two teams will play 1 more game to determine who gets home field advantage
If Cleveland wins OR Virginia Beach loses, Cleveland gets the final playoff spot.
If Cleveland loses AND Virginia beach wins, Cleveland and Virginia Beach will play a best of 3 playoff series to determine who makes the postseason...


Whew

[Alan T]

9/29:

Boston 13, Washington 3
Balzac 6, Stafford 5

Both teams end up 95-67 and will play a best of 3 series vs each other. As Balzac led the season series between the two teams 13-10, they will have homefield advantage for the best of 3 series.

[CleBrownsfan]

What an surprisingly amazing season!!!

[Alan T]

9/29:

Cleveland 9, Portland 0
Maricopa 7, Virginia Beach 1

Maricopa clinches home field advantage in the RLCS, while Cleveland clinches the final RL playoff spot!

Virginia Beach ends the season 100-62 and I believe the first team to ever win 100 games and not make the postseason in FOOL-X history.

[Alan T]

9/30:

Boston 11, Balzac 9


Boston leads the best of 3 series 1 game to 0

[CleBrownsfan]

Wow - sorry VB.... winning 100 games and not making the playoffs hurt. Great season though - GL to the playoff teams!

[Alan T]

10/1:

Balzac 10, Boston 5

Balzac ties up the series 1-1 with a win on the road to force a deciding game to decide whom will make the postseason!

[ShoelessJ03]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

Wow - sorry VB.... winning 100 games and not making the playoffs hurt.

No kidding. That's gotta sting a bit.

[Alan T]

10/2:

Boston 3, Balzac 2

Boston clinches a postseason appearance with a win from their ace Codne, picking up his 20th victory for the season

[Alan T]

Final 1985 Regular Season Standings:

Continental League Standings

Team W L PCT GB Pyt.Rec Diff Home Away XInn 1Run M# Streak Last10 Mexico City Aztecs 99 63 .611 - 101-61 -2 52-29 47-34 6-5 23-16 Clinched L1 4-6 Boston Resettlers 97 68 .588 3.5 92-73 5 43-39 54-29 13-5 29-16 W1 5-5 Balzac Ticklers 96 69 .582 4.5 99-66 -3 53-30 43-39 4-4 14-19 L1 6-4 Indianapolis Clowns 76 86 .469 23.0 84-78 -8 40-41 36-45 3-5 15-22 L1 6-4 London Bishops 73 89 .451 26.0 71-91 2 43-38 30-51 6-3 22-24 W1 6-4 Washington Freedom 73 89 .451 26.0 71-91 2 43-38 30-51 2-10 13-27 L2 5-5 Stafford Terriers 72 90 .444 27.0 66-96 6 38-43 34-47 4-9 22-16 L3 3-7 Havana Banana Sluggers 65 97 .401 34.0 65-97 0 34-47 31-50 11-8 24-22 W1 4-6

Republic League Standings

Team W L PCT GB Pyt.Rec Diff Home Away XInn 1Run M# Streak Last10 Maricopa Rattlers 103 59 .636 - 107-55 -4 54-27 49-32 9-8 23-23 Clinched W2 7-3 Cleveland Naps 102 60 .630 1.0 97-65 5 52-29 50-31 7-7 27-17 W1 4-6 Virginia Beach Surf 100 62 .617 3.0 97-65 3 52-29 48-33 10-6 25-19 L2 6-4 Ann Arbor Wolverines 93 69 .574 10.0 99-63 -6 51-30 42-39 5-3 22-17 W5 6-4 Spring Lions 85 77 .525 18.0 94-68 -9 47-34 38-43 3-9 15-25 W3 9-1 New York Legends 82 80 .506 21.0 83-79 -1 41-40 41-40 11-3 20-21 L4 4-6 Portland Axemen 57 105 .352 46.0 53-109 4 32-49 25-56 5-6 22-20 L1 3-7 Cumberland Defenders 26 136 .160 77.0 28-134 -2 14-67 12-69 3-11 11-23 L5 1-9

[Alan T]

League Leaders AVG X. Wu - BAL .345 2 R. Elliott WAS .339 3 R. Guzmán WAS .336 4 S. Dunbar ANN .333 5 2 tied with .331	League Leaders HR V. Pérez - BAL 61 2 D. Paul CLE 50 3 M. Butler MAR 44 3 L. Jackson VIR 44 3 C. Pagán BOS 44	League Leaders RBI V. Pérez - BAL 215 2 P. Martínez MEX 157 3 S. Dunbar ANN 149 4 M. Butler MAR 143 4 R. Samson BOS 143
League Leaders W J. Hernando - ANN 25 2 B. Kuhn MEX 22 3 G. Suárez SPG 21 4 J. Codne BOS 20 4 2 more tied with 20	League Leaders ERA C. Bardino - NY 3.11 2 J. Morrow NY 3.17 2 J. Urbina BOS 3.17 4 J. Bernard MAR 3.18 4 B. Kuhn MEX 3.18	League Leaders K B. Kuhn - MEX 256 2 C. Bardino NY 226 3 G. Suárez SPG 223 4 M. Guzmán LON 222 5 J. Hernando ANN 213

[ShoelessJ03]

Glad to see we didn't finish in the cellar this time around!

Gotta admit though, I was worried for a bit when we were trailing the expansion teams!

[Alan T]

Vicente Perez sets a new single season record with 215 RBI!! The previous record had been 190, set by Ignacio Guerrero in 1979.

Alfredo Tarungo sets a new record with 10 Complete games in a season!

[Chief Rum]

Sheesh. Are all your guys' seasons this crazy? lol...

Head nod to fellow expansionee Stafford, which seems to have put up at least a decent team in its first year of existence.

As for the Hibbies, we're pretty happy with how things are looking. We were bad, but not embarassingly bad.

Good luck to the playoff teams!

[EddieK]

Glad to see Maricopa come thru again! Hopefully we can three-peat!

[spleen1015]

With 2 100 game losing expansion teams, winning 100 games means pretty much nothing to me.

Grats to the playoff teams.

[gstelmack]

Wow, shocked but happy to make the playoffs. Looks like the studs came through even with having to play so much.

[Alan T]

The new file is up, it is larger than normal (50+ MB) because of a bunch of new images/team logos/etc).

Playoffs will run tomorrow morning!

Expansion teams, let me know if there are any issues with logos/team jerseys/etc. They should all be in the file now (other than Cumberland's jersey which I just haven't had time to work on yet. Hopefully will next week!)

[CleBrownsfan]

Cumberland was 1-46 against Ann Arbor and myself - ouch

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

Cumberland was 1-46 against Ann Arbor and myself - ouch

Man, someone should write a story about the one win!

[Alan T]

I think Vicente Perez wins the Joe Carter clutch award. He hit a ton of Home Runs and a bazillion RBIs, but otherwise was just a very solid season. He just seemed to always drive home runs.

[Montreal_GM]

Very happy with the playoff birth. Congrats to the other playoff teams.

[hyde4us11]

Man my team surprised me. I figured I'd be terrible and I was just bad. I can't do anything right. I can't win and I can't lose right.

[gstelmack]

Can't seem to get to the file. In-game says can't connect to FTP server, and the fool-x.net link in the league files thread is also down.

I'll try back later.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

Can't seem to get to the file. In-game says can't connect to FTP server, and the fool-x.net link in the league files thread is also down.

I'll try back later.

Hmm, working fine for me. Anyone else having problems?

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Hmm, working fine for me. Anyone else having problems?

I couldn't get into the FOOL web site about 15-20 minutes ago when I went to see if any web reports had gone up. But the web site is up now. Maybe it was a temporary blip?

[ShoelessJ03]

Originally Posted by Chief Rum

I couldn't get into the FOOL web site about 15-20 minutes ago when I went to see if any web reports had gone up. But the web site is up now. Maybe it was a temporary blip?

I was able to snag the file fine. I kept getting an error when trying to export though.

I'll have to re-try.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by ShoelessJ03

I was able to snag the file fine. I kept getting an error when trying to export though.

I'll have to re-try.

Since we have some new folks, probably a good time for this reminder.. if anyone ever has a problem exporting, feel free to email your export to me:

dunhere AT yahoo DOT com is the email address. Just do me a favor and PM me here to let me know you sent it so I make sure to look for it.

[gstelmack]

As always, it started working shortly after I posted. Dealing with a leak in the water supply line to our house, so just now getting ready to do my export and try to upload it.

[gstelmack]

A nice 51-save season for Duridar Bausi, fourth-highest all-time. Boston now has two of the top 4 save seasons, with Myron Moran's 54 in 1972 leading the way.

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by Alan T

10/2:

Boston 3, Balzac 2

Boston clinches a postseason appearance with a win from their ace Codne, picking up his 20th victory for the season

Not only did he get the win, but he drove in the winning run in the 6th inning with a sac fly.

[gstelmack]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

As always, it started working shortly after I posted. Dealing with a leak in the water supply line to our house, so just now getting ready to do my export and try to upload it.

Export went through fine for me just now.

[ShoelessJ03]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Since we have some new folks, probably a good time for this reminder.. if anyone ever has a problem exporting, feel free to email your export to me:

dunhere AT yahoo DOT com is the email address. Just do me a favor and PM me here to let me know you sent it so I make sure to look for it.

Appreciate that.

I got the export to go through this time.

[Tasan]

Alan, did you see my compensation issue in the off season thread? Just wondering if anything will come of it next season, or if I just let a guy leave for nothing.

Congrats to the playoff teams. I gotta get the Lions turned around, and these ~.500 seasons are not going to do it either way.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by Tasan

Alan, did you see my compensation issue in the off season thread? Just wondering if anything will come of it next season, or if I just let a guy leave for nothing.

Congrats to the playoff teams. I gotta get the Lions turned around, and these ~.500 seasons are not going to do it either way.

Sorry I missed it. I'll look into it and see what can be done.

[Tasan]

Ugh...I came off a little Richardish there, sorry Alan. Massive headache today is not helping me write nicely, it appears. I'd very much appreciate you looking into it. If anything can be done, even better ;- )

[TimGuru]

Wow, epic badness.

I really didn't intend to be that uncompetitive but expansion turned out to come in a bad week for me, time wise. Letting the AI do it all rather than half assing a few rounds of my own picks was a bad idea, it seems the AI expansion drafts for the future, and very poorly at that. Oh well, at least we don't have a lottery so I can console myself with the first pick. And i'll have a lot of cash to throw around in FA.

[MattG]

Wow. I am embarrassed we did that bad.

[TheMeat]

Damn you Stelmack!! I blame Washington for not beating you in the last games of the season. Blech. But I'm so happy to see Perez' season, that's by far the best performance I've had power-wise.