FOOL-X 2054 Regular Season Thread

[Alan T]

Las Vegas, Waikiki, Spring and Ann arbor are all mathematically still alive.

Las Vegas plays 3 games at home vs Spring
Ann Arbor plays 3 games at home vs Cleveland
Waikiki plays 3 games @ New York.

If Las Vegas wins one single game, they clinch the playoff spot.

If Spring sweeps Las vegas, then Las Vegas and Spring end the season tied (as well as either Ann Arbor or Waikiki if they also sweep).

[Alan T]

10/2:

Spring 13, Las Vegas 8
Cleveland 5, Ann Arbor 4
Waikiki 15, New York 8


Ann Arbor is eliminated from the postseason

[Alan T]

10/3:

Waikiki 13, New York 0
Las vegas 8, Spring 6


With Las Vegas winning, they clinch the final playoff spot as Waikiki and Spring are eliminated.

[Alan T]

Final 2054 Standings:

Continental League Standings

Team W L PCT GB Pyt.Rec Diff Home Away XInn 1Run M# Streak Last10 Plantana Pirates 104 58 .642 - 98-64 6 52-29 52-29 10-2 28-19 Clinched W1 7-3 London Bishops 98 64 .605 6 102-60 -4 53-28 45-36 6-6 19-17 W3 7-3 St Louis Hops 81 81 .500 23 86-76 -5 46-35 35-46 9-5 24-25 W2 6-4 Washington Freedom 79 83 .488 25 80-82 -1 39-42 40-41 8-9 21-21 L1 3-7 Stafford Terriers 78 84 .481 26 75-87 3 42-39 36-45 8-7 14-17 W1 4-6 Havana Banana Sluggers 77 85 .475 27 78-84 -1 43-38 34-47 9-7 26-21 L2 4-6 St Cloud Raindrops 69 93 .426 35 70-92 -1 38-43 31-50 3-10 20-26 L3 3-7 Oshawa Mullets 62 100 .383 42 60-102 2 33-48 29-52 2-9 15-21 L1 6-4

Republic League Standings

Team W L PCT GB Pyt.Rec Diff Home Away XInn 1Run M# Streak Last10 Maricopa Rattlers 104 58 .642 - 91-71 13 53-28 51-30 7-8 28-14 Clinched W4 8-2 Las Vegas Wildcats 85 77 .525 19 86-76 -1 42-39 43-38 5-11 29-18 L1 6-4 Waikiki Beach Boys 83 79 .512 21 86-76 -3 42-39 41-40 14-6 22-24 L1 4-6 Spring Lions 83 79 .512 21 85-77 -2 45-36 38-43 5-6 15-18 W1 4-6 Ann Arbor Wolverines 82 80 .506 22 84-78 -2 46-35 36-45 9-9 20-31 W1 5-5 Portland Axemen 74 88 .457 30 77-85 -3 38-43 36-45 7-6 19-21 L3 4-6 Cleveland Naps 73 89 .451 31 74-88 -1 33-48 40-41 8-12 26-30 L1 2-8 New York Legends 64 98 .395 40 62-100 2 31-50 33-48 9-6 22-25 W1 7-3

[Alan T]

League Leaders AVG J. Martínez - LVS .371 2 W. Byers LON .356 3 D. Ducklow OSH .339 3 R. Ruíz STC .339 5 D. Farley POR .336	League Leaders HR H. Palmeiro - STL 45 2 B. Steele SPG 44 3 J. Águila SPG 43 3 G. Howard LVS 43 5 I. Cintrón MAR 41	League Leaders RBI J. Arreola - LON 157 2 J. Rodríguez PLN 153 3 H. Palmeiro STL 152 4 D. Harris SPG 145 5 G. Howard LVS 143
League Leaders W 2 tied with 19 1 A. Brown MAR 19 1 J. Espinoza SPG 19 3 J. Gutiérrez LON 18 3 2 more tied with 18	League Leaders ERA E. Cox - ANN 2.84 2 J. Núñez LON 3.09 3 A. Garza MAR 3.25 4 D. Cardoza NY 3.36 5 A. Gonzáles STA 3.43	League Leaders K H. Morrison - CLE 199 2 M. Ramírez STL 198 3 J. Núñez LON 197 4 A. Luna CLE 193 5 J. Gutiérrez LON 182

[Alan T]

The new file is up. Playoffs run tomorrow morning!

[Alan T]

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Batters) (Hitter that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Raúl Ruíz STC 76.099 100000 76.10

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Veteran Batters) (Veteran hitter that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Justin MacKinney STL 27.3801 100000 27.38

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Pitchers) (Pitcher that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Albert Garza MAR 47.5184 100000 47.52

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Veteran Pitchers) (Veteran pitcher that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Travis Dukes ANN 23.7426 150000 15.83

Worst Bang for the Buck Award(Batters) (For the most overpaid hitter in the league.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Jim Lynn CLE -32.9944 2675000 -8826002000000.00

Worst Bang for the Buck Award(Pitchers) (For the most overpaid pitcher in the league.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Stephen Fournier PLN -9.9885 11505000 -11491769250000.00

Home Run or Nothing Award (For the hitter that hit home runs and not much else.)
Name Team HR RC Score José Olvera ANN 40 79.340028 0.4477

Selfish Pitcher Award (For the pitcher that has all of the headlines but none of the wins.)
Name Team W L K BB IP Score Brandon Lawrence SPG 12 14 163 81 180.0 12322.8000

Unluckiest Pitcher Award (For the pitcher that would likely win an award if on a better team.)
Name Team W L K BB IP Score Alejandro Cruz STC 6 15 163 113 195.0 1136.95312866

Running on Empty Award (For the baserunner that keeps attempting to steal and fails.)
Name Team SB CS SB % Score Walker Byers LON 45 33 0.5769 9.60

Can't hit his weight Award (For the hitter that can't even hit his weight.)
Name Team Weight Batting Avg. Score Sam Thivierge NY 207 lbs 0.189 0.91119752

Should have stayed home Award (Batters) (For the Hitter that did so poorly he should have just stayed home.)
Name Team Batting Avg. HR RBI VORP Sam Thivierge NY 0.189 5 67 -42.3828

Should have stayed home Award (Pitchers) (For the Pitcher that did so poorly he should have just stayed home.)
Name Team W L ERA VORP Raúl Alonso STA 3 14 7.21 -39.9056

Stone Statue Award (For the Shortstop that had so little range that he resembled a statue.)
Name Team Total Chances Assists Put Outs Range Kikunojo Rin WAS 333 193 129 3.9057

Cannon-Arm Award (For the Catcher that showed off the best cannon-arm in games.)
Name Team SB attempts against Runners Thrown Out RTO% Score Cipriano Arzola STL 170 61 0.3588 53.0

Early Checkout Award (For the Starting pitcher that left games the earliest.)
Name Team W L ERA GS IP Score Octávio Acevedo NY 1 22 6.64 40 149.0 0.2685

Never met a pitch he didn't like award (For the Hitter that never liked to watch a pitch go by without hitting it.)
Name Team Batting Avg. H BB Score Dan Harris SPG 0.305 215 33 182

Take the Money and Run Award (Batters) (For the Hitter that stopped showing effort after signing a large contract.)
Name Team Contract Batting Avg. HR RBI Score José Carlos Cantú HBS 6500000 0.305 8 79 35.1343

Take the Money and Run Award (Pitchers) (For the Pitcher that stopped showing effort after signing a large contract.)
Name Team Contract Wins Losses ERA Score Sean Andersen STC 7000000 6 11 5.36 38.4488

Anger Management Award (For the pitcher that hit the most batters during the season.)

Name Team W L IP Hit Batters José Echeveste NY 8 15 194.0 16

[hyde4us11]

Rin winning the Stone Statue Award is puzzling. I guess I don't have a clue on finduing good defensive players because I drafted him with the thought that he could hit some and be a good defender.

Infield Range: 10

[ekcut]

Originally Posted by hyde4us11

Rin winning the Stone Statue Award is puzzling. I guess I don't have a clue on finduing good defensive players because I drafted him with the thought that he could hit some and be a good defender.

Infield Range: 10

Fielding awards are as much or even more depending on pitching staffs as the players ratings.

A team with all right handed pitchers (so facing mostly left handed hitters who tend to pull) with low groundball to flyball ratio's or high strikeout skill will lead to even Ozzie Smith winning the stone statue award!

Because we can't actually SEE how much ground he covers, we can only base range on fielding stats which are codependent on pitchers.

I think I once won 7 gold gloves in one season with Baltimore...it wasn't because they were all amazing fielders, it was more because my pitching staff never struck a sole out causing my fielders to have SO much action in the field that they looked good stats wise.

[buckinbranco]

Well at least we made it interesting! It would have been really nice to finally get back to the playoffs, but I'm still happy with 3rd place. Hopefully we can improve on this showing next week

[kenjabroni]

So is the secret to Londons pitching staff.......Center Fielders? 3 starters and the 4th highest with GS is a CF and at least two other guys with a lot of pitching are CF........

Aquino had 184 games played....Had a nice year with the bat AND started 37 games at pitcher. He wasnt so effective as a pitcher but Im not sure how the heck they pulled that one off.

[ekcut]

Originally Posted by kenjabroni

So is the secret to Londons pitching staff.......Center Fielders? 3 starters and the 4th highest with GS is a CF and at least two other guys with a lot of pitching are CF........

Aquino had 184 games played....Had a nice year with the bat AND started 37 games at pitcher. He wasnt so effective as a pitcher but Im not sure how the heck they pulled that one off.

I had 3 pitchers that played on both sides of the ball this year.

Aquino (he was 50% spot starter...don't know how he got the most starts, and the backup LF and RF with 50% at each position)
Thompson (MR, platoon vs lefties RFer),
Brown (setup man, 2nd string 1B)

I love the guys who go both ways (get your mind out of the gutter) as it is almost like playing with a 26 or 27 man roster. This then let's me add bonus players like a designated pinch runner, or a few more guys to platoon. This year it allowed me to have 13 pitchers...which I needed for my experiment in having no designated 4th starter, but two spot startes at 50% each (it failed...one guy had 40 starts, the other 8)

Aquino was a failed experiment, as I never tried it with a starter before.
He hit .313 with 96 rbi's in 485 ab
He was 1-9 with a 6.20era in 114 innings in 40 starts. Obviously the fatigue was too much to do this with a starter.

Thompson- .297 in 222abs, 9-1 3.04era in 71IP

Brown- Only 61 AB's as my backup 1B gets no action this year and he hit poorly...but in the past he has had as much as 140ab's hitting .374 with a 3.09era in 50 IP

[EddieK]

Alan, is that the biggest one year turnaround in terms of wins from one year to the next? (Speaking of Maricopa)

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by EddieK

Alan, is that the biggest one year turnaround in terms of wins from one year to the next? (Speaking of Maricopa)

Off the top of my head, I know London had a bigger turnaround between 1964-1965. Might be others as well. I don't have anything scripted to look for that I don't think. (If I do, I'm not sure where that .php file is right now). So I can't give the definite answer for biggest turnaround ever right now

[Afino]

Ouch. Tough year.

At least we hung in there until late September.

[Tasan]

Ugh....neither of my teams can seem to finish out September without giving up second place. Congrats Vegas.

[hbomb]

Wow, I went from playoffs to 100 losses, quite the accomplishment

[Afino]

Going through the process of trying to figure out what went wrong....

It was probably switching back to a 5-man rotation, to be honest. After Rea and Cox and Nunez, my 4 and 5 guys were below league average. Spreading out the starts probably cost me a few games.

Plus Olvera hit .204 (and won an award for it!), Kneeland cratered to a .209 and NC Kim never got it together even though he was just playing against lefties (his strength).

Doesn't seem to be the defense, thankfully.

[CleBrownsfan]

Very disappointed with the Naps this season. Had higher expectations then a 73 win - 7th place finish. Oh well.... good luck to the teams who made the Friday session. I'm rooting for the Rattlers this year - nice young team they have there.