1966 Season & Post-season completed

[Young Drachma]

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NUMBER OF ALL-STAR STARTERS, BY TEAM
New York 4
El Paso 2
Hartford 5
Baltimore 1
Seattle 1
St Pete 5
Charleston 1
Ann Arbor 2
Texas 2
Rio Grande 2
Valdosta 2
Brooklyn 1
Colorado 2
Boston 1
LBI 1

[Young Drachma]

NUMBER OF ALL-STAR RESERVES, BY TEAM

Ann Arbor 3
Brooklyn 4
Hartford 1
Boston 3
New York 1

Valdosta 3
Seattle 1
Chicago 2
Colorado 1
Texas 2
El Paso 1
St. Pete 1
Rio Grande 1

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[Young Drachma]

TOTAL ALL-STARS, 1966

New York 5
Ann Arbor 5
El Paso 3
Hartford 6
Baltimore 1
Seattle 2
St. Pete 6
Charleston 1
Texas 4
Rio Grande 3
Valdosta 5
Brooklyn 5
Colorado 3
Boston 4
LBI 1
Chicago 2

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[Young Drachma]

Observation file is up. Dated June 25, 1966.

[Young Drachma]

I just took a look at St. Pete and noticed we were 21-7 in May, but we're 10-11 in June. There's someone's opening...

[Young Drachma]

The Republic League beat the Continental League All-Stars 6-4 in the 1966 All-Star Game played at Terrapin Park in Baltimore.

[Young Drachma]

JULY 1, 1966 STANDINGS
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CONTINENTAL LEAGUE
Hartford (54-33) --
Brooklyn (54-34) 1/2 GB
New York (50-37) 4 GB
Ann Arbor (49-38) 5 GB
Boston (40-46) 13 1/2 GB
Baltimore (40-47) 14 GB
Charleston (32-56) 22 1/2 GB
Long Beach Is. (29-57) 24 1/2 GB


REPUBLIC LEAGUE
St. Petersburg (52-35) --
Texas (50-36) 1.5 GB
Colorado (47-40) 5 GB
Rio Grande (43-45) 9.5 GB
Valdosta (42-45) 10 GB
El Paso (39-47) 12.5 GB
Seattle (40-48) 12.5 GB
Chicago (35-52) 17 GB

[JeeberD]

So I thought that Seattle was supposed to be the good expansion team? Yeesh...

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by JeeberD

So I thought that Seattle was supposed to be the good expansion team? Yeesh...

1. They had no pitching. at all. There was no way they were going to able to win with Andrew freakin' Dinsdale as their ace and a kid that couldn't crack the rotation in St. Louis. (Derek Chandler)

2. You wanna know my secret? I scratched my ballpark changes before I made them. I just thought about it and realize that we'd done all of that winning in a 1.000 ballpark, so why go messing with a good thing?

3. Strategy settings. They are REALLY tedious. But I realized the game does some REALLY stupid things like bunt when it shouldn't, etc. I decided to work on when my pitchers get the hook, when the AI does other stuff during the season.

4. I set my own lineups too. But I know a lot of you already do that. I never did before this season. But I had to, with a team of cobbled together talent.

I still don't think we'll win when the dust settles. Texas is coming on strong and we're really just being inflated by one strong month. But I'll take being in the hunt to being in last. I mean, it's not like we had this coming.

[Young Drachma]

August 1, 1966 STANDINGS
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CONTINENTAL LEAGUE
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Brooklyn (69-44) --
Hartford (68-45) 1 GB
New York (68-45) 1 GB
Ann Arbor (64-48) 4.5 GB
Boston (53-59) 15.5 GB
Baltimore (49-65) 20.5 GB
Charleston (42-71) 27 GB
Long Beach Is. (38-74) 30.5 GB

REPUBLIC LEAGUE
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St. Petersburg (69-44) --
Texas (67-46) 2 GB
Colorado (63-50) 6 GB
Seattle (54-59) 15 GB
Valdosta (53-59) 15.5 GB
El Paso (52-60) 16.5 GB
Rio Grande (51-62) 18 GB
Chicago (42-71) 27 GB

FOOL LEADERS
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Hideaki Tanaka New York .353
Andy Nolan Hartford 27 HR
Andy Nolan Hartford 99 RBI
Jeremy O'Herlihy 59 SB

Benny Myers Hartford 17 Wins
Benny Myers Hartford 2.10 ERA
Carlos Medina St. Pete 37 Saves
Benny Myers Hartford 200 strikeouts

[Tellistto]

Really close races to close the season. It's really been my pitching that let me down in the first half of the season. That and my #4 Tony Hernadez having an off year in the first half. Just have to see how it turns out now.

Tell

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF AUGUST 8, 1966
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CL PENNANT RACE
Brooklyn 73-46
Hartford 1 GB
Ann Arbor 3.5 GB
New York 3.5 GB


RL PENNANT RACE
St. Pete 70-49
Texas 70-49
Colorado 2 GB

[Commo_Soldier]

Man my offseason paid off this year!

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF AUGUST 15, 1966
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CL PENNANT RACE
Brooklyn 77-49
Hartford 1 GB
Ann Arbor 2.5 GB
New York 5 GB


RL PENNANT RACE
Colorado 74-52
Texas 1 GB
St. Pete 2 GB

[Tellistto]

New York fizzles to a dud in it's new park. Ah well, guess the team isn't well suited to a pitchers park.

Tell

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF AUGUST 22, 1966
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CL PENNANT RACE
Brooklyn 80-51
Hartford 1 GB
New York 3 GB
Ann Arbor 5 GB

RL PENNANT RACE
Colorado 76-55
Texas 76-55
St. Pete 4 GB

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1966
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CL PENNANT RACE
Brooklyn 85-55
New York 2 GB
Hartford 4 GB
Ann Arbor 7 GB

RL PENNANT RACE
Colorado 83-57
Texas 1 GB
St. Pete 8 GB

[gstelmack]

Well, as of August we're still sniffing .500.

Glad to see Wakeling and Bond make the All-Star roster. Nice to see Perkins as well: glad he decided to hit for average in addition to some power this season.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

Well, as of August we're still sniffing .500.

Glad to see Wakeling and Bond make the All-Star roster. Nice to see Perkins as well: glad he decided to hit for average in addition to some power this season.

65-75 as September 1st. Solidly in 5th place.

[Tellistto]

Hmm, closed the gap. A New York borough battle to the end?

Tell

[Young Drachma]

Here are the CL teams down the stretch schedules:

BROOKLYN (85-55)
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Sept 1: @ New York (83-57)
Sept 3-5: vs. Charleston (56-84)
Sept 6-8: vs. Ann Arbor (78-62)
Sept 9-12: @ Charleston (56-84)
Sept 13-15: @ Baltimore (61-79)

NEW YORK (83-57)
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Sept 1: vs. Brooklyn (85-55)
Sept 3-5: vs. Boston (65-75)
Sept 6-8: vs. Charleston (56-84)
Sept 9-12: @ Boston (65-75)
Sept 13-15: @ Hartford (81-59)

HARTFORD (83-57)
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Sept 1: vs. Baltimore
Sept 2-4: vs. Ann Arbor
Sept 6-8: @ Long Beach Island
Sept 9-12: @ Ann Arbor
Sept 13-15: vs. New York

ANN ARBOR (78-62)
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Sept 1: @ Charleston
Sept 2-4: @ Hartford
Sept 6-8: @ Brooklyn
Sept 9-12: vs. Hartford
Sept 13-15: vs. Boston

[Young Drachma]

Here are the RL teams down the stretch schedules.

COLORADO (83-57)
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Sept 1: @ St. Petersburg (75-65)
Sept 2-4: @ Texas (82-58)
Sept 6-8: @ El Paso (66-74)
Sept 9-12: vs. Texas (82-58)
Sept 13-15: vs. Rio Grande (64-76)

TEXAS (82-58)
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Sept 1: vs. El Paso (66-74)
Sept 2-4: vs. Colorado (83-57)
Sept 6-8: vs. St. Petersburg (75-65)
Sept. 9-12: @ Colorado (83-57)
Sept. 13-15: @ Seattle (68-72)

ST. PETERSBURG (75-65)
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Sept. 1: vs. Colorado (83-57)
Sept. 2-4: vs. Chicago (53-87)
Sept. 6-8: @ Texas (82-58)
Sept. 9-12: @ Chicago (53-87)
Sept. 13-15: vs. Valdosta (69-71)

[Young Drachma]

Head to Head Records (as of Sept. 1st)
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BROOKLYN
Ann Arbor (10-9)
Baltimore (12-7)
Boston (15-7)
Charleston (9-6)
Hartford (14-8)
LBI (16-6)
New York (9-12)

NEW YORK
Ann Arbor (9-13)
Baltimore (14-8)
Boston (11-4)
Brookyln (12-9)
Charleston (13-6)
Hartford (7-12)
LBI (17-5)

HARTFORD
Ann Arbor (6-9)
Baltimore (13-8)
Boston (12-10)
Brooklyn (8-14)
Charleston (14-8)
LBI (16-3)
New York (12-7)

ANN ARBOR
Baltimore (10-12)
Boston (10-9)
Brooklyn (9-10)
Charleston (11-10)
Hartford (9-6)
LBI (16-6)
New York (13-9)

[Young Drachma]

COLORADO
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Chicago 15-7
El Paso 16-3
Rio Grande 10-9
Seattle 12-10
St. Pete 12-9
Texas 5-10
Valdosta 13-9

TEXAS
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Chicago 14-8
Colorado 10-5
El Paso 13-8
Rio Grande 14-8
Seattle 11-8
St. Pete 7-12
Valdosta 13-9

ST. PETERSBURG
----
Chicago 7-8
Colorado 9-12
El Paso 11-11
Rio Grande 12-10
Seattle 15-7
Texas 12-7
Valdosta 9-10

[Tellistto]

Oh, the drama!

Tell

[Alan T]

So if Colorado does win the RL, do I win points for not only correctly picking the RL winner, but also picking where I would finish in the RL?

[Young Drachma]

So that explains it. St. Pete was kicked in the rear by a Chicago team that everyone else pummeled. Cute, real cute.

Well, this HAS to be the best FOOL season ever! How much more exciting can it get?!

We've got a pennant race in both leagues and it's going to come down to the wire!

We've got a subway battle between the New York clubs in the CL and the RL is a battle between the Republic of Texas and the Rocky Mountain ballclub of Colorado. Who will prevail?!

In any case, I'm about to go eat dinner, so I won't do this sim right now. I've uploaded another stage file for you all to check out, because I'm a team player.

The file is 37.33 MB, but it'll give you everything, so you can see how things are, be frustrated and bite your fingernails at the drama and suspense of what might be coming soon!

But I do intend to finish the season tonight, of course and get up a file for you all, so we can do the FOOL Classic tomorrow night.

The fun has just begun! The file is up, too. Munch on that.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Alan T

So if Colorado does win the RL, do I win points for not only correctly picking the RL winner, but also picking where I would finish in the RL?

A prize. Yup.

[gstelmack]

Thanks for the intermediate file. Grabbing now.

[Chief Rum]

Wow, what a great race. Honored to be a part of it. This is a fantastic season for the league.

I will say when I looked at us at the halfway point, I noticed we were at or near the top of the RL in almost all of the major hitting categories except runs and homeruns (including OPS, OBP, AVG, hits and SBs, and second in SLG--so I didn't get the fifth in runs), and we also had the second best pitching staff, and the top bullpen. And my second best hitter and pitcher each were completely in the dumps from what they would normally do. Figuring on turnarounds and things righting themselves, I knew my team could make a run. But there were a lot of ifs there, and I thought I might be too far behind. Glad I was wrong about that.

Good luck, Huckleberry and DC, however this works out. Winner gets to go kick the CL champ's butt.

[gstelmack]

Sigh. Vance MacFurgus at age 24 decides to become a 1-star pitcher and lose most of his "Stuff", going from 3.84 to 6+ ERA in one season. Nice. Brian Brown at age 28 decides to become a .5-star pitcher and go from 4.94 to 6.08 on his ERA. Luckily Clay Pierson does okay coming up from AAA a bit early and goes 11-10 with a 4.41 ERA in his rookie season. Had a rough July but turned it around nicely in August. My bullpen is doing phenominal, and SP John MacDonald has a nice 2.91 ERA going, but next season will be all about landing another starting pitcher and hoping the two guys I've got in AAA turn out solid. And maybe finding a second baseman who can play defense.

It's these mid-20s tanks that are killing me right now. Do we have anybody in the league approaching 30 who has any sort of career left?

We really do need to finish strong, though. I want to see at least 70 wins this season and see if we can build on it next season.

[gstelmack]

Oh yeah, almost forgot that Bruce McDaniel and his 4.5/2-year contract decided to tank to 1-star and hit .235 in Boston after hitting .286 in St. Louis last year. At age 24. Sigh.

[gstelmack]

Okay, Keith Bond at 29 is having some success...

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS AS OF SEPTEMBER 6, 1966
(10 games to go)

CL PENNANT RACE
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Brooklyn (86-58)
New York 1 GB
Hartford 3 GB
Ann Arbor 5 GB

RL PENNANT RACE
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Colorado (85-59)
Texas (85-59)
St. Pete 8 GB

[Young Drachma]

As we get down to the wire, I'll get you all FOOLtv coverage of the up-to-the-minute action.

[Chief Rum]

Figures. I gotta go. Good luck, everyone. Seems Texas and I are having trouble separating from one another.

BTW, this is the fight to determine if defense matters. COL is one of the worst defensive teams in the league, but is awesome everywhere else. TEX isn't as good as COL in most main areas, but it has by far the best defense in the league.

WInner take all.

[Cringer]

Second to last, way to finish strong boys. My star pitchers are having a down year, and my lead off hitter has decided to have another crap season. If things hold true he will do good every other year it seems.

My catcher is actually doing well this year though, woohoo.

[Young Drachma]

ATTENDANCE (as of September 6, 1966)
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New YORK 3,819,985
ST. PETE 3,474,075
VALDOSTA 3,284,889
TEXAS 3,244,488
BROOKLYN 3,211,269
ANN ARBOR 3,044,757
RIO GRANDE 2,941,663
CHICAGO 3,703,154
BOSTON 2,695,800
LONG BEACH ISLAND 2,693,430
HARTFORD 2,693,439
CHARLESTON 2,556,707
EL PASO 2,500,152
SEATTLE 2,439,266
BALTIMORE 2,336,858
COLORADO 1,478,160

Might be time for the Rancheros to head to Los Angeles?

[Tellistto]

Come on New York! Just wish we had more games against Brooklyn to go.

Tell

[Young Drachma]

Standings as of SEPT. 10, 1966
(6 GAMES LEFT)

CL
New York 88-60
Brooklyn 1 GB
Ann Arbor 3 GB
Hartford 3 GB

RL
Colorado 88-60
Texas 1 GB

[Commo_Soldier]

Originally Posted by Tellistto

Come on New York! Just wish we had more games against Brooklyn to go.

Tell

Come on Hartford!

[Tellistto]

Really a tight race down the stretch here. Charleston and Hartford next, and Hartford has been New Yorks bugaboo team.

Tell

[Tellistto]

Make that Boston and Hartford left.

Tell

[Commo_Soldier]

That is what I am hoping for that I will continue to beat up on two team I have so far this year in Charleston and Baltimore and you will just drop 2 or all 3 of your games against Hartford.

[Tellistto]

Could happen, that's for sure.

Tell

[Commo_Soldier]

Well no matter what happens this might be the best playoff race we will ever see in the league.

[Young Drachma]

Colorado and Texas split a four game tilt and now will end the year with teams perched near the bottom of the standings.

Texas will play Seattle, who they are 11-8 against this year, while Colorado will play Rio Grande, who they are 10-9 against.

Can the rivals of the Copperheads do them a favor in the form of knocking off the Rancheros in all three games to keep them in the race and give them a shot at the CL pennant? We shall see!

Brooklyn and New York remain tied heading into the last games of the season. Brooklyn swept the Charleston Chew, while New York swept Charleston too, before splitting a 4-game set with Boston. They will finish their season at Hartford, whose dim hopes were hurt after losing three of four to Ann Arbor. Brooklyn will head to Baltimore to end the regular season.

[Young Drachma]

STANDINGS OF SEPTEMBER 13, 1966
(3 games to go)
CL
--
Brooklyn 90-61
New York 90-61
Ann Arbor 3 GB

RL
---
Colorado 90-61
Texas 2 GB

[Tellistto]

If New York pulls this out they will have earned it, having to beat Hartford to get the job done. Damn that's gonna be tough. Splitting with Boston hurts pretty bad too.

Tell

[Young Drachma]

FOOLtv PENNANT RACE COVERAGE
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Tuesday September 13, 1966
Boston 3, Ann Arbor 0
Luis Perez (14-14) threw a 4-hit shutout, striking out seven, walking six in the Boston Settlers (72-80) 3-0 win over the Ann Arbor Wolverines (87-65), eliminating them from whatever slim hopes they had at playoff contention.