In news that was entirely too easy to predict, the Monarchs responded to my comments in the last blog entry with a four-game losing streak, including a sweep by the Brooklyn Wolves and Chad Nelligan's first loss.
My offense has also dropped off dramatically in the last two sims, allowing the Riverdancers to pass the Monarchs as the highest scoring team this year.
I knew I should have just kept my mouth shut. Hopefully, I'm just getting the down period out of the way and the team will be firing on all cylinders come Cup time. Hopefully.
That was a particularly ugly one. I lost a lot of blowouts this year (for many more than I've won), which skews my Pythagorean record. That's one of the variables that keeps the ZL closer than it probably should be, but I've always built my team for close games, so it doesn't surprise me.
Whether you lose 2-1 or 22-1, it still counts as one loss in the standings.
I'm not sure I'd buy that, my SoCal friend. I think you're PythRec is about where it should be.
Note, in terms of runs scored you're only 14 ahead of New York and 24 ahead of Walla Walla. That's about a 1 game difference with New York.
In terms of runs allowed it's about the same. You've allowed 580 runs (520 of them earned). New York has allowed 582 runs to score (520 of them earned - exactly the same) and Walla Walla has allowed 582 (501 of them earned).
Yet, even though your runs allowed and scored are so similar you're 12-13 games up in the standings.
There's sufficient evidence that one-run games are almost entirely random and can't be planned for. This all points to luck and what drops in, my friend, not planning.
Damn, it's sure easy to lose five games in the standings in two weeks when you're only playing with 24 players....
ReplyDeleteThat earth is a little hard once you start coming back to it, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteAnd oof, look at that 3 hit game your team produced against Sherm Wheeler. That smarts!
In news that was entirely too easy to predict, the Monarchs responded to my comments in the last blog entry with a four-game losing streak, including a sweep by the Brooklyn Wolves and Chad Nelligan's first loss.
ReplyDeleteMy offense has also dropped off dramatically in the last two sims, allowing the Riverdancers to pass the Monarchs as the highest scoring team this year.
I knew I should have just kept my mouth shut. Hopefully, I'm just getting the down period out of the way and the team will be firing on all cylinders come Cup time. Hopefully.
And what happened with that stomping New York gave Los Angeles? 22-7.
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That was a particularly ugly one. I lost a lot of blowouts this year (for many more than I've won), which skews my Pythagorean record. That's one of the variables that keeps the ZL closer than it probably should be, but I've always built my team for close games, so it doesn't surprise me.
ReplyDeleteWhether you lose 2-1 or 22-1, it still counts as one loss in the standings.
I'm not sure I'd buy that, my SoCal friend. I think you're PythRec is about where it should be.
ReplyDeleteNote, in terms of runs scored you're only 14 ahead of New York and 24 ahead of Walla Walla. That's about a 1 game difference with New York.
In terms of runs allowed it's about the same. You've allowed 580 runs (520 of them earned). New York has allowed 582 runs to score (520 of them earned - exactly the same) and Walla Walla has allowed 582 (501 of them earned).
Yet, even though your runs allowed and scored are so similar you're 12-13 games up in the standings.
There's sufficient evidence that one-run games are almost entirely random and can't be planned for.
This all points to luck and what drops in, my friend, not planning.