A good measure of an on-line league is how often the participants... well, participate. There have been fourteen sims in this season. How often did people send me uploads? Well, here are the results:
River Cities -- 14 uploads (Perfect!)
Seattle -- 14 uploads (Perfect!)
South Bay -- 14 uploads (Perfect!)
Saskatoon -- 12 uploads (sims 1, 3, 5-14)
Danville -- 11 uploads (1-4, 8-14)
Hickory -- 11 uploads (1, 3-6, 8-13)
Houston -- 9 uploads (2-6, 8, 11-12, 14)
Denver - 4 uploads (1, 4, 11, 13)
Covington -- 3 uploads (3, 4, 7)
New York -- 3 uploads (2, 5, 7)
Walla Walla -- 2 uploads (2, 8)
Out of 154 possible uploads (14 sims * 11 teams [I make my changes directly in the game]), there were a total of 97 sims, for a 63% upload rate.
Uploads included all uploads (whether successful or not) and any email messages with roster changes/moves (or even an email saying "No changes this week").
Zev
Friday, August 4, 2006
Thursday, August 3, 2006
Game 1: River Cities @ Seattle - Sunday night
Mack, Nate -- don't forget to get your rosters down to 25 players!
By the way, I will be passing your offers to free-agents-to-be during the playoffs, so if there is that "special someone" that you want to keep on your team, feel free to send an offer.
Zev
By the way, I will be passing your offers to free-agents-to-be during the playoffs, so if there is that "special someone" that you want to keep on your team, feel free to send an offer.
Zev
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Sim Thursday night
Work responsibilities have keep me from getting the last sim done Mondayand Tuesday nights. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be able to get to it tonight either... so let's go for Thursday night.
Zev
Zev
Friday, July 28, 2006
Could we go three division with a wild card?
I'm just idly thinking that with twelve teams we could go to three four-team division with a wildcard and spice things up a bit.
I admit to being against the wildcard when it started but it does add some excitement to the last two months of the season for many teams.
Just a thought.
I admit to being against the wildcard when it started but it does add some excitement to the last two months of the season for many teams.
Just a thought.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
SDMB Historical Anomalies / One Run Games
Again, this is based on 2003-07 data.
Best One Run Games Record
1. Seattle 2005: 36-15 (.706)
2. Houston 2004: 28-16 (.636)
3. Hickory 2007: 29-17 (.630)
The Hickory 2007 performance is quite remarkable against their 80-82 record and helps explain why they outperformed their Pythagorean projection by eight games. Seattle's record so far this year in one run games is 35-15.
Worst One Run Games Record
1. Houston 2007: 12-28 (.300)
2. Kingston 2003: 15-29 (.341)
3. Danville 2007: 12-22 (.353)
All three of these performances, bad as they are, are better than the teams' winning percentage in that season.
Most One Run Games
1. Stockholm 2005: 63 (35-28)
2t. Denver 2005 and Brooklyn 2005: 60 (31-29 and 30-30 respectively)
Much like 2005 had the most extra inning games, by a fair margin, it also had the most one run games, by a big margin. Strange year.
Fewest One Run Games
1. Hickory 2004: 32 (18-14)
2. Walla Walla 2007: 37 (21-16)
3. Florida 2007: 38 (21-17)
Denver has only 34 one run games so far this year (15-19).
Most One Run Game Wins
1. Seattle 2005: 36
2. Stockholm 2005: 35
3. Stockholm 2004: 33 (33-20)
Most One Run Game Losses
1. Houston 2005: 37 (21-37)
2. Brooklyn 2003: 33 (25-33)
3. Hickory 2005: 32 (19-32)
Miscellaneous Notes
1. 1,330 games out of the 4,376 played from 2003 to 2007 were one run games. That's 30.3%.
2. Stockholm/Florida/South Bay has the best all-time winning percentage at .555 (132-106), although Seattle may pass them after this year. Covington/Michigan has the worst at .454 (89-107).
3. The best performance in one run games, compared to overall record, was Hickory in 2004. Hickory was 18-14 in one run games (.563) and 41-89 in all others (.315).
4. The worst performance compared to overall record was Saskatoon 2007 with a 26-28 record in one run games (.481) and 75-33 in all others (.694).
5. Brooklyn has played the most one run games, 261 (123-138).
6. The fewest are Kingston/Walla Walla with 218 (103-115) in five seasons (43.6/year) and Hickory with 172 (90-82) in four years (43/year).
7. New York (97-85, .533) and Hickory (90-82, .523), despite being expansion teams, have the third and fourth best all-time records in one run games. This year's performance may drop Hickory from that spot though.
Best One Run Games Record
1. Seattle 2005: 36-15 (.706)
2. Houston 2004: 28-16 (.636)
3. Hickory 2007: 29-17 (.630)
The Hickory 2007 performance is quite remarkable against their 80-82 record and helps explain why they outperformed their Pythagorean projection by eight games. Seattle's record so far this year in one run games is 35-15.
Worst One Run Games Record
1. Houston 2007: 12-28 (.300)
2. Kingston 2003: 15-29 (.341)
3. Danville 2007: 12-22 (.353)
All three of these performances, bad as they are, are better than the teams' winning percentage in that season.
Most One Run Games
1. Stockholm 2005: 63 (35-28)
2t. Denver 2005 and Brooklyn 2005: 60 (31-29 and 30-30 respectively)
Much like 2005 had the most extra inning games, by a fair margin, it also had the most one run games, by a big margin. Strange year.
Fewest One Run Games
1. Hickory 2004: 32 (18-14)
2. Walla Walla 2007: 37 (21-16)
3. Florida 2007: 38 (21-17)
Denver has only 34 one run games so far this year (15-19).
Most One Run Game Wins
1. Seattle 2005: 36
2. Stockholm 2005: 35
3. Stockholm 2004: 33 (33-20)
Most One Run Game Losses
1. Houston 2005: 37 (21-37)
2. Brooklyn 2003: 33 (25-33)
3. Hickory 2005: 32 (19-32)
Miscellaneous Notes
1. 1,330 games out of the 4,376 played from 2003 to 2007 were one run games. That's 30.3%.
2. Stockholm/Florida/South Bay has the best all-time winning percentage at .555 (132-106), although Seattle may pass them after this year. Covington/Michigan has the worst at .454 (89-107).
3. The best performance in one run games, compared to overall record, was Hickory in 2004. Hickory was 18-14 in one run games (.563) and 41-89 in all others (.315).
4. The worst performance compared to overall record was Saskatoon 2007 with a 26-28 record in one run games (.481) and 75-33 in all others (.694).
5. Brooklyn has played the most one run games, 261 (123-138).
6. The fewest are Kingston/Walla Walla with 218 (103-115) in five seasons (43.6/year) and Hickory with 172 (90-82) in four years (43/year).
7. New York (97-85, .533) and Hickory (90-82, .523), despite being expansion teams, have the third and fourth best all-time records in one run games. This year's performance may drop Hickory from that spot though.
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Have You Seen This Man?
If you look at the Career Leaderboard page, you'll see that the top eight players all-time in saves are as follows:
1. Alfano 214
2. Diaz 164
3. Rhea 147
4. Donato 129
5. Caroll 118
6. Garcia 103
7. Ertel 95
8. Beliveau 86
However, this list is wrong. Will (who some reason is the only owner not posting on the blog) has pointed out to me that Thomas Hallinan should be tied with Joel Ertel for seventh place on the list.
Who is Thomas Hallinan?
Well, he was the Houston closer who set the Adams League record for saves in a season way back in 2002 with 43 saves. In fact, he *still* holds the record!
After the 2003 season, he was still the all-time leader for saves, having saved 36 games (despite posting an ugly 5.19 ERA). By the end of the 2004 season, he fell to fourth place with 95 saves, having lost his closer job to Jose Abarca. He sat out the 2005 and 2006 seasons, but as of the end of the 2006 season, he was still on the all-time leaders list (tied for 6th).
Hallinan officially retired on 1/26/2007. Yet, by the end of the season, he was a forgotten man outside of Houston. He was so forgotten that he was even wiped off the all-time leaders list. Aside from his mention in the Adams League and Houston record books, we'd never know he was here. It's fairly common for minor players who retire to "disappear" without a trace. However, it is not common for a player on an all-time leader list to do so (and even odder to do so after retirement). So, where is he?
Zev
1. Alfano 214
2. Diaz 164
3. Rhea 147
4. Donato 129
5. Caroll 118
6. Garcia 103
7. Ertel 95
8. Beliveau 86
However, this list is wrong. Will (who some reason is the only owner not posting on the blog) has pointed out to me that Thomas Hallinan should be tied with Joel Ertel for seventh place on the list.
Who is Thomas Hallinan?
Well, he was the Houston closer who set the Adams League record for saves in a season way back in 2002 with 43 saves. In fact, he *still* holds the record!
After the 2003 season, he was still the all-time leader for saves, having saved 36 games (despite posting an ugly 5.19 ERA). By the end of the 2004 season, he fell to fourth place with 95 saves, having lost his closer job to Jose Abarca. He sat out the 2005 and 2006 seasons, but as of the end of the 2006 season, he was still on the all-time leaders list (tied for 6th).
Hallinan officially retired on 1/26/2007. Yet, by the end of the season, he was a forgotten man outside of Houston. He was so forgotten that he was even wiped off the all-time leaders list. Aside from his mention in the Adams League and Houston record books, we'd never know he was here. It's fairly common for minor players who retire to "disappear" without a trace. However, it is not common for a player on an all-time leader list to do so (and even odder to do so after retirement). So, where is he?
Zev
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