Next Week Schedule
- The Game of The Week next is on Monday night and will be written for Tuesday morning 6am. It is a rematch of the Dodge City Rounders and the Hurtin' Units.
- The Grisslies Edition will not be out until Friday morning as our only game is Thursday night against the Hot Tub Woody's.
Yeah...of course. Now that we're at the quarter poll for most teams I'm going to start breaking individual stats into quarters. So we can look at who's leading the league in certain categories and who's leading the 2nd quarter, 3rd quarter or 4th quarter of the season in the same category. This way we can still recognize players that "get hot" and people aren't penalized for a less than awesome start.
But that will be in the coming weeks. For now - let check out what's going on out there. And were else to start than with proper baseball standings:
What this shows you is that the Joints are cheating and Hugh has a nose bleed from being so high up in the standings! Ok, kidding. These standings are exactly the same as the league standings. That is rare.
Lets look at our top 10 average hitters. It should be noted that I constantly refer to any time on base as a "hit". That's not going to change.
I've cut off all the stats this week as top 10 + ties. This was hard for me because I was #11 on two of the flippin' lists. Lets look at the rookies next.
The only one I haven't seen in this list is Troy Hope, but Radar and Mark speak well of him. 10 rookies over .700, nice crop. And Lahey already a quarter of the way to the century mark for hits. Fantastic!
Now here are your top 10 in hits, irrespective of average.
So my question is this: How the hell are the Lucky Stiffs 3 and 4 when Lahey, Gee and Barlow have 74 hits between them! That's an amazing start for the Stiffer's trio. Also I don't think Schrank is going to have much luck convincing anyone that he's rated too high if he keeps this up. Eric cooled off a little bit this week but is still poised to stay among the hit leaders.
The "attendance" award. You know how this works. You gotta bat high in the order, not miss games, and be on a club that hits a lot to stay on this list for the duration of the year. Some people on this list are a little unusual to see, but that's because holiday season hasn't kicked in yet.
The top 10 improved hitters.
The fact that there are two #1's on the list is stunning to me. Nice to see Cliff, Mr Bales and Pistol Pete off to huge starts too. You can start to see why some teams are doing well (Dodge) when you have players exceeding last year so dramatically.
And speaking of exceeding. Al Fry is scoring just under 3 runs per game (2.857 to be precise). This should remain a good race throughout the season.
This shows the percentage of times people score per time at bat.
So, when Al is in the batters box there is already a 74.1% chance he is going to score a run. With Cal Steeves there is a 53.3% chance. And Cal has the 10th best rating in the league! It just puts Al's run scoring frequency into perspective.
The next view is is the percentage of times people score per hit.
This stat didn't look very different than the per AB one just a few short weeks ago. That's why I wasn't publishing both. But now its starting to show what I hoped. That are some guys, who for whatever reasons are magnets for the plate. They may not get on as much as others, but when they do they tend to score an crazy pace. This isn't to point out poor averages or anything like that, just the anomaly in our league that some of the most important runs come from us more average players.
Week 5 Review
Grisslies 17; Dog Catchers 10. The Grisslies had no perfect nights in this one in a balanced attack. The Dog Catchers followed the lead of Bob Pearce (4/4, 3 runs) and Phil Glecoff (4/4, 1 run). You can read more about this one ===> HERE
Red Dogs 10; Rusty Rebels 16. The Red Dogs had perfect nights from Mark Kolsen (4/4), Blaine Richards (3/3, 1 run) and Gary Cox (3/3). The Rusty Rebels were headed up by Don Booth (5/5, 2 runs) and Roger Burton (4/4, 3 runs).
Banshees 14; Brew Jays 13. This was a make up game from a week 1 rain out. The Banshees got perfect performances from Murray Saunders (5/5, 2 runs), Richard Lester (5/5, 2 runs), Dave McKendrick (5/5, 2 runs) and Frank Laird (5/5). The Brew Jays were led by Dave Polney's 5/5 with a run scored and Bill Cloutier's 5/5 night.
Tap Masters 32; Lucky Stiffs 16. The Tap Masters led 18-4 after 3 innings and held on for the victory. Holy Smokes! Paul Doyle was 5/5 with 4 runs, Geoff Keogh 5/5 with 3 runs, Tim Schrank 5/5 with 4 runs, Tim Osmond 5/5 with 3 runs, Sandy Bell 5/5 with 2 runs and Mike Roche 4/4 with 3 runs. Wow. The never say die Stiffs had a 4/4 night with 4 runs from Andy Gee, 4/4 with one run from Steve Hunt and 4/4 with a run from Ken Doan.
Banshees 1; Dodge City Rounders 13. The Banshees had no perfect nights, but John Coopman scored their lone run. Dodge had 4/4 nighs from 5 of their top 7 hitters. Scott Mason (3 runs), Al Fry (3 runs), Scott Peters (2 runs), Henry Lukassen (1 run) and Adrian Barry were all 4/4. Not to be left out, Ed McDowell was 3/3 with 3 runs scored.
Dislocated Joints 10; Hot Tub Woody's 2. Harley Sherman and Stef Kapp were both 3/3 with 3 runs scored for the Joints. No perfect nights for the Woody's who are looking for some MOJO and thankfully have the Grisslies next week. We're good slump breakers.
Dislocated Joints 10; Hot Tub Woody's 2. Harley Sherman and Stef Kapp were both 3/3 with 3 runs scored for the Joints. No perfect nights for the Woody's who are looking for some MOJO and thankfully have the Grisslies next week. We're good slump breakers.
Brew Jays 21; Hurtin Units 20. These expansion cousins played a one run game. The Brew Jays were led by Jamie McClean's 5/5 night with 4 runs scored. The Hurtin' Units had a 4/4 night with 3 runs scored from Jamie Allen as McClean won the battle of the Jamie's.
Lucky Stiffs 13; Gruesome Devils 9. The Stiffs scored four fewer runs than they did against the Gruesome Devils. But their defense was also 23 runs better! On the score sheet they were led by another perfect 4/4, 4 run night by Andy Gee. John Barlow (4/4, 2R), Steve Lahey (4/4, 2R) and Jason Chiovitti (4/4, 1R) were also went the night without making outs. The Devils didn't have anyone perfect this time around.
Dusty Cleats 5; Hot Tub Woody's 9: The Cleats had another in a long line of perfect performances from Scott Barton. 4/4 with a run scored. Joining Scott was Fraser Barrett who was 3/3 with a run. Meanwhile the Hot Tub Woody's were led by Brad Moye and Craig Davies who were both 3/3. Brad also scored 2 runs.
Dodge City Rounders 6; Hurtin' Units 16: After a tie and 3 one run defeats, the Hurtin' Units got their first win of the season. They had perfect nights at the plate from Anicete Goncalves (4/4, 3R), Clayton Avery (4/4, 3R) and Cameron Clark (3/3 1R). The Rounders were led by the inspired play of Al Fry who leads the league in runs scored. He was the only player 4/4 and he had 3 runs scored.
Things to check out:
Check out the Donini Three Stars of the game here ==> STARS
Check out the Dislocated Joints game notes from DTBB ==> JOINTS
Check out the Tap Master's game notes from Jason Bowers ==> Tapped Out
Check out the Hurtin' Units BLOG ==> Hannibal Lecter
The League's Official Website ==> League
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