Always something to say!: Week 15 Review

INTRO:

Not much of an intro this week other than to announce that Rob McCarron's "Total Average" stat is back. This is labour intensive so I'll probably only do it again at the end of the year.

Also, thanks to the teams and captains for making the schedule work on Thursday night. It was soggy but we pulled it off and I didn't have to lose any sleep over the rescheduling nightmare.

TEAM STATs:

regular standings

Baseball standings with the streak column added in at the request of one of our good readers.

Standings in the second half. The Gruesome Devils and Rusty Rebels are the ones to keep your eyes on!

The power rankings...pretty much unchanged with the big exception being the Beer Bros. Nice run guys and a huge one week jump up 4 spots!

Tick, tick, tick. The Beer Bros and Grisslies could be eliminated before they have a chance to take the field next week as the Jays play first. The Rounders need to sweep their two games to stay alive if the Jays win. And if the Joints were to drop two, its conceivable that only Red Dogs and Brew Jays could remain by the end of next week....then I'll begin the count down to the second place spot!

The field of teams that can reach the top and bottom two spots is narrowing by the day. The Dog Catchers can only go as high as nine now and the Tap Masters were eliminated from 1st.
INDIVIDUAL STATs:

And then there were 4! Gone for now are Larry Turner and Mark Kolsen from last weeks list. Come on boys, this .670 hitter knows you can get back on the list!

Again, everyone who has improved by 100 points or more. Well done guys. How about the run that John Tessier is on? 13 hits in his last 14 at bats! Holy cow!!!

Holmann went from .758 to .761 this week. But Mason was 5/5 and went from .739 to .757 to trail by only 4 measly points. This should be a good finish!

Closed

Closed, congrats Jamie...nice run!

Lots of guys off to great starts in 3rd quarter! But holy Lance Romance. The Grisslie's own stinger is tearing it up!

Roger didn't play, but no one really gained ground.

Oh, and he still owns this one too!

And this one. Strange, I would have thought that someone would have made a run, usually when someone misses a game it jumbles things. However all missed a game too. Look out for Scott Mason who moved up 5 runs this week. He might be starting to figure this came out!!

Closed

Closed, and congrats to Roger!

Its early, but tremendous starts of 5 runs. Especially to Mason who got his in a single game.

Schrank missed a game! That might be costly. Scott Peters takes the lead over a host of great hitters, particularly the one in 7th place.

Really? Schrank takes the week off and Muirhead only gets 3 ABs? Yowza!!! Peters and Schrank have shots to lead the league in hits and ABs. I suppose Jens and I do as well, but I'd have to say that's more remote. The ABs are usually there, the hits you gotta fight for. Oh, and I've been asked to remind everyone that there is only one pitcher on the list!

ROB McCARRON's TOTAL AVERAGE:

Okay, let me see if I can make this make any sense. What I did was rank each player on every team in the categories you see listed. Average, hits, at bats, runs, runs per hit, and runs per at bat.

Lets take Brian Richards (because he's 1st). Brian is 6th on team in average, 1st in hits, 2nd in at bats, 1st in runs scored, 2nd in runs per hit, and 3rd in runs per at bat. So; 6+1+2+1+2+3=15 total. That's the lowest total on the team therefore he's ranked #1 overall for the Banshee's in the Total Average category.

I just put in the top 3 because its not an exercise in embarrassing anyone. And there are some that might catch you off guard either by their absence or inclusion. Like all my stats, this has flaws. One of the big ones is that it really rewards attendance. You can make up for a lower average with volume of hits and ABs. But if you have both that's awesome.

Another thing is that its only relative to your team. Example, I came in at 15. So did Brian Richards and Roger Burton. I would submit that those are three very different players and not really comparable. However, our contributions to our teams equate (theoretically). Make sense? Hope so.

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