Stats Week 4

The Beer Cup

The Dislocated have once again retained the Beer Cup.  This time by the skin of their teeth, besting the Red Dogs 18-17 and stranding the tying run at 2nd base.  The Joints remain the only team to have defended the cup.  Next week, there will be only one Beer Cup game when the Blues Brothers visit the Joints.

Teams that have held the Beer Cup(3)

• Beer Bros.
• Hot Tub Woody's
• Dislocated Joints

Teams that have defended the Beer Cup(1)

• Dislocated Joints (2)

Teams that have yet to play for the Cup(10)

• Blues Brothers
• Dodge City Rounders
• Dog Catchers
• Dusty Cleats
• Grisslies
• Draft Kings
• Gruesome Devils
• Hurtin' Units
• Rusty Rebels
• Tap Masters

League Notes:

Well, it was a bit of shorter week for games as we had the holiday Monday taking away 2 games from us and mother nature robbing us of four more on Tuesday.  And after a full slate of 3 games Wednesday, we were only able to get in one on Thursday as the field conditions deteriorated in the rain.  But still, there was no shortage of entertainment value for the league!

• Nice clinic put on by Brad Young on Wednesday night.  5 for 5 with 5 runs scored.  If he keeps this up he might be called "The Young".  
• The Dog Catchers survived week 4 as the league's only undefeated team.  They narrowly escaped with a 25-22 victory against the Beer Bros.  Fortunately for the Dog Catchers, Jim Smith engineered a late scoring drive completing a out pass to Dave Doucette with seconds left.  Lou Conforti was able to hit a field goal as time expired.
• Despite there being only four games completed this week, the Rusty Rebels, Red Dogs and Grisslies all managed to sneak in their games and go 0-4 for the season.  What are the odds? 
• Yes, the Rusty Rebels, Red Dogs and Grisslies remain the league's win less teams.  Circle May 30th on your calendar.  Rusty Rebels Vs. Red Dogs!  If the Rebels win, you'll have to wait until July 2nd for the next potential winless match up with the Red Dogs face the Grisslies.  If the Red Dogs win, its the Grisslies and Rebels on July 10th.  
• I think there should be some kind of bet on who picks up the last win.
• There are no 97 guys out of 180 who have hit in every game and 35 remaining who have scored in every game.  

STATS

NOTE:  We've had bad weather, new score keepers and teams self scoring.  It hasn't always been pretty.  A few errors have been corrected, so please don't panic if you find your stats a little off:

Mark Doyle, .684; has been corrected to .737
Rob McCarron .684; has been corrected to .700
Mike Sheehan, .750; has been corrected to .765
Cam Clark, .692; has been corrected to .688

apologies for the errors. 

I've updated my 23 different excel workbooks (we'll be using them all by season's end) and started to work in nicknames.  I've just put in the more common stuff.  None of these will appear on the league website which is kind of the 'pristine' version of stats.  But here we can have a little poke at people...just for fun of course.

If you know of a nickname, tell me in the comments and I'll add it in.  There aren't many rules.  Its has to be clean.  It doesn't have to be funny, but it definitely needs to not be a HOCKEY nickname.  Those are stupid.  "Wayner" is not a nickname.  "Dougie" is not a nickname.  "Pielluschy" is not a nickname.

Okay...here we go

Of note (to me anyway), only 3 teams have given up fewer runs than the 0-4 Grisslies.  Weird.  

For the 1st time the Dog Catchers top both versions of the standings.  The big anomaly here are the Hurtin' Units who are in 9th place above but are tied for 6th below.  

The top 10 in average as compared to last years leader.  Its remarkably early but we have 5 guys with higher averages than Scott's ending average last year.  Brad got out once????  How did that happen?

The Hurtin' Units captains and their steroid workout schedule has really paid off!  And Gere is on the big bounce back!

Sheehan is really .765, but it doesn't affect his slot. Nice start to all the rooks!

We're getting close to naming a leader for the 1st quarter of the season already!  Last year's 1st quarter leader was Al Fry with a whopping 17 runs!  Brad, Brian, Steve, Jeff and Neil, all have 2 games left to add to their totals.  Brad Looks like a good bet to at least hit the 17 mark!  Worth noting that Gere's 12 runs were with a missed game too.  Nice.

Obviously slanted to a very imbalanced schedule at this point.

This list is starting to look like the usual suspects. 

 Things you may have missed this week. 

For the Grisslies Game five BLOG, Johnny Don't Preach, click HERE
For the Dislocated Joints game summary, click HERE
For the Hurtin' Units BLOG, click HERE
For the Donini 3 stars, click HERE
For the League Website, click HERE