Stats Week 18

Stats Week 18

Playoff Practice Schedule

New additions:

The Joints have taken the Tuesday 7pm on C3.  

The Rusty Rebels have taken Wednesday 8:30 at Keogh.  

If you wish to share a spot with an existing team, please contact those captains directly. 

Beer Cup

Congratulations to the Dodge City Rounders who joined the Dislocated Joints and Brew Jays as the third team to successfully defend the Beer Cup.  They did so by defeating the Hot Tub Woody's on Tuesday night.

Immediately following the game they tried to declare themselves Beer Cup championships as their last game of the season is against the Blues Brothers and is a make up from an early game.

It was an interesting argument.  They are right in that game SHOULD have already happened.  They SHOULD already be Beer Cup Champs.  The only fair thing to do was assign an independent arbitrator to hear both sides and make a judgement.

I assigned myself.  I said no.  Game on Tuesday for the Beer Cup!

The winner of the Dodge City Rounders Vs. Blues Brothers game in the last game of the season, will win the the inaugural Beer Cup 

Teams that have held the Beer Cup(7)

• Beer Bros.
• Hot Tub Woody's
• Dislocated Joints (2)
• Dodge City Rounders (2)
• Red Dogs (2)
• Brew Jays 
• Blues Brothers

Teams that have defended the Beer Cup(2)

• Dislocated Joints (4)(5)
• Brew Jays (2) 
• Dodge City Rounders (1)

Teams that have yet to play for the Cup(6)

• Dog Catchers
• Draft Kings
• Rusty Rebels
• Tap Masters

League Tid-Bits

You may notice the "tid-bit" section is a little light this week.  Why you ask?  Well, I've been exceptionally well behaved this year with respect to the Clubhouse and alcohol consumption.  But Tuesday was a good old school bender that was reminiscent of the Olliffe & Chris Ross night or the Cox & Mabee rave.

I won't incriminate anyone, but getting home at 3:30 and having my coffee before bed (because its just one of those things that needs to be done) left very little down time for the 6am alarm.  I'm used to running on very little sleep until baseball season is done.  But 2hours?  That ain't gonna work.

If I get consent from all parties I just may have a story or two to share from Tuesday.  

• Don Slipitz continues to rock, going 4/4 this week and no 28 of his last 29.  
• Wayne Caldwell went YARD at Keogh park on Thursday night as did Rob McCarron in his first ever plate appearance with the white bat.  Both were full value homers.  I'm thinking that stick might be a tad 'hot'.  
• Very similarly, I went 3/4 against the Rusty Rebels with one of the hits leaving the infield.  Yep, great bat.  It may have a LITTLE to do with the guy swinging it.  
• The Draft Kings have lost their last two games to back door into first.  Does anyone care?  I don't think its much of an indicator.  
• Its too early to handicap the pools, primarily because they need to be filled out.....however..... The Hurtin' Units are going to be an early pick for me in the 13th seed and I don't even know who they're playing yet.  10-13-1 is a pretty strong 13.  They got the lucky draw and are one of 3 teams to have 2 games at Keogh.  For some teams the park is no big deal, but for them with Ricky-Bobby and Phil Glecoff who can provide instant offense with the long ball?  Its a big deal.  The Thursday playoff game will see the Units against either the Dog Catchers or Brew Jays.  Someone better tell the tennis players.  
• Incidentally, The #4 seed (either the Dog Catchers or Brew Jays) and the #9 seed (Beer Bros., Tap Masters or Dodge City Rounders) are the only other two teams that will play 2 round robin games at Keogh. 
• The #6 seed (Hot Tub Woody's) and #14 seed (Red Dogs) are the only teams without a game at Keogh.  Please have your conspiracy ideas fully formed before using the comment box at the bottom.
• On July 23rd, the defending champion Beer Bros., were sitting at 5-8-1.  They were in a horrendous slump having only a win and a tie since May 16th.  Since that time they're 7-3.  Again, too early to tell, but this could be a dangerous team to be getting hot right now.  
• How many subs have the Grisslies used this year?  Well....our 3 star selections include 9 different sub names.  Thanks Dave Fleming, Al Bales, Sir Andrew Gee, Dave Argue, Timmy Two Beers (Osmond), Dave Doucette, Chris Larkin, Jens Lepa and Rob McCarron.  You were all a big part of our 3-19-1 record (sigh).  We never would have got the tie without you.   

The list of players who have hit in every game lost Scotty Mason this week.  We now have 9 guys who have completed the deal.  They haven't missed a game all year and they contributed at least a hit in each one of them.

Congratulations:

• Beer Bros.  Dave Fleming
• Brew Jays:  Bob McCullough
• Dislocated Joints:  Kevin Moon
• Dislocated Joints:  Roger Burton
• Dislocated Joints:  Terry Doucet
• Dusty Cleats:  Kevin Hollingshead
• Draft Kings:  Stike (Steve) Black
• Gruesome Devils:  Gary Basso
• Hot Tub Woody's:  Will Goodin Hunting

The last person remaining alive in this is Brad Young who will look to join this all star squad in his last game on Tuesday.  

• Dog Catchers (1):  Young (1 game remaining)

STATS
Team

You've seen it before....how you're team performed in the first half. 

And how they fell, improved or stayed the same in the second half.

The Beer Bros. dominant week and quick strike offense sees their average finish under 2 hits per run.  The Grisslies enjoyed a week under the 3.00 mark, but finished poorly.  I'm looking forward to tracking this next year and seeing what trends fall out. 

If you're reading this edition, you've already seen the standings on the league website...but what the hell, here it is again.  

The first game on Tuesday between the Dog Catchers and the Blues Brothers will Clinch positions 3 and 4 regardless of the outcome.  If the Dog Catchers win, some teams will be limited but nothing else locked.  However if the Dog Catchers lose to the Blues Brothers; 3 (Brew Jays), 4 (Dog Catchers), 9 (Tap Masters), 11 (Dusty Cleats) and 12 (Rusty Rebels) will all become clinched. 

This will be updated again after all the teams fall into place. 

Player

Scott has had yet another Scott year.  3 in a row.  Don was closing hard, but his fantastic season ending run started one game too late.  Congrats to everyone who exceeded the .750 mark.  I hit .750 when I add last year and this averages together, so I know its a big deal!  Well done.  

 As mentioned over the past several weeks....Slipetz has been lights out!  Cam Clark and JT have two games left, but catching Don would be tough.  Starsky might be in play though!

 Hits for the season is one of my favourite categories.  Terry has set a new standard for next year, but anyway, anyone over 72 hits must be an excellent ball player!  Just kidding The Beechey....72 is pretty good too.  

Nice season Bo....he Joins Doucet, Young, Kahuna, Kapp, as the only players to score 40+ runs, have 100+ ABs, have 75+ hits and be in the top 20 in league average.  The only thing I can't figure out is how we're going to manage the Brew Jays having two #1's next year.  

 Runs were NOT hard to come by for the guys on this list!  Next week I'll have a list over everyone who averaged a run a game or better for the season.  Its long.  I'm not on that one either.  

As predicted, Scotty's record number of runs for a quarter fell immediately.  Its probably only fair as Doucet has been so dominant this year.   Good luck submitting yourself as a #4!  When I see Marky Mark and Gere on the 4th quarter run list and Starsky trailing only ALL-WORLD Donnie Slipetz and the Beer Bros. recent run starts to make sense. 

Okay Sweet Lou....it all comes down to you.  One game left.  Good luck!  Everyone on the list has had incredible seasons.  Or, "Tout le monde a eu une saison tremedous"

Ahhhh....our rookies.  Donnie is the run-away winner and will, barring the unforeseen,  beat the Squirrel's record from last year.  With 13 rookies over .600 the future looks good!

The second year kids have kicked it up a notch further, with 8 over the .700 mark!

Things you may have missed this week.  

For the Grisslies Game 24 BLOG, The Rebel Alliance - click HERE
For the Bonus BLOG:  All The Playoff Possibilities - click HERE
For the August Tournament Edition!! - click HERE
For the Hurtin' Units BLOG, click HERE
For the League Website, click HERE

Bonus BLOG - All The Playoff Possibilities

Now What???

Well I'll tell you.  We've played 178 games so far.  With 2 left there  playoff positions decided and 8 remaining. 

Standings and Possible Orders of Finish AND playoff schedule from after the games on Thursday the 29th.    

The Draft Kings have CLINCHED 1st

The Dislocated Joints have CLINCHED 2nd

The Brew Jays can finish from 3rd or 4th.

The Dog Catchers can finish from 3rd or 4th

The Gruesome Devils have CLINCHED 5th

The Hot Tub Woody's have CLINCHED 6th

The Beer Bros. can finish from 7th to 9th. 

The Tap Masters can finish from 8th or 9th.

The Dodge City Rounders can finish from 7th to 10th.

The Dusty Cleats can finish from 10th or 11th (hold tie breaker against Rusty Rebels).

The Rusty Rebels can finish from 11th or 12th (lose the tie breaker against Dusty Cleats).

The Blues Brothers can finish from 7th to 12th (hold tie breaker against Hurtin' Units).

The Hurtin' Units have CLINCHED 13th. (lose the tie breaker against Blues Brothers).

The Red Dogs have CLINCHED 14th.

The Grisslies have CLINCHED 15th. 

There were 7 changes to where teams could finish based on the results of last nights 2 games, leaving 30 remaining possibilities.  

So with the Gruesome Devils and Hurtin' Units securing spots, here is the new playoff schedule. 

So we have 2 games left to play on Tuesday....The Dog Catchers Vs the Blues Brothers and The Dodge City Rounders and Blues Brothers.  If only we knew what that standings would be for all the eventualities of those games. 

Hahahaha....of course we do!!!!

If the Blues Brothers win both games on Tuesday, the standings will look like this. 

If the Blues Brothers lose both games on Tuesday, the standings will look like this, except for a mistake I made in the 12 spot.  The Blues Brothers would in fact be 12 and Hurtin' Units 13. 

If the Blues Brothers beat the Dog Catchers and lose to the Dodge City Rounders on Tuesday, the standings will look like this. 

If the Blues brothers lose to the Dog Catchers and beat the Dodge City Rounders on Tuesday, the standings will look like this. 

So, the only thing left to do is wait for Tuesday. 

See you at the Saturday stats BLOG. 

Game 24 - The Rebel Alliance

Playoff Practice Schedule

Pre INTRO

Welcome to the last "fun" BLOG of the year.  That's of course barring a missing bike or some other event that is dying to be reported over the course of the playoffs.  But before we dig into this edition, I wanted to give you an idea of what to expect over the next few weeks.  The BLOGging will be fast and furious. 

Wednesday August 28th - OCD Standings tab updated with changes to the possible order of finish
Thursday August 29th - OCD Standings tab updated with changes to the possible order of finish
Saturday August 31st - Week 18 Stats BLOG
Tuesday September 3rd - Final Standings, Play-Off Schedule, Beer Cup Winner.
Wednesday September 4th - Week 19 & Final Stats BLOG.
Friday September 6th - Pool "A" synopsis
Saturday September 7th - Pool "B" synopsis
Sunday September 8th - Pool "C" synopsis
Monday September 9th - Playoffs, Day 1 - The 1st Pitch
Tuesday September 10th - Playoffs, Day 2 - On Deck
Wednesday September 11th - Playoffs, Day 3 - Level Set
Thursday September 12th - Playoffs, Day 4 - White Knuckles
Friday September 13th - Playoffs, Day 5 - Moving Day
Saturday September 14th - Playoffs, Day 6 - Saturday, Here in the Park (published on Sep 16)
Sunday September 15th - Playoffs, Day 7 - Sunday Bloody Sunday (published on Sep 16)
Tuesday September 17th - The Finals

Depending on my level of exhaustion and how deep the Grisslies manage to go, there may be a final playoff stats BLOG.  That's iffy. 

After the playoffs are done there will very likely be a summary of funny events that happened over the past couple weeks and as always, my thank you BLOG.  Then we have the AGM and banquet editions bringing us to about 18-20 remaining for the year. 

As always, throughout the playoffs, scores will be updated same day.  Have fun everyone!

INTRO

Wow....did I ever get carved up last week.  Peters, Kahuna, even Down Town Billy Brown.  The refrain was the same from all of them, "where's the donini deck conversation?"  Its a fair question.  The Donini Deck conversations have become a bit of a staple this year and it was lacking last week. 

The truth is, not every conversation is suitable for print.  Here is what happened last week.  I arrived at Rob's and climbed the rickety stairs to the donini deck....

Me:  Hey...
Rob:  ...is for horses.
Me:  That's very grade 6 of you.
Rob:  [sad voice]  I know.  Sorry.
Me:  Dude, are you crying?
Rob:  [looking away] No!
Me:  Really, because it looks like you're crying.
Rob:  I'm not.  I'm just sweating. 
Me:  From your eyes?
Rob:  Yes.  Its very normal for people from Lebanon. 
Me:  Ya.  I don't think so.  Why are you crying. 
Rob:  I'm just having a bit of an emotional day.
Me:  Because.....?
Rob:  This is the last day of the Donini Deck. 
Me:  WHAT???  How come? 
Rob:  Its being torn down tomorrow
Me:  Seriously?  Then what?
Rob:  We're putting up a new one. 
Me:  Then this is good news!  Donini Deck 2.0!!!
Rob:  Sure. 
Me:  Buddy, why so glum?  You're upgrading. 
Rob:  Ya, I know. But its still hard to say good-bye to the old deck.  Its been so good to me.  Its part of Grisslie lore. 
Me:  That's true.  Well maybe you could keep a little piece of the old deck and incorporate it into the new deck. 
Rob:  Its not a company...its a deck.
Me:  Incorporate just means 'to include'
Rob:  Oh.  Well I can't do that anyway. 
Me:  Why's that. 
Rob:  I've already promised it to someone.
Me:  To whom?
Rob:  Fella named Eric Strohl. 
Me:  Isn't that the guy that was in MASK. 
Rob: Ummmm.  That's Eric Stoltz. 
Me: Look at you Mr IMDB!!! 
Rob: Yeah, I'm pretty smart despite the fact that you portray me as an idiot on your CLOG. 
Me: You know I'm only joking.
Rob: Are you Doug?  Are you really?
Me: . Yeah.  Except for when you say REALLY funny stuff.  Those are gems.  
Rob:  I don't think I'm that contextually inaccurate. 
Me: .  Contextually?
Rob:  Ya.  Its a word.
Me: .  Googling.........
Rob:  Go ahead. 
Me: .  Son of a.....
Rob:  Told ya. 
Me: Okay, so anyway, who is Eric Stroh if he's not the guy from MASK?
Rob: Oh, right.  He's the executive director of acquisitions at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York.  
Me: You've promised the Donini deck to the Hall of Fame?
Rob: You bet!  They're all over it!
Me: What are they going to do with it?
Rob: It'll be reassembled with a wax likeness of me, holding a glass of Donini of course and people will read my famous quotes and take pictures. 
Me: Ha!  You're full of it, that's funny though. 
Rob: They sent me a brochure today of how it'll be setup. 
Me: Bull
Rob: Wanna see?
Me: ya.
Rob: 

Guide to exhibits

With over 38,000 three-dimensional artifacts in the Hall of Fame's collection, each visitor can get a glimpse of what makes baseball special to them. The Museum which details the history of America's pastime, is split into three floors to highlight baseball's rich history. It is recommended visitors start on the second floor.

Second Floor

The Babe Ruth Room

• Cooperstown Room - Before starting the journey through baseball, the Cooperstown Room examines the history of the Hall of Fame and the "Home of Baseball," Cooperstown, N.Y.
• The Baseball Experience - To set the stage a digitally-enhanced, 13-minute multimedia presentation in the 191-seat Grandstand Theater prepares visitors for the story of the game's long and winding history.
• Grisslieland Room-History of the Grisslies and the original Donini Deck

THE HISTORY

The Donini Deck has ushered in many spring baseball seasons

And it has hosted more than its share of Baseball parties

And it's hosted Championships!

THE TEAR DOWN

  The Deck Removed

 The Remains of the deck that were donated to The Baseball Hall of Fame

 Framing the New Deck

  

The New Deck Nearly Done. 

AFTERMATH

In what has become typical Grisslie fashion....they just can't leave well enough alone.  So they destroyed Donini Deck 2.0 and build 3.0.

Then 4.0

Then it became apparent that there was only one option left.  The house (yes, Grisslie-land itself) would have to be torn down and rebuilt to accommodate Donini Deck 5.0.  And finally we have a finished product.

THE SPEECH

Unlike the conversa-SHUN above, this one took place an hour before game time, of course on the new Donini deck.  

Doug: Hey,  I need you to do me a favour. 
Rob:   Sure, of course.  Anything. 
Doug:  I need your song to be something to inspire the guys....really feed off of the last win and finish the season on a high note winning two in a row.  Know what I mean?
Rob:   Sure I do.
Doug:  So what do you think?
Rob:   I think.....no.
Doug:  What do you mean "no", you said you'd do anything. 
Rob:   That's just an expression.
Doug:  No.  Its a commitment.
Rob:   Bah....tomato, tomahawk.
Doug:  What?
Rob:   Again....its an e-x-p-r-e-s-s-i-o-n!
Doug:  Whatever.  Why won't you do a song to help the team?
Rob:   Because its deck week.
Doug:  Deck week.  You've gotta be kidding me. What is this, the Discovery channel?. 
Rob:   Nope.  I wrote a tribute to Ricky-Bobby.  I can't wait for Friday and the grand reopening!
Doug:  Are you inviting any special guests?
Rob:   I've invited The Pope and Boy George.
Doug:  Interesting selections.  I wouldn't picture those two together. 
Rob:   Are you kidding?  They go dress shopping together. 
Doug:  Cute. 

And this is the song that was delivered to me.  I have to say that this is one of Rob's finer efforts of the year.  It is of course from the classic, "Itsy-Bitsy, Teeny-Weeny, Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini" that has been changed to a Deck Tribute song.  Music ====> HERE

Cedar Deck of Donini

I was afraid to tell the news to the Banker.
I was as nervous as I could be.
I was afraid to tell the news to the Banker.

I was afraid about how mad she'd be.

Two three four
tell the people what we built!

It was a Massive Biggie, Rickey-Bobby, Cedar Deck, Of Donini
That we used for the first time today
It was a Massive Biggie, Rickey-Bobby, Cedar Deck, Of Donini
And on that deck is where we're gonna stay

Two three four
stick around well tell you more

Ricky-Bobby is a builder of action

He's so precise, and he never swore

He can build it without any crewmen

And so he built it outside the Farah's front door

Two three four
tell the people what we built!

It was a Massive Biggie, Rickey-Bobby, Cedar Deck, Of Donini
That we used for the first time today
It was a Massive Biggie, Rickey-Bobby, Cedar Deck, Of Donini
And on that deck is where we're gonna stay

Two three four

stick around well tell you more

Now Susan thought the deck was the answer
And there would finally be room for her too

It turns out that the deck didn't help her
Because now its filled with the Grisslieland crew!

Two three four
tell the people what we built!

It was a Massive Biggie, Rickey-Bobby, Cedar Deck, Of Donini
That we used for the first time today
It was a Massive Biggie, Rickey-Bobby, Cedar Deck, Of Donini
And on that deck is where we're gonna stay

THE GAME

What game?

What matters here are the Grisslie awards. 

Al Hayward - Shoot from the hip Award

Doris Casullo - ADD Award (Amazing Dominant Defense)

Gord Dol - The Fonzie Award

Dave Muirhead - The High-Tech Award

Rick Greenfield - The Charlie Hustle Award

Glen Tinkler - The Pirate Award

Rob Farah - The Infield Defense Award

Brad Wadden - The Quick Draw Award

Roger Gaudet - The Back to Full Stride Award

Winston Gayle - The He Runs Kind of Okay Award

Al Bales - The 10th Man Award

Grisslie Awards night is fun and always good for a few laughs.  Lets face it, winning 3 out of 24 makes for along and trying season.  So seeing guys at the end of it all still laughing and having a genuine good time means a lot.  And thanks to Sue for organizing the food and those that contributed (Amie?) and to Rick Greenfield for bringing the pizza and desserts!  Fantastic!

We were also able to share a very special award with our friends on the Dodge City Rounders and Hot Tub Woody's as Andy Gee joined Rob Hayward as the only people 'Knighted' into the old timers order for bringing honour and distinction to our league. 

Andy, as you all now know from the legendary tales, Sir Andrew drove in the winning run in the All-Star game against the young timers to even our series record at 2 games per side. 

Thank you again to Amie for the pictures. 

The Game Winning RBI ball, under glass.  While this was presented to Sir Andy, I took it back to collect the remaining All Star team signatures.  There is still a handful to add in, if you see me ask.  

Sir Andy graciously accepting his signed ball trophy.  

Sir Andrew proudly displaying his PDC (pretty damn cool) plaque.   

    A small sampling of the 20-25 people who enjoyed sharing in Sir Andy's surprise. 

Stats Week 17

Beer Cup

Less boring this week!

First the Joints held onto the beer cup by the narrowest of margins by tying the Dusty Cleats at 17 (more on that game in the Tid-Bits section).  Yes a tie retains the title.  You must LOSE the cup to surrender it.  They remain the holders until bested by someone else.

In their second game of the week they faced a motivated Dodge City Rounders squad who withstood a late rally by the Joints to win 16-11 and become the latest owners of the cup.  The Rounders also become the 3rd team to hold the cup for a second time this season joining the Joints and Red Dogs.   

Dodge City has 2 games left and we've gone from 7 teams with a possibility of winning to 3.  The Dodge City Rounders, Hot Tub Woody's and Blues Brothers.  Here's all the possible scenarios:

IF:  The Dodge City Rounders win their last two games, they'll win the inaugural Beer Cup (obviously)
IF:  The Dodge City Rounders play the Hot Tub Woody's on August 27th.  If the Woody's win, they'll win the Beer Cup.
IF:  The Dodge City Rounders beat the Woody's, they will play the Blues Brothers on September 3rd with the winner of that game winning the Beer Cup. 

Teams that have held the Beer Cup(7)

• Beer Bros.
• Hot Tub Woody's
• Dislocated Joints (2)
• Dodge City Rounders (2)
• Red Dogs (2)
• Brew Jays 
• Blues Brothers

Teams that have defended the Beer Cup(2)

• Dislocated Joints (4)(5)
• Brew Jays (2)

Teams that have yet to play for the Cup(6)

• Dog Catchers
• Draft Kings
• Rusty Rebels
• Tap Masters

League Tid-Bits

• Don Slipitz is in the proverbial 'zone'.  In Monday's win against the Gruesome Devils he went 5 for 5 with two mammoth home runs.  He would follow that up with another blast on Wednesday while going 4/4.  Overall Don is 24 for his last 25 and up to .806.  Ya, that's 'in the zone' alright.     
• In the same game Steve Wynnyk went 5 for 5 with 5 runs scored.  The Dog Catchers (leading 23-5 going into the 7th) would have needed to bat around for Steve to join the 6/6/6 club.  Gives you an idea of how tough that stat is to attain.  
• Dodge City narrowly lost to the resurgent Beer Bros. on Monday night.  Both clubs have been two of the more entertaining teams in the second half.  A deep playoff run by either would be no surprise to me. 
• The Red Dogs won their 6th game of the year out slugging the Rusty Rebels 19-8.  In that game, Stephane Simard had his 7th perfect night at the plate this season going 5 for 5 with 5 runs scored.  Personally, Stephane would be on my short list of most improved along with Lou Conforti and Dave Fleming.  There's lots of candidates, but those guys stand out to me.   
• The Dislocated Joints hung onto the Beer Cup on C3 on Tuesday night.  Barely.  This was a fun last inning to watch.  The Joints had a 17-13 lead heading into the top of the 7th when the never say quit Dusty Cleats punched out four runs to tie the game.  The Joints needed just one to win and started the inning with a single and a double leaving runners at 2nd and 3rd with nobody out.  This was going to be easy.  Not so much.  After a brief mound conservation, the Cleats made the prudent baseball play by walking the bases full to set up the force play.  Nice call.  The next batter hit a tailor made double ball to 3rd.  Step on the bag and throw home.  Two down runners at 1st and 2nd now.  The next batter lined out to 1st base ending the inning and the Cleats escaped with a tie and the Joints escaped retaining the Beer Cup 
• That game also saw the Chris "The Whale" Parsons go 5/5.  For the record he was a .561 hitter in the league before Roman gave him the new nickname and batting 1.000 since.  
• Ummmmm.  The Grisslies won.  Against a REAL team.  A team with a positive run differential.  Its been 3 days, I'm still shocked.  I'm sure the rest of you are too, considering that 72% of respondents expected us to go winless for the balance of the year. 

Yep a lot of you thought that we'd run the table and go 2-21-1.  I'll be honest, that was my vote too.  Only two people bet we'd beat they Woody's.  That was probably Dancey and Hopkins.  I heard they had money on the game.

• Again with the how hard is it to do the 6/6/6?  Scott Mason had a great night with 6/6/5 and had no chance of completing the triple because in his last at bat the 7th run was at 2nd.  You gotta be good and you gotta be lucky too. 
• Meanwhile, in case you missed the memo, Wednesday was homer night at Keogh park.  In the two games featuring the Dog Catchers, Tap Masters, Blues Brothers and Beer Bros., there were no fewer than 8 home runs that left the yard.  There was also a buffet of inside the park jobs to boot.  Radar nearly hit 3 in his game, with an insider, one that left the park with plenty to spare down the left field line and one that was about 2 feet (some said under a foot) shy of leaving in left center field.
• Thursday saw three games.  The first game saw two depleted line ups (Brew Jays & Red Dogs) battle things out.  Stephane Simard and Peter Holmann were both 3/3 in the game.  No other Red Dog had more than a single hit and six of the ten batters only got up twice.  It didn't start quite on time but was over at 7:53pm.  I'd say it was somewhere around the 50 minute mark.  Jay 9, Dogs 2.  
• The Dodge City Rounder seem to be surviving loss of Mr Fry thus far.  They managed to win the game against the Joints by 5 while holding the league's best offense to 11 runs.  
• The Rusty Rebels lost a 1 run game, 12-11 to the Gruesome Devils to close the week.  The Devils did 7 run damage in one inning while the Rebels seemed to balanced throughout, yet not enough in the end.  The game 'felt' like the Rebs were up throughout.  Odd this game. 
• The list of players who have hit in every game has a couple of changes.  Frist, I missed a game #8 donut by Brian Richards.  I don't know how I missed that and my apologies for the late removal Brian, but fair is fair.  We also lost Cam Clark's perfect record.  We're now down to 11.  Here are those left:
  
  • Beer Bros. (1):  Fleming (2 games remaining)
  • Blues Brothers (1):  Mason (4 games remaining)
  • Brew Jays (1): McCullough (1 game remaining)
  • Dislocated Joints (3):  Moon, Burton, Doucet (1 game remaining)
  • Dodge City Rounders (0): 
  • Dog Catchers (1):  Young (2 games remaining)
  • Dusty Cleats (1):  Hollingshead (1 game remaining)
  • Grisslies (0): 
  • Draft Kings (1):  Stike (2 games remaining)
  • Gruesome Devils (1):  Basso (2 games remaining)
  • Hot Tub Woody's (1):  Goodin (1 game remaining)
  • Hurtin' Units (0):
  • Red Dogs (0):
  • Rusty Rebels (0):  
  • Tap Masters (0):  

STATS
Team

Power Rankings????   Cha!  Okay, this one is a pain in the ass to put together and I haven't had time, but its actually been a pretty telling stat in years past.  Its easy to figure out.  If your 1st place in points, offense, defense or plus/minus you get 1 point.  If you're in 2nd place in those categories you get 2 points. 

Lets walk through the Woody's.  They are tied with the Gruesome Devils for points in 5th place so they get five in that column (5).  Their offense, calculated by runs scored divided by games played and ranked against everyone elses, is 9th in the league; the they get nine (9) points for offense.  They have the 5th ranked defense and 4th best plus minus.  So 5+9+5+4 = 23 and when sorted against the other clubs they come out with the 5th best power ranking. 

The Colour codes are simple.  Yellow means that you are playing to the position you have in the standings.  If its green your stats are better than the points you've gotten on the season.  If its green, you "out-pointing" what the stats say. 

These are the current league standings including the most amount of points a teams could get.

The elimination Chart.  This shows what team can finish in which spot...sort of a picture of the standings above.  Example:  The Dislocated Joints, Gruesome Devils, Brew Jays, Dog Catchers, Hot Tub Woody's and Blues Brothers all can finish in 4th place.  All other teams are eliminated from that spot.  This also takes into account head to head tie breakers.  By The Way, you can find these standings and chart updated after every nights games on the OCD standings page by clicking on the tab at the top of this page or clicking HERE. 

First half standings show where every team was after their 1st 12 games.  The second column shows were they rank in the current standings.  If you are withing one position of where you were 1/2 way through the season its yellow.  Worse is red, better is green.

And likewise, the second half standings.  This counts game 13 forward.  Same colour coding as above. 

This brings a tear to my eye.  For the 1st time this season the Grisslies are taking less than 3 hits to score a run.  AWESOME!  The joints havent' really budged on this one, but the Brew Jays have been climbing nicely as they get into playoff mode. 

Individual

Okay, lets start with the batting race.  As mentioned above, Slipetz going 24 for his last 25 has made this interesting.  Kahuna and Terry are pretty much out of it as they only have one game left and too many at bats to make a dramatic climb.  Scott has one game left and Don two.  Here is a little chart to show how they'll finish assuming they both get 5 ABs in their remaining games. 

Well this should come as no surprise to anyone.  Slipetz has been nothing short of ON FIRE!  Even still....9 guys at .900 or better, it looks like playoff mode is being hit by many!

The hit parade....This looks like it will come down to the wire.  Brad still has 2 games left to Terry and Kahuna's single game.  It would take some unexpected events, but you never know. (except 20 minutes into election night when they declare the winners. 

Last year we had 3 players hit the 100 AB mark.  This year we're at 5 with the posibility of hitting Double digits.  better attendance throughout the league?  Offense up?  Hard say the cause. 

Last year there were 15 guys over 40 runs .... we're at 11 now with time left.  The runs in a season record has been broken by 5 guys so far.  Scotty Peters looks like he'll actually improve on his 1st place number from last year but could still be a dozen or so out of the lead.  Crazy game. 

There have been two times this season that Terry Doucet didn't score at least 2 runs in a game.  He had one zero and one (1) run night.  That will have to happen again in his last game or we'll also have a new record for runs in a quarter.  Considering that he's scored 3 or more in 10 of his games, its looking pretty good. 

Okay second year boys.....This looks like it comes to Brad and Emeil.  Hopefully Emeil's injury is a minor one.  Mason's 6/6 busted him back on to the list and Wadden has been coming on steadily.  The rest of the gang have been in these sport for probably 1/2 the season. 

Donnie Slipetz is pounding...... I left Chris Nyers in despite the low at bats ... nice start Chris.  Hayward and Clouthier have had very consistent years. 

Mr. Conforti !!!!  hard to say if he can withstand the push from Dane, but Lou's been pretty much top of this chart all year.  10 guys over.125.....that' amazing. 

Things you may have missed this week.  

For the Grisslies Game 23 BLOG, Captain Shuffle!! - click HERE
For the August Tournament Edition!! - click HERE
For the Hurtin' Units BLOG, click HERE
For the Donini 3 stars, click HERE
For the League Website, click HERE