Batter's Box Interactive Magazine

Decepticons outwit the Brain.
Europe conquered by Pistol.
Brutes lose to Fruits.

ALOMAR DIVISION:

Ghost Man On Third handed the Senators their first defeat of the season, essentially a result of his offense being slightly less moribund than mine. Fish Candy and the Mosquitos played to a virtual draw, so neither made up much ground and remained in 2nd and 3rd. The Edmonton Decepticons hurtled from last to 11th with a 12-0-0 dissection of Baird Brain..

Two weeks ago, the Eastern Shore Birds set the all-time BBFL record for WHIP with 0.79. Last week, the Thunderbirds set the all-time BBFL record for wins with 10, and Slippery Pete set the all-time Alomar record for fewest runs scored with 14.

TEAM________________	W	L	T	PCT	GB
Austin Senators_____	33	9	6	.750	      -   
Reykjavik Fish Candy	32	15	1	.677	    3.5 
Red Mosquitos_______	30	15	3	.656	    4.5 
Toronto Walrus______	29	18	1	.615	    6.5 
Horse Field Hammers_	27	18	3	.594	    7.5 
Mebion Glyndwr______	26	18	4	.583	    8.0

Billie's Bashers____	27	21	0	.563	    9.0 
Ghost Man on Third__	23	22	3	.510	   11.5 
hannibals cannibals_	23	22	3	.510	   11.5 
Homer Jays Simpsons_	22	25	1	.469	   13.5 
Edmonton Decepticons	22	26	0	.458	   14.0 
gashouse gorillas___	22	26	0	.458	   14.0

Thunderbirds________	21	25	2	.458	   14.0 
Chatsworth Halos____	20	25	3	.448	   14.5 
Slippery Pete_______	21	27	0	.438	   15.0 
Eastern Shore Birds_	20	26	2	.438	   15.0 
Moscow Rats_________	18	25	5	.427	   15.5

Garces_not_on_roids_	17	29	2	.375	   18.0 
AGF_________________	14	33	1	.302	   21.5 
Baird Brain_________	12	34	2	.271	   23.0

ALOMAR ROTO_________	RUN- RBI- SB - AVG- OBP- SLG	IP - WIN- SV - ERA-WHIP-K/BB	TOTAL
Mebion Glyndwr______	12 - 15 - 19 - 14 - 14 - 18	13 - 19 -  6 -  9 - 12 - 13	164
Austin Senators_____	19 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 11 - 15	 6 - 11 - 14 - 18 - 17 - 19	163
Slippery Pete_______	 2 -  8 -  3 - 15 - 19 - 13	18 - 17 - 20 - 12 - 16 - 12	155
Horse Field Hammers_	18 - 17 - 14 - 20 - 20 - 20	10 -  4 - 11 -  2 -  9 -  9	154
Billie's Bashers____	16 - 20 - 16 - 17 - 17 - 19	 7 -  4 -  6 - 14 - 10 -  5	151

gashouse gorillas___	17 - 15 -  9 - 18 - 15 - 16	14 - 13 -  9 -  6 -  6 -  6	144
Toronto Walrus______	10 -  5 - 16 - 15 -  9 -  4	16 - 16 -  8 - 10 - 15 - 16	140
Thunderbirds________	 6 -  9 -  9 -  4 -  8 -  3	19 - 20 -  2 - 19 - 20 - 20	139
Red Mosquitos_______	 1 -  3 - 18 -  9 - 13 -  5	 9 -  7 - 18 - 20 - 19 - 14	136
Reykjavik Fish Candy	 9 -  6 - 20 -  4 -  1 - 10	12 - 13 - 12 - 15 - 18 - 15	135

Chatsworth Halos____	15 - 19 - 14 -  7 -  7 - 12	20 - 17 - 12 -  3 -  4 -  1	131
hannibals cannibals_	 7 -  9 - 11 - 19 - 10 - 14	17 - 12 -  9 - 11 -  5 -  4	128
Edmonton Decepticons	14 - 11 -  7 -  3 -  5 - 11	 8 - 10 - 16 - 17 - 11 - 10	123
Ghost Man on Third__	19 - 14 - 11 - 12 - 16 -  9	 4 -  3 -  5 -  4 -  8 - 18	123
AGF_________________	11 - 18 -  1 -  2 -  3 -  7	11 -  7 -  4 - 13 - 13 - 11	101

Eastern Shore Birds_	 7 - 13 -  3 - 13 - 12 - 17	 3 -  7 -  1 -  8 -  7 -  8	99
Homer Jays Simpsons_	13 -  6 -  6 -  6 -  4 -  2	15 - 13 - 14 -  5 -  3 -  7	94
Garces_not_on_roids_	 2 -  4 -  2 -  1 -  2 -  1	 5 -  2 - 19 - 16 - 14 - 17	85
Moscow Rats_________	 5 -  2 -  7 -  8 -  6 -  8	 1 -  1 - 17 -  7 -  2 -  3	67
Baird Brain_________	 4 -  1 -  5 - 11 - 18 -  6	 2 -  4 -  3 -  1 -  1 -  2	58




ALOMAR OPPO_________	RUN- RBI- SB - AVG- OBP- SLG	IP - WIN- SV - ERA-WHIP-K/BB	TOTAL
AGF_________________	17 - 17 - 13 - 18 - 15 - 20	 4 - 12 - 11 - 19 - 19 - 18	183
Baird Brain_________	19 - 16 - 19 - 14 - 18 - 14	 2 -  2 - 20 - 17 - 16 -  8	165
Chatsworth Halos____	 8 - 14 -  5 - 20 - 20 - 18	12 - 14 - 13 - 10 - 15 - 16	165
Slippery Pete_______	18 - 12 -  8 - 15 - 10 - 11	19 - 19 -  2 - 16 - 18 - 12	160
Edmonton Decepticons	20 - 11 - 17 - 16 - 16 - 17	16 - 18 -  5 -  9 -  5 -  9	159

Garces_not_on_roids_	10 - 20 - 15 - 17 - 17 - 15	 7 - 14 -  2 - 12 - 13 - 13	155
Horse Field Hammers_	 6 - 18 - 15 -  9 -  6 - 13	17 - 17 -  5 - 13 -  8 - 17	144
gashouse gorillas___	12 - 14 -  3 - 19 - 19 - 19	15 -  5 - 11 - 11 -  9 -  5	142
Thunderbirds________	 8 - 13 - 20 -  5 -  5 -  8	19 - 19 - 16 -  6 - 11 - 10	140
Toronto Walrus______	16 -  6 -  8 - 11 - 13 -  9	18 - 12 - 13 -  2 - 10 - 14	132

hannibals cannibals_	 5 - 18 -  1 - 10 - 13 - 16	14 -  9 - 16 -  8 -  7 -  4	121
Mebion Glyndwr______	 2 -  4 - 11 - 13 -  7 - 10	 9 - 16 -  2 - 14 - 14 - 15	117
Eastern Shore Birds_	13 -  7 -  6 -  4 -  4 -  6	11 -  3 -  8 - 15 - 12 - 19	108
Ghost Man on Third__	 1 -  2 -  3 -  2 -  3 -  2	 2 -  9 - 16 - 20 - 20 - 20	100
Homer Jays Simpsons_	14 -  3 - 17 - 11 -  8 - 12	 8 -  3 -  8 -  4 -  3 -  3	94

Moscow Rats_________	 3 - 10 -  6 -  1 -  1 -  1	12 - 11 -  8 - 18 - 17 -  6	94
Reykjavik Fish Candy	14 -  9 -  8 -  7 - 12 -  7	 1 -  1 - 15 -  7 -  6 -  7	94
Billie's Bashers____	 7 -  1 - 11 -  3 -  9 -  4	10 -  6 - 19 -  5 -  4 -  1	80
Red Mosquitos_______	 3 -  4 - 13 -  8 - 11 -  3	 5 -  6 -  1 -  1 -  2 - 11	68
Austin Senators_____	10 -  7 -  2 -  6 -  2 -  5	 6 -  6 -  5 -  3 -  1 -  2	55

NORMALIZED STANDINGS	H2H Wins/Rank 	N* Wins/Rank 	 Luck (Wins) 
Austin Senators_____	036.0	1	029.2	2	   6.8 
Reykjavik Fish Candy	032.5	2	026.5	8	   6.0 
Red Mosquitos_______	031.5	3	026.2	9	   5.3 
Toronto Walrus______	029.5	4	026.8	6	   2.7 
Moscow Rats_________	020.5	17	018.8	19	   1.7 
 Homer Jays Simpsons_	022.5	10	021.3	16	   1.2 
Horse Field Hammers_	028.5	5	027.7	4	   0.8 
Eastern Shore Birds_	021.0	15	020.4	17	   0.6 
Billie's Bashers____	027.0	7	026.6	7	   0.4 
hannibals cannibals_	024.5	8	024.7	12	  (0.2)

Ghost Man on Third__	024.5	8	024.7	11	  (0.2)
Edmonton Decepticons	022.0	11	023.1	14	  (1.1)
Mebion Glyndwr______	028.0	6	029.3	1	  (1.3)
Garces_not_on_roids_	018.0	18	019.4	18	  (1.4)
gashouse gorillas___	022.0	11	024.6	13	  (2.6) 

Baird Brain_________	013.0	20	016.8	20	  (3.8)
Chatsworth Halos____	021.5	14	025.7	10	  (4.2)
Thunderbirds________	022.0	11	027.2	5	  (5.2)
Slippery Pete_______	021.0	15	028.0	3	  (7.0)
AGF__________________	014.5	19	022.2	15	  (7.7)

BARFIELD DIVISION:

In a matchup of Roster members, the Pistol Nine tightened their icy death-grip on first with a 9-2-1 clobbering of the European Wannabe. Team Junior Felix leapt into second with a 10-2-0 denunciation of WAMCO. Monkeymen Cubed had a bizarre week, setting the Barfield record for pitching wins with nine but also setting a Barfield worst with a .248 OBP and an all-time BBFL worst .167 batting average.

TEAM________________	W	L	T	PCT	GB
Pistol Nine_________	35	10	3	.760	  -   
team junior felix___	30	17	1	.635	  6.0 
Lubumbashi Posse____	29	17	2	.625	  6.5 
Jay's Ehs___________	26	20	2	.563	  9.5 
Burlington Mazsters_	26	22	0	.542	 10.5 
1-Tool Wonders______	25	21	2	.542	 10.5 

Schroedinger's Bat__	25	21	2	.542	 10.5 
Jick's Rays_________	23	21	4	.521	 11.5 
Vancouver Cyphers___	23	22	3	.510	 12.0 
MonkeymenCubed______	24	24	0	.500	 12.5 
W-A-M-C-O___________	23	23	2	.500	 12.5 
K-Town Mashers______	22	22	4	.500	 12.5 

the mighty midgets__	23	24	1	.490	 13.0 
Good Sports_________	22	24	2	.479	 13.5 
Anarchist Archivists	20	25	3	.448	 15.0 
Capers______________	18	27	3	.406	 17.0 
The Sweaty Guys_____	18	27	3	.406	 17.0 

Middleclass Elitists	18	28	2	.396	 17.5 
European wannabe____	16	29	3	.365	 19.0 
Freddy Beach Fracas_	13	35	0	.271	 23.5

BARFIELD ROTO_______	RUN- RBI- SB - AVG- OBP- SLG	IP - WIN- SV - ERA-WHIP-K/BB	TOTAL
Burlington Mazsters_	20 - 15 - 10 - 15 - 12 - 15	18 - 20 - 11 - 13 - 14 - 20	183
the mighty midgets__	11 - 18 - 18 -  9 -  8 - 20	12 - 18 - 14 - 19 - 20 - 12	179
Lubumbashi Posse____	17 -  8 -  8 - 20 - 19 - 11	17 -  8 - 14 - 14 - 19 - 18	173
Jick's Rays_________	 9 - 12 -  5 - 13 -  9 - 13	 9 - 13 - 19 - 20 - 18 - 13	153
team junior felix___	12 - 19 - 20 - 14 - 20 - 14	14 - 17 -  4 -  9 -  3 -  5	151

Good Sports_________	 3 -  4 - 14 - 12 -  6 -  6	19 - 15 - 17 - 17 - 15 - 16	144
Pistol Nine_________	12 - 13 -  7 - 19 - 17 - 16	 3 -  3 - 16 - 12 - 13 -  7	138
Schroedinger's Bat__	18 - 17 -  8 - 16 - 17 - 19	 5 -  3 -  4 -  3 -  9 - 15	134
Jay's Ehs___________	16 - 11 - 15 -  4 - 10 -  2	15 -  8 -  2 - 16 - 16 - 17	132
1-Tool Wonders______	19 - 20 - 15 - 18 - 15 - 18	 6 -  3 -  3 -  4 -  1 -  6	128

Vancouver Cyphers___	 7 - 15 - 10 -  8 - 14 - 17	 2 -  3 -  1 - 18 - 17 - 14	126
K-Town Mashers______	15 -  6 - 17 - 10 - 11 -  7	10 - 15 - 12 -  6 -  2 - 11	122
W-A-M-C-O___________	14 - 10 -  3 -  6 - 13 -  8	 8 -  8 - 19 -  8 -  6 - 19	122
Anarchist Archivists	 6 -  2 - 10 - 17 - 16 -  9	11 - 13 - 18 - 10 -  4 -  1	117
MonkeymenCubed______	 7 - 14 -  2 -  3 -  5 -  4	20 - 19 -  4 - 11 - 12 -  9	110

Capers______________	 9 -  7 -  4 -  5 -  7 - 10	 7 -  8 -  9 - 15 - 10 -  8	99
The Sweaty Guys_____	 3 -  5 - 18 - 11 -  4 -  5	16 -  8 -  4 -  1 - 11 -  3	89
European wannabe____	 3 -  1 - 10 -  7 -  3 -  3	13 -  2 - 10 -  5 -  5 -  4	66
Middleclass Elitists	 2 -  8 -  5 -  1 -  1 - 12	 4 -  3 -  4 -  7 -  8 -  2	57
Freddy Beach Fracas_	 1 -  3 -  1 -  2 -  2 -  1	 1 -  1 - 13 -  2 -  7 - 10	44




BARFIELD OPPO_______	RUN- RBI- SB - AVG- OBP- SLG	IP - WIN- SV - ERA-WHIP-K/BB	TOTAL
the mighty midgets__	16 - 20 - 14 - 16 -  9 - 14	19 -  8 - 20 - 16 - 16 - 18	186
European wannabe____	20 - 17 -  4 - 17 - 20 - 18	 7 - 11 -  8 - 18 - 17 - 20	177
Good Sports_________	13 - 19 - 15 - 18 - 19 - 19	14 - 11 - 12 -  7 - 13 -  9	169
Burlington Mazsters_	12 - 18 - 11 - 20 - 14 - 20	20 -  8 -  4 -  5 -  6 - 17	155
Jick's Rays_________	18 -  2 - 17 -  9 -  7 - 10	14 - 11 -  4 - 19 - 18 - 16	145

MonkeymenCubed______	17 - 10 - 13 - 19 - 16 - 17	 8 -  3 - 12 -  4 -  7 - 14	140
Lubumbashi Posse____	 6 -  1 - 15 -  3 -  6 -  1	17 - 17 - 17 - 17 - 20 - 15	135
Vancouver Cyphers___	19 - 14 - 18 - 11 - 17 - 13	 4 - 11 - 18 -  1 -  1 -  8	135
Anarchist Archivists	11 - 11 -  9 - 10 - 18 -  6	 9 - 11 -  8 - 10 - 10 - 19	132
W-A-M-C-O___________	 8 -  7 - 20 -  7 - 12 -  9	12 -  7 -  8 - 20 - 14 -  5	129

Schroedinger's Bat__	10 -  5 - 11 - 14 - 15 - 16	13 - 11 -  2 - 13 -  9 -  1	120
Jay's Ehs___________	 1 - 16 -  9 -  1 -  1 -  3	18 - 20 -  1 - 14 - 19 - 10	113
1-Tool Wonders______	 2 -  4 -  8 -  4 -  3 -  5	16 - 17 - 12 - 15 - 15 -  6	107
K-Town Mashers______	 5 -  6 - 18 - 13 - 13 - 12	 3 -  8 -  4 -  6 - 11 -  4	103
The Sweaty Guys_____	 9 - 11 -  5 - 11 - 10 -  8	 1 -  3 - 18 - 12 -  8 -  7	103

Freddy Beach Fracas_	15 - 14 -  1 - 14 - 10 - 15	10 -  3 -  4 -  8 -  5 -  2	101
Capers______________	14 -  9 -  5 -  8 -  8 - 11	 6 -  3 -  8 -  9 -  4 - 11	96
Middleclass Elitists	 7 -  8 -  5 -  6 -  4 -  7	11 - 17 -  3 -  2 -  3 - 12	85
team junior felix___	 4 -  3 -  1 -  5 -  5 -  4	 5 -  1 - 12 - 11 - 12 - 13	76
Pistol Nine_________	 3 - 11 -  3 -  2 -  2 -  2	 2 -  1 - 12 -  3 -  2 -  3	46

NORMALIZED STANDINGS	H2H Wins/Rank 	N* Wins/Rank 	  Luck (Wins) 
Pistol Nine_________	036.5	1	025.9	6	  10.6 
team junior felix___	030.5	2	027.0	4	   3.5 
Jay's Ehs___________	027.0	4	024.1	11	   2.9 
Middleclass Elitists	019.0	18	017.6	19	   1.4 
1-Tool Wonders______	026.0	5	024.6	9	   1.4 

Schroedinger's Bat__	026.0	5	024.9	8	   1.1 
W-A-M-C-O___________	024.0	10	023.4	14	   0.6 
MonkeymenCubed______	024.0	10	023.4	13	   0.6 
K-Town Mashers______	024.0	10	023.9	12	   0.1 
The Sweaty Guys_____	019.5	16	019.5	18	  (0.0)

Vancouver Cyphers___	024.5	9	024.6	10	  (0.1)
Lubumbashi Posse____	030.0	3	030.2	3	  (0.2)
Anarchist Archivists	021.5	15	021.9	15	  (0.4)
Capers______________	019.5	16	020.4	16	  (0.9)
Freddy Beach Fracas_	013.0	20	014.0	20	  (1.0)

Jick's Rays_________	025.0	8	026.9	5	  (1.9)
European wannabe____	017.5	19	019.6	17	  (2.1)
Good Sports_________	023.0	14	025.8	7	  (2.8)
Burlington Mazsters_	026.0	5	031.2	1	  (5.2)
the mighty midgets__	023.5	13	031.1	2	  (7.6)

CARTER DIVISION:

The Pohnpei Papayas quietly overtook first place with a modest 7-5-0 defeat of the Brute Squad. Former leaders Baseball North fell to third after a 3-8-1 loss to the Blocked Youngsters.

TEAM________________	W	L	T	PCT	GB
Pohnpei Papayas_____	34	11	3	.740	  -   
Dr. Z's Hot Men_____	32	12	4	.708	  1.5 
Baseball North______	31	14	3	.677	  3.0 
Magic 9_____________	29	16	3	.635	  5.0 
Hammie's Rollies____	28	17	3	.615	  6.0 
Mad Bashers_________	26	21	1	.552	  9.0 

The Angry Gnomes____	26	21	1	.552	  9.0 
Bodell's Bashers____	24	20	4	.542	  9.5 
Team Balla__________	25	22	1	.531	 10.0 
Blocked Youngsters__	23	22	3	.510	 11.0 
Mechanical Brains___	22	24	2	.479	 12.5 
Hee Seop Choi_______	21	27	0	.438	 14.5 

@$$kickers__________	19	26	3	.427	 15.0 
Roseneath Rockets___	18	25	5	.427	 15.0 
Three Bucks on a Hun	19	27	2	.417	 15.5 
The Baker 5_________	18	29	1	.385	 17.0 
Garth Iorg Gremlins_	16	30	2	.354	 18.5 
The Brute Squad_____	16	30	2	.354	 18.5 
New Jersey Stratuses	15	31	2	.333	 19.5 
Pond. Simon Pond.___	15	32	1	.323	 20.0

CARTER ROTO_________	RUN- RBI- SB - AVG- OBP- SLG	IP - WIN- SV - ERA-WHIP-K/BB	TOTAL
Mad Bashers_________	 1 -  2 -  5 - 18 -  5 - 15	20 - 19 - 20 - 20 - 20 - 20	165
Pohnpei Papayas_____	14 -  8 - 17 -  9 - 16 -  2	12 - 15 - 17 - 18 - 17 - 19	164
Baseball North______	19 - 20 - 19 - 10 -  8 - 17	14 -  5 - 14 -  9 - 14 - 12	161
Hee Seop Choi_______	12 - 17 -  3 - 19 - 19 - 19	16 - 18 -  3 - 15 -  9 - 10	160
Magic 9_____________	17 - 13 - 14 - 12 - 13 - 13	18 - 14 - 17 -  8 - 13 -  5	157

Dr. Z's Hot Men_____	20 - 19 - 13 - 20 - 20 - 20	 3 -  5 -  8 - 10 -  4 -  8	150
Bodell's Bashers____	12 - 10 - 20 -  7 - 15 - 10	 7 - 17 -  8 - 12 - 16 -  9	143
Three Bucks on a Hun	16 -  6 - 16 - 17 - 14 - 14	 2 -  2 - 16 - 13 - 11 - 16	143
Team Balla__________	 9 - 18 -  2 - 13 - 10 - 18	19 - 15 -  1 -  6 -  7 - 15	133
Garth Iorg Gremlins_	 5 -  8 -  9 -  1 -  1 -  5	17 - 20 -  6 - 16 - 19 - 18	125

The Brute Squad_____	11 - 16 - 15 -  6 - 12 - 16	 7 - 10 - 15 -  3 -  2 -  3	116
@$$kickers__________	 6 -  5 - 17 -  2 -  6 -  3	15 -  5 -  4 - 19 - 15 - 13	110
New Jersey Stratuses	17 - 15 -  1 - 16 - 17 -  7	13 -  5 - 11 -  1 -  3 -  2	108
Blocked Youngsters__	10 - 10 - 10 -  8 -  3 -  9	 5 - 10 - 11 -  7 -  8 - 14	105
Hammie's Rollies____	 8 - 10 -  3 - 14 - 11 - 12	11 -  5 -  6 -  2 -  5 - 17	104

Roseneath Rockets___	 2 -  4 - 10 - 15 - 18 -  4	 6 -  2 -  1 - 14 - 18 -  1	95
Mechanical Brains___	 3 -  6 -  6 - 11 -  7 - 11	 1 -  1 - 11 - 17 - 10 -  7	91
The Angry Gnomes____	14 - 14 -  8 -  4 -  4 -  8	10 - 10 -  5 -  5 -  1 -  6	89
Pond. Simon Pond.___	 4 -  2 -  6 -  5 -  8 -  6	 4 - 10 - 19 -  4 -  6 -  4	78
The Baker 5_________	 7 -  1 - 10 -  3 -  2 -  1	 9 -  2 -  8 - 11 - 12 - 11	77



CARTER OPPO_________	RUN- RBI- SB - AVG- OBP- SLG	IP - WIN- SV - ERA-WHIP-K/BB	TOTAL
New Jersey Stratuses	11 -  8 - 19 - 13 - 18 - 10	16 - 14 - 15 - 19 - 18 - 20	181
Three Bucks on a Hun	20 - 20 - 15 - 19 - 19 - 20	14 - 18 -  5 -  9 -  9 -  9	177
Pond. Simon Pond.___	18 - 19 -  7 - 11 - 11 - 16	18 - 17 - 10 - 15 - 16 - 16	174
Garth Iorg Gremlins_	 8 - 10 - 15 -  8 -  9 - 15	12 - 14 - 18 - 20 - 20 - 19	168
Mad Bashers_________	16 - 14 - 19 - 15 - 15 - 18	19 - 20 -  6 -  6 -  8 - 12	168

The Brute Squad_____	12 - 18 - 13 - 16 - 17 - 12	13 - 10 -  6 - 18 - 17 - 15	167
Hee Seop Choi_______	13 - 11 -  3 - 13 -  5 - 11	17 - 10 - 20 - 16 - 19 - 11	149
Bodell's Bashers____	 5 -  2 - 17 -  4 -  4 -  9	20 - 18 - 18 - 14 - 15 - 17	143
@$$kickers__________	15 - 17 -  9 - 20 - 20 - 19	11 -  3 -  4 -  7 -  5 -  4	134
The Baker 5_________	17 - 13 -  5 - 12 - 11 - 13	 6 -  3 -  3 - 12 - 12 - 18	125

Roseneath Rockets___	 4 - 15 -  5 - 18 - 10 - 13	15 -  3 -  2 -  8 - 10 - 13	116
Team Balla__________	18 - 16 - 18 - 10 -  7 -  6	 5 - 12 - 10 -  2 -  2 -  7	113
Magic 9_____________	 3 -  2 -  4 - 17 - 15 -  7	 8 - 14 -  6 - 10 -  7 - 14	107
Blocked Youngsters__	 7 -  5 -  9 -  2 -  6 -  3	 4 -  7 - 17 - 17 - 11 - 10	98
Mechanical Brains___	14 - 12 - 13 -  6 -  2 -  8	 1 -  7 -  1 - 13 - 14 -  5	96

Dr. Z's Hot Men_____	 6 -  7 - 12 -  3 -  8 -  5	 2 -  7 - 10 - 11 - 13 -  8	92
The Angry Gnomes____	10 -  5 -  1 -  9 - 13 - 17	 3 -  1 - 13 -  3 -  1 -  1	77
Hammie's Rollies____	 8 -  1 - 11 -  7 - 14 -  1	 7 -  2 - 13 -  4 -  3 -  3	74
Baseball North______	 2 -  4 -  8 -  1 -  1 -  4	10 - 12 - 15 -  1 -  6 -  6	70
Pohnpei Papayas_____	 1 -  8 -  2 -  5 -  3 -  2	 9 -  3 -  6 -  5 -  4 -  2	50

NORMALIZED STANDINGS	H2H Wins/Rank 	N* Wins/Rank Luck (Wins) 
Pohnpei Papayas_____	035.5	1	027.6	4	   7.9 
Hammie's Rollies____	029.5	5	021.9	15	   7.6 
The Angry Gnomes____	026.5	6	019.5	20	   7.0 
Dr. Z's Hot Men_____	034.0	2	028.4	3	   5.6 
Baseball North______	032.5	3	028.5	2	   4.0
 Magic 9_____________	030.5	4	027.0	5	   3.5 
Mechanical Brains___	023.0	11	020.3	16	   2.7 
Blocked Youngsters__	024.5	10	022.9	12	   1.6 
Team Balla__________	025.5	9	024.8	9	   0.7 
Roseneath Rockets___	020.5	13	019.9	19	   0.6

Bodell's Bashers____	026.0	8	026.7	7	  (0.7)
The Baker 5_________	018.5	16	020.0	17	  (1.5)
Mad Bashers_________	026.5	6	028.7	1	  (2.2)
@$$kickers__________	020.5	13	023.8	10	  (3.3)
Pond. Simon Pond.___	015.5	20	019.9	18	  (4.4)

The Brute Squad_____	017.0	17	022.5	13	  (5.5)
Three Bucks on a Hun	020.0	15	025.7	8	  (5.7)
Hee Seop Choi_______	021.0	12	026.8	6	  (5.8)
New Jersey Stratuses	016.0	19	021.9	14	  (5.9)
Garth Iorg Gremlins_	017.0	17	023.1	11	  (6.1)

Posted by Lucas on Monday, May 02 2005 @ 02:30 PM EDT.

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JackFoley - Monday, May 02 2005 @ 05:54 PM EDT (#114926) #

Monkeymen Cubed had a bizarre week, setting the Barfield record for pitching wins with nine but also setting a Barfield worst with a .248 OBP and an all-time BBFL worst .167 batting average.

Woo! I'm number one! What a week indeed. When I realised that 1-Tool Wonders' team had to go essentially 0-for-the-weekend for me to have a hope of winning any of the offensive categories, I pretty much wrote off this week and prayed that it didn't get worse than 9-3. Thanks to a massive amount of starting pitching and a couple of saves, it didn't. I was sure that my Monkeymen were well on their way to setting a record of some kind, but I didn't know they'd set three of them.

Ugly. Look out Sweaty Guys, we're out for revenge.

No awards this week, only a terse press release.

3RunHomer - Monday, May 02 2005 @ 06:06 PM EDT (#114928) #

Two weeks ago, the Eastern Shore Birds set the all-time BBFL record for WHIP with 0.79

And some weeks aren't quite so good. My Birds led the Cannibals in their Alomar match-up most of the week, but poor outings by Beckett, Lee and Wuertz reversed the score in the man-eaters' favor.

Cliff Lee shares (9.00 ERA, 2.20 whip, and 1.00 k/bb in 5 innings) the goat-horns with "Who" Weurtz (13.50, 2.70, .80 in 3.1 innings). Beckett gets a pass because he's Josh Beckett.

Kudos to Dunn, Cabrera (M), and Gibbons (really ... .385 OBP, 1.083 SLG).

-- Greg (Eastern Shore Birds, Alomar)

NDG - Monday, May 02 2005 @ 06:46 PM EDT (#114937) #

You can call me the Dodgers of the Barfield Division. I thought with my team I would dominate the pitching categories and hope for a split in the hitting ones.

So far this year the Posse are:
Hitting: 19-5-0
Pitching: 10-12-2

My pitching has actually been better than my hitting (90 roto points vs 83), so I guess good luck + bad luck = no luck (0.2)

Four Seamer - Monday, May 02 2005 @ 06:56 PM EDT (#114943) #

If it weren't for bad luck, the Garth Iorg Gremlins would have no luck at all. Of course, as we have no bats (or working ones, at any rate), luck wouldn't be the only thing we'd lack.

However, like their irrepressibale and hardworking namesake, this is a blue collar bunch and we'll get things turned around. Watch out, Blocked Youngsters!

Cristian - Monday, May 02 2005 @ 07:08 PM EDT (#114949) #

Last week the Decepticons cancelled weekly awareds and held a team meeting to discuss being in the Alomar basement. Boy did my squad ever respond. A 12-0 week has catapulted the Decepticons from 20th to 11th in Alomar. There's no telling how high my squad can soar on the wings of my brilliant pep talks. Awards are hereby reinstated.

Bonds: Alex Rios - last week's whipping boy is this week's Bonds recipient with a sparkling .478/.500/.739 line and 2 bonus steals.

Neifi: Ruben Gotay has hit the waiver wire if anyone wants him. JJ Hardy, you're next.

Pedro: Javier Vazquez. He's finally justifying why I made him one of my keepers. Honourable mention to waiver wire gem Derrick Turnbow.

Lima: Goes to the walking machine that is Noah Lowry.

Ben - Monday, May 02 2005 @ 08:12 PM EDT (#115034) #

Not quite sure what I've done to deserve the unluckiest team, plus the hardest schedule in the land (perhaps I'm not Canadian enough?) but I am second overall in roto standings which is a small consolation. I know my team is performing well, just others are having freakish weeks when they face me. After a 10-2 week awards are definatly in order.

MVH: ARod again, with an honorable mention to Phat Albert. A 6/12/1/.429/.520/1.190 line will win out every time.

LVH: the outfield trifecta of Byrnes-Nady-Dye. I'm slightly less down on Nady as he carried my team the first week, but a combined 6 for 43 is just horrendous. Waiver wire pick ups Nook Logan and Jason Ellison are holding the fort until they turn it around, I'm hoping for mediocrity at this point.

MVP: Tomko comes through after being called out last week and Bush wasn't that bad, I just sat him in fear.

LVP: Prior was chugging along until one fateful inning destroyed his weeks numbers

Overall my team isn't looking that bad. I havent received and contributions from Ordonez or Juan Gone and my other bench spot is taken up by Gathright, so the hitting side is slim. They should all be back for a mid season push towards the title. However, if they can't do anything when they get back some trades will have to be made to shore up that outfield.

A - Tuesday, May 03 2005 @ 02:38 AM EDT (#115208) #

This was a fun week mostly due to the records my good friend Jack Foley set this week. I'm also proud to report that the Wonders' 6th (5th according to Yahoo!) place standing is the highest since we entered contention last spring.

Bonds: Derrek Lee (8/13/1/ .455/.519/1.091)
Neifi: Steve Finley (1/2/1/ .053/.053/.211)

Pedro: C.C. Sabathia (7.0/1/0.00/0.57/4.00)
Lima: Kerry Wood (3.0/0/9.00/2.00/3.00)

Biggest surprise of the week was Christian Guzman who had a .450/.450/.600 line in 20AB.

Justin (T-Birds) - Tuesday, May 03 2005 @ 03:08 AM EDT (#115210) #

My Thunderbirds' pitching staff had about as good of a week as you could possibly hope for:

84.1 IP, 10 Wins, 1.60 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 3.00 K/BB

Jon Garland came up huge with back-to-back shutouts, and Johan Santana continued his mastery. You know that you had a good week when your 3rd most valuable pitcher (Doc) threw a complete game shutout!

With Walker, Cameron and Benson all due to come off the DL shortly, I have a lot of depth that I'm looking to package for one upper-level player. If you're looking to solidify your team (I have pitching and middle infield depth to spare), get in touch.

Pistol - Tuesday, May 03 2005 @ 09:12 AM EDT (#115218) #

4 weeks - 10.6 lucky wins. Smoke and mirrors, baby!

Bonds: TIE! Alex Gonzalez (FL) 3/6/0 .462/.500/.923 (he played better once I lost a waiver claim on Scutero to replace him)
Grudzielanek � 4/3/0 .526/.571/.947 (includes hitting for the cycle)

Neifi: Holliday � 0/1/0 .083/.083/.250

Pedro: Wagner � 4/0/3 0.00/0.50/INF (3 saves tied me for the category which was big with Izzy getting hurt)

Lima: V Santos � 5.2/0/0 9.53/1.94/1.33

Lucas - Tuesday, May 03 2005 @ 10:32 AM EDT (#115228) #

I wouldn't sweat the luck factor too much right now. We're only 18% of the way through the regular season, and anything can, and will, happen. Right now, the Mighty Midgets have 25 steals, Freddy Beach Fracas only 8, but Fred has more victories.

Mighty Midgets

Week	Team SB	Opp SB	Actual wins	Expected Wins
1	5	8	0.0	.652
2	5	5	0.5	.652
3	3	5	0.0	.380
4	12	2	1.0	.981
ttl	25	20	1.5	2.665

Freddy Beach Fracas

Week	Team SB	Opp SB	Actual wins	Expected Wins
1	1	2	0.0	.063
2	1	2	0.0	.063
3	4	2	1.0	.500
4	2	1	1.0	.215
ttl	8	7	2.0	.841

The Midgets did get alomst half of their steals in one week, somewhat lessening the power of their high roto total. But, at least in terms of steals, which team would you rather own. Assuming these first four weeks accurately reflect the steal capabilities of each team, the Midgets should end up with several more wins in this category than Fred.

R Billie - Tuesday, May 03 2005 @ 11:55 AM EDT (#115241) #

The Bashers had a good all around week as both Pujols and Tejada took their rightful place as the best hitters on the squad. The rest of the squad did their part for a sweep of the offensive categories.

The pitching staff performed about as well as I could expect. What a difference having healthy starters makes. Smoltz and Hampton have been veteran anchors while Meche and Young had a nice pitcher's duel against one another to cement a solid week from the starters. Harang has pitched solidly as a late draft inning eater.

The relief staff has been solid ratio wise with Hawkins, Rhodes, Hernandez, and Sisco performing well. I'm just not getting the saves at the moment though. If anyone is willing to deal a closer (regardless of quality) I'm willing to talk trade.

dp - Tuesday, May 03 2005 @ 01:16 PM EDT (#115258) #

And some weeks aren't quite so good. My Birds led the Cannibals in their Alomar match-up most of the week, but poor outings by Beckett, Lee and Wuertz reversed the score in the man-eaters' favor. Cliff Lee shares (9.00 ERA, 2.20 whip, and 1.00 k/bb in 5 innings) the goat-horns with "Who" Weurtz (13.50, 2.70, .80 in 3.1 innings). Beckett gets a pass because he's Josh Beckett.

Totally a weird week- I didn't expect to win any of the pitching categories except IP, but then your starters imploded. Totally expected Beckett to carry you on Sunday- I had Buce Chen going, who would've guessed he'd pitch better?

Convinced I would've won RBI if I hadn't lost 2 games to snowm wuth Barmes and Atkins hitting, but then, they might've gone 0-20 and cost me BA...
-dp (Hannibal's Cannibals, Alomar)

Ben - Tuesday, May 03 2005 @ 03:44 PM EDT (#115295) #

Good point Lucas, I should really look more in depth at the numbers before sticking my foot in my mouth it seems. At quick glance it also seems that the "luck" factor is closely tied in sith the strength of schedule. This may seem ridiculously obvious but since we face the first three teams again, in which I had a 13-22 record, this may cost me the title if I have the same results weeks from now. I'll take this to mean that I need to address up my weaknesses but I also know that there is a real rough patch coming up at the end. Perhaps we can move to a sort of BCS system where strength of schedule is included in deciding who is champion?

Lucas - Tuesday, May 03 2005 @ 03:56 PM EDT (#115300) #

Perhaps we can move to a sort of BCS system where strength of schedule is included in deciding who is champion?

Yes, the BCS has been so successful and uncontroversial, I'd be a fool not to do it.

Anyhoo, you didn't put your foot in your mouth, as you can't be expected to remember the exact stats from week to week. Re the 'strength of schedule,' I will be instituting a change next year. Yahoo sets the schedule solely on the basis of order of signup, and I can't override it. Next year, I plan to have the top four teams from the previous year sign up first, then the next four, and so on. That way, each team will have repeat matchups against teams close to them in the previous year's standings.

Ben - Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 12:05 AM EDT (#115465) #

Yes, the BCS has been so successful and uncontroversial, I'd be a fool not to do it.

Well thats one convinced then :) If we had done it that way (in order of finish like you said) throught the first three weeks I would have been 17-18-1 instead of 13-22-1 so a decent improvement. At the end of the season I'll go back and look at all the numbers to see what might have been and if it mean I would have won, I'm lodging an official protest ;p

NDG - Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 08:26 AM EDT (#115484) #

I know you're just kidding Ben, but it seems several teams in the Barfield have the same problem which is why the roto and real standings are so out of whack. My team (Lubumbashi Posse) is currently third in roto, and has already played the teams in 1st, 4th and 6th. I won't complain cause I figure my team should start sucking right when I have my run at the bottom teams.

Coach - Wednesday, May 04 2005 @ 08:51 AM EDT (#115487) #

Scott, excellent idea about the unbalanced schedule. Ben, as I'm sure you know, many teams are completely different in April and September, so don't concede the rematches just yet. For example, last-place Baird Brain's early results are skewed by playing without Berkman, Gagne and Bobby Crosby.

Like the Blue Jays, my club is a few games over .500 through a fairly tough early schedule, thanks to Shea Hillenbrand. I might have a better record -- the Phillies certainly would -- if Jim Thome�s back wasn�t killing him. (At least I didn�t get scooped on Ryan Howard, but he�s still a rookie K machine trying to replace one of the game�s greatest sluggers.) Another superstar, Curt Schilling, is also limping; needless to say, his Red Sox aren�t firing on all cylinders either.

While the stats suggest I haven�t quite as "lucky" as Pistol, it seems like I�ve narrowly avoided getting killed in three of the first four weeks. Knocked out of contention in the pitching ratios by some lousy starts early in Week 4, I used the Chatsworth Rotation� to salvage IP and W against Homer Jays, whose hitters were fortunately even worse than mine. This week, with my RBI/SLG still MIA, I�m hoping for enough speed and OBP to earn a couple of hitting points against the powerful Gorillas, and a couple more pleasant pitching surprises like Josh Towers last night would be helpful.

The Walrus front office is always open to win-win trade proposals. Billy Wagner is available for a keeper and with too many 2B, I'd move one of Cantu, Womack and Kennedy for an equivalent (i.e., mediocre) SS-eligible MI.

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