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Your Regular Season Champions

Alomar Division: Edmonton Decepticons
Barfield Division: Magic 9
Carter Division: Sexy Underpants

BBFL stats will come in a separate entry to follow.

ALOMAR DIVISION:

The top six teams maintained their places during the final week. The Edmonton Decepticons captured the regular-season title with a 10-1-1 trouncing of Reykjavik Fisk Candy. The Gashouse Gorillas, who have never finished worse than fifth, grabbed the other first-round bye. In the Consolation Bracket, the Austin Senators and Horse Field Hammers gave way to Billie’s Bashers and Ghost Man on Third. Schroedinger’s Bat defeated Jay’s Ehs 8-3-1 but could not overtake the Thunderbirds. Bat, Eastern Shore Birds and Jay’s Ehs will drop to the Barfield Division in 2007.

In the Championship Bracket, the #4 Mighty Midgets will face #5 WAMCO, and #3 Mebion Glyndwyr, frequently in first place during the season, will battle #6 Slippery Pete. In the Consoloation Bracket, #7 Toronto Walrus and #8 Homer Jays Simpsons receive byes. #10 Ghost Man On Third and #11 AGF hook up, and the #9 Chatsworth Halos take on the #12 Billie’s Bashers.

Rank	TEAM________________	W	L	T	PCT	    GB
1	Edmonton Decepticons	162	88	14	.640	      -   
2	gashouse gorillas___	157	97	10	.614	    7.0 
3	Mebion Glyndwr______	141	101	22	.576	   17.0 
4	the mighty midgets__	143	107	14	.568	   19.0 
5	W-A-M-C-O___________	139	107	18	.561	   21.0 
6	Slippery Pete_______	139	118	7	.540	   26.5

7 Toronto Walrus______ 128 129 7 .498 37.5
8 Homer Jays Simpsons_ 121 127 16 .489 40.0
9 Chatsworth Halos____ 123 129 12 .489 40.0
10 Ghost Man on Third__ 124 133 7 .483 41.5
11 AGF_________________ 122 131 11 .483 41.5
12 Billie's Bashers____ 122 133 9 .479 42.5
13 Austin Senators_____ 121 132 11 .479 42.5 14 Horse Field Hammers_ 119 133 12 .473 44.0 15 hannibals cannibals_ 118 134 12 .470 45.0 16 Reykjavik Fish Candy 116 132 16 .470 45.0 17 Thunderbirds________ 114 138 12 .455 49.0
18 Schroedinger's Bat__ 110 136 18 .451 50.0 19 Eastern Shore Birds_ 109 146 9 .430 55.5 20 Jays Ehs____________ 88 165 11 .354 75.5
The roto stats get the week off in anticipation of next week’s end-of-regular-season stats bonanza.

BARFIELD DIVISION:

Magic 9 posted the best record in BBFL history and will advance to the Alomar Division next season. Joining them is the Pohnpei Papayas, who trounced Pistol Nine to overtake former Alomar occupant the Moscow Rats. No team in the top six last week lost its spot in the Championship Bracket playoffs. The Rats will fight #6 Team Junior Felix and the #4 1-Tool Wonders face the #5 Cooney Islanders. Magic and the Papayas get the week off. Elsewhere, the Lubumbashi Posse rode an 8-3-1 victory into the Consolation Bracket playoffs, where they will play #9 The Sweaty Guys. The #10 Burlington Mazsters meet the #11 Vancouver Cyphers. #7 MulMonkeymenRedux and #8 Baseball North earned byes.

The bottom three remained the same: Pistol Nine, Dr. Z’s Hot Men and European Wannabe will play in the Carter Division next year.

Rank	TEAM________________	W	L	T	PCT	  GB
1	Magic 9_____________	168	82	14	.663	  -   
2	Pohnpei Papayas_____	156	99	9	.608	 14.5 
3	Moscow Rats_________	153	100	11	.600	 16.5 
4	1-Tool Wonders______	149	103	12	.587	 20.0 
5	Cooney Islanders_____	145	105	14	.576	 23.0 
6	team junior felix___	141	112	11	.555	 28.5 
7 MulReduxMonkeymen 128 120 16 .515 39.0 8 Baseball North______ 123 122 19 .502 42.5 9 The Sweaty Guys_____ 124 125 15 .498 43.5 10 Burlington Mazsters_ 123 130 11 .487 46.5 11 Vancouver Cyphers___ 121 129 14 .485 47.0 12 Lubumbashi Posse____ 120 135 9 .472 50.5
13 Angry Gnomes________ 117 133 14 .470 51.0 14 Jick's Rays_________ 115 135 14 .462 53.0 15 Bodell's Bashers____ 116 141 7 .453 55.5 16 Middleclass Elitists 113 140 11 .449 56.5 17 K-Town Mashers______ 111 146 7 .434 60.5
18 European Wannabe____ 106 147 11 .422 63.5 19 Dr. Z's Hot Men______ 98 147 19 .407 67.5 20 Pistol Nine_________ 90 166 8 .356 81.0
CARTER DIVISION:

Sexy Underpants rolled to a decisive victory over nineteen competitors and will move up to the Barfield Division in 2007. Chico’s Bail Bonds and one among The Wedding Singers, Shining Force, Blocked Youngsters and BSL Blue Sox will join them. In the Championship Bracket playoffs, the Singers play the Sox and Force attacks the Youngsters. The New Jersey Stratuses narrowly missed the upper-level playoffs and will have to settle for a bye (along with the Dangercats) in the Consolation Bracket. The #9 Garth Iorg Gremlins meet the #12 @$$kickers and the #10 Trembling Wilburys square off against the #11 Big Game Hunters in this week’s Consolation matches.

Rank	TEAM________________	W	L	T	PCT	  GB
1	Sexy underpants_____	164	87	13	.646	  -   
2	Chico's Bail Bonds__	155	98	11	.608	 10.0 
3	The Wedding Singers_	153	100	11	.600	 12.0 
4	The Shining Force___	145	108	11	.570	 20.0 
5	Blocked Youngsters__	133	117	14	.530	 30.5 
6	BSL Blue Sox________	134	119	11	.528	 31.0 
7 New Jersey Stratuses 132 118 14 .527 31.5 8 dangercats__________ 130 119 15 .521 33.0 9 Garth Iorg Gremlins_ 129 122 13 .513 35.0 10 TheTremblingWilburys 126 123 15 .506 37.0 11 Big Game Hunters____ 119 123 22 .492 40.5 12 @$$kickers__________ 124 128 12 .492 40.5
13 Benji's Sister______ 124 135 5 .479 44.0 14 Team Balla__________ 117 133 14 .470 46.5 15 Hammie's Rollies____ 114 130 20 .470 46.5 16 Scottish Dunces_____ 112 144 8 .439 54.5 17 Brock Crackaz_______ 108 141 15 .438 55.0 18 Anarchist Archivists 102 150 12 .409 62.5 19 Roseneath Rockets___ 98 153 13 .396 66.0 20 Adjustable Chuck____ 89 160 15 .366 74.0
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Jonny German - Tuesday, September 05 2006 @ 12:46 PM EDT (#154650) #
When we get to the rule change proposals in the offseason, I'm going to suggest a cap on the number of transactions. Here are the number of transactions each team has made in Barfield so far this season. I'm including winning percentage to show that the teams with very few transactions were not abandoned teams.
 
Team Pct Moves
Magic 9 .663 126
Pohnpei Papayas .608 104
MulReduxMonkeymen .515 74
Jick's Rays .462 71
Cooney Islanders .576 50
Middleclass Elitists .449 44
Burlington Mazsters .487 39
K-Town Mashers .434 34
Baseball North .502 32
Lubumbashi Posse .472 31
Pistol Nine .356 27
1-Tool Wonders .587 22
Moscow Rats .600 20
Angry Gnomes .470 16
Dr. Z's Hot Men .407 16
The Sweaty Guys .498 14
European Wannabe .422 13
Bodell's Bashers .453 10
Vancouver Cyphers .485 7
team junior felix .555 5
 
I bring this up now because with the regular season being over those of us who aren't in the playoffs won't be making any more moves. That would make comparing the end-of-season numbers innaccurate - what I suggest we do is pro-rate these end-of-regular-season numbers to a full season to determine a reasonable limit.
 
If anybody in Alomar or Carter feels a transaction cap is a good idea, it'd be useful for you to post the number of transactions thus far in your league.
Gwyn - Tuesday, September 05 2006 @ 01:01 PM EDT (#154654) #
I will second your proposal Jonny.  Here are the Alomar numbers:

Team Pct Moves
Schroedinger's Bat  0.451 125
Toronto Walrus  0.498 121
Chatsworth Halos  0.489 115
Eastern Shore Birds  0.43 96
Edmonton Decepticons   0.64 58
Ghost Man on Third  0.483 55
Austin Senators  0.479 46
hannibal's cannibals  0.47 45
the mighty midgets  0.568 40
W-A-M-C-O  0.561 38
Thunderbirds  0.455 36
Billies Bashers  0.479 35
Jays Ehs  0.354 35
Horse Field Hammers  0.473 29
AGF  0.483 28
Mebion Glyndwr  0.576 26
Homer Jays Simpsons  0.489 25
gashouse gorillas  0.614 19
Reykjavik Fish Candy  0.47 16
Slippery Pete  0.54 13


Pepper Moffatt - Tuesday, September 05 2006 @ 01:16 PM EDT (#154657) #
I'm second-last.. I'm second-last!

I would have been last had I not traded my entire offense to two of the other teams in the league.

I third your proposal.  There's a strategy that's been used against me (and everyone else) that drives me up the wall.

You'll be trouncing a guy in K/BB and ERA by Wednesday or so.  Because of that, he ends up punting those categories and picks up every single starter available as a free agent.  It doesn't matter how bad they suck, they guy still ends up racking up IP and occasionally wins.  You either have to follow the same strategy, or punt two pitching categories, despite the fact that your pitchers were terrific.

Anything that would remove that strategy from the game is okay in my books, so I like the idea of a transactions cap.

Dr. Zarco - Tuesday, September 05 2006 @ 05:24 PM EDT (#154679) #
Pepper, in another league, I straight copied all the rules from this one. That was a few years ago, and people really whined about the few who abused the waiver wire pitchers to always get INN and W.

Two years ago we came up with a great alternative, that has worked out well since. Instead of W, use W-L. (As an aside, the only other rule we changed was WHIP to BAA so a walk wouldn't sting you twice).

I guess I should have done that, cause my pitchers were absolutely horrible, and winning 2 categories every week would have been more than I did, and likely would have prevented the demotion that's staring me in the face. I don't suppose I can get my Carter team from '05 that left someone with Pujols, M. Young, D. Lee, and Barry Bonds, can I?
Lucas - Tuesday, September 05 2006 @ 07:31 PM EDT (#154695) #
I was in the midst of preparing some ideas for rule proposals next season, and a transaction cap was one of them. My thought was somewhere between 52 and 78 transactions (i.e., two to three per week over 26 weeks).
jeff - Friday, September 08 2006 @ 05:20 PM EDT (#154982) #

What are the transaction and winning percentage charts supposed to prove? I see little correlation.

A transaction cap is a bad idea. It basically punishes those owners who are constantly trying to improve their team and the overall competitiveness of the league. To me one of the most enjoyable aspects of BBFL is that there is so much activity and that if you hesitate in grabbing someone, someone else will get to him first. I would rather play against an opponent who is trying everything they can think of to steal a win than one who justs gives up because of a cap. I enjoyed watching Magic 9 run away with Barfield because I knew he was watching the wire like a hawk and doing everything he could to win. He is a worthy opponent.

While rotating pitchers is annoying it is the result of the format of the league. By having IP as a category, you invite that kind of strategic thinking. The H2H format, roto cats and short benchs also lend themselves to that kind of strategic thinking. That being said, I adopted that strategy in portions of the year but had more success after abandoning it. A cap could also lead to a situation where two are in a playoff battle and one team can rotate in and out and another can't even make an injury substitution. It is unfair to punish to owner in the playoffs for being aggressive trying to get there.

Alternative solutions may be to: (1) impose a games played limit for each position so that teams have to maximize each start; (2) lengthen the waiver period to 7 days so that teams don't use free agency as a sort of extra bench slot; or (3) if a player is on a roster for less than 48 hours when dropped then that player goes straight into free agency, so that other teams can grab him without waiting. 

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