Meanwhile I am spinning my wheels, but seems that others are as well...well except for my $110m team, who had their W15 snapped...

Well, another 0-6 morning wake up call has dropped me to exactly .500 for the first time all season. I'm actually thrilled to have made it this far before falling off the cliff. It usually occurs much earlier in the tournament for me. I wish you all the best of luck going forward. I will just sit back and watch my teams sink like the Titanic.

I'm stuck in a 3-3 rut every session. Now, that's not bad, since my overall record is very good (thanks to a great first 54 games). But because of my extremely tough division alignments, my teams are slowly dropping from the division lead to the wild card to just out of the playoffs.

Talk about tough divisions... currently, in all 6 of my leagues, the wildcard is coming from my division (thru 78 games). The odds of that happening, given all other things being equal is .3333^6 = .001372

Finally got a schwarze in the pm cycle, enough to get me back to .500 overall. Clinches the sixth straight win for my $80M team, the one I thought was easily the worst. Turns out that is the $255M team, which I'd like to thank for actually helping out instead of giving me yet another 5-1 cycle (which is better than the reverse of course, but not the same as a glorious 6-0).

My 100M team has a .601 expected winning% and is currently 2 games out of the playoffs. Anybody else have a .600+ Exp Win% not making the playoffs? Of course, losing my last 7 one-run games hasn't helped.

3 more one-run losses in the pm cycle. My teams now 59-91 in one-run games. As a result, they are playing an average of .045 (per team) below their collective Pythags.

Ooops, I guess I should've looked at my other teams before making that last post. My 140M team has a .694 Exp Win% and is currently 3 games from a wildcard (but that's mainly due to some fatigue-related blowouts). This team is only 2 games under .500 in one-run games.

(There are three other teams in that same league over .600 ExpW% not making the playoffs - again due to two really bad ultra-fatigued teams giving up 30 runs per game)

Here are the projected final win totals (on average) for each of the four places in my six leagues...
1st - 97 wins (I have 1 team)
2nd - 91 wins (I have 5 teams)
3rd - 84 wins
4th - 75 wins

Only 6 of 24 teams are under .500. The second place team in my 6 leagues is averaging 91 wins (projected)!

I would be interested to see what others leagues look like. Hmmm... sounds like another table I could create.

Here is the average...

1st - 92.6 wins
2nd - 85.5 wins
3rd - 77.7 wins
4th - 68.2 wins

PreRank	Owner	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	Avg
------------	----------------------	---------	---------	---------	---------	---------
9	schwarze	97.3	91.4	83.5	75.0	86.8
44	jfranco77	95.1	87.3	82.6	76.0	85.3
21	kelly1	94.5	90.4	82.3	73.5	85.2
12	buddhagamer	95.4	91.7	84.1	69.4	85.2
46	oskies	99.2	89.8	82.9	68.4	85.1
1	WaitNSee	94.8	90.7	82.3	72.2	85.0
30	ejstockman	93.9	87.6	83.2	73.5	84.6
79	DarthDurron	97.0	85.4	80.4	74.7	84.4
24	bighooze	91.7	87.9	81.6	75.3	84.1
68	EasyE7273	93.6	89.2	81.9	71.6	84.1
17	jjgreen14	95.8	86.7	80.4	72.8	83.9
32	cstrohmier	93.6	87.3	81.3	73.2	83.9
34	ozomatli	96.7	90.4	78.2	70.0	83.8
19	crystalao	94.5	84.8	80.4	74.1	83.5
49	Fusion27s	91.7	88.5	80.7	72.8	83.4
56	kstober	95.4	88.2	80.4	69.1	83.3
8	bardin	95.1	88.8	78.2	71.0	83.3
35	KMJK4	90.7	89.8	82.3	69.7	83.1
2	discodemo	97.3	86.7	81.9	66.2	83.0
70	glowguy	94.8	87.9	79.1	70.3	83.0
22	tigerrott	89.8	85.7	80.1	76.3	83.0
42	asufan04	94.2	88.5	81.6	66.9	82.8
45	mllama54	93.9	87.0	79.1	71.0	82.8
59	Jdh34	96.1	84.1	81.0	69.7	82.7
39	calhoop	91.0	87.0	80.7	72.2	82.7
20	slainte	95.4	90.7	78.2	66.2	82.6
54	bottomlee	95.1	88.8	76.6	70.0	82.6
60	thehuseman	92.6	88.2	80.1	69.4	82.6
3	jbohrman	92.3	85.1	77.9	74.4	82.4
84	BullMoose	92.6	87.3	80.1	69.4	82.4
47	ballantine	95.4	88.8	79.4	65.3	82.2
64	frank_drebin	95.4	86.0	78.8	68.4	82.2
11	justinlee_24	91.7	84.5	79.1	73.2	82.1
5	rbow923	94.8	86.0	78.5	69.1	82.1
18	barracuda3	92.3	87.6	79.7	68.8	82.1
55	eschwartz67	97.3	87.3	77.5	66.2	82.1
13	duece_duece	93.2	85.4	80.4	69.1	82.0
62	trd3	90.4	87.9	80.4	69.1	82.0
77	Chisock	90.4	86.3	82.3	68.8	82.0
66	nocomm999	94.2	83.8	79.7	70.0	81.9
10	jschirn	93.6	87.6	75.7	70.6	81.9
41	charliembg	93.9	84.1	77.9	71.6	81.9
93	mars2010	92.9	86.7	81.3	66.2	81.8
29	newarkwilder	92.3	83.8	77.9	72.8	81.7
36	PennQuaker	91.0	84.8	78.5	71.3	81.4
90	happyhours	91.4	83.2	78.5	72.5	81.4
23	cubbies84	90.7	86.3	77.5	71.0	81.4
82	daronb	92.6	83.2	78.5	71.0	81.3
33	firesalt	95.1	86.7	79.7	63.4	81.2
31	markeking	94.2	90.1	76.3	64.0	81.2
83	thebubbaq	94.5	88.8	74.7	65.6	80.9
37	Relkcirts	88.5	85.7	79.7	69.1	80.8
28	rmdriskill	92.3	83.8	78.5	68.4	80.8
92	npg32433	92.9	84.8	75.3	70.0	80.8
6	mildnhazy	95.4	87.6	76.9	62.8	80.7
86	zlionsfan	95.8	89.5	75.3	61.8	80.6
94	scottharra	91.0	83.2	78.2	68.8	80.3
61	Xjchessman	89.8	86.3	80.1	64.4	80.2
16	frozen_rope	88.8	84.5	76.3	71.0	80.2
78	nordawg	92.0	83.5	77.2	67.5	80.1
65	sjh0825	90.4	82.3	77.2	70.0	80.0
67	Humdogs	90.4	84.8	78.8	65.9	80.0
57	DoctorKz	92.6	87.3	75.0	64.7	79.9
27	mpitt76	90.1	81.9	77.5	69.1	79.7
38	brucel	89.2	81.6	77.5	70.3	79.7
26	Lazerhawks	92.0	85.4	79.4	61.8	79.7
72	Jesters	92.3	83.8	75.3	67.2	79.7
51	The Taint	91.4	86.7	73.5	66.9	79.6
75	thejuice6	89.8	86.0	76.6	65.6	79.5
53	zephyr1949	94.5	80.7	73.8	68.8	79.5
63	skilly006	91.4	81.6	76.9	67.8	79.4
14	bigmc	96.1	81.6	74.7	64.7	79.3
4	tjefferson	89.8	82.6	77.2	67.5	79.3
48	beauchamp	96.4	86.0	71.0	63.1	79.1
88	garmansouth	92.0	86.7	74.7	63.1	79.1
81	Pebo	91.0	86.3	72.2	66.9	79.1
52	magicdreamer	93.2	85.4	73.8	63.4	79.0
96	spoonfed	93.9	86.3	75.3	59.7	78.8
7	dougpalm	87.6	81.3	76.3	69.7	78.7
95	deathdealer	99.8	81.9	71.3	61.8	78.7
71	hacker7	90.7	83.2	75.3	64.7	78.5
40	doctorcc	94.5	86.0	71.6	61.5	78.4
89	midknight	87.3	81.0	74.7	70.0	78.3
73	toddcommish	88.8	81.3	75.0	67.8	78.2
69	fooolishfool	87.0	83.2	72.5	69.7	78.1
43	odalisgagne	92.6	85.1	70.3	64.4	78.1
25	batandball	91.7	78.2	74.4	66.9	77.8
15	robbman21	89.8	85.1	72.5	63.7	77.8
58	rickysdad44	88.5	79.4	76.9	65.9	77.7
74	Jtpsops	86.7	83.2	77.9	62.8	77.7
85	dodgebob	84.5	79.1	75.3	71.3	77.6
80	sprintracer	91.7	80.4	73.8	63.4	77.3
87	bigsteve12	88.2	84.5	75.0	57.8	76.4
50	hersheybear	91.0	81.3	73.5	58.1	76.0
91	tridentric	92.9	79.7	71.0	58.4	75.5
76	mick33	84.8	78.8	68.8	63.7	74.0

Top 10 - 1st Place

Owner	1st
----------------------	---------
deathdealer	99.8
oskies	99.2
schwarze	97.3
discodemo	97.3
eschwartz67	97.3
DarthDurron	97.0
ozomatli	96.7
beauchamp	96.4
Jdh34	96.1
bigmc	96.1

Top 10 - 2nd Place

Owner	2nd
----------------------	---------
buddhagamer	91.7
schwarze	91.4
WaitNSee	90.7
slainte	90.7
kelly1	90.4
ozomatli	90.4
markeking	90.1
oskies	89.8
KMJK4	89.8
zlionsfan	89.5

Top 10 - 3rd Place

Owner	3rd
----------------------	---------
buddhagamer	84.1
schwarze	83.5
ejstockman	83.2
oskies	82.9
jfranco77	82.6
WaitNSee	82.3
kelly1	82.3
KMJK4	82.3
Chisock	82.3
EasyE7273	81.9
discodemo	81.9

Top 10 - 4th Place

Owner	4th
----------------------	---------
tigerrott	76.3
jfranco77	76.0
bighooze	75.3
schwarze	75.0
DarthDurron	74.7
jbohrman	74.4
crystalao	74.1
ejstockman	73.5
kelly1	73.5
cstrohmier	73.2
justinlee_24	73.2