magicdreamer lost his WS to jfranco77. So he will need to win at least 1 game against Humdogs to clinch. donaldjtrump is down 2-0 against brianjw. newarkwilder won game 5 and is up 3-2 against Donburgh. He is in if he wins game 6 or 7

Not looking good for ej right now, though bothways is probably feeling ok. DJT would need to come back against Brian for bothways to have to worry

Next update will be in the morning (pacific time)

Newarkwilder won game 7, 7-5. We had the lead most of the way but he broke through in the bottom of the eighth.

newarkwilder is IN, ejstockman is OUT.
donaldjtrump is OUT, bothways is IN.
magicdreamer is also IN.

Our field is set.

Rank				Owner	Points					Max	Projections
Pre	Season	Playoff	Overall		Season	Playoffs	Penalty	Total	Behind	Started	Total	Relative	Rank	Relative
1	2	1	1	brianjw	579	114		693		765	660	33	2	1
4	1	3	2	ozomatli	594	96		690	1.5	780	675	15	1	-1
8	7	2	3	jfranco77	564	100		664	14.5	719	631	33	7	4
9	9	3	4	jmissirlis	561	96		657	18	716	629	28	8	4
7	5	6	5	mildnhazy	566	85		651	21	721	634	17	4	-1
6	3	8	6	buddhagamer	578	71		649	22	764	658	-9	3	-3
5	8	5	7	jbohrman	562	86		648	22.5	686	616	32	9	2
2	3	11	8	discodemo	578	59		637	28	702	632	5	6	-2
32	6	12	9	wink0094	565	58		623	35	720	633	-10	5	-4
17	12	7	10	crystalao	546	75		621	36	701	614	7	10	0
10	14	9	11	dougpalm	528	67		595	49	652	582	13	14	3
16	10	17	12	justinlee_24	549	43		592	50.5	642	589	3	12	0
3	13	16	13	rbow923	534	51		585	54	658	588	-3	13	0
28	10	23	14	mpitt76	549	34		583	55	673	603	-20	11	-3
44	21	14	15	Humdogs	509	52		561	66	602	549	12	17	2
22	22	13	16	redcped	506	53		559	67	599	547	12	18	2
35	18	22	17	odalisgagne	515	36		551	71	608	555	-4	16	-1
26	38	10	17	Donburgh	487	64		551	71	580	527	24	30	13
13	15	28	19	dippedncrack / schwarze	523	25		548	72.5	616	564	-16	15	-4
40	26	17	20	Jdh34	503	43		546	73.5	596	543	3	23	3
20	17	26	21	mdc2276	516	29		545	74	578	542	3	24	3
24	22	21	22	newarkwilder	506	37	2	541	76	566	531	10	27	5
27	38	14	23	magicdreamer	487	52		539	77	580	528	11	29	6
30	16	33	24	bothways	519	19		538	77.5	581	546	-8	21	-3
33	19	31	25	ejstockman	514	21		535		576	541	-6	25	0
50	22	27	26	mick33	506	28		534		599	547	-13	18	-8
38	35	17	27	donaldjtrump	489	43		532		582	530	2	28	1
41	19	42	28	cubbies84	514	12		526		576	541	-15	25	-3
12	25	33	29	bighooze	504	19		523		597	544	-21	22	-7
11	27	39	30	shaybee	502	15		517		533	516	1	32	2
48	28	33	30	thehuseman	498	19		517		560	525	-8	31	1
51	30	31	32	jetscanes	494	21		515		618	547	-32	18	-14
46	32	20	33	sprintracer	493	38	23	508		532	497	11	42	9
23	35	37	34	cstrohmier	489	16		505		520	502	3	37	3
18	40	37	35	mllama54	486	16		502		517	500	2	39	4
66	46	23	36	npg32433	468	34	1	501		560	508	-7	34	-2
36	32	40	37	jjgreen14	493	13	6	500		549	514	-14	33	-4
39	30	52	38	NebHusker	494	5		499		525	507	-8	35	-3
49	34	46	39	toddcommish	490	6		496		521	504	-8	36	-3
31	37	46	40	frank_drebin	488	6		494		519	501	-7	38	-2
29	29	55	41	ledfoot	496	0	4	492		492	492	0	43	2
65	54	25	42	Pebo	457	30		487		519	484	3	45	3
47	50	29	43	The Taint	462	24		486		493	476	10	48	5
25	41	55	44	tigerrott	485	0		485		485	485	0	44	0
53	45	42	45	sjh0825	472	12		484		534	499	-15	41	-4
59	43	44	46	hurst47	473	10		483		535	500	-17	39	-7
60	42	55	47	thebubbaq	475	0		475		475	475	0	50	3
54	50	40	47	zlionsfan	462	13		475		493	476	-1	48	1
15	46	46	49	homiealiens	468	6		474		499	482	-8	46	-3
19	43	55	50	markeking	473	0		473		473	473	0	54	4
67	60	30	51	garmansouth	448	23		471		510	475	-4	50	-1
61	49	46	52	happyhours	464	6		470		495	478	-8	47	-5
21	46	55	53	calhoop	468	0		468		468	468	0	55	2
43	60	33	54	Jtpsops	448	19		467		510	475	-8	50	-4
63	52	52	55	mars2010	460	5		465		491	474	-9	53	-2
56	53	55	56	thejuice6	459	0		459		459	459	0	59	3
68	57	46	57	midknight	452	6		458		483	466	-8	56	-1
37	55	55	58	kyleb63	456	0		456		456	456	0	61	3
14	58	46	59	Fusion27s	449	6		455		480	463	-8	57	-2
55	56	55	60	nordawg	454	0		454		454	454	0	62	2
34	62	52	61	beauchamp	447	5		452		478	461	-9	58	-3
57	64	45	62	gigrant	443	7		450		474	457	-7	60	-2
42	58	55	63	Chisock	449	0		449		449	449	0	63	0
62	63	55	64	sionnach99	444	0		444		444	444	0	64	0
52	65	55	65	trd3	426	0		426		426	426	0	65	0
64	66	55	66	loyalcanuck	423	0		423		423	423	0	66	0
45	67	55	67	DarthDurron	416	0		416		416	416	0	67	0
58	68	55	68	scottharra	415	0		415		415	415	0	68	0
71	69	55	69	scthallfan	400	0		400		400	400	0	69	0
69	70	55	70	deathdealer	398	0		398		398	398	0	70	0
72	71	55	71	spoonfed	312	0		312		312	312	0	71	0
70	72	55	72	tridentric	302	0		302		302	302	0	72	0

brianjw won both of his WS, so I need to beat jmissirlis (currently up 3-1), to take 1st.

Pre-Rank	Playoff Rank	Owner	Points
			Total	Per Team	Max	65M	90M	100M	110M	130M	255M
1	1	brianjw	114	19	186	16	31	16	14	6	31
8	2	jfranco77	100	20	155	31	25	7		31	6
4	3	ozomatli	96	16	186	7	31	14	25	13	6
9	3	jmissirlis	96	19.2	155	14	13	31	23		15
5	5	jbohrman	86	21.5	124		6	31	24	25
7	6	mildnhazy	85	17	155	16	7		24	31	7
17	7	crystalao	75	15	155	24	7		7	6	31
6	8	buddhagamer	71	11.83	186	31	15	5	6	7	7
10	9	dougpalm	67	16.75	124	7		23	31	6
25	10	Donburgh	64	21.33	93		24	15			25
2	11	discodemo	59	14.75	124		31	7	6	15
32	12	wink0094	58	11.6	155	24	7		7	5	15
22	13	redcped	53	17.67	93		22		15		16
27	14	magicdreamer	52	17.33	93	6		23		23
44	14	Humdogs	52	17.33	93			22		25	5
3	16	rbow923	51	12.75	124		15	14		6	16
16	17	justinlee_24	43	14.33	93	5	7		31
38	17	donaldjtrump	43	14.33	93		16			5	22
40	17	Jdh34	43	14.33	93	24			14	5
46	20	sprintracer	38	19	62					31	7
24	21	newarkwilder	37	18.5	62			6			31
35	22	odalisgagne	36	12	93		15	14	7
28	23	mpitt76	34	8.5	124	5		7		15	7
66	23	npg32433	34	11.33	93	22	7			5
65	25	Pebo	30	15	62	6		24
20	26	mdc2276	29	14.5	62	15				14
50	27	mick33	28	9.33	93				7	16	5
13	28	dippedncrack / schwarze	25	8.33	93	6			5	14
47	29	The Taint	24	24	31						24
67	30	garmansouth	23	11.5	62			7			16
33	31	ejstockman	21	10.5	62			15	6
51	31	jetscanes	21	5.25	124	6	5	5	5
12	33	bighooze	19	6.33	93	7			7		5
30	33	bothways	19	9.5	62	14	5
43	33	Jtpsops	19	9.5	62			6	13
48	33	thehuseman	19	9.5	62			5	14
18	37	mllama54	16	16	31	16
23	37	cstrohmier	16	16	31						16
11	39	shaybee	15	15	31				15
36	40	jjgreen14	13	6.5	62	6					7
54	40	zlionsfan	13	13	31		13
41	42	cubbies84	12	6	62		5	7
53	42	sjh0825	12	6	62			7			5
59	44	hurst47	10	5	62		5			5
57	45	gigrant	7	7	31		7
14	46	Fusion27s	6	6	31				6
15	46	homiealiens	6	6	31						6
31	46	frank_drebin	6	6	31				6
49	46	toddcommish	6	6	31			6
61	46	happyhours	6	6	31	6
68	46	midknight	6	6	31		6
34	52	beauchamp	5	5	31	5
39	52	NebHusker	5	5	31					5
63	52	mars2010	5	5	31					5
19	55	markeking	0	0	0
21	55	calhoop	0	0	0
25	55	tigerrott	0	0	0
29	55	ledfoot	0	0	0
37	55	kyleb63	0	0	0
42	55	Chisock	0	0	0
45	55	DarthDurron	0	0	0
52	55	trd3	0	0	0
55	55	nordawg	0	0	0
56	55	thejuice6	0	0	0
58	55	scottharra	0	0	0
60	55	thebubbaq	0	0	0
62	55	sionnach99	0	0	0
64	55	loyalcanuck	0	0	0
69	55	deathdealer	0	0	0
70	55	tridentric	0	0	0
71	55	scthallfan	0	0	0
72	55	spoonfed	0	0	0

ozomatli, how does a team get 26 Playoff Points, which I notice happens multiple times in the standings? To make the world series, a team scores 7 points for the wins, 5 points for making the playoffs, and 10 points for winning the first two playoff series which is 22 points. To get to 26 points, the team then has to win 4 games in the World Series - but that makes the team a World Series winner, and therefore the team has earned 31 points. Since most of the teams with 26 points are WS losers, and I noticed that no team has 25 points, I'm assuming all of these teams have been granted in error an additional point somehow...

Whoops -- those should be 25. Thanks for flagging that! Will change now

I am glad I won that game to make it instead of backing in because DJT lost. The fact that I am even in this position amazes me. Five teams above .500 and one team that gave a new definition, for me at least, in being noncompetitive. I thought I would need 4 playoff teams to have a shot at making a run but my Coors team which rallied back late to get into a playoff spot but couldn't finish the job. In this playoff run, I had 2 teams come back from 3-1 deficits to win LCS series I desperately needed. One against brianjw. Ironically, the team I thought would make the deepest playoff run, lost in the first round.

Back in early September, I threw up my hands after a few days of literally not winning and said I was setting my teams on auto-pilot. I believe that was the secret to my success. I put them on auto-pilot and checked in every other day to adjust pitchers and players that were becoming fatigued. I didn't want the teams to tank and throw of the results for everyone in the tournament. Although, it turns out that fatigue was not a huge issue for my teams, I just needed to make a few tweaks here and there. I would check in on individual team standings about once a week but not look at overall standings. With a few games left in the season, I added up all my wins and was surprised to find out that I was a few games over .500 overall. That's when I realized 4 playoff teams would give me a shot. I didn't look at overall standings to see where I stood until a 2 of my teams made it to the LCS. I believe the hands off approach unintentionally worked to my advantage. So much so, that when my 2 world series teams had that down 3-1 moment, I set everything up the way I wanted before game 5 and didn't check in with those teams until after game 7. Okay, for the last one against brianjw, I looked after game 6 but didn't touch anything until after game 7. In this case, truly, less was more.

oh man, I haven't checked in here expecting that I wouldn't make round two. If I'm reading this correctly I'm currently the last owner in, but the playoffs are not completed so this could still change?

Posted by bothways on 10/20/2018 5:30:00 PM (view original):
oh man, I haven't checked in here expecting that I wouldn't make round two. If I'm reading this correctly I'm currently the last owner in, but the playoffs are not completed so this could still change?

Says you are IN for sure. Congrats!

Posted by redcped on 10/20/2018 5:32:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bothways on 10/20/2018 5:30:00 PM (view original):
oh man, I haven't checked in here expecting that I wouldn't make round two. If I'm reading this correctly I'm currently the last owner in, but the playoffs are not completed so this could still change?

Says you are IN for sure. Congrats!

Thanks! I didn't notice the sitemail until after I had already posted this.

Ahh dammit

I beat jmissirlis so only two WS are ongoing. One may actually go into Monday but the other will finish tomorrow. I will post final standings at that time.