I should have created this thread a long time ago.

I had an interesting result in tonight's pm2 session. Here are the scores of my six games.

League 1: Loss 14-9
League 2: Loss 13-12
League 3: Win 12-11
League 4: Loss 11-5
League 5: Win 14-10
League 6: Win 10-9

That's a total of 130 runs scored across 6 games, which equates to an average of almost 11 runs per team, per game.

For comparison purposes, here is the average runs scored per game, per team, in each league.

League 1: 6.86
League 2: 5.30 (The Deadball era)
League 3: 7.79 (The Ruth era)
League 4: 6.62
League 5: 6.13
League 6: 5.41 (The 1960's)

It has been an interesting season for my team Sink or Swim as league 2 winds down. In the 31 games before the All-Star break my team went 5-26 (.161%). With the competition so high in these leagues I will usually have to overcome a 10 to 15 game "rough stretch" if I want to advance, but I can't remember a 31 game "rough stretch". My record outside of that 31 game stretch is 61-53 (.535 %), certainly not great but enough to advance. Even if I went 12-19 (.387%) in those 31 games I would be on pace to advance. That being said, my team is on a .455% pace and won't advance. For me that is not an uncommon occurrence, it's how that .455% was distributed that was strange.

The ineptitude of my League 7 team is baffling. My lineup has upwards of 275 HRs in a +2 homer park. Not only is my offense barely homering, but my pitching staff is giving up plenty of their own despite relatively good HR/9 numbers. A 2-16 record is nuts given some of the homer-prone pitching of that era.

For purposes of the playoffs, I need to do a better job of picking my division.

League 1:
The 3rd place team in the AL East is .500 or better and has a better record than the 1st place team in the AL West.
(Of course, it doesn't matter if I win 110 games)

League 3
The 3rd place team in the NL East is .500 or better and has a better record than the 1st place team in the NL West
Currenty at 71-54 (3rd place), while NL West division leader is 63-62.

League 5
The 3rd place team in the NL West is .500 or better and has a better record than the 1st place team in the NL East
Third place team is currently at 40-37 while NL West division leader is 38-39.

League 7
The 3rd place team in the NL West is .500 or better and has a better record than the 1st place team in the NL East
Third place team is currently at 15-8 while NL West division leader is 11-12

I'm in each of the "tougher" divisions. Poor job by me on division placement.

league two. two game lead with two to go.

out on tiebreaker.

@#%!#$^@#$&@$%&@#$%!#%!@%

It's early in the season, but here are the triple slashes of my first five picks in league 8
1.Sandberg .241/.328/.315 (real life .314/.367/.520)
2.Brett .176/.338/.176 (.335/.436/.585)
3.Raines .270/.324/.381 (.320/.405/.475)
4.Ripken ..226/.293/.264 (.304/.374/.510)
5.Henderson .180/.254/.279 (.319/.408/.437)

League 1...69-58 with 35 to go, leading the division by 7-9 games. Boom, light switch flips, 11 game losing streak and 14 of 15. Last 35, just 11-24. Lost the division by 6 and missed the cut for 4th by 3 gms. 15-20 would have made rd 2...unreal collapse.

This is a fun stat to post:
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League 6 - Top Exp Win% teams and their real life records (thru 87 games)
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Team, Exp Win%, Real Life Record
1. Jtpsops .604, 50-37
2. footballmm11 .570, 50-37
3. schwarze .552, 42-45
4. ronthegenius .532, 50-37
5. chewy3344 .531, 50-37

Just a brutal run for all my teams...

League 8
After taking a 1-0 World Series lead, we lose 4 straight, including two shutouts and two 1-run games.

League 9
?Was 67-52. Gone 1-7 since (four 1-run losses). This is a highly competitive NL where six of the eight teams are projected win 86+ games (meaning 2 won't advance)

League 10
Was 20 games over .500 before recent 3-14 run. Now basically playing .500 ball since then. My supposed best real-life pitcher ('02 Lowe, 1.99 erc#) is my team's worst pitcher (6.46 era). My team's supposed best real-life hitter ('06 Hafner, .308/.439/.659) has been benched for sucking so bad (.183/.319/.283). Luckily, leading a bad AL West division.

League 11
Was hanging around .500 until a recent 2-6 skid. My 2nd round pick ('09 Carpenter) has a 6.03 ERA. Sadly, that is the best ERA among my five SPs. Sure - you can blame my home park (Hilltop) for bad pitching. I have a 6.62 ERA at home and a 5.51 ERA on the road. I assumed that the upside of playing in Hilltop is that my hitters would benefit, yet my offense has .273/.361/.433 slash at home a .273/.365/.447 slash on the road. WTF? How is that even possible?

League 12
Hanging around .500 all year (currently 27-28). This is how a home park is supposed to affect your team. Remember that in this league, I drafted pitchers early and often for the only time in round. On the road, my team ERA is ranked 4th in the league (4.44). At home (Bennett Park), we're dead last (5.93). Overall, my team ERA is worse than footballmm11, who drafted all hitters first (4.77 to 5.11). How is that possible?

Offensively, we're 3rd in OPS at home (.860) and somehow, fourth on the road (.791). The 4-11 record in 1-run games is why my W-L record isn't better