FOOL-X 1972 Regular Season

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by hyde4us11

I'm alot better at home i guess. looking for something positive here lol.

How about having a top 6 pick and the benefit of not losing a 1st rounder if you wanna make a free agent splash?

[Alan T]

9/24:

Balzac 13, Mexico City 2
Washington 3, London 2
Boston 7, Indianapolis 2

Boston clinches a playoff spot with Mexico City and Washington both being eliminated!

Ann Arbor 14, New York 8
Portland 8, Spring 1
Virginia Beach 9, Cleveland 0

Portland has clinched the 1972 Republic League Regular Season title!

Ann Arbor 88-73 (M#1)
Spring 87-74 (1 GB)

Virginia Beach has been eliminated from the postseason.

[Montreal_GM]

Congrats Boston, London, and Portland.

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by Montreal_GM

How about having a top 6 pick and the benefit of not losing a 1st rounder if you wanna make a free agent splash?

Thats the positive after im officially out of it.

[Alan T]

Ann Arbor only has to win to clinch a playoff spot. Spring has to beat Portland and hope for New York to beat Ann Arbor to tie and force a best of 3 playoff series with Ann Arbor.

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by hyde4us11

Thats the positive after im officially out of it.

Looks like we'll both enjoy the benefits of a top 6 pick.

[Alan T]

9/25:

New York 11, Ann Arbor 6
Spring 10, Portland 5

Ann Arbor 88-74
Spring 88-74

The two teams end the season tied and are now forced to play a best of 3 playoff vs each other. Ann Arbor had the better head to head record during the season over Spring 17 to 16, so will have home field advantage in the three game playoff.

[Alan T]

9/26:

Spring 3, Ann Arbor 1

[Alan T]

9/27:

Spring 8, Ann Arbor 4

The Spring Lions has clinched the final playoff spot for 1972!

[gstelmack]

Well, we tried hard to give the playoff spot to one of the other teams, but none of them seemed to want it, so I guess we'll take it.

And of course given the way the regular season went I think this means we're nicely setup to sweep London in the playoffs, probably in dramatic blowout fashion each game...

[Montreal_GM]

WTG Tasan.

Thanks Alan for making the morning fun.

[Alan T]

Final 1972 Standings:

Continental League Standings

Team W L PCT GB Pyt.Rec Diff Home Away XInn 1Run M# Streak Last10 London Bishops 107 55 .660 - 106-56 1 52-29 55-26 11-2 25-20 Clinched W1 6-4 Boston Resettlers 83 79 .512 24.0 78-84 5 38-43 45-36 5-5 24-20 L1 4-6 Mexico City Aztecs 82 80 .506 25.0 86-76 -4 39-42 43-38 4-11 16-25 W1 5-5 Washington Freedom 81 81 .500 26.0 80-82 1 44-37 37-44 11-8 26-22 L1 6-4 Balzac Ticklers 68 94 .420 39.0 73-89 -5 41-40 27-54 8-14 18-24 L1 3-7 Indianapolis Clowns 65 97 .401 42.0 65-97 0 27-54 38-43 8-7 21-19 W1 6-4

Republic League Standings

Team W L PCT GB Pyt.Rec Diff Home Away XInn 1Run M# Streak Last10 Portland Grocers 90 72 .556 - 94-68 -4 53-28 37-44 3-7 19-18 Clinched L1 5-5 Spring Lions 90 74 .549 1.0 93-71 -3 41-41 49-33 6-4 20-22 W3 5-5 Ann Arbor Wolverines 88 76 .537 3.0 93-71 -5 42-40 46-36 2-7 19-22 L3 5-5 Virginia Beach Surf 87 75 .537 3.0 82-80 5 50-31 37-44 8-3 26-14 W2 7-3 New York Legends 70 92 .432 20.0 65-97 5 32-49 38-43 5-5 16-17 W1 5-5 Cleveland Naps 63 99 .389 27.0 65-97 -2 39-42 24-57 7-5 17-24 L2 3-7

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

Well, we tried hard to give the playoff spot to one of the other teams, but none of them seemed to want it, so I guess we'll take it.

And of course given the way the regular season went I think this means we're nicely setup to sweep London in the playoffs, probably in dramatic blowout fashion each game...

I knew my bullpen was gonna be rough when I pulled 3 of my relievers into the rotation but I think it was ultimately the correct path. My 3 pitch starters after Arai were dreadful.

[Alan T]

Final League leaders for 1972:

League Leaders AVG I. Pérez - NY .357 2 P. Ontiveros BOS .341 3 R. LaVergne SPG .330 4 Y. Ohayashi IND .329 5 M. Boulanger NY .326	League Leaders HR J. Pegán - ANN 56 2 R. Cook ANN 50 2 T. Tizzard ANN 50 4 B. Clark VIR 48 5 R. Demers POR 47	League Leaders RBI B. Clark - VIR 148 2 R. Cook ANN 146 2 R. Flores BAL 146 2 T. Tizzard ANN 146 2 M. Zaragoza SPG 146
League Leaders W Y. Bujold - LON 27 2 J. Ríos ANN 21 3 R. Madden ANN 19 3 M. Morales SPG 19 3 T. White LON 19	League Leaders ERA Y. Bujold - LON 2.45 2 C. Butler WAS 3.14 3 M. Morales SPG 3.15 4 T. O'Reilly CLE 3.18 5 E. Meléndez BOS 3.23	League Leaders K J. Ríos - ANN 330 2 Y. Bujold LON 287 3 M. Morales SPG 269 4 K. Maeda ANN 254 5 I. Ordóñez NY 245

[CleBrownsfan]

#1 pick - yeah!

Congrats to the playoff teams - and sorry Montreal_GM... eventually we'll get to the post season.

[Montreal_GM]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

#1 pick - yeah!

Perhaps you'll get that stud SP spect you're wanting.

[Alan T]

Myron Moran (Boston) sets a single season record for saves with 54.

Tom O'Reilly (Cleveland) sets a single season record for Complete games with 10.

Yann Bujold (London) sets a single season record for WHIP with 0.96

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

Well, we tried hard to give the playoff spot to one of the other teams, but none of them seemed to want it, so I guess we'll take it.

And of course given the way the regular season went I think this means we're nicely setup to sweep London in the playoffs, probably in dramatic blowout fashion each game...

I always root for the underdog in this sense (not a personal thing London). I'll be watching and rooting you along.

[spleen1015]

I like the fast pace of the league because you get the bad seasons behind you quickly.

WTF do you do when every season is a bad season?

[hyde4us11]

Our heavenly father who art in fake baseball heaven i pray for progression of prospects.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

I like the fast pace of the league because you get the bad seasons behind you quickly.

WTF do you do when every season is a bad season?

Joking answer: Slip something into London's team bus.


Serious answer: Plan a rebuild around a core of 3 strong starting pitchers roughly the same young age that are prospects. Look at the rest of your team and find anyone that is a few years or more older than that age range and start shopping them around for more prospects that can fall into that age range. If you can't find anyone to trade for certain pending free agents, let them walk at the age of 30-32 when still attractive to other teams to pick up to get back type A/B compensation instead of just holding onto them and letting them leave at age 36+ when it is less likely other teams will pick them up.

Edit: And don't rush up your young prospects until you are ready to compete as a team, or they are old enough that you need to in order to not stunt growth. That will save you service years that you can keep your team together. (ie: bringing up a stud pitcher at 22 instead of 25 means you have to pay them big bucks 3 years earlier down the road.

[Alan T]

new file is up! Playoffs run tomorrow.

[Montreal_GM]

After checking out the file my relief unit wasn't so bad after all. I guess my boys were just a bit unlucky.

My offense was very poor in a few areas. Good news is I have a 3 bats hitting AA/AAA (looking like they're developing decently) and a huge amount of cash to spend in the coming seasons.

I think I'll break into the postseason very very soon.

[Young Drachma]

I knew my team was good and I was gunning desperately for the playoffs this year. But I didn't know if we'd falter or not. I couldn't be happier with that outcome.

[Tasan]

Wow....my pen must be the horribleness I was expecting. Our record in 1 run games is awful. Also, I thought it was pretty funny that in the RL the top 3 teams all played well under expected. It was like a battle of who could back into the playoffs first.

Congrats fellow playoff teams. Like I say in FOOL, good luck unless you're playing me!