Home Run Derby 2006 stuff

[The Biomechanical Man]

Standings: Homerun Derby 2006

EAST Manager W L PCT GB
Homewood Homers The Biomechanical Man 50 46 .521 -
Thermal Power Millercorps 50 46 .521 -
AmesExpress Lexicons 2 errormagnate 49 47 .510 1.0
Venice Sun Maxie Minoso 48 48 .500 2.0

CENTRAL Manager W L PCT GB
Mayberry Fifes RangerJoe 56 40 .583 -
Hormonal Imbalance bigmahon 47 49 .490 9.0
Location Nickname pepsi4dan 46 50 .479 10.0
Ultimate Computer F.O.X 40 56 .417 16.0

WEST Manager W L PCT GB
MUSCLE Shoals BULGES he's meat 57 39 .594 -
BoSox Bullies Dusty Hill 53 43 .552 4.0
Hard Ball B.o.b.b.y... 49 47 .510 8.0
Irish Men 30 daly6599 31 65 .323 26.0

[The Biomechanical Man]

There are only 9 games left, and 10 teams are still in the race. Here are the wins so far, broken down by pre- and post- pitcher draft...

Standings: Homerun Derby 2006
(Wins before Game 96) + (Wins since Game 96) = (Wins so far)

EAST WINS
Homewood Homers 50+30=80
Venice Sun 48+32=80
AmesExpress Lexicons 2 49+30=79
Thermal Power 50+25=75

CENTRAL WINS
Mayberry Fifes 56+29=85
Hormonal Imbalance 47+31=78
Location Nickname 46+31=77
Ultimate Computer 40+21=61

WEST WINS
Hard Ball 49+40=89
MUSCLE Shoals BULGES 57+26=83
BoSox Bullies 53+29=82
Irish Men 30 31+18=49

[MEAT]

how bout records since...january 27th was when ten teams took a stud pitcher, and the BULGES dropped lemon and wera and started to create some $ to grab a pitcher, and waited and waited.... didn't finally pull the trigger until february 8th with the misbegotten perranoski/garber mistake, then on the 10th, finally decided on barney schultz, dropping milt may in the process. schultz is 1-2 with an average at best 7.41 e.r.a., and the team is 9-12 since the 8th, and 6-9 since adding schultz. so is it the barney curse, losing the good-natured lemon, or just my trademark fold after a great run through the first 130-games or so. hard to believe I led bobby by 8-games at game 96, and now trail by six with the west all but clinched!

[bkeat23]

Sorry for the intrusion :oops:

Meat, we're going to lose 2 owners if you don't get a team entered tonite :shock:

Thanks.

[The Biomechanical Man]

Standings: Homerun Derby 2006
(Wins before Game 96) + (Wins since Game 96) = (Wins)

EAST WINS
Homewood Homers 50+35=85
Venice Sun 48+37=85
AmesExpress Lexicons 2 49+33=82
Thermal Power 50+30=80

CENTRAL WINS
Mayberry Fifes 56+31=87
Hormonal Imbalance 47+37=84
Location Nickname 46+36=82
Ultimate Computer 40+26=66

WEST WINS
Hard Ball 49+45=94
MUSCLE Shoals BULGES 57+33=90
BoSox Bullies 53+33=86
Irish Men 30 31+20=51

[The Biomechanical Man]

Did it help to cut hitting budget and add a midseason stud pitcher? You decide. Here are the pitchers who were added, listed from most expensive to least expensive. The ones who made the postseason are in [b:1c52386139]bold[/b:1c52386139]:
Alexander $12.33m
Brown $11.08m
Pfiester $11.03m
Camnitz $10.61m
Cicotte $10.53m
Clemens $10.34m
Hubbell $10.11m
Adams $9.77m
[b:1c52386139]Young $9.59m
Schultz $6.07m
Hernandez $5.31m
Walker $3.58m
[/b:1c52386139]

It wasn't too long ago that we held a one-round draft to be fair who got the higher priced pitchers.

[bigmahon]

Glenn, I'm a bit surprised that you would find this very interesting. :P

Does it not stand to reason that the teams with the smallest chance of making the postseason at the 96 game mark would have taken the highest price pitchers? The results you posted seem fairly logical and intuitive to me.

I think the results speak for themselves in my case:

Before Camitz - [b:8edeb58700].490[/b:8edeb58700]

After Camitz - [b:8edeb58700].561[/b:8edeb58700]

:shock:

[The Biomechanical Man]

Hmmm, let's look at things a different way then. Combining my last two postings, here are the team success after Game 96 (list from best to worst second half).

Team, Pitcher, Wins after Game 96 draft:
Hard Ball, Walker, $3.58m, 45 wins
Venice Sun, Pfiester, $11.03m, 37 wins
Hormonal Imbalance, Camnitz, $10.61m, 37 wins
Location Nickname, Adams, $9.77m, 36 wins
Homewood Homers, Young, $9.59m, 35 wins
MUSCLE Shoals BULGES, Schultz, $6.07m, 33 wins*
AmesExpress Lexicons2, Cicotte, $10.53m, 33 wins
BoSox Bullies, Clemens, $10.34m, 33 wins
Mayberry Fifes, Hernandez, $5.31m, 31 wins
Thermal Power, Hubbell, $10.11m, 30 wins
Ultimate Computer, Brown, $11.08m, 26 wins
Irish Men, Alexander, $12.33m, 20 wins

* Picked up Schultz well after Game 96

Now it looks more random. The teams with the more expensive pick-ups sometimes did well, and sometimes didn't. :roll: