NLD 64 - This League is on Fiers

WTG Spider. You've been having a lot of success the last few years. Maybe it's time to write a book and share your secrets.

Thanks to all for the comments. It's been crazy this season. I've had my worst ever Players Championship season (bottom 30% of those who played all 5 events). Then in this group - full of outstanding players - I've had my best streak ever. The playoff format was favorable for a decent pitching staff. Three good starters can be used in six games.

Of course, it takes a lot of luck to make the playoffs five years in a row.

I went ahead and posted the NLD History. Figure we all have time to check it out before next Spring. Speaking of which, I will be out of the country until March 2. Seems like the cards are posted after that so we should be fine.

Here's the link, you'll have to copy paste. www.angelfire.com/games5/joethejet/NLD_History.xls

Notes on this season

Of course, the big news is Spider winning 4 of 5 which has never happened before. No one is even close to that kind of continued success. Gbrookes won his first 3 in a row, but never again. The shortest amount of seasons with 4 is Stoney and he did it over 12 seasons.
In fact, only 7 players have four Rings.
Spider has six in 30 seasons. That's a 20% win rate.
He's been in the playoffs 47% (14 of 30) and won 43% (6 of 14) of those 14 appearances. Only Big M has a better percentage in more than 5 appearances, and he was only in 7 playoffs. GBrookes is also at 43% with 3 in 7.
JTJ lost in the playoffs for the 10th straight appearance. The record is 13 straight by Silver. The closest in this futility are Stones (on a current six time streak, and one other time) and JTJ who had another six game stretch. Looking closer, he's lost 16 of his last 17. Thank God for NLD 42!
On the positive side for those two:

JTJ and Stoney are closing in on Silver's .525 winning PCT. Not sure it's possible to stay ahead of Silver given the quality of the current competition.
Stones has made the playoffs three straight, 4 of 5, 7 of 9 and 8 of 12. He has a 50% playoff appearance pct.
JTJ is at 44% after breaking a 2 season drought.
Despite missing the last two before this one, JTJ has made 6 of the last 9 and 7 of 11

Steve made the playoffs for the first time in four appearances.
Randal participated in his 10th season and now is in the "top half" of the record book. Only Steve has been in less than 10 seasons of the current group. In fact, the current group ahs been the same over the past five seasons.

Best record won for the 23rd time.
The Std Dev on record was one of the highest ones, rating 54th highest at 9.1.
The difference between the the best and worst record was 30 games which is the highest in 10 seasons.

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Hey Jeep--my league with Contreras at C just finished...He was runner up in Gold Glove!!!

Hey Jeep--my league with Contreras at C just finished...He was runner up in Gold Glove!!!

LOL. That's funny. Well, for me and you, probably not Jeep!

Merry Christmas to the NLD!

That's crazy Milleram!

This was the first time I had owned him this year. Offense good, but "D" cost me for sure.

And Merry Christmas all NLDers!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Alright fellas, welcome to the first full day of Spring.

SOMO has started so it's time to see what we can do. I have a FTF thing this Friday, but should be able to start drafting next week.

Who's in for NLD 65

East
BigAlric 63
dalekeener 67
milleram 77
klx22 77 (won season series 6-3)

Central
Jeepdriver 79
nythawk 82
RandyW64 83
Semper Gumby 85

West
stevep107 86
Stoney18 92
joethejet 88 - IN
Spider 67 93