I don't know if you all have notice this so far but Seattle is up by 10.5 games while Jersey City is up by only 3.5 games even though Jersey City has a better record overall.
Normally I would account for this by arguing about depth of talent in a league. Simple enough. But looking at the records at the BOTTOM of each league shows Winnipeg with 35 wins and Cairo with 36. Not a huge disparity at all.
Then I looked in the middle and saw that the Socratic League had 50% of it's teams with 60 or more wins whereas the Platonic League only had one team in that category. "Ah ha!" says I, "something's going on here! Quick, to the data cave!"
It turns out that the relative records of the league show something interesting. Even though they're played very close to the same number of games to date the Socratic League has racked up 315 wins while the Platonic League has only 299. The SL is up 8 games on the PL overall! Since wins and losses are normally a zero-sum game the only means of accounting for the discrepancy is through inter-league games!
Ergo, the Socratic League is beating the pants off of the Platonic League in Interleague Play! Yay for us!
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Since I am floundering just above .500, but still hold the wild card, I can only remark:
Ha ha! It's good to be Platonic.
And I am 10 games up on Pittsburgh, and barely up on the wildcard. But I have to admit I like a good race. Will the best team win. (Of course Brooklyn is the best team)
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