Just 15 days left in the regular season and playoffs are right around the corner. Mack's famous bullet point summary follows.
In the Platonic League, Seattle's lead is 12 games and the Ministry's magic number is down to four. Pittsburgh extended its lead in the wild card by a game and now sits 5.5 ahead of Maryland.
In the Socratic League, Brooklyn has survived a four-game losing streak to stay three games in the lead. Helena still holds the wild card spot with a fragile one-game lead over third-place Jersey City. All three teams appear to be staggering rather than sprinting toward the finish though.
Winnipeg has all but sewed up the first pick in next year's draft, finding itself eight games behind Cairo.
Seattle's George Pullum and Brooklyn's Miyatorou Takenao continue their remarkable seasons by taking the latest Player of the Week honors. Takenao maintained his average at .402.
The Pisces, although is strong position for the wild card, were devastated by injuries, losing two starters in the same game. Third baseman Tyler Payne is out for the season while centerfielder Tracy Snyder is out only nine to ten weeks. Of course, the season won't last nine to ten weeks, so that's of scant comfort to me.
In significant games, Seattle beat Brooklyn on September 7 to take their three-game set 2-1 while Pittsburgh rode a shutout by Wilfred DeSilva to do the same over Jersey City and Maryland did likewise over Helena. (Go Platonic League!)
In the crucial three-game set from September 8-10, Pittsburgh took two of the first three of their four game series with Maryland to perhaps put the wild card out of reach.
In the next sim, Pittsburgh and Maryland finish their series and Brooklyn and Helena will play the first game of a crucial four-game series.
The league file is uploaded and the web pages are in process. Next sim will be by Nate on Monday and the regular season will end next Friday. The first week of playoff schedules is up on the main league page, so be aware. The first playoff sim will likely be morning or midday (Pacific time) on December 24, so be aware.
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Bummer about the Pisces injuries. Just to clarify, Tracy Snider isn't actually out 9-10 weeks; he's day to day for 9 weeks (92%). According to the website, anyway.
Go Platonic league!!
What a screwy schedule. The first game of the next sim is the last home game of the season for me. After that, no one will get to see Stockholm in the autumn (which isn't necessarily something to be missed).
Finishing on the road is going to hurt my chances catching Sylva for 4th place. Next year's goal? .500.
Well, Snider is my clean-up hitter and he's pretty pathetic as a clean-up hitter for a playoff team. He doesn't have 10% effectiveness left to lose.
Between the injuries and first baseman Bruce Bremer coming down with a terminal case of the "olds", it's going to be a bloodbath in the first round of the playoffs if the Pisces make it that far.
And, the schedule is something we're going to need to pay attention to next offseason. It's been bizarre two years in a row now.
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