Sim #25 Completed

I spent some time on the league file today and I think I got all of the player histories, team histories, and email messages restored. They somehow went missing during Nate's crashes. If you see something strange, let me know.

Simmed up to August 12 now. Biggest news of the sim, from a standings perspective, is in the Socratic League. Brooklyn has extended its lead over New York to seven full games. Meanwhile, Winnipeg is only 3.5 games behind New York. Can Hal's squad catch the Miracle Knights and make it back into the playoffs?

In the Platonic League, Pittsburgh's lead has extended back to five games by virtue of a four-game winning streak. Third-place Stockholm is now 20.5 games behind the Pisces, so the playoff match-up is pretty firmly set.

Miscellaneous notes:

Maryland lost Donald Mansfield for 4-5 weeks to a fractured wrist. No other major injuries to report.

The leading home run hitter in the Platonic League is impending free agent Carlos Araoz of Seattle. But, he has only 27 home runs, putting him on pace for just 36. Pretty low total for a league leader, if you ask me.

Bobby Stoops of Sylva threw his second shutout of the year and is the only Platonic pitcher with more than one complete game shutout.

Sylva's Frank Sherrick is the only Platonic League pitcher with an ERA under 3.00 and he sits at 2.99.

No player in either league has an OPS over 1.000.

Brendon Townsend of New Jersey leads the Socratic Lead (or is tied for the lead) in runs, RBI, home runs, triples, slugging percentage, and total bases. Nice campaign for the rightfielder. Nice job by Paul to sign him to an extension back in June.

Brooklyn's stud pitcher Tyler "Ex" Conn leads the Socratic League (or is tied for the lead) in wins, complete games, shutouts, quality starts, innings pitched, ERA, WHIP, and opponents' batting average. While he's benefiting from a league-low BABIP of 2.43, I don't think that's the only explanation.

Sylva smoked Stockholm 16-0 on August 9. Ouch.

Next sim should be Monday by Nate, as the two of us appear to have worked through our computer issues. League file is posted and web pages en route.