League Activity Season to Date

Standings

The following is a review of league team summaries through seven (7) weeks (season to date). I have also included standings of the last three (3) weeks to reflect who are the short term teams on the rise, as well as those losing ground.

Rank	Team	W-L-T	Percentage	GB	Last 3 Weeks	3Wk Rank
1.	Stars	49-26-09	.637	-	18-13-05	3.
2.	Halfway Hardballers	49-30-05	.613	2	16-16-04	7.
3.	Ageless One	45-29-10	.595	3.5	17-13-06	6.
4.	New York Uticans	43-36-05	.542	8	22-13-01	1.
5.	Blind Squirrels	42-36-06	.536	8.5	16-16-04	7.
6.	BASEMAN	40-39-05	.506	11	16-18-02	9.
7.	Plasmatics	38-41-05	.482	13	21-14-01	2.
8.	Champions	35-43-06	.452	15.5	18-15-03	4.
9.	REDS	37-45-02	.452	15.5	18-16-02	5.
10.	Tenn Hitters	33-42-09	.446	16	10-21-05	11.
11.	Zonk	30-47-07	.399	20	14-19-03	10.
12.	Morning Wood	25-52-07	.339	25	10-22-04	12.

Hitting

The following reflects the hitting stats and reflects who the better hitting teams are. Total is a summary of each teams stat categories. Top 6 reflects the stats of each team that rank in the upper half of the league. This stat also serves as a tie breaker of teams with the identical points.

Rank	Team	Runs	Hits	HRs	RBIs	SBs	Ave.	Total	Top6
1.	Stars	1	4	3	1	9	2	20	5
1.	Halfway Hardballers	3	1	2	4	6	4	20	5
3.	Ageless One	4	5	4	2	6	5	26	6
4.	Plasmatics	5	2	8	8	1	3	27	4
5.	Tenn Hitters	2	6	5	3	11	6	33	5
6.	New York Uticans	6	3	7	6	12	1	35	4
7.	Blind Squirrels	9	7	5	4	3	7	35	3
8.	Champions	7	10	1	7	6	8	39	2
9.	BASEMAN	8	9	10	9	2	11	49	1
10.	Zonk	10	8	8	10	10	9	55	0
11.	REDS	12	11	11	11	4	19	59	1
12.	Morning Wood	11	12	12	12	4	12	63	1

Pitching

The following reflects the pitching stats and reflects who the better pitching teams are. Total is a summary of each teams stat categories. Top 6 reflects the stats of each team that rank in the upper half of the league. This stat also serves as a tie breaker of teams with the identical points.

Rank	Team	W	L	SV	BB	K	ERA		Total	Top6
1.	BASEMAN	1	1	7	5	1	1		16	5
2.	Morning Wood	4	2	3	11	2	3		25	5
3.	REDS	5	7	2	6	8	5		33	4
4.	Halfway Hardballers	5	3	11	4	4	11		38	4
5.	Zonk	2	12	1	10	5	8		38	3
6.	Stars	12	9	4	3	9	2		39	3
7.	Champions	3	4	12	9	6	6		40	4
8.	Ageless One	9	6	5	1	12	7		40	3
9.	Blind Squirrels	11	10	5	2	10	4		42	3
10.	Tenn Hitters	9	7	8	8	8	7		47	0
11.	Plasmatics	8	11	9	7	3	10		48	1
12.	New York Uticans	5	4	10	12	11	12		54	2

Overall

The following refects the overall power of the teams in our league which includes both

Standings			Power Rankings
Rank	Team	W-L-T	Rank	Points	Top 6
1.	Stars	49-26-09	2.	59	8
2.	Halfway Hardballers	49-30-05	1.	58	9
3.	Ageless One	45-29-10	4.	66	9
4.	New York Uticans	43-36-05	10.	89	6
5.	Blind Squirrels	42-36-06	6.	77	6
6.	BASEMAN	40-39-05	3.	65	6
7.	Plasmatics	38-41-05	5.	75	5
8.	Champions	35-43-06	7.	79	6
9.	REDS	37-45-02	11.	92	5
10.	Tenn Hitters	33-42-09	8.	80	5
11.	Zonk	30-47-07	12.	93	3
12.	Morning Wood	25-52-07	9.	88	6

Summary

I believe the age old question regarding hitting and pitching – which is the most valuable of the two categories has been answered in our league. Look at the better pitching teams and then relate that review to where those teams are in the standings. Then repeat the review for the hitting. Which category closely resembles the league standings. The conclusion is night and day.

There has been a little shifting over the shorter term past three (3) weeks.

Teams On The Move

New York Uticans due to increased hitting strength. Plasmatics due to pitching strength. Stars based upon average matchups. REDS based upon overall good results coming off a slumping period. Champions has improved and apparently has woke up.

Struggling to be Competitive Teams

Halfway Hardballers may be falling to a lower level Ageless One has head just above water – hanging in. Blind Squirrels has improved stats but still playing only.500 ball. BASEMAN is playing just below .500 and needs to improve.

Teams Needing Changes Tenn Hiters has fallen on hard times and looks likely to continue.

Zonk has under-performed, needs to do something. Morning Wood needs to take out the #1 driver and start hitting the ball in the morning, noon and night.

Teams with Roster Problems

Stars will have weeks to wait for M. Ramirez to return to being active. Currently his roster allows for that. However, his torrid hitting will be leveled to a normal state and his pitching staff will be forced to outperform his opposition. On the other hand, his staff is capable of doing just that. The team would not want to be in the position that Utica was in. Just a note – if he had Dustin Pedroia, Hanley Ramírez and Jake Peavy on DL for weeks, then he would be in trouble as Utica was. Halfway Hardballers pitching might be over-ranked. Ageless One has same problem as Stars has, except a wee bit more severe. He will have to wait some time to get Aramis Ramírez and José Valverde back to being active. New York Uticans must now get his roster in proper structure mode. Needs to trade hitters for pitchers. Zonk’s objectives are a mystery to me. Already loaded in pitching and is looking to improve that with decent hitters to give away. Perhaps he should be focused upon giving up some of his slumping big name hitters to improve his hitting first. I don’t know. Morning Wood needs hitting desperately and will not improve until the team lands a trade totally favorable for a huge improvement in 5 hitting stat categories. Blind Squirrels, BASEMAN, Plasmatics, Champions, REDS and Tenn Hitters rosters are not in trouble, but need to make key free agent pickups when the opportunities permit that.

Future Short Term Outlook

This is a minor review needed by a contributer to our postings. Using the above stats, one should review the strength of schedule over the next four (4) weeks and estimate who will improve position and who won’t.

Report and Stats composed by Kerm