First the story....
2007
After 3 straight season of making the playoffs and just missing getting to the world championship this was supposed to be The Year.
Time to go for it. Payroll is about $700,000 under the $95m cap, $45m dedicated to the starting rotation. April comes and its time to get goin.... first 10 games of season 2-8 not a good start but thats okay we can turn it around right? Not yet, my $13m leadoff leftfielder who was the only player performing up to expectations goes down for 2 months with a broken hand.....
June Amateur draft rolls around... what a disaster of a season, bunch of underachiving millionaires 15 games under .500 near the bottom of the league in ERA & AVG and to add insult to injury my wife files for divorce after just under a year of marriage....
3 days later I meet this girl her name is Denise maybe things will start to turn around....
June passes with the team slowly improving after a trade of my underachieving $13m CF who the fans single handedly blamed for our playoff dissapointment the previous season...
The trade deadline approaches and I have some decisions to make. 2 of my starting pitchers who make $20m between them will be free agents one of them has seen his best days, I also have several other potential FA's to make decisions on. Do I dump players and rebuild for next year?
July 31st rolls around and after a very good month the team is now 50-54 but still 9 games back of the wild card with 8 teams in the way. Well I dont think we will make the playoffs so I dump most of my potential FA's(along with a tonne of salary), and pick up two mid 20's SP a 27 year old CF and a young SS. I decided to hang on to my 37 year old 3B who was having an excellent year but was also a FA.
The month of August was a good one climbing back over .500 and passing a few teams along the way but still we were 7 games back of a wild card....
September, first 2 weeks of the month we only lose 1 game and suddenly find ourselves within 3 games of the wild card team.
The last week of the season comes and we amazingly find ourselves 1GB of the WC. What a week, the WC team proceeds to lose a game and we are tied!!! 2nd to last day of season we win and are up by 1game. Last day of season we lose
but thats ok as StLouis loses their final game and we clinch the Wild Card by 1 game! We finish the season 89-73 and are set to make a run.
Ironically, in the first round we are facing the team which I traded one of my SP's for my CF and SS.... should be interesting.
To be continued....
Now the simple question
Is there any way to view your teams month by month records other than adding it all up manually by looking at your sched?