[Warhawk]

Well, we're basically locked in enough to do an end-of-regular-season update, with everyone with 2 games left.

The Las Vegas White Tigers (my money team, the others are F2P) have won the AC West in Silver .238, sitting at 103-57 25 games ahead of second place. Machado leads the conference in RBIs and is 5th in WAR, while Khris Davis has the third most HRs with 37. Corey Kluber was our best player this season, unfortunately he's likely to end up missing out in the Cy Young race. Kluber went 23-5 (most wins) with a 3.23 ERA (4th), 1.21 WHIP (7th), 208 Ks (5th), and a 5.7 WAR (2nd). Now, he'd be in a close race with Max Scherzer on our cross-town rivals, the Nighthawks, if it wasn't for Hal Newhouser, a pitcher for one of the wild card teams, who went 18-7 with a 2.36 ERA, a 1.07 WHIP, 231 Ks, and an 8.1 WAR. We do have the top closer in the conference, as A.J. Minter racked up a conference-leading 41 saves with a 1.61 ERA and a 1.04 WHIP. He is the only qualifying reliever in the conference who converted 100% of his save opportunities. As for late-season additions, Patrick Corbin is 2-0 despite giving up 14 runs in his first 3 starts; he's allowed 4 in his last 2 and will be the 3 or 4 along with Carrasco in the playoffs. We also have Joc Pederson moving into left field with Michael Conforto as our backup outfielder; Pederson (though only through 15 games) has the second highest OPS on the team, trailing only Charlie Blackmon, who was a mid-season addition himself. Blackmon's 400-something at bats aren't enough to qualify for the leaderboards but if they did he would be second in the conference in OPS.

The Las Vegas Black Panthers are 96-64 in Iron .181 and out of contention for the division at 3 games back. In fact, we're in third place, 2 games back of the second place team, so we will likely be playing a road wild card game even if we get to 98 wins. While McHugh seems to be coming out of his slump, I am planning on starting late-season addition Rick Sutcliffe in the wild card game, who hasn't allowed more than 2 runs in his last 7 starts and currently has a 2.22 ERA. Ernie Banks won't win the triple crown, but he will end up with the most HRs, 3rd most RBIs, and 5th highest batting average, plus the best OPS and second best WAR in the conference, a good candidate for MVP.

EDIT: Just checked and we have a losing record against the second place team in our division, so even if we catch them on the last day, which we might since we just won and they just lost, we're playing on the road in the wild card regardless.

The Las Vegas Golden Lions slumped a bit in early September, but still locked up the AC Central in Iron .161 easily, currently holding a record of 94-66 and a 10 game lead. Severino at least has an argument for the Cy Young though he joined the team late; he's now played enough to qualify for the leaderboards and has the second best ERA in the conference at 2.56, the third best WAR at 5.6, the fourth best WHIP at 1.10, the third best K/BB ratio, and a 16-6 record. Rizzo was our best hitter, racking up 32 HRs with an OPS of .860. I've been pleased with my late-season addition of starting pitcher Brad Peacock, who is 4-1 and hasn't allowed more than 2 runs in his last 5 games, and currently has an ERA of 2.81. He'll probably be my #2 guy in the playoffs, followed by Eduardo Rodriguez and J.A. Happ. Not loving my closer situation, Yoan Lopez has blown 10 saves in 49 attempts.