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Originally Posted by Warhawk
We've won 10 of our last 12 and clinched a playoff berth, but Singapore has won 12 of their last 13, so we're 5 games back. We've got 6 of our last 12 games against them though, so at least there's an opportunity to claw some games back head to head. We're 7-4 against them so far in the season.
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Welp, lost 4 of those 6, ended up at 101-61 and in the first wild card spot. Menifee and Broomfield at 89-73 are playing for the second spot. I did manage to at least set things up so that Maddux will be starting the wild card game. Maddux ended up with the most wins in the conference, going 24-5, and second in ERA by 3 hundreths to Singapore's Clemens at 2.73. Maddux also easily led pitchers in WAR at 7.7. Robinson was second in the conference at OPS at .910; both Ruth and Gehringer had a better OPS than the top player but Ruth joined late and Gehringer is in a platoon so neither had enough plate appearances to qualify. Sisler finished with the most home runs at 41.
The Black Knights in G.317 finished at 82-80, 8 games back in the wild card race. Bagwell had a great season - 33 HR (6th in the conference), 124 RBI (2nd), 5.5 WAR (3rd), .314/.375/.553 for a .929 OPS (2nd). That's about it though.
The Sun Kings in D.354 somehow won their division at 83-79 and will be the 3 seed. Slim chance of it happening, but it'd be weird if I made it to the perfect league with the mostly-live-reward Sun Kings but not the mostly-historical-perfect White Tigers. We led the conference in home runs but weren't really good at much else.
Over in PT20, the White Tigers are back in the playoffs after a rare down season, going 108-54 to capture the 3 seed in P.418. Eck was more or less back in form, recording his highest save total in 61 seasons with the team, racking up 49 of them and making a good case to break into the double digits with a potential 10th reliever of the year award. The Black Panthers in D.453 racked up their most wins ever, going 104-58 and getting the 1 seed, the only team in the league to win over 100 games. We led the conference in average, OBP, starter ERA, and FIP, and Bob Gibson in particular was desperately close once again to a pitching triple crown, finishing with the top ERA and strikeout marks but ending up 1 game back in wins with 21; he will likely get his second straight Cy Young though. The Golden Lions in D.396 went 96-66, ending up with the 3 seed on a tiebreaker. No real standouts, barely any players on any stat leaderboards, but I guess we were reasonably solid top to bottom.
So that's 5 playoff teams out of 6, one 1 seed, three 3 seeds, and a 101-win wild card.