I already messed something up, so I have to give results only since I made the mistake of classifying tournament games as Spring Training. Unfortunately, once the "real" Spring Training began, it erased all previously simmed games. Oh well, I wrote down results of series before scheduling the next games, so I at least have the brackets to share.
There is a "lie" in the tournament results based on the official Spring Training results. It may skew true expectations for the player (Fogcrawler, Thompson stats).
BNN Weekly Report
This Week in the CBO, BMU, GBRL, and BYDL
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
30 March 2301
2301 CBO Nuka Cup Preseason Tournament
This season, the Nuka Cup Tournament dropped the NWL and instead became a single CBO tournament with six teams in a bracket of each of the top-finishing teams in 2300. Diamond City, Fort Hagen, Vault 81, and Nordhagen Beach were considered hosts in the double-elimination tournament.
Additionally, each of the bracket rounds before the championship round featured a three-game series with the team winning two or three games in each round advancing to the next round. In the bracket championships, teams played a four-game series with the winner's bracket team needing to win two or more games. The loser's bracket team had to win three or four games to advance.
Following the bracket championships, there was one more double-elimination tournament with the winners of the Diamond City and Nordhagen Beach brackets facing off in the first series and the winners of the Fort Hagen and Vault 81 brackets facing off in the other semifinal series.
Round dates were as follows:
Round 1: March 1-3
Round 2: March 4-6
Round 3: March 7-9
Round 4: March 10-12
Round 5: March 13-15
Bracket Championships: March 16-19
Semifinal Round: March 21-23
Final Round: March 25-27
Results:
Semifinals:
Nordhagen Beach 2, University Point 1
Sunshine Tidings 2, Quincy 1
Third Place:
University Point 2, Quincy 1
Championship:
Nordhagen Beach 3, Sunshine Tidings 0
Analysis
Nordhagen Beach continues to look to be the class of the North Charles Association, while Sunshine Tidings manager Ray Pratt's offseason methods may have paid off for his team.
The Party Boys now have a death row of starting pitchers with Beachboy Nut, Tommy Beach, Chet Arthur, and Julian Shed. LF Michael Fogcrawler batted .319 with 2 homers and 14 RBI to lead the offense in the full tournament.
The Chemists look to have an emerging star in 3B Cy Thompson, the 2298 1st-round pick from the Diamond City Newsboys. While the young Thompson is entering his second full season on the CBO squad, he hit only .210 with 8 home runs and 45 RBI. However, in the tournament, he batted .348 with 3 homers and 9 RBI.