We should broaden our perspectives

Here are the current (as of Tuesday morning) EFL standings.

Standings: Week 7, Game 1 (May 6)

Team	Wins	Losses	WPct	GB
Old Detroit Wolverines	10.45	26.55	.282	13.7
Kaline Drive	13.94	23.06	.377	10.2
Portland Rosebuds	17.85	19.15	.482	6.3
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	17.87	19.13	.483	6.2
Haviland Dragons	18.01	18.99	.487	6.1
Cascadia Glaciers	18.05	18.95	.488	6.1
Salem Seraphim	18.05	18.95	.488	6.1
Peshastin Pears	18.09	18.91	.489	6.0
Flint Hill Tornadoes	18.35	18.65	.496	5.8
D.C. Balk	20.09	16.91	.543	4.0
Canberra Kangaroos	24.11	12.89	.652	0.0

No, really! I got this off our league home page just now. I just copied and pasted it like I do every time!

Isn’t it beautiful!?! It shows the Wolverines DOMINATING the league. Only the Drive are offering any competition, and, frankly, I don’t think they’re much of a threat.

True, one of the categories in which Old Detroit is Old Dominator is losses. It’s hard to put a positive spin on that. So let’s ignore it, which we can do because the Old AbDomination is just killing it in GB, whatever that is. No, silly, that isn’t “Ground Balls”. The W’s don’t get enough plate appearances to lead in a category like that.

No, it’s something really cool, like… like… I don’t know! Something really cool!

Great Bod! I bet that’s it. Tom’s got a 10, most of you have… lesser numbers. But the Old Abdominator has a 13.7, way off the charts. Makes total sense to me!

I am sensing skeptical vibes coming through the interweb.

Look, if you don’t like these standings, poke around on the red line atop the standings display on our home page. You might like this one…

Standings

Team	Wins	Losses	WPct	GB
Salem Seraphim	18.05	18.95	.488	6.1
Portland Rosebuds	17.85	19.15	.482	6.3
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	17.87	19.13	.483	6.2
Peshastin Pears	18.09	18.91	.489	6.0
Old Detroit Wolverines	10.45	26.55	.282	13.7
Kaline Drive	13.94	23.06	.377	10.2
Haviland Dragons	18.01	18.99	.487	6.1
Flint Hill Tornadoes	18.35	18.65	.496	5.8
D.C. Balk	20.09	16.91	.543	4.0
Cascadia Glaciers	18.05	18.95	.488	6.1
Canberra Kangaroos	24.11	12.89	.652	0.0

… but if you do it’s because you have something against the Kangaroos. I will be able to tell for sure when I show you this next version of the standings:

Team	Wins	Losses	WPct	GB
Canberra Kangaroos	24.11	12.89	.652	0.0
Cascadia Glaciers	18.05	18.95	.488	6.1
D.C. Balk	20.09	16.91	.543	4.0
Flint Hill Tornadoes	18.35	18.65	.496	5.8
Haviland Dragons	18.01	18.99	.487	6.1
Kaline Drive	13.94	23.06	.377	10.2
Old Detroit Wolverines	10.45	26.55	.282	13.7
Peshastin Pears	18.09	18.91	.489	6.0
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	17.87	19.13	.483	6.2
Portland Rosebuds	17.85	19.15	.482	6.3
Salem Seraphim	18.05	18.95	.488	6.1

Oh, all right! I’ll give you the same old boring standings you probably came here to see:

Standings: Week 7, Game 1 (May 6)

Team	Wins	Losses	WPct	GB
Canberra Kangaroos	24.11	12.89	.652	0.0
D.C. Balk	20.09	16.91	.543	4.0
Flint Hill Tornadoes	18.35	18.65	.496	5.8
Peshastin Pears	18.09	18.91	.489	6.0
Cascadia Glaciers	18.05	18.95	.488	6.1
Salem Seraphim	18.05	18.95	.488	6.1
Haviland Dragons	18.01	18.99	.487	6.1
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	17.87	19.13	.483	6.2
Portland Rosebuds	17.85	19.15	.482	6.3
Kaline Drive	13.94	23.06	.377	10.2
Old Detroit Wolverines	10.45	26.55	.282	13.7

Unless you are the Kangaroos (or the Balk), these standings aren’t all that great for you. Nine of us are under .500. Two of us are literally tied for 5th place (CG and SS) , a third is virtually tied (HD), and a fourth, fifth, and sixth might as well be (PP, PA, PR — the three Ps.) Teams 2 through 9 are jammed close enough together they could all fit between teams 1 & 2, 9 & 10… AND between teams 10 and 11.

That said, it is still true that there are some WILD things going on early in Week 7, which you can see from this data on our head-to-head contests this week:

Team 1	Runs Scored	Runs Allowed	Raw Win Pct	Wins	Losses	Adj Win Pct	Team 2	Runs Scored	Runs Allowed	Raw Win Pct	Wins	Losses	Adj Win Pct
DC	4.08	1.32	.906	1.0	0.0	.968	PP	4.23	7.54	.239	0.0	1.0	.032
CK	2.89	7.29	.136	0.9	0.2	.849	FH	1.49	8.94	.027	0.2	0.9	.151
PA	2.66	1.31	.804	0.8	0.2	.804	ML	1.00	1.00	.500	0.2	0.8	.196
HD	1.67	8.62	.036	0.3	0.7	.275	OD	2.49	7.89	.090	0.7	0.3	.725
CG	2.49	12.91	.036	0.1	1.0	.050	SS	3.13	3.74	.411	1.0	0.1	.950
KD	2.02	7.03	.077	0.0	1.0	.003	PR	12.07	2.34	.964	1.0	0.0	.997

The EFL features 5 team with raw winning percentages under .100 so far this week. Of those 5, two have adjusted winning percentage still below .100 — with Kaline’s all the way down to .003, thanks to the Rosebuds’ .500, .600, .750 slash line yesterday, and their 17.7 ip with 4 earned runs — and the resulting .964 raw winning percentage.

This chart — showing the top two lines for rc/g among EFL hitters this week (ie, yesterday) — explains a large part of the Rosebuds’ early dominance:

Week 7 Batting Stats After 1 Games

(Minimum 3.1 Plate Appearances)

Player	Team	PA	AB	Hits	Dbl	Tpl	HR	BB	SO	TB	RCPG	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	BABIP	BABOOP
Max Kepler	PR	4	3	2	2	0	0	1	0	4	85.49	.667	.750	1.333	2.083	.667	nan
Abraham Toro	PR	4	4	3	1	0	0	0	0	4	80.27	.750	.750	1.000	1.750	.750	nan

The next hitter on the list — FH’s Donovan Solano — only created 45.35 rc/g yesterday. The 5th and 8th most productive hitters were also Rosebuds (Maikel Garcia 29.90, Jazz Chisholm 23.35)..