by Dave Votaw | Apr 16, 2024 | League Updates
The Pittsburgh manager was fuming. All week long, his Alleghenys had been pummeled by the Salem Seraphim. The players from Pittsburgh were discouraged, demoralized, and defeated. On Monday morning, he decided to call a team meeting. The players shuffled into the room,...
by Dave Votaw | Sep 15, 2023 | Cottage Blog, League Updates
I’ve been in this league, what, maybe 15 years, but I’ve never really learned to stop predicting outcomes for my team. Years that I think we’ll do well, we’re lousy. Years where I think that I’ve got the championship in the bag, we lose...
by Dave Votaw | May 13, 2023 | League Updates
In today’s Baseball Prospectus a new (to me) stat was introduced: BABOOP. It’s the statistical inverse of BABIP, which most of us know means Batting Average on Balls In Play. When a player’s batting average is higher than expected, BABIP is one of...
by Dave Votaw | May 3, 2023 | League Updates
I was really stumped last night. The draft program was acting very strangely. I had written a new version of it this year, and we’d used it last month, and everything went really well. So its behavior was quite a surprise. Usually it works like this: somebody...
by Dave Votaw | Apr 29, 2023 | League Updates
Thanks to the terrifying, magnificent, all-consuming Haviland Dragons, who are crushing the league’s 10th place team (our beloved Bellingham Cascades) into a pulp, or worse (if there are worse things than a pulp), the once-mighty Salem Seraphim, who’ve...
