Weeks 19-21 Recap and FINAL WEEK OF THE SEASON!

Before we look at the final week of the 2011 IFB season, here’s a look back at Weeks 19, 20, and 21 in the form of the weekly leaders.

• Bugs Bunny Best Record
• Week 19 – Quiet TheRiot (10-1-1)
• Week 20 – PujolsalwaysCardinal (10-2-0)
• Week 21 – All Balls No Strikes/Quiet TheRiot (10-2-0)
• The Simpsons Runs Leader
• Week 19 – Good Wood Gang (38)
• Week 20 – Muse Academy Muses/NIU Huskies (40)
• Week 21 – Quiet TheRiot (41)
• Josie and the Pussycats Hits Leader
• Week 19 – Good Wood Gang (67)
• Week 20 – PujolsalwaysCardinal (81)
• Week 21 – Quiet TheRiot (67)
• Homer Simpson Home Runs Leader
• Week 19 – Good Wood Gang (11)
• Week 20 – Muse Academy Muses/Funky Cold Molina (11)
• Week 21 – Funky Cold Molina (14)
• Fat Albert RBI Leader
• Week 19 – South Side Cubs Fan (37)
• Week 20 – SouthSideSluggers/South Side Cubs Fan (42)
• Week 21 – Funky Cold Molina/BooBooCubs/Muse Academy Muses (37)
• Speedy Gonzalez Stolen Base Leader
• Week 19 – Triple Crown (10)
• Week 20 – NIU Huskies (9)
• Week 21 – NIU Huskies/All Balls No Strikes (7)
• Heather Average Leader
• Week 19 – Good Wood Gang (.309)
• Week 20 – NIU Huskies (.356)
• Week 21 – BooBooCubs (.315)
• Rainbow Dash Wins Leader
• Week 19 – SouthSideSluggers (5)
• Week 20 – Good Wood Gang (6)
• Week 21 – All Balls No Strikes/The Chosen People
• Timmy Turner Loss Leader
• Week 19 – NIU Huskies (0)
• Week 20 – PujolsalwaysCardinal/Most Daring/NIU Huskies (1)
• Week 21 – SouthSideSluggers/Triple Crown/Quiet TheRiot (0)
• Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers Saves Leader
• Week 19 – NIU Huskies (8)
• Week 20 – NIU Huskies/All Balls No Strikes (6)
• Week 21 – The Chosen People/South Side Cubs Fan/Most Daring/All Balls No Strikes/Quiet TheRiot/Good Wood Gang/SouthSideSluggers (3)
• Herbert Walks Leader
• Week 19 – NIU Huskies (4)
• Week 20 – PujolsalwaysCardinal/All Balls No Strikes/Quincy Dirtbags (10)
• Week 21 – SouthSideSluggers (5)
• Wile E. Coyote Strikeout Leader
• Week 19 – Bad News Bears (83)
• Week 20 – Good Wood Gang (63)
• Week 21 – Muse Academy Muses (56)
• Peppermint Patty ERA Leader
• Week 19 – SouthSideSluggers (2.14)
• Week 20 – South Side Cubs Fan (2.19)
• Week 21 – Funky Cold Molina (1.80)

And now a look at the overall standings, minus the division races:

Teams highlighted in green have clinched a playoff spot, and teams in red have been eliminated.

Four teams have clinched playoff spots so far.  South Side Cubs Fan, All Balls No Strikes, and Quiet TheRiot have clinched spots by winning their divisions.  PujolsalwaysCardinal has not won their division, but is far enough ahead of the 8th-placed overall team that they can not miss the playoffs.  The worst PaC can do is 7th overall, and needs to win at least 5.5 games this week to clinch the Grant Division without any help.

The three teams that have been mathematically eliminated from playoff contention are FernandoVinas Goatee, Bad News Bears, and Triple Crown.  FVG will finish in dead last this season, and thus have the first pick in the 2012 IFB Draft.

Nine teams are mathematically alive for the four wild card slots.  The nine does not include the PaC, who can still finish in the wild card, or as a division champion.  Here is a look at the range in which each of the nine teams can finish after Week 22:

• (5) Good Wood Gang: 5th place to 11th place
• (6) SouthSideSluggers: 3rd place to 11th place
• (7) Funky Cold Molina: 4th place to 11th place
• (8) The Chosen People: 5th place to 13th place
• (9) BooBooCubs: 5th place to 13th place
• (10) Most Daring: 5th place to 13th place
• (11) Muse Academy Muses: 5th place to 13th place
• (12) Quincy Dirtbags: 8th place to 14th place
• (13) NIU Huskies: 8th place to 15th place

FCM and SSS can climb higher than 5th, because both teams are still alive in the race to win the Grant Division, which would give them a top 4 seed.  The other places were determined by where they could go by winning or losing all 12 stats for the week, and what teams they could potentially jump with it.

And, here’s some other tidbits on the final week of the season.

• South Side Cubs Fan currently sits at 155-82-15.  They can not match or top the league’s top record from last season, Sparland Hilltopper’s 165-79-20.  The best they can do is come within a half-game of the mark.  But they have clinched the top overall seed for next week’s playoffs.
• As mentioned earlier, FernandoVinas Goatee will finish with the league’s worst record, and pick first in next year’s draft.
• The matchups for next week’s playoffs are as follows:
• South Side Cubs Fan vs. 4th Best Wild Card
• 2nd Best Division Champ vs. 3rd Best Wild Card
• 3rd Best Division Champ vs. 2nd Best Wild Card
• 4th Best Division Champ vs. 1st Wild Card

And if you need a reminder on the matchups and why they are what they are, click here.  Good luck to everyone!

Week 22 Matchups Announced

Before the season began, it was announced that Week 22, the last week of the Illinois Fantasy Baseball League season, would be a wild card week.  That meant that matchups would be coordinated to make as many matchups as possible matter in the final week of the season.

Well, it’s Friday of Week 21.  So it’s time to announce next week’s matchups.

There was one criteria that was set in place while developing these matchups.  No matchup could have occurred for a third time this year.  That means no inter-division matchups in Week 22, and teams from other divisions that you’ve played twice would not happen for a third time.

The data I used is what the projected standings would be is if the results as of this morning stand.  Now, here’s the matchups, with projected overall standings, as of this morning, next to them:

Week 18 Review

My work schedule can delay it, but for once, the Week in Review is on a Monday!  Here’s a look at the past week in the Illinois Fantasy Baseball League:

Week 17 Review

Week 17’s review is a couple days late, but there’s a good reason for that.  I spent the weekend in Milwaukee with Most Daring for another edition of IFL Road Trip.  That post will be tomorrow or Friday.  But for now, a recap of Week 17.

Weeks 12-16 Catchup and Standings Breakdown

This took quite the effort to backtrack and log all the stats from the past five weeks.  But it is done and ready for presentation.

Things will work a little differently now for the weekly summaries, and we’ll approach those parts when we get there.  But first, here’s a recap of all the award winners from the past 5 weeks:

• Bugs Bunny Best Record
• Week 12 – Muse Academy Muses/South Side Cubs Fan (9-2-1)
• Week 13 – SouthSideSluggers (8-2-2)
• Week 14 – Quincy Dirtbags (11-0-1)
• Week 15 – All Balls No Strikes (9-1-2)
• Week 16 – South Side Cubs Fan (10-0-2)
• The Simpsons Runs Leader
• Week 12 – South Side Cubs Fan (36)
• Week 13 – Quincy Dirtbags (39)
• Week 14 – The Chosen People (43)
• Week 15 – Most Daring (21)
• Week 16 – Quincy Dirtbags (38)
• Josie and the Pussycats Hits Leader
• Week 12 – South Side Cubs Fan (71)
• Week 13 – South Side Cubs Fan (73)
• Week 14 – SouthSideSluggers (76)
• Week 15 – Muse Academy Muses (44)
• Week 16 – Muse Academy Muses (70)
• Homer Simpson Home Runs Leader
• Week 12 – Most Daring (13)
• Week 13 – Most Daring (14)
• Week 14 – Funky Cold Molina/Good Wood Gang (11)
• Week 15 – SouthSideSluggers (8)
• Week 16 – Quincy Dirtbags/South Side Cubs Fan (12)
• Fat Albert RBI Leader
• Week 12 – South Side Cubs Fan (37)
• Week 13 – SouthSideSluggers (37)
• Week 14 – Quincy Dirtbags (40)
• Week 15 – PujolsalwaysCardinal (25)
• Week 16 – Quincy Dirtbags (44)
• Speedy Gonzalez Stolen Bases Leader
• Week 12 – Muse Academy Muses/All Balls No Strikes (7)
• Week 13 – Quiet TheRiot/All Balls No Strikes (8)
• Week 14 – The Chosen People (8)
• Week 15 – Good Wood Gang (5)
• Week 16 – Bad News Bears/Muse Academy Muses/Quincy Dirtbags/PujolsalwaysCardinal/Triple Crown (7)
• Heather Average Leader
• Week 12 – South Side Cubs Fan (.330)
• Week 13 – PujolsalwaysCardinal (.314)
• Week 14 – NIU Huskies (.343)
• Week 15 – Muse Academy Muses (.352)
• Week 16 – NIU Huskies (.313)
• Rainbow Dash Wins Leader
• Week 12 – BooBooCubs (6)
• Week 13 – Muse Academy Muses (6)
• Week 14 – Good Wood Gang/Most Daring/Muse Academy Muses/Quiet TheRiot/Quincy Dirtbags/PujolsalwaysCardinal/The Chosen People (5)
• Week 15 – Muse Academy Muses (5)
• Week 16 – PujolsalwaysCardinal (6)
• Timmy Turner Losses Leader
• Week 12 – NIU Huskies/Funky Cold Molina/Bad News Bears (0)
• Week 13 – NIU Huskies/Most Daring (0)
• Week 14 – Triple Crown (0)
• Week 15 – FernandoVinas Goatee/Muse Academy Muses (0)
• Week 16 – NIU Huskies (0)
• Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers Saves Leader
• Week 12 – Triple Crown (7)
• Week 13 – Triple Crown/All Balls No Strikes (6)
• Week 14 – PujolsalwaysCardinal/NIU Huskies (6)
• Week 15 – All Balls No Strikes (5)
• Week 16 – BooBooCubs/All Balls No Strikes/NIU Huskies (5)
• Herbert Walks Leader
• Week 12 – NIU Huskies (2)
• Week 13 – NIU Huskies (1)
• Week 14 – All Balls No Strikes (11)
• Week 15 – Triple Crown (3)
• Week 16 – Quiet TheRiot/Triple Crown (6)
• Wile E. Coyote Strikeout Leader
• Week 12 – Quiet TheRiot (60)
• Week 13 – Most Daring (65)
• Week 14 – PujolsalwaysCardinal (70)
• Week 15 – Most Daring/The Chosen People (39)
• Week 16 – Bad News Bears (62)
• Peppermint Patty ERA Leader
• Week 12 – Bad News Bears (1.15)
• Week 13 – Triple Crown (1.49)
• Week 14 – South Side Cubs Fan (2.16)
• Week 15 – All Balls No Strikes (1.60)
• Week 16 – NIU Huskies (1.35)

And now a look at the standings.  These are going to look different from here on out, as I’ve decided to combine the various ones into one spreadsheet:

Doesn’t that look so much better?

Anyhoo, the standings list everyone together, and are ranked by overall record, without regard to divisions.  The first number column lists the team’s record, followed by their ‘Playoff Points’.  Playoff Points is what Yahoo! uses to rank teams and figure out their record, and how far back a team is.  It is composed by adding a team’s win total and half the amount of ties a team has. (i.e. Wins*1 + 1/2Ties).  Next is how far a team is back from the overall best record in the league.  That is followed by how far back a team is in their division, and color coded to match up similar teams in the division.  And finally, how far back a team is in the wild card standings.

So for a quick breakdown, you can see that South Side Cubs Fan is the class of the league so far this year, holding a 13.5 game lead over All Balls No Strikes.  PujolsalwaysCardinal is a distant third overall, 21.5 games back.  And the last of the division leaders, Most Daring, would be 6th overall.

Over in the wild card, 8 teams are either in the playoffs, or within 5 games of a wild card spot.  That race appears to be going down to the last week.

Another stat that will be thrown your way is how a team has done in the last 5 weeks, as an indicator of who is hot and who isn’t:

So that’s how the recap will work from here on out.  Match-up summaries will come back to.  Any questions or suggestions, feel free to e-mail me.

Quick Week 11 Review

I’ve been caught up in a couple projects that’s taking more time than I intended them too, plus the weather has not exactly been kind to my schedule.  I love the blog, but work’s gotta come first.  Nevertheless, here’s a look at the standings after Week 11, and who won what last week.

IFB Week 10 Review and Week 11 Preview

A day late, but never missing, here’s the Week in Review for the Illinois Fantasy Baseball League in Week 10.

IFB Week 9 Review and Week 10 Preview

Week 9 in the Illinois Fantasy Baseball League saw two dominating performances, and changed the outlooks for several teams in the wild card race, and in a couple divisions.  Here’s a look back at the most recent week of action:

IFB Week 8 Review and Week 9 Preview

Once again, better late than never.  This time though, the blog took a day off as Memorial Day was celebrate.  God Bless our troops, those who are serving and those who have fallen.

Without further adu, here’s the recap of a week that saw one team distance themself in the wild card, and a complete leapfrog in one division.

IFB Week 7 Review and Week 8 Preview

A third of the season is now complete in the Illinois Fantasy Baseball League, and the review is better late than never (unlike IFL Theaters).  Without further delay, here’s a breakdown of the past week.