SPB-2 1976 Season
Status:Draft fall 2024
SPB-2 1976 Season Status:Draft fall 2024
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Current League Champion
SPB1-1975 Champion
Mike See
Route 66 Hot Rods
The Hot Rods knock off SPB-2 dynasty Seattle Totems in 6 games. Reggie Jackson and Bobby Grich were named Co-MVPs
SPB-2 League Officers
Commissioner
Stan Barkun
President
Chris Longo
Statistician
Dave Lauer
Beat Writer
John Ungashick
SPB-2 News that's fit to print
November 12, 2024
New SPB2 Manager
Taking over Mike See's franchise is Greg Nolen. he has renamed the team to the Carolina Bandits, and will remain in Yankee Stadium. Welcome aboard Greg!
November 12, 2024
New SPB2 Commissioner
Congratulations to Stan Barkun, who has taken over the reigns of SPB2 from Mike See. I would like to thanks Mike for his many years of service to SPB.
August 15, 2024
1975 World Series
Congrats to Mike See and the Route 66 Hot Rods for knocking off the SPB-2 dynasty Seattle Totems. Check out the playoffs page for all boxscores and writeups. Congrats Mike!
August 10, 2024
1976 Draft lottery results
Results: Congrats Dave Lauer….on landing the #1 overall pick…….The number was 446
East Kenosha Lions +1
Perrysburg Stingers +1
Portland Beavers (Awarded 3rd pick because worst record can pick no worse than 3rd)
Data City Schema Busters +1
Salzburg Prince Archbishops +1
Winter Harbor Seals -2
September 2, 2023
1975 Ballpark Changes
The Hampton Road Cruisers (Terry Baxter) are vacating Candlestick Park for the friendlier confines of Veterans stadium.
Also, the Route 66 Hot Rods are changing things up bit and vacating Metropolitan Stadium for to move to the band box that is
Cleveland Municipal Stadium.
Your available stadiums are currently: Arlington Stadium, Oakland Coliseum, Candlestick Park, Metropolitan Stadium
They are available on a first come first served basis if you are interested in changing.
August 25, 2023
1974 Use or lose players
Click HERE for a list or 1974 players that were dropped from rosters due to underusage
August 25, 2023
1975 Database roster changes
Below are the players I removed position ratings from and the positions I removed:
Sandy Alomar SS
Don Baylor 1b
Darrell Evans 1b
Thurman Munson 1B/OF
Doug Rader SS
Ted Simmons 1B/OF
Chris Spier 3b
Cesar Tovar 3b
August 12, 2023
1975 Lottery results
Number was 1-3-0
So, crazy enough, there was not a single change from the bottom 6 in standings.
Congratulations to Chris Longo on landing the #1 pick.
Schema Busters (Longo)
Mets (Rahn)
Bishops (Williams)
Cruisers (Baxter)
Seals (McElaney)
Colts (Peterson)
July 28, 2023
1974 One game playof results
The Fortress and Sparkplugs dukes it out in a 1-game regular season playoff game to see who wins the division. You can find the results HERE.
July 26, 2023
1974 End of season.....kinda
Thanks to all for a smooth 1974 regular seasons. A few little bumps in the road, but very solid as per usual.
First, I want to offer my thanks to Dave Lauer for his tireless efforts as league stat. A very tough job for sure, but he does it so well. Thanks for all you do Dave!
Second, congratulations to our Playoff Bound Teams!
In the AL, my AL East Division winning Route 66 Hot Rods will take on John Turnbull’s Wild Card Dayton Dragons, while Joe Dezarlo’s AL West winning South River Gladiators will take on the Wild Card Los Angeles Angels of Don Zminda.
In the NL, well were not quite there yet. We know that Steve Lehman’s defending Champion Seattle Totems just barely held on in the NL East to beat Stan Barkun’s Montreal Royals by 1 game (an Incredible 118 wins to 117 wins!). In the NL West, we have a tie between Rick Ryan’s Speedway Sparkplugs and Gary Plunkitt’s Frankfort Fortress. So we will have a 1 game playoff to determine the winner. The winner of that game will get home field advantage for the first round and face the Montreal Royals, while the loser will get a trip to Seattle.
Because this is still a regular season game, all usage still carries over from previous games, however, I have increased the threshold now to 110%, so if a player isn’t over 110%, you can use them in the one game playoff.
Rick and Gary, the attached database has the 1 game playoff added, so you can play at your convenience.
December 18, 2022
1974 Pre-Season Prognosis
People yell and scream like litle children until they receive it. Why? Cause it's that good! Thank you again to John Ungashick with his 1974 Pre-Season prognosis. Enjoy!
October 28, 2022
Pre 1974 draft roster moves
As I had stated I would do before, the Oceanside Seagulls were allowed to pull from the available Free Agents Cuts to fill out a proper 27-Man Roster.
Here were those moves for the Seagulls:
Add C Vic Correll (Hot Rods) - Cut C Ron Hodges
Add 2b Larry Lintz 2b (Elephants) - Cut: 1B Hal Breeden
Add SS Ed Brinkman SS (Barons) - Cut: Orlando Cepeda
Add SP Lerrin LaGrow (Barons) - Cut: MR Jim York
Add RP Orlando Pena (Royals) - Cut: Leo Cardenas
Add RP Vincente Romo (Sparkplugs) - Cut: Eddie Solomon
September 6, 2022
1974 Stadium Change
The Route 66 Hot Rods have vacated Veterans Stadium for the more cozy midwestern confines of Metropolitan Stadium.
The Hampton Road Cruisers vacate Candlestick Park for Veterans Stadium
This leaves Candlestick Park, Oakland Coliseum, Arlington Stadium and Three Rivers Stadium available.
September 6, 2022
1973 Use or Lose Players
I have looked at the under usage for 1973 and it looks really good, with the exception of some relievers.
I think in the case of using batters faced with RP’s, the 50% threshold is too high, as the number of innings RP’s
in this era can throw can be incredibly difficult to replicate with the DMB game.
That said, with the small out there was, with no players of any real significance less their aforementioned relievers,
I am waiving ANY and ALL use or lose losses for the 1973 season, and will re-evaluate these thresholds with the other
commissioners and rule committee, likely lower it for Relievers.
Thanks for your understanding,
September 6, 2022
1974 Lottery results
Number was 2-5-9. Congratulations goes out to Chris Longo and his data city Schema Buster for landing the top overall pick!
Order didn’t change much, just a swap of 1 and 2.
Data City Schema Busters (Chris Longo) - 63 Wins (3 Chances)
Oceanlake Seagulls (Marc Hollingsworth) - 54 Wins (4 Chances)
Portland Beavers (Rich Applegate) - 65 Wins* - (2 Chances)
East Kenosha Lakers (Dave Lauer via Trade) - 65 Wins (1 Chance)
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Historical Information
| Established: 1992 | |
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| Starting Season: | 1944 |
| Seasons: | 28 |
| Games: | 35174 |
| Trades: | 1114 |
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November 13, 2024