SPB-2 1973 Season
Status:Week 25
SPB-2 1973 Season Status:Week 25
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Current League Champion
SPB1-1972 Champion
Don Zminda
Los Angeles Angels
The Angels took the hard route to take the 72 crown in game 7 in extra innings! After batting .500 (10 for 20), driving in a team high 6 runs, and hitting the game-winning homer in Game 7, Lee was a unanimous choice as World Series MVP. In the 3 postseason series, Lee-Ron batted a cool .473 (26 for 55) with 3 homers and 15 RBI. Simmons led the Seattle offense with a .400 average (12 for 30), 2 home runs and 6 ribbies.
SPB-2 League Officers
Commissioner
Mike See
President
Gary Plunkitt
Statistician
John Ungashick
Beat Writer
John Ungashick
SPB-2 News that's fit to print
January 1, 2022
1973 Pre-Season prognosis
We start off the new year with John Ungashick's great analysis of the upcoming 1973 season. Thanks John!
September 19, 2021
1973 Notes
A few notes to keep in mind during the off-season:
-- We will be using hte FULL DH for BOth leagues starting in 1973. Ensure you have enough PA to cover.
-- The RULE 5 Draft will begin 2 weeks from today, on Saturday Oct 2, 2021. All via email of course,
with 3 rounds of drafting. YOUR 27 Man roster is due to Mike See NO LATER than Thursday September 30 at 9pm EST (6pm CST).
Uncarded players do not count against this number. Remember, you do not get any of the player you are cutting back after the draft.
September 19, 2021
1973 Stadium Change carousel
Several franchises have moved into new abodes: Here is the list:
1) East Kenosha Lions (Dave Lauer) moves to the Astrodome, leaving County Stadium
2) Missouri Barons (Mike Boling) moves the KC Royals Stadium, vacating San Diego Stadium
3) Data City Schema Busters (Chris Longo), who wanted KC, settle for County Stadium, leaving the iconic home of his favorite team, Yankee Stadium
4) Ocean Lake Seagulls (Marc Hollingsworth) vacate Metropolitan Stadium for Yankee Stadium.
5) South River Gladiators (Joe Dezarlo) vacate Arlington Stadium for San Diego Stadium.
That leaves Metropolitan Stadium, Arlington Stadium, Oakland Coliseum and Three Rivers Stadium should you wish to relocate.
June 22, 2021
1973 World Series results
So the Angels had to beat my 117 win Hot Rods, 110 win 3 time champion Totems, and John Turnbull’s favored dragons, all who had home
field advantage, to win his first World Series in 12 years. The most difficult road you could take to a title, and he did it. Wow!
Especially after taking over a full rebuild just a few seasons ago!!
Amazing accomplishment Don! You are truly the Jedi Master, taking out all of us young guns….
Congratulations to both Don, Steve on a great series to wrap up our first full season of weekly play. In fact, congratulations to all
of you on a great 1972 season. It was very smooth. Steve, you had a heck of. 3 year run and will certainly be back in 1973, as will
the up and coming Angels, who now will have World Series Rings…..
Remember, universal DH is now upon us in 1973, and I’ll have the draft order and will begin work on the new database when I return from Cabo.
Trading my now commence though….
Thanks for an amazing 1973 season!
May 31, 2021
1973 Lottery results
Here is your lottery results for 1973. (2-5-4). Congrats to Stan Barkun for getting the top pick in 1973! Chris L, at least you still got second.
Mike Boling’s Missouri Barons jump from 4 to 3.
1. Montreal Royals (Stan Barkun) – 54 Wins (3 Chances)
2. Data City Schema Busters (Chris Longo) 46 Wins (4 Chances)
3. Missouri Barons (Mike Boling)– 62 Wins (1 Chance)
4. Portland Beavers (Rich Applegate) – 57 Wins (2 Chances)
The 1973 Draft is a deep one….some great players for all of these teams no matter what…..
May 31, 2021
1972 Award Winners and League Leaders
It was a very fun 1972 Season! Though they missed the playoffs by one game, Marc Hollingsworth’s Oceanlake Seagulls led their division up until the final weeks, when usage caught up with them. His players dominated the NL leader boards, including MVP. Below are your league leaders for the 1972 season and league MVP’s. Who will be the playoff surprise with the Wild Card this year? Should be a fun postseason……here are your award winners for the 1972 Regular Season.
May 31, 2021
New manager for 1973 season
Happy to announce that our “Old” friend Mr. Mike Boling will be returning to SPB-2 for the 1973 season. Mike B. will be taking over the former Bay Sox franchise and renaming them the Missouri Barons. Welcome back Mike!!!
May 31, 2021
1972 end of season Use or Lose
1972 is the first season to have only a use or lose report, since overusage penalties are no longer in play. Click HERE to view the report.
May 31, 2021
1972 End of season Comparison
Linked
HERE is the annual comparison of actual wins, expected wins and my preseason prognosis. For the entire American League and the NL East things
ended up almost exactly as they should. The AL East had very little deviation between actual and expected wins and therefore fell right into line
and my prognosis was right on. The AL West had some minor differences in actual and expected wins and this caused the Lions and Monarchs to flip
one slot but the forecast was perfect.
In the NL East a significant negative variance between actual and expected wins found the Bishops falling to third when they should have been second
with the same result in the forecast. The Royals and Schema Busters flipped the last two slots due largely to Data City having allowed the most runs
in all of SPBII by quite a margin. However the NL West it was a different story. My preseason writeup had the Beavers forecast as the winners but when
I rechecked my analysis I discovered that I must have been drinking when I wrote it up as the Sparkplugs, per my spreadsheet, were way ahead of everyone
else. The Beavers and Fortress looked to be solid contenders for second with the Seagulls not far behind and the Wild Weasels bringing up the rear.
Due to a complete collapse of their pitching staff, especially a bullpen which on paper looked very strong, the Beavers fell all the way to the cellar.
Per the expected wins formula, the Seagulls, Wild Weasels and Fortress were all bunched together but significant over achievement by the Seagulls vaulted
them to second place where they just barely missed the playoffs as a wild card. On to 1973!
November 4, 2020
New manager for start of 1972
Steve Ehresman has relinquished the Tippecanoe Voyageurs franchise. Taking his place will be SPB manager Marc Hollingsworth, who will rename the team to the Oceanlake Seals, and will be keeping Metropolitan Stadium. Welcome aboard Marc!
October 23, 2020
1972 Pre-Season prognosis
Linked is the 1972 Pre-Season prognosis. As quoted by John Ungashick: "This is a bit early but with the Pandemic I have nothing else to do! With the new rules, trades are allowed until halfway through the season and this report is based on the current rosters. A few teams have some "holes" that could be filled but it's unlikely they would acquire a player that would seriously change the dynamic of the various pennant races as three of the divisions seem a lock with only the NL West competitive. Read em and weep!" Thanks John!
September 8, 2020
1972 Rules Reminder
Remember, there are NO BONUS Players anymore, so if you are planning your usage, please account for this. ALL players will get a 10% bonus in 1972 (due to the 1972 Players strike wiping out games) so you can go to 110% on the usage meter (PA’s and Batters Faced), at which point that player will be farmed for the rest of the season. We will be rolling with 27 Man rosters this year for each series, so you’ll have a little more flexibility as well.
September 5, 2020
1972 Ballbark Change
Ron Peterson and his Colts have vacated the Astrodome in the middle of the night on Mayflower trucks
for the "friendlier" confines of Comiskey Park.
That leaves the Astrodome, KC Royals Stadium, Oakland Coliseum and Three Rivers Stadium as the
available parks.
July 24, 2020
1972 Rule 5 and Roster reminder
Before we begin, I want to announce that myself, in coordination with the league rules
committee, has made a slight change to the new Rule 5 Format. We will still cut down to 27,
and we will still draft 3 players, but WE WILL NOT have each team drafting 3 players at once.
The Rule 5 draft will ALWAYS now look exactly like the Re-allocation draft did in post-1961
Leagues. 3 Rounds, 1 pick per team per round in reverse order of the standing and playoffs.
Bottom line with this was: With protecting 27 players now, allowing teams to pick 3 at a time
was going to render the end of the Rule 5 nearly worthless, at least in terms of accomplishing
its goal, which is to help team fill holes they might have. So it has been officially changed
for ALL post 1961 leagues from here forward.
The Trade Deadline and deadline for 27 man roster submissions will be Sunday August 2nd at 9pm EST.
All trading will be frozen at that time and until after the completion of the Rule 5 draft.
Cutting down to 27 will be easy for some, and more difficult for others. Some may not even have 27,
and if not, I would encourage you to make a deal to get to that number. I imagine this is going to
generate some interesting trades, and player shifting. That is just fine. Goal here is to balance
the rosters and make sure you have more quality rosters as well, so if you have players that can’t
keep (and remember, once you cut them, THEY DO NOT COME BACK TO YOUR ROSTER AFTER THE DRAFT, even if
they are not taken) and they can help another teams needs, trade away!
ALL TEAMS PROTECT 27, no matter the record.
The Rule 5 draft will then commence via email the week of August 3rd.
July 12, 2020
1972 Stadium Changes
The Fairfax Colts abandon the Astrodome and move into the friendlier confines of Comiskey Park
The Kansas City Barons are blowing up KC Municipal and moving to a new park on the river. They will call it
Riverfront Stadium.
Dave Lauer's East Kenosha Lions have left Comiskey park and will now call
Milwaukee's County Stadium home.
That leaves now what are (4) available parks. KC Municipal (Royals Stadium beginning in 1973), Oakland Coliseum, Astrodome and Three Rivers Stadium.
July 9, 2020
1972 Positional losses
The linked text file contains the positional losses for the 1972 database.
July 9, 2020
1972 Schedule Notes
SPB-2 Commish Mike See has put together some schedule notes to outline the dates and guidelines for the upcoming season, which will be the first with weekly play.
July 7, 2020
1971 Champions....threepeat!
Thanks to Steve and Joe for playing this series so quickly, and much congratulations goes out
the Steve Lehman for his 3rd straight SPB-2 World Championship. First manager to also 3-peat
in two different leagues. Amazing Feat for sure since it has never happened in 28 years prior
(That said, you still need 2 more to match the all time SPB record of 5 straight World Series
titles by yours truly in SPB-60 from 1953-57,
Also, my congrats go out to Joe Dezarlo for putting up a fine battle in this series against a
very formidable team and franchise. I have a feeling Joe’s Gladiators are going to be a force
to be reckoned with for the rest of the 1970’s.
July 3, 2020
1972 Draft Lottery results
Illinois Evening Pick 3 Lottery Numbers were: 2-7-0
Results:
1. NY Mets (Don Rahn) – 57 Wins (3 Chances)
2. Montreal Royals (Stan Barkun) – 51 + 4 Wins (4 Chances)
3. LA Angels (Don Zminda)– 62 Wins - (2 Chances)
4. East Kenosha Lions (Dave Lauer)– 63 Wins (1 Chance)
Congrats to Don Rahn for landing the top pick! Could we see Michael Jack in a Mets Uni? We shall see……
July 2, 2020
1971 End of year reports
As is customary....and for the last time in SPB-2, I present to you the 1971
USE OR LOSE
and OVERUSAGE reports.
June 27, 2019
Upcoming 1972 Changes. Trading freeze and Contraction
If you have read my end of season email, you likely noticed that I put a
freeze on ALL trades until after the completion of the 1971 World Series.
Here is the reason why.
With the new rules we will be implementing for the 1972 season, one of the
most difficult parts of these changes is that we needed to contract (2) of
our existing teams. It’s the great thing about having such a strong league
of managers…..but in this case, made it a bit more difficult for me.
The two teams being Contracted are the Hudson Valley Renegades of Sean Comerford
(manager with the least league seniority) and the Milwaukie Pilots of long time
SPBer Marc Hollingsworth, who after discussing via phone, is voluntarily giving
up his franchise for now.
Both the these managers are of course excellent, and this was a very difficult
thing for me to do, but it is very much in the long term best interests of our
leagues to do this. Both managers leave in great standing and will be #1 and #2
on the wait list for the next available. franchises. My hope is that both will
be back with us soon. Thanks for both Sean and Marc for their time and effort
put into SPB-2.
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That leaves us in a pace where we have never been. At the conclusion of the 1971
World Series, before we begin ANY trading, we will be holding the first ever
CONTRACTION DRAFT.
This draft will be held in reverse order of the 1971 standings, it will not include
ANY penalties and will be based on standings only. It will be a 2 round, 40 player
email draft, where ANY of the carded players from the Pilots and Renegades being
available) with any remaining players being made available in the Rule 5 (Free Agent)
draft later in the off season. CONTRACTION DRAFT PICKS CAN NOT BE TRADED.
There are some pretty darn good players on these two franchises, so it is going to
have a significant impact on the younger teams in our league.
Also, if order to put each of our leagues on a more balcned schedule so that John and I
can act as league stats for weekly play, we will be moving up the Rookie Draft and season
start dates for SPB-2 by 2 month, The rookie draft will now be in September, and the
Season will start Nov 1 (instead of Draft in November and Jan 1 start).
I will be sending out another announcement about the timing of this email draft at the
completion of the 1971 World Series. Once this draft takes place, trading will begin.
Please email me should you have any questions, and thanks.
May 22, 2020
1971 September stats posted
The stats and power rankings for September 1972 are now posted.
In the NL, their the battle for the wild card slots remained.
In the NL West, with the defending Champion Seattle Totems having long ago
clinched the division, it came down to the Wild Card race. And what looked
like a cake walk into the Wild Card for the Portland Beavers turned fierce
battle with the RED HOT Winter Harbor Seals, who went 8-2 over their final
10 games. Only a extra inning win in the Beavers second to last game of the
season over the KC Barons, prevented the Seals from forcing a 1 game Wild
Card Play-in Game for all the marbles. The Frankfort Clinched the #1 Wild
Card sport, whole Rich Applegate’s Barons slide into the #2 slot.
In the NL East, the Tippecanoe Voyageurs clinched long ago and had a firm grip
on the #2 Divisional playoff slot.
Your National 7 game Playoff matchups will be:
Series 1 – The Seattle Totems #1 (Steve Lehman) VS #4 Portland Beavers (Rich Applegate)
Series 2 – The Tippecanoe Voyageurs #2 (Steve Ehresman) VS Frankfort Fortress #3 (Gary Plunkitt)
Congrats to Steve L, Steve E, Gary and Rich for making the playoffs!
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In the AL East, the South River Gladiators, who had been behind most of the season, barely
squeaked out the division title by 1 game for the Evanston Elephants. The Elephants still made the
playoffs however as the #2 Wild Card. Congrats to both Joe D and John U!
In the AL West, my Hot Rods had clinched long ago, but the Thud Ridge Wild Weasels used a late
season surge to surpass the Elephants for the top Wild Card Seed.
Your American 7 game Playoff matchups will be:
Series 1 – The Route 66 Hot Rods #1 (Mike See) VS #4 Evanston Elephants (John Ungashick)
Series 2 – The South River Gladiators #2 (Joe Dezarlo) VS Thud Ridge Wild Weasels #3 (Terry Baxter)
Congrats to Me, Joe D, Terry and John U for making the playoffs!
December 28, 2019
1971 Pre-Season Prognosis
Thanks always to John Ungaschick for his award-winning and honest as a southern gentleman
synopsis of the upcoming 1971 season. Thanks John!
December 22, 2019
1971 Last team name change
With his move to a new home, Rick Ryan has also decided to relocate his Mulberry Marauders to their new home as well,
and are now the Speedway Sparkplugs.
October 7, 2019
1971 Stadium Changes
Here are the Stadium changes for the 1971 Season:
The Route 66 Hot Rods have vacated Yankee Stadium and have moved into Veterans Stadium.
The Data City Schema Busters have claimed Yankee Stadium, and have relinquished Fulton County Stadium
Fulton County Stadium and the Oakland Coliseum are the two available parks.
September 23, 2019
1971 - Call for Protected roster
It is that time of year again as we head into 1971. Time for the 1971 Rule V Draft, which means I
need your cutdowns soon. We will begin the draft the week of Sept 30th via email, so I need your
protected list to me no later than Sunday Sept 29th at 6pm PST. So you have about 2 weeks to make
trades. The new data base was sent in the previous email.
Here are the amounts that each team can protect:
21 Players Protected
Los Angeles Angels
Nanoose Bay Sox
Kansas City Barons
Milwaukie Pilots
Montreal Royals
20 Players Protected
Thud Ridge Wild Weasels
Hudson Valley Renegades
Mulberry Marauders
Evanston Elephants
Tippacanoe Voyageurs
Salzburg Bishops
Frankfort Fortress
Data City Schema Busters
East Kenosha Lions
West Warwick Monarchs
Winter Harbor Seals
Fairfax Colts
19 Players Protected
South River Gladiators
Portland Beavers
New York Mets
Route 66 Hot Rods
Seattle Totems
Your protected lists are due soon, and the deadline is Sunday (September 29th at
6pm PST) They should be received by me no later than 6:00P.M. PST. At that time,
ALL ROSTERS WILL BE FROZEN AND NO TRADES MAY BE MADE UNTIL THE RULE V DRAFT IS COMPLETED.
Please send me an MP with your cutdowns, along with a list via email of protected, unprotected and uncarded players
July 15, 2019
1971 - Wild Card official
We will be adding two Wild Card per conference for the 1971 Season.
In addition to switch to Best of 7 format for both main playoff series in each
conference, in the event of a Wild Card Tie, the following would apply:
There would be a best of 3 series to determine the winner, with best H2H record
getting Home field. If that’s tied, better run differential get home field.
In the event of a 3 way tie for a spot, the team with the highest run differential
will be automatically put into the 3 game playoff, with the lower two teams playing
a 1-game play in game, with better H2H record hosting, or best run differential.
In the event of a 4 way tie for a spot, the Highest Run differential will play the
lowest in a one game play in game, and two middle teams would also play a 1 game play
in game to get to the best of 3.
Hopefully that covers almost all the bases. Really looking forward to these changes.
Going to make for some very exciting playoff races!!!!
Calendar
Nov. 6th, 2021
Rookie Draft
Jan 2022
Season begins
Historical Information
| Established: 1992 | |
|---|---|
| Starting Season: | 1944 |
| Seasons: | 28 |
| Games: | 35174 |
| Trades: | 1114 |
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