Reduced visibility

I have been neglecting our website’s ability to generate charts showing our season’s progression from opening day to now.  Here is the latest, updated to today:

I used the option that colors in the space under each team’s data line.  I thought it looked more like the Western Oregon skies at sunset these days, with the valley filled with smoke from the Eagle Creek fire conveniently set for us by teenagers setting off fireworks in the forest.  You may noticet the image is blurry. That’s because it’s a copy of a screen shot of the chart. I can’t figure out how to load the chart directly into the post.   I’m sorry, Kaline, your line is almost invisible. But the entire picture does nicely parallel visability right now in these parts.

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This chart tracks winning percentage. So if you are at .500 all season and the Alleghenys are at .700, you are not keeping up. They’re gaining 2 games on you every 10 games.  If you keep that up all season you’ll be over 32 games behind at the end. So it’s sort of like a Mercator projection, but in the other dimension. Sort of.

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Still — you can see the red line, on a remarkably steady upward projection, at the top now? That’s the Alleghenys. They are approaching .700 and will probably make it before the season is out. If they do they will end up with an EFL-record record of 113.4 wins.  Instead of hibernating like members of his species should, the Commissioner will lie awake all winter coming up with schemes to make it harder to blow away our MLB competition.  Probably not something as draconian and awkward as a mandated 1-9 streak in September, like the Dodgers are doing. (LAD is now only on pace to win 108 games.  The Mariner’s 116-win record is safe for another year. In fact here are the top 12 EFL/MLB teams’ projections for the end of the season at their current winning percentages:

PA :      113 – 49

LAD:    108 – 54

FH:       107 – 55

HD:      105 – 57

CC:       102 – 60

HOU:  100 – 62

WAS;     99 – 63

PR:         97 – 65

CLE:      96 – 66

ARI:      94 – 68

KD:       91 – 71

PP:        91 – 71

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Our last ten rookie draft picks would look like this:

#21:   PP

#22:   KD

#23:  CLE (or ARI, not both)

#24:   PR (traded to OD)

#25:   WAS (or HOU, not both)

#26:  CC (traded to OD)

#27:  HD (traded to PR)

#28:  FH

#29:  LAD

#30:  PA (traded to PP)

 

Here are today’s standings.

EFL
Team	Wins	Losses	Pct.	GB	RS	RA
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	96	42	.695	—	786.7	514.7
Flint Hill Tornadoes	91	48	.658	5	721.7	517.2
Haviland Dragons	89	49	.647	6.7	814.2	600.8
Cottage Cheese	87	51	.628	9.3	745.6	569.8
Portland Rosebuds	82	56	.596	13.6	794.1	642.4
Kaline Drive	78	60	.564	18.1	688.8	602.9
Peshastin Pears	78	60	.564	18.1	698.6	620.3
Old Detroit Wolverines	72	67	.516	24.7	684.9	651.7
Canberra Kangaroos	66	72	.481	29.5	659.8	688.3
D.C. Balk	54	84	.394	41.6	679.2	846.7

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I need to move on today to other tasks, so there won’t be team-by-team updates.  There were no perfect games, no four-homer games etc.  The only drama is the snarling and scratching  going on between the Drive and the Pears, tussling over who has to sit next to the Wolverines.   Meanwhile the W’s continue their narcoleptic fit (see the sharp turn downward in their light green line since late August). The W’s are now in more danger from the Kangaroos than they are to the Pears or Drive.