Final Standings

Congratulations to the Twisted Pretzels, our new league Champion!

Congrats to all four of the top teams: Pretzels, Federals, Presleys, and Browns.

See attached for the final standings.

Thanks to everyone for playing!

Rank	Team	Owner	Batting	Pitching	Total
1.0	Twisted Pretzels	Cliff Snyder	55.0	41.5	96.5
2.0	Fort Hunt Federals	David Pfeiffer	44.0	48.0	92.0
3.0	Memphis Presleys	Mike Sampson	33.0	49.5	82.5
4.0	St. Louis Browns	John Galvin	49.0	29.0	78.0
5.0	Chili Con Carnage	Neal Pfeiffer	47.0	27.0	74.0
6.0	WizNatSkins	Tim Nell	33.0	31.0	64.0
7.0	Hong Kong Phooey	David Schlanger	44.0	16.5	60.5	(Phooeys win 7th place tie-breaker with Vagrants based on number of Categories leading in head to head, 6-4.)
8.0	Virginia Vagrants	Rob Flynn	26.5	34.0	60.5
9.0	Brave Astronauts	John Legloahec	15.0	37.0	52.0
10.0	Los Loco Gringos	Patrick McGann	18.5	28.5	47.0
11.0	MLR Mashers	Brian Tilley	14.0	30.0	44.0
12.0	Dons	Don McIlwain	11.0	18.0	29.0

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End of Season Results

To everyone - Congrats on a great season! The final AL Central playoff game did have an effect on the standings as it allowed the Chilis to move up into 3rd place. This left the Pretzels and Presleys in a 4th place tie. Those three teams had been in a virtual deadlock for days.

Anyway, we have had a number of ties over the last several seasons. So, I went back to the Roto Baseball 2007 book's first level method of tie breaking (comparing Pretzels and Presleys head to head across all 10 categories). Presleys was ahead in 6 of the 10 categories, so Presleys holds onto 4th place with Pretzels slipping to the lovely 5th slot.

To make things more interesting, the Vagrants failed to achieve the minimum total innings pitched for the entire season. Our rules require a team to achieve 1,000 innings pitched over the course of the season in order to receive standings points for ERA and WHIP. Vagrants only managed 714.3 innings pitched. So, Vagrants have dropped 22 points in the standings from 7th place to 11th place after getting no points for those categories.

	2008 Final Standings	(Post - IP Requirement Mod) **FINAL**
	Team Name	Batting	Pitching	Total
1	Hong Kong Phooey	57.0	57.0	114.0
2	Fort Hunt Federals	47.0	32.5	79.5
3	Chili Con Carnage	33.0	42.0	75.0
4	Memphis Presleys	45.0	28.0	73.0	**
5	Twisted Pretzels	37.0	36.0	73.0	**
6	St. Louis Browns	26.5	41.0	67.5
7	Los Loco Gringos	16.5	42.5	59.0
8	Dons	33.0	23.0	56.0
9	Brave Astronauts	31.0	16.0	47.0
10	WizNatsSkins	24.0	19.5	43.5
11	Virginia Vagrants	27.0	10.5	37.5
12	MLR Mashers	13.0	20.0	33.0
**	Presleys beats Pretzels 6-4 on Category based Tie Break