A few notes on the regular season:

-- Congrats to schwarze on a great run...the most regular season overall wins, and the two winningest individual teams.  That said, as only those 2 of his teams qualified for the playoffs, he is not guaranteed to finish in the money.  buddhagamer, pedrocerrano, and calhoop could all theoretically move ahead in the standings.
-- Very competitive leagues overall, with only 3 teams winning 100 or more games.
-- pedrocerrano and calhoop each placed 3 teams in the postseason, and each came within 3 games of having all 5 teams make it.  Quite a remarkable accomplishment.  pedro's 80M team finished 2 games out and his 90M finished 1 game out.  cal's 100M finished 2 games out and his 120M finished 1 game out.
-- In 3 of the league, the team with the 2nd most regular season wins failed to make the playoffs: 60M (Yaz2Schill's 97 wins), 80M (pedrocerrano's 95 wins), 100M (schwarze's 94 wins). Honorable mention to buddhagamer's 120M squad, whose 97 wins were 3rd most in the league and also failed to make the playoffs.  All told there were 7 teams with 90 or more wins that failed to make the postseason, and 8 teams that won their division with fewer than 90 wins.  
-- No under-.500 teams made the playoffs, but two teams with 82 wins did: 80M (italyprof) and 100M (pedrocerrano)

We'll use this post to track the postseason results.

60M
NLCS: contrarian23 v buddhagamer (0-4)
ALCS: calhoop v pedrocerrano (4-2)
WS: calhoop v buddhagamer (2-4)

80M
NLCS: calhoop v contrarian23 (1-4)
ALCS: italyprof v batandball (4-3)
WS: italyprof v contrarian23 (2-4)

90M
NLCS: batandball v schwarze (0-4)
ALCS: calhoop v thejuice6 (3-4)
WS: thejuice6 v schwarze (1-4)

100M
NLCS: rickysdad44 v Yaz2Schill (2-4)
ALCS: pedrocerrano v buddhagamer (3-4)
WS: Yaz2Schill v buddhagamer (4-2)

120M
NLCS: pmars2001 v pedrocerrano (1-4)
ALCS: thejuice6 v schwarze (3-4)
WS: pedrocerrano v schwarze (4-1)

Posted by contrarian23 on 12/11/2014 6:50:00 PM (view original):
Point totals at the end of the regular season:

Franchise	Owner	60M	80M	90M	100M	120M	RS Total	PS	Bonus	Total	Max Total
CUB/KC	schwarze	86	90	104	94	107	481	2	10	491	527
CLE/TOR	buddhagamer	95	87	91	97	97	467	2	10	477	513
PGH/BAL	pedrocerrano	99	95	83	82	102	461	3	15	476	530
DET/MON	batandball	83	97	99	81	79	439	2	10	449	485
STL/COL	calhoop	91	88	84	80	82	425	3	15	440	494
CIN/NYM	thejuice6	83	77	97	86	86	429	2	10	439	475
BOS/LOU	Yaz2Schill	97	76	83	91	72	419	1	5	424	442
MIN/SEA	contrarian23	89	91	68	80	85	413	2	10	423	459
SF/ARI	DarthDurron	84	85	75	76	91	411	0	0	411	411
BAL/HOU	rickysdad44	76	77	84	88	80	405	1	5	410	428
LA/FLA	pmars2001	85	81	79	71	83	399	1	5	404	422
NYY/TBR	italyprof	85	82	77	70	72	386	1	5	391	409
OAK/CAL	fortywins	81	71	82	79	74	387	0	0	387	387
PHI/SD	deathdealer	77	74	66	74	75	366	0	0	366	366
CWS/MKE	shawbigred	45	73	65	81	68	332	0	0	332	332
ATL/TEX	mcurio1	40	52	59	66	43	260	0	0	260	260

Probably self-explanatory, but PS = number of teams in the postseason.
Bonus = postseason bonus points earned
Total = current total points
Max Total = max possible points

The top five finishers in the regular season:
SCHWARZE
BUDDHAGAMER
PEDROCERRANO
BATANDBALL
CALHOOP

Position in the First Round of the Team Draft:
SCHWARZE - 8th
BUDDHAGAMER - 9th
PEDROCERRANO - 10th
BATANDBALL - 11th
CALHOOP - 12th

Well, I guess we know where the best spots are in the draft...lol.

Updated through the LCS

Franchise	Owner	60M	80M	90M	100M	120M	RS Total	PS	Bonus	LCS Bonus	Teams Remaining	Total	Max Total
CUB/KC	schwarze	86	90	104	94	107	481	2	10	18	2	509	527
CLE/TOR	buddhagamer	95	87	91	97	97	467	2	10	18	2	495	513
PGH/BAL	pedrocerrano	99	95	83	82	102	461	3	15	14	1	490	499
STL/COL	calhoop	91	88	84	80	82	425	3	15	13	1	453	462
DET/MON	batandball	83	97	99	81	79	439	2	10	3	0	452	452
CIN/NYM	thejuice6	83	77	97	86	86	429	2	10	12	1	451	460
BOS/LOU	Yaz2Schill	97	76	83	91	72	419	1	5	9	1	433	442
MIN/SEA	contrarian23	89	91	68	80	85	413	2	10	9	1	432	441
BAL/HOU	rickysdad44	76	77	84	88	80	405	1	5	2	0	412	412
SF/ARI	DarthDurron	84	85	75	76	91	411	0	0	0	0	411	411
LA/FLA	pmars2001	85	81	79	71	83	399	1	5	1	0	405	405
NYY/TBR	italyprof	85	82	77	70	72	386	1	5	9	1	400	409
OAK/CAL	fortywins	81	71	82	79	74	387	0	0	0	0	387	387
PHI/SD	deathdealer	77	74	66	74	75	366	0	0	0	0	366	366
CWS/MKE	shawbigred	45	73	65	81	68	332	0	0	0	0	332	332
ATL/TEX	mcurio1	40	52	59	66	43	260	0	0	0	0	260	260

The top 3 finishers are now set... just left to determine the order.  Congrats to schwarze, buddhagamer, and pedrocerrano!

Unless there's a huge collapse, I think I'm destined to finish 2nd this year.  Couldn't quite defend the title against the the 2nd half charge of schwarze... tip of the cap to the new champ.

Yes...I will double check the math, but I believe that the final standings are now set:

Schwarze will win the tournament
buddhagamer will finish 2nd
pedrocerrano will finish 3rd

I'll confirm this tomorrow once the remaining World Series are over, and will then work with admin on getting the prizes sent out.

Final standings:

Franchise	Owner	60M	80M	90M	100M	120M	RS Total	PS	Bonus	LCS Bonus	WS Bonus	Total
CUB/KC	schwarze	86	90	104	94	107	481	2	10	18	10	519
CLE/TOR	buddhagamer	95	87	91	97	97	467	2	10	18	11	506
PGH/BAL	pedrocerrano	99	95	83	82	102	461	3	15	14	9	499
STL/COL	calhoop	91	88	84	80	82	425	3	15	13	2	455
DET/MON	batandball	83	97	99	81	79	439	2	10	3	0	452
CIN/NYM	thejuice6	83	77	97	86	86	429	2	10	12	1	452
BOS/LOU	Yaz2Schill	97	76	83	91	72	419	1	5	9	9	442
MIN/SEA	contrarian23	89	91	68	80	85	413	2	10	9	9	441
BAL/HOU	rickysdad44	76	77	84	88	80	405	1	5	2	0	412
SF/ARI	DarthDurron	84	85	75	76	91	411	0	0	0	0	411
LA/FLA	pmars2001	85	81	79	71	83	399	1	5	1	0	405
NYY/TBR	italyprof	85	82	77	70	72	386	1	5	9	2	402
OAK/CAL	fortywins	81	71	82	79	74	387	0	0	0	0	387
PHI/SD	deathdealer	77	74	66	74	75	366	0	0	0	0	366
CWS/MKE	shawbigred	45	73	65	81	68	332	0	0	0	0	332
ATL/TEX	mcurio1	40	52	59	66	43	260	0	0	0	0	260

Congrats to our top 3 finishers:

1.) schwarze
2.) buddhagamer
3.) pedrocerrano

And in addition to those 3, who each won 1 world series, congrats to Yaz2Schill and to, well, me...for winning the remaining world series.

I will start working with admin to get the prizes sent out.  



Thanks to all of you who participated.  It was great to have you. I will do this again next fall, with at least a couple of tweaks to the league structure (and we will definitely use a league alignment model akin to the one schwarze proposed, so that we have much greater separation among owners).

Great job contrarian!

Thanks for running this tournament. 

My pleasure schwarze.  Thanks for participating, congrats on a dominant performance, and thanks for solving the "division alignment" puzzle, which I will use in some format next year when I run this again.

Also, I have submitted a ticket to get all the prizes distributed.  I am guessing the holidays may slow the process down, but hopefully they will take care of this soon.

No movement from admin on the prizes yet.  I have updated the ticket asking for status.  Not much more I can do right now.