We Have a Champion!

Cory won the league championship with a mid week rally and very impressive weekend pitcher streaming. Michael had gotten off to a hot start to the week, but Cory was steady the whole week and after 2 pitching wins on Sunday, the dream was fulfilled and Cory became champion.

What did it for him: pitching. There was no hot hitter or slick pickup the last month of the season that carried Cory to a championship (although Michael’s drop of Robinson Cano did allow Cory to claim Cano who put up 10 hits in the week). No, Cory won this title on draft day with his Gerrit Cole and Justin Verlander selections. These two allowed Cory to stream starting pitchers freely over the weekend as Michael’s streamed pitchers and relief pitchers blew up his ERA from Thursday to Saturday.

Where did Michael go wrong: I’m probably too close to it to call myself out fairly, but Michael’s pitcher streaming mojo ran out, leaving him vulnerable. A solid offensive week was not enough to overcome his pitching shortcomings. This and Rich Hill and Corey Kluber getting bumped from their planned weekend starts was enough to keep Michael from championship number 4.

Congratulations to Cory who has now won his second title in three years in Floored. Here is an update on the Floored Managerial Power Rankings over the years with the results of this year:

	Team Standing at the end of the year
MANAGER	‘18	‘17	‘16	‘15	‘14	‘13	‘12	‘11	‘10	‘09	‘08		‘07	AVERAGE		STDEV
Michael	2	3	7	6	1	2	1	4	1	2	5		4	3.167		2.038
Dave	3	4	4	5	3	1	2	1	5	1	6			3.182		1.779
Dean	7	5	2	1	2	6	7			5				4.375		2.387
Paul	5	7	3	3	10	4	8	2	3	7	4		1	4.750		2.701
Brian	4	1	5	9										4.750		3.304
Waring	4	1	5	9	6	3	5	6	4					4.778		2.224
Arthur	6	2	10	2	9	5	9	3	2	6	1			5.000		3.256
Cory	1	8	1	8	5	9	10	8	10	9	7		3	6.583		3.288
Keith	9	6	6	4	4	10	3	7	7		10			6.600		2.503
Max	10	10	9	10	7	8	4	9	8	8	8		8	8.250		1.658
Matt	8	9												8.500		0.707

With the second place finish, Michael moved into first place in the 12 year average finish rankings. The other observation is how magificently consistent Max is. He has the lowest standard deviation of his finishes of teams that have been around more than 2 years (AKA everyone other than Matt).

As far as the BSC goes:

Manager	AB	r	h	hr	rbi	sb	bb	k	avg
Arthur	457	69	112	18	58	10	62	97	0.245
Paul	474	67	130	21	62	8	63	118	0.274
Dean	467	91	140	19	62	14	53	78	0.300
Matt	459	69	128	15	65	7	42	100	0.279
Keith	363	52	104	10	52	1	41	79	0.287
Max	375	53	90	13	40	3	36	90	0.240

Manager	IP	w	s	er	k	era	whip
Arthur	150.33	12	3	54	152	3.23	1.15
Paul	109.67	8	4	41	134	3.36	1.06
Dean	97.00	7	9	26	92	2.41	1.00
Matt	65.33	2	5	34	59	4.68	1.41
Keith	68.00	5	2	28	56	3.71	1.19
Max	87.34	10	8	41	80	4.22	1.17

BSC Standing
1	Dean	1.6429
2	Paul	2.9286
3	Arthur	3.1429
4	Matt	3.9286
5	Max	4.5000
6	Keith	4.6429

Dean extended his lead through the weekend to pull of the Bourbon Street Championship victory. A .300 average with 21 HRs and a 2.41 ERA would have done some major damage in the Championship Bracket this year. If only, if only, Dean must be thinking. Paul narrowly held off Arthur for the final spot in the BSC slotting. After mixed reactions and team attentiveness during the course of the two weeks, a certain team calling the tournament ‘POINTLESS’ went for it by throwing 83 innings last week and all teams hit 60 innings pitched. It’s a fun two week event.

Without further adieu, here is how the draft slot picking will go next March:

Draft Slot Pick Order	Manager
1	Dean
2	Paul
3	Arthur
4	Matt
5	Keith
6	Max
7	Dave
8	Brian/Josh
9	Michael
10	Cory

That’s all for this season everyone. Once I stop crying (likely only in time for the Braves’ first post season game) and when ESPN or Yahoo releases some preliminary 2019 draft rankings, I’ll put out a blog about keeper trading and we’ll talk about some potential rule changes people have been asking about. Until then, thank you all for another great year!