You may know that I'm
a founding member of the Diamond Dynasty, a fantasy baseball league made up of
WHS '06 grads. Entering our 15th year, we've lived through some of the
same things The Franchise has; absentee managers, infighting, the 2009 ERA
playoff tie-breaker, and general Yahoo ineptitude. But we also have a
rich history of rivalries, rags to riches championship stories, back-to-back
titles, and the million other moments that make leagues like these great.
In
a subconscious effort to put my $100,000 journalism degree to use, I've become
the de facto blogger/historian for the DD. They started with match ups of
the week, season previews, season reviews, etc, but they were restricted to
that season. I'd try to dive into the Yahoo! record books but they aren't
very forgiving. So I did what any late 20's male would do. I spent
months pulling our fantasy baseball league history off Yahoo! into a
spreadsheet where I could spend even more time sifting through the data faster.
It gave the seasons so much more depth and put current seasons into
perspective. We could see career leaders in wins, the best and worst
seasons of all time, career records against one another. Putting seasons
into context gave more gravity to the successes and failures. It added a whole
dimension to the league we didn't have before.
You
probably already figured out where this is going, and yes, I've pulled the
entire nine year Franchise history onto a Google doc. It's been a cool
way for me, a non-founding member, to see this league grow from inception to
the cluster fuck of 2009 to today (I'll let someone with more knowledge
revisit/blog about the '09 season if they want but I will say the tomfoolery
corrupts the historical data a bit.) I'm about 75% done but we have
enough of a foundation to start pulling data out of it.
I'll
be throwing out some stats throughout the year to highlight exactly how
impressive (or terrible) a manager's season is going this year but without further
ado, here are some stats worth mentioning!
*Career stats do not
include 2017
Career Winning Percentage
|
||||
Win
|
Loss
|
Tie
|
%
|
|
Russ
Travers
|
1078
|
799
|
103
|
0.570
|
John
DeMovellan
|
1014
|
850
|
106
|
0.542
|
Dan
Alber
|
771
|
679
|
80
|
0.530
|
Mark
Chirokas
|
993
|
881
|
96
|
0.528
|
Chris
Pflanz
|
956
|
884
|
130
|
0.518
|
Andy
Musto
|
845
|
808
|
97
|
0.511
|
Roland
Zhou
|
532
|
519
|
49
|
0.506
|
Eric
Rose
|
301
|
310
|
39
|
0.493
|
Eddie
Perkins
|
916
|
951
|
103
|
0.491
|
Richie
Travers
|
396
|
421
|
53
|
0.486
|
Jeremy
Scanlon
|
290
|
314
|
46
|
0.482
|
Brad
Calandrella
|
884
|
980
|
106
|
0.476
|
Greg
Thompson
|
858
|
990
|
122
|
0.466
|
Bryan
Bart
|
94
|
116
|
10
|
0.450
|
Matt
Keaveney
|
548
|
691
|
81
|
0.446
|
Zack
Hanrahan
|
453
|
574
|
73
|
0.445
|
Matt
Pru
|
80
|
126
|
14
|
0.395
|
Ryan
Fitzgibbon
|
145
|
261
|
24
|
0.365
|
Career Wins
|
||||
Win
|
Loss
|
Tie
|
%
|
|
Russ
Travers
|
1078
|
799
|
103
|
0.570
|
John
DeMovellan
|
1014
|
850
|
106
|
0.542
|
Mark
Chirokas
|
993
|
881
|
96
|
0.528
|
Chris
Pflanz
|
956
|
884
|
130
|
0.518
|
Eddie
Perkins
|
916
|
951
|
103
|
0.491
|
Brad
Calandrella
|
884
|
980
|
106
|
0.476
|
Greg
Thompson
|
858
|
990
|
122
|
0.466
|
Andy
Musto
|
845
|
808
|
97
|
0.511
|
Dan
Alber
|
771
|
679
|
80
|
0.530
|
Matt
Keaveney
|
548
|
691
|
81
|
0.446
|
Roland
Zhou
|
532
|
519
|
49
|
0.506
|
Zack
Hanrahan
|
453
|
574
|
73
|
0.445
|
Richie
Travers
|
396
|
421
|
53
|
0.486
|
Eric
Rose
|
301
|
310
|
39
|
0.493
|
Jeremy
Scanlon
|
290
|
314
|
46
|
0.482
|
Ryan
Fitzgibbon
|
145
|
261
|
24
|
0.365
|
Bryan
Bart
|
94
|
116
|
10
|
0.450
|
Matt
Pru
|
80
|
126
|
14
|
0.395
|
By Week
|
|||
Win
|
Loss
|
Tie
|
|
Russ
Travers
|
115
|
54
|
29
|
John
DeMovellan
|
100
|
71
|
26
|
Mark
Chirokas
|
99
|
73
|
25
|
Chris
Pflanz
|
95
|
76
|
26
|
Eddie
Perkins
|
84
|
93
|
20
|
Brad
Calandrella
|
78
|
101
|
18
|
Andy
Musto
|
78
|
79
|
18
|
Greg
Thompson
|
75
|
107
|
15
|
Dan
Alber
|
74
|
63
|
16
|
Roland
Zhou
|
47
|
48
|
15
|
Matt
Keaveney
|
47
|
75
|
10
|
Zack
Hanrahan
|
44
|
55
|
11
|
Richie
Travers
|
37
|
40
|
10
|
Eric
Rose
|
29
|
31
|
5
|
Jeremy
Scanlon
|
27
|
34
|
4
|
Ryan
Fitzgibbon
|
11
|
26
|
6
|
Matt
Pru
|
7
|
13
|
2
|
Bryan
Bart
|
6
|
14
|
2
|
And a quick look at how 2017 is stacking up for each team
through two weeks of play:
Russ (15-4-1): Second
best start in team history behind his 2010 campaign (15-3-2)
Richie (14-6-0):
Second best start in team history behind his 2014 campaign (14-4-2)
Mark (13-6-1): Tied
for second best start in team history when he had the same start in 2014. His 2012 season was his best at 14-4-2.
Jeremy (13-6-1):
Easily his strongest opening to a season, besting his 2016 season (9-10-1)
by four games
Andy (10-9-1): Third
best two week start in team history, and the third time in team history he’s
been above .500 entering week three; he made the
playoffs in both times prior.
Eric (8-11-1): Eric
has never been above .500 at the start of week three in team history, but he
has managed to make the playoffs in two of his first three seasons.
Eddie (8-11-1): Perk sits under .500 at the start of week
three for the third time in the last five seasons (he only did that once in his
first five seasons).
John (8-11-1): Under
.500 after two weeks for the second straight season.
Pflanz (8-12-0): A
traditionally slow starter, Pflanz is under .500 after two weeks for the eighth
time in ten seasons (!). He’s made the
playoffs in all but two of those seasons.
Brad (7-12-1): Nearly
his worst start in team history, edging out his 2016 effort (6-11-3). Made me double check my stats when I learned
he owns the THREE BEST EVER TWO WEEK STARTS IN LEAGUE HISTORY when he was
16-3-1 in 2014 and 16-4-0 in 2011 & 2014.
He missed the playoffs in 2014.
Dan (6-14-0): Worst
start to a season in team history, “besting” his 2010 campaign (7-11-2). He’s made the playoffs in four of his first
seven seasons, but he was above .500 entering week three in each of those
playoff years.
Greg (5-13-2): Not his
worst start to a season (yikes!) but close.
At the very least he has avoided the worst start in league history; that
honor belongs to 2014 Eddie Perkins who started 2-17-1 (spoiler alert: he didn’t make the playoffs.)