Our regular season has concluded and the playoff field is set. The first round of our playoffs will feature top seed Cory Puffett against fourth seed Andrew Perez. Sam Martin, despite being in Cory’s division, is the #2 seed and will face Evan Ash in the other semi-final matchup.
Before we get to end-of-season stats, there were a handful of notable events over the last five weeks of the season. We saw two matchups between the top two scoring teams of the week. In both instances, Sam defeated Cory. In fact, over the course of our season Cory was involved in all five instances of the week’s top two scorers facing off and he went 2-3 in those games.
This week’s matchup between Sam and Cory saw the two total 305.75 points, the third highest combined score of the season.
We also saw two instances of the bottom two scoring teams of the week facing off. Sean lost both and was involved in four of the five such instances over the course of the season.
Congratulations are in order to Sam and Evan, neither of whom ever scored fewer than 100 points in a week all season.
Cory and Eric Meyer tied for the league lead in Rickey Henderson Awards, given weekly to the league’s top scorer. Each of them won six while Sam won five and Evan won three.
Cory and Sam tied for the league lead in Manny Ramirez Awards, given weekly to the victor of the game of the week. They each won five while Evan won four, Andrew won three, Cory Frontin won two, and Eric won one. Eric had ample opportunities; he tied with Cory for the most game of the week appearances with eight of them but went 1-7 in those games.
Let’s take a quick look at our league’s best and worst in each statistical category through the end of the regular season:
Hitting
Plate Appearances: Cory Puffett (4806) | Sean Kennedy (3804)
Hits: Sam Martin (1131) | Sean Kennedy (870)
Home runs: Sam Martin (210) | Sean Kennedy (126)
Runs: Cory Puffett (695) | Sean Kennedy (458)
RBI: Sam Martin (666) | Sean Kennedy (428)
Total bases: Sam Martin (2028) | Sean Kennedy (1446)
Stolen bases: Eric Meyer (109) | Andrew Perez (47)
Walks: Alex Mayo (459) | Sean Kennedy (335)
Strikeouts: Sean Kennedy (822) | Cory Puffett (995)
Hit by pitch: Alex Mayo (58) | Cory Puffett (44)
Ground into double play: Eric Meyer (61) | Sam Martin (102)
Batting average: Eric Meyer (.278) | Andrew Perez (.256)
On base percentage: Alex Mayo (.357) | Sean Kennedy (.329)
Slugging percentage: Cory Frontin (.496) | Evan Ash (.416)
On base plus slugging: Eric Meyer (.847) | Evan Ash (.752)
Stolen base percentage: Alex Mayo (86.7%) | Evan Ash (70.3%)
Pitching
Pitcher Stats: Cory Puffett (140) | Alex Mayo (114)
Wins: E. Ash, S. Martin, A. Perez & C. Puffett (63) | Cory Frontin (50)
Losses: Evan Ash (34) | Cory Puffett (56)
Quality starts: Evan Ash (81) | Cory Frontin (48)
Saves: Evan Ash (53) | Sean Kennedy (9)
Holds: Sean Kennedy (24) | E. Ash & A. Mayo (0)
Blown saves: C. Frontin & A. Perez (5) | Evan Ash (11)
Innings pitched: Evan Ash (930.2) | Alex Mayo (717.2)
Hits allowed: Alex Mayo (608) | Cory Puffett (779)
Earned runs: Alex Mayo (306) | Cory Puffett (359)
Walks: Cory Frontin (218) | Cory Puffett (278)
Strikeouts: Cory Puffett (1092) | Cory Frontin (702)
Home runs allowed: Cory Frontin (96) | Cory Puffett (120)
Hit batters: Andrew Perez (19) | Sam Martin (43)
ERA: Evan Ash (3.05) | Cory Frontin (4.04)
WHIP: Evan Ash (1.041) | Cory Frontin (1.237)
FIP: Evan Ash (3.46) | Cory Frontin (3.94)
Save percentage: Andrew Perez (89.8%) | Sean Kennedy (60.0%)
Other
Total points: Cory Puffett (2702.50) | Sean Kennedy (1985.50)
Hitting points: Sam Martin (1606.75) | Sean Kennedy (1072.25)
Pitching points: Evan Ash (1229.00) | Cory Frontin (823.25)
Alex Mayo earned the highest percentage of his points from hitting in our league, with 64.1% of his points coming from his offense. Evan Ash earned the highest percentage of his points from pitching at 47.6%.
Cory Puffett was the only manager to use his maximum seven pitcher starts in every week this season. Evan Ash had one week of only six to finish with 139 pitcher starts on the year.
Good luck to everyone in the playoffs!
-Cory Puffett