CFBL 2000, Year #11

CFBL Goes On-Line; Dogs Survive Playoffs For 3rd Title

The FBL started the 2000 season with a new name, The Capitol Fantasy Baseball League, and partnered with Total Quality Stats to enter a new era for the league: on-line scoring.  And, for the second straight year, a team in the middle of the regular season standings worked their way into the finals and came away the winner.  This year it was the 3rd-time winner of the CFBL title, the SAN ANDREAS DOGS, who knocked off the top-seeded River Rats and then beat the second-seeded Cactus Scouts for the championship.

Rule changes:  The league moved to an Internet-based scoring system, which required strong tinkering with the scoring rules.  Offense was upgraded to give points for total bases rather than head-to-head categories for each position.  Pitching was upgraded to 72 points for ERA. 


team  (bonus pick)

     San Andreas Dogs:   PMartinez ($15)

     Clubbers:   Alex Rodriguez ($5)

     Devil Rays:   Griffey ($2)

     Coasters   Manny Ramirez ($2)

     Casuals:   Sosa ($6)

     River Rats   Randy Johnson ($2)

     Young Guns:   Brown

     Cactus Scouts:   Garciaparra ($2)

Season:  The River Rats dominated most of the season, starting off 10-1 before setting into a 11-3 regular season record.  The Cactus Scouts and the Coasters tied for 2nd, 3 games out.

CFBL Regular Season Standings

River Rats (11-3)

Cactus Scouts (8-6)

Coasters (8-6)

Dogs (7-7)

Young Guns (6-8)

Casuals (6-8)

Devil Rays (5-9)

Clubbers (5-9)

Playoffs:  In the first round of the playoffs, the #1 Rats easily put away the #8 Clubbers, as did the #2 Scouts over the #7 D-Rays.  It took two weeks, however, for the #3 Coasters to knock off the Casuals and the #4 Dogs to best the Guns.  That set up a Rat-Dog and Scout-Coaster semi-final; the Scouts easily knocked off the Coasters, but the Rats struggled against the Dogs, eventually losing both weeks.  In the championship, the Dogs nipped the Scouts in game #1 by 2.5 points, before bowing in game #2 by 89 points.  That set up a replay of the 1991 championship, when the Dogs (nee Homeboys) knocked off #1 ReBeat Battson (nee Beat Battson, now the Cactus Scouts).  While the final game was not of championship quality, the Dogs made short work of the Scouts, beating them by 25 points.

Pacific Bell Park, Year One, San Francisco