CFBL 2017, Year #28

The Clubbers Win Their 4th Trophy ...

...at the Rats' Expense

New Rules:  We shook up starting pitching stats, narrowing the gap between a win (from 8 to 4) and a loss (from -3 to -1) and giving more points for SP ERA (from 10 to 15 points max).

     DRAFT (1st round pick)

        Casuals (Arenado)

        CLUBBERS (Trout)

        Sourdoughs (Bryant)

        Lodi Crushers (Kershaw)

        Fishermen (Trout)

        Devil Rays (Donaldson)

        Fishermen (Goldschmidt)

        Oakies (Altuve)

        Tahoe Rats (Machado)

Regular Season:  The Oakies & Crushers battled it out during the regular season, tying for first, but just 3 games ahead of the Clubbers and 4 ahead of the Sourdoughs (nee Water Boys).

   66-46  Oakies

   66-46  Lodi Crushers

   63-49  Clubbers

   61-50  Sourdoughs

   59-53  Tahoe Rats

   49-64  Devil Rays

   48-64  Fishermen

   36-76  Casuals

PLAYOFFS:  The dRays & defending champion Fishermen were knocked out after the first week of the playoffs; the Casuals followed them the next week, leaving the top 5 in the finals for the second year in a row.  As it should be!

The Final 5 looked like a cake walk for the Tahoe Rats, but the history of the Rats is full of finals disappointments.  They had excellent weeks to be 8-0 going into the last week.  But the Clubbers stayed close with two second-place finishes; they were at 6-2.  It was a 2-team race as the Oakies & Crushers were at 3-5; the Sourdoughs were wallowing in the cellar at 0-8.

Then the Clubbers blew the Rats away with a 206-point final week.  All the Rats had to do was finish right behind the Clubbers; instead, they finishd last; shades of 1990!  

   10-2  Clubbers

     8-4  Rats

     6-6  Oakies

     4-8  Crushers

   2-10  Sourdoughs