Home British baseball How today’s NBL games affect the play-offs and individual titles

How today’s NBL games affect the play-offs and individual titles

by Joe Gray

StatisticsI was at Hemel Hempstead today, where the Falcons were beaten twice by the Nationals, and have spoken to people present at the double-headers between Essex and Croydon, which the teams split (although Croydon are due another win from an outstanding game that they will claim as a forfeit over the Arrows), and between Lakenheath and Bracknell, which the Diamondbacks swept. And this is how I think the play-offs and individual titles will shape up as a result (but this needs to be confirmed by a league official in the case of the former, and by me — once I have all the stats in — in the case of the latter).

Play-offs
Going by the ruling in the 2010 BBF League Handbook that states that teams finishing tied in the standings, using games back for the ranking, are split by their head-to-head record, unless one has forfeited more than the other, then I believe teams should finish Richmond #1, Lakenheath #2, Southampton #3, London #4, Nationals #5, and Croydon #6. If this is indeed correct then Croydon will travel to Southampton this coming Saturday to play for a place against Lakenheath in the first semi-final at the National Baseball Championships the following weekend. Likewise, the Nationals will play London at Finsbury in a showdown for the semi-final spot against Richmond.

Individual titles
The major titles that were still to be sealed were the batting crown and the home run championship. Edwin Alcantara went 2-for-5 on the day, with one home run, and his team-mates Maikel Azcuy and Jose Perez were both without a home run. So Alcantara will have secured the NBL triple crown, the first since 2005, unless something very strange happened in Croydon or Bracknell.

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2 comments

Joe Gray August 28, 2011 - 6:32 pm

Also, note that teams have not been deducted a win for every two games they forfeited in the NBL this season, as they were in the past.

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Joe Gray August 29, 2011 - 7:48 am

Please note, some comments have been deleted.

Also, for clarification, the stats on the BBF website, other than those displayed on the front page, will not be updated any more this year. They were used as a “dry run” for next year — to check for any glitches — as in 2012 we are very much hoping to be able to move official stats across to that platform. Full up-to-date stats have been collated by me for Project COBB and are reflected on the front page of the BBF website.

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