If you've been following the daily updates, by now you will know the score: Muenster Blue Jays led Norwich No for a good portion of the two weeks, but a surge in the last few days saw Norwich first tie and then move ahead to claim a deserved H2HWS title.
Here are the results of the final match-ups:
H2HWS Final
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| Norwich No | 58 | 20 | 57 | 8 | .278 | .861 | 4 | 3 | 88 | 4 | 4.11 | 1.16 | 8 |
| Muenster Blue Jays | 53 | 6 | 53 | 11 | .298 | .780 | 9 | 5 | 80 | 2 | 4.71 | 1.36 | 4 |
MVP: Adam Lind, who put up the line of 9-5-10-0-.414-1.400
Cy Young: Roy Halladay, with 2-0-15-0-0.00-0.67
Plucky Loser: Joe Saunders, who gave Muenster this line: 3-0-9-0-3.26-1.19
3rd Place Playoff
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| Helsinki Hitters | 67 | 14 | 58 | 5 | .272 | .799 | 8 | 0 | 112 | 6 | 3.90 | 1.27 | 10 |
| Psydney Psychos | 52 | 12 | 38 | 5 | .253 | .724 | 5 | 7 | 106 | 3 | 5.88 | 1.62 | 1 |
Helsinki take the all-important 3rd spot - and with it a return to the H2HWS in 2010 - with a comprehensive win over the Psychos.
Consolation Final
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| London Knights | 68 | 14 | 78 | 4 | .277 | .802 | 4 | 8 | 82 | 4 | 4.08 | 1.36 | 6 |
| San Jose Athletics | 55 | 10 | 56 | 15 | .284 | .765 | 7 | 5 | 96 | 1 | 3.20 | 1.33 | 6 |
For once the Knights lose a tiebreaker, with San Jose taking the Consolation title.
9th/10th Place Playoff
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| Stockstadt_shithouse | 67 | 12 | 53 | 16 | .313 | .929 | 5 | 0 | 76 | 4 | 3.55 | 1.25 | 8 |
| Missouri River Jacks | 46 | 15 | 50 | 6 | .238 | .783 | 5 | 7 | 74 | 0 | 3.40 | 1.29 | 3 |
It's a win for Stockstadt in the final match-up of the season.
So, once again, enormous congratulations to Norwich, and commiserations to Muenster, who fought all the way. That's it from me for the H2HWS, at least until 2011 (hopefully!) I'll still be blogging here and there on rotodatabase.com, but it will be a new man at the helm with regards to the H2HWS in 2010. In the meantime, I'll just have to win the H2HSB instead...
Many congratulations on your title Norwich. Its a long hard fight to get that title right there, and I hope you are stoked about earning it. Brag about it often. You certainly earned it.
mad props
wr
Thanks wr!
Yeah, it does mean a lot. To beat Chris,, Ray and a whole load of other guys who really know their baseball is just brilliant.
I had a lot of luck, and probably the perfect season. My draft couldn't have worked out much better (despite picking Quentin in round 2, and Aramis Ramirez in the third). Virtually all of my mid to late round picks played way better than their draft position (particularly Wandy & Reynolds).
And then I made good decisions in the first month to pick up Lind, Aardsma and Kubel. All three were huge for me all season. The only decision I missed on was taking Bonifacio in week one instead of Aaron Hill, which I almost did.
I think I probably had some luck with scheduling too. Every week the team was relatively poor, so was my opponent. That's just luck! I don't think there is any chance of going through a season again only losing twice (both times by the narrowest of margins), with the odd tie thrown in.
But I'm looking forward to trying next year! :)
Congrats Norwich, enjoy your title. I'll be making my first appearance in the H2HWS next year to challenge you for your title.