Sunday, July 4, 2010

What I do in my spare moments: Fantasy Major League Baseball Year One

I have been fiddling around with some data programs so as to be able to generate some random baseball standings.  Creating fantasy league standing results has been an obsession of mine since I was in junior high school.  Way back when, I would use coins and my whims to create leagues and standings.  Now, I use random number generators.

In the fantasy league below, I have used the original sixteen major league baseball teams.  Notice how there is no wild card and there are no divisions.  The team with the best record in each league goes to the World Series, which is a best of nine.

In  season one, The Dodgers have beaten the A's five games to two in the World Series for the FMLB championship.  In each league, you will notice that three teams had winning seasons.  The eventual pennant winners won by big margins.  There wasn't much drama, but that is okay, because if each year the pennant is decided on the last day, there would be no point to watch the early parts of the season.


American League

Team   wins losses pct.         G.B.
A's               107       47            .695             -
White Sox    100 54        .649           7
Red Sox      87 67        .565          20
Indians      71 83        .461          36
Senators        69 85        .448          38
Browns      65 89        .422          42
Yankees      64 90        .416          43
Tigers      53 101        .344          54


National League

Team   wins losses pct.          G.B.
Dodgers    105 49        .682     -
Giants      98 56        .636             7
Cards      95 59        .617            10
Pirates      75 79        .487            30
Phillies      69 85        .448            36
Reds              69 85        .448            36
Braves      61 93        .396            44
Cubs             44 110        .286            61



World Series (Best of Nine)

Game        Score Score
1 Dodgers 3 A's 2
2 Dodgers 7 A's 0
3 Dodgers 10 A's 9
4 Dodgers 3 A's 9
5 Dodgers 8 A's 4
6 Dodgers 6 A's 8
7 Dodgers 6 A's 2

Dodgers win 5 games to 2


Season Two coming soon!!

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