Friday, February 29, 2008

Legends of Morgan (HOF)

Season 8 will be the inaugural season of the Legends of Morgan; an owner driven version of Morgan's Hall of Fame. Part of the reason behind not naming it the Morgan World HOF is that we will be voting on active players, and if a HOF is ever instituted by WifS it could cause confusion if we had two HOF.

What is being proposed is that a group of Morgan owners commits to voting on players nominated by the league. We would aim to get 75% approval from the Legends/HOF Committee for a player to be accepted.

To nominate a player an owner will post a link to the player and state he is being nominated on the World Chat section. If another owner seconds the nomination the player is then eligible to be voted on by the committee. This process will keep the committee from spending time discussing players that plainly do not belong in the discussion. Seconding a players nomination doesn’t mean that you would definitely vote that player in, but you think he at least deserves to be discussed.

One issue we will be dealing with is players that the world was created and some very good players were in the middle of their careers and will never have career totals that approach a guy that played since he was 23. At the same time we cannot ignore career totals, and being great for one or two seasons does not make a HOF career. At the very least the committee needs to see a 5 season average of what a player did.

- A player can only be nominated once per season.

- A player can be nominated by any owner

- The nominating owner should provide info about the player. Summary of awards, statistical achievements (world top 5 list), average seasons stats for at least a 5 season threshold or more. This is while not required will help the committee.

- There will be an age requirement

- Voting will be done of the league blog by the committee members.

- All Morgan owners are eligible to be on the committee, the requirement being that do your utmost to at least vote on all the players that come up for a vote and you try to be fair with your vote.

The Legends of Morgan/HOF is not completely finalized yet so this list is not law, please feel free to offer up any opinions to the group. Also let me know via trade chat or sitemail if you want to be part of the voting committee.

Finally this is something that is being done to add an interesting element to the game, but everyone has opinions. If you nominate a player realize there could be a discussion about him. Other owners have might have different criteria for what they think deserves induction, people are free to feel certain players don’t deserve induction. And voters please avoid incendiary comments about other owner’s players, use stats or to a lesser extent ratings to backup any views about them not deserving induction.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Congrats to Boston


Boston won the championship in thrilling fashion. Rock Gardner hit a walk-off 2-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning of game 5 of the World Series. This was after Vin Lee threw his second gem of the World Series. In 2 games and 16 innings he gave 1 run.

Boston also won game 4 in the 10th inning. In game 4 Wes Davies hit a single in the 10th inning, stole second when the throw to second sailed into the bleachers. Then Enrique Ruiz (admittedly not primarily a 3b) botched a routine grounder and Davies came home to score the winning run.

Thanks to everyone for another great year in Morgan. Hope to see you next season.

Vin Lee
Boston
Blood Sox
Age: 34B/T: R/R
Born: Caracas, VE
Position(s): P (SP2)
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S7 Pitching Stats

Name Wins WHIP ERA
Scottsdale Mad Jesters 114 1.32 4.33
Washington War Criminals 93 1.36 4.37
Cleveland Stormtroopers 87 1.38 4.51
Houston Texans 104 1.48 4.71
Salem mad monks 83 1.40 4.75
Anaheim Redbirds 95 1.44 4.76
Sacramento Air Force 100 1.37 4.77
New York Mugger Funk 107 1.34 4.78
Chicago Knights 90 1.42 4.79
Atlanta Braves 92 1.42 4.83
Minnesota St. Paul Sots 87 1.45 4.89
St. Louis Melon Farmers 72 1.43 4.97
Toronto Storks 87 1.47 5.00
Boston Blood Sox 90 1.49 5.00
Las Vegas Gamblers 78 1.53 5.02
Memphis Elvi 89 1.45 5.04
Austin Wranglers 78 1.45 5.06
Hartford Harpoons 90 1.46 5.09
Arizona Scottsdale 89 1.55 5.44
New Britain Claymores 68 1.55 5.45
Cincinnati Reds 58 1.49 5.46
Wichita Twisters 62 1.62 5.57
Fresno Grizzlies 72 1.56 5.77
Dover Gophers 74 1.55 5.80
Santa Fe Locomotive 79 1.58 5.95
Texas Black Socks 73 1.59 5.96
Milwaukee Gurus 66 1.58 5.98
Monterrey Habaneros 66 1.64 6.13
Nashville Hound Dogs 68 1.66 6.29
Indianapolis Hoosierdaddies 66 1.66 6.32
Florida Phoenix 56 1.60 6.33
Colorado Funky Back Beats 59 1.90 8.12

S7 Hitting Stats

Name Runs HRs AVG OPS
Scottsdale Mad Jesters 1227 419 0.306 0.962
Houston Texans 1120 254 0.306 0.884
New York Mugger Funk 1073 247 0.300 0.858
Arizona Scottsdale 1066 319 0.291 0.881
Colorado Funky Back Beats 1023 248 0.303 0.852
Atlanta Braves 1017 215 0.291 0.817
Texas Black Socks 993 319 0.283 0.859
Sacramento Air Force 982 343 0.281 0.861
Chicago Knights 962 239 0.289 0.816
Santa Fe Locomotive 962 276 0.285 0.839
Hartford Harpoons 942 257 0.282 0.823
Nashville Hound Dogs 931 202 0.278 0.788
Dover Gophers 926 207 0.282 0.801
Anaheim Redbirds 924 240 0.275 0.797
Memphis Elvi 923 266 0.270 0.801
Washington War Criminals 922 226 0.282 0.795
Boston Blood Sox 912 231 0.285 0.814
Austin Wranglers 911 220 0.284 0.802
Minnesota St. Paul Sots 905 243 0.278 0.815
Toronto Storks 902 220 0.287 0.812
Monterrey Habaneros 899 234 0.282 0.805
Indianapolis Hoosierdaddies 869 223 0.276 0.781
Salem mad monks 867 253 0.285 0.829
Las Vegas Gamblers 851 243 0.280 0.802
New Britain Claymores 836 286 0.265 0.785
Cleveland Stormtroopers 825 186 0.273 0.760
Milwaukee Gurus 804 231 0.273 0.776
Fresno Grizzlies 777 199 0.258 0.744
Florida Phoenix 771 155 0.279 0.755
St. Louis Melon Farmers 758 213 0.258 0.749
Wichita Twisters 754 196 0.261 0.750
Cincinnati Reds 734 199 0.261 0.727

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

S7 Playoffs rankings

Name - Run Difference - Offense rank - Pitching Rank
Chicago +125 9th 9th
NY +268 3rd 8th
Washington +184 16th 2nd
Memphis +58 15th 16th
Scottsdale +463 1st 1st
Sacrament +167 8th 7th
Toronto +44 20th 13th
Atlanta +162 6th 10th
Houston +291 2nd 4th
Anaheim +132 14th 6th
Hartford +60 11th 18th
Boston +68 17th 14th