Dodgers Dominate "What-If" Injury Statis-Pro Season with Healthy Muncy, Kershaw, Betts, Yamamoto

In the home stretch, just a few games left in the Montana Statis-Pro regular season, which this year features the NL. The Montana league plays actual records, so the LA Dodgers have truly played 44 games to go 32-12 in a Statis-Pro season in which we decided to play a “what-if” season in which we used Statis-Pro cards even if the player was injured in real life. The NL update is here.

Therefore in the game Clayton Kershaw is 7-1 with a 2.05 ERA, while he has been injured almost all of the actual MLB season and is thus 2-2 with a 2.05 ERA. Yoshinobu Yamamoto has the 4th best Batting Average allowed at 0.211 and in MLB he started 6-2 with a 2.92 ERA but is on the 60-day DL, which would have disqualified him  in our past Statis-Pro season.

As for Dodgers’ batters, Max Muncy has played only 54 games and Mookie Betts 95 games in actual MLB, while In full Statis-Pro seasons, Betts is 1st in homers with 18 and 122 Total Based; 2nd with a 1.048 OPS, 0.670 Slugging and 41 RBIs; and 4th with 43 runs scored . Max Muncy is tied for 3rd with 14 homers and 40 RBIs.Betts injury cost him the chance to battle his teammate Shohei Ohtani for the MVP, but he is back now and we will see if the Dodgers look as good in an actual MLB playoff run as in our “What if” Statis-Pro season.

Outside of the Dodgers, parity reigns, as it has in actual MLB play when no other team appears to have a chance at 100 wins. Still a lot to be determined in the wild card seeding, but here is the Statis-Pro playoffs if the season ended today - with the NL teams on the top half and then the Milwaukee-AL teams on the bottom half (note the Milwaukee league claimed the Mets and Cardinals when the Montana league relegated them).

 

The Phillies have gotten hot at the right time ripping off eight straight wins. The Padres have also peaked late, winning 9 of 11. Meanwhile the Reds have lost 4-straight and are close to slipping out of the playoffs.

The Dodgers and Braves lead in most offensive categories. (including run differential)

While the Padres pitching has helped compensate for their anemic offense. (2nd in team ERA, 2nd in team WHIP)

It remains a mystery as to how the Brewers keep winning despite being in the bottom half of most pitching/hitting stats. (they do lead the league in two-out RBIs and the state that has become so much more important since the bases were moved closer together last year - stolen bases).

Ohtani is the MVP favorite right now. He ranks in the top 5 of nine different offensive categories. (avg, HR, RBI, Slugging pct, OPS, 2B’s, Avg RISP, 2-out RBI’s, total bases)

 

Spencer Strider is leading the Cy Young race but is getting challenged.

He is 9-2, 2.15 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 125 K/75 IP, .186 BAA

 

The overall standings that led to the playoff seedings below with Arizona and Chicago still in the hunt to catch the Reds for the last wild card and Milwaukee still with a chance to steal the bye if they can catch the Braves for the NL “East” title.

NL “East”

Atlanta           27-17

Milwaukee    25-18

Philadelphia 24-20

Chicago         21-23

Miami             13-30

 

NL “West”

Los Angeles  32-12

San Diego      24-20

Cincinnati     23-21

Arizona           22-21

San Francisco  17-26

 

Wildcard

Milwaukee    25-18

Philadelphia 24-20

San Diego      24-20

Cincinnati     23-21

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Arizona           22-21

Chicago         21-23

While the Montana league picks 10 teams and consolidates them into a “East” and “West,” our Milwaukee league this year went with four “pods” of 3-teams each - East, West and South - and then picked three late surprise teams for a fourth pod that could only compete for the remaining 3 wild card spots. Thus Baltimore has the 1-seed as the East Champ, Houston the 2-seed as the South Champ and Seattle does not get a bye as the 3-seed as the West Champ.

The Montana league keeps much more detailed stats than the Milwaukee league, resulting in this incredible leaders list.

Statis-Pro National League

Statistics—42 games

Batting Average	OPS	Slugging Average
Noelvi Marte, Cin .361	Ohtani, LA 1.117	Ohtani, LA .701
Bryce Harper, Phl .352	Mookie Betts, LA 1.048	Betts, LA .670
Ketel Marte, Arz .341	KMarte, Arz 1.002	Patrick Wisdom, Chi .654
Freddie Freeman, LA.341	Freeman, LA 1.002	KMarte, Arz .607
Ohtani, LA .329
Home Runs	RBIs	Stolen Bases
Betts, LA 18	Ohtani, LA 47	Acuna, Atl 25-26
Wisdom, Chi 16	Betts, LA 41	Yelich, Mil 21-29
Ohtani, LA 14	Muncy, LA 40	Corbin Carroll, Arz 18-19
Max Muncy, LA 14	Nick Castellanos Phl 38
Batting Average	RISP	2-out RBIs
N Marte, Cin .417	Betts, LA 20	Betts, LA 43
TJ Friedl, Cin .407	Ohtani, LA 18	Freeman, LA 42
Carroll, Arz .387	Willie Adames, Mil 18	Carroll, Arz 39
Harper, Phl .385	Ozuna, Atl 17	Matt Olson, Atl 38
Strikeouts	Total Bases
Christopher Morel, Chi   72	Betts, LA 122
Muncy, LA 66	Ohtani, LA 117
Castellanos, Phl 62	K Marte, Arz 105
Doubles
Noelvi Marté, Cin 17
Ohtani, LA 16
Orlando Arcia, Atl 14
Contreras, Mil14
Statis-Pro National League
Statistics—42 games-Pitchers
ERA	Strikeouts
Kershaw, LA 7-0 1.74	Strider, Atl 117
Frankie Montas, Mil 7-1 2.05	Zack Wheeler, Phl   90
Strider, Atl 8-2 2.08	Eduardo Rodríguez, Arz   84
Zack Wheeler, Phl 9-0 2.75	Bryce Miller, LA   75
Logan Webb, SF 2-3 2.91
WHIP	Batting Average Against
Kershaw, LA 0.73	Strider, Atl .179
Strider, Atl 0.86	Michael King, SD   .188
Yamamoto, LA 1.02	Wheeler, Phl .208
Yu Darvish, SD 1.03	Yamamoto, LA .211
Strikeout/Walk Ratio
Cristopher Sanche, Phl   69-6
Joe Musgrove, SD   80-9
Strider, Atl 117-15
Relievers
Devin Williams, Mil 1-1 13-14
Raisel Iglesias, Atl 0-1 13-14
Paul Sewald, Arz 1-2 12-15

Team Batting Avg Home Runs

Cincinnati .274 Los Angeles 75

Los Angeles .273 Atlanta 67

Atlanta .272 Chicago 67

Philadelphia .269 Philadelphia 58

Team OPS Team Batting Avg RISP

Los Angeles .859 Philadelphia .326

Atlanta .843 Los Angeles .310

Cincinnati .795 Cincinnati .294

Philadelphia .770 Atlanta .279

Team 2-Out RBI’s Team Stolen Bases

Milwaukee 95 Milwaukee 39-51

Arizona 94 Philadelphia 34-43

Los Angeles 89 Cincinnati 32-38

Philadelphia 84 Atlanta 29-30

Team ERA Team HR Allowed

Los Angeles 3.52 San Francisco 45

San Diego 3.78 Los Angeles 46

Atlanta 4.01 Atlanta 46

Chicago 4.02 San Diego 48

Team WHIP Team Batting Avg Against

Los Angeles 1.10 San Diego .226

San Diego 1.14 Los Angeles .231

Atlanta 1.18 Atlanta .234

Arizona 1.21 Arizona .236

Relegated A's and Angels Debut vs. Rays and Cardinals

We are about to have a huge update on the Statis-Pro NL season from Montana, so we are posting this short update on our last two series in the Milwaukee AL League here to update later with results and let the other story appear at the top of the blog.

The last two teams in our league to play their third series are Tampa and one of the two formerly relegated NL teams grabbed by our AL, the St. Louis Cardinals.

We also let even the relegated teams play two series, and the last two to debut will be those two teams' opponents, the A's and Angels. We like playing everyone team in a couple of games to see players like Mike Trout. Here are the pitching matchups.

Tampa 8-10 vs Oakland A's 0-0 - Jeffrey Springs vs. JP Sears then Zack Littell vs. Alex Wood 

St. Louis 7-11 vs LA Angels 0-0 - Sonny Gray vs. Patrick Sandoval and Griffin Canning vs. Lance Lynn

Results will follow below and big NL update to appear in the next blog.

Relegated teams fell to a combined 7-20 as the latest - the LA Angels - fell 6-0 to St. Louis. The Cardinals improve to 10-11,.threatening for the last playoff spot.

Cy Young Favorite Skubal Statis-Pro Debut Disappointment Despite Great PB 2-9 Card

Actually played a disappointing Statis-Pro baseball game for one reason, Tarik Skubal, who has an incredible PB2-9 card based on this year's projection of a 3.47 ERA and has actually been even better than the card with a 16-4 mark and 2.50 ERA for the Tigers, couldn't get out of the third inning.

No extra base hits, but just one dink single after another - a couple on an 88 when he was facing right-handed batters and thus an out turned into a single etc. Once he was gone the Tigers bullpen folded in a 16-3 Red Sox blowout.

The second game was very exciting as with two outs in the top of the 9th Spencer Torkelson doubled on a z-play and then Kerry Carpenter hit a 2-run homer to tie the game 7-7 and force extra innings. The Red Sox did eventually win with a leadoff double by Rob Refsnyder, who was one of three players in the game due to z-play injuries, for the 8-7 win to get the Red Sox almost back to 0.500.

The Skubal early exit was disappointing because the relegating teams only play four games, once through the rotation, so looking at his card know it is capable of Cy Young Award level performances.

 

Box Score (innings scored)	1	3	5	6	7	9	Runs	Hits
Boston Red Sox (16)	0	7	2	1	3	3	16	20
Detroit Tigers (3)	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	5
Box Score (innings scored)	1	2	3	6	9	10	Runs	Hits
Detroit (7)	3	2	0	0	2	0	7	12
Boston (8, 10 innings)	1	2	3	1	0	1	8	8
Detroit Batters	OPS	Pos	HR	AB	R	H	RBI	Other
Comerica Park 11-34 HR
Riley Greene	0.777	CF	31-34	8	3	3	2	HR
Spencer Torkelson	0.795	1b	23-28	8	3	3	0	2-2b
Kerry Carpenter	0.760	RF	27-33	9	0	2	2	HR
Colt Keith	0.750	DH	28-33	8	3	6	4	2-HR
Andy Ibáñez	0.726	2b	31-33	8	0	1	0
Gio Urshela	0.738	3b	34-36	8	0	0	0
Matt Vierling	0.711	LF	31-33	8	0	0	0
Jake Rogers	0.675	C	18-25	1	0	0	0	Inj
Dillon Dingler	0.635	C	22-25	6	0	0	0
Javier Báez	0.671	SS	27-31	7	1	1	0
Tigers Batting Averages				71	10	16	8	0.225352113
Boston Batters	OPS	Pos	HR	AB	R	H	RBI	Other
Fenway Park HR 11-54
Jarren Duran	0.742	CF	31-33	2	1	1	0	Inj
Ceddanne Rafaela	0.720	CF	31-34	8	4	4	3	2B,HR
Tyler O'Neill	0.799	RF	26-32	10	3	4	4	2-HR
Rafael Devers	0.881	3b	28-36	8	1	2	1
Triston Casas	0.853	1b	25-32	10	2	2	0
Romy Gonzalez	0.691	PR	26-31	0	1	0	0
Masataka Yoshida	0.818	LF	34-37	1	1	0	0	Inj
Rob Refsnyder	0.754	LF	28-32	9	1	5	3	2-2B
Vaughn Grissom	0.775	DH	34-36	9	3	4	0
Trevor Story	0.733	SS	25-31	10	3	3	4	HR
Adalberto Mondesi	0.667	2b	27-31	10	2	1	2
Danny Jansen	0.781	C	22-28	7	2	5	2
Red Sox Batting Averages				84	24	31	19	0.369047619
Detroit Pitchers Gm 1	ERA	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K
Tarik Skubal	3.47	2'-9	3	8	7	7	3	2
Casey Mize	4.62	4'-7	2	3	2	2	0	1
Bryan Sammons (Temp #F)	4.69	2'-5	1.3	4	3	3	1	1
Ricky Vanasco (fr LAD)	4.57	2'-4	0.7	2	1	1	1	1
Joey Wentz	4.51	2'-5	1	1	2	2	0	2
Alex Faedo	4.27	2'-4	1	2	1	1	0	0
Detroit Pitchers Gm 2	ERA	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K
Matt Manning	4.68	4'-7	2.3	6	6	6	2	4
Alex Lange	4.04	4'-7	0.7	0	0	0	0	1
Jason Foley	4	4'-7	2	0	0	0	0	1
Sawyer Gipson-Long	4.18	4'-7	2	1	1	1	1	3
Will Vest	3.83	4'-7	2	0	0	0	0	2
Tyler Holton	3.89	2'-6	0	1	1	0	0	0
Tigers Totals and ERA	11.50		18	28	24	23	8	18
Boston Pitchers Gm 1	ERA	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K
Brayan Bello	4.29	2'-7	7	3	3	3	2	5
Garrett Whitlock	3.81	2'-7	1	0	0	0	1	1
Cam Booser (Temp #D)	4.16	4'-7	1	2	0	0	0	0
Boston Pitchers Gm 1	ERA	PB	IP	H	R	ER	W	K
Nick Pivetta	4.5	2'-7	1.7	7	5	5	0	3
Quinn Priester (fr PIT)	4.56	2'-7	2.3	0	0	0	2	0
Kutter Crawford	4.57	2'-7	3	2	0	0	0	3
Tanner Houck	4.43	2'-7	1	0	0	0	0	1
Chris Martin	3.86	2'-7	0.7	2	2	2	0	2
Kenley Jansen	4.16	2'-7	0.3	1	0	0	1	0
James Paxton (fr LAD)	4.32	2'-7	1	0	0	0	0	1
Red Sox Totals and ERA	4.74		19	17	10	10	6	16

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Red Sox Get New Opponent - Surging Tigers for SIMPLE to Statis-Pro Advanced

 In a scheduling change, the red hot Detroit Tigers will debut in our Statis-Pro baseball game to replace the Chicago White Sox as the Boston Red Sox opponent. This will be the first game played after we updated our simple rules version of the game - which you can click on here along with all 30 teams.

The Tigers are one of five "relegated" teams in our game this season, but we let all those teams play two 2-game series so each team in our league plays one series against a relegated team.

However, this also sets us up to change during the season and put the team back in if they show they really can compete. In real MLB the Tigers have won an incredible 15 or 20 to now have a winning record and pressure the Guardians, Royals and Tigers to make the AL Central the only division with four teams with winning records.

This is the first game since we added a simplified version of the Statis-Pro game that you can play with only two 8-sided dice, two 6-sided dice and the one page of instructions below. While games often get more and more complicated - we've tried going in the other direction. Make this very simple version of the game to get new or younger players to try it or people who want to play a lot of games in a season quickly (option 1 - and really grade school players). Then adding just one 20-sided die brings in all the fielding ratings for both errors and clutch defense to rob hits (option 2 - high school). Then Option 3 is if you actually have a board with Fast Action Cards and out charts (option 3 - college grad) and then to really take it to another level you can graduate to the Statis-Pro Advanced Game (option 4 - dissertation!) which is the only thing we don't offer for free but they guy who does that has an incredible product you can order on his Facebook page.

And speaking of introducing this 2024 Tigers in the simple game, try playing the 1984 Tigers in Statis-Pro advanced against a left-handed pitcher if you want to have some fun.