18 All-Time Statis-Pro Pitchers for World Baseball Classic (11 countries, 5 states)

 One of our most popular blog series played off the current Statis-Pro World Baseball Classic teams against each other. We decided we would go ahead and make an all-time set of Statis-Pro cards. We will features the best players from 5 non-US countries, then two groups of countries (Asia and Central America), and five US States for a 12 team league. I'm not sure when we will be done - but we did pull all the stats we needed and picked the players we will feature.

We gave each of the teams three closers who were lock down relievers. Then we set up a "rotation" of which we will probably start pitchers 1 to 4, then use the rest as middle relief to get to the starters. We will choose the batters next, but here are the batters.

The first four pitchers for each team are the pitchers in the order in which we would start them in our rotation. Then the next 11 could be started in that order or brought in in relief. Then the final three pitchers for each team are the closers I would save until the final inning. The red also breaks up the teams so you know a new team begins with the next player after the red - who I would designate as their Ace starter.
 

Team	Name	Yrs	WAR/Yr	Record	ERA	SO	SV
Asia (Japan)	Yu Darvish	2012-2022	3.1	95-75	3.50	1788	0
Asia (Japan)	Shohei Ohtani	2018-2022	2.2	28-14	2.96	441	0
Asia (S. Korea)	Chan Ho Park	1994-2010	1.1	124-98	4.36	1715	2
Asia (Japan)	Hiroki Kuroda	2008-2014	3.1	79-79	3.45	986	0
Asia (Japan)	Hisashi Iwakuma	2012-2017	2.8	63-39	3.42	714	2
Asia (Japan)	Masahiro Tanaka	2014-2020	2.5	78-46	3.74	991	0
Asia (S. Korea)	Hyun Jin Ryu	2013-2022	2.0	75-45	3.27	896	1
Asia (Japan)	Hideo Nomo	1995-2008	1.8	123-109	4.24	1918	0
Asia (Japan)	Masato Yoshii	1998-2002	1.5	32-47	4.62	447	0
Asia (Taiwan)	Chien-Ming Wang	2005-2016	1.4	68-34	4.36	394	1
Asia (Japan)	Shigetoshi Hasegawa	1997-2005	1.3	45-43	3.70	447	33
Asia (S. Korea)	Byung-Hyun Kim	1999-2007	1.2	54-60	4.42	806	86
Asia (Japan)	Kenta Maeda	2016-2021	1.2	59-41	3.87	834	6
Asia (Japan)	Tomo Ohka	1999-2009	1.2	51-68	4.26	590	0
Asia (Japan)	Daisuke Matsuzaka	2007-2014	1.2	56-43	4.45	720	1
Asia (Japan)	Koji Uehara	2009-2017	1.5	22-26	2.66	572	95
Asia (Japan)	Takashi Saito	2006-2012	1.5	21-15	2.34	400	84
Asia (Japan)	Akinori Otsuka	2004-2007	1.7	13-15	2.44	217	39
California	Tom Seaver (HOF)	1967-1986	5.3	311-205	2.86	3640	1
California	Randy Johnson (HOF)	1988-2009	4.7	303-166	3.29	4875	2
California	Don Drysdale (HOF)	1956-1969	4.4	209-166	2.95	2486	6
California	Lefty Gomez (HOF)	1930-1943	3.1	189-102	3.34	1468	10
California	Bob Lemon (HOF)	1941-1958	2.5	207-128	3.23	1277	22
California	Cole Hamels	2006-2020	3.9	163-122	3.43	2560	0
California	Dave Stieb	1979-1998	3.5	176-137	3.44	1669	3
California	Kevin Appier	1989-2004	3.4	169-137	3.74	1994	0
California	Gerrit Cole	2013-2022	3.3	130-71	3.23	1930	0
California	CC Sabathia	2001-2019	3.3	251-161	3.74	3093	0
California	Larry French	1929-1942	3.2	197-171	3.44	1187	17
California	Mark Prior	2002-2006	3.1	42-29	3.51	757	0
California	Mark Langston	1984-1999	3.1	179-158	3.97	2464	0
California	Jered Weaver	2006-2017	2.9	150-98	3.63	1621	0
California	Max Fried	2017-2022	2.8	54-25	3.09	617	0
California	Dennis Eckersley (HOF)	1975-1998	2.6	197-171	3.50	2401	390
California	Trevor Hoffman (HOF)	1993-2010	1.6	61-75	2.87	1133	601
California	Dan Quisenberry	1979-1990	2.0	56-46	2.76	379	244
Canada	Fergie Jenkins (HOF)	1965-1983	4.3	284-226	3.34	3192	7
Canada	Russ Ford	1909-1915	4.7	100-71	2.59	710	8
Canada	Jeff Zimmerman	1999-2001	2.5	17-12	3.27	213	32
Canada	Rich Harden	2003-2011	2.0	59-38	3.76	949	0
Canada	Cal Quantrill	2019-2022	1.7	31-16	3.54	369	1
Canada	Erik Bedard	2002-2014	1.6	71-82	3.99	1246	1
Canada	James Paxton	2013-2021	1.4	57-33	3.59	831	0
Canada	Paul Quantrill	1992-2005	1.3	68-78	3.83	725	21
Canada	Kirk McCaskill	1985-1996	1.2	106-108	4.12	1003	7
Canada	Phil Marchildon	1940-1950	1.2	68-75	3.93	481	2
Canada	Jesse Crain	2004-2013	1.1	45-30	3.05	440	4
Canada	Jeff Francis	2004-2015	0.9	72-82	4.97	869	1
Canada	Dick Fowler	1941-1952	0.8	66-79	4.11	382	4
Canada	Reggie Cleveland	1969-1981	0.6	105-106	4.01	930	25
Canada	Rheal Cormier	1991-2007	0.5	71-64	4.03	760	2
Canada	John Hiller	1965-1980	2.1	87-76	2.83	1036	125
Canada	Ryan Dempster	1998-2013	1.4	132-133	4.35	2075	87
Canada	Eric Gagne	1999-2008	1.2	33-26	3.47	718	187
C. Amer (Mexico)	Teddy Higuera	1985-1994	3.4	94-64	3.61	1081	0
C. Amer (Mexico)	Francisco Cordova	1996-2000	2.8	42-47	3.96	537	12
C. Amer (Mexico)	Fernando Valenzuela	1980-1997	2.2	173-153	3.54	2074	2
C. Amer (Nicaragua)	Dennis Martinez	1976-1998	2.1	245-193	3.70	2149	8
C. Amer (Mexico)	Ismael Valdez	1994-2005	2.0	104-105	4.09	1173	1
C. Amer (Mexico)	Jesse Flores	1942-1950	2.0	44-59	3.18	352	6
C. Amer (Mexico)	Julio Urias	2016-2022	1.8	49-17	2.82	593	4
C. Amer (Mexico)	Esteban Loaiza	1995-2008	1.6	126-114	4.65	1382	1
C. Amer (Mexico)	Yovani Gallardo	2007-2018	1.6	121-101	4.06	1584	1
C. Amer (Mexico)	Miguel Gonzalez	2012-2018	1.5	52-57	4.06	617	0
C. Amer (Mexico)	Cy Acosta	1972-1975	1.4	13-9	2.66	109	27
C. Amer (Mexico)	Jaime Barria	2018-2022	1.3	20-26	4.09	289	0
C. Amer (Nicaragua)	Albert Williams	1980-1984	1.3	35-38	4.24	262	2
C. Amer (Mexico)	Francisco Barrios	1974-1981	1.2	38-38	4.15	323	3
C. Amer (Panama)	Ramiro Mendoza	1996-2005	1.2	59-40	4.30	463	16
C. Amer (Panama)	Mariano Rivera (HOF)	1995-2013	3.0	82-60	2.21	1173	652
C. Amer (Mexico)	Joakim Soria	2007-2021	1.3	36-45	3.11	831	229
C. Amer (Mexico)	Roberto Osuna	2015-2020	1.4	14-18	2.74	348	155
Cuba	Luis Tiant	1964-1982	3.5	229-172	3.30	2416	15
Cuba	Jose Fernandez	2013-2016	3.3	38-17	2.58	589	0
Cuba	Orlando Hernandez	1998-2007	2.6	90-65	4.13	1086	2
Cuba	José Méndez (HOF)	1920-1926	0.7	30-9	3.46	139	8
Cuba	Dolf Luque	1914-1935	2.2	194-179	3.24	1130	29
Cuba	Martín Dihigo (HOF)	1923-1945	1.1	27-19	3.34	246	2
Cuba	Camilo Pascual	1954-1971	2.1	174-170	3.63	2167	10
Cuba	Connie Marrero	1950-1954	2.0	39-40	3.67	297	3
Cuba	Rolando Arrojo	1998-2002	2.0	40-42	4.55	512	6
Cuba	Mike Cuellar	1959-1977	1.9	185-130	3.14	1632	11
Cuba	Sandy Consuegra	1950-1957	1.5	51-32	3.37	193	28
Cuba	Liván Hernández	1996-2012	1.5	178-177	4.44	1976	1
Cuba	Heliodoro Díaz	1926-1935	1.4	28-50	4.15	409	3
Cuba	Basilio Rosell	1926-1929	1.4	17-45	4.52	226	2
Cuba	José Contreras	2003-2013	1.2	78-67	4.57	889	9
Cuba	Pedro Ramos	1955-1970	1.5	117-160	4.08	1305	54
Cuba	Aroldis Chapman	2010-2022	1.5	44-35	2.48	1045	315
Cuba	Raisel Iglesias	2015-2022	1.7	27-43	3.00	660	157
Dominican Rep	Pedro Martinez (HOF)	1992-2009	4.8	219-100	2.93	3154	3
Dominican Rep	Juan Marichal (HOF)	1960-1975	3.9	243-142	2.89	2303	2
Dominican Rep	Luis Castillo	2017-2022	3.2	48-55	3.59	937	0
Dominican Rep	Sandy Alcantara	2017-2022	2.8	34-43	3.10	638	0
Dominican Rep	Johnny Cueto	2008-2022	2.6	143-107	3.44	1812	0
Dominican Rep	Jose Rijo	1984-2002	2.5	116-91	3.24	1606	3
Dominican Rep	Juan Guzman	1991-2000	2.4	91-79	4.08	1243	0
Dominican Rep	Bartolo Colon	1997-2018	2.3	247-188	4.12	2535	0
Dominican Rep	Mario Soto	1977-1988	2.2	100-92	3.47	1449	4
Dominican Rep	Luis Severino	2015-2022	1.9	50-29	3.39	709	0
Dominican Rep	Pedro Astacio	1992-2006	1.9	129-124	4.67	1664	0
Dominican Rep	Ramon Martinez	1988-2001	1.8	135-88	3.67	1427	0
Dominican Rep	Ubaldo Jimenez	2006-2017	1.7	114-117	4.34	1720	1
Dominican Rep	Pascual Perez	1980-1991	1.7	67-68	3.44	822	0
Dominican Rep	Ervin Santana	2005-2021	1.7	151-129	4.11	1978	0
Dominican Rep	Armando Benitez	1994-2008	1.2	40-47	3.13	946	289
Dominican Rep	Francisco Cordero	1999-2012	1.2	47-53	3.38	796	329
Dominican Rep	Octavio Dotel	1999-2013	1.1	59-50	3.78	1143	109
Florida	Steve Carlton (HOF)	1965-1988	3.5	329-244	3.22	4136	2
Florida	Jacob deGrom	2014-2022	4.6	82-57	2.52	1607	0
Florida	Chris Sale	2010-2022	3.8	114-75	3.03	2064	12
Florida	Zack Greinke	2004-2022	3.8	223-141	3.42	2882	1
Florida	Dwight Gooden	1984-2000	3.0	194-112	3.51	2293	3
Florida	Juan Padrón	1922-1926	3.0	38-33	3.14	334	4
Florida	Alex Fernandez	1990-2000	2.8	107-87	3.74	1252	0
Florida	Mike Clevinger	2016-2022	2.4	51-30	3.39	694	0
Florida	Gio Gonzalez	2008-2020	2.3	131-101	3.70	1860	0
Florida	Ted Trent	1927-1939	2.1	82-58	3.34	696	6
Florida	Rick Rhoden	1974-1989	1.9	151-125	3.59	1419	1
Florida	Tim Wakefield	1992-2011	1.8	200-180	4.41	2156	22
Florida	Lance McCullers Jr.	2015-2022	1.6	49-32	3.48	800	0
Florida	Mike Hampton	1993-2010	1.3	148-115	4.06	1387	1
Florida	Ken Johnson	1958-1970	1.6	91-106	3.46	1042	8
Florida	Tom Gordon	1988-2009	1.7	138-126	3.96	1928	158
Florida	Mudcat Grant	1958-1971	1.4	145-119	3.63	1267	54
Florida	Jay Howell	1980-1994	1.0	58-53	3.34	666	155
New York	Orel Hershiser	1983-2000	2.9	204-150	3.48	2014	5
New York	John Candelaria	1975-1993	2.1	177-122	3.33	1673	29
New York	Sandy Koufax (HOF)	1955-1966	4.4	165-87	2.76	2396	9
New York	Warren Spahn (HOF)	1942-1965	4.4	363-245	3.09	2583	28
New York	Jim Palmer (HOF)	1965-1984	3.6	268-152	2.86	2212	4
New York	Sal Maglie	1945-1958	3.4	119-62	3.15	862	14
New York	Bill Dinneen	1898-1909	3.4	170-177	3.01	1127	7
New York	Whitey Ford (HOF)	1950-1967	3.3	236-106	2.75	1956	11
New York	Frank Viola	1982-1996	3.1	176-150	3.73	1844	0
New York	John Tudor	1979-1990	2.8	117-72	3.12	988	1
New York	Red Ryan	1923-1932	2.7	53-39	3.27	312	3
New York	Howard Ehmke	1915-1930	2.7	166-166	3.75	1030	15
New York	Harry Howell	1898-1910	2.5	131-146	2.74	986	6
New York	Johnny Antonelli	1948-1961	2.6	126-110	3.34	1162	21
New York	George Mogridge	1911-1927	1.9	132-133	3.23	678	21
New York	Waite Hoyt (HOF)	1918-1938	2.6	237-182	3.59	1206	53
New York	Hooks Wiltse	1904-1915	2.3	139-90	2.47	965	33
New York	John Franco	1984-2005	1.1	90-87	2.89	975	424
Pennsylvania	Christy Mathewson (HOF)	1900-1916	5.9	373-188	2.13	2507	30
Pennsylvania	Eddie Plank (HOF)	1901-1917	5.1	326-194	2.35	2246	23
Pennsylvania	Mike Mussina (HOF)	1991-2008	4.6	270-153	3.68	2813	0
Pennsylvania	Stan Coveleski (HOF)	1912-1928	4.8	215-142	2.89	981	21
Pennsylvania	Rube Waddell (HOF)	1897-1910	4.7	193-143	2.16	2316	5
Pennsylvania	Ed Walsh (HOF)	1904-1917	4.6	195-126	1.82	1736	35
Pennsylvania	Bob Shawkey	1913-1927	3.1	195-150	3.09	1360	29
Pennsylvania	Jamie Moyer	1986-2012	2.0	269-209	4.25	2441	0
Pennsylvania	Bucky Walters	1931-1950	2.4	198-160	3.30	1107	4
Pennsylvania	Sam McDowell	1961-1975	2.9	141-134	3.17	2453	14
Pennsylvania	Mark Gubicza	1984-1997	2.7	132-136	3.96	1371	2
Pennsylvania	Ray Caldwell	1910-1921	2.6	134-120	3.22	1006	8
Pennsylvania	Ken Raffensberger	1939-1954	2.3	119-154	3.60	806	16
Pennsylvania	Curt Simmons	1947-1967	2.1	193-183	3.54	1697	5
Pennsylvania	Bobby Shantz	1949-1964	2.0	119-99	3.38	1072	48
Pennsylvania	Herb Pennock (HOF)	1912-1934	2.0	241-162	3.60	1227	37
Pennsylvania	Bruce Sutter (HOF)	1976-1988	2.0	68-71	2.83	861	300
Pennsylvania	Sparky Lyle	1967-1982	1.4	99-76	2.88	873	238
Puerto Rico	Javier Vazquez	1998-2011	3.1	165-160	4.22	2536	0
Puerto Rico	Ed Figueroa	1974-1981	2.0	80-67	3.51	571	1
Puerto Rico	Jose Guzman	1985-1994	1.7	80-74	4.05	889	0
Puerto Rico	Jose Berrios	2016-2022	1.5	72-54	4.24	1006	0
Puerto Rico	Ruben Gomez	1953-1967	1.4	76-86	4.09	677	6
Puerto Rico	Hiram Bithorn	1942-1947	1.3	34-31	3.16	185	5
Puerto Rico	Luis Aquino	1986-1995	1.2	31-32	3.68	318	5
Puerto Rico	Joel Pineiro	2000-2011	1.1	104-93	4.41	1058	2
Puerto Rico	Omar Olivares	1990-2001	1.1	77-86	4.67	853	4
Puerto Rico	Juan Pizarro	1957-1974	0.9	131-105	3.43	1522	28
Puerto Rico	Kiko Calero	2003-2009	0.9	14-12	3.24	324	7
Puerto Rico	Angel Miranda	1993-1997	0.8	17-21	4.46	243	2
Puerto Rico	Roger Moret	1970-1978	0.8	47-27	3.66	408	12
Puerto Rico	Jaime Navarro	1989-2000	0.8	116-126	4.72	1113	2
Puerto Rico	Eduardo Rodriguez	1973-1979	0.7	42-36	3.89	430	32
Puerto Rico	Roberto Hernandez	1991-2007	1.1	67-71	3.45	945	326
Puerto Rico	Willie Hernandez	1977-1989	1.3	70-63	3.38	788	147
Puerto Rico	Edwin Díaz	2016-2022	1.5	16-29	2.93	657	205
Texas	Clayton Kershaw	2008-2022	4.9	197-87	2.48	2807	0
Texas	Greg Maddux (HOF)	1986-2008	4.6	355-227	3.16	3371	0
Texas	Nolan Ryan (HOF)	1966-1993	3.1	324-292	3.19	5714	3
Texas	Andy Cooper (HOF)	1920-1939	1.9	118-64	3.58	719	24
Texas	Hilton Smith (HOF)	1932-1948	1.5	70-39	2.89	575	11
Texas	Dave Brown	1920-1925	3.7	62-22	2.39	492	4
Texas	Hippo Vaughn	1908-1921	3.6	178-137	2.49	1416	5
Texas	Tex Hughson	1941-1949	3.3	96-54	2.94	693	17
Texas	Bill Foster (HOF)	1923-1937	3.3	110-56	2.63	922	12
Texas	Ned Garvin	1896-1904	2.7	58-97	2.72	612	3
Texas	Justin Thompson	1996-2005	2.6	36-43	4.02	428	0
Texas	John Lackey	2002-2017	2.5	188-147	3.92	2294	0
Texas	Josh Beckett	2001-2014	2.5	138-106	3.88	1901	0
Texas	Burt Hooton	1971-1985	2.4	151-136	3.38	1491	7
Texas	Sam Gray	1924-1933	2.4	111-115	4.18	730	21
Texas	Firpo Marberry	1923-1936	2.3	148-88	3.63	822	99
Texas	Joe Nathan	1999-2016	1.6	64-34	2.87	976	377
Texas	Ryan Pressly	2013-2022	1.0	29-28	3.20	561	77
Venezuela	Johan Santana	2000-2012	4.3	139-78	3.20	1988	1
Venezuela	Felix Hernandez	2005-2019	3.3	169-136	3.42	2524	0
Venezuela	Carlos Zambrano	2001-2012	3.2	132-91	3.66	1637	0
Venezuela	Freddy Garcia	1999-2013	2.3	156-108	4.15	1621	0
Venezuela	German Marquez	2016-2022	2.2	63-54	4.40	966	0
Venezuela	Eduardo Rodriguez	2015-2022	2.1	69-44	4.15	964	0
Venezuela	Anibal Sanchez	2006-2022	1.9	116-119	4.06	1774	0
Venezuela	Wilson Alvarez	1989-2005	1.8	102-92	3.96	1330	4
Venezuela	Luis Leal	1980-1985	1.8	51-58	4.14	491	1
Venezuela	Pablo Lopez	2018-2022	1.7	28-31	3.94	489	0
Venezuela	Carlos Carrasco	2009-2022	1.7	104-85	3.87	1507	2
Venezuela	Felipe Vazquez	2015-2019	1.7	17-13	2.61	402	89
Venezuela	Ranger Suarez	2018-2022	1.6	25-15	3.12	290	4
Venezuela	Henderson Alvarez III	2011-2017	1.3	27-35	3.82	302	0
Venezuela	Jhoulys Chacin	2009-2022	1.3	85-91	4.18	1151	0
Venezuela	Kelvim Escobar	1997-2009	2.1	101-91	4.15	1310	59
Venezuela	Francisco Rodriguez	2002-2017	1.5	52-53	2.86	1142	437
Venezuela	Ugueth Urbina	1995-2005	1.2	44-49	3.45	814	237

Shaq Beats 1971 Marquette 80-74

 In a bit of an upset, Marquette's Jim Chones (19 points, 11 rebounds) eventually drew a 5th foul on fellow big man Shaquille O'Neal (23 points, 11 rebounds), but it was too late to rally.

Backup Justin Anderson hit back to back 3-pointers with 15:38 (26 possessions) left to play to turn a 38-33 lead to 44-33 and LSU never looked back. Dean Meminger (29 points) made it look closer with a 3-pointer at the horn to cut the final to 80-74 LSU.

Shaq Faces Last Marquette Team to Beat a Top 10 by +25

 On December 13, 1971, #2 Marquette beat #9 Michigan 81-52. Tuesday an unranked Marquette team beat #6 Baylor 96-70, the most lopsided win for a Marquette team against a Top 10 team since that game 51 years ago.

That made Jim Chones 3-0 at Marquette. He would finish 49-1, with only a one-point loss to Ohio State in the tournament that year in a game in which All-American guard Dean Meminger fouled out with five minutes to go. Marquette destroyed Kentucky in the consolation game to finish 25-1, then started the next season 21-0 before Chones left for the ABA - having gone 46-1 in his college career.

Our next look at that 1971 Marquette team is when Chones faces a pretty worthy big man opponent - Shaq! Here are pages 66 and 68 of the google doc with the 135 great all-time Value Add Basketball teams.

One rule item from years back, the "3-point" shot for both Shaq and Chones is actually a chance for a traditional 3-point play. If this comes up, they make a 2-pointer and are fouled by the opposing player for a chance at a 3-point play. Both have only a 55% chance at actually making the 3-pointer to complete the 3-point play, since they are both 1-11 Free Throw Made, meaning 12-20 is a missed free throw.

Okafor's UConn holds off Laettner's Duke, 3-pt and steal or foul strategy

After a back and forth battle, Emeka Okafor erupted for 13 points in the final 3 minutes of regulation and overtime to lead UConn to a 82-78 win. The big key was him hitting all 5 free throws in that stretch despite being a 50% free throw shooter (1-10 free throw made, 11-20 free throw missed, meaning only 1 in 32 times would he make 5 in a row).

UConn led 66-61 with less than a minute left, and Duke went to the 3-point strategy in a desperate attempt to rally. 

Duke Played for 3-point shot. As the Value Add Basketball Instructions state, a team can try for 3-pointers by adding one to their 3-point made range for every one number they take off the highest 2-point made range and turn into a missed 2-pointer - and you can not more than double the number of 3-pointers made. Thomas Hill (no relation to Grant Hill) normally makes 3-pointers on 1-2, then 2-pointers on 3-9, so when playing for the 3-pointer his 3-pointer range doubled to 1-4 (thus the 3 rolled was a 3-pointer rather than a 2-pointer) but because they were in the 3-point offense that means the two he added to first range lowers the 2-point range from 9 to 7, meaning a 5-7. When you do the math, you are losing points long term because you are giving up 2 points on missed 2-pointers for every 1 point you add by turning the 2-point shots into 3-point shots. It worked as T. Hill hit the 3-pointers on a "3" to make it 66-64.

Duke then played to foul. Also stated in the rules, you can go for the turnover or foul deliberately. When you do this, you roll three of the four dice - but do not role the 20-sided dice because the play will always be a turnover or a foul. In 8-sided die roll was a 5, giving the ball to Okafor, and even though they did not get a turnover (41-43 is a turnover on Okafor's card, and 11-16 was a steal on Laettner's card) they lucked into Okafor being the fouled player. He only hits on 1-10, but he made them both to make it 66-64 UConn, and as it turns out Duke would have won the game if he had missed either one. 

Duke took the 3-point offense off for their final trip. Okafor actually blocked a Duke a shot in the closing seconds, but the rebound roll was a a 3 on the 1-20 die, which means Laettner had a chance to grab the rebound with his 1-5 offensive rebound and the 6-sided die came up 4 to mean he did secure it (on a "6" it would have gone to Okafor) and then he passed to Grant Hill, who scored the game-tying basket at the end of regulation to make it 66-66 and send us to a 5-minute overtime.

Several of Ben Gordon's 5 steals were key to UConn taking the lead, and Okafor finished with a game high 29 points.

Grant Hill led Duke with 22 points while Christian Laettner added 20 with 10 rebounds. Laettner is also the only center with a 11-16 on steals, and he came up with 6 steals. 

UConn improved from #19 to #10, while Duke dropped from #9 to #20 in the all-time rankings.

Resuming with All-Time Great Basketball Teams

With ABC featuring a top 25 match-up of Duke vs. Purdue to compete with the NFL Sunday afternoon, we turned to a couple of All-Time Top 10 Duke team in the Value Add Basketball Game. We are focused on trying teams who have only played one or two games to see if they move up or down in our All-Time standings (click for game log and ratings). 

In the table of upcoming games below, a red line indicates the game has been played and the team lost (e.g. Cincy lost to Ohio State), and green means the team won. A bolded game means an All-Time Top 25 match-up, while italics means a top 50 all-time match-up from the 135 all-time great basketball teams.

Four Top 10 teams that we felt needed to justify their rankings because they had fewer than 3 games were; then #10 Cincinnati that was replaced by Ohio State 1960 after losing to them; #9 Duke 1992 that fell out of the Top 10 with an OT loss to UConn 2004; #3 Kentucky 2006 that will face an SEC test against #35 Arkansas 1994; #4 Duke 2001 that will be tested by #16 UNLV 1991; 

We were sidetracked from resuming the basketball games this week due to some great improvements from a user to the all-time great Statis-Pro Baseball teams (click on instructions to the game as well as great new sheets of pitchers and batters for those 60 all-time great teams.

Red equals team lost game - Green equals teams won game - Black equals not yet played

Team	Year	Player You Might Know	Opponent	Opp Yr
#35 Arkansas	1994	Corliss Williamson	#67 LSU	1992
#35 Arkansas	1994	Corliss Williamson	#3 Kentucky	2006
#21 Cincinnati	1960	Oscar Robertson	#10 Ohio St.	1960
#30 Connecticut	1999	Richard Hamilton	#56 San Francisco	1956
#19 Connecticut	2004	Ben Gordon	#9 Duke	1992
#71 Dayton	2020	Obi Toppin	#64 Purdue	1969
#9 Duke	1992	Christian Laettner	#30 Connecticut	1999
#4 Duke	2001	Shane Battier	#16 UNLV	1991
#91 Georgia Tech	1990	Dennis Scott	#64 Purdue	1969
#48 Indiana	1981	Isaiah Thomas	#40 Iowa	2021
#40 Iowa	2021	Luka Garza	#48 Indiana	1981
#40 Iowa	2021	Luka Garza	#70 Kansas	1957
#59 Jacksonville	1970	Artis Gilmore	#56 San Francisco	1956
#70 Kansas	1957	Wilt Chamberlain	#40 Iowa	2021
#3 Kentucky	1996	Antoine Walker	#35 Arkansas	1994
#51 Loyola-Chicago	1963	Jerry Harkness	#47 Michigan	1989
#51 Loyola-Chicago	1963	Jerry Harkness	#75 St. John's	1985
#67 LSU	1992	Shaquille O'Neal	#35 Arkansas	1994
#67 LSU	1992	Shaquille O'Neal	#72 Marquette	1971
#72 Marquette	1971	Jim Chones	#67 LSU	1992
#106 Marquette	2011	Jimmy Butler	#75 St. John's	1985
#47 Michigan	1989	Glen Rice	#10 Ohio St.	1960
#47 Michigan	1989	Glen Rice	#51 Loyola-Chicago	1963
#10 Ohio St.	1960	Jerry Lucas	#21 Cincinnati	1960
#10 Ohio St.	1960	Jerry Lucas	#47 Michigan	1989
#64 Purdue	1969	Rick Mount	#71 Dayton	2020
#64 Purdue	1969	Rick Mount	#91 Georgia Tech	1990
#56 San Francisco	1956	Bill Russell	#30 Connecticut	1999
#56 San Francisco	1956	Bill Russell	#59 Jacksonville	1956
#75 St. John's	1985	Chris Mullin	#106 Marquette	2011
#75 St. John's	1985	Chris Mullin	#51 Loyola-Chicago	1963
#16 UNLV	1991	Larry Johnson	#4 Duke	2001

Koufax Strikes Our Bonds - But Lack of Support Gives Giant s Sweep

 Sandy Koufax struck out Barry Bonds in the first inning on a card that would have been a home run for 90%+ of hitters.

The PB was a 9, which fell within Koufax PB2-9 range - the top range help by only about 1 of 20 pitchers.

The Random Number was. 28, a strikeout onbut for any pitcher with a PB 2-8 or worse would have been on Bonds' card for a home run.

Koufax allowed only 1 earned run in 9 innings, but two errors by shortstop Maury Wills led to 2 unearned runs and a 3-2 Giants win. The Giants won the nightcap 6-1 for the sweep.

Links to Easy to Print PDF Sheets for 60 Great Statis-Pro Teams!

 A wonderful peer-to-peer addition from a board game player to all other board game players - a reader produced these wonderful Statis-Pro batter sheets with one page for each of the 60 teams. He also updated the pitcher sheets for the same 60 teams.

Currently we have instructions to define and print from the google sheet, which you can still do, but this is much easier. Open the pdf link above, find the pages of the two teams you want to play (in my case Barry Bonds' Giants are page 49, while Sandy Koufax Dodgers are page 25.

Print out the Statis-Pro Baseball Instructions and the sheets for two teams and you are ready to play.

A couple of notes - we put the batters in a suggested batting order. We produced a 9-player line-up including a DH, but we also put "-bench" after the player we would sit if the pitcher is batting. Sometimes that is the DH, but sometimes we switch the DH to another position and sit the player at that position. For example, if the Oakland A's are using the DH that is where we put Reggie Jackson, but if pitchers are batting we can't lose his bat, so we move him to the outfield

The blue line or lines are listed after the nine starters. Most pitchers use a standard batting line (or card) that skips the PB 2-12 number to ignore the opposing pitcher's card and go straight to the 11-88 RN. Only a 11-14 is a single, a 15-48 a strikeout, 51 a walk, 52 hit by pitch and 53-88 an OUT. However, if a pitcher had enough at bats and hit better than a typical picture then there is an extra blue line for that pitcher - in this case if Livan Hernandez pitcher then when he comes to his plate he has a much better chance to hit.

A red line means the player did not have enough plate appearances to justify his batting line, so we still use it but if the action is on his card then you add the number indicated to the RN before lookin at his card for the result. The only player who would be both red and blue is Brooklyn Dodgers' pitcher Don Newcombe, who needs to add a +6 to the RN when he bats, which still makes him one of the best batting cards in the game.

Below the blue are the reserves in alpha order. A green line indicates we suggest that against left-handed pitchers you use the green sub in place of a starter with a green line.

Click for the free Statis-Pro Master Baseball Game. Click here for 60 of the all-time great MLB teams, or on teams of many of the all-time great players on teams by nation or state with one sheet for each team. Or click on the 2023 pitchers and 2023 batters in card form. You simply print two teams cards and then either print the master link above and fast action cards in master link or buy the dice to start playing.