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September 13

RUFFINS reserve R Cedeno, activate M Piazza.

RESERVOIR DOGS reserve M Lawton, activate R Sanders.

September 17

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Free Agent Bids and Waiver Claims

Crystal Ball

The Final Standings Projector at the TQS site has always been something of a joke; particularly after we moved to a scoring system that uses categories that TQS doesn't do forecasts for, such as QS and Holds.

Given the unreliability of the system, it was mainly curiosity that led Dave Holian to check it out shortly after the Draft this year.   He e-mailed me the results at the time, and I recently came across that old e-mail.  According to Dave's not, back on April 5 of this year, here's how TQS saw the final 2005 standings sorting out:

1.  Kenndoza Line
2.  David's Ruffins
3.  David's Copperfields
4.  Reservoir Dogs
5.  Steve's Stones
6.  Teddy's Splendid Splinters
7.  Nick's Picts
8.  DoorMatts
9.  Dem Rebels
10. Hot Sludge Sundae
11. Da Paul Meisters
12. Eric's Lambchops

Overall, that's not half bad.  Obviously, injuries and trades have had an impact on the fortunes of some teams, but still, no team is currently more than 3 places away from where TQS predicted them to finish back in April.   

TQS didn't do quite as good a job of nailing the individual player projections.  Dave was puzzled about how his team could have been projected to finish near the top in QS and HoSv, yet at the very bottom in ERA and WHIP.  A little investigating led him to discover the Rudy Seanez was projected to pitch 183 innings and post a 9.00 ERA and 2.00 WHIP.  So TQS did better with the big picture than the details.

Anyway, all this begs the question, if TQS can do a fairly decent job back on Opening Day, what do they say about the CFCL race with just over 2 weeks to go?  As of Friday September 16, the TQS Final Standings Projector says the Reservoir Dogs will come out on top, leading the Copperfields by a mere half a point.

It also places all of the other teams in the order they currently stand today, including Kenndoza Line holding off the Ruffins in the race for third place. 

Should be a good one...

Call for Nominees

Give a broken-down, stressed out League Secretary a break... If you've got any players you'd like to see on the nominees list for any of the CFCL Awards, feel free to share them.  As usual, I'll be compiling a list of nominees to go on the ballot, but I've made omissions before, some of them rather glaring.  It's always better if I receive e-mails/posts advocating a certain player BEFORE I publish the ballot rather than after.

Kenn's already started the ball rolling, with a post in the Forum about a Steal of the Year candidate.  I've followed his lead and started a thread for some of the other categories.  No one knows your roster and the roster moves you've made this year better than you (I hope), so take a look back over 2005 and submit the guys you'd like to see nominated for awards.

Hometown Discount Watch

In 2006, the teams that finished in 5^th-12^th place in 2005 will receive a budget of up to .06 to use toward reacquiring players who had played out their option with the team (B-contract players). The exact amount each team receives will be based on how far behind the 5^th place team they are at the end of the year, in terms of a percentage of the 5^th place team's point total.