Entering Monday’s action, or in other words, after 25 weeks of play, the Tout Wars Mixed Draft League pennant race was deadlocked. Both Perry Van Hook and Tim McLeod had 111 points each.
Since then, Perry has added a point, breaking out of a three way tie in Saves, and stands today at 112.
Tim McLeod, on the other hand, has seen his elite 57 point (out of 75) pitching staff take a beating. Felix Hernandez and James Paxton were creamed this week, while Madison Bumgarner was simply ineffectual. The bad performances were damaging psychically, but McLeod’s categorical leads were big enough to absorb the flood of earned runs and baserunners.
Going into Wednesday’s games he stands at 110.5, having gained half a point in wins (thank you Derek Holland) and lost a point in homers.
These two should be battling all week.
If the two teams are tied at the end of the season there is one tie-breaker: The team which has an advantage in more categories is declared the winner. In this case, Perry has an insurmountable lead in six cats, so he owns the tiebreaker.
Can he own the regular season?
Well I lost the point in Saves back and Tim gained in HR and RBI on Friday with three dingers so with just two days to go we are back at 111 Tied of the league lead
At this point it looks like it will go the the last day of the season (and hopefully not an NL playin game)