Great British Fantasy Baseball Superleague: Week 2 Review

AL CENTRAL

Three teams remain unbeaten in the AL Central (Rob Whannel, Michael Garmston. Tom Hotchin), and it was Tom who was the highest scorer in the division with 397 points, just ahead of Matthew Robinson with 389.

Jason Toms was the division’s unluckiest team taking the loss despite 352 points in one of the tightest matchups across all 10 divisions by falling to Rob Whannel by just eight points.

AL EAST

Sometimes you need to double-check your maths, and that is what happened when the spreadsheet spat out a massive 503 points this week by Dan Roach. Dan was aided by Pete Alonso (61 points) at DH and his bonus-scoring El Capitan was Nico Hoerner with 58 points. However, it looks like he has lost 67-point scoring Jeffrey Springs for a while.

Dan’s mammoth tally overshadowed two 400-point scorers: David McLaren 420 and Ed Jefferies 403.

Perhaps the unluckiest person in the entire GBfbs is Dave Nicholson, who scored 394 points but not only lost but remains 0-2.

Four teams are undefeated in the AL East: Dan Roach, Ed Jeffries, British Baseball Federation’s Tom Thornhill, and Mark Varley.

AL NORTH

Manc Baseball was the top scorer in the division and the third-highest this week across all 10 divisions with 467 points. Scott MacGregor had another mega week (442 points) and leads the AL North with two wins and 793 points.

Josh Salter scored an impressive 398 points to secure his first win, while there are four 2-0 teams: Scott MacGregor, Chris Jones, Peter Ramsay and Karl Cobane.

AL WEST

There were two 400-point scorers in the AL West: Martin Osborne 446, and Steve Jones 400. And Martin is one of three undefeated teams, along with Charles Baldwin and Ian Carter 

The division’s unlucky loser was Chris Deeley, who took the L despite 381 points.

NL CENTRAL

Charlie Deeks blew the rest of the division away with 486 points, the second-highest tally across all 10 divisions this week. Richard Davison with 425 points, and Callum Cockerill 393 points, also enjoyed impressive weeks.

Adam Cockerill was unlucky to take the defeat despite 383 points and joins Charlie and Callum and five other teams on 1-1 in a very tight division that only has two unbeaten teams: Richard Davison and Tom Athene.

NL EAST

Jack Gallagher had a good week with 395 points, but it was Mark Finbow who was the top scorer in the NL East with an impressive 446 points.

This is the most chaotic of the 10 divisions as Mark is the highest overall points scorer, but he is not one of the three 2-0 teams: Ben Jones, Bat Flips & Nerds, and Nick Chang.

Perhaps, the biggest “wow” is that GB Official Artist Andy Brown is 0-2 despite scoring just two points fewer than 2-0 Nick Chang.

NL NORTH

There were no 400-point scorers in the NL North, but Phil Stone (392) and Shaun Barrett (391) were the best of the division and are two of the three undefeated teams (along with Troy Hutchinson). The least lucky was John Loftus, who scored 362 points but took the loss.

NL WEST 

The most unfortunate team in GBfbs this week was the Bat Flips & Nerds team, who scored a staggering 418 points but fell to the mighty James Thorpe with 432. BaseballSoftballUK’s Chris Knoblock scored 384 and is one of five 2-0 teams along with James Thorpe, Luke Kendrick, Tom Lock and Rob Kermode.

BASEMENT

Once again, the Basement Division belied its name with two 400-point scorers: Euan Leith 456 and Mal Bamford 414. Both teams are undefeated this year, along with Patrick Davenport.

The most unlucky in the division was Ash Smith whose 372 points were insufficient to take the win.  

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Three teams broke the 400-point mark with Darius Austin (Baseball Prospectus) 433 points leading the way. David Runciman 427 and Ryan Owen (RotoBrits) 410 enjoyed their second straight mega-scoring week.

Jamie Steed (Rotoballer) with 388 points, was unlucky to come away with an L.

David Runciman and Gav (that’s me) are the only unbeaten teams in the Champions League which looks like it will be as tight and competitive as we hoped when we created this competition.

UNLUCKIEST TEAMS

You need a fair amount of good fortune to succeed in this head-to-head format. The teams with the least amount of good fortune are the five teams who have come up against opponents scoring over 800 points.

TEAM	PTS F	PTS A
Tracey (Birds with Balls)	582	827
Ryan Ferguson	586	813
Andy Moore	663	810
Bat Flips & Nerds (NL West)	691	810
Tim Bowman	559	801

OVERALL HIGHEST SCORERS

Eight teams have scored at least 800 points; feels like a very Tampa Bay Rayseque start to the season.

RANK	TEAM	DIVISION	PTS F	PTS A
1	Richard Davison	NL CENTRAL	864	764
2	Euan Leith	BASEMENT	837	710
3	Shaun Barrett	NL NORTH	831	626
4	Martin Osborne	AL WEST	823	712
5	David Runciman	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	821	551
6	Dan Roach	AL EAST	807	559
7	Charlie Deeks	NL CENTRAL	807	693
8	Ryan Owen (RotoBrits)	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	800	785
9	Mark Finbow	NL EAST	798	694
10	Gav (Deep League Roto)	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	796	723
11	Scott MacGregor	AL NORTH	793	573
12	Callum Cockerill	NL CENTRAL	773	736
13	Manc Baseball	AL NORTH	771	645
14	Gareth Neale	BASEMENT	758	753
15	Luke Kendrick	NL WEST	752	617
16	Adam Cockerill	NL CENTRAL	751	720
17	James Thorpe	NL WEST	749	722
18	Ed Jefferies	AL EAST	745	595
19	Mal Bamford	BASEMENT	745	583
20	Jamie Steed (Rotoballer)	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	744	751
21	Rob Whannel	AL CENTRAL	738	657
22	Ben Jones	NL EAST	737	621
23	Ash Smith	BASEMENT	737	681
24	Chris Deeley	AL WEST	733	692
25	Chris Jones	AL NORTH	729	606
26	Charles Baldwin	AL WEST	727	671
27	BaseballSoftballUK (Chris)	NL WEST	718	614
28	Peter Ramsay	AL NORTH	718	609
29	British Baseball Federation (Tom)	AL EAST	716	618
30	Tom Lock	NL WEST	713	658
31	Tom Athene	NL CENTRAL	713	598
32	Phil Stone	NL NORTH	711	613
33	James Poppleton	NL EAST	710	724
34	Matthew Robinson	AL CENTRAL	707	673
35	Michael Garmston	AL CENTRAL	707	658
36	David McLaren	AL EAST	703	723
37	Bat Flips & Nerds	AL NORTH	699	703
38	Jason Toms	AL CENTRAL	699	675
39	Dave Nicholson	AL EAST	698	761
40	Bat Flips & Nerds	AL EAST	698	729
41	Steve Jones	AL WEST	698	661
42	Bat Flips & Nerds	NL CENTRAL	698	671
43	Darius Austin (Baseball Prospectus)	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	695	639
44	Jack Wain	AL CENTRAL	694	636
45	Rob Kermode	NL WEST	693	649
46	Bat Flips & Nerds	NL WEST	691	810
47	Troy Hutchinson	NL NORTH	690	627
48	Karl Cobane	AL NORTH	690	586
49	Adam Nicholson	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	688	640
50	Bat Flips & Nerds	NL EAST	688	616
51	Callum Franklin	AL CENTRAL	687	708
52	Martin Wood	NL NORTH	686	679
53	Jack Gallagher	NL EAST	680	631
54	Christopher Stone	AL WEST	677	648
55	Josh Salter	AL NORTH	676	675
56	Patrick Davenport	BASEMENT	675	610
57	Russell Eassom	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	673	732
58	Michael Annison	AL EAST	673	635
59	Scotty Buchanan	NL CENTRAL	672	645
60	Ross Bramley	AL NORTH	672	669
61	Tom Drake	NL NORTH	668	657
62	Harry Broster	AL EAST	665	647
63	Nathan Lewis	BASEMENT	663	751
64	Andy Moore	AL NORTH	663	810
65	Neil Littlewood	NL CENTRAL	662	750
66	Bat Flips & Nerds	NL NORTH	662	657
67	Paul Dearnley	AL WEST	662	743
68	UK Brew Crew (Mark)	NL NORTH	662	708
69	Matthew Sutton	NL WEST	662	690
70	Matthew Greig	NL EAST	662	635
71	Bat Flips & Nerds	BASEMENT	661	607
72	Paul Denyer	NL WEST	661	695
73	British Baseball Podcast (Matt)	NL EAST	660	724
74	Bat Flips & Nerds	AL WEST	660	616
75	Tom Hotchin	AL CENTRAL	659	564
76	Steve Pardoe	AL CENTRAL	659	681
77	Bubba on Baseball (Jason)	NL EAST	656	622
78	Nick Wright (MLB UK Community)	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	651	723
79	Ollie Shore	BASEMENT	651	658
80	Ian Carter	AL WEST	649	541
81	Brent Bentley	NL CENTRAL	647	713
82	Ross Arieta	BASEMENT	642	704
83	Alex Hudson	AL WEST	636	694
84	Four Bases (Joel)	NL NORTH	635	636
85	Jon Lansdown	BASEMENT	634	724
86	Nick Wilson-Smith	NL NORTH	633	635
87	Tim Brown	BASEMENT	633	672
88	Daniel Mara	NL WEST	632	676
89	Bat Flips & Nerds	AL CENTRAL	628	666
90	Nick Chang	NL EAST	626	551
91	Steve Merry	NL WEST	625	648
92	GB Official Artist (Andy Brown)	NL EAST	624	752
93	Pirates UK (Gareth)	AL CENTRAL	615	669
94	Lee Atkinson	NL CENTRAL	615	632
95	Baseball Brit (Joey)	AL EAST	614	684
96	Jonny Gould & James Holden	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	613	618
97	East Mids Meetups (Matt)	NL NORTH	612	719
98	Mark Blakemore	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	612	581
99	Nick Howell	AL NORTH	609	767
100	John Loftus	NL NORTH	607	698
101	Paul Hepburn	AL WEST	606	674
102	Kevin Orchard	NL CENTRAL	604	707
103	Jamie Wyman	AL CENTRAL	601	708
104	Mark Varley	AL EAST	599	551
105	Carl Taylor	NL CENTRAL	591	767
106	Marc Collins	NL EAST	590	740
107	Ryan Ferguson	AL NORTH	586	813
108	Jonathan Oatley	AL WEST	585	669
109	Tracey (Birds with Balls)	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	582	827
110	Timothy Burtt	NL NORTH	582	725
111	Ben Salvi	AL NORTH	571	720
112	John Eccles	NL WEST	570	575
113	Ash Day	AL EAST	565	739
114	Rob Noverraz	CHAMPIONS LEAGUE	565	672
115	Daniel Woodrow	NL EAST	562	684
116	Tim Bowman	AL EAST	559	801
117	Tim Brown	AL WEST	547	683
118	David Barnett	AL CENTRAL	544	642
119	Kevin Stimson	NL WEST	541	653
120	Alan Ford	BASEMENT	528	713

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