Boys being what we are, it’s not to surprising that it’s just under 40% of the way through the season and some rumbling has already started about who sit in the “best division in not-fake baseball.” Some folks say it’s the Frick Pacific, others scream about the Johnson Sun Belt.
That said, I did some tricking out of my handy-dandy script to spit out records for and against, something that doesn’t really matter yet, and yet it does, right?
As we await today’s sim, here are the numbers for the BBA:
By pure records, the Sun Belt looks pretty sold (.572), with the Pacific second (.554). However, the Sun Belt is literally feasting on their Johnson rivals, killing them to a combined tune of 123-81. The Pacific is beating both Frick rivals, too, but not to the same level. This may (or may not) be important, because by raw record, The Frick Heartland (.497) is better than the Johnson South Eastern (.480), and the Frick Frontier (.468) is stronger than the Johnson Atlantic.
Perhaps this makes sense because head-to-head records show the Frick is a game better than the Johnson. Again, though, much of that is the Pacific beating up on the JLSE just a bit more than the Sun Belt is beating up on the Frontier. The Heartland and Atlantic are even-steven.
UMEBA IS CLEARER
Of course, the UMEBA, with its one league and two divisions, is a little clearer, with the Bancroft division having a 52-43 lead over the Burt division.
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Of course, it’s early.
Very early.
SO, WHO IS RIGHT?
Really cares, right? After all, the best division in fake-baseball often has nothing at all to do with records, and everything to do with us boys being boys.
Sportsdom and fandom being what it is, this is a question mostly about respect. About the most upstanding, deserving teams and fans in the game. It’s about the core of being, the essence of the world around us. Sometimes the best teams in the best division in baseball don’t win.
We can tell this is true quite easily. Because sometimes, like this year, the Heartland Division’s records are down a little.
And we all the Heartland is the best: Some of us are just hibernating a bit until it really counts.