If someone wants to zip up game logs and box scores earlier than that, I'll add them in. But all I got is all I got.
Regardless, to refresh memories, this innformation comes from a game log script I wrote to crawl through the leage game logs. It compiles balls in play hit into each OOTP zone, and indicates whether it was turned into an out or not, then calculates league agerage rates for each zone so it can calculate wheter a team's defense was above or below what it might have been if the team's defense was league average everywhere.
Hence "Plays Above Average"
Bottom line: Charm City rules the roost with Omaha essentially a hair's breadth away. From June to September anyway. Both of those clubs are doing it with bgitime infield defense, whereas a Long Beach or a Des Moines kind of performance is just "good" pretty much everywhere. Teams like Rocky Mountain and San Fernando go biploar, but in oppposite directions.
Fun to look at, even if it's only partial data.
| TEAM | GB | FB | LD(IF) | LD(OF) | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charm City Jimmies | 41.09 | 8.61 | -4.75 | 3.15 | 48.11 |
| Omaha Cyclones | 40.27 | 4.77 | -4.19 | 6.80 | 47.65 |
| Long Beach Surfers | 15.25 | 9.51 | -2.96 | 14.59 | 36.39 |
| Des Moines Kernels | 11.48 | 14.08 | -2.47 | 13.19 | 36.28 |
| Sacramento Mad Popes | 7.60 | 14.45 | -5.30 | 16.89 | 33.64 |
| Nashville Bluebirds | 12.69 | 15.48 | -2.37 | 3.08 | 28.88 |
| Twin Cities River Monsters | 11.52 | 13.73 | -1.86 | 3.43 | 26.82 |
| Madison Wolves | 15.08 | -1.99 | 1.35 | 10.05 | 24.49 |
| Seattle Storm | 0.55 | 7.59 | 0.76 | 12.45 | 21.35 |
| Hawaii Tropics | 2.87 | 4.60 | 2.79 | 9.69 | 19.94 |
| Valencia Stars | 10.87 | -7.73 | -0.20 | 15.11 | 18.05 |
| San Fernando Bears | 30.77 | -9.90 | 2.54 | -9.01 | 14.41 |
| Edmonton Jackrabbits | 10.46 | -2.76 | 9.60 | -4.56 | 12.74 |
| Boise Spuds | 3.37 | -6.90 | 6.99 | 5.81 | 9.27 |
| San Antonio Outlaws | 10.07 | 3.04 | -4.57 | -6.83 | 1.71 |
| League | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Rocky Mountain Oysters | -20.85 | 1.94 | 0.46 | 13.33 | -5.13 |
| Charlotte Cougars | 23.60 | -7.02 | -6.25 | -16.32 | -5.99 |
| Rockville Pikemen | -3.95 | -7.39 | 2.99 | -0.55 | -8.90 |
| Calgary Pioneers | -12.49 | 4.34 | 2.07 | -3.66 | -9.75 |
| Chicago Black Sox | -14.95 | -6.10 | 0.79 | 9.42 | -10.84 |
| Louisville Sluggers | -9.63 | 14.20 | -3.81 | -11.91 | -11.14 |
| Jacksonville Hurricanes | 1.32 | -14.22 | 1.20 | -2.59 | -14.30 |
| Vancouver Mounties | -18.61 | 7.82 | 1.58 | -7.07 | -16.28 |
| Phoenix Talons | -26.65 | 11.00 | -0.58 | -2.93 | -19.15 |
| Mexico City Aztecs | -10.11 | -10.21 | -0.15 | -1.32 | -21.78 |
| Montreal Blazers | 6.27 | -12.50 | -0.24 | -15.79 | -22.26 |
| Las Vegas Hustlers | -8.69 | -7.33 | -0.19 | -6.55 | -22.77 |
| Atlantic City Gamblers | -12.51 | -4.93 | 5.47 | -11.41 | -23.39 |
| Portland Lumberjacks | -10.24 | -16.94 | 1.23 | -4.78 | -30.73 |
| Brooklyn Robins | -19.43 | -1.07 | -3.82 | -17.74 | -42.06 |
| Yellow Springs Nine | -33.65 | -8.73 | 2.27 | -8.93 | -49.04 |
| New Orleans Crawdads | -53.37 | -9.42 | 1.62 | -5.05 | -66.22 |
…thanks!
