[IBL] Newsletter 01-28-2017

[Russell Peltz]

PLAYOFFS
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The Chicago Cougars defeated the Tri-State Traffic in six games to advance
to the AC Championship Series.  The Cougars jumped out to a 3-0 series lead
as the Traffic offense was held to just four runs in the three games.
Tri-State battled back, taking games four and five.  The Cougars then
finished off the series with Ryan Braun hitting a triple and Adrian Beltre
hitting a walk off single to take game six by a score of 2-1.
Recap and boxes here:
http://wiki.ibl.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/2016-ac-division-series-2

In the AC Championship Series, the Philadelphia Phantasm hold a 3-1 series
lead.  The Phantasm offense led the way in a 12-3 victory in game one.
David Price and Clayton Kershaw then pitched gems to win the next two by
scores of 7-0 and 4-1.  The Cougars stayed alive by taking game four behind
Chris Archer by a score of 5-2.  The winner will advance to the IBL
Championship
Series to face the Oaksterdam Bombers.
Recap and boxes here:
http://wiki.ibl.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/2016-ac-championship-series


DRAFT
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Alex Campbell has volunteered to be the Draft Administrator this year.

The pick-by-pick portion continues through Friday, February 3.

The first draft list for the remainder of the currently active round will
be due on Monday, February 6.  Alex will be sending out the instructions and
deadlines for each round.

The draft will be updated while in progress here:
http://almanac.ibl.org/Drafts/2017.html

There have been 13 picks so far.  TRI is currently on the clock.

Round 1
 1. HAV   NYA Gary Sanchez
 2. BOW   CHN Willson Contreras
 3. SDQ   HOU Alex Bregman
 4. CAN   ATL Dansby Swanson
 5. KAT   COL David Dahl
 6. NJR   BOS Andrew Benintendi
 7. MCM   LAN Julio Urias
 8. POR   STL Alex Reyes
 9. NYK   TEX Nomar Mazara
10. GTY   PIT Tyler Glasnow
11. NYK   COL Trevor Story
12. KAT   CIN Jose Peraza
13. SFP   STL Aledmys Diaz
14. TRI
15. SKY
16. MAD
17. SKY
18. SEA
19. GTY
20. KAT
21. WMS
22. COU
23. SKY
24. PHI


2017 CARD INFO
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The spreadsheet of stats for carded players and free agents is in my
personal
Dropbox folder.  You can retrieve it with this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/62fri2c75lkica7/CardedPlayers2017.xlsx?dl=0

Sean has posted some preliminary card info (carded players, starts/limits,
and
estimated defensive range ratings) here:

http://www.ibl.org/~sweda/2016/12/2017-ratings/

-Rusty
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