[IBL] Newsletter 01-08-2020

[Russell Peltz]

Happy New Year everyone!  Hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday break.


REALIGNMENT / OWNERSHIP
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Last season the LAN franchise moved from the NC West to the AC West.
During the season, however, it fell into caretaker status.  We have found a
potential new owner, Vinay Kumar, who will take over the draft and act as
co-caretaker with Sean.  If all goes well, he can assume full ownership of
the team before too long.  To facilitate the transition, we plan to move
LAN
back to the NC West, switching with EDG.  If anyone has objections to this
move, please let me know.  Any realignment must be agreed upon by two-thirds
of the league, so if there is significant opposition, we will hold a vote.

I have received a few inquiries about making team city and nickname
changes.
If you're one of those interested, let me know the details.  Any changes
would take effect after the draft.


PLAYOFFS
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Congratulations to the New York Knights, this year's NC Champions.
They defeated the Baltimore Sand Crabs in a five game Division Series,
then the Southern Kentucky Hilltoppers in an exciting seven game
NC Championship Series.

The Hilltoppers made it to the NCCS by taking down the Wild Card winning
Southern New Hampshire Spectre in six games in their Division Series
matchup.

The Knights were down 3 games to 2 against the Hilltoppers in the NCCS,
but then their pitchers (Mike Foltynewicz, Walker Buehler, Josh Hader, and
Blake Treinen) combined to accomplish something incredible, throwing
back-to-back two-hit shutouts in games six and seven in Coors Field to
send New York to the IBL Championship Series.

They will face the winner of the AC Championship Series between the Motor
City Marauders and Philadelphia Phantasm.

The Marauders advanced by defeating the AC East champion New Jersey Riptide
in five games in the Division round.

The Phantasm swept the Wild Card series winning Portland Raptors to claim
the other spot.

Philadelphia is currently up 1-0 in the ACCS after outlasting Motor City
in an epic 17-inning 4-3 victory in game one.

Recaps and boxscores of each series are archived here:
http://wiki.ibl.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/2019-playoffs


PLAYOFF SCHEDULE
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http://wiki.ibl.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/2019-playoff-schedule

Day     Schedule A (AC)                 Schedule B (NC)
1       POR 10, OXY 2
2                                       SNH 6, GTY 5
3       POR 5, BOW 2                    GTY 4, SNH 2
4       POR 9, BOW 0
5                                       SNH 4, GTY 3
6       POR 6, BOW 4                    GTY 4, SNH 3
7                                       SNH 12, GTY 2
8
9                                       NYK 10, BAL 1
10      MCM 4, NJR 2                    BAL 5, NYK 4    SKY 7, SNH 2
11      MCM 5, NJR 1    PHI 10, POR 0                   SNH 5, SKY 4
12                      PHI 9, POR 7    NYK 6, BAL 3
13      MCM 5, NJR 4                    NYK 7, BAL 1    SNH 3, SKY 2
14      NJR 5, MCM 0    PHI 5, POR 2    NYK 9, BAL 3    SKY 6, SNH 1
15      MCM 2, NJR 1    PHI 7, POR 3                    SKY 12, SNH 1
16
17                                                      SKY 7, SNH 3
18
19
20                                      NYK 22, SKY 8
21      PHI 4, MCM 3                    SKY 7, NYK 6
22      PHI at MCM (n)
23      off                             SKY 7, NYK 0
24      MCM at PHI (d)                     NYK 12, SKY 4
25      MCM at PHI (n)                     SKY 11, NYK 5
26      MCM at PHI (n)*
27      off                             NYK 4, SKY 0
28      PHI at MCM (d)*                    NYK 3, SKY 0
29      PHI at MCM (n)*
30      off
31      NYK at AC#1 (n)
32      NYK at AC#2 (n)
33      off
34      AC at NYK#3 (n)
35      AC at NYK#4 (n)
36      AC at NYK#5 (n)*
37      off
38      NYK at AC#6 (n)*
39      NYK at AC#7 (n)*


DRAFT
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The draft is underway, with teams free to make a selection whenever it is
their turn.
COU is currently on the clock.

The Carded Players spreadsheet is available at this Dropbox link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fca7rsf22ohopew/CardedPlayers2020.xlsx?dl=0

The spreadsheet has four worksheets:
Carded Batters (563 players)
Carded Pitchers (545 players)
Free Agent Batters (235 players)
Free Agent Pitchers (278 players)

Reminder, Chris has volunteered to donate $5 to a Canadian charity (Crest
Support
Services https://www.crestsupportservices.com/) for each pick that gets
made before
we go to draft-by-list in February.

ROUND ONE

1.  MAD  TOR Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
2.  SLG  SD  Fernando Tatis Jr.
3.  KAT  NYN Pete Alonso
4.  NYK  HOU Yordan Alvarez
5.  SFP  CHA Eloy Jimenez
6.  SCS  MIL Keston Hiura
7.  GTY  TOR Bo Bichette
8.  EDG  LAN Will Smith
9.  GTY  SD  Chris Paddack
10. COU
11. SDQ
12. BOW
13. NJR
14. SKY
15. OXY
16. CAN
17. SNH
18. MCM
19. TRI
20. LAD
21. SFP
22. WMS
23. SEA
24. POR


STADIUM DRAFT
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The Stadium Draft will be scheduled at some point during the off-season, so
think
about whether you would like to participate.

Unowned stadiums are currently:
CIN Great American Ballpark, CLE Progressive Field, MIN Target Field,
NYA Yankee Stadium, TOR Rogers Centre, WAS Nationals Park

-Rusty
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