Pool Play
Saturday matchups
Gambrills and Bagel Bombers are heavy favorites in their games. The most competitive matchup is Delmarva vs BCC — essentially a coin flip at 42/52%. Ties are tracked explicitly and count as ½ win per rules.
Bagel Bombers vs Kent Island projects 17.6 avg runs — Kent Island's pool-play ERA_eff of 15.97 is nearly double the field. Mercy rule limits actual blowout magnitude in real games.
Projected Seeding
Seed distributions
Gambrills and Bagel Bombers are locked in a #1/#2 battle — each has roughly equal odds at the top seed. Graysox projects solidly 3rd. Kent Island locks #7 in 81% of sims.
Average seed
Seed probability heatmap
Team Pitcher Force Ranking
Pool-play pitching strength
TPFR is a BF-weighted composite — ERA, K%, and BB% combined — with aces penalized to 15% and #2 arms to 30% of their actual workload. Reflects who a team will realistically throw on Saturday. Kent Island's ERA_eff of 15.97 is nearly double the next-worst team.
TPFR — higher = stronger pool-play pitching
Effective ERA (pool-play weighted)