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March 24th: Time for our first game status of this year's game. On Thursday, March 17th, 189 invitations went out via e-mail and another went out via USPS for a total of 190 invitations. There were only two failure notices this time and both with good reason, and only one question regarding the content of the data.

As of this morning we have 46 sets of player picks in hand including four new players. I have heard from three players that have passed the link to the site along to others, including two that have referenced the site on their Facebook page. Also there will be no SABR Survey this year as SABR is in the process of moving their operation from Cleveland to Phoenix and, in the process, creating a new website. The Survey is not a part of the new SABR website this season- maybe next year.

Here is a little update on the things that have been going on, behind the scene, leading up to this point. The updated interactive e-mail form was uploaded and activated on March 1st. The first set predictions arrived just five days later- thanks Patty!!.

You may have noticed that it took some time to status the Archive pages with last season's final data and the Season Wrap page was not available until March 8th. You might be interested in taking a look at the 2010 Season Wrap page and checking out Todd Slavinsky's new office digs. Some guys just fall into it.

While working on the final results last October, I experienced a small problem. It wasn't much of a problem as it took just a brief phone call to fix but at the moment I found the 2010 post season far more interesting than anything that I still had to do on the site, so I didn't get back to it for several months. As it turns I seem to be losing some of the momentum that had been developed a few years back and I am apparently beginning, once again, to lose some interest in the game. This will be my 31st year at the helm and it is getting a little stiff. Not to worry though as I intend to hang in there until someone else steps up or until my wife suggests that I move on and get a life.

April 18th: The Player Consensus has been completed and uploaded. This year's consensus includes 204 players and favors the Redsox and the Phillies to meet in October. The Bosox have some ground to make though as they are currently one game behind where they were a year ago at this time and on their way to a third place finish. Things are looking up for Boston as they are currently on a two game winning streak and have actually doubled their win total and closed to within a game-and-a-half of the fourth place Rays in the AL East. Not to worry though as no one has picked Boston last and they figure to be a non-factor in our game this time. Stay tuned.

A little about the player participation this time around: We have 209 players, down from 235 players last year. Included in that count are 32 players that are new to the game and seven players that have returned from prior years. Sixty-three players from last year did not make it back and, as near as I can figure, only one had a good excuse.

I will begin work on the on the Player Standings spreadsheet in a couple of days and hope have the game up and running by about May 1st. Stay tuned.

April 26th: The American League section of the spreadsheet has been completed based on yesterday (Apr25) morning's MLB standings. There is an interesting but not surprising development in the AL Central where, by virtue having the division upside down, nearly everyone has identical scores of 16 points. Only ten players (less than 5%) managed to beat this score. Seventy-one players picked the White Sox first and only two, Garrett Walvoord and the Spring Training Results, had Chicago last, while eighty players had the Indians last and just two, Quinn Campuzano and Gail Lampson, had Cleveland first.

Will continue with the National League today and expect to finish this weekend and have the first results uploaded to the site next Monday.

April 28th: The spreadsheet was completed yesterday, Apr 27th, and tested today. With over 16,000 data entrees and calculations, just four mistakes were found, three as a result of copying a mistake, an error rate of less than .02%. None of the errors affected the scoring. All is well. Matthew Cataldo of Fontana, CA is the early leader by the tie breaker over past winner, Nancy Jo Michael of Brea, CA. The player standings will be run again on Friday and next Monday at which time the player data will be uploaded to the site and the game will underway.

July 11th: The CumStats through 2010 have been updated for currently active and in active players. There are now 168 active three year players including 26 new three year players. That represents about 80% of all current players. Josh Sinnett is the CumStat leader as he holds a 4.8% lead over John Salizzoni. The Top Four Player file is currently in-work.

There are now 184 inactive players listed in the CumStats files but that does not include hundreds of players that were active before the game went on-line. I think that I may have one extra player in the active file but I have not yet figured out who it is.

July 18th: The Keys to the game page has been added to the site. At this point in the season last place teams are more significant than division leaders. A new combination key has been included to take into consideration.

September 29th: We have made it through another season and we have a winner. Warren Morris has become our second two time winner with a four point win over Matthew Cataldo.

I will start work on the CumStats tomorrow and hope to have the season wrapped up in about ten days. Sometime during the next few days I will have an important announcement about the future of the game.

October 2nd: The CumStats have been posted to the site. Josh Sinnett of Bellingham, WA continues to be our current leader.

October 10th: The 2011 Archive pages have been uploaded to the site and include an important message about the future of the game.