Thanks to Shawn, Mike and Sully, much of 2010's chaos is now settled. Only Bill has mathematically clinched, but the Midgets and the NewsTeam are in great shape, leaving the BoyToys and the Meat wrapped up in a pretzel-like deadlock for the wild card.

The head-to-head matchups for the final week: SO v MR, JB v PF, SW v TS, DH v ED, BM v AD

The full stat report may be viewed online by clicking on the 'Stats' link at the top of this page.

And we're up and running! As part of the ongoing Internetification of the league, I won't be sending out my typical weekly emails this year. Yes, I will still send the spreadsheet file with the complete results for those who want to dig into the numbers - and I encourage you to do so. But I'm going to save myself the time of typing the standings into an email every week, and instead post a brief statement in this space, followed by the updated standings right below.

I'll also start a thread in the forum that will serve as our "Player of the Week" and "Pitcher of the Week" notification.

(I don't know what this video clip is, but I *think* it's another reason to love Japanese baseball.)