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Week 6 Summary


Week six is in the books and it was another rough and tumble week in1901. Boston and Pittsburgh remain atop of their respective leagues, but behind them, there was quite a bit of shuffling. Behind Boston in the AL sits Chicago, but only three games separate Chicago from seventh place Washington. Philadelphia has won seven of its last ten, but the remainder are all taking turns knocking each other around. In the NL Brooklyn was in seventh place two weeks ago, but by dint of an 8-2 streak, they find themselves in second place, tied with Philadelphia who is on a 2-8 run and have lost their last seven in a row. Similar to Philadelphia, Boston was in third place just two weeks ago but are in the middle of a 1-9 stint of games and need to pull themselves out of it if they want to get back into the race.

1901 Washington Senators
Ginger Beaumont still leads the NL in hitting (.422), just ahead of Ed Delahanty (.389) and Chicago teammates Danny Green (.359) and Topsy Hartsel (.357).  Delahanty still leads in runs (28) and RBI's (23), but is now tied for second in hits with Jesse Burkett (44), one behind Hartsel (45). Kip Selbach and Burkett both have eight doubles, there are five players tied with five triples, and Dan McGann and Jimmy Sheckard both have three homeruns. Doc White (6-2) still leads in wins despite taking two losses this past week, ahead of four pitchers with five wins.

Jim Manning, Washington Manager
Nap Lajoie (.456) leads the AL hitting, but there are now four others hitting over .400: Lave Cross (.422), John Anderson (.416), Dave Fultz (.407) and Sam Dungan (.406). Lajoie also leads in hits (47), runs (29), RBI's (31) and homeruns (4). Anderson leads with 14 doubles, and there are four players tied with five triples each. Boston's Cy Young (7-0, 0.86) and Ted Lewis (6-0, 1.29) lead the AL in wins and ERA, their win totals accounting for thirteen of Boston's sixteen wins.

The replay is going well. I am keeping an eye on the necessary stats and nothing is out of control, but I do need to keep pushing on the stolen bases. I am actually in pretty good shape here, but given that almost everyone has a slightly better than .50% of successfully stealing I merely count SB attempts and use that as a determiner of should I steal or not. If a player steals 24 bases in a 24 week season they should average abut one attempt per week, and I adjust from there. I do the same for sacrifice hits, but the number of sacrifice attempts that fail can make this daunting. The average of non-complete games is 20 per team, so more-or-less one a week. Sometimes those decisions are easy, but I don’t want to use all of my relief up before June, so sometimes the pitcher just has to take one for the team.

American League Park, Washington DC
What's coming up? Memorial Day is on Thursday! Not only does everybody play, but everybody plays two! There has only been one doubleheader so far, and I expect there will be plenty more to come, but for now, this will serve as doubleheader kickoff for the 1901 replay. This means something because even though I am one-quarter of the way weeks-wise, Chicago (NL) has played the most games, but only 30, well below the one-quarter mark. Baltimore has only played nineteen games, so we have a way to go yet.





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