Postmortem

Good (very early) morning! First, a minor correction: arithmetic errors -- the state bird of the BPP -- put our actual final totals at

Yuhan 183
Currie 175
Bauer 150

Cooley 145
Shotwell 2 142

It doesn't affect the money, but just so you know that I do actually check this stuff. Uh, eventually. Heh.

Congratulations again to our winners; money will go out today. (Bauer, my first instinct would be to donate to a Houston school here, but it's your money, so let me know what you'd like to do. Maybe buy some oaktag and a Sharpie for your "WE'RE NUMBER ONE; THE WILPONS ARE NUMBER TWO" sign for 2018?)

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A few wrap-up notes on the MVP -- Most Valuable Pick -- et al. before we fold this one in tissue paper. Among position players, Springer was the MVP of the World Series in the pool as well as on the field, but Altuve was the most consistent and pulled down the most points overall. "It's like if Patek could hit," my dad said dreamily on the phone yesterday, possibly while writing Mr. Dave Altuve on his Trapper Keeper. ("I love your mother but if she can't adjust to a major-league slider...") Cap tips to Jay Bruce and Aaron Judge, who would have been difference-makers had their teams gone further.

MVPitchers and more, after the jump.

HOU 5, LAD 1; Astros win first franchise World Championship

I'm sad for Kershaw; I'm really sad for Yu Darvish; I'm sending mazels to the future Mrs. Correa, and thoughts and prayers for the stress injury she's going to get from that boulder on her left hand; and I'm basically content with this outcome. I went into the postseason wanting the Dodgers to win this, but these Astros won me over, and congrats to them and their fans.

Now if one of said fans could send me a cold compress, because literally everyone got in the game last night and the pointage is going to get crazy, that would be great.

Tough day at the office for the Dodgers, who looked worn out and heavy at the plate, but a surprising number of points racked up on the L.A. side, to wit:

Correa 1
Springer 6

Morton 3

Seager 1
Turner 1

Darvish -1, sigh
Kershaw 2
Wood 3

And now, the final(-ish) standings!

182 Yuhan
175 Currie
157 Bauer

148 Shotwell 2
141 Cooley

130 Shotwell 1

125 Williams
120 Powell

113 Stempel
112 Ansell
106 MArbour
105 Drake 2
104 Winklepleck 
102 Reid
100 Bingham 2

99 Drake 1
94 Brady
93 Tormey

89 Bingham 1

60 [opening bars of Ennio Morricone]

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Scrambling with work stuff over here today, but I will cross-check the stats tomorrow, post a few thoughts on MVPs, LVPs, and Shane Victorinos -- and of course send out the winners' filthy lucre, which with 33 slates comes to $231 for first place, $66 for second, and $33 for third.

Until I get to the wrap-up, feel free to spend the time checking my arithmetic; gloating/fuming in the comments; and pouring one out for the end of another baseball season. Congrats to our winners and thanks to everyone for making another postseason agonizingly fun!

LAD 3, HOU 1

I should have known, after "Verlander is the missing piece for the Astros"/reverse curse of the SI cover blathering on the MLB Network pregame, that the trophy wasn't going anywhere for another night. One last game for the 2017 season.

Game 6 wasn't the nailbiting pointfest you might have come to expect in this series -- and from Game 6es past -- but if Verlander couldn't literally pile his teammates in a Radio Flyer and drag them to victory, he did all right by y'all:

Bregman 1
Springer 5

Verlander 9

Puig 1

Hill 4

Not sure when Justin Turner morphed into the Murph of 2017, but if we knew this kind of thing were going to happen, the BPP would be no fun.  ("THIS ISN'T FUN ANYWAYS" - Powell.)

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Guys guys guys. I BROKE THE 60-POINT BARRIER!!1 Okay well good luck tonight everyone.

...hee. Your final standings going into tonight's showdown:

180 Yuhan
166 Currie
155 Bauer 

147 Shotwell 2

138 Cooley

128 Shotwell 1
122 Williams

Everyone else after the jump.