SD 7, NYM 1

Not a promising Day 1 for BPP, net -- and definitely not a promising day for the Mets. We can get into it in the comments if you need the therapy, but the shelling of Maxie was not a surprise. I hope my prediction that, if they lose this game, they're done is wrong, but...

That said, some pickers did well from the nightcap:

Alonso 1
Escobar 6
McNeil 1

Machado 4

At the end of the first day of play, here's how it looks at the top:

8 Bauer Shock
7 O'Reilly and Crase 2
6 Winklepleck 1

5 Drake and Crase 1
4 Reid 2

3 Fell 1 and Bingham 2
2 Cayenne 2, SDB 1, and Yuhan 2

1 Los Cameron, Bauer Shock, JArbour, SDB 2, Brady, DGB, Dunn, Fell 2, Quinn, Reid 1, Rogge, Shotwell 2, and Stempel

All other slates are all-bye picks and won't be heard from 'til next week.

Tomorrow, it's already all elimination games starting at noon with Rays/Guardians (not that the ESPN intern got the memo about the name change...sigh). Then it's Mariners/Jays at 4, SD/Metsies at 7:30, and Phils/Cards at 8:30.

Good luck, everyone -- and don't forget to check my math!

SEA 4, TOR 0

A nice range of points picked up by various poolies in the evening game, but Springer got hit in the wrist late, which THIS poolie is not keen on, and the other Jays couldn't do much against the Mariner starter.

Able-bodied Seaman* hitters did just fine, however:

France 1
Haniger 2
Raleigh 4
Rodriguez 1
Suarez 3

And Toronto did a little something; thanks, Boba Chette:

Bichette 1
Springer 2

Whole bunch of Met pickers hoping to get on the board in about 20 minutes, but until then:

O'Reilly: 7
Winklepleck 1: 6
Drake and Crase 1: 5

Fell 1 3
Bingham 2, Cayenne 2, SDB 1: 2

Los Camerons, Bauer Shock, J Arbour, and SDB 2: 1

An inch of this and fervent prayer is what's up at BPP HQ for the next couple of hours; check my math and good luck to all. (...Bless your heart, Whirling Darvish, but: not you.)

*sorry, but also, get used to it

PHI 6, STL 3

...Welllll so this isn't going how anyone thought so far, is it? As noted this morning, no Phillies picks in play, and only Arenado managed to kick loose a point (while giving back on defense, but that's for Cards fans to bemoan).

Arenado 1
Goldie 0
The Man 0

O'Reilly back from BPP sabbatical with an early lead; Drake, ditto, close behind in your first leaderboard:

6 O'Reilly
5 Drake
1 Bingham 2, Cameron 1

Nobody else on the board yet, but SEA/TOR in progress should mix things up, and we've got a ton of picks in play for the nightcap. Thoughts and prayers and I'll see you later.

CLE 2, TB 1

Nice to see former Met Amed Rosario getting it done for the Guardians -- but the only one getting it done for pickers in the playoff opener was Ramírez.

Kwan 0
Ramírez 5

Arozarena 0

Drake and O'Reilly on the board, everyone else waiting to see what El Hombre does.

BPP 2022: It's on

Welcome (back) to Bunting's Postseason Pool for year...16?! Amazing. We've got a couple new faces in the crowd, a couple of past masters returning, and a LOT of slates this year: 35 total. That's a $350 pot on deck; the 70/20/10 split gives $245 to this year's winner, $70 and $35 to the 2nd- and 3rd-place slates.

And that's as good a segue as any into my constant BPP refrain: if you see mistakes/think I bonked the inputting, let me know. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm just a poetry major standing in front of a legacy Excel spreadsheet asking it not to hate her, etc. etc. If you suddenly have -17 points, let me hear from you.

Let's have a look at that spreadsheet, shall we?

I was interested prior to input to see how the extra pick would affect the breadth of picks; it seems roughly proportional to previous years. Heaviest action this year, unsurprisingly, is on your new AL home-run record-holder, Aaron Judge, with LAD's Betts and Freeman not far behind, and plenty of interest in NYM's Alonso/Lindor/McNeil, Houston's Altuve and Álvarez, Dodger Trea Turner, and Barve Dansby Swanson.

There's one triple-dupe slate of all Dodgers; there's also a pleasant seasoning of "what do they know that I don't" singles to keep things interesting.

More after the jump...

BPP 2022: Rules Rundown

The set-up and instructions for entry appear below. A couple of changes since last year, due to MLB's constitutional inability to quit messing with the playoffs -- these are marked like so: **. Any questions, LMK.

For an overview of previous years' action, feel free to browse around the BPP blog, http://buntingspostseasonpool.blogspot.com.

Think I left someone off the dist list? Forward at will; the more the merrier!

Deadline for picks/payment is THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 AT 9 (nine) PM ET.


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THE SCORING

**It works like this: you pick four (4) position players; points come from total bases.

single, e.g. = 1 pt.
double = 2 pts.
triple = 3 pts., etc.


For example, in the game linked below, CJ Abrams notches 3 points:

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/braves-vs-nationals/2022/09/28/661099#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=661099

[something something "BOOSTING the offense" fishcakes]

 ...hello! We're back. MLB is determined to drive me around the bend and out of sight with the playoff tweaks, but...joke's on Manfred; I lost it years ago.

Email's going out shortly. Any questions, you know where to find me, but let me save you a few keystrokes, because I don't know where the Mets' bats are either, xo.