PHI 4, MIA 1

A fun one to watch, even in the stands -- so many happy kids in Phils gear! -- and a fun one for pickers, with plenty of points to go around. 

Arraez 1

Castellanos 4
Harper 1
Schwarber 1
Stott 1
Turner 3

[rubs hands] All right, let's see who's in the money after Day 1. Phillie-heavy slates look like real smart smarties so far...

9 Crase
8 Tormey and YOLO Joe
4 The SDBs and Wonsetler 1

3 Bingham 1, Cayenne 2, Fell 2, and the MArbours

2 Bingham 2, O'Reilly, Stempel, and Yuhan

1 LyonCorn

Everyone else is sitting on bye-team slates, and won't get on the board until the weekend.

We do it all again tomorrow, starting at the same time, in the same game order. If you think my math's messed up, LMK, and good luck!

ARI 6, MIL 3

Leaving 11 on base is probably not functional for the Crew if they want to get out of the wild-card round -- not with the ROY heir apparent putting up points like he did tonight.

Carroll 5

Contreras 2
Kepler 0

Back in mere moments with the last game and our first leaderboard...

MIN 3, TOR 1

Maybe it's not so good for the pool -- nobody has Twinkie picks, after all -- but for baseball fans, it's nice that we can move on from this "MIN can't win in October" narrative we've had to hear about all these years.

It's also nice that Jays pickers snagged a couple points:

Bichette 2
Guerrero 2

Flipping back and forth between the evening games now; see you on the other side of those with our first standings check.

TEX 4, TB 0

Not sure anyone expected the Rays to be the ones who gave away a bunch of runs; I missed most of the game, but apparently the TB defense had a meltdown and Texas capitalized. Four errors? Guys, that's not going to work.

But the first postseason game is in the books, and the first points are on the board:

Seager 3
Semien 0

Diaz 0
Paredes 1

Game 2, currently in progress, might be an anemic one points-wise, but the night games start in about an hour and we'll see what develops.

BPP 2023: Here we go!

Great day in the morning, we made it to the playoffs! Welcome back to Bunting's Postseason Pool. We've got a couple new faces in the crowd, a bunch of the usual suspects returning, and 33 total slates in play. That's a $330 pot to work with: that's $231 for the first-place slate, with 2nd and 3rd taking home $66 and $33 respectively. 

A nice little payday for a few folks, so that's why it's important to let me know if you see mistakes. It happens; it will happen again; we have two "Diaz, Ya"s in the box scores; if I bonked the data entry or the arithmetic, please let me hear from you! Email (bunting at tomatonation dot com) or in the comments -- which are also available for wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Speaking of the spreadsheet, let's have a look!

Heavy action on the Atlanta ballclub, unsurprisingly, with Acuña and Olson pulling 12 picks each -- but our most-picked hitter is former Barve and current Dodger Freddie Freeman, with 13. His teammate Mookie Betts, his former teammate Ozzie Albies, the Orioles' Henderson, and various and sundry 'Stros all had a respectable number of picks as well. 

And despite the same 7-8 players showing up in various combinations a lot of times? No duplicate slates this year, as far as I can tell.

More numbers/wool-gathering after the jump...

Rules/picks info for 2023

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Hello friends and fans of baseball (and money),

Welcome (back) to Bunting's Postseason Baseball Pool -- the postseason pool for everyone! You don't need to know a lot about baseball; you just have to know who's in the playoffs, and how to count. And that last one is optional, now that I think about it.

The set-up and instructions for entry appear below. No substantive changes since last year (except an earlier start date) but if you have any questions, LMK.

For an overview of previous years' action, feel free to browse around the BPP blog, http://buntingspostseasonpool.blogspot.com. (You'll also find a postseason schedule here: https://www.mlb.com/news/2023-mlb-playoff-and-world-series-schedule)

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

Deadline for picks/payment is MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 AT 9 (nine) PM ET.

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 hello hello! Just a week to go until the 2023 postseason gets underway; email will go out tonight or tomorrow. No real changes since last year, but if you have any questions, ask 'em, and I'll see you on the flip.