Forever Giants: 1887 New York Giants(Year 5)

1886 is here.

My WAR calculation is a combination of Baseball-reference and Clay Davenport; I believe it to be the "best" WAR number available for historical comparison. 8 WAR is an MVP quality season.  The record is pythagorean adjusted for 162 games.

1887 (90-62)

C William Brown -.9

1B Roger Connor 5.85 

2B Danny Richardson 3.7 

SS Monte Ward 6.2 

3B Buck Ewing 2.9 

LF Patrick Gillespie -.4 

CF George Gore 1.65

RF Mike Tiernan 1

Uti/LF Jim O’Rourke 2.1 

RF Mike Dorgan -.1 

C Pat Deasley .05 

P Tim Keefe 6.7 

P Mickey Welch 4.3 

P Bill George -1.55

I Pick Football Games, Week 10 2014

Last week was here.

35-55
NWestern+1 Mich push
GT -3.5 NC St win
Duke -3.5 Syr win
UTSA +10 Rice push
FIU +4.5 ODU win
UCLA-4.5 Wash win
NMex St +16 ULL loss

4-1
39-56


25-27
GB-7 Chi win
Ariz -7 StL win
Jax +6.5 Dall loss
Pitt -5 NYJ loss
Buff +2 KC loss

2-3
27-30

Forever Giants - 1886 New York Giants(Year 4)

1885 is here.

My WAR calculation is a combination of Baseball-reference and Clay Davenport; I believe it to be the "best" WAR number available for historical comparison. 8 WAR is an MVP quality season. The record is pythagorean adjusted for 162 games.

1886 (96-66)

C Buck Ewing 3.8 

1B Roger Connor 7.5 

2B Joe Gerhardt -3.25 

SS Monte Ward 1

3B Dude Esterbrook .1 

LF Patrick Gillespie -.6

CF Danny Richardson -.3 

RF Mike Dorgan 1.5 

Uti/RF  Jim O’Rourke 4.7 

C Pat Deasley .3 

P Tim Keefe 7.25 

P Mickey Welch 3.55

Forever Giants - 1885 New York Giants(Year 3)

1884 is here.

My WAR calculation is a combination of Baseball-reference and Clay Davenport; I believe it to be the "best" WAR number available for historical comparison. 8 WAR is an MVP quality season. The record is pythagorean adjusted for 162 games.

1885 (122-40) 

 C Buck Ewing 5.6 

1B Roger Connor 9 

2B Joe Gerhardt -1.05

SS Monte Ward 1.4 

3B Dude Esterbrook 1.65

LF Jim O’Rourke 3

CF Patrick Gillespie 1.45 

RF Mike Dorgan 3.75 

C Pat Deasley 1.9

Uti Danny Richardson 2.2 

P Mickey Welch 7.55 

P. Tim Keefe 4.85

-Added two Hall of Famers, giving us a total of 6 with 5 under the age of 28. One of those was Tim Keefe who was shipped over from the Brooklyn team in the AA as the Giants owner was also the owner of that club.  Those 122 adjusted wins - only good for second place.

Forever Giants: 1884 New York Gothams (Year 2)

1883 is here.

My WAR calculation is a combination of Baseball-reference and Clay Davenport; I believe it to be the "best" WAR number available for historical comparison. 8 WAR is an MVP quality season.  The record is pythagorean adjusted for 162 games.

1884 (88-74)

C Buck Ewing 6.3

1B Alex McKinnon  -1.4

2B. Roger Connor 2.75 

SS  Ed Caskin -.55 

3B Frank Hankinson -.15 

LF Patrick Gillespie -.45 

CF Monte Ward .8 

RF/P Mike Dorgan .9 

OF/SS Danny Richardson .15 

P Mickey Welch 8.85 MVPQ 

P Ed Bagley -.95