Archive for May 2008

Saturday Blast III - Recap

May 31st, 2008 | By Newbert | Category: Team Tournaments

Over 80 players showed up for some Saturday Blast action, all to compete for fun, respect, and a nice trophy. After the first two rounds of play the huge 18 team field was narrowed down to just 8 teams.
The final 8 teams:
Rage - Her0, Mattman13, PrinceAL, Proto
ReJected - AWinkler2, LuckyMe89, soulcrshr, BRM1975
Empire - Mafia, Futurama, [...]



Memorial Day Finals: Recap

May 31st, 2008 | By Melky | Category: Team Tournaments

The Pregame
Both managers had their respective teams in the practice clubhouse getting the last bit of atbats in before the start of the ballgame. Two of the premier elite teams in RBO were looking to get underarmb down to a tee before game time. The starters….
Empire: MelkyNYY, Roguee, Pete998, Prooot, ElDuque
FlightAL: ZachAtack, Puddles, ClarkKent, SEC, [...]



MVP Award - Memorial Day Mayhem

May 31st, 2008 | By Newbert | Category: Team Tournaments

The MVP for the Memorial Day Mayhem does not go to either team due to the controversy surrounding the game. Instead the award goes to GM19. His stats for the tournament include having his balls against the wall, being up the creek without a paddle, and trying to dig his way out of a hole.
In [...]



Catching Up to the Top Performers

May 30th, 2008 | By Newbert | Category: Team Tournaments

Looks like I’ve fallen behind on my Top Performer Awards (TPAs). I’m going to do this ass-backwards and say congrats to KidNub, Wiggy, Nataliamo, SlayerXX, and DrDeath to winning their 1st TPA’s. Don’t ask why I picked 5 players, I just can’t leave some guys out.
Wiggy - The man is an animal…nuff said. He basically [...]



Memorial Day Finals Preview

May 30th, 2008 | By Melky | Category: Team Tournaments

Preview time once again. Time to highlight why so and so will win so and so by so and so. FlightAL is coming off of a thrilling late inning win last night again Rage. Puddles’ walk off homerun sent FlightAL to the finals in style. FlightAL celebrated through the night and want to put their [...]



Memorial Day Tournament - Round 3 Recap

May 30th, 2008 | By Melky | Category: Team Tournaments

The semifinal game between FlightAL and Rage proved to be much more than the laugher I predicted (or Newbert for that matter). The game was a competitive game from the first inning all the way to the sixth inning in which one team came up big. Empire sat their intently watching as they awaited their [...]



Memorial Day Tournament - Round 3 Preview

May 29th, 2008 | By Melky | Category: Team Tournaments

A little late for previews, as game time is about an hour away but we will give it a go anyway. Only one game will be played tonight as the winner of the matchup will face Empire in the finals. FlightAL knocked off T.Tech, the best team in the field per RBO Chronicle Power Rankings [...]



BBRI - Round 2

May 29th, 2008 | By Newbert | Category: Miscellaneous

Bothe’s Batter Rating Index is up and running and I’ve currently got the first 100 players entered. I figured you’d enjoy seeing where you rank up compared to everyone else. Remember the BBRI takes into account multiple factors. Just because you batted .680 does not mean you are ranked over the guy who batted .590. [...]



Memorial Day Tournament - Round 2 Recap

May 29th, 2008 | By Melky | Category: Team Tournaments

The second round of the memorial day tournament saw three games neck and neck early. Apparently, the baseball gods were enthralled with the idea of extra inning games, as two of the three games flirted with extra innings. But of course, they had to have that offensive explosion and that upset that keeps every baseball [...]



Bothe’s Batter Rating Index (BBRI)

May 29th, 2008 | By Newbert | Category: Miscellaneous

This is another one of my bright ideas to add to the RBO Chronicle. Bothe’s Batter Rating Index, better known as the BBRI, was developed by the legendary CBothe. Though in need of some minor tweaking to adjust to modern times, the formula still holds some value. I plan to implement the BBRI to the [...]