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Clogging The Bases - July 7

Welcome to our July contest, "Clogging The Bases."

The contest is about total bases for both teams in each Dodger game.  For each game, you have to guess two things:

1) Combined Total Bases From Both Teams, including singles, doubles (2 bases), triples (3 bases), homers (4 bases), walks (1 base), HBP (1 base), and net stolen bases (SB - CS, 1 base)

2) First player to score a run in the game

As an example, the June 30th Dodgers/Rockies game featured 5 singles, 2 homers, 3 walks, and one net stolen base, so the number of total bases was 17.  This was an extraordinarily low number.  The first player to score was Brad Hawpe.

The most important thing is to guess the correct number of total bases.  There cannot be multiple guesses of the same total bases.

The next most important thing is to guess the first player to score a run.  There can be multiple guesses of the same player, but no identical guesses with the same total bases and player.

In case of a tie of total bases with no correct player scoring, under beats over.

If there is nobody within 10 total bases of the actual total, yet someone picks the correct player to score the first run of the game, that person will win.

Only guesses in this thread will count, and they must be received before the first pitch of the game.

The person who has the most wins at the end of June will win their choice of Bluetopia on DVD, a 2009 Dodger Media Guide, a copy of "100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die" by Jon Weisman, or a 2009 Topps Dodgers' team baseball card set!

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Date Winner Guess Actual
July 1          
court168627     23/Barmes     
16/Martin           
July 3 Ollie 28/Hudson 29/Furcal
July 4 bucknellbruin 27/Furcal 27/Manny
July 5 no winner n/a 58/Ethier

Matthewmafa was closer to the actual number with his guess of 36 bases, but he didn't get his guess in before the game time of 1:05pm.  Xeifrank was the closest among those who got their entry in on time.  I forgot about my own 10-base rule.  As a result, there is no winner for July 5.  Thanks to the always honorable Xeifrank for pointing this out.

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ethier

I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours

by BoulderDodger on Jul 6, 2009 12:23 PM PDT reply actions  

“There cannot be multiple guesses of the same total bases.”

sorry merrcatjohn, I already took 33. See above.

by court168627 on Jul 7, 2009 9:40 AM PDT reply actions  

July 5th Result

Eric, I’d like to take credit for the July 5th contest, but I was not within 10 runs of the final total and nobody picked Ethier to score the first run. So, if I am reading the rules correctly, there should be no winner for that day.
vr, Xei

by Xeifrank on Jul 7, 2009 11:06 AM PDT reply actions  

Thanks for reminding me

I forgot about my own rule!!! :)

I have made the corrections above.

by Eric Stephen on Jul 7, 2009 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions  

I think you are misinterpreting your own rule, or I don't think that rule means what you think it means.
If there is nobody within 10 total bases of the actual total, yet someone picks the correct player to score the first run of the game, that person will win.

That says that a correct first player to score beats the closest TB guess if the guess is greater than 10 TB off. It doesn’t says that a guess more than 10 TB off cannot win. Or to put it another way, the rule above is not incompatible with, “If no one picks TB within 10, and no one picks the correct player to score first, the closest TB still wins.” Perhaps the rule before this should be “A TB guess must be within 10 TB in order to be considered a possible winner.”

I wasn’t surprised you named xeifrank the winner because I believed you meant that a closest TB guess not within 10 could be trumped by a correct player guess, but would win otherwise.

BTW, is “within 10” inclusive or exclusive or 10? It should be inclusive, right?

by David Young on Jul 7, 2009 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions  

Yes, after having my lawyer read the rules we think you are right. I think the rule should probably be clarified a little bit and if Eric gives me the win or not, I won’t complain. But my lawyer is a real hardass. :)
vr, Xei

by Xeifrank on Jul 7, 2009 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions  

Since 35 and 36 are already taken, I will go with

34 bases
Hudson

by Xeifrank on Jul 7, 2009 1:48 PM PDT reply actions  

i was in time today.. i made extra sure that i was

by matthewmafa on Jul 7, 2009 4:22 PM PDT up reply actions  

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