{"id":3061,"date":"2012-08-15T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2012-08-17T09:10:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T13:10:42","slug":"mlb-suicide-pool-epic-round-ten-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3061","title":{"rendered":"MLB Suicide Game: Epic Round Ten Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Round Ten of the MLB Suicide Game was an epic affair, that lasted an unbelievable 24 days before a winner was finally crowned<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wojo<strong> <\/strong>takes the round, which includes the rollover Round Nine, for a cool 285 units<\/li>\n<li>Rohde has the third-best round in suicide game history (2nd-most wins in a single round), but walks away empty-handed<\/li>\n<li>\n<div id=\"yui_3_2_0_30_13448564529541026\">The most popular picks were the Pirates and Angels, which were used by 86% of people in the round (25 of 29)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The Astros were the only team that wasn&#8217;t used at all<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The Angels led the way with 22 wins (against only 3 losses)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The Cardinals were an incredible 15-0 for the field (Reds were 14-1, Nats 13-1, D&#8217;backs 13-5)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The Pirates handed out the most strikes with 15<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The least successful pick was the Tigers at 1-12 (the Giants also handed out 12 strikes, but gave 9 wins)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Overall, the field was 160-84 (.656 win%) &#8211; obviously bolstered by the great runs by Wojo and Rohde<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>AL picks were only 57-43 (.570), while NL picks were 103-41 (.715)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The AL West was a terrific 34-8 (best of any div), while the other two divisions in the AL were both under .500, including the AL Central&#8217;s worst 10-18 record<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The NL East led the way in the Senior Circuit with a 29-8 record, just ahead of the NL Central, whose 48 wins (against 16 Ls) were BY FAR the most of any division<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The NL Central was the most popular division (26% of all picks), while the AL Central was the least popular (11%)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The two eastern divisions (usually the most popular divisions) only accounted for a combined 27% of the picks this round<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, the biggest stat of them all &#8211; when Steve was eliminated on August 2nd, only two people remained.\u00a0 Those\u00a0final two guys went on for TWELVE MORE DAYS before a winner was crowned.\u00a0 To put that in perspective, prior to Round Ten, only 2 ENTIRE ROUNDS had even gone longer than 13 days this year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round Ten of the MLB Suicide Game was an epic affair, that lasted an unbelievable 24 days before a winner was finally crowned Wojo takes the round, which includes the rollover Round Nine, for a cool 285 units Rohde has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/?p=3061\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1279],"tags":[1276],"class_list":["post-3061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mlb-suicide-game","tag-mlb-suicide-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broadstreetbelievers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}