tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985668569918053928.post6685330549850392942..comments2024-01-24T05:19:09.805-06:00Comments on This Game Of Games: Joe Blong's Last Game With The RedsJeffrey Kittelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02367989375750209078noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985668569918053928.post-83049637871893562492008-12-03T14:04:00.000-06:002008-12-03T14:04:00.000-06:00Thanks for the information.It makes some sense tha...Thanks for the information.<BR/><BR/>It makes some sense that the weaker clubs would want to bring in only the strongest clubs for home games in the expectation of getting a good crowd for a game against a good team.Jeffrey Kittelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02367989375750209078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5985668569918053928.post-33769881588555946932008-12-02T06:51:00.000-06:002008-12-02T06:51:00.000-06:00I have worked some on the Centennials and also don...I have worked some on the Centennials and also done a study of how the NA's strong and weak teams scheduled each other (not the nominal schedules, but the games they actually played). <BR/><BR/>Prior to the 1875 season the Centennials were expected to be a step above the other young co-op teams; you'll notice they had a core of veteran players -- Radcliff, Bechtel, Craver (it's probably no coincidence, though, that all three of them were drinkers, behavioral problems and/or suspected of game throwing). As it turned out, they ran up a very bad record, but that was because they played the strong teams nearly exclusively,. The one game they played against New Haven they won handily.<BR/><BR/>And generally, I found that the weak co-op teams in the NA primarily played the strong teams, rather than each other. I had expected they would prefer to pick on somebody their own size, but apparently for one reason or another that was not the case. So the experience of the St. Louis Reds was actually pretty typical of NA clubs of this class. <BR/><BR/>It also means, by the way, that while the weak teams were undoubtedly far inferior to the strong ones, the league standings and individual statistics probably exaggerate that inferiority, because those teams rarely got a breather in the schedule.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com