Special Roseday Update: Dephamation! – The Official EFL Web Site

Earlier today I taught you a new word:

Phamish: vt, to disillusion an opponent by having your erroneously excluded stats suddenly included in your team’s results.

I used it to tell you the moving story of how correcting the unjust omission of Tommy Pham’s stats helped the Rosebuds replace the Wolverines atop the EFL standings, like this:

EFL
TEAM	WINS	LOSSES	PCT.	GB	RS	RA
Portland Rosebuds	90	50	.644	—	752.8	547.7
Old Detroit Wolverines	91	51	.642	—	703.8	516.7
Brookland Outs	80	60	.574	9.8	746.1	649.9
Canberra Kangaroos	79	62	.560	11.7	652.0	582.6
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	75	66	.535	15.2	746.2	700.6
Flint Hill Tornadoes	74	68	.520	17.4	655.2	625.4
Haviland Dragons	71	70	.502	19.8	658.2	649.1
Cottage Cheese	67	73	.481	22.8	667.5	693.0
Kaline Drive	66	75	.468	24.6	610.5	652.8
Peshastin Pears	65	75	.464	25.2	599.0	645.0
D.C. Balk	62	79	.437	29	614.4	696.4

I hesitate to revisit this scene, because I’m not sure how much drama you can handle in a day, but this is one media outlet which will never hide the truth from you. I need to teach you another new word:

Dephamation, n.: the act of reversing a phamishment.

Earlier this afternoon I received the following note from the Top Rosebud:

Is it me, or are the stats a day behind?

Mostly just trying to make sure I have my roster adjustments and needed.

Paxton pitched last night, but the stats page just show 5.3 innings from his first outing on 9/1.

I checked and he was right: his team’s pitching stats did not reflect Friday’s games. Nor did his hitting stats. Nor did the Wolverines’ hitting or pitching stats. The database had not used Friday stats at all!

This immediately explained how the Cheese and the Outs could get exactly 0.0 runs scored and runs allowed: their stats had not changed, nor had their games played changed. The latter was innocent — the NL Central-leading Cubs were rained out yesterday. But the former was exceedingly suspicious. Until now: we know how it happened.

But now the problem was figuring out why the stats hadn’t updated. I had proof that I had cut and pasted the BP stats, because I had the proper, updated stats in my batters and pitchers spreadsheet to which I paste that data. I knew I had uploaded data to the database because Dave’s spiffy Daily Commissioner menu keeps a record of what I’ve done. But somehow all my actions had not resulted in updated stats in the database.

I am still not sure what happened. But one of the tricks I use when Dave isn’t sitting right beside the computer to hold my hand is this: rename my update spreadsheet files so the database thinks they’re brand new, and upload those. I used to do that almost every month, but things have improved and I can go a long time without trying to appease the database demon by sacrificing virgin spreadsheets.

Anyway — it worked! Our players have their proper, updated stats in the database now.

To help you see the changes, I hereby add to the calendar a new day: Roseday, September 7 1/2, which lasted from Midnight Friday PM. to Midnight Saturday A.M. The player stats that should have been recorded before I updated based on Friday’s games are hereby recorded as if they occurred on Roseday. And look what they did to the standings as of the end of play Roseday:

EFL after games of Roseday, September 7 1/2, 2018
Team	Wins	Losses	Pct.	GB	RS	RA
Old Detroit Wolverines	91	51	.644	—	712.7	518.4
Portland Rosebuds	90	50	.644	0.2	759.6	550.1
Brookland Outs	80	60	.574	10.1	746.1	649.9
Canberra Kangaroos	79	62	.560	12	652.5	582.9
Pittsburgh Alleghenys	75	66	.535	15.5	741.0	697.0
Flint Hill Tornadoes	74	68	.520	17.6	659.0	627.7
Haviland Dragons	70	71	.500	20.5	658.6	653.4
Cottage Cheese	67	73	.481	23.1	667.9	693.3
Kaline Drive	66	75	.469	24.8	610.2	650.6
Peshastin Pears	65	75	.464	25.4	599.1	644.4
D.C. Balk	61	80	.435	29.6	608.8	694.2

Old Detroit: DNP, 9 – 2, winning percentage up 0.002.

Portland: DNP, 7 – 2, winning percentage unchanged (to the third decimal)

Brookland: DNP, 0.0 – 0.0. Again!? There may be another shoe to fall, because this still seems improbable.

Canberra: DNP, 0.5 – 0.3. Pct: unchanged

Pittsburgh: DNP, 5 – 4. Pct: unchanged

Flint Hill: DNP, 4 – 2. Pct: unchanged

Haviland: W (-1), L 1; 0 – 4. Pct: down 0.002.

Cottage: DNP, 0.4 – 0.3. Maybe Brookland really did hit the stability jackpot. The Cheese show real, but very small, effects of players having appeared on Roseday. Pct: unchanged.

Kaline: DNP, (- 0) – (-2). Pct: down 0.001.

Peshastin: DNP, 0 – (-1). Pct. unchanged.

D.C. W (-1), L 1; (-6) – (-2). Pct: down 0.002.

I apologize for this untidiness. We seem to keep discovering new ways that the database, BP, and I can make errors throwing the ball around.

On the other hand, September may be a thriller of a month with the Rosebuds and the Wolverines trading places repeatedly. We did it twice just today! The more excitment the better, right?