Ballpark Factors & Dimensions For 2012-14 Seasons

Calculated using the methodology spelled out in this piece, here are runs-scored park factors for the 2012, 2013 and 2014 MMDA seasons.

We close with a review of three-year averages for the 17 teams that competed in the MMDA continuously from 2012 to 2014

MMDA Ballparks • 2014

No	Team	Division	SI-L	SI-R	HR-L	HR-R	Factor	Multiplier
1	Miami	Northeast	7	7	9	9	111	1.055
2	Wilmington	Atlantic	8	8	14	8	108	1.038
3	Goldenrod	Central	8	4	16	4	107	1.037
4	Death Valley	Atlantic	12	12	12	12	107	1.036
5	West Side	Northeast	10	10	11	11	107	1.034
6	Elysian Fields	Pacific	7	7	8	8	106	1.030
	Northeast	Northeast	12	6	9	4	106	1.030
8	St. Louis	Central	7	7	7	9	105	1.023
9	Brooklyn	Pacific	12	12	8	12	104	1.020
10	Columbus	Central	2	8	2	7	103	1.017
11	Rochester	Atlantic	10	10	8	8	102	1.012
12	Fighting Irish	Northeast	10	10	5	5	101	1.006
13	Lake County	Central	7	7	9	9	101	1.005
14	Jersey	Atlantic	7	5	2	5	100	1.000
15	Cape Cod	Northeast	4	10	16	2	96	0.981
16	Rosehill	Central	5	5	5	5	95	0.974
17	Mohawk Valley	Atlantic	2	2	6	6	92	0.962
18	California	Pacific	2	2	2	5	87	0.935
19	Spokane	Pacific	5	9	2	2	82	0.912
20	Northwest	Pacific	8	6	7	5	80	0.902

Based on the weighted value for ballpark singles and home runs—and the league's left/right split of 28/72—we would expect Death Valley (107) to finish with the highest park factor and California (87) with the lowest.  They didn't miss by much.

2013 Season: League Leaders & Award Winners

LEAGUE LEADERS FOR 2013 MMDA                                          

 ----BATTING AVERAGE----   --------AT BATS--------   ------RUNS SCORED------  
 B.Posey       HOR  .335   A.Jones       NWS   675   M.Trout       BRK   133   
 T.Hunter      GOL  .322   A.Gordon      NWS   667   M.Cabrera     BRK   112   
 M.Cabrera     LCN  .317   E.Andrus      NWS   666   R.Braun       GOL   111   
 D.Freese      STL  .314   M.Scutaro     DVD   661   A.McCutchen   MVL   110   
 M.Trout       BRK  .313   A.Pagan       SPO   658   M.Bourn       LCN   106   
 J.Altuve      LCN  .313   M.Prado       HOR   650   D.Wright      RAZ   105   
 D.Jeter       BRK  .308   M.Cabrera     BRK   649   A.Jackson     RAZ   104   
 A.Ethier      SPO  .307   J.Rollins     WSB   648   E.Andrus      NWS   104   
 D.Wright      RAZ  .306   R.Braun       GOL   648   C.Headley     MVL    99   
 J.Mauer       HOR  .306   A.McCutchen   MVL   645   J.Reyes       HUS    98   
 R.Braun       GOL  .306   A.Hill        CAL   645   D.Jeter       BRK    98   
 B.Phillips    GOL  .305   A.Beltre      ROC   643   A.Pujols      DVD    97   

 ----------HITS---------   --------DOUBLES--------   --------TRIPLES--------  
 R.Braun       GOL   198   N.Cruz        CLP    56   T.Colvin      LCN    14   
 D.Jeter       BRK   195   R.Cano        HUS    53   M.Bourn       LCN    13   
 A.McCutchen   MVL   191   N.Swisher     CCB    50   A.Jackson     RAZ    13   
 M.Prado       HOR   190   A.Jones       NWS    48   M.Trout       BRK    12   
 D.Wright      RAZ   189   B.Posey       HOR    47   E.Andrus      NWS    12   
 M.Cabrera     BRK   187   C.Headley     MVL    46   A.Rios        HOR    11   
 A.Beltre      ROC   185   D.Pedroia     CCB    45   A.Hill        CAL    11   
 A.Gordon      NWS   183   J.Bruce       ROC    45   J.Reyes       HUS    10   
 R.Cano        HUS   181   M.Prado       HOR    43   M.Prado       HOR    10   
 J.Altuve      LCN   180   C.Gonzalez    RAZ    43   W.Venable     MVL    10   
 A.Jones       NWS   178   A.Gordon      NWS    43   A.Pagan       SPO    10   
 OTHERS TIED WITH    177   OTHERS TIED WITH     42   OTHERS TIED WITH      9   

 --------HOMERUNS-------   -----RUNS BATTED IN----   ---------WALKS---------  
 R.Braun       GOL    47   R.Braun       GOL   140   A.Dunn        SPO   103   
 A.Pujols      DVD    46   M.Cabrera     BRK   134   J.Votto       LCN    96   
 M.Cabrera     BRK    45   A.Dunn        SPO   127   C.Santana     NWS    94   
 A.McCutchen   MVL    45   A.Pujols      DVD   119   D.Uggla       NWS    93   
 A.Dunn        SPO    42   A.McCutchen   MVL   118   E.Encarnacion WSB    86   
 E.Encarnacion WSB    40   A.Jones       NWS   117   C.Pena        SPO    85   
 M.Trout       BRK    38   C.Headley     MVL   111   P.Fielder     WSB    80   
 G.Stanton     FIR    37   D.Wright      RAZ   109   C.Headley     MVL    80   
 J.Reddick     WSB    36   E.Encarnacion WSB   108   M.Bourn       LCN    78   
 C.Granderson  STL    36   H.Pence       EFD   107   J.Mauer       HOR    78   
 J.Bautista    WSB    35   Y.Molina      RAZ   106   E.Andrus      NWS    77   
 A.Beltre      ROC    34   R.Cano        HUS   105   B.Zobrist     WSB    76   

MMDA Awards Voting For 2013

Here are the MMDA award winners as selected by the Strat-O-Matic game engine.

MVP
Player	Team	AB	2B	3B	HR	RBI	AVG	BB	SO	SB	CS	OBP	SLG	OPS
McCutchen	Lions	645	13	6	45	118	.296	63	146	13	1	.366	.544	.910
Cano	Huskies	611	53	4	26	105	.296	53	100	1	0	.353	.524	.877
Braun	Gators	648	37	1	47	140	.306	55	148	26	6	.365	.583	.949
Dickey	Razors	see Cy Young balloting below
Headley	Lions	617	46	1	32	111	.277	80	171	11	0	.361	.511	.872

Ryan Braun led the MMDA with 47 homers, 140 RBIs and 198 hits, but those screwy voters elected for Andrew McCutchen and Robinson Cano, a pair of up-the-middle players.

CY YOUNG
Pitchers	Team	W	L	ERA	GS	SV	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	H9	BB9	SO9	HR9
Dickey	Razors	21	6	3.10	34	0	264	223	67	238	32	7.6	2.3	8.1	1.1
Kershaw	Crows	18	6	2.08	32	0	251	159	75	248	21	5.7	2.7	8.9	0.8
Rodney	Razors	3	2	2.17	0	43	66	38	9	65	10	5.2	1.2	8.8	1.4
Shields	Huskies	18	6	3.69	33	0	227	222	56	230	36	8.8	2.2	9.1	1.4
Kimbrel	Stars	4	5	0.98	0	37	64	24	21	101	4	3.4	3.0	14.2	0.6

R.A. Dickey led the MMDA with 21 wins and 264 innings, ranking second to only Clayton Kershaw with 238 strikeouts.

Crows, Huskies & Lions Etch Names In MMDA Recordbook

The MMDA recordbook runs back through 2002, the so-called Internet era for our league.  

With offense down across the league, no team made a run at any of the team batting records. This year's Wilmington Razorbacks led the MMDA with 928 runs scored, but they would have needed to score an additional 89 runs to crack the top 10. At their run-scoring rate, Wilmington would have required 16 more games to score those 89 runs.

A number of teams broke into the top 10 for various pitching categories, however. The staffs for Mohawk Valley, Northeast and Spokane made multiple appearances on the updated pitching leaderboards, while four other clubs made single appearances.

Of course, when compared with the current league average, none of these performances are as impressive (in context) as some of the earlier feats. Here are the teams that cracked the pitching top 10s:

Runs Allowed
4. Spokane, 586 (3.62 per game)
6. Northeast, 592 (3.65 per game)

ERA
5. Northeast, 3.28
6. Spokane, 3.35 

WHIP
8. Mohawk Valley, 1.190
9. Northwest, 1.197

Strikeouts
1. Mohawk Valley, 1,462 (8.91 per nine)
4. Goldenrod, 1,358 (8.25 per nine)
7. Fighting Irish, 1,323 (8.08 per nine)

Home Runs Allowed
3. Spokane, 122 (0.74 per nine)
10. Columbus, 134 (0.83 per nine)

MMDA Power Rankings For The 2013 Season

An attempt to rank the league's best teams after six blocks and all 162 games.

Teams sorted by wins, then by run differential. Note that this is not the official tie-breaking method for playoff seeding or draft order.

No	Team	W	L	Division	R/G	RA/G	Diff
1	Northeast	115	47	Northeast	5.50	3.65	+299
2	Wilmington	112	50	Atlantic	5.73	4.17	+252
3	Mohawk Valley	98	64	Atlantic	5.18	3.89	+209
4	Goldenrod	94	68	Central	4.91	4.33	+95
5	St. Louis	92	70	Central	4.44	4.24	+33
6	Northwest	90	72	Pacific	4.75	4.00	+121
7	Spokane	90	72	Pacific	4.19	3.62	+93
8	West Side	87	75	Northeast	4.84	4.44	+64
9	Brooklyn	85	77	Atlantic	5.59	4.87	+116
10	Fighting	84	78	Northeast	4.59	4.66	-11
11	Rosehill	83	79	Central	4.29	4.07	+35
12	Jersey	77	85	Northeast	4.14	4.34	-33
13	Lake County	73	89	Central	4.46	5.16	-113
14	Death Valley	68	94	Atlantic	4.43	5.41	-158
15	Columbus	67	95	Pacific	3.96	5.03	-173
16	Rochester	65	97	Atlantic	4.31	5.33	-165
17	Cape Cod	64	98	Northeast	4.22	4.85	-102
18	Elysian Fields	60	102	Central	4.02	5.06	-168
19	California	59	103	Pacific	3.83	4.71	-142
20	Miami	57	105	Pacific	3.77	5.33	-252

Top Run-Creation Teams (R/G)

Wilmington (5.73)
Brooklyn (5.59)
Northeast (5.50)
Mohawk Valley (5.18)
Goldenrod (4.91)

Top Run-Prevention Teams (RA/G)

Spokane (3.62)
Northeast (3.65)
Mohawk Valley (3.89)
Northwest (4.00)
Rosehill (4.07)

Playoff Bracket A 

No. 1 Northeast (115)

No. 8 West Side (87)

No. 4 Goldenrod (94)

No. 5 St. Louis (92)

Playoff Bracket B

No. 2 Wilmington (112)

No. 7 Northwest (90)

No. 3 Mohawk Valley (98)

No. 6 Spokane (90)