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You don't go close, you don't go close.

Hello and welcome to episode 1698 of Effectively Wild at a baseball podcast from Famcraft presented by our Patreon supporters.

I am Tim and Virg of The Winger joined by Meg Raleigh of Famcraft's Lomeg.

Wow, I was just surveying the state of the standings as one does and they're pretty close.

Pretty impressive parody going on so far this season.

We're like 29% of the way through the schedule, which is not a lot.

It's still pretty early, but even so, four of the six divisions as we record here on Tuesday afternoon, we have at least three teams within two games of the leader.

And in the other two divisions, the Aal Central and AOS, the second place team is within a game and a half of the leader.

So in all six divisions, the leader has no more than a one and a half game lead and only one team, the White Sacks, has a 60% or higher chance to win its division currently according to the bandgrass playoff odds.

So absolutely nothing is locked up to this point and I haven't checked to see if this is historically anomalous or even unusual, but it feels a little bit unusual to me that there isn't even a single division.

Where someone has pulled ahead, there's just no daylight between the leader and the second place team and in some cases the leader in the fourth place team.

So this is pretty fun.

Yeah, I mean, it's a funny thing because on the one hand, some of that parody is the result of like teams being bunched together in a way you think isn't doesn't denote their particularly good.

I don't know that we look at the central and say, oh, it's a bunch of powerhouses like duking it out, but you're right to say that they are kind of closely lumps together and not every division is the central.

And so it's just that people are going to have to try.

And what is a lifeful thing that is we're in favor of people having to try.

We think it makes for better baseball when there are rivals nipping at your heels. So yeah, this is this is good and it's not that I didn't enjoy the giants being on the top of the NLS like sorry, giants fans, but you know, it makes a little more sense now than it did.

So like that's good too.

But yeah, it's there are a ton of teams that are really well and truly out of it.

I mean, the ones that are like really well and really out of it, but the pirates and the Orioles and the debacks of it all are thin on the ground.

So yeah, they really are.

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