DD History Lesson

Alright, it's official - I am a full fledged Diamond Dynasty addict.  I don't care what you people think of me, I can't stop myself.  I am aware it's a problem.

I put all of our Yahoo! historical data into a spreadsheet.  Unfortunately it only goes back to 2003 so I don't have the numbers from 2002.  But I'll be throwing lots of these numbers around in later blog posts.  I did my best trying to sort out all the playoff tiebreakers and who actually played who.  Here are just a few highlights:

- We've had 4 managers join Ben in the 1200 career regular season wins club this season (Ben entered this year with 1216).  They are:

     - TJ (week 2) 

     - Kurt (week 3) 

     - Alex (week 6)

     - James (week 10)

- Colin, Adrian, and Richie should join the club later this season.  It will be difficult, but not impossible for Jarrett to join this group this season.

- The #2 seed has finished third or better in the playoffs in every recorded season of the Diamond Dynasty, but has only one first-place finish (Adrian, 2008).

- The #5 seed is the only seed to never win a championship, and is historically the least-lucrative playoff position

- Adrian entered this season 1135-1135-150.  Including this year, his career record has fallen under .500 for the first time since week 2, 2003.

- Alex is 1-3 in championship games, but has never finished worse than 4th in 7 post-season appearances

- Ben has made the playoffs in 8 of the last 9 seasons.  He has made the finals in 5 of those 8 appearances.

- Chuck never made the playoffs

- Colin has finished in 5th place for 3 years in a row.  His only #1 seed was 2004, his championship season.

- Drew has 4 last-place finishes; no other manager has more than 2

- James has the highest playoff winning percentage at 71% (min. 8 games played)

- Jarrett is the only manager who hasn't played in the championship (min. 3 seasons)

- Jason was a manager in 2004

- Kurt has the most career playoffs wins at 13

- Kyle is the only manager to make the playoffs in every season he's managed (1)

- Paul has the lowest career winning percentage (.375)

- Richie has not made or missed the playoffs in consecutive years since making it in 2003-2004.

- TJ holds the record for most consecutive playoff appearances at 7 (2007-present).