Week 14 Recap: Separation Week

Week 14 saw the top 4 teams defeat the bottom 4 teams, some in blowout fashion, to create some separation between the playoff teams and the non-playoff teams heading into the All-Star break. 5.5 games separate the 4th place Dynasty from the 5th place Fellows. Every team has played every team twice now and only 9 weeks remain.

Here is what you deserved this week:

Team	W	L	T
L-Trains	9	3	0
Dynasty	8	3	1
Fellows	5	5	2
TDs	5	6	1
Ozzie	5	6	1
Wang	5	6	1
Hitmen	4	6	2
GKs	3	8	1

The L-Trains dominated week 14 despite big early week blows to their pitching staff. The L-Trains lost 1.5 Jake Peavy starts, 2 Erik Bedard starts, and 1 Joe Lease Chacin start, and still managed to set the wins record with 10 wins (thanks to 3 relief wins). The L-Trains only had 10 starts total and one of those was Peavy's injury. It also helps when Adam Dunn and Carlos Quentin combine for 11 homers. The L-Trains finished 7-0 with a .768 winning percentage.

The Trolley Dodger Award goes to the Wangs again this week, winning 8-4 and deserving a 5-6-1 loss. Joey Votto's Giant Killers are struggle-ing right now. Meanwhile, the Dynasty snapped their 3 game losing streak with a big win, and the SSHM rallied to make it close with the Trolley Dodgers, but saw their 3 game win streak come to an end.

Here are the updated standings with a few highlighted items:

	Phil Hellmuth Standings
Team	W	L	T	PCT	GB
Dynasty	91	64	13	.580	0
Wang	84	70	14	.542	6.5
L-Trains	79	74	15	.515	11
GKs	78	74	16	.512	11.5
Hitmen	76	79	13	.491	15
TDs	73	79	16	.482	16.5
Fellows	70	80	18	.470	18.5
Ozzie	61	93	14	.405	29.5

	Matchup
Team	W	L	T	PCT
Dynasty	58	35	5	.617
L-Trains	50	38	10	.561
Wang	49	38	11	.556
GKs	50	41	7	.546
TDs	42	44	12	.490
Hitmen	44	50	4	.469
Fellows	40	51	7	.444
Ozzie	27	63	8	.316

The league is much closer this year. Last year, the L-Trains were on top at the all-star break with a .605 overall winning percentage and had won 73% of matchups. The Dynasty has only won 61.7% of total matchups and has a .580 winning percentage this year. Also, this year's Ozzie Guillens are better than last year's Charlies Horses. The Horses had a .373 winning percentage to the Guillens' .405 this year. The 2009 Horses had only won 26.4% of matchups compared to the Guillens' 31.6% at the break this year.