This should be of particular interest to all NEW OWNERS in Crash Davis. As you know we offered a chance to win 3 free seasons to come give us a chance at The New Crash Davis™ . To be eligible you have to be completely new to this world. Owners who left after last season and then returned are owed a great debt of gratitude—but they are not eligible for the prizes.

Eligible owners:

tah3306   (61-101   .377)

kelly_mccann   (84-78   .519)

bbwinksdaddy   (56-106   .346)

jibe717   (79-83   .488)

ParrishM   (76-86   .469)

rookie30000   (63-99   .389)

wrecks   (60-102   .370)

brentcnb   (88-74   .543)

ukwildcats   (73-89   .451)

psychoch   (72-90   .444)

I originally thought there would be 12 new owners, then 11. But two more previous owners returned so the odds of winning are reduced even further than originally thought. 

The 10 owners are listed above. To the right of each name is their franchise's won/loss record for last season along with its winning percentage. 

The contest is a simple one. The top 2 teams with the most improved winning percentage based on Season 20 will each win a $25 WhatIfSports Gift Card. The following are tiebreakers:

1. The team with the FEWEST wins in Season 20 as, theoretically they had a worse team to ride to an improved record.

2. The team with the best win/loss record in Season 21.

3.  Coin flip.


Wa-a-a-a-a-a-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-t just a damn minute, Mister Commish! You said their were 3 WIS Gift Cards to distribute. What's up with that?

So I did . . . so I did . . . I'm setting the third $25 WIS Gift Card aside and saving it for a contest the whole of Crash Davis will be eligible for. This contest will be announced during the All Star Game. So stay tuned for the excitement. Meantime, if I left anyone off the list please send a TC or sitemail. We'll do periodic updates on the list above to see who is currently in position to win the gift cards

sermonauthor

Welcome to The Crash Pad, the new blog home of the WhatIfSports HBD world now known as Crash Davis. I thought it might be instructive to post the results for the final round vote of our world's new name as they have yet to be revealed.

If you'll recall, when the deadline came we had a dead heat. For the sake of fairness the tied nominees (Crash Davis and Pedro Cerrano) were not revealed. We extended the voting six extra hours which brought in a third vote for The Boys of Summer and a fifth and deciding vote for the legendary Crash Davis of Bull Durham fame.

We came this close to honoring this guy:

Pedro Cerrano from Major League

Come to think of it . . . . that wouldn't have been too bad at all. We had many excellent nominees and three great finalists.
                                                                                                           

—sermonauthor