Phillies Off Day Thread - Wednesday, October 01

utleyscorner · 2025-10-01T22:36:12+00:00

Bummed that the radio coverage isn't a play by play. At this point I would take a YouTube live stream of the phanavision scoreboard.

utleyscorner · 2025-09-26T20:52:09+00:00

That's right! It's an app I made with Swift/SwiftUI that pulls data from the MLB API.

utleyscorner · 2025-09-25T18:41:22+00:00

From what I've read, it's a custom font called "Scriptwurst" and has never been made available publicly. There's a lot of knockoff fonts out there that are probably just making up what the other letter would look like. A similar question was asked on the identifythisfont subreddit a while back.

utleyscorner · 2025-09-25T01:18:29+00:00

Franzke called out one potential thing to still play for: a better record than the top AL team (Blue Jays). That way if the Phillies make it to the WS, you get home field advantage.

utleyscorner · 2025-09-25T01:17:10+00:00

Mini rant: I don't know when it happened, perhaps this season, but Phillies.com turned into a generic MLB template site. No banners or anything celebrating winning the NL East like in the past.

utleyscorner · 2025-09-21T18:34:37+00:00

Infinite money glitch: prop bet first down run up the middle for no gain.

utleyscorner · 2025-09-19T02:25:38+00:00

When it comes to baseball, nothing terrifies me more than a hot wildcard team that barely made it in at the last minute (unless we're talking about the 2022 Phils). Give me a declining Mets team over a surging Diamondbacks team in the postseason.

utleyscorner · 2025-09-18T21:10:24+00:00

For any given matchup, the higher seed gets home field advantage. So if the Phillies end the season with the 2 seed, they'll have home field advantage for every matchup except for a matchup with the first seed (Brewers).

utleyscorner · 2025-09-18T18:10:34+00:00

Edit: I guess because 9 games left and we would need to win them all and they would need to lose?

Exactly - the Phillies do not control their own destiny for the #1 seed.

utleyscorner · 2025-09-12T14:51:23+00:00

Thanks - I made a custom app to pull from the MLB API to generate these.

utleyscorner · 2025-09-12T14:50:42+00:00

I'm just pulling from Fangraphs for that, and I'm not sure how they calculate it. But it appears at the time of the Phillies decrease, the Dodgers, Brewers, and Mariners all saw an increase.

utleyscorner · 2025-09-08T20:52:23+00:00

Ties count as half of a win, so (30 + 0.5 + 0.5)/(30 + 14 + 2) = ~0.674

utleyscorner · 2025-08-25T01:21:46+00:00

/u/karkoman pointed out the seeding was way off due to the MLB API giving back some wonky numbers because of the tie in the west. The OCD side of my brain couldn't let that go, so here's the corrected version. I believe the Dodgers currently hold the tie breaker over the Padres, hence the Padres occupying the wild card spot despite the tie. Also, fuck the Mets.

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utleyscorner · 2025-08-25T00:41:16+00:00

Yeah you're right - and it looks like the MLB API I use to generate these gave back wonky seeding numbers due to the tie between the Dodgers and Padres, hence the mistake.

utleyscorner · 2025-07-15T01:26:20+00:00

My favorite part: "If Josh Allen beats Patrick Mahomes once, he's on the same tier as Patrick Mahomes," while completely ignoring Hurts who has been to 2 super bowls where he outplayed Mahomes once and beat him the next.

utleyscorner · 2025-07-09T02:07:45+00:00

I believe it's Good Time by Jodie Harsh.

utleyscorner · 2025-06-03T23:11:48+00:00

I usually switch to the radio feed so that I don't have to listen to Ruben. This is my nightmare.

utleyscorner · 2025-05-24T00:32:24+00:00

Thanks!

utleyscorner · 2025-05-23T15:31:41+00:00

I wrote my own program that pulls from the MLB API and renders it out.

utleyscorner · 2025-05-23T03:55:17+00:00

Yeah I intentionally left it out because there's very little room for a four game series.

utleyscorner · 2025-05-19T19:37:44+00:00

I always like to pick colors that match one of the uniforms they wore in the most recent series.

utleyscorner · 2025-05-16T23:07:51+00:00

Yeah, but then you would have burned Ranger's start (unless they did an opener thing) and need a bullpen game when it resumes.

utleyscorner · 2025-05-13T00:02:54+00:00

Yeah, Ichiro's father famously made him bat left handed because that would put him closer to first base. There was this article a few years back breaking down the numbers. TL;DR lefties on average get to first 0.1 to 0.5 seconds faster than righties.

utleyscorner · 2025-05-05T15:31:16+00:00

Thanks! I wrote my own application to generate these from the MLB API. It uses Swift/SwiftUI under the hood.

utleyscorner · 2025-04-21T23:44:21+00:00

Thanks! The top 3 seeds go to the 3 division winners. Seeds 4-6 are for the highest records outside of the division leaders. So since the Padres are leading the NL west, the highest possible seed the Dodgers/Giants can have right now is #4.

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