2022 Leo Season Recap
As Virgo season was approaching, I realized with dismay that it had been weeks since I looked at the rosters or standings of my Astrology Fantasy League. You know, the one that’s supposed to determine the best signs in real time for any given year? Even when I did my recap at the end of Cancer season, it was from the approach that I usually take at the end of the season: comparing fantasy point totals from the top performers of each sign. As the Internet’s foremost authority on Fantasy Astrology Baseball, I sure have been negligent in my duties as Fantasy Astrology league manager.
Granted, I have a lot of problems with the weekly Rotisserie style of fantasy baseball to determine Astrology excellence. First of all, the task of managing the lineups of 12 teams can get quite grueling, even if you limit the lineup changes to once per week. Second, the act of setting said lineups before every weekly matchup involves a great degree of subjectivity and prognostication, since I have to determine which players are likely to perform in the coming games. And third, since I use a weekly head-to-head format, rather than a season-long tally of fantasy points, each team’s fortunes are directly tied to the uncertainty of the schedule.
Plus, and this is probably the most relevant reason, I’ve been more concerned recently with Astrology Baseball as a historical pursuit. Adding a new year’s worth of players to my All-Time Fantasy Astrology Database is much more satisfying to me than racking my brain about which Taurus fourth outfielder would be better suited to DH in any given week. Plus, with my favorite real-life team at the bottom of the standings, it’s been easier for me to focus on the 1960s than on 2022.
The pitching staff of Libra, who has apparently already mathematically clinched a playoff spot.
All that said, the 2022 FABL season is still going on, and a champion will be crowned at the end of the year. And right now, it looks like 75% of the playoff picture is mostly set. Accoring to ESPN’s fantasy baseball client, Libra has already clinched the Air Division, with a 100% playoff percentage. Virgo is not far behind in the Earth Division, with an 89% chance. And Scorpio, has a 91% chance to take the Water Division, even though they are just .500 and one game ahead of Pisces.
The only division that’s up in the air is Fire, where Aries has a one game lead over Sagittarius, but just a 48% playoff percentage (compared to SAG’s 52% chance). What’s ironic about all this, is that Leo, the top-scoring sign as of the All-Star break, in third in the division, with a 0% chance to make the playoffs! Who knows what would have been different if I had been paying attention to making weekly lineup changes…
This batting order has led Virgo to the best record in the Negative Polarity.
As far as the best performers in the league, Virgo is the only sign with two 2,000-point scorers as of the start of this week. Sandy Alcantara (2,061 points/ 82.4 points-per-game) leads all dedicated pitchers, while Paul Goldschmidt (2,146 / 18.8) is behind only his Earth Division rival Aaron Judge (2,323 / 19.7) among batters. Incidentally, even though Virgo has just a two game lead over Taurus, Judge’s Bulls have just an 11% chance to reach the playoffs. Number two on the pitching leaderboard is the ageless Justin Verlander (2,024 / 92.0), who could very well score a multi-year deal in free agency, even though he’ll pitch next season at age 40. And of course nobody can touch Cancer Crab Shohei Ohtani’s combined batting and pitching points, which total over 3,000 at this juncture.