Three ways of being good
Plato Blue Jays 7-2 in the league, 15-11 overall, plus 33, five straight wins. Watertown Red Devils 7-3 and 20-8, plus 17, three straight. Waconia Lakers 4-1 and 17-9, plus 10. Delano Athletics 4-6 and 18-11. Carver Black Sox 2-6 and 14-11. Green Isle Irish 2-7 and 5-16, minus 44. Young America Cardinals 0-0 and 16-6. St. Boni Saints 0-1 and 14-14-1.
Young America are the line worth stopping on: sixteen wins and six defeats overall, and not a single league game played. St. Boni have played one.
So this table is measuring something different for almost every club in it. Watertown have played twenty-eight games and ten of them here; Young America have played twenty-two and none.
Standings on High Cheese come out of the games themselves, so a league record and an overall record are two views of one set of results rather than two unrelated numbers.
Crow River Valley North League in detail
- Eight clubs west of the Twin Cities, seven at Class B and one playing down from Class A.
- Between zero and ten league games played, against overall seasons of up to twenty-nine.
- No results, and a Green Isle side at minus 44 across twenty-one games.
- Eight clubs, eight towns, and a set of names worth reading twice.
- Run differential only, and four clubs inside seventeen runs of each other.
- No contact for the league or any of its eight clubs.
- No form, no fee, and eight clubs that pick their own.
- No ballparks named, in a stretch of Minnesota full of good ones.
- Seven Class B clubs and one Class A, in the same competition.
- Nothing specific to this league appears in the association's feed.
- No album or gallery.
- Nobody is thanked in public.
- Seven clubs into Class B, and Waconia into Class A.
- No founding year, and a league named for a river.
- No league officers named; the association publishes its own board.
- How good it is, answered exactly. Everything practical, not at all.
- Association documents and classification criteria, none of them this league's.
- Nobody has played the same number of league games, and no dates are published.
- Nothing is for sale.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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