From our award winning statistician, Dale:

Hi all,

Another season is in the books, including a great end of season party hosted by Elliot and Sierra. Thank you! Also thanks to Bill for his fearless leadership, and to Bill and Pete for their creative trophies. If you weren’t there, you really missed out.

But not on this year’s stats. You can get all your numbers right here.

Last year, we set what I thought were 5 unbeatable records:

1. Most players per game (20.1)

2. Most player appearances (522)

3. Most games with 20 or more players (12)

4. Most players in a season (95)

5. Most new players (61)

All unbeatable? Hardly. This year, we broke 2 of those, tied one, and almost broke another. The only record that might seem safe is for new players: after 32 years, it’s hard to find 61 or more new players.

First, the overall records set or approached this year:

1. Thanks to 3 basketball players (and Rachel) who joined us for the last game, we broke the record for most players in a year: 97. This beats last year’s record of 95.

2. We had the highest total number of player appearances, breaking last year’s record of 522 with this year’s 536.

a. Although we did not break the record for most players per game (34, set in 2002), we had third-highest (32 on July 29), fourth-highest (31 on Aug. 12), and fifth-highest (29 on Aug. 26). All of these games were at the beach.

3. Although the beach usually gets the high attendance marks, we set the record for most players on a field game this year: 28.

4. We had 12 games with 20 or more players, tying the record set last year.

5. We tied the record for most games played in a season: 27. It’s the fifth time we’ve played this many games.

6. We didn’t quite reach the incredible record of 20.1 average players per game set last year. This year: 19.9.

7. Although we didn’t come that close to last year’s record of 61 new players, this year’s total of 46 was second highest ever.

8. Remember the perfect weather last Tuesday? So did 22 players, the most ever for the last game of the season. (Interestingly, 22 is also the record for the season opener, set back in 2001.)

9. We came close to last year’s record number of 32 “regular” players, with 30 this year. Our statistician has a low requirement for this threshold: just 5 games. That was still one game too many for 6 players this year.

10. We had 6 “super-regular” players, with 20 or more games. That’s third-highest ever, with the record of 8 dating back to 1999.

Individual records and honorable mentions:

1. Pete’s 25 games is the second highest amount played, the 6th time this was reached, including Pete and Kevin’s total from last year. Bill’s record of 26 games set in 2000 and tied by Bill in 2007 and Pete in 2012 lives another year. Who will break it?

2. Dave raised the bar even higher on the old timer record. He didn’t just up the age by one year to a true senior status at 65, he also upped his attendance to 19 games, just one shy of super-regular.

3. At the other end of the spectrum, we have a new record for youngest competitive player. Not the youngest player ever (Ben, who wasn’t yet 6 when he played with us for the first time), but a player who can hold their own against stiff competition. This is Jared, who was only 10 years old this summer. Coincidentally, Ben was at the game when Jared set this record, 11 years after Ben set the youngest player record. How cool is that?

4. Congrats to the 3 streakers with 10+ games in a row: Pete, Dale, and Bill.

5. Congrats to the 6 super-regular players with 20+ games: Pete, Dale, Bob, Bill and Richard and Peter. Four players were just one game away at 19. Shoulda-coulda-woulda!

6. Kevin C had the most games for first-year players with 17; Bill N was close behind with 16.

7. Jason had the biggest jump in attendance: from 8 to 17.

This leads to the…

Frequent Attendance Record Trophy (FART)

No ties this year. Even though Pete had to excuse himself for 2 dead-head shows, he beat out Bill and me by one game this year. Pete has now won or co-won the FART award for the last 4 years in a row. Yet another record!

As always, here is the list of the (30) regular players this season, with 5 or more games played.

2014 Attendence
Pete	25
Dale	24
Bill	24
Bob	23
Richard	21
Peter	20
Jeff	19
Elliot	19
Dave	19
Eric	19
Kevin	17
Kevin	17
Jason	17
Bill	16
Kit	15
Chris	12
JJ	12
Ashley	11
Ashley	11
Ken	10
Sam	10
Jeff	10
Hope	9
Susan	8
Tinu	8
Jackson	7
Roger	7
Victoria	6
Alex “AJ”	6
Scott (Scooter)	5

FART winners, since its introduction in 1995:

FART Winners!
1995	Dale
1996	Bill
1997	Bill
1998	Dale/Craig/Bill
1999	Steven W.
2000	Bill
2001	Bill
2002	John C./Bill
2003	Dale
2004	Bob
2005	Bill
2006	Bill
2007	Bill
2008	Brian/Dale
2009	Dale
2010	Bill
2011	Pete/Bill
2012	Pete
2013	Kevin/Pete
2014	Pete