The rest of the bracket

The first bracket:

1995 Royals vs 1991 Royals                                   1991 has home field advantage

1990 Royals vs 1998 Royals                                   1990 has home field advantage

1975 Royals vs 2012 Royals                                    1975 has home field advantage
                            I didn't even have to look up the records. This might be a sweep.

1996 Royals vs 2005 Royals                                    1996

2013 Royals vs 1999 Royals                                     2013




Onto the second bracket:

1979 Royals vs 2001 Royals                                     1979
                             This might be a laugher

1970 Royals vs 1997 Royals                                      1997
                              Even with the DH, this is very close. Could be an upset.

2009 Royals vs 2018 Royals                                     2009
                              How were the 2009 Royals better than anyone?

1982 Royals vs 1974 Royals                                     1982
                             Brett's first season


Yes, there are an uneven amount of match-ups in the brackets, but that is the nature of brackets.This will be evened out with the bye teams. The first bracket will add three byes, will the second one will add 4 bye teams.

So what are your predictions so far?

And on to the other side of the bracket.

The Tournament

I'm not sitting at home all day with nothing to do. I'm still working every day, and putting in as many hours as I did before all this started. But I am sitting home in the evenings and on the weekends, as there really isn't much to do at all. The house is clean, the car is clean, the yard work is done. Even if it wasn't, it's raining, and I don't feel the need to get wet.

As I sit around most evenings and weekends, I get bored, so I play a lot of baseball on Out Of The Park. One of the best simulation games around. I always play the Royals, of course, and have won the last 4 World Series, and I'm only in the 1980 season.

No, it's not fantasy baseball, but it's much better.

I've just upgraded to the 2020 Season, and it's well worth it. It has a lot of different features from when I started 10 years ago, and it's much better.


One of the features it has it that it allows you to run tournaments. You can do teams from any era, any team, any year, and so and so forth. And let  you run historical leagues, or make up you own. So since I'm sitting here with out a lot to do, I thought I might try out a tournament.

This, of course, will be a tournament to figure out which is the greatest team in Kansas City Royal history.  We all think we know, but due to the differences in era's, and type of game played, ball used, stadium, to juice or not to  juice, a team from one year that was great might not have been as good in a different year.

Which team is better? The 1985 team that won the World Series? Or the 2015 that won it all? Is the 1980 runner-up better than the 2014 runner-up? We don't know. But we are going to find out. Because I'm going to run the tournament and we'll see how it goes.

As always when I am doing this, I don't expect a lot of views or comments, but if  you do take a look, don't forget to tell me how I'm getting it all wrong and you know better. I, of course, will respond with kindness and humility, because I will know most of you personally.