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Week 24 Summary

Good news and bad news. First, the good news: The 1949 replay has completed as expected. There were no real surprises during the final week of the season and World Series play between Boston (AL) and St. Louis (NL) will commence in a few days.
1949 Boston Red Sox
Bad news: I lost about 2/3's of my files and notes (pages) from my OneNote 1949 Replay folder (section). I tried a few tricks to see if there was a way to restore them, but I am thinking they are lost.

Good News: The BBW 1949 season itself was backed up and safe and the BBW files themselves not affected. Hence, I will include the normal stat files below that I have been providing with the completion of every week.

Bad news: One of the lost files was the weekly results file for Week 24 where I captured notes from every game. It's gone, and while I suppose I could recreate it from the BBW files I do have, suffice it to say, the season is over and I am moving on to wrapping it up. Actually, the posted blog files were all originally drafts from the now missing OneNote files, so technically I really don’t think I am missing anything, but, well, poop, it makes me mad just the same.
1949 St. Louis Cardinals
Technical note: Yes, I know OneNote notebooks are stored in the cloud and are available across multiple devices. The tool is perfect for my workflow, but early that evening something blinked, a portion of the files from this Notebook Section(and only this Section) was just gone. Luckily, none of my other Notebooks appeared to have been affected. I don't think it is a case of too much data or too many pages or anything like that, and it is not a space issue on my cloud drive.

But like I said above, I am moving on and in the way of wrapping things up the next steps are to:
  • Finish this document and update the blog
  • In a separate blog post, I will produce a final team-by-team season recap
  • In a separate blog post, I will produce an extended final stats extravaganza
  • Then I will play the World Series and there will be a separate blog post for that
  • And finally, in a separate post, I will provide some sort of end of project review, what went right, what went wrong, and what is next


As for now, here is an initial set of final stats to mull over while I get busy.


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