Schaefer Year Twenty-One!

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Voting for all games played through June 15, the series against the Tampa Bay Rays, will close on Friday, June 27. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so this week.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/images/warning.gif> http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/Cast your votes now! Voting for all games played through June 15, the series against the Tampa Bay Rays, will close on Friday, June 27. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so this week.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Week ending March 29, 2025: Juan Soto, 3.46 points.

Week ending April 5, 2025: Pete Alonso, 8.62 points.

Week ending April 12, 2025: Pete Alonso, 8.02 points.

Week ending April 19, 2025: Pete Alonso, 7.13 points.

Week ending April 26, 2025: Francisco Lindor, 9.34 points.

Week ending May 3, 2025: Brandon Nimmo, 7.66 points.

Week ending May 10, 2025: Francisco Lindor, 8.23 points.

Week ending May 17, 2025: Griffin Canning, 5.27 points.

Week ending May 24, 2025: David Peterson, 6.37 points.

Week ending May 31, 2025: Francisco Lindor, 6.17 points.

Week ending June 7, 2025: Pete Alonso, 12.14 points.

Week ending June 14, 2025: Juan Soto, 6.85 points.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Voting for all games played through June 29, the last game of the disastrous three-game sweep in Pittsburgh, will close on Tuesday, July 15. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so before then.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/images/warning.gif> http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/Cast your votes now! Voting for all games played through June 29, the last game of the disastrous three-game sweep in Pittsburgh, will close on Tuesday, July 15. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so before then.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

Week ending March 29, 2025: Juan Soto, 3.46 points.

Week ending April 5, 2025: Pete Alonso, 8.62 points.

Week ending April 12, 2025: Pete Alonso, 8.02 points.

Week ending April 19, 2025: Pete Alonso, 7.13 points.

Week ending April 26, 2025: Francisco Lindor, 9.34 points.

Week ending May 3, 2025: Brandon Nimmo, 7.66 points.

Week ending May 10, 2025: Francisco Lindor, 8.23 points.

Week ending May 17, 2025: Griffin Canning, 5.27 points.

Week ending May 24, 2025: David Peterson, 6.37 points.

Week ending May 31, 2025: Francisco Lindor, 6.17 points.

Week ending June 7, 2025: Pete Alonso, 12.14 points.

Week ending June 14, 2025: Juan Soto, 6.85 points.

Week ending June 21, 2025: Juan Soto, 4.73 points.

Week ending June 28, 2025: Juan Soto, 7.31 points.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Voting for all games played before the All-Star Break, the series against the Royals, will close on Friday, August 1. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so during the next week.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Benjamin Grimm wrote: http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/images/warning.gif> http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/Cast your votes now! Voting for all games played before the All-Star Break, the series against the Royals, will close on Friday, August 1. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so during the next week.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Benjamin Grimm]

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Voting for all games played through June 30, the series against the Padres in San Diego, will close on Tuesday, August 12. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so during the next week.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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Voting for all games played through August 14, the series against Atlanta, will close on Monday, August 25. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so during the next week.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Benjamin Grimm]

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Voting for all games played through August 31, the series against the Marlins, will close on Wednesday, September 10. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so during the seven days.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Benjamin Grimm]

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Voting for all games played through September 14, the series against the Rangers at Citi Field, will close on Tuesday, September 23. If there are any games that you haven't yet voted for, and intend to, please try to do so during the next seven days.

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[Cowtipper]

It's going to come down to the wire between Soto and Alonso!

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Stockholm headquarters of the Crane Pool Forum announced today that 2025 will be the final year of Schaefer voting. A spokesperson indicated that the reasons include voter attrition, overall declining interest, and pressure from the Federal Communications Commission. The CPF Schaefer Player of the Game voting was inspired by similar voting performed by the WOR Mets broadcast team during the 1970s. Its current iteration has lasted for 21 years. The inaugural winner in 2005, David Wright, would amass six Schaefer titles. Pete Alonso is a four-time winner, and Jacob deGrom won the award three times. Other winners were Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Daniel Murphy, Lucas Duda, Yoenis Cespedes, Michael Conforto, and Francisco Lindor.



Voting will continue for the remainder of the 2025 season, and the 2025 winner will be announced some time in October.



Any lapsed voters who wish to return to the fold for the final days of this long-standing tradition will be welcomed.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Stockholm headquarters of the Crane Pool Forum announced today that 2025 will be the final year of Schaefer voting. A spokesperson indicated that the reasons include voter attrition, overall declining interest, and pressure from the Federal Communications Commission. The CPF Schaefer Player of the Game voting was inspired by similar voting performed by the WOR Mets broadcast team during the 1970s. Its current iteration has lasted for 21 years. The inaugural winner in 2005, David Wright, would amass six Schaefer titles. Pete Alonso is a four-time winner, and Jacob deGrom won the award three times. Other winners were Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Daniel Murphy, Lucas Duda, Yoenis Cespedes, Michael Conforto, and Francisco Lindor. Voting will continue for the remainder of the 2025 season, and the 2025 winner will be announced some time in October. Any lapsed voters who wish to return to the fold for the final days of this long-standing tradition will be welcomed.

One last beer run. May it end in a champagne shower.



Hoisting a Schaefer -- more than one -- to Grimm, the keeper of Player of the Game flame. His efforts on behalf of this prize will always rate a 6.0.

[MFS62]

Say it ain't so,[CROSSOUT] Joe[/CROSSOUT] Ben.

I was late to the contest. I just started voting regularly this year and it has been a newly discovered pleasure.

But if you are disbanding the place, please pass the receptionist my number.

She'll need a new home.



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Don't worry about Maja, she'll be fine. And the Tabloid Cover Derby isn't going anywhere.

[MFS62]

Good, and bad, news.

Later

[kcmets]

=G-Fafif post_id=205364 time=1758733200 user_id=55]One last beer run. May it end in a champagne shower.



Hoisting a Schaefer -- more than one -- to Grimm, the keeper of Player of the Game flame. His efforts on behalf of this prize will always rate a 6.0.

[Cowtipper]

That was one of the most fun parts of this page.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sorry! I had gotten it to the point where it took very little effort, but so few people were interested anymore that it began to not even feel like it was worth that small effort.

[Cowtipper]

I imagine the upkeep of all the spreadsheets and stuff took forever. I ran a few Hall of Fame projects on another site, but participation constantly dwindled to 7-8 votes at most. It took forever to maintain the spreadsheets and do updates for each election so I let the projects fade into the ether.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, there are no spreadsheets involved. There had been originally, until I created the online form that enforces the voting rules, saves the votes to a database and does the tallying. (Before that I had to prorate for people who awarded more than ten points, fix misspellings, and other headaches.) Maintaining Schaefer has been pretty easy, but with only six participants (in addition to myself) and little reaction to the posted results, the few minutes a day it required was taking up more headspace than I cared to give anymore.



I appreciate everyone who's been participating, but to everything a season and all that, and Schaefer's time has come to an end.

[ashie62]

I have participated and enjoyed it. I've never understood why so many regular active posters didn't have an interest in it



Ben, thanks for all your efforts and a thanks to all who made this fun



LGM!

[Edgy MD]

I would encourage you to make it a umdb feature, and un-Crane Pool it.



The way to protect a system from Edgy-related failures is to make it less Edgy-reliant.



I tell my family this all the time. Dogs, too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I considered that a few years ago, but at this point I don't think there are going to be any new UMDB features. In fact, I'm planning on starting to scale it down this offseason.