Award for Best Offense

Sticking with our 1984 awards, one of the two that we haven't highlighted yet is Best Offense.  Unlike the recent posts about Steal of the Year and Best Free Agent Acquisition, this is simply a numerical calculation.  There is no voting involved.  The team that earns the most points with their offense is winner of Best Offense.

As you look through the previous winners you will see some increase and decrease in the winning point totals.  That comes from a couple of sources.  First, the number of teams in the league has shifted from six to ten to twelve and back again.  So if we have twelve teams in the league there are 12 points available in each offensive category.  Additionally we started the league with four offensive categories (batting average, home runs, RBI and stolen bases).  Eventually we switched to what we felt were categories that were more representative of what it took to put together a complete, solid team.  So we changed our categories to Total Bases, On Base Percentage, Runs, RBI and Stolen Bases.  With five categories instead of four, there are more offensive points in play as well.

Here are the past winners of Best Offense.

1984		David's Copperfields		38 points
1985		David's Copperfields		34 points
1986		David's Copperfields		35 points
1987		David's Copperfields		38 points
1988		David's Copperfields		36 points
1989		David's Copperfields		37 points
1990		Eric's Lambchops		35 points
1991		Eric's Lambchops		35 points
1992		David's Copperfields		38 points
1993		David's Copperfields Clark's Kents		35 points
1994		Eric's Lambchops		30 points
1995		David's Ruffins		36 points
1996		Dem Rebels		39 points
1997		David's Ruffins David's Copperfields		34 points
1998		David's Ruffins		36 points
1999		David's Copperfields		37 points
2000		David's Copperfields		45 points
2001		David's Copperfields		44 points
2002		Eric's Lambchops		43 points
2003		Reservoir Dogs		58 points
2004		David's Copperfields		55 points
2005		David's Copperfields		57 points
		Reservoir Dogs
2006		David's Ruffins		59 points
2007		Davids Copperfields		50 points
2008		Steve's Stones		54 points

2009     Graging Bulls                 47 points
2010     David's Ruffins               48 points
2011     Morkertzuma's Revenge   45 points
2012     Dem Rebels                     44.5 points