Friday, March 27, 2026

The Endless Single Elimination Tournament, Complete Tournament Edition

The party's over, the finals are in the books, and every one of the 2,056 different teams that Strat printed between the 1911 and 2023* seasons has had their chance at immortality, a process that has taken 46 years to complete.  In recognition of this dubious accomplishment, I have collated the "historical documents" of the project into a single PDF document, which enables any interested reader (a group probably numbering less than Jerry Dybzinski's career homer totals) to search for information about the fate of their favorite teams or players.   Since anyone reading this has to be somewhat of a numbers buff, here are some stats: the volume is 1,184 pages long and contains 651,066 words, dwarfing Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace (561,304), Gone with the Wind (418,053), Charles Dickens' longest work, Bleak House (360,947 words), Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov (364,153) and all seven volumes of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia combined (345,535).  However, as always I must accept that my words-to-readers ratio is far higher than any of those authors, suggesting that perhaps I need to find other things to do.   At any rate, the Complete Tournament edition is available for inspection or download at the link below; hope someone enjoys it!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V3tW9kMUCm1JTipBOqqMExmkjGUSPzXh/view?usp=sharing


* to be continued......

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