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Rockies-Related Frivolities, Part II
(for Part I, see You call THAT an outfield?)

Well, I've had this data sitting on my computer for a long while now, and I figured that now would be as good a time as any to dust it off and do something with it.  Below, I've listed all of our 163 regular season games from the 2007 season, along with our opponent, whether we won or lost, and, most importantly, which jersey kit we wore that game.  Before we get into the nitty-gritty, a caveat: these are based off of our jersey tops, of which there are 5; getting into tops combined with bottoms combined with hats is just asking to be more trouble than it's worth.  To make sure everyone is on the same page, here are illustrations of our jerseys:

When I say "Home", I am talking about this jersey:

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When I say "Road", it is this one:

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And now for the alternates.  This is the "Purple" jersey, as I'm sure you might've guessed:

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This is the "Black Vest", though nowadays it's a lot more common for us to be wearing it with a black undershirt:

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And finally, our "White Vest" uniform:

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(and before we go any further, a huge thank you to SportsLogos.net which, when it's up, is the best logo site on the internet, bar none.)

So now that we're all on the same page, it's time to get to some dissectin'.  Here are the game tables, which I've screen-capped from Excel and put into image format, as to keep all the table-colors in place.  See if you can spot some trends...

It's a lot of colors, I know, but a fair amount of things stand out (at least, to me they do).  Let me break it down for you:

Jersey Records
Home: 2-6 (.250), 8 games total
Road: 10-10 (.500), 20 games total
Purple: 28-18 (.608), 46 games total
Black Vest: 28-27 (.509), 55 games total
White Vest: 22-14 (.647), 34 games total

Those are the totals for the entire season. Among the 3 alternates, which we wore a lot more than the regulars, we played a fair amount better in our White Vests and Purples, but were still 1 game over .500 in our Blacks. I took these stats and then broke them down again, this time by how often we wore each kit both at home and on the road:

Jersey Appearances
Home: 8 home, 0 road
Road: 0 home, 20 road
Purple: 20 home, 26 road
Black Vest: 20 home, 35 road
White Vest: 34 home, 0 road

That surprised me a fair amount, I must say. I didn't expect to see that we only wore our White Vests at home, and that the home appearances of the other two alternates would be evenly split.

Of course, we all know that the big hullabaloo towards the end of the season last year was that we wouldn't change out of a winning jersey. Arizona tried to capitalize on this in the NLCS by wearing their black kit and forcing us into a different color than our "lucky" blacks. Well, obviously, it didn't work (for the NLCS, at least). However, it turns out the team is a bit superstitious about their jerseys. In all, the jersey was changed after 55 losses; only 18 losses went without a change in the jersey. Sometimes, as can be seen during the 22nd-27th of June, jersey changes happened continually until the team found something that worked (that stretch of 6 games, by the way, ties the longest stretch of a different jersey for each game all season. The 16th-21st of August also featured 6 games with different colored Rockies each night).

6 also seems to be the important number when looking at consecutive games with the same jersey worn.

Consecutive Appearances
Home: 2 (May 10-11, Sept 15-16)
Road: 6 (Sept 21-27)
Purple: 6 (May 25-30)
Black Vest: 5 (Sept 9-13)
White Vest: 6 (July 2-8)

Of course, now I know you're asking yourself what the longest stretch in between wearings of each jersey is. To save you the grunt work...

Longest Absences
Home: 92 (!!!) (June 2-Sept 14)
Road: 27 (Aug 19-21 Sept)
Purple: 28 (Sept 2-Oct 1)
Black Vest: 14 (Sept 13-29)
White Vest: 24 (June 6-July 1)

Now, to finish this one off, here are some interesting things I noticed:

* Over 10 home games from July 2-26, we only wore our White Vest kit.
* The 17th and 29th of each month were nearly always Purple days. 4 out of 6 of the games on those days were played in Purple.
* From the 23rd-26th of both July and August, we only wore our White Vests.
* Similarly, from the 2nd-5th of both August and September, we only wore our Black Vests.
* The 21st and 22nd of May, June, July, and August were played in Black Vests.
* 5 out of the 6 last days of a month were in Black Vests; all but June 30th at Houston.
* Except for April 7th, the 7th of each month was "sleeveless"; each of the 7th's in the last 5 months saw a vest of some kind.

And, as a final note, we have yet to wear our Purple jerseys in the 2008 season, meaning that we haven't seen it in regular season action going back 36 games now.

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