The Atoms knocked off the Sidewinders to lock up the top spot in the NL, meaning we'll have home-field advantage up through the World Series. Our first opponent will be the New York Blackbirds, who are red-hot coming off a huge win over the Masons to clinch this spot in the first place. Despite their fourth-seed status, they'll be a difficult team to beat, and anything can happen come playoff time. As we always to come playoffs, we feature our top players from the regular season, and the very best was 1B Pete Alonso. The Polar Bear hit .267, mashing 33 homers for 94 RBI, both team highs, while also drawing 70 walks. #UpAndAtom

As the playoffs are now in progress, it's time to celebrate our players that carried our teams through the season. Rather than do a single "team" that wouldn't honor a guy like Yordan Alvarez, who finished in third overall in points scored in the league, but is at the same position as the player that finished in first, the AltLB has decided on a Honor Roll system, where all players over a certain threshold get the distinction of being honored. So to make the honor roll, you would need 400 points or more, to get High Honors the player would need 500 points or more, and Highest Honors would go to any player that scored 600 points or more.

As always, this is based on games played. For example, San Diego Pandas infielder Miguel Vargas finished with 499 points. Since he earned points while he was on the bench throughout the season, so those points while he was benched do not count, and Vargas falls into the Honors section.

Eighty-four total players were honored, with sixty-four falling in the Honors section, seventeen earning High Honors, and just three earning Highest Honors.