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Your best second half ever
As I look at my team sitting in last place at the all-star break, 21 games out of 1st and about 18.5 out of a wild card spot, I wonder how many of you over the years have helmed (or saw the AI) pull a comeback at midseason with a last place team? What sorts of things happened to make it work besides sorcery?
Did you make shrewd moves that led to it or something else? Curious to hear people's success stories as I contemplate my own attempt.
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I don't know about OOTP, but in 2013 there was an amazing real-life turnaround. On June 21st, the Los Angeles Dodgers were last in the NL West with a 30-42 .417 record, and 9½ games out of first place. Two months later, the club was 74-52 .587. That means over those two months the club played .815 ball, going 44-10. It finished the season at 92-70 .568 and 11 games in front.
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Was a couple of years ago, but I once came back from 17 games behind to win the division. It involved a combination of being completely injury free, having a 35yo journeyman pitcher doing an Aaron Small and a couple of my top prospects hitting .350 for 2 months.
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1977 Mariners: Won the division with an expansion team (with a 87-75 record, by one game, as I recall) after some huge trades . Also, Roberto Clemente found the fountain of youth and got a hot bat in the second half, and some minor league free agents paid off, so I was able to win a weak AL West over my former team, the Rangers.
Got swept in the ALCS by Detroit, but still, one of my favorite years. Depleted the minors so badly that I didn't develop a member of the starting lineup until 1984, but it was worth it, especially when we won the World Series in '78! |
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I'll start tracking this. When I get something good I'll post it up.
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Actually....
I just had an online team in a modern MLB setup win the last 18 games of the season to make it into the playoffs by 2 games. I know, very Moneyball A's. The team went like 9-18 in May and was in last place through at least May and June. We played like .600 ball in August and won 25 games in Sept and Oct. We won the wild card game but lost in 5 games in the NLDS. The weird thing was that I didn't really do that much, they just got hot. I made a couple small trades at the deadline that worked out. One was odd - me and another last place team swapped underperforming deadweight and all 4 players really came to life after the trade. But it was still only a backup catcher and a 4th starter, so it was really just the guts of the team could do no wrong for a month. Last edited by TribeFanInNC; 10-31-2014 at 07:28 AM. |
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