This is Absolutely Impossible

[LeeD]

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[PunishedF2P]

Originally Posted by LeeD

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I don't understand what's impossible. I'd guess your team is hitting very poorly with runners on base and RISP. Probably epically bad with 2-outs and RISP, lol.

[LeeD]

Originally Posted by PunishedF2P

I don't understand what's impossible. I'd guess your team is hitting very poorly with runners on base and RISP. Probably epically bad with 2-outs and RISP, lol.

Yes. That MUST be it. </sarcasm>

[Ty Cobb]

Been playing this game many a year, and that doesn't begin to approach impossible.

[Torgonius]

Not listed - Caught Stealing

[bailey]

Your team doesn't hit enough HR.

[LeeD]

Originally Posted by Torgonius

Not listed - Caught Stealing

Negligible. 12 steals, 8 caught stealing, which costs me what, 1 run?

[Fabtron7]

Originally Posted by LeeD

Negligible. 12 steals, 8 caught stealing, which costs me what, 1 run?

What's your Pythag?

[bailey]

If you want "impossible" how about winning 14 games in a row in diamond followed immediately by 15 losses in a row. That means for 28 games the result was the same as the previous game 27 times.

[Fabtron7]

I'm going to guess that the last 15 games were against sliiiightly better teams that than the first 14

[LeeD]

Originally Posted by Fabtron7

What's your Pythag?

Four games over .500 and dead on target thanks to the second-best pitching in the conference (best FIP and fourth-best Zone and Defensive Efficiency). This is why it's so infuriating that the team is massively underscoring based on the underlying statistics. Oh, and did I mention Mickey Cochrane, with 5 of his 7 home runs being solo shots despite batting behind Paul Waner (.424 OBP), Kirby Puckett (.343), and Roberto Clemente (.377)? Seven home runs and 18 RBI is the kind of numbers you'd only get for a low-on-base, high slugging team and not from one where the three batters in front of him are hitting a combined .329/.367/.492, especially given that only 15 of that is home runs where the batter drove himself in AND that 52 of that is doubles and triples.

[LeeD]

Originally Posted by Fabtron7

I'm going to guess that the last 15 games were against sliiiightly better teams that than the first 14

Absolutely crazy even if he went from playing the league's doormats to the league's mashers.

[Fabtron7]

Originally Posted by LeeD

Four games over .500 and dead on target thanks to the second-best pitching in the conference (best FIP and fourth-best Zone and Defensive Efficiency). This is why it's so infuriating that the team is massively underscoring based on the underlying statistics. Oh, and did I mention Mickey Cochrane, with 5 of his 7 home runs being solo shots despite batting behind Paul Waner (.424 OBP), Kirby Puckett (.343), and Roberto Clemente (.377)? Seven home runs and 18 RBI is the kind of numbers you'd only get for a low-on-base, high slugging team and not from one where the three batters in front of him are hitting a combined .329/.367/.492, especially given that only 15 of that is home runs where the batter drove himself in AND that 52 of that is doubles and triples.

Sounds like some luck dragons at work for sure.

[bailey]

Originally Posted by LeeD

Absolutely crazy even if he went from playing the league's doormats to the league's mashers.

I don't know it was weird. I started 33-40 and ended up 8 under after all of it. Won the division in the end by 1 game. I did buy Ted Williams to help with the September push which was marvelous.

[LeeD]

Originally Posted by bailey

Your team doesn't hit enough HR.

This is by design. My ballpark is nerfed against home runs. At that point, I was out-homering the opposition 51-41, outhitting them by a lot, and out-walking them, too. That's how my team OPS was fourth: lots of hits and extra-base hits accompanied by slightly-above-average walks. With a team like this, heavy on BABIP, I should be outscoring the OPS projections (since hits are better than walks).

[Syd Thrift]

All we see are the ordinal places. My first thought was that there might not be a lot of space between say 2nd and 13th in a lot of those rankings.

[bailey]

Originally Posted by LeeD

This is by design. My ballpark is nerfed against home runs. At that point, I was out-homering the opposition 51-41, outhitting them by a lot, and out-walking them, too. That's how my team OPS was fourth: lots of hits and extra-base hits accompanied by slightly-above-average walks. With a team like this, heavy on BABIP, I should be outscoring the OPS projections (since hits are better than walks).

Maybe in real life, but this is a game and this version favors HR.

[Kushiel]

My Pappy and GrandPappy always told me the old adage about the great game. When you think that you have seen it all, something new happens.

Beyond that what happens in PT is unexplainable. So now I try to just shrug and roll with it.

[PunishedF2P]

Originally Posted by LeeD

Yes. That MUST be it. </sarcasm>

Didn't you just say that your guys are hitting lots of solo shots in another post? LOL. Yeah, no sarcasm, this is it, lmao. Bad luck, bad hitting with RISP.

[MathBandit]

Originally Posted by LeeD

This is by design. My ballpark is nerfed against home runs. At that point, I was out-homering the opposition 51-41, outhitting them by a lot, and out-walking them, too. That's how my team OPS was fourth: lots of hits and extra-base hits accompanied by slightly-above-average walks. With a team like this, heavy on BABIP, I should be outscoring the OPS projections (since hits are better than walks).

I would think that team would do exactly the opposite and underscore the OPS projections, since OPS puts less emphasis than it should on walks and more emphasis than it should on XBH - so skewing more towards walks than XBH will always mean you are better than your OPS shows and skewing more towards XBH than walks means your OPS will be somewhat inflated.