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Gordon Clyde Freeman history

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GC Freeman stats

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Arthyr Giolgi Freeman history

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AG Freeman stats

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Because GC is signed through 1980 and AG is signed through 1979, they can play one more year. I'm sure it will be fine to retire GC with one year remaining on his contract at the age of 46.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

You should expect a list of statistical milestones I'd like each of them to achieve in 1979, if at all possible, sometime later today. It will likely be just a little bit longer for AG than for GC, but I will try to post it by no later than 5 or so PM Central Time, for your information. That is all for now, then, jg2977. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Also, Gordon Clyde needs to be set to be a two-way player again, for 1979, without any possible question here. I really don't know if he could actually get enough strikeouts to overtake Cone as a pitcher, but if he could, I'd love to see it, for sure, you know. Let's see if we can't make that happen here as well, if possible, jg2977. CD out.

[jg2977]

Originally Posted by Clovidequano Dovatha

Also, Gordon Clyde needs to be set to be a two-way player again, for 1979, without any possible question here. I really don't know if he could actually get enough strikeouts to overtake Cone as a pitcher, but if he could, I'd love to see it, for sure, you know. Let's see if we can't make that happen here as well, if possible, jg2977. CD out.

I made him a pitcher with good ratings last season and the AI still won't use him. I don't play out regular season games as I like to get to the playoffs quickly. For next season I'll post the standings on a month-to-month basis and comment on the pennant races. He can still contribute as a hitter, but let's face it, he's too old to pitch. Perhaps there's too much wear and tear on his arm.

[jg2977]

Do you have any real-life major leaguers, active or retired, or others that you would like to see me add for 1979? Just looking for player names in order to plug up weak spots on any team that needs the help. I want to get started working on that tonight and through the weekend.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Well, maybe we can play out a few games, at least, and have him pitch in them. That seems to be the only way he might be able to approach certain pitching numbers, then. There is that capability, you know, for any specific game on the schedule, no matter what teams are playing those games. Let's get together, and plan out which games he might be able to play in as a pitcher, week-by-week, even if we have to use the 7-day lineup feature for Glasco. This can also work for Arthyr, Grover, and Shelby, I think, as well, if done sufficiently well here.

GC may be quite old, but let's see what we can still do with him, even if it isn't really that much more, in certain respects, jg2977. In any case, let's have GC and AG both retire at the end of 1979, so that the chances of them going into the Hall together are maximized, if at all possible. Bookworm (Grover) should take over for GC on the mound, primarily, and Buster (Shelby) should take over for AG behind the plate, primarily, I think.

Which reminds me, where do you want your IPA Hall of Fame to be located, ultimately, if it isn't already in a marked location on the relevant maps? Just wondering, that's all.

As for players, I'll have to think about it, and teams to perhaps place them on here. Give me at least a few days to think about that, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can, for sure.

Talk more soon, if and whenever possible, I'm sure. Thank you for your time and attention and all here, then, of course, jg2977. That's all for this post here, at least, I suppose. CD out.

[jg2977]

I suppose that I can play out a few games and manually put in Gordon as a pitcher, and have him pitch against the teams with the weakest offenses. That way it will have the best chance of maximizing his success.

You can put the Hall of Fame somewhere in the middle of the map, near New Yerby. That way it will be generally equidistant from the furthest points in all directions.

One thing that you can do to make it easier to see where my IPA teams are is to have the names of the IPA cities be larger and therefore more prominent than the smaller towns that are not in the game.

Another thing that would be nice is to have some kind of mileage indicator so that we can estimate the distances between cities. I prefer miles, please don't use kilometers.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Okay, New Yerby is where the Hall will be for your version of the IPA, then. As for the names of the cities, I'm just trying to use sizes that fit as best as possible for the areas in question. But remember, the maps are all still works in progress, you know. Maybe as we further fill it or them in and detail it or them, or make certain versions of it or them, we can change the sizes of text and all here, for the names and all.

Do you have any more names in mind for marked locations not yet named? IF so, please let me know, and I'll try to label them as appropriate and all, of course, just as quickly and as best as I can and all. Thank you, jg2977. CD out.

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As for how to make sure the AI doesn't make certain moves, I think there's a screen you can do that from, whether for a single team or all the teams in your IPA. Let me see if I can find it for you in one of my versions of OOTP ASAP, and then I'll let you know how to handle things here, at least for Glasco.

How did each of the rivals for the second-generation Freemans do this past season? Please post their relevant details soon, if and when you like and can. Thank you, jg2977. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Here are the milestones I'd really like to see them each reach, if possible, starting with Gordon, and then with Arthyr:

Gordon Clyde Freeman:

3800 total games played (105 away)
3200 total games started (73 away)

3500 runs scored (82 away)
4800 hits (173 away)
1000 doubles (50 away)
40 triples (1 away)
1050 home runs (35 away)
3000 runs batted in (134 away)
3000 walks (26 away)
450 stolen bases (10 away)

400 wins (15 away)
4600 innings pitched (136 and a third away)
5000 strikeouts (89 away), if not also past Cone on Glasco's leaderboard (328 away, 5239 would set a new Glasco record for pitching strikeouts, probably unreachable now for him because he didn't pitch in 1977 and 1978, at least)

700 game appearances as pitcher (12 away)
700 games started as pitcher (17 away)
800 games played as shortstop (24 away)
700 games started as shortstop (38 away)
1400 games played as center fielder (40 away)
1200 games started as center fielder (9 away)

Arthyr Gyolgi Freeman:

3600 games (74 away)
3000 starts (33 away)

3500 runs scored (170 away)
5000 hits (105 away)
750 doubles (6 away)
200 triples (10 away)
1150 home runs (45 away)
3400 runs batted in (147 away)
3000 walks (56 away)
820 stolen bases (17 away)

150 wins as pitcher (3 away)
1400 innings pitched (38 away)
2500 strikeouts (79 away)

200 games as pitcher (8 away)
200 games started as pitcher (8 away)
2300 games played as catcher (28 away)
2300 games started as catcher (81 away)
50 games played as first baseman (9 away)
50 games started as first baseman (28 away)
150 games played as second baseman (12 away)
120 games started as second baseman (33 away)
600 games played as shortstop (78 away)
450 games started as shortstop (14 away)

Now I don't know just how easy it will be for either of them to perhaps somehow reach the above milestones, especially with the relevant math required here, of course, jg2977. But hopefully most, if not all, of those various milestones listed above for them both here still should be at least potentially achievable for either of them, if not both of them, somehow, before they're each done after the 1979 season.

Let's see how many of those statistical milestones we can hit for them both. Also, let's put a tracker on GC this last year for the strikeout category, if he gets to pitch, and try to see how close he is to the Glasco team record for pitchers in that category per pitching game, I think. You should also make a special note to have GC start game 162, with AG as the catcher for that game, at least as starters, for Glasco. For that should be their last overall regular-season game for their careers, barring any potential tiebreaking games, I think.

Thank you for your time and all here, in any case, jg2977. Talk more later, as time permits and all, I'm quite sure. Lord willing and all, of course, that is. CD out.

[jg2977]

1979 Hall of Fame Inductees

[jg2977]

Backing up my league, will do some work on most rosters, especially the bad teams to try to help level the playing field and improve parity, and then it's onto 1979.

I'll post the stats of the three Freeman rivals later.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

Okay, you do that, and let's see how many of the above statistical milestones GC and AG can hit in 1979. Even if GC doesn't ultimately pass Cone for the Glasco pitching strikeouts record, of course. Could you also please show the career leaderboards, and Glasco's leaderboards, if not also Hillsboro's, before the 1979 season ultimately starts? Of course, seeing as AG has played all but four seasons of his career with Hillsboro, he won't likely be very high on Glasco's leaderboards for most, if not all, categories, you know.

I'd like to see how they stack up on the leaderboards for whatever team or teams they've played for in their careers, for sure. There aren't many more good records to have that GC doesn't likely have for Glasco, I think. And GC should probably be up there on the leaderboards for various statistical records in an entire career, either, due to how long he's been active, you know.

AG certainly has him beat in at least one or two categories, no doubt. GC is not going to catch AG in terms of home runs hit, for sure, if not other good categories as well. In terms of total WAR, seeing as AG got started late with pitching, GC will still hold the advantage. At the moment, GC seems to have 505.9 total WAR, while AG seems to have 464.4 total WAR. Also, there are several more awards earned for GC than for AG in their respective careers, simply because AG didn't get started as early as he probably could have or should have, for various reasons, unfortunately. It couldn't be helped, either then or now, however. So there's no use dwelling on it, of course.

It would have been really nice had they actually been able to spend their whole careers together, but it wasn't possible. Also, Hillsboro wasn't all that good for quite a few years, on average, if memory serves me correctly here. So that certainly didn't help AG all that much, if at all, in certain ways, for sure, at times. Add to that the fact that several other teams were generally better-performing than Hillsboro for much of AG's time there, even while AG was racking up statistics in an extreme hitter-style environment, you know, jg2977.

If they both retire after the awards are handed out in 1979, perhaps they can make the Hall in 1985 together. I don't think they'll be potentially in the running for any awards come this next season, but let's just see what happens, of course. Okay, jg2977?

Thank you yet again for having them both in your IPA for quite some length of time. I hope their sons do well, in their steads, once they've both hung up their cleats for the last time as players. Now Grover probably won't really be able to pitch much, if at all, while his father is still playing, but I do hope to see him pitching at least part-time come 1980, if not full-time, once GC retires for good as a player. Shelby may not play at least part-time behind the plate, if not full-time behind it, until his father retires, but once AG retires, I want to see him often behind the plate, if possible, in place of AG. Talk more later, as time permits and all, of course. I am thinking that perhaps Carl could be a 3rd baseman, or another kind of infielder, when he breaks in circa 1985 for Glasco. That's all for this post here, then, I think. CD out.

[Clovidequano Dovatha]

So do you think GC will go in mainly as a pitcher or a hitter, in terms of his plaque, if and when he makes the Hall? I'm thinking pitcher, but we'll have to see, of course, jg2977. CD out.