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[Edster007]

Originally Posted by mcdog512

That’s awesome. You guys picked some real good players to like. Aaron was one of my favorites too. I do love my rookie Ryan card and hope to someday nab Aaron and Clemente rookie cards.

I'm not really a collector anymore but I was fortunate that my Grandfather bought me a full set of of Topp's cards from 1972-1980 (the year he passed). He would deliver them with 20 packs and told me to leave the sets sealed in the box and the 20 packs were the ones I can do what I want with. Still haven't opened any of the boxes. He did make me think though so when I opened the packs and then bought my own with my allowance there was no way I'd bring a Tom Seaver to school to flip at recess. I have books and books of cards in plastic sheets from 72-90 which is when I stopped.

[OMGPuppies]

Originally Posted by Edster007

I'm not really a collector anymore but I was fortunate that my Grandfather bought me a full set of of Topp's cards from 1972-1980 (the year he passed). He would deliver them with 20 packs and told me to leave the sets sealed in the box and the 20 packs were the ones I can do what I want with. Still haven't opened any of the boxes. He did make me think though so when I opened the packs and then bought my own with my allowance there was no way I'd bring a Tom Seaver to school to flip at recess. I have books and books of cards in plastic sheets from 72-90 which is when I stopped.

What an awesome grandfather.

[Kushiel]

Originally Posted by mcdog512

That’s awesome. You guys picked some real good players to like. Aaron was one of my favorites too. I do love my rookie Ryan card and hope to someday nab Aaron and Clemente rookie cards.

I have a couple of 1955 Topps #164 Clemente cards. They are in decent condition considering I got them when I was a kid and have had them over 60 years. My grandson Aaron will inherit my baseball card collection; he gets it instead of my other grandsons because I do not think he will sell it for a quick cash flow. My other grandsons definitely would.

[Kushiel]

Originally Posted by Edster007

I'm not really a collector anymore but I was fortunate that my Grandfather bought me a full set of of Topp's cards from 1972-1980 (the year he passed). He would deliver them with 20 packs and told me to leave the sets sealed in the box and the 20 packs were the ones I can do what I want with. Still haven't opened any of the boxes. He did make me think though so when I opened the packs and then bought my own with my allowance there was no way I'd bring a Tom Seaver to school to flip at recess. I have books and books of cards in plastic sheets from 72-90 which is when I stopped.

I stopped in '90 also because the greed had set in and ruined card collecting for true collectors

[Magus978]

I know in one of my boxes I have two boxes of a full baseball card set from I think 1990 or 1991. Think one of them was Donruss, and can't remember the other. Someday I should do what the SNY booth does (or used to do) during blowouts, and break out the baseball cards

[Kushiel]

I have 1990 Fleer, Donruss, Topps, and Upper Deck sets and a couple of 5000 count card boxes full of various cards and commons from 90. There is likely another set or two in those boxes. Too bad they were so mass produced.

[mcdog512]

Originally Posted by Kushiel

I have 1990 Fleer, Donruss, Topps, and Upper Deck sets and a couple of 5000 count card boxes full of various cards and commons from 90. There is likely another set or two in those boxes. Too bad they were so mass produced.

Yea, I have bunch of those over produced cards too. They look great but are pretty much worthless.

[mcdog512]

Originally Posted by Kushiel

I have a couple of 1955 Topps #164 Clemente cards. They are in decent condition considering I got them when I was a kid and have had them over 60 years. My grandson Aaron will inherit my baseball card collection; he gets it instead of my other grandsons because I do not think he will sell it for a quick cash flow. My other grandsons definitely would.

That's really cool. My oldest Clemente is 1959. I assembled the entire 1959 set which I really enjoyed. Yea, I'm not sure what I'll do with my collection. I have a daughter and a wife and neither would appreceate the cards in any way......and would probably sell at a loss.

It's interesting that I collected starting in 1971 as a kid and quit in maybe 75. I lost all my cards when I got my own apartment at 17 and left them behind. In the 80's I bought about 150 cards from the 70's.

In very early 2018 I started playing OOTP seriously for the first time, even though I had bought several earlier versions and played a little. My buddy and I started a historical Twins season in 1961 and I thought it would be fun to buy some 1961 Twins cards off Ebay. I got hooked and now I have about 30 thousand cards including all the topps regular cards from 1968-1989 and lots of tobacco cards.....really has been a fun hobby.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Victoria stormed through yesterday's sim at 14-4 to rebuild their seemingly insurmountable lead in Our League S300. Sanguine tried to maintain pace, but went 13-5, and still lost ground. With 23 OL games remaining, including 19 consecutive to end the season, the Classics have a doable, but daunting, task. They would need the Vikings to stumble badly in the final 16 games on Victoria's OL schedule. The teams square off for three games. Janesville has14 OL games left, so they could also insert themselves into the mix with a prodigious run. None, however, are against the top two teams. There might be other mathematical possibilities, but they hardly seem worth figuring. Asheboro, for example, has 5 OL games to play, and sweeping would get them to "only" .582.

[Edster007]

I haven't seen any one post these. Given it was only 6 teams I put it together quickly. Redmond is on top with 7 OL games on their schedule today. Northborough has 4 remaining while San Pedro is done for the season.

[Kushiel]

Originally Posted by mcdog512

That's really cool. My oldest Clemente is 1959. I assembled the entire 1959 set which I really enjoyed. Yea, I'm not sure what I'll do with my collection. I have a daughter and a wife and neither would appreceate the cards in any way......and would probably sell at a loss.

It's interesting that I collected starting in 1971 as a kid and quit in maybe 75. I lost all my cards when I got my own apartment at 17 and left them behind. In the 80's I bought about 150 cards from the 70's.

In very early 2018 I started playing OOTP seriously for the first time, even though I had bought several earlier versions and played a little. My buddy and I started a historical Twins season in 1961 and I thought it would be fun to buy some 1961 Twins cards off Ebay. I got hooked and now I have about 30 thousand cards including all the topps regular cards from 1968-1989 and lots of tobacco cards.....really has been a fun hobby.

It is a very fun hobby. I love looking at my cards and reminiscing about my childhood.

[Charlatan]

I first collected cards in 1970. They weren't the best looking (they had a really ugly gray border), but hey, you go with what you got! Of course I collected the Senators cards. I had a bunch of the Senators set out with a rubber band around them (of course!). I'd buy the cards at a local 7-11. I remember after a while thinking I kept getting the same (unwanted) cards from that store, so I started biking to a different store on the other side of town because I was sure they had better cards. Pretty sure they didn't - though to be honest, back then Topps did put the cards out in different releases, so every month or so during the season they'd do a new "release" and the cards would be different from the ones they printed the month before. Getting those 6th series cards was always the challenge, because not that many stores would order baseball cards in the August timeframe since baseball was winding down.

But my favorite cards are the 1971s - the ones with the black borders. I find them so attractive, and I think it's striking look. I still love those cards today but man is it obvious they didn't much care for quality control back then - they just glued the pictures onto cardboard and cut the sheet into cards. You'd find all sorts of uneven borders. Plus those black cards are so prone to chipping - the printed sheet would sometimes come unglued at the corners and flake off. And when that happened, you'd often see the white of the backside of the paper. So it was super difficult to find those black borders in great condition.

I started re-collecting that set in the 90s. I remember going to a baseball card show once and looking at one of those 1970s cards I really wanted. I shined it in the light and could tell someone had used a magic marker to re-blacken the borders. I hate people!

71 was the year the Senators moved to Texas and became the Texas Rangers. That pretty much set me off of collecting cards so I stopped after 71, until I picked it back up when baseball cards exploded in the late 80s.

[Charlatan]

Harlem chills the champagne and prepares to celebrate

Since all the OL teams are in separate divisions, there are only 3 OL games on the schedule this month - Cooper and Motown are playing a series - so Harlem has clinched the OL title in Gold once again.

In non-OL standings:
Motown has a slim lead in the AC Central
Annandale has a small lead in the AC West but are suffering their traditional late-season swoon
Cincinnati currently holds the 2nd Wild Card spot in the AC
Cooper has a good lead in the NC Central
Harlem leads the NC West by 5 games

So it's possible we'll get 5 OL teams in the playoffs.

Our League Standings - G300 - Sep 4, 2033			
			 W	 L	 Pct
Harlem Hatchets		14	 2	.875
Annandale Atom Smashers	11	 7	.611
Motown Stars		 7	 7	.500
Cincinnati Redlegs	 8	12	.400
Shasta Black Bears	 6	13	.316
Cooper Gutter Cats	 4	 9	.308

x

[Magus978]

With the July/August meltdown the Patriots have had, my attention has turned to training players. New acquisition Edd Roush (Special Edition) is working in left field in preparation for next week and Jim Gilliam continues to get his reps in at 3rd base. Gonna be a long weekend of trying to figure out the perfect lineup for next week so that my hitters...y'know, don't repeatedly find innovative ways to both suck and blow like we've been doing for awhile now?

At least SE Harry Heilmann is starting to do things. Average up to .292.

[stl jason]

Diamond league update:

not many OL games in August, so the standings remained the same from the last update. Transylvania sits atop the standings but has half their OL games left to play in September, so anything is possible.

remaining games:

Green Lake - 3
Roncalli - 6
Seattle Endless Summer - 9
Seattle Pilots - 3
Transylvania - 6
Waffletown - 3


For the overall picture.... OL teams are making a push down the stretch to claim as many post season spots as possible. In the NC East, Green Lake rolls along extending their division lead to 15 games. The Seattle Endless Summer is fighting hard to remain atop the NC Central, with a slim 1.5 game lead over OL rival Roncalli (who is in a tie for the 2nd wild card position). In the NC West, the Seattle Pilots are tied atop the standings with the New Image Tourists, and if the season ended today, whichever team lost the tiebreaker would claim the top wild card spot, so both would be heading to the post season.

In the AC Central, Waffletown is humming along and have extended their division lead to 12 games; and in the AC West, while Transylvania sits 11 games back of the division lead, they are only 2.5 games back of the 2nd wild card spot, so a post season birth is definitely not out of the question for all 6 OL teams.

[Goliathus]

Hampton Roads Rush and Pablo Panda did not falter in the second half. They continued to maintain a respectable win rate going into the final month of the season.

Pablo Pandas have 22 OL games to play:
6 vs Wheatland Jets(9-4)
6 vs Melaka Armada(10-3)
4 vs 1980's All-Stars(9-6)
3 vs Harbour Town Falcons(First series)
3 vs New York Mets(2-1)

Hampton Roads Rush has 15 OL games to play:
6 vs O'Fallon Owls(13-0)
3 vs Phidelphia Patriots(3-0)
3 vs Salem Witches(12-4)
3 vs Arkham Horrors(2-1)

[Matchup results in bracket are in "(Pandas or Road Rush) vs opponents" format]

My math skill is a disgrace to the stereotypical Asian and I don't know how to count the true % of Pablo Pandas being able to win the crown. What I did is assuming Hampton Roads Rush goes 5-10(33.33%) and Pablo Pandas go 15-7(68.18%), Pablo Panda will edge out Hampton Roads Rush by 0.04%.

The two results closest to Pandas' current win rate is 15-7 and 16-6. All Hampton Roads Rush needs to do is to go 7-8 and above and they will probably secure the crown. That's a huge cushion for a team that is currently winning 78.13% of their games.

Pablo Pandas' biggest walls are likely the 1980's All-Stars(if All-Stars fail, Magus can always channel his positive-in-this-week energy to his New York Mets), and the unknown Harbour Town Falcons.

Hampton Roads Rush's biggest walls are Sabakon and his occultism friends in the Arkham Horrors and Salem Witches. Though I am personally chering for O'Fallon Owls to break the zero on Hampton Roads Rush. Go Owls, win not 1 but 2 games against Hampton!

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Now, onto the Pennant Chase. AC East is a close battle between the Arkham Horrors and Philadelphia Patriots. The chance of them both to make the playoff is very high as the Philadelphia Patriots can easily secure a playoff spot if they fail to take down the Horrors before the playoff -- Horror genre big bad are very tough to take down. New Zealand Silver Ferns is still a borderline wildcard team and has 24.9% chance to get into the playoff.

In AC Central, it's an aerial duel between two flocks of birds - Harbour Town Falcons and non-OL Rockin' Robins - on top of the Chi-Town Towers and that's a perfect final fight scene for a birdie action movie. This division did not have the best performance this season so the division champion is very likely to be the only one to get into playoff.

Hampton Roads Rush is the clear winner of AC West and the magic number is 9 for them to not have to worry about wildcard. Non-OL WM Patriettes is the second place of the conference and has the best record among current wildcard frontrunners.

The wild card frontrunners are WM Patriettes and Philadelphia Patriots. Other OL teams in the running includes New Zealand Silver Ferns, Salem Witches and Harbour Town Falcons.

NC East is still a very close, with Frankenthal Retros, non-OL Monrovia Offensers and New York Mets being 6 wins within each others. The % did not like New York Mets though, even factoring in the wildcard, they are only 21.6% positive to reach the postseason.

Pablo Pandas have a 9 games led in NC Central and their current magic number is 21. Non-OL Copperleaf Rivers has a very impressive 80-53 record and is 99.9% playoff bound.

Boogie Knights led NC West, leading by 10 wins. With a 99.4% to make playoff and a magic number of 21, these Knights can rest their hroses and prepare themselves for the payoff. It's load management time.

For the wild card spots, Copperleaf Rivers is at 100%, which is not surprising. The team has a 11 wins lead over the third team of the list. Magus978 could be up for a heel turn as both his teams are within 3 wins of the second team. A strong performance from just one of them is enough, but if both miss the mark, look out for Negative Magus. The wild card screen also has the nerve to insult me by putting Melaka Armada up there with 0.1%.
NC East is still a very close, with Frankenthal Retros, non-OL Monrovia Offensers and New York Mets being 6 wins within each others. The % did not like New York Mets though, even factoring in the wildcard, they are only 21.6% positive to reach the postseason.

Pablo Pandas have a 9 games led in NC Central and their current magic number is 21. Non-OL Copperleaf Rivers has a very impressive 80-53 record and is 99.9% playoff bound.

Boogie Knights led NC West, leading by 10 wins. With a 99.4% to make playoff and a magic number of 21, these Knights can rest their hroses and prepare themselves for the payoff. It's load management time.

For the wild card spots, Copperleaf Rivers is at 100%, which is not surprising. The team has a 11 wins lead over the third team of the list. Magus978 could be up for a heel turn as both his teams are within 3 wins of the second team. A strong perforance from just one of them is enough, but if both miss the mark, look out for Negative Magus. The wild card screen also has the nerve to insult me by putting Melaka Armada there with 0.1%.

[trevwilson]

I will have a new team ready for the Iron League on Monday - Southside Sluggers (trevwilson4). Excited to see how this team that has been designed with OL in mind from the beginning fares.

[Magus978]

Originally Posted by Goliathus

Hampton Road Rush and Pablo Panda did not falter in the second half. They continued to maintain a respectable win rate going into the final month of the season.

Pablo Pandas have 22 OL games to play:
6 vs Wheatland Jets(9-4)
6 vs Melaka Armada(10-3)
4 vs 1980's All-Stars(9-6)
3 vs Harbour Town Falcons(First series)
3 vs New York Mets(2-1)

Hampton Road Rush has 15 OL games to play:
6 vs O'Fallon Owls(13-0)
3 vs Phidelphia Patriots(3-0)
3 vs Salem Witches(12-4)
3 vs Arkham Horrors(2-1)

[Matchup results in bracket are in "(Pandas or Road Rush) vs opponents" format]

My math skill is a disgrace to the stereotypical Asian and I don't know how to count the true % of Pablo Pandas being able to win the crown. What I did is assuming Hampton Road Rush goes 5-10(33.33%) and Pablo Pandas go 15-7(68.18%), Pablo Panda will edge out Hampton Road Rush by 0.04%.

The two results closest to Pandas' current win rate is 15-7 and 16-6. All Hampton Road Rush needs to do is to go 7-8 and above and they will probably secure the crown. That's a huge cushion for a team that is currently winning 78.13% of their games.

Pablo Pandas' biggest walls are likely the 1980's All-Stars(if All-Stars fail, Magus can always channel his positive-in-this-week energy to his New York Mets), and the unknown Harbour Town Falcons.

Hampton Road Rush's biggest walls are Sabakon and his occultism friends in the Arkham Horrors and Salem Witches. Though I am personally chering for O'Fallon Owls to break the zero on Hampton Road Rush. Go Owls, win not 1 but 2 games against Hampton!

--------------------------------------------------------

Now, onto the Pennant Chase. AC East is a close battle between the Arkham Horrors and Philadelphia Patriots. The chance of them both to make the playoff is very high as the Philadelphia Patriots can easily secure a playoff spot if they fail to take down the Horrors before the playoff -- Horror genre big bad are very tough to take down. New Zealand Silver Ferns is still a borderline wildcard team and has 24.9% chance to get into the playoff.

In AC Central, it's an aerial duel between two flocks of birds - Harbour Town Falcons and non-OL Rockin' Robins - on top of the Chi-Town Towers and that's a perfect final fight scene for a birdie action movie. This division did not have the best performance this season so the division champion is very likely to be the only one to get into playoff.

Hampton Road Rush is the clear winner of AC West and the magic number is 9 for them to not have to worry about wildcard. Non-OL WM Patriettes is the second place of the conference and has the best record among current wildcard frontrunners.

The wild card frontrunners are WM Patriettes and Philadelphia Patriots. Other OL teams in the running includes New Zealand Silver Ferns, Salem Witches and Harbour Town Falcons.

NC East is still a very close, with Frankenthal Retros, non-OL Monrovia Offensers and New York Mets being 6 wins within each others. The % did not like New York Mets though, even factoring in the wildcard, they are only 21.6% positive to reach the postseason.

Pablo Pandas have a 9 games led in NC Central and their current magic number is 21. Non-OL Copperleaf Rivers has a very impressive 80-53 record and is 99.9% playoff bound.

Boogie Knights led NC West, leading by 10 wins. With a 99.4% to make playoff and a magic number of 21, these Knights can rest their hroses and prepare themselves for the payoff. It's load management time.

For the wild card spots, Copperleaf Rivers is at 100%, which is not surprising. The team has a 11 wins lead over the third team of the list. Magus978 could be up for a heel turn as both his teams are within 3 wins of the second team. A strong performance from just one of them is enough, but if both miss the mark, look out for Negative Magus. The wild card screen also has the nerve to insult me by putting Melaka Armada up there with 0.1%.

If both miss out, it doesn't matter. Neither of them will do anything in the playoffs anyway. Mets have been a big blob of underachievement (what else is new with my teams?), and the 80's team is hampered by a lack of affordable quality. Nothing I can do about those. It's a mix of lack of funds and the typical Magus luck (really bad).

Really, I just want my main to wake up and realize that they're supposed to be a competent baseball team and escape from the endless death spiral. Is that too much to ask?

[atabakin]

Originally Posted by Goliathus

Hampton Road Rush

It's actually Hampton Roads. It's the region of Virginia I live in, but it's understandable to get it mixed up. We don't even know what to call it... Hampton Roads, Tidewater, Coastal Virginia, Seven Cities... pretty much all used interchangeably.

We're sitting on close to 14,000 PP right now but don't really know where to target the next upgrade. We'll see how today shakes out.

[Goliathus]

Originally Posted by Magus978

Really, I just want my main to wake up and realize that they're supposed to be a competent baseball team and escape from the endless death spiral. Is that too much to ask?

From my experience, it's best to not put all your hope on one team. Just have equal hope on all your teams each season and some of them will make you happy and you can just ignore the failures.

Originally Posted by atabakin

It's actually Hampton Roads. It's the region of Virginia I live in, but it's understandable to get it mixed up. We don't even know what to call it... Hampton Roads, Tidewater, Coastal Virginia, Seven Cities... pretty much all used interchangeably.

We're sitting on close to 14,000 PP right now but don't really know where to target the next upgrade. We'll see how today shakes out.

Found and replaced all "the Hampton Road".

I am still going with the "hold up for ultimate upgrade" plan but this week is really triggering me to splash the 7K I got.