Immaculate Grid

[Westheim]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

I couldn't even think of any GGer who was briefly a Ranger, I'm supposed to know someone who won a GG AS a Ranger? Good luck with that.

If I found one that caught two pawsful of them, you can too

Originally Posted by Amazin69

Are people actually able to see other players' grids? All I get are xs and os.

(Is this a browser issue?)

That's why I've been naming my selections, after all.

I am manually typing Xs and Os, because I can't get the grids to post. Maybe you have to be on a phone, what do i know? Some people's I see as green and white boxes, some (like yours) come back as rhombi with question marks. I shrug and struggle on.

[Amazin69]

Yeah, or perhaps, my old buddy, David, would have rung a bell, eventually. I do notice that my energy flags a bit if I've already flubbed a box.

Still, disappointing.

[Syd Thrift]

I willingly admit to using the Internet to “cheat” with it although I have my own limitations. I try to construct a grid that’s as low score as possible using players I remember (so no looking up teams) and when I use BBRef it’s ideally just to confirm that player A did in fact play for Team B (or, in one case where I didn’t do a lookup, got 3,000 strikeouts - turns out that Cy Young finished his career with 2800). *Occasionally* I will be like “ugh the catcher for the expansion Marlins what’s his naaaaame” and look up teams like that but I will hate myself for it. Also I’m just not good with the Rays and Diamondbacks beyond a couple of players, I will freely admit.

[Syd Thrift]

dola,

[pilight]

What do you mean I can't use Tim Wallach twice?!?

[CONN CHRIS]

Originally Posted by pilight

What do you mean I can't use Tim Wallach twice?!?

If a player fits two of the nine squares, you will be blocked from using him a second time. I ran into it a few days ago when Fred Lynn fit both the BOS/DET and BOS/ANGELS boxes.

[Amazin69]

Yeah, screen-shots make the most sense. I‘ll start doing those now.



From a few days back. Not so much to brag (well, a bit, probably), but because this scored 41, and that's a special number for me, of course.

And also for FatJack, naturally.

[LansdowneSt]

I gotta say.... I love it. The real fun is trying to get the lowest score (best rairity) possible. So, a Red Sox and an Angel... Mo Vaughn, Fred Lynn, Jerry Remy, Carney Lansford... too easy... Butch Hobson (the third piece of the Lynn) trade had under 1% of respondents. Sometimes I have the screen open in the background for an hour or two while my brain turns it over and over ...

EDIT: That's a thing of beauty, Amazin'!

[Cobra Mgr]

Agony

Immaculate Grid 106 8/9:
Rarity: 266
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Play at:
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@immaculategrid x @baseball_ref

[Sweed]

My first day playing. Had no idea what the "rarity" score was about, it just showed up after I gave 9 answers?

Immaculate Grid 106 8/9:
Rarity: 220
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Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com
@immaculategrid x @baseball_ref

[Marinersfan51]

Originally Posted by Sweed

My first day playing. Had no idea what the "rarity" score was about, it just showed up after I gave 9 answers?

It is the sum of the % for each of your picks + 100 for each missed box.

[Syd Thrift]

Originally Posted by Amazin69

Yeah, screen-shots make the most sense. I‘ll start doing those now.

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From a few days back. Not so much to brag (well, a bit, probably), but because this scored 41, and that's a special number for me, of course.

And also for FatJack, naturally.

I got a 17 on one that the Mariners were in. Let me see if I can find it…

[Amazin69]

Originally Posted by LansdowneSt

I gotta say.... I love it. The real fun is trying to get the lowest score (best rairity) possible. So, a Red Sox and an Angel... Mo Vaughn, Fred Lynn, Jerry Remy, Carney Lansford... too easy... Butch Hobson (the third piece of the Lynn) trade had under 1% of respondents. Sometimes I have the screen open in the background for an hour or two while my brain turns it over and over ...

EDIT: That's a thing of beauty, Amazin'!

Thanks! I did Juan Beniquez as my Halo-to-Hub choice, but only because I chickened out on Doug Griffin. (Who did indeed spend 1970 in Anaheim.)

And I am ever so grateful for those Cleveland Hedlund pics that we discussed in the Photopack thread, or I might have had to resort to Rusty Torres or someone like that.

(In re today's grid, I had no recollection of Beniquez even spending 1977 in Arlington, much less winning the GG that year. I guess he was part of the Fergie trade? And Lynn got hurt?)

ETA: wow, that's brilliant, Sid! Bernazard scored better than Felix Fermin, I guess. And Hebner is the first < 0.01% I have seen. (I wonder how much of a penalty the obvious Dick Selma guess would have cost me?)

[Westheim]

Grid 107

7/9 (new best!)

OXO
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Rarity: 429 (new best!)

I had the numbest guess, literally, for five of the seven I got, including the entire Marlins row. I'll take it.

[CONN CHRIS]

Another day, another fail

Immaculate Grid 107 6/9:
Rarity: 313
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Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com
@immaculategrid x @baseball_ref

[pilight]

Clicked the wrong Gary Matthews! Argh!

[Syd Thrift]

15 today! Give me Mariners and I will go into obscurity.

[Marinersfan51]

When it's a Mariners one, I can really get in my wheelhouse.

[Amazin69]

I wouldn't know a Silver Slugger if it whacked me in the nuts, so I basically punted this one. Five of the players came easily (Brewers mean I can use Pilots and I know THAT team inside out, of course) and then I was just so blocked on the last one that I threw in the sponge and took my medicine. 134 doses, precisely.



Annoying to find that I could have gone for Alfaro, after all. Oates was my first four digit pick, but apparently he had a late surge and is back to 0.01% Ah, well. Sic Transit Gloria Steinbrenner

ETA: Richie "As Jocasta said to Œdipus, Would You Like to Have" Sexson was a Yankee? Did not know that.

[Syd Thrift]

Ricky Bones was the “Brewers starter in the 90s” I couldn’t put my head around! In the end I went with “guys who played for the expansion team”, which, I remembered from an earlier Marlins “romp” that McClure closed out his career with them…