Hall-Of-Fame Tournament

[lawrence97]

Was getting throuoghly bored watching the world cup(how many boring games in a row can there be, at least Brazil are playing next, but then with Dunga they'll probably be happy with a 1-0 win!!), i decieded to make my own historical ootp tournament,

First the rules, i have imported over 200(136 batters, 95 pithcers) from baseballs histories and put them into a 10 team leauge, no playoffs, winner of the league takes all.

There is no nothin, no trading, no player development, no scouting, coaching, draft, injuries, fatigue suspensions and no financials.

The DH rule is in, pitchers have high stamina, use of relievers is rare, closers is normal, and thats pretty much it.

All the players are put into a fantasy serpentine draft and i have selected a team at random, and i have the 10th pick.

[lawrence97]

The draft went like this:

Bakersfield
SP Maddox
SP Smoltz
SP Hubbell
SP Brown
MR Spahn
MR Palmer
MR Paige
MR Niekro
MR Newhouser
MR Aguilera
CL Gagne

C Bench
1B Carew
2B Biggio
3B Robinson
SS Jeter
LF Henderson
CF Speaker
RF Jackson
DH Meusel

BN Munson
BN Banks

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California

SP Scott
SP Walsh
SP Waddell
SP W. Johnson
MR Sutton
MR Marquard
MR Leonard
MR Roberts
MR Quisenberry
CL Nen



C Campanella
1B Hernandez
2B Alomar
3B Brett
SS Larkin
LF Ramirez
CF Mays
RF Ott
DH Clemente

BN Hodges
BN Doerr
BN Jackson

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Dallas

SP Clemens
SP Mathewson
SP Donovan
SP Willis
MR Nash
MR Bender
MR Hunter
CL Alexander

C Mauer
1B Thome
2B Robinson
3B Wright
SS Appling
LF Musial
CF Griffey
RF Klein
DH Ruth

BN Stargell
BN Carter
BN Ripken
BN Sheckard
BN Murray
BN Gonzalez
BN Klein

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Fort Worth (MyTeam)

SP Seaver
SP Carpenter
SP Grove
SP Ryan
MR Turley
MR Gossage
MR Bylelven
CL Eckersley

C Piazza
1B Gehrig
2B Collins
3B Boggs
SS Cronin
LF Robinson
CF Mantle
RF Aaron
DH Bagwell

BN Easterly
BN Frisch
BN Kluszewski
BN Mize
BN Sosa

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Las Vegas

SP R. Johnson
SP Perry
SP Ford
SP Santana
MR Wilhelm
MR L. Williams
MR Drysdale
MR Hoffman
MR Wagner
CL Rivera

C Cochrane
1B Greenberg
2B Lajoie
3B Molitor
SS Hornsby
LF Simmons
CF Snider
RF Suzuki
DH Yastrzemski

BN Hack
BN Torre
BN Gehringer

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Manhatten

SP Feller
SP Gooden
SP Wood
SP Schilling
MR French
CL McLain

C Chance
1B Pujols
2B Morgan
3B Mathews
SS Vaughn
LF Veach
CF Doby
RF Guerrero
DH Heilmann

BN Clark
BN McCovey
BN McGwire
BN Minoso
BN Rose
BN Wilson
BN Rodriguez

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Miami

SP Koufax
SP Marichal
SP Gomez
SP Carlton
MR John
MR Lyle
MR Lemon
MR Lyons
MR Mays
MR Blue
MR Plank
CL Fingers

C Fisk
1B Trosky
2B Sandberg
3B Baker
SS Vizquel
LF Wheat
CF Cobb
RF Cuyler
DH Crawford

BN Traynor

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New England

SP Vance
SP Gibson
SP Oswalt
SP Glavine
MR Trucks
CL Cicotte

C Foxx
1B Thomas
2B Kent
3B Allen
SS Wagner
LF Keller
CF Beltran
RF Colavito
DH Edmonds

BN Cash
BN Delahantey
BN Goslin
BN Hartnett
BN Stephens
BN Waner
BN Kaline

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Staten Island

SP Cone
SP Hershiser
SP Sabathia
SP Valenzuela
MR Darling
CL Joss

C Berra
1B Sisler
2B Utley
3B Lewis
SS Garciaparra
LF Williams
CF DiMaggio
RF Strawberry
DH Martinez

BN Puckett
BN Medwick
BN Jones
BN Harman
BN Gwynn
BN Brown
BN Bassler

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Vermont

SP Dean
SP Martinez
SP Montefusco
SP Young
MR Tiant
MR Pierce
MR Cuellar
CL Jenkins

C Dickey
1B Terry
2B Gordon
3B Rodriguez
SS Smith
LF Belle
CF Lynn
RF Walker
DH Ortiz

BN Botomley
BN Delgado
BN Howard
BN Lombardi
BN Kilebrew

[lawrence97]

It was interesting to see how the teams drafted, some went for pitchers early and often, whilst others concentrated on slugging batters.

I deciede to go for the best possible players, for the first 8 rounds before rounding out my team by getting some decent infielders and completing my pitching staff.


PREVIEW

Pitching

California(Walter Johnson, Rude Waddell, Mike Scott(the 86 version) and Ed Walsh, are ranked the number one unit, just ahead of Manhatten, Koufax, Marichal, Gomez and Carlton. The other pitchers staff are fairly even, but staten island is easily the worst, Hershiser, Cone, Sabathia, and Valenzuela, have a combined ranking of 9/20, fully 6.5 points behind Califronia.

Batting

The computer has two teams way out on their own, number 1, New England, which is also ranked as the overall favourite, on 34.5/45, is lead by Jimmie Foxx, Frank Thomas, Honus Wagner and Dick Allen, The game rates these frou players as all 4.5 stars out of 5 as a minimum.

My strategy of picking the best possible players has worked out well, Gehrig Mantle and Aaron are a fearsome three, but Piazza, Eddie Collins, Wade Boggs and Frank Robinson are all 4 star hitters, giving me a deep deep line up.

The other teams line ups are all 7/8 points behind, all within the range of 24-28, except for Miami, whose stratedy of pithcers first back fired, and have only Ty Cobb(5 stars) who is rated above 2.5 stars.

I will now sim out the season and see what happens, I will post the results up later

[lawrence97]

Final standings and the winning teams stats, will post others later;

[lawrence97]

awards;

[lawrence97]

Las Vegas total stats

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Dallas Thunder;

[Pirates Fan]

lawrence,

thanks for posting this idea and results. Good to see the league-leading ERAs are not ridiculously high.

will you be drafting "rookies" for a second season or is your universe a one-shot deal?

geoff