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Anyway, the White Tigers wrapped up their division in Gold a while back, currently at 96-59. The Black Panthers are in a bit of a rut in Bronze, on a 6-10 run, but we've got a magic number of 1, sitting at 83-73 right now. |
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04-14-2019, 12:04 AM | #83 |
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The Frogs clinched their S290 division relatively easily after continuing to alternate .500 months with 22-win months. Finally got around to adding that Blake Treinen card for the bullpen. This was pretty much a win as I sold Edwin Diaz (got him in a pack) and bought Treinen with that same amount of PP. Diaz's movement rating is not gonna cut it any higher than silver or gold level.
If the current playoff picture holds, the Frogs' divisional round opponent will be the C.N. Owls, a defense-before-all-else type of team. This team's starting 9, you ask? RF - J. Dyson (104) 2B - A. Simmons (116) DH - W. McCovey (who cares) 1B - B. Belt (99) 3B - T. Tulowitzki (113) LF - G. Vukovich (116) CF - K. Kiermaier (102) SS - M. Belanger (115) C - M. LaValliere (115) The bench has Mike Matheny, Eric Hosmer, Rick Burleson, and Harrison Bader on it. And, of course, the home ballpark factors are all minimized. I know it's eating at this guy he can't pluck one of the many strong middle infielders in PT and play him at 1B because those guys just aren't tall enough. lol. Brandon Belt is the weak link in this defense. |
04-14-2019, 12:10 AM | #84 |
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B'sin'Glou is in a dogfight with division rival Jacksonville for the 2nd wildcard slot. We're 85-72, Jacksonville is 85-73. The next closet team is 3 1/2 games back.
On a slightly weird note, no qualified hitters in our conference are hitting over .300.
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04-14-2019, 01:10 AM | #85 | |
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04-14-2019, 02:10 AM | #86 |
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And we've made it! We also have a chance to qualify as the top wildcard if we win the last game of the season against the Rhode Island Rampage, who are the other wildcard qualifier.
We got a pack via Challenge Mode just before the last game and were able to add Joe Jimenez and Hardware Hero John Franco to our bullpen. They're both definite upgrades, Jimenez enough of an upgrade to move into closer. We've scored more runs than last season and allowed less, which can only be a good thing, right?
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04-14-2019, 02:57 AM | #87 | |
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Meanwhile the White Tigers finished at 100-62. Giancarlo Stanton has been terrible for us so I dropped him to the reserve roster, slid Trevor Story over to DH, moved Manny Machado back to SS and Justin Turner back to the starting lineup at third, and brought up Adalberto Mondesi for depth. TBH none of those guys are exactly lighting the world on fire either, of the four of them Turner has the best OPS+ at 100. Our offense has really been leaning on Daniel Murphy, Cody Bellinger, and Matt Carpenter this season. Pitching rotation for the playoffs will be deGrom/Syndergaard/Sale/Kluber in that order, using Strasburg in long relief. Also my setup man is now John Rocker of all people. Last edited by Warhawk; 04-14-2019 at 02:59 AM. |
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04-14-2019, 03:12 AM | #88 |
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Well, it was an excellent regular season for the Aotearoa Angels. Finished up 101-61 with a 19 game lead in the division. Had some luck along the way to get above 100 though, we were 12-3 in extra-innings games and 24-15 in one-run games.
In our conference, Ty Cobb led the league in WAR for the second time in a row with 7.6 -- I doubt he wins the MVP this time round though considering Westheim's Walter Johnson managed to grab himself the pitching triple crown and 10.8 WAR (10.9 rWAR too). That first playoff matchup looks tough though. My opponent went 109-53 and has 3 perfects, 19 diamonds, and 3 golds making up his roster. That compares to my 3 diamonds, 10 golds, 7 silvers, and 5 bronzes. We don't match up too well to them either, I've only won 1 out of the 6 matchups this season.
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I've kept Stanton in my roster but I've dropped him off the lineup against righties. He hit an 103 OPS+ and according to his splits was good against lefties but dreadful against right handed pitchers with a slashline of .211/.277/.390. So I've dropped one of my starting pitchers and bought in someone else to platoon at DH. I might drop him altogether next season when I go back to a 5-man rotation. He hasn't played in RL so I assume his ratings won't change.
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04-14-2019, 04:11 AM | #90 | |
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Gonna have to reevaluate next season. Aside from the aforementioned I have Charlie Blackmon, Khris Davis, Shohei Ohtani, and a future legend Kyle Tucker on my reserve roster. Between them and my current starting outfielders of Bellinger/Conforto/Eaton I kind of have a logjam in the outfield, plus the quandry of whether I start Machado over Turner or Story in the infield. |
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04-14-2019, 05:26 AM | #91 |
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It didn't even take a .500 record for promotion ... and still six games away
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04-14-2019, 05:56 AM | #92 |
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Just pulled my best card so far in PT20
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04-14-2019, 06:41 AM | #93 |
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Very nice! Even though I'm jealous, I still like seeing great pulls like this. Seeing cards like this makes a part of me want to open packs, but I just can't get myself to spend money (or earned PP for that matter) on something that's such a big gamble (not much of a risk taker) so I just stick to the AH. Of course, this also means that my best cards will never rival this one (even though I'm spending money on this team which I didn't do in PT19 until late).
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04-14-2019, 07:08 AM | #94 |
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'Nooga ended up bottoms in their league and will be relegated to Silver (unless other teams are purged for meddling, which I doubt). It was close, 63-99 when 65-97 would have guaranteed remaining in Gold.
Sigh. But as mrbucket said earlier, Big Walter pulled through and won the triple crown! It was not all that close in the end; all the other pitchers vying for wins stopped winning altogether and he won the ERA crown by more than a full run. Funnily enough, this helped the Critters *nothing* as they lumbered towards a 79-83 finish that, if I am not mistaken, is still enough for promotion to Diamond, which can't be good for that offense. … however, with the Johnson heroics I have almost 8k PP that a wise GM would invest into stingy improvements! (finger hovers over the "buy max packs" button) (finger vibrates)
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04-14-2019, 11:00 AM | #95 |
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I noticed when I got up this morning alot of my teams did not save- there was no sim or anything
Then I noticed I have players i bought on my inactive- put them back where they belong. But the weidest thing- I know McCullers JR sold last night- which is how I bought anther LF. Yet he is still showing on my team. Anybody else showing players that sold last night on their team? |
04-14-2019, 02:35 PM | #96 |
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Golden Lions lost in the wild card game. White Tigers went down 2-0 to start their series, deGrom lasted 1 2/3 innings, Syndergaard didn't last much longer, now down 2-1.
On the other hand, the Las Vegas Black Panthers, who have 5 gold cards and the rest are a mix of silver and bronze, just swept a team with 20 more wins who have 1 perfect, 12 diamond, and 11 gold players on the active roster. We had gone 1-5 against them in the regular season and went into the playoffs 20th in the power rankings. EDIT: White Tigers lose in 4 games. deGrom, Syndergaard, and Kluber gave up 16 runs (6, 5, and 5, respectively) in 9 2/3 innings (deGrom and Syndergaard will be easily in the top 5 in Cy Young voting and Kluber won 16 games, so this is a pretty epic choke job). Strasburg gave up 8 in 4 1/3 in relief. The only guys who pitched well in significant innings were Sale (7 innings, 5 hits, 1 unearned run) and Minter (4 innings in relief, 1 hit, no runs). Meanwhile, Manny Machado, Joc Pederson, and Michael Conforto went a combined 1/41 at the plate. Murphy, Grandal, and Carpenter played well but it wasn't enough. Well, at least this means I can't lose the world series for the third straight season. Last edited by Warhawk; 04-14-2019 at 03:17 PM. |
04-14-2019, 05:00 PM | #97 |
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B'sin'Glou were easily beaten in the wildcard game. Now to decide whether to upgrade pitching or offense before next season...
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04-14-2019, 05:32 PM | #98 |
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Welp, Black Panthers got swept in the conference championship series.
Still haven't had a team miss the playoffs, been to 3 finals, still zero championships to speak of. |
04-14-2019, 05:33 PM | #99 |
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Fighting Saints tied 1-1 in the ALCS in G324 against the Belfast Dodgers. They are a good team, should be a good fight.
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04-14-2019, 06:03 PM | #100 |
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Well, my 119-win Iron league team just got swept in the semi-finals. to a 93-win team that my team is objectively better than. Bah. And the final loss broke my Edwin Diaz's 39-save streak. On the plus side, that save streak put me over 5,000 PP, and I grabbed Steven Strasburg for my 5th SP. Now I have 5 SPs at 86+, with Bauer, Verlander and Strasburg as my diamonds.
Another really good team lost in the divisional round (to a pretty equally matched team) and my 3rd team's down 2-1 in the semifinals as well, to a team that it's supposedly pretty equal, too. Bah.
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