Season 33 (2051) - Where All the Action Happens - Page 6

RunninYakAngler · 11-10-2019, 07:43 AM

The YakAnglers made it as hard as possible losing games 160 and 161 before winning game 162 to force a game 163 with the Vermont White People. In the one game playoff, 99 Brecheen shuts out the People, beating Perfect Cy Young 3-0 to take the division and avoid the wildcard game.

Yelich and Sisler both have 20/20 seasons, and Yelich leads the conference in WAR.

BigRed75 · 11-10-2019, 08:11 AM

The Redlegs managed to right the ship after that shocking losing streak and avoid relegation by 5 games. The skid didn't cost us a WC spot - even if we had played those games at the same pace as the rest of the season we still would have missed out - but we stay in Perfect. And we have 33 more packs to open to try and get a player or two that will help us be more competitive.

Btw - Huntley may have finished 53 games ahead of us, but we still won those two games against them and three more to boot!

Okay, on to teams with some measure of success this season...

The Quendas, of course, made the playoffs. And I'm happy to say that in the epic back-and-forth between us and the Vercelli Celts - we came up on top! The extra rest will help us set up our rotation for the playoffs. I think we have a good chance of getting back up to Diamond, our highest level back in the old Quokka days. We also sold 91 Eddie Mathews for 10K, which was over 7-day average. So thanks, anonymous buyer!

And that's it. One freakin' playoff team. And a whole bunch of teams who finished 1-3 games out of the playoffs. And three teams that were relegated.

So all in all, a pretty horse$#!t season, to use a well-worn baseball phrase.

daves · 11-10-2019, 09:15 AM

P422:The Auburn Doubledays were humiliated on the road by the 1st place Newark Eagles 22-1 on September 27th.

The Eagles had 6 games left with a 5 1/2 game lead and a Magic # of just one, while the Doubledays had 7 games left . The Eagles had 3 games at home against my Woodpeckers that are horrible on the road (30-51) and then 3 games at Auburn to finish the season. They needed only one win or Doubleday lose to win the division.

Surprisingly the Woodpeckers managed their only road sweep of the season and the Doubledays managed to sweep the Seadogs. In the final 3 games the Doubledays hosted the Eagles and managed to sweep the Eagles and take 1st place by just one game.

I guess the blowout motivated my team and made them over confident?

Hopefully this momentum can mean something in the playoffs?

But there are a lot of mega whales in this league!

Westheim · 11-10-2019, 09:19 AM

The Rebels slithered into a wild card in Diamond and I fear the absolute worst, that they somehow rumble into four playoff wins and will be routed in a Reverse Chickamauga for 120 losses in Perfect next year...

The Coons missed their division by one game, and a wild card by 29. Nothing to see here... Last year was their chance. And the suckers ****ing blew it. They will never get another one...

The Accountants got blasted by 34 games by the Fighting Saints, managing a grand total of one (1) win against them in 19 contests.

JasonC23 · 11-10-2019, 09:21 AM

As the final standings show, the P440 playoffs seem to be set up well for a titanic clash between the AC Amberg Legends (130-32, +548 RDiff, +2 Pythag) and your Huntley Red Raiders (124-38, +533 RDiff, -4 Pythag)...but I've said the same thing 3 times in recent weeks and the "inevitable" clash of the titans in the Perfect League Series has happened exactly none of those times. Viva la baseball playoffs! Here's hoping Huntley can at least get past the Miami Jeters or Houston Ragin Cajuns and avoid its third-straight Division Series loss...

In this 2051 season, Huntley was lead offensively by P440 WAR leader LF Mickey Mantle and P440 rWAR leader (and second-place "regular" WAR finisher) Rube Waddell. With NC-leading totals in bold, Mantle put together the following batting and fielding line: .336/.424/.577/1.001, 122 R, 189 H, 33 HR, 123 RBI, 173 OPS+, 2.10 RF, +5.7 ZR, 1.014 EFF, 8.6 WAR. As for Rube, while he did manage to put a solid bit of distance between his wins and losses, he still ended up a mere 17-10 (his most losses for the Red Raiders ever!) despite a pitching line of 1.89 ERA, 32 GS, 204.2 IP, 244 K, 1.05 WHIP, 0.1 HR/9, 3.2 BB/9, 10.7 K/9, 229 ERA+, 8.4 WAR, 8.9 rWAR.

Good luck to all those in the P440 playoffs!

tallywood · 11-10-2019, 09:50 AM

First season in Perfect and we snagged a wild card spot!!!

If I have any hope of making it further than this in the future, I need to revamp my starting rotation. deGrom, Verlander, Syndergaard, Scherzer, and Prior are NOT getting it done... time to see if we can turn those guys into either missions or cheap legends after the season.

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Jackgoboom · 11-10-2019, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by old timer

Going by your record, maybe. Going by your roster, no. In my opionion, whales don't have guys like Paige, Santana and Seaver in their rotation, for example.

You always seem to get more from your team than should normally be possible. In other words, Jason was right... You're just a good manager.

Yep totally agree with Old Timer on this. I guess part of it is what you define as a whale team. To me a whale team is one where you look at it and just go...gulp.

There also aren't as many as you might think. Otherwise my team, with a third gold players and 4 perfects ( two live guys) wouldn't have six perfect league titles

Most whale rosters are similar and you just know them when you see them.

Catchthedamnball · 11-10-2019, 10:57 AM

The Mashers played sub-.500 ball over the second half of the season, finishing firmly out of the playoffs at 79-83. An improvement over last season but this team needs legitimate upgrades to actually go anywhere.

The positives:

-Griffey Jr. and Maddox led the conference in doubles with 55 apiece. Maddox also hit .284 and somehow drove in 63 runs from the leadoff spot, and blew away the competition in CF with a +29.3 ZR, while also leading in range factor and defensive efficiency. If he doesn't win a gold glove I'm rioting.

-The middle of the order was productive. Particularly productive was Colavito, who slashed .283/.372/.531, leading ALL LF in pretty much every single important power category. I'm hoping he'll get the silver slugger he deserves this time; he even outperformed someone's perfect Hank Aaron. Easily the best collection mission I've done despite having to shell out 15k to lock Jimmy Piersall to my roster.

-Kirby Yates saved 30 games and recorded a 2.68 ERA. Rick Rhoden shockingly went 15-11 with a 3.64 ERA and trailed only staff ace Tom Seaver in IP.

-Kell and Grote continued to carve out niche roles in the offense, getting their fair share of hits.

-In total the Mashers led the conference in ZR at +40 and were 7th in runs scored. The team is one PP windfall (perfect Boudreau, perhaps?) away from fixing the starting rotation and making a new home in Perfect. Tournaments beginning next week may make this more feasible.

The negatives:

-Max Muncy needs to go.

-Live gold and silver pitchers are excruciatingly hard to watch.

Sending good vibes to all those still battling for a league trophy.

JasonC23 · 11-10-2019, 11:10 AM

So, my FTP theme team Suburban Sox, who finally got promoted to Gold this season after approximately 1,067 seasons in Silver, entered the 9th inning of their Wild Card game with a commanding 7-2 lead...only to give up 7 runs. They got one back in the bottom of the 9th (yay, moral victories?), but still lost 9-8.

Meanwhile, back in OOTP19 PT 1.0, my (old school) Huntley Red Raiders entered the 9th inning of their Wild Card game with a 6-3 lead, only to give up 2 runs. At least the original Red Raiders managed to stem the tide there, with Dennis Eckersley managing to retire Mookie Betts even as Mike Trout stood on second base representing the tying run, and hold on for a 6-5 win.

Here's hoping these aren't ominous harbingers for my flagship Red Raiders, who will be facing the Miami Jeters in the Division Series. Miami escaped the Wild Card game with a wild...well, why don't I show, not tell?

RunninYakAngler · 11-10-2019, 12:10 PM

Harry Brecheen gets oh so close to Perfection in the first game of the p414 Division Series.

RunninYakAngler · 11-10-2019, 12:38 PM

Doc Gooden mowing them down!

Westheim · 11-10-2019, 01:08 PM

Oh bloody ****.

RJ 4, CHA 8 - F

CHA 4, CIN 3 - F
CHA 5, CIN 4 - F/10

Btw, the Rebs' roster is on page one. I merely swapped out Syndergaard for Glasnow this year. Look at them and then vote "yikes" if you think they deserve being in Perfect...

webdox · 11-10-2019, 01:14 PM

My All Gold Caps team has again made it to the Perfect post season but am getting destroyed by a talented team of top notch SP. My Gold boys won their division outright this season so the right players can compete in the Bigs...

RunninYakAngler · 11-10-2019, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Westheim

Look at them and then vote "yikes" if you think they deserve being in Perfect...

Yikes! Err, No Yikes!

daves · 11-10-2019, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by waittilnextyear

Have this question I need to ask...am I a whale now? Here is some evidence to consider.

101-28 so far this season, btw.

If you are consistently winning 100+ games in an open Perfect league you are a whale!

If you have multiple cards that costs more than 300k in the AH you are a mega whale!

Westheim · 11-10-2019, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by RunninYakAngler

Yikes! Err, No Yikes!

It will happen. Swept the LDS.

JasonC23 · 11-10-2019, 01:41 PM

As it turns out, the Huntley/Miami series is the only Division Series that has not ended in a sweep! Huntley took games 1 and 2 at home behind Rube Waddell, 2-0 (Waddell's pitching line: 7.0 innings, 2 hits, 2 walks, 12 strikeouts...and a no-decision, because of course), and Roger Clemens, 3-1, but Miami just won game 3 at home, 4-0, behind their Roger Clemens.

Meanwhile, shockingly, the 106-56 always-bridesmaids Excelsior Dodgers were swept by the Omar Panthers, a team that, before just now, I didn't even really look at this week.

The Panthers won an Iron League Series back in 2025 but have no other medallions to their name; after a suspicious 35-127 Perfect League record that got them demoted in 2043 (it followed 4 seasons in Perfect in which they only managed one above-.500 finish but were never worse than 74-88 until that 35-win season), they reached Perfect again in 2045 and have made the playoffs every year, winning between 85 and 99 games. This season, they finished third in the NC in runs scored (791) and fourth in runs allowed (688); Huntley went 6-1 against the Panthers this season, but all 7 matchups were way back in May.

And also, Miami could win 2 more games and make all this moot.

Game 4 coming up!

Will_L · 11-10-2019, 01:45 PM

Reavers sweep their division series.
Rifles win their series in five.
Elitist Scum take game five over the Philadelphia Phillies.
On to the Sub-league.

Will_L · 11-10-2019, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by waittilnextyear

Nice. I think this is the first time I've seen more than 3 teams in someone's signature. Congrats for figuring the technology out on that.

Its the same for one team in the signature as it is for six, I copied and pasted then changed the user id's. No idea if there is a maximum.

Jackgoboom · 11-10-2019, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daves

If you are consistently winning 100+ games in an open Perfect league you are a whale!

If you have multiple cards that costs more than 300k in the AH you are a mega whale!

Its an interesting question. I have 23, 100 plus win seasons and six perfect league wins. I have 2, 300k players, both pitchers, but I doubt anyone will look at my team and go "Gee I hope I don't meet those guys in the playoffs"

If I had the money and/or the time to play the market I would upgrade 23 players in my squad

Should we have whales and mega whales? Or are mega whales the only true whales? I wonder...

11-10-2019, 07:43 AM	#101
RunninYakAngler Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2019 Posts: 204	The YakAnglers made it as hard as possible losing games 160 and 161 before winning game 162 to force a game 163 with the Vermont White People. In the one game playoff, 99 Brecheen shuts out the People, beating Perfect Cy Young 3-0 to take the division and avoid the wildcard game. Yelich and Sisler both have 20/20 seasons, and Yelich leads the conference in WAR. __________________

11-10-2019, 08:11 AM	#102
BigRed75 Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2,430	The Redlegs managed to right the ship after that shocking losing streak and avoid relegation by 5 games. The skid didn't cost us a WC spot - even if we had played those games at the same pace as the rest of the season we still would have missed out - but we stay in Perfect. And we have 33 more packs to open to try and get a player or two that will help us be more competitive. Btw - Huntley may have finished 53 games ahead of us, but we still won those two games against them and three more to boot! Okay, on to teams with some measure of success this season... The Quendas, of course, made the playoffs. And I'm happy to say that in the epic back-and-forth between us and the Vercelli Celts - we came up on top! The extra rest will help us set up our rotation for the playoffs. I think we have a good chance of getting back up to Diamond, our highest level back in the old Quokka days. We also sold 91 Eddie Mathews for 10K, which was over 7-day average. So thanks, anonymous buyer! And that's it. One freakin' playoff team. And a whole bunch of teams who finished 1-3 games out of the playoffs. And three teams that were relegated. So all in all, a pretty horse$#!t season, to use a well-worn baseball phrase. __________________ Mainline team SPTT team Was not a Snag fan...until I saw the fallout once he was gone and realized what a good job he was actually doing. - Ty Cobb

11-10-2019, 09:15 AM	#103
daves Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3,634	P422:The Auburn Doubledays were humiliated on the road by the 1st place Newark Eagles 22-1 on September 27th. The Eagles had 6 games left with a 5 1/2 game lead and a Magic # of just one, while the Doubledays had 7 games left . The Eagles had 3 games at home against my Woodpeckers that are horrible on the road (30-51) and then 3 games at Auburn to finish the season. They needed only one win or Doubleday lose to win the division. Surprisingly the Woodpeckers managed their only road sweep of the season and the Doubledays managed to sweep the Seadogs. In the final 3 games the Doubledays hosted the Eagles and managed to sweep the Eagles and take 1st place by just one game. I guess the blowout motivated my team and made them over confident? Hopefully this momentum can mean something in the playoffs? But there are a lot of mega whales in this league! Attached Images __________________ Last edited by daves; 11-10-2019 at 09:16 AM.

11-10-2019, 09:19 AM	#104
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 11,890	The Rebels slithered into a wild card in Diamond and I fear the absolute worst, that they somehow rumble into four playoff wins and will be routed in a Reverse Chickamauga for 120 losses in Perfect next year... The Coons missed their division by one game, and a wild card by 29. Nothing to see here... Last year was their chance. And the suckers ***ing blew it. They will never get another one... The Accountants got blasted by 34 games by the Fighting Saints, managing a grand total of one (1) win against them in 19 contests. __________________ Portland Raccoons, 83 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.

11-10-2019, 09:21 AM	#105
JasonC23 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Huntley, IL Posts: 865	P440: Mantle and Rube and...something that rhymes with "Rube" As the final standings show, the P440 playoffs seem to be set up well for a titanic clash between the AC Amberg Legends (130-32, +548 RDiff, +2 Pythag) and your Huntley Red Raiders (124-38, +533 RDiff, -4 Pythag)...but I've said the same thing 3 times in recent weeks and the "inevitable" clash of the titans in the Perfect League Series has happened exactly none of those times. Viva la baseball playoffs! Here's hoping Huntley can at least get past the Miami Jeters or Houston Ragin Cajuns and avoid its third-straight Division Series loss... In this 2051 season, Huntley was lead offensively by P440 WAR leader LF Mickey Mantle and P440 rWAR leader (and second-place "regular" WAR finisher) Rube Waddell. With NC-leading totals in bold, Mantle put together the following batting and fielding line: .336/.424/.577/1.001, 122 R, 189 H, 33 HR, 123 RBI, 173 OPS+, 2.10 RF, +5.7 ZR, 1.014 EFF, 8.6 WAR. As for Rube, while he did manage to put a solid bit of distance between his wins and losses, he still ended up a mere 17-10 (his most losses for the Red Raiders ever!) despite a pitching line of 1.89 ERA, 32 GS, 204.2 IP, 244 K, 1.05 WHIP, 0.1 HR/9, 3.2 BB/9, 10.7 K/9, 229 ERA+, 8.4 WAR, 8.9 rWAR. Good luck to all those in the P440 playoffs! Attached Images __________________

11-10-2019, 09:50 AM	#106
tallywood Minors (Rookie Ball) Join Date: Oct 2019 Location: VA Posts: 25	First season in Perfect and we snagged a wild card spot!!! If I have any hope of making it further than this in the future, I need to revamp my starting rotation. deGrom, Verlander, Syndergaard, Scherzer, and Prior are NOT getting it done... time to see if we can turn those guys into either missions or cheap legends after the season. __________________ F2P out of necessity, not by choice. Last edited by tallywood; 11-10-2019 at 09:54 AM.

11-10-2019, 10:57 AM	#108
Catchthedamnball Minors (Double A) Join Date: Oct 2019 Posts: 170	The Mashers played sub-.500 ball over the second half of the season, finishing firmly out of the playoffs at 79-83. An improvement over last season but this team needs legitimate upgrades to actually go anywhere. The positives: -Griffey Jr. and Maddox led the conference in doubles with 55 apiece. Maddox also hit .284 and somehow drove in 63 runs from the leadoff spot, and blew away the competition in CF with a +29.3 ZR, while also leading in range factor and defensive efficiency. If he doesn't win a gold glove I'm rioting. -The middle of the order was productive. Particularly productive was Colavito, who slashed .283/.372/.531, leading ALL LF in pretty much every single important power category. I'm hoping he'll get the silver slugger he deserves this time; he even outperformed someone's perfect Hank Aaron. Easily the best collection mission I've done despite having to shell out 15k to lock Jimmy Piersall to my roster. -Kirby Yates saved 30 games and recorded a 2.68 ERA. Rick Rhoden shockingly went 15-11 with a 3.64 ERA and trailed only staff ace Tom Seaver in IP. -Kell and Grote continued to carve out niche roles in the offense, getting their fair share of hits. -In total the Mashers led the conference in ZR at +40 and were 7th in runs scored. The team is one PP windfall (perfect Boudreau, perhaps?) away from fixing the starting rotation and making a new home in Perfect. Tournaments beginning next week may make this more feasible. The negatives: -Max Muncy needs to go. -Live gold and silver pitchers are excruciatingly hard to watch. Sending good vibes to all those still battling for a league trophy. __________________

11-10-2019, 11:10 AM	#109
JasonC23 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Huntley, IL Posts: 865	So, my FTP theme team Suburban Sox, who finally got promoted to Gold this season after approximately 1,067 seasons in Silver, entered the 9th inning of their Wild Card game with a commanding 7-2 lead...only to give up 7 runs. They got one back in the bottom of the 9th (yay, moral victories?), but still lost 9-8. Meanwhile, back in OOTP19 PT 1.0, my (old school) Huntley Red Raiders entered the 9th inning of their Wild Card game with a 6-3 lead, only to give up 2 runs. At least the original Red Raiders managed to stem the tide there, with Dennis Eckersley managing to retire Mookie Betts even as Mike Trout stood on second base representing the tying run, and hold on for a 6-5 win. Here's hoping these aren't ominous harbingers for my flagship Red Raiders, who will be facing the Miami Jeters in the Division Series. Miami escaped the Wild Card game with a wild...well, why don't I show, not tell? Attached Images __________________

11-10-2019, 12:10 PM	#110
RunninYakAngler Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2019 Posts: 204	Harry Brecheen gets oh so close to Perfection in the first game of the p414 Division Series. Attached Images __________________

11-10-2019, 12:38 PM	#111
RunninYakAngler Minors (Triple A) Join Date: May 2019 Posts: 204	Doc Gooden mowing them down! Attached Images __________________

11-10-2019, 01:08 PM	#112
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 11,890	Oh bloody ***. RJ 4, CHA 8 - F CHA 4, CIN 3 - F CHA 5, CIN 4 - F/10 Btw, the Rebs' roster is on page one. I merely swapped out Syndergaard for Glasnow this year. Look at them and then vote "yikes" if you think they deserve being in Perfect... __________________ Portland Raccoons, 83 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here. Last edited by Westheim; 11-10-2019 at 01:10 PM.

11-10-2019, 01:14 PM	#113
webdox Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 289	My All Gold Caps team has again made it to the Perfect post season but am getting destroyed by a talented team of top notch SP. My Gold boys won their division outright this season so the right players can compete in the Bigs...

11-10-2019, 01:41 PM	#117
JasonC23 All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Huntley, IL Posts: 865	P440: How Sweep It...Uh, Never Mind, Then As it turns out, the Huntley/Miami series is the only Division Series that has not ended in a sweep! Huntley took games 1 and 2 at home behind Rube Waddell, 2-0 (Waddell's pitching line: 7.0 innings, 2 hits, 2 walks, 12 strikeouts...and a no-decision, because of course), and Roger Clemens, 3-1, but Miami just won game 3 at home, 4-0, behind their Roger Clemens. Meanwhile, shockingly, the 106-56 always-bridesmaids Excelsior Dodgers were swept by the Omar Panthers, a team that, before just now, I didn't even really look at this week. The Panthers won an Iron League Series back in 2025 but have no other medallions to their name; after a suspicious 35-127 Perfect League record that got them demoted in 2043 (it followed 4 seasons in Perfect in which they only managed one above-.500 finish but were never worse than 74-88 until that 35-win season), they reached Perfect again in 2045 and have made the playoffs every year, winning between 85 and 99 games. This season, they finished third in the NC in runs scored (791) and fourth in runs allowed (688); Huntley went 6-1 against the Panthers this season, but all 7 matchups were way back in May. And also, Miami could win 2 more games and make all this moot. Game 4 coming up! __________________

11-10-2019, 01:45 PM	#118
Will_L All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2018 Location: Laurelton, NY Posts: 590	Reavers sweep their division series. Rifles win their series in five. Elitist Scum take game five over the Philadelphia Phillies. On to the Sub-league. __________________ Last edited by Will_L; 11-10-2019 at 03:03 PM.