What a season ! 1922 random debut

[italyprof]

In the third year of my random debut, now in late 1922, my Detroit Wildcats – defending World Series champions, just won their second pennant in a row in dramatic fashion. Last season we got Don Mattingly a World Series triumph in his later seasons. An offense led by him, Johnny Evers and Rabbit Maranville made up for only okay pitching.
The league is random debut, players from 1901 to 2010. I keep 1983 as the permanent offensive environment. Five-year recalc, with development on, players retire as in history.
So in trying to repeat as champs, we had a lot of competition this year: Baltimore, New York and Cleveland and we were all within a game of first through August. Cleveland faded, but the other two stayed in it. NY ended up four games out.
But we ended the season with a three-game series against Baltimore and they swept us to be one-half game ahead, with us having only a rainout make-up against the Sacramento Senators.
That should have been easy – they were a last-place team. But they were not pushovers that day.
We had Mark Fydrich on the mound for us, and he pitched well, but we were down 2-1till Fydrich drove in Don Mattingly with a single to tie it. It was 3-3 in the 8th when a bases-loaded walk to rookie Paul O’Neill gave us the lead and then our setup man Alan Mills came in to put it away.
Tied for first with the Orioles. A one-game showdown in Tiger Stadium. They had Roger Clemens going for them though!
We went with a risky choice. We had to play the whole last month of the season, and the postseason still, without our ace Frank Viola.
So we brought up George Stone from AA to fill in the rotation and he pitched great, so in the end we trusted him more than our other starters.
Stone v. Clemens.
We knocked Clemens out in the fourth on a Don Mattingly bases-loaded bases-clearing double!
We hung on and won it! Now, onto the World Series with our 94-61 record. Cincinnati 93-61, a team that had the two top batters in the NL, Wally Moses .386 and Rico Carty .384 and Roy Foster the RBI champ.
As for the rest of the league – the AL batting champ was Eddie Collins who batted an even .400! He beat out Kenny Lofton and Wade Boggs, both at .390.
Rookie Tom Seaver went 21-9 for the New York Eagles and won the ERA title at 2.74. Juan Marichal went 22-11 with a 2.88 ERA for the Phillies.
Home runs were weirdly down for some reason: Ken Griffey, Jr. led the majors with 26. Last season, instead, the leader was Ted Williams, with 49. (he hit .351). Tris Speaker had led the majors in 1921 with .397. Orel Hershiser was the ERA leader in 1921 with a 2.07 ERA. Dave Giusti was the 1920 pitching leader with 23-9, 2.23. Eddie Collins with .383 and Albert Belle with 29 homers were the leaders in those categories.
Well, it’s on to the 1922 World Series against the Reds…

[Reed]

Originally Posted by italyprof

In the third year of my random debut, now in late 1922, my Detroit Wildcats – defending World Series champions, just won their second pennant in a row in dramatic fashion. Last season we got Don Mattingly a World Series triumph in his later seasons. An offense led by him, Johnny Evers and Rabbit Maranville made up for only okay pitching.
The league is random debut, players from 1901 to 2010. I keep 1983 as the permanent offensive environment. Five-year recalc, with development on, players retire as in history.
So in trying to repeat as champs, we had a lot of competition this year: Baltimore, New York and Cleveland and we were all within a game of first through August. Cleveland faded, but the other two stayed in it. NY ended up four games out.
But we ended the season with a three-game series against Baltimore and they swept us to be one-half game ahead, with us having only a rainout make-up against the Sacramento Senators.
That should have been easy – they were a last-place team. But they were not pushovers that day.
We had Mark Fydrich on the mound for us, and he pitched well, but we were down 2-1till Fydrich drove in Don Mattingly with a single to tie it. It was 3-3 in the 8th when a bases-loaded walk to rookie Paul O’Neill gave us the lead and then our setup man Alan Mills came in to put it away.
Tied for first with the Orioles. A one-game showdown in Tiger Stadium. They had Roger Clemens going for them though!
We went with a risky choice. We had to play the whole last month of the season, and the postseason still, without our ace Frank Viola.
So we brought up George Stone from AA to fill in the rotation and he pitched great, so in the end we trusted him more than our other starters.
Stone v. Clemens.
We knocked Clemens out in the fourth on a Don Mattingly bases-loaded bases-clearing double!
We hung on and won it! Now, onto the World Series with our 94-61 record. Cincinnati 93-61, a team that had the two top batters in the NL, Wally Moses .386 and Rico Carty .384 and Roy Foster the RBI champ.
As for the rest of the league – the AL batting champ was Eddie Collins who batted an even .400! He beat out Kenny Lofton and Wade Boggs, both at .390.
Rookie Tom Seaver went 21-9 for the New York Eagles and won the ERA title at 2.74. Juan Marichal went 22-11 with a 2.88 ERA for the Phillies.
Home runs were weirdly down for some reason: Ken Griffey, Jr. led the majors with 26. Last season, instead, the leader was Ted Williams, with 49. (he hit .351). Tris Speaker had led the majors in 1921 with .397. Orel Hershiser was the ERA leader in 1921 with a 2.07 ERA. Dave Giusti was the 1920 pitching leader with 23-9, 2.23. Eddie Collins with .383 and Albert Belle with 29 homers were the leaders in those categories.
Well, it’s on to the 1922 World Series against the Reds…

I like hearing about others random leagues. Just curious, how many rounds is your rookie draft? And do you play with injuries on/off? What kind of adjust/weaken setting are you using?

I recently started a new random league, 1984 base stat year. Decided to try recal 3 yr double weighted. Development off. Retire according to history and players miss seasons as in real life both ON. Injuries off. 8 round rookie draft. I had to lower my adjust weaken settings some to get the same statistical output I was getting in previous league with development on and RAH and missed seasons both OFF. This league using 560/210 and 80/30. My only complaint ,which is minor, it seems players that played in 2023 (like Acuna) continue playing with their last ratings until they retire around age 42. I am tempted to lower their ratings manually around age 35.

[David Watts]

Originally Posted by Reed

I like hearing about others random leagues. Just curious, how many rounds is your rookie draft? And do you play with injuries on/off? What kind of adjust/weaken setting are you using?

I recently started a new random league, 1984 base stat year. Decided to try recal 3 yr double weighted. Development off. Retire according to history and players miss seasons as in real life both ON. Injuries off. 8 round rookie draft. I had to lower my adjust weaken settings some to get the same statistical output I was getting in previous league with development on and RAH and missed seasons both OFF. This league using 560/210 and 80/30. My only complaint ,which is minor, it seems players that played in 2023 (like Acuna) continue playing with their last ratings until they retire around age 42. I am tempted to lower their ratings manually around age 35.

So modern guys just repeat their last year until the game decides to retire them?

[David Watts]

Originally Posted by italyprof

In the third year of my random debut, now in late 1922, my Detroit Wildcats – defending World Series champions, just won their second pennant in a row in dramatic fashion. Last season we got Don Mattingly a World Series triumph in his later seasons. An offense led by him, Johnny Evers and Rabbit Maranville made up for only okay pitching.
The league is random debut, players from 1901 to 2010. I keep 1983 as the permanent offensive environment. Five-year recalc, with development on, players retire as in history.
So in trying to repeat as champs, we had a lot of competition this year: Baltimore, New York and Cleveland and we were all within a game of first through August. Cleveland faded, but the other two stayed in it. NY ended up four games out.
But we ended the season with a three-game series against Baltimore and they swept us to be one-half game ahead, with us having only a rainout make-up against the Sacramento Senators.
That should have been easy – they were a last-place team. But they were not pushovers that day.
We had Mark Fydrich on the mound for us, and he pitched well, but we were down 2-1till Fydrich drove in Don Mattingly with a single to tie it. It was 3-3 in the 8th when a bases-loaded walk to rookie Paul O’Neill gave us the lead and then our setup man Alan Mills came in to put it away.
Tied for first with the Orioles. A one-game showdown in Tiger Stadium. They had Roger Clemens going for them though!
We went with a risky choice. We had to play the whole last month of the season, and the postseason still, without our ace Frank Viola.
So we brought up George Stone from AA to fill in the rotation and he pitched great, so in the end we trusted him more than our other starters.
Stone v. Clemens.
We knocked Clemens out in the fourth on a Don Mattingly bases-loaded bases-clearing double!
We hung on and won it! Now, onto the World Series with our 94-61 record. Cincinnati 93-61, a team that had the two top batters in the NL, Wally Moses .386 and Rico Carty .384 and Roy Foster the RBI champ.
As for the rest of the league – the AL batting champ was Eddie Collins who batted an even .400! He beat out Kenny Lofton and Wade Boggs, both at .390.
Rookie Tom Seaver went 21-9 for the New York Eagles and won the ERA title at 2.74. Juan Marichal went 22-11 with a 2.88 ERA for the Phillies.
Home runs were weirdly down for some reason: Ken Griffey, Jr. led the majors with 26. Last season, instead, the leader was Ted Williams, with 49. (he hit .351). Tris Speaker had led the majors in 1921 with .397. Orel Hershiser was the ERA leader in 1921 with a 2.07 ERA. Dave Giusti was the 1920 pitching leader with 23-9, 2.23. Eddie Collins with .383 and Albert Belle with 29 homers were the leaders in those categories.
Well, it’s on to the 1922 World Series against the Reds…

Kenny Lofton is a random debut beast. He always does well in my games.

[Reed]

Originally Posted by David Watts

So modern guys just repeat their last year until the game decides to retire them?

I assume that is because development is off in my league.

[David Watts]

Originally Posted by Reed

I assume that is because development is off in my league.

I was just curious, because when the miss seasons/rah feature was added, the patch info made it sound like modern players would age and develop/decline in a normal fashion after their recalc years ran out. I'm not a fan of Groundhogs Day players.

[Reed]

Originally Posted by David Watts

I was just curious, because when the miss seasons/rah feature was added, the patch info made it sound like modern players would age and develop/decline in a normal fashion after their recalc years ran out. I'm not a fan of Groundhogs Day players.

Okay did a simple test using my same setup BUT turned development on. Followed 4 players that played in 2023. A. Gimenez, K. Marte, M. Olsen, and C. Seager. With development on all retired between age 35-38. Their stats started going down around age 32 like you would expect for players that age.