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Allyn posted:Love Abdul bin Sajid's nickname His history is also pretty awesome. Who's Who in Upcoming Saudi Arabian Cricket players
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Is Randy Johnson Jr. with his wife or the mistress he impregnated?
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Telex posted:wow, who's the fuckhead who absolutely decimated St. Louis? Money is really loving dumb in the league. P much everyone has tens of millions just laying around that we can't spend and can't carry over to the next season.
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Mornacale posted:Money is really loving dumb in the league. P much everyone has tens of millions just laying around that we can't spend and can't carry over to the next season. Just in Toona's defense, the guys who set the league up didn't really have the foresight for the financials and it used to be far worse.
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Oh, btw, I'm not going to be working 12-14 hours a day any longer, so watch your back Tadashi. The Yankees Baseball Dynasty is coming.  No they're not
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Pretty thorough and well-written story on text-sim sports games with a focus on OOTP leagues: http://theclassical.org/post/12563189457/dice-boards
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tadashi posted:Pretty thorough and well-written story on text-sim sports games with a focus on OOTP leagues: Gah. It makes me want to continue playing my PCL league game.
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Ha, 2017's home run champ is from my college. Though you hosed up Andy Wilkins's birthdate.
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Reds: 2016 World Series Champions. Now if only I had the absurd amount of money that Joey Votto wants for an absurd amount of time. I really wish that in the offseason you had some sort of say as to what league changes were going to be made. Fork of Unknown Origins fucked around with this message at 08:30 on Dec 1, 2011 |
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Armitage posted:My offline OOTP historical game is mocking me. For some reason it's decided Dan Warthen's gonna be a borderline hall of famer There's TMB's cue to post JoeMays.jpg
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SIKE. Owned. I found the old .mog (from 2008!), so it's just updated with higher res. Notable:
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^^^my favorite part is the seven career CGs. OOTP is way more conservative than BBM in regards to turning random #3-#4 starters in real life into Cy Young. One thing I don't like about it.
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I like how the Yankees turn him into a reliever after a 20-3 age 41 season.
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Made me dig out my old copy to see how it's going, and two things popped out: 1) BBM has a universal pro-Baltimore bias:  2) It simmed from 1901 to 2022 and the oldest player in the league is a 47-year-old Miguel Ojeda. (lookit that 2001 line)  His career statistics: 
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Behold the legend of Dana Eveland http://www.toonathecat.net/scmlb/news/html/players/player_18763.html 06/28/2012 Got claimed off waivers by Boston while with Arizona. 11/24/2012 Became a free agent. 06/10/2013 Signed a 1-year minor league contract with the New York Yankees organization. There must have been some magic in that old jock strap they found.
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ThatsMyBoye posted:Notable: Can't believe you didn't list the 380-59 career record
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Related: This league has several openings. Enquire within.
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I don't do a recalc player ratings/retire players according to history/players miss seasons deal as I find it fun to rewrite history. I also find it fun to discover, or rediscover, obscure players that could have been someone. In the N/V thread I mentioned Kal Daniels, who is currently owning the crap out of my league for the Montreal Expos. I looked him up, and the dude kicked rear end for too brief of a period. I wonder what happened to him, he could have been a superstar. Also, here's Warthen himself, in all his glory. The Indians had some not so good teams during his run, sadly.  I've been tempted to sabotage him over the years  Also, I just never got around to picking up OOTP 12, though I have heard the game has some pretty nice options.
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so I got an ipad and I'm tempted to get iootp... but are we close to a release of iootp 2012 instead? I know it's only 5 bucks but I still hate wasting 5 bucks when a new one might be soon to appear...
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AlleyViper posted:Can't believe you didn't list the 380-59 career record Third all-time in wins! JoeMays.png is probably my most prized picture, thanks for giving me a reason to dig this out.
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Kal Daniels was a really, really good athlete whose knees sabotaged him; if you're playing with ratings based on historical stats it's not surprising he becomes a monster so often. That's before the first of many knee injuries.
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CraigK posted:Kal Daniels was a really, really good athlete whose knees sabotaged him; if you're playing with ratings based on historical stats it's not surprising he becomes a monster so often. I believe OOTP rates his durability as Fragile. Him getting hurt would help my chances to retake the NL East from the dreaded Expos, but they have Orel Hershiser and a few other good players.
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After playing one season with the 2010 Yankees, I'm never rebuilding a team in an offline sim again. It's just too much fun to actually play with a winner.
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Yeah, I've tried to go into rebuilding mode for it, and every time I don't have the patience and instead I run out a Felix Hernandez/Brett Anderson/Justin Verlander/Jered Weaver rotation with a Bryce Harper/Albert Pujols/Dustin Ackley middle of the order and win 130 games every season.
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CraigK posted:Yeah, I've tried to go into rebuilding mode for it, and every time I don't have the patience and instead I run out a Felix Hernandez/Brett Anderson/Justin Verlander/Jered Weaver rotation with a Bryce Harper/Albert Pujols/Dustin Ackley middle of the order and win 130 games every season. I think this is the least possible fun you can squeeze out of a game like this. Half the fun to me is the guessing game and lineup tinkering you have to do when it comes to being able to afford your good players and finding out when to trade them out for maximum value.
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CraigK posted:I owned most of them during their arb-years and couldn't afford them once they hit FA you still have to do some bullshit trades to make things like this happen.
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Or fantasy draft, which seems to ignore most 18-20 year old prospects for the most part in the first couple of rounds in favor of good young major leaguers.
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Telex posted:you still have to do some bullshit trades to make things like this happen.
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The Prisoner posted:Not really. I played an OOTP game offline starting with the expansion Expos and had many years where I was trotting out terrible teams and then small three-year windows of 85+ wins when my drafted talent congealed before I had to let them go to free agency. It's completely possible to pull off a rebuild with a small-market, low-budget team and stay competitive without loving with the game as long as you draft smartly and have a little luck. yeah.. that is not what I'm talking about. What I am talking about is giving yourself 5 Cy Young quality pitchers, 4 MVP batters and watching your team win 120 games a year by forcing the CPU to accept some relatively unrealistic trades. You can totally tweak the system and force every team to trade you their top prospect if you want. You can get a team with the top 10 draft picks if you want to do it and that's all good but I don't find it fun. If you did it through the draft every year I guess that's cool. Most people don't brag about that, they tend to brag about how they "got" the CPU teams to trade all their top prospects for aging veterans and oh surprise my team got 144 wins since I had all the best players in baseball yay for me! Boring! my bad on assuming it was the boring Yankees trading Derek Jeter for Harper and Strausburg sort of play and making the CPU accept it because you can.
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Yeah, there was no trading involved, more exploiting the game's blind spot for 5- star players with no major league experience when drafting. I mean, that's cheesing it, too, but not quite "Here's Chad Tracy, give me Harper and Strasburg". e: even then, you're going to suck really hard for a few years while your top prospects fulfill their potential. CraigK fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Jan 7, 2012 |
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I had a very Mets-like 1996 campaign. I signed Ken Griffey Jr to put us over the top after missing the '95 playoffs. We had high hopes... Dashed to bits by injuries and many players falling off the proverbial cliff. There was a 14 game losing streak in there too that led to the firing of our manager Tommie Agee. After that we started our rebuild, finishing the season 74-88. At least going into '97, we have a nice lineup, but the pitching is gonna suck  Gonna hope for some high picks!
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I like writing stories for odd games. Here's one:me posted:Anything can happen in baseball. Last night, and this afternoon, it did happen. Eh, better than Plashcke, at a minimum. Sadly, my game crashed, as it is wont to do, so no boxscore.
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Hi, my name is Harlock and I run the Oakland A's in Toona's OOTP11 league (which you should totally join if you're interested). I operate them with a low payroll in mind (not that I need to) and turn over my bullpen pretty much every year/other year. I have yet to give a player over 10m (per year) in the 7 seasons since I took over. This presents a bit of a problem because my ace SP is hitting Free Agency: http://www.toonathecat.net/scmlb/news/html/players/player_22798.html 2 CY Youngs and a Perfect Game under his belt while playing for my A's in addtion to one elite postseason where we reached Game 6 of he ALCS. He also had a string of 19 starts with either a win or no decision, I think it was 14 wins. I wish this would be the real Matusz because he's brought me so much success. OOTP experts, do I resign him for a 5 year deal at 13m/y at the age of 31? Most players die around 34, and his ratings have been in flux from all 8's to 7's depending on the sims. Oh and here's some pretty crazy splits on players that I drafted: http://www.toonathecat.net/scmlb/news/html/players/player_26394.html (former Montero level catcher - 28% of runners thrown out) http://www.toonathecat.net/scmlb/news/html/players/player_27396.html
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Harlock posted:OOTP experts, do I resign him for a 5 year deal at 13m/y at the age of 31? Most players die around 34, and his ratings have been in flux from all 8's to 7's depending on the sims. Is that a lot in your game? Seems to me that it sounds about right if you're using normal financials. I wouldn't go 5 though, I'd go 3+2 options and incentives. I've got a pretty loving big fear of injuries at old ages and eating salary that seems to happen a lot to me. 11m + 1m cy young + 500k for 200 innings, with the 2 option years vesting at 200 innings.
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Harlock posted:Hi, my name is Harlock and I run the Oakland A's in Toona's OOTP11 league (which you should totally join if you're interested). I operate them with a low payroll in mind (not that I need to) and turn over my bullpen pretty much every year/other year. I have yet to give a player over 10m (per year) in the 7 seasons since I took over. This presents a bit of a problem because my ace SP is hitting Free Agency: For what it's worth, I had Brian Matusz in my OOTP game and I didn't resign him for exactly the same reasons. He ended up getting something in the neighborhood of 5 years $50 million from Seattle and ended up being worth about twice as much. He won a Cy Young and everything!
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