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I've never really looked at his teams much. I know he uses cookies, but does he mix it up quite a bit from team to team? Or is it the same 24 guys with one different player each time?
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He does mix it up a fair bit, at least where cookies are concerned. He seems to have something of a pool of guys he will use and will sort of pick and choose from those guys. Just from those four ToC teams, for example, his cookie hitters run: 1925 Max Carey 1975 Gary Carter 2001 Luis Castillo 2007 Chone Figgins 1981 Tim Raines 1925 Max Carey 1984 Willie Wilson 1987 Vince Coleman 1975 Gary Carter 1999 Luis Castillo 1932 Babe Ruth 2007 Chone Figgins 1981 Tim Raines 1925 Max Carey 1975 Gary Carter 2001 Cristian Guzman 1995 Wade Boggs 1981 Tim Raines Sometimes he'll throw in seemingly random non-cookies, sometimes he just makes a straight all cookie team. He's a little all over the place. The one guy he seems to use most often, by a country mile, is 1968 Denny McLain, which I think is kind of interesting. He seems to use a grab bag of the standard deadballers to round out his rotations, Addie isn't really any more common than Cy Young or Three Finger or anyone else.
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May 11, 2012 16:37
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I mentioned this in the Pick 6 league chat but seriously I got 20 Ks in 9 IP and lost and it wasn't even close. Melido Perez: not very good.
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May 18, 2012 01:28
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I have the second highest scoring offense in Hometown. I have a lineup that is all right handers and switch hitters. This guy just threw six shutout innings against me. This game is dumb sometimes.
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May 18, 2012 17:31
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AlleyViper posted:I have the second highest scoring offense in Hometown.
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The themes for the first round of the WiSC 2012 were announced last week. It would be nice if we could get more than 3 people signed up this year but I understand it's a bit of a hefty commitment. I haven't studied the themes too closely yet so I'm not sure if they're good or bad.
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Ivan Drago posted:The themes for the first round of the WiSC 2012 were announced last week. It would be nice if we could get more than 3 people signed up this year but I understand it's a bit of a hefty commitment. I haven't studied the themes too closely yet so I'm not sure if they're good or bad. I like them, but they're mostly pretty high on the difficulty scale.
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May 24, 2012 16:59
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jeffersonlives posted:I like them, but they're mostly pretty high on the difficulty scale.
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Ivan Drago posted:the rest of them all lend themselves to hours and hours of tinkering trying to get the perfect combo. I think I may have found my 90m team on my second try, fwiw.
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AlleyViper posted:I think I may have found my 90m team on my second try, fwiw.
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What I think is kind of funny about the clone theme is that the hardest part won't be figuring out how to fill the positions but what clones to use that allow you to put a cheap bench/pen together.
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Now that I have the money to do this, i'm seriously thinking about it. I probably shouldn't though, since i'm terrible at this.
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May 24, 2012 18:00
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I assume everyone will use the Mets at $70m, as will I because yayyyyy Mets
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I'm not sure why the Mets are automatically a better choice than any other team. That league is basically just a low cap Rule V league with no drafting.
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AlleyViper posted:I'm not sure why the Mets are automatically a better choice than any other team. That league is basically just a low cap Rule V league with no drafting. HoJo
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They also have a lot of semi-good pitchers at reasonable prices for a low cap league with guys like Fernandez, Viola, Cone, Leiter, etc. Todd Hundley is the real secret weapon though. I've got a Mets team partially built but I may scrap it to try a Rangers build, which I'm sure would make me the only one (and for good reason probably).
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any interest in a goonrush so i can use the team i've had built for the last month?
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AlleyViper posted:Pretty excited for this upcoming season in Hometown. So far so good 
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That AL North has four incredibly bad team names I know that wasn't the point of the picture but jesus
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And Milwaukee is doing as good a job as I've ever seen in ruining top prospects. Remember this guy? He's currently in the majors. Moreover, his ML hitting coach is a 66, his fielding instructor is rated 43. He has a 76 AAA hitting coach. His ML hitting coach has a better fielding rating than his FI. He has gained one point in glove and 0 points in arm accuracy since he was drafted last season. That dude has a couple other first overall/top end prospects, too, all in the majors.
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May 29, 2012 13:53
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These kind of games are magical. My pick six team is pretty much my favorite team ever. I don't even care if it collapses and misses the playoffs.
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May 30, 2012 23:14
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Meanwhile my pick 6 team is on a L8 despite the best efforts of John Olerud and Dante Bichette
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Male. Bi. Unix. posted:That AL North has four incredibly bad team names MooMoos is a great name
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Male. Bi. Unix. posted:That AL North has four incredibly bad team names yeah what kind of dweeb actually uses "cincinnati red stockings"
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All four of my SLB teams are playing like complete poo poo right now. Two straight 0-4 cycles and I don't think any of them is better than 4-6 in the last 10.
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After a decent PM cycle the PM2 cycle gave me my 4th 0-4 in the last 3 days  I'm blowing what I thought were some really locked down playoff seeds/appearances.
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I don't think I've ever seen this happen before. Also there is a pitcher pinch-hitting for some reason.
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I'm seriously considering taking one of the last spots for the WIS championship. Sure, i'll probably be terrible, but it probably couldn't hurt to try.
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ArtVandelay posted:I'm seriously considering taking one of the last spots for the WIS championship. Sure, i'll probably be terrible, but it probably couldn't hurt to try. I think you'd have a decent shot at making round 2. At the very top it's a strong owner pool but most of the field would badly struggle in goon leagues.
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Looks like I just missed out  Hopefully some dudes drop out.
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How many IP/PA should I be aiming for with a $40m league?
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foolish_fool posted:$40m league?  I really have no idea how to even approach that.
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I have no idea if its going to work but I ended up with this:
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So we have 2 openings in the Mordecai world I, gyro and CJL are members of. Some of you owners should join, it is a great world.
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drat, I just got called out (kind of) on the HBD forums: http://www.whatifsports.com/forums/Posts.aspx?TopicID=456351&TopicsTimeframe=30 I didn't actually study anyone's budget, I just bidded up to my limit plus a dollar in case it was anyone else's limit, and got lucky that it apparently was. 
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As if people don't make x,xxx,xx1 offers all the time 
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Quasimango posted:drat, I just got called out (kind of) on the HBD forums: http://www.whatifsports.com/forums/Posts.aspx?TopicID=456351&TopicsTimeframe=30 There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Would they still be upset if you were like $500 over their bid?
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I make totally random bids for IFAs all the time. I probably should start doing it more for regular FAs too. I think I got made fun of in IRC one time when my bid on some guy was like $7,121,314 but that's just how I roll 
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Power of Pecota posted:There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Would they still be upset if you were like $500 over their bid? No because you see the $1 demonstrated that he had inside knowledge about the other teams' payrolls and bids.
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Yeah, I don't think anyone's really angry over it, just smacking their heads at missing out like that. Was an insane offseason though, five guys got a +100m contract.
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