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Good Lord, look at that EC injury report. There are only 2 explanations, global warming or Mark Grace. Take your pick. Also C. There aren't any actual motherfucking gyros, are there?
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gently caress, I knew the wheels were going to come off sooner or later. Oswalt is banished to long relief, Cooper takes his slot, O'Toole to middle relief. Also, new lineups vsr and vsl: Vsr: SS Wagner RF Slaughter LF Musial 1B Fielder DH J. Rice CF Lynn 3B Bell C D. Rice 2B Schoendienst Vsl: SS Wagner RF Slaughter DH J. Rice 1B Fielder CF Lynn LF Carey 3B Bell C D. Rice 2B Hemus e: I vote for Option A gardenald fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Jan 24, 2013 |
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Lineup 1. Brett Butler - CF 2. Rogers Hornsby - 2B 3. Stan Musial - RF 4. Hank Aaron - LF 5. Joe Torre - C 6. Julio Franco - SS 7. Steve Garvey - 1B 8. Frank Baker - 3B 9. Pitcher
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Well, that went better than expected... Is Snider suffering from any stat drops after his injury? If not, Snider to CF, Moseby to the bench! As well, The Chosen Dunn moves to LF, Simmons to the Bench, Grace to 1B. Delahanty to SS, Cabrera to the bench, HoJo to DH. And finally, bring in The Saint to cover 3B. Also, A!
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ForeverBWFC posted:Well, that went better than expected... Is Snider suffering from any stat drops after his injury? If not, Snider to CF, Moseby to the bench! As well, The Chosen Dunn moves to LF, Simmons to the Bench, Grace to 1B. Delahanty to SS, Cabrera to the bench, HoJo to DH. And finally, bring in The Saint to cover 3B. Snider is still a week away from being healthy.
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Smasher Dynamo posted:Snider is still a week away from being healthy. Then remove that part I guesss 
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Hey Smasher, if you ever need someone to write an update sometime, I could pitch in if you send me the screens.
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Expansion Cup VIII - July Moscow Daily News posted:MCQUEEN LEAGUE TAKES ALL-STAR GAME 7-4 AS MONATHIN GETS CRAZIER  South Park Gazette posted:JOBBERS DEFEAT PANDAS 11-5, STILL FAR BEHIND IN DIVISIONAL RACE Stats and Analysis      Analysis I dunno, maybe give Horner a shot at 3B?      Analysis Darryl Strawberry is not working out.      Analysis Not bad output from guys you only put in to spell your sore starters.      Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L2lMjr0fNo Hopefully      Analysis You know what you're doing far better than I do, so even if I had anything to say you probably already knew that.      Analysis It's not a bad team. You're just in the meatgrinder that is the ML Barreta.      Analysis Well that worked out better than expected  -- now to watch as the universe restores itself next month.     Analysis Maybe Jim Kaat needs to be replaced, I don't know what else to say at this point.      Analysis Am I imagining things, or did you have me move Grace to leadoff for this month? And if I'm not imagining things, why is Sandberg back at leadoff?       Analysis Yeah, that bit I put in about 0.26 ERA? Not a joke. For some reason, the game decided that Pedro had shattered all Major League records if you looked at his stats in the Pitching window. I don't know HOW, but the game had prepopulated his "This Season" stats, so I had to go back and put in his actual data before I took these screens.      Analysis A little bit of work on your lineup either through the draft, or trading, or just going back to your feeders might well make this team into a contender come SLIX.      Analysis Catching. CATCHING. Catching. Also Reggie Smith.      Analysis You're right, putting a joke pitcher into your SP1 slot can't POSSIBLY fail! Except, you know, the exact opposite.      Analysis You know, looking at your team I have no idea why you're doing so badly. It may possibly just be that you're stuck in the TL Downing with CERN and Omaha, though.      Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHyGakg3Ts0      Analysis Starting pitching. STARTING PITCHING. Starting pitching.      Analysis Buddy Bell seems to be warming up a bit. And honestly, the way your division is going you can afford to let him readjust slowly.      Analysis Frank Tanana seems to be the weak link in your rotation at this point. Division Standings and League Leaders    
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A. I feel like Jon Matlack shouldn't be anywhere near as effective as he has been, for both the Daydreamers and the Rakers. Call Downing back up for Shotton. The only change in the rotation is to flip Candelaria and Darwin for comparison purposes - Tanana hasn't been good, but you have to hold out hope that you eventually get the Skyhawk version, and my awful defense might be a factor in his level of play. Lineups: DH Ty Cobb 2B Max Bishop (vs LHP)/Eddie Collins (vs RHP) CF Al Simmons 1B Jimmie Foxx LF Brian Downing 3B Jimmie Dykes SS Del Pratt C Mickey Cochrane RF Baby Doll Jacobson I think I know where my dispersal picks are going now (SS, SP, RF, SS in that order), although I'm open to offers as ever.
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So, if I am reading this right, my defense is loving over Eddie Plank?
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gently caress it. Live dangerously. Move to a 4-man pitching rotation until Fernando is fighting fit again. ...I'm sure I'm going to regret this.
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Let's get my heavy hitters back into the lineup: Greenberg back to LF, McCovey to 1B, Cepeda to DH. Let's rest Gehringer by giving Larry Doyle a shot at 2B. For pitching: Switch Sailor Stroud with Tommy Bridges. Lineup: Fox RF Mays CF Greenberg LF McCovey 1B Cepeda DH Doyle 2B Kuenn 3B York C Fletcher SS
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 Just to make sure my line-ups are as follows, right? My defense in the update was set correctly (with Palmeiro in LF, etc.), but the line-up was the old one-- is this just quirk with the screenshots? Just curious why the display is the way it is (with Henderson still leading off, etc.), everything else appears correct. LINE-UP [DH] RHP and LHP 1. Alex Rodriguez (SS) R 2. John Olerud (1B) L 3. Ken Griffey Jr. (CF) L 4. Rafael Palmeiro (LF) L 5. Edgar Martinez (DH) R 6. Larry Walker (RF) L 7. Ivan Rodriguez (C) R 8. Robin Ventura (3B) L 9. Julio Franco (2B) R LINE-UP [NO DH] RHP and LHP 1. Alex Rodriguez (SS) R 2. John Olerud (1B) L 3. Ken Griffey Jr. (CF) L 4. Edgar Martinez (3B) R 5. Rafael Palmeiro (LF) L 6. Larry Walker (RF) L 7. Ivan Rodriguez (C) R 8. Julio Franco (2B) R 9. Pitcher Just making sure my line-ups are set correctly.
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 I thought I had Grace at Lead off for two months now. But that don't matter to much. Could sort term hurts throw the line up out of wack as the sim engine puts in replacements? Anyways... Lineup Changes 1. Grace - 1B 2. Cavarretta - LF 3. Pafko - CF 4. Glaus -3B 5. Sandburg - 2B 6. Dawson -RF 7. Dunston -SS 8. Molina - C ( 5 on 1 for Joey G.) 9. Salmon - DH (as needed.) No rest for these bums until we have a winning record. Bullpen Mitch Williams to CL Percival to SU Chipman down to the AAA ScottyJSno fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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Mornacale posted:Hey Smasher, if you ever need someone to write an update sometime, I could pitch in if you send me the screens. Getting the screens together is most of the work, really, but I'll take it under consideration.
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Mooseontheloose posted:So, if I am reading this right, my defense is loving over Eddie Plank? In short yes, though do note that his ERA is still better than league averages. A few factors are in play: A) Yeah, against your team the BABIP is .321, while the league average is .313. You're also way better than the Rakers chasing Men, who are one of the worst defensive teams in baseball history. But still that's not great defense - your not the dervishes or anything. The cause can easily be seen by looking at your actual infielders: Nap Lajoie makes a lot of errors, Bobby Bonilla is a right fielder pretending to be a third baseman (check out that fielding percentage), and Templeton didn't really have knees that worked. Your first base guy is good though! Don't overstate this factor, whatever Bobby loses with his glove he gets back by mashing the gently caress out of baseballs. B) Your pitching staff is very ground-ball focused, which means that your infield defense is disproportional tested compared to your outfielders C) DICE is cacluated by looking at HRs, Strikeouts and Walks, with a side helping of BABIP for everything else. Eddie Plank is basically Tommy John - a soft throwing left hander who doesn't walk anyone and doesn't give up any home runs, but people frequently put hard hit balls into play against him. This changes the usefulness of DICE when evaluating him - if you never walk anyone, don't strike anyone out and never give up any home runs, your DICE is basically the product of guys hitting .300 against you, and your actual ERA is massively impacted by the quality of the defence behind you. Bill James said these guys are good because once you take away the walk, the home run and the extra base hit it takes a lot of singles to beat you, but these guys need a defense that can take hard hit balls in the infield and convert them into outs, and bad teams cannot do this. That probably doesn't account for everything though, some of it is just luck. Is your team slugger focused? With Waddell and Plank as your one-two punch, you're probably well advised to let the groundskeepers grow the grass in your infield a bit longer to take the speed off hard hit balls to short, and maybe try picking up one of the spare ozzie smiths floating around, or altenatively it might be wise to look for opportunities to replace your two left handers at the front of the rotation with modern strikeout pitchers. Amusing note: The ideal combination for a team is modern infielders - think Joe Morgan - with deadball pitchers or old timey hitters and all bat not gloves guys like Bonilla, Fielder and Cabrera with modern pitching. Don't try deadball pitchers with guys like Cabrera, you will come unstuck very quickly. Cthulhu's guide to doctoring your grounds In addition to the fences, you have 5 variables that you can control: Infield Quality (Poor / Fair / Average / Good / Excellent) - Basically reduces your error rate in the infield. Using deadball infielders and pitchers? Improve your ground quality to ensure that the ground balls to short and second base as converted to outs. Similarly, if you're using modern infielders and pitchers who don't live on the ground ball to short, consider degrading that infield. Infield Grass (Very Short / Short / Medium / High / Very high) - Short grass improves batting averages as balls zip past the infielders, but also improves double plays because it gives the infielders more time once they've got to it. A team of good defending slap hitters should cut the grass short, and a team of portly sluggers should let it grow a bit. Visibility (Poor / Fair / Average / Good / Excellent) - Strikeout rate: Poor visibility increases strikeouts by 14% and excellent visibility increases it by 14%. If your pitching stuff is punchless, help out those hitters. Foul Ground (Tiny / Small / Average / Large / Huge) - Bigger Foul grounds means you can convert foul balls into outs much more effectively. The more punchless your pitching staff is the bigger the benefit, but this surpressing hitting across the board and is the biggest change you can make. Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Jan 25, 2013 |
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quote:Analysis Don't you soften the blow! Well, turns out penguin-baiting is more dangerous then I thought. DL Tippy, Jhoulys, Olerud. Take Park off the DL and install him as fifth starter. Ismael Valdez up from long man to be fourth starter. Rex Brothers is the new closer, call up Denny Raiiiiinwater to short relief, Jamie Moyer to long relief. Freddy Garcia can recover as theoretical middle reliever. Call up Konerko to on-the-job training as first baseman.
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Moose, instead of reading all those complicated  by Cthulhu, instead just trade me Eddie Plank!
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Smasher Leauge Week 20 Injury Report Cuba Smokers Jim Konstanty (RP) (More like Kan't stant he, right? Man, you try to come up with something interesting about Jim Konstanty!) - 21 days Luna Landers Jack Lapp (C) (Still technically on your roster) - 18 days Saturn Biosparks Greg Maddux (SP) (I do at least have some good news for you. I'll tell you about it later) - 14 days
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Mornacale posted:Moose, instead of reading all those complicated You said mean things to me. So no.
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Mooseontheloose posted:You said mean things to me. So no. Rude as hell. 
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 Super-League VIII, Dynamo League Week 20: Ships Passing in the Night Games of the Week Don May posted:
Box Score   Don May posted:
Box Score   No one man should have have all those titles...  : And welcome back to the latest installment of Marauder: Portrait of Super-League Killer. And also welcome back to Eri Yoshida, who, as part of the Super-League Characters' Guild, has successfully challenged my termination of her and brought the matter before a arbitrator...who ruled against me. : When the union's inspiration through the worker's blood shall run/There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun!/Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?/But the union makes us strong!: drat Illinois for not enacting a right-to-work statute! Well, the Tornados are here, and they'd like to take as many of the Bangers' titles as they can carry. But Nolan Ryan will throw a complete game, and that will end the Tornados' hopes of getting the Intercontinental, U.S. or European titles. : And the Bangers win big, and they'll keep the Hardcore Title for their fifth straight defense of that title, a new record.: Hard to say how worried the Tornados should be by this series, they're not doing great, but it's only three games. : And the Tornados will avoid the sweep.: Kind of a moral victory, but they'll probably take it. It's worth noting that they'll be able to stack their lineup in the postseason in a way they don't in regular season games. At least, that's what UltimoDragonQuest is probably hoping. : Second defense will be against the Imperialists.: They haven't had a good season, but they did sweep the Bangers a couple of months back to win a couple of titles, so they might be able to do it again.: No, they won't, because Addie Joss will get a complete game. The Imperialists are only playing for the Hardcore Title, either. : And the Bangers will not even let them get that with another win.: The important thing is that they tried! : Yeah, that's not important, and the Imperialists will get swept by Marauder, too.: Brutal.: loving union. : Well, the Bangers have beaten just about every elite team in the Dynamo League. The Coburns, the Tornados, the Unicorns...but now it's time for them to face their final test: the team that knocked them from the playoffs last season, the Rockford Losers! And then there will be either Bangers-Generics, or Losers-Unicorns.Team Statistics      Analysis Mel Ott and Mickey Cochrane constitute about 110% of your offense. That's right, everyone else is basically a negative.      Analysis If the season ended today, I think the Unspecifieds would make the playoffs on a tie-breaker.      Analysis Doing a bit better this month, although we're well past the point where that will save them from the Gauntlet.      Analysis The Bangers and Unicorns in a row were a tough draw for anyone, but you would have liked to have won at least one of those series.      Analysis You need to make sure you don't rest your best players in weeks where you'll face the Unspecifieds, because that final wildcard spot will probably come down to the two of you.      Analysis Nothing can stop the Coburns. Nothing. But Seaver should probably take the injured Lee's place in the rotation.      Analysis Billingsley's second start was better, in that he won, but he didn't really pitch all that much more effectively.      Analysis The Oranges have been in a state of ennui for a while now.      Analysis Monicro, again, you're a good dude. But your team is not full of good dudes, and they just don't hit enough to survive.      Analysis Invincible!      Analysis A team that is going to survive thanks to gumption, grit, and sheer, dumb luck.      Analysis When I say that your offense is bad, I mean it. Then again, as part of my plans for Super-League X, you will get control of the Skyhawks for a special tournament next season anyway.      Analysis What more can be said?      Analysis The Coburns are a-coming, and you have a tough week up next. You might just lose your division lead by next update.      Analysis I know that you feel like you're dead, but your team still has some life left in it. Don't give up. Also, the Space Jam is ready again.      Analysis Bonds is back! You're five games out of the last playoff spot with six weeks left. Let's see how good your team really is. Although they'll almost certainly get another shot next season. Standings and Leaders     Playoff/Gauntlet Picture    A. Accept this unlikely, ragtag band of heroes and save all of the universes! - 6 votes B. Demand a better team! - 1 vote C. Obligatory Gyros option! - 7 votes "You know what, Marauder?" Mark Grace had had enough of this bullshit, "gently caress you, gently caress whatever the gently caress this crisis is, gently caress the universe, I've had a very long day, and I want a loving gyros already!" Marauder seemed shocked by the sheer banality of Grace's request, but spoke with a certain amount of bemusement, "A gyros? You want a gyros? A rather petty request, Mark Grace, surely you could-" "I'm hearing a lot of words, Marauder, but I'm not hearing a lot of gyros meat being sliced up, and you might want to get on that if you want me to save your universe, or universes, or whatever." Marauder rolled his eyes, this was stupid, "Very well, Mark, you will get your gyros. All I need do is-" Before Marauder could complete that sentence, alarms started blaring and red warning lights came on all over the ship. "Mother-fucker!" Mark Grace did not like where this was heading, "I don't suppose those are loving klaxons celebrating the deliciousness of my loving gyros, are they?" 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Dunn has to be the secondary fire team leader, so that leaves Saint Bellhorn and Yoshida for our squad.
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  Al McBean Watch, presented by God-King/King-God Barrold Lamar Bonds I Another typical 2.1 IP, 4 K, 0 R week for Perennial Rolaids Reliever of the Year Candidate Al McBean. Mr McBean has now amassed 12.2 IP, 22 K, and of course his customary 0.00 ERA. Can you blame him? Mornacale fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jan 26, 2013 |
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 Dunn and Bellhorn! Also, I'm looking to move 2011 David Ortiz for a righty/switch-hitting bat. Any position, really, but someone who might be able to play the outfield couldn't hurt. Get at me with offers if you're interested.
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Monathin posted:Dunn has to be the secondary fire team leader, so that leaves Saint Bellhorn and Yoshida for our squad. As the resident everything I am in the chat I am obligated to vote this
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Let's prepare for our week against the Sic Transit Vir... First, re-instating our rested starters. New lineup vs RHP: 3B Frisch LF Speaker 1B Thomas CF Charleston C Torre/Martinez RF Robinson SS Cronin 2B Alomar P Pitcher Second, let's recall Bedrosian from the DL and send Hernandez back to the minors. Third, rearranging my shameful bullpen hoping to improve that raging mess: CL Smoltz SU Bedrosian SR Myers SR Wetteland MR Rhodes LR Sabathia
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