Smasher Dynamo posted:

Second, your top two starters are ripped from the Juggernauts, a team that perennially underachieved, so it can't be that surprising that they wouldn't lead your team to victory. I mean, how many times did you see factorialite's team fall apart like this? And why do they struggle? Well, Mathewson is very young and, fairly or not, Mogul tends to make young pitchers a bit erratic. As for Johnson, he's old, and doesn't have much power. So, it's easy to see how that could have gone wrong, especially since, fair or not, Mogul doesn't really like your infield defenders.

Mornacale posted:

Cthulhu, it's probably just bad luck bro.

e: Wait, no, it's not. You have major problems. Blow up your team and trade me good players for pennies on the dollar.

Cthulhu Dreams posted:

But the thing is, they did brilliantly. My team lead the league in ERA for most of the season. What more can I want? That said, I still want to know what the defensive efficiency scores are because if I have to turn over my infielders for better fielders thats something I can do.

As for the power/banks/corner outfielders thing, yeah I see where you are coming from but they won 100 games last year even with me resting the entire lineup in the last month. Banks wasn't worth 30 wins over yount, so what the hell has happened. Similarly, I know Larry Walker/Beltran isn't a great outfield platoon, but they got the job done last season. The analysis 'yeah your corner outfield guys are not good enough and the ernie banks trade was bad' doesn't help me diagnose anything I can fix, aside from perhaps committing sepeku. I think what your getting at is that losing Ernie Banks power has put the team over a tipping point where they cannot drive the runs home effectively and my lineup is unable to sustain a sequential offense resulting in an offensive collapse - which fits with my runs scored barely exceed my runs allowed.

If that's the case my original analysis is correct. As the team mostly runs it self due to the heavy use of platooning, there is nothing to do but wait and see if I survive the gauntlet and try and make some trades.

I would still appreciate that defense and slugging infomation.

VVV: Nah, there's bad luck and there's losing an expect 155 runs (Holy gently caress what the loving christ gently caress!) created by my offense. The offense is unquestionably badly misdesigned at this point. 155! gently caress! That's not bad luck, that's diabolical.

Smasher Dynamo posted:

mentholmoose posted:

Platoon Petrocelli and Molitor at third for the week.

UltimoDragonQuest posted:

Joe Sewell?!

Smasher Dynamo posted:

Rick Reuschel (SP) (The moon is a harsh mistress, and Reuschel forgot the safe word) - 14 days

Revenant Threshold posted:

Power is a myth. For my guys, anyway. Morgan out for Gordon, please. When Rodriguez is back I will be able to do some minor shuffling, but I think by and large this is it, barring a miracle Gauntlet run. I'd suggest you all start eying up my team for the draft, but I really only have a couple of first-round worthy players.

Also, Yoshida.

Don May posted:

ROGER CLEMENS THROWS NO-HITTER, ORANGES WIN 1-0

Mandalay- In a season full of indignities for the Burma Imperialists, this may have been the most frustrating.

Don Sutton and two other relievers combined to hold to the Oranges to just one run and three hits, and were still outpitched as Roger Clemens notched a no-hitter against the increasingly woeful Imperialists.

Viscount Slim, whose team appears to be not long for the Super-League, appeared resigned to his fate, "Oh, that empires fall is of no great revelation to me. Since the time of Rome, and even centuries before, the greatest works of man are reduced to rubble in short order. Augustus' great city is naught but a shrunken raisin of its former glory. Charlemagne's empire is split into pieces. Even the great Mahomet's mighty domain, where once the Moors took Spain from the Goths, is but an ancient memory. And so too must my Imperialists fall, I see that now. But, before we are dragged down into perdition, there to burn for all time, others will feel our dying rage, and oldskool, I swear to you that your Oranges shall be sent to hell ere we go down. If were are damned, then we will not be the only ones."

As for oldskool, he was clearly focused on other things, "Today's game leaves more questions than answers. Questions such as "Can The Miz learn how to properly apply the figure four leg-lock before he wins the U.S. Championship? Can the Big Show possibly put on his second decent match against Alberto Del Rio? Will WWE make CM Punk look like a loser against the Rock, or will they make him look like a complete loser? And can John Cena find some odds that he can overcome en route to winning the Royal Rumble? Find out tonight, or you'll ruin John Cena's cyberlife at...THE ROYAL RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMBLE!"

Hearing of this, Viscount Slim amended his comments, "I truly, truly, truly hate you oldskool. You are like a mangy dog that walks around the countryside spreading disease and when the only responsible man in town comes with his shotgun to put you down, for the good of everyone in the community, all the children run up and say, "My lord, I beg you, please do not shoot this dog, he just needs a little love, a little care, and then he can be our pet." But the children are wrong. The dog is sick and brings only more sickness, and he will never be anything more than a burden. And when you shoot this dog, when you do the right thing, everyone treats you like a blackguard, when you alone showed the courage to truly help the people. The Oranges must be put down, and we will be the team to do it."

GAME NOTES

-Eddie Collins did not play in today's game because Viscount Slim has mentally checked out.

-oldskool has failed in his attempt to assemble the Power Plant Softball team from The Simpsons, proving that he is a failure as a human being.

-WORDS!

Don May posted:

Antarctica- blackmongoose gave a mildly interesting speech today.

"For too long, we have waited. Season after season, time after time, we have been passed over, denied our rightful chance to prove our greatness, or righteousness in the playoffs of the Super-League. We are the future of the league, the future of mankind, but we are ignored. We have built a great team, but the people still pretend as though we do not exist. They talk up the Corporatist Marauder Syndicate, the Statist Losers, the Theocratic Coburns, and now these Communistic Tornados. Each representing a different failed way of running a society. We are to believe that these are the real contenders. Clearly, they are not. The champion of Super-League VIII must by the Unspecifieds. For too long, the Super-League has been caught in drowsy state of semi-consciousness where the great mass of teams are held down by those who have successfully bent the rules for their own purposes. That is emblematic of society, where the rich use their powers to steal from the poor."

The Unspecifieds' owner continued talking for a while after that, but no new information was given out, other than vague threats involving, "the Council of Silence", and the promise that, "The Automatons of Hope will certainly triumph over the Knights of Cynicism," which was an allusion, of course, to the traditional epigram attributed to Plutarch that says, "Ever shall the mechanical man defeat the mounted knight, as long as the sun does light the sky."

UltimoDragonQuest was unavailable for comment, due to some manner of Kingly Kombat, or some similar nonsense. But, had he been there, he likely would have complained once again that Smasher still thought that he and his team had no personality, which, it must be said, have been a series of jokes that have been more clever than funny, and therefore need no further repetition here.

Steve, Prince of Space, announced that his own theory on the Tornados' loss, namely that, "This contest, and most of our contests, suffers an appalling like of Steve. Did you know that I can play nearly any position on the field? Yes, even catcher! And, with all due respect to Mr. Bresnahan, a redoubtable fellow, I could certainly perform the duties of the backstop at levels far beyond that man."

GAME NOTES

-I'm looking forward to the off-season more than you guys could possibly imagine.

-The Unspecifieds lost the game when Sparky Lyle, a left-handed reliever, suddenly found himself unable to retire a single right-handed batter in the bottom of the 11th inning, instead walking all three of the righties he faced in that inning. This appears to be a fluke occurrence, as he had been solid in nearly all of his previous outings with the Tornados.

Mornacale posted:

Yowch, you are pretty picked-over, plus Marauder already got the best guys that were left. How about Old Slaughter plus '42 Ernie White and Bill Lohrman for '67 Ken Holtzman? Holtzman's injured for me but he won't have taken that ratings hit for you. Of course, he's still not someone you want to take into SL as a starter, but none of those guys coming my way are ever likely to make it out of AAA either.

I'd also be open to discussing Whitey Ford for two starters, if you're interested.

Pander posted:

I'd rather pass on the first, gonna kick Slaughter's tires and see if I can't make him into a DH maybe. Couldn't be worse than Woodling.

Trading Ford for 2 starters interests me on the surface, but in particulars it seems meh, like it'd be unfair in one direction (I want Old Hoss and Lolich!) or the other (Ford for Holtzmann and Pappas).

JD Drew getting injured is the JD Drewingest thing.

tatankatonk posted:

Hey, I'll trade you '28 Hornsby for Joe Morgan and Chuck Klein

Smasher Dynamo posted:

I'd prefer to get to a new page if at all possible, so if you expansion owners want to ask me questions about your teams, now would be a good time to do it.

Pander posted:

How many rounds are in the dispersal draft? Is it only the players on the rosters of the disbanded teams, or also feeders?

Smasher Dynamo posted:

I'd prefer to get to a new page if at all possible, so if you expansion owners want to ask me questions about your teams, now would be a good time to do it.