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For future reference, how do the notable Japanese outfielders in this game like Ichiro, Hideki Matsui, and Norichika Aoki normalize? Is Fukudome worth having around? I ask because I was toying with having a team where my entire outfield and bullpen is Japanese. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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That seems pretty restrictive, who's in the bullpen outside of Shigetoshi Hasegawa and Takashi Saito?
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My records through 10 games in the WISC: 70m 8-2 80m 2-8 90m 2-8 100m 0-10 110m 8-2 120m 7-3 That 100m team has only been blown out once. Just about every game has been 1-2 runs including a 1-0 loss this morning. That's maddening.
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Power of Pecota posted:That seems pretty restrictive, who's in the bullpen outside of Shigetoshi Hasegawa and Takashi Saito? Koji Uehara, Junichi Tazawa, Kaz Sasaki, Hideki Okajima, Shingo Takatsu, and maybe Iwakuma, Ostuka or Nomo as a mop-up or long reliever depending on cap. Sadly you couldn't really have a starting rotation consisting of Japanese pitchers (even though there's enough dudes), I tried that in my free exhibition season and Nomo's rookie year was the only effective one. El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Aug 8, 2013 |
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Koji Uehara, Junichi Tazawa, Kaz Sasaki, Hideki Okajima, Shingo Takatsu, and maybe Iwakuma, Ostuka or Nomo as a mop-up or long reliever depending on cap. After this season, 2013 Hiroki Kuroda might be effective.
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Aug 9, 2013 01:38
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Same for Iwakuma, he's having a really good year.
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And Darvish, although his strikeouts may price him way too high for his value.
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Here's the WISC update I have to offer: Bip Roberts .333/.424/.431
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Groucho Marxist posted:Here's the WISC update I have to offer: Bip Roberts .333/.424/.431 1942 Ted Williams .200/.284/.300
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i'm an idiot who has no coherent strategy but here's this bullshit anyway. also i'm enough of a pretentions idiot to name all my teams chess pieces. Also, all loaded into draft center after the fact so positions might looks weird. 70M: "Pawn" Ballpark: Polo Grounds Current Record: 6-9  I was scared about this team not having enough PA and, well,  I'd say the build leaned SLIGHTLY towards a more competetive 120m but it's still not great there. I don't like this theme (i don't like many themes im crotchety) for reference at 120m we have  ---- 80M: "Knight (.324/2.01)" Ballpark: Pacific Bell Park Current Record: 8-7  "You know who are both good cookies? Addie Joss and Wade Boggs." My first build worked out well and my second aworked out less well, this is probably the team that I spent the least time on it but i'm cool with it aside from the scary defense. Hopefully stays above .500. ---- 90M: "Bishop (Cleveland 02-26)" Ballpark: League Park (I) Current Record: 10-5  Cleveland 02-26 was by far the most selected year combo and it should be pretty obvious why: great deadball pitching ahoy. I'm less confident in my hitter selection and a lot of dead-ish money invested in the bench but all should be well. ---- 100M: "Rook('09 Naps/'88 Orioles)" Ballpark: Memorial Stadium Current Record:: 5-10  Cleveland '10 was by far the most used team in this theme, whereas cleveland '09 was the sole purview of fellow loving Fool Devomac and myself. I don't think this team is .333 bad but I don't have confidence in it compared to other builds that could have happened. bonus points for Unironic gently caress Face Usage though ---- 110M: "Queen" Ballpark: Petco Park Current Record: 9-6  A hosed up hodgepode of triples, walks, and steals trying to exploit petco's effects that otherwise let me skimp (and there for upgrade) pas/ips. This is for everyone who said "my first thought was Deion Sanders..." but didn't actually go through with it. Micromanaging this team is hell. ---- 120M: "King" Ballpark: Fenway Park Current Record: 10-5  I love this dumb team, finally a not terribly restrictive theme that lets you just scream "gently caress YOU, I'M GONNA HIT A LOT OF DOUBLES IN FENWAY PARK BECAUSE I HAVE A HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS." The benefits of '87's hitting outweighed '08's pitching for me, so the pitching isn't QUITE where i want it but gently caress You, Doubles. Team gonna own. I'll need a little luck to make the next round but it's possible I suppose!
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 gently caress Sim League Baseball
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El Gallinero Gros posted:For future reference, how do the notable Japanese outfielders in this game like Ichiro, Hideki Matsui, and Norichika Aoki normalize? Is Fukudome worth having around? I was bored tonight so I drew up what a very rough sample of an all-Japanese team would look like.  There's a massive hole at SS, and as far as I can tell, no Japanese player in the database has any time at 1B, so you'd have to play one of the OF OOP. The rotation is definitely stretched thin, but I guess the bullpen at least should be good. In fact, there are way more available pitchers than hitters. I left out Tomo Ohka, Masato Yoshii, Kazuhisa Ishii, Kenshin Kawakami, and others, because they weren't very good, and I only used Dave Roberts because I couldn't find anyone else. I guess this team would specialize in speed and defense, but even there you just have a couple guys who are really good. This would be a lot more interesting after this season, as has been mentioned, with Iwakuma, more Kuroda, and more Kawasaki.  Is there even a park that could get this team, in its current state to succeed?
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Did you do that in a league you were gonna sign up for? It doesn't look like you did that in dream team mode. Kawasaki is awesome. I seriously wish he was good enough to be an everyday guy.
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This is the all-Asian team I made a few years ago. It went 81-81
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uublog is a Hitlermonster for not having Murakami on his mock
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gently caress I knew I forgot someone tbh I'm kinda pissed at him for sucking on my goon team so he's on selective reassignment until he can get through an inning without giving up like four runs uublog fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Aug 11, 2013 |
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The 130M league filled up. We start tomorrow. http://imgur.com/HFAZyM1
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El Gallinero Gros posted:The 130M league filled up. We start tomorrow. http://imgur.com/HFAZyM1 Hope to see you in the finals. 
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Ivan Drago posted:My records through 10 games in the WISC:
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Colin Cowherd is doing a meet and greet at a bar here in Vegas this weekend. What question should I ask him?
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HanabaL03 posted:Colin Cowherd is doing a meet and greet at a bar here in Vegas this weekend. What question should I ask him? Ask him what he thinks of the What If Sports sim nerfing hitting pitchers like Bob Caruthers.
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poop on him
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My $110 mil WISC team is frustrating as hell. I never thought at any point that it would be my worst team. I built it to hit dingers and that's all they do. I'm leading the league in HRs by over 20 at this point but I'm last in batting average and 23/24 in OBP. To top it off my cookie pitching staff with 1485 innings and no mopup scrubs is getting beat around and dancing on the fatigue line. 9-21 and currently on an L8 Look upon my works ye mighty and despair 
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Second best record in the league, second place.  wis.txt
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My WISC teams are all uniformly terrible (there is a risk I'll come dead last overall) but somehow this happened: e: 40m.jpg (not a wisc team) 
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Man, I'm not lighting the world on fire, but I've had a 5-1, some 4-2s, haven't had a losing update in a couple of days, things are finally looking on the up and u- gently caress ME 11 of my last 22 losses have been by one run wheeeeeeeeeeeee
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I know you guys have said that 1930's era hitters don't normalize well, but does that apply to pitchers as well? Because 1933 Carl Hubbell looks really good.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I know you guys have said that 1930's era hitters don't normalize well, but does that apply to pitchers as well? Because 1933 Carl Hubbell looks really good. there aren't any good 1930s pitchers 
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I dunno. Hubbell's numbers are pretty good in 1933. 23-12, 1.66 ERA, 308.2 IP, 0.98 WHIP, 156 K.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I dunno. Hubbell's numbers are pretty good in 1933. 23-12, 1.66 ERA, 308.2 IP, 0.98 WHIP, 156 K. an erc# of 2.01 isn't that great for over $11m e: he seems like he would be fine though, low homerun rate and ok walk rate Zamboni Jesus fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Aug 28, 2013 |
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Zamboni Jesus posted:an erc# of 2.01 isn't that great for over $11m What's erc?
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El Gallinero Gros posted:What's erc? ERC (Component ERA) is a Bill James ERA estimator based on hits, walks, and dingers, which happen to be the key factors that WIS uses for pitcher outcomes. ERC# is normalized ERC since WIS uses seasonal normalization. ERC# should probably be your default pitching search category although it's not the be-all, end-all.
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Your pitcher search criteria should be ordered by ERC# and then include BB/9#, K/9#, and HR/9#. Use the BB, K and HR refinements to select between similar ERC's based on your park factors (you DID select your park first yes?). Also throw in IP/G for the info. In almost all cases, you will (non-intuitively) want the lowest K/9# you can find among pitcher's whose ERC#'s are acceptable. This is because in the sim, an out is determined before the TYPE of out is determined, and hits allowed are controlled largely by the pitcher. Thus, K's serve only a small purpose in that they will avoid the chance of a defensive misplay event. They are not at all as valuable as they are in real life and they are priced disproportionately to their purpose in the sim.
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toadee don't be a hater Ks own and Randy Johnson is sad at you thinking he costs too much
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jeffersonlives posted:ERC (Component ERA) is a Bill James ERA estimator based on hits, walks, and dingers, which happen to be the key factors that WIS uses for pitcher outcomes. ERC# is normalized ERC since WIS uses seasonal normalization. ERC# should probably be your default pitching search category although it's not the be-all, end-all. I'm not sure I understand how I'd measure it when putting together a team.
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Oh, are you still on the beginner search options? If so, immediately switch that to advanced and you can choose what stats are in your search criteria. Put in the stats toadee mentioned. (If this is the case don't feel bad everyone finds out about advanced search the hard way)
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Groucho Marxist posted:Oh, are you still on the beginner search options? If so, immediately switch that to advanced and you can choose what stats are in your search criteria. Put in the stats toadee mentioned. (If this is the case don't feel bad everyone finds out about advanced search the hard way)  located as such
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also while the advanced search options may seem complicated and the #s weirdly specific, really this just serves to eliminate having to pore through a bunch of dudes from the 50s or whatever to find someone actually decent hidden in that pile
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After a 4-2 PM2 I'm sitting at exactly .500 in the WISC. My teams were a combined 30 under at one point, maybe even closer to 40 under. My disappointing 110M team has clawed back to .500, and my 120M team has been hotter than the sun. Never fear though, my 80M team still sucks balls. e: 120M is fun 
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