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Hi, and welcome to HBD! I'm making this thread because nasboat literally can't beat me in the playoffs and won't do it anymore. I've lifted most of this stuff verbatim from the last OP only I erased all the silly wrestling nonsense. Update for Season 29!: nasboat literally beat me in the playoffs WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LAST SEASON Season 29 marked the end of the Cleveland/Santa Fe World Series streak. For the first time since season 24 neither team won their pennant, and the New Orleans Spirits took it all down! Elsewhere... Cleveland tried to repeat their World Series success, putting up 108 wins en route to the #1 seed in the NL and the second best record in the majors. Kansas City wasn't too far behind, taking the coveted second bye with 106 wins. The West was a grinder as it has been lately with three teams winning over 90 games and Anaheim's 102 win team being forced to play in the first round of the playoffs. That New Orleans team I mentioned above? Walked all over their division but at 96 wins ended up with the #4 seed. Then there was the three way wild card race to the bottom where IOWA and Salem lost the least and left Colorado's 91 wins at home. And in the AL... New city, new colors, but nasboat's team was again the juggernaut of the AL. Thanks in part to Art trading away Cody Roosevelt like an idiot the Seattle Shovels won 117 games and coasted to the #1 seed again. Santa Fe once again came away with the second bye but there was no breathing room for the aging Leo Egan and his squad. Richmond tied Santa Fe with 100 wins but lost the tiebreak and only came away with the #5 seed. Charlotte showed that the South has risen again as they won 84 games and a tight WC2 race. In the West Portland's mini division winning streak came to an end and Helena made their first playoff appearance under Stimpy. And Tampa won the East for the 9th straight season cause that's what Snowbirds do Oh yeah and Art traded Cody Roosevelt and won 23 less games than last season. Playoffs?!? Every AL South team lost their first playoff series in five games. nasboat finally won two playoff series? In a row?!? Despite much pessimism in the face of victory Seattle did something that Trenton could never do and took down the Snowbirds in the ALCS. Fifth time is the charm. nasboat could not win three playoff series in a row. Over on the NL side atheistdeals showed that regular season records don't matter and went into steamroller mode. 14-4 is nothing to sneeze at in the playoffs, especially when the teams you're playing averaged 106 wins! #GoSpiritsGo DIVISION WINNERS AL North: Seattle AL East: Tampa Bay AL South: Santa Fe AL West: Helena NL North: Kansas City NL East: Cleveland NL South: New Orleans NL West: Anaheim WILD CARDS AL: Richmond, Charlotte NL: IOWA, Salem Once again seven out of eight division winners remained unchanged, with Helena being the only new name on the list. The wild card race was much more interesting as all four teams changed from the previous season. Who's next? AWARDS AL MVP: Graham Abernathy (Durham) NL MVP: SteveS_weeney (Colorado) AL Cy Young: Cody Roosevelt (Seattle) (thanks, Art) NL Cy Young: Sean Creek (Cleveland) (can be yours for the low, low price of $110 million!) AL ROTY: Ryouta Yang (Boston) NL ROTY: Weldon Bush (Colorado) OUR PITCH TO YOU, THE PROSPECTIVE NEW GOON OWNER Hardball Dynasty is a game on the sports simulation site WhatIfSports.com. HBD puts you in control of a fake baseball franchise with fake players. You make the decisions. Draft young talent, trade with competing franchises, sign free agents to help you make the postseason, and inevitably lose to jeff in the playoffs. We're looking for dedicated owners to make sure every franchise is run competently, effectively, and, perhaps most importantly, actively. And that's where you come in. Currently, DiMaggio is a majority-goon world. Most of the remaining pubbies are pretty reasonable, but if you're new to HBD it's always a good idea to run any potential trades by veteran goons. Ask any questions you like in the thread here, we're always happy to give advice to a new owner. We have lots of openings! Ask questions if you have any interest whatsoever! Please contact our esteemed commissioner ThatsMyBoye (@paul_boye) or post in this thread if you'd like to play! We'd love to have you! But especially if you're not going to quit a week into the game! WAITING LIST 2. some dodgers guy on twitter 3. You?!?!? NEW OWNERS GUIDE - Work in Progress 1. Consider running trade offers by the veteran owners in thread. We'll tell you if you're getting ripped off too badly. 2. Figure out a plan and stick to it. If you decide your team needs a rebuilding period, don't abort it halfway through and try to win. That's how you get a consistently mediocre team that doesn't go anywhere. 3. Overall rating is pretty much meaningless, other than to inflate a guy's asking price or determine draft comp. 4. During the preseason, you need to pay more attention to your team than at any other time. After the season starts, you can get away with checking your team once a day or so. During the preseason, you need to be much more active. Don't commit to a team if you can't do that. The main cycles run at (roughly) 3:45am, 11:45am and 7:45pm Eastern, with half cycles in between each. I'd advise that you check every half-cycle, as this is when you get feedback on coach hiring, free agent offers, re-signings, etc. 5. Go through your team roster when you get your team. Figure out what assets you have. Figure out what players you need to protect from the Rule V draft. Failing to do so can seriously set your team back. I'm bolding this part because nasboat is AN IDIOT WHO LOST THREE GOOD PROSPECTS AT ONE POINT BECAUSE I FORGOT TO DO THIS EXACT THING, SO IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU, TOO! SERIOUSLY! 6. Don't be afraid to ask questions! HBD can be overwhelming at first. There's a lot to figure out, and we've all been through it. Use your goon resources. 7. Don't listen to Art's advice. EVER. 8. Coach Hiring Sucks. But it's not that bad honestly if the world works together. We can do this. Trust me. 9. Most of all, have fun with it. Don't get too worked up about fake baseball. Unless you're 10. (NEW) Get a Big Brother! If you've never played this game before feel free to ask the thread for help from the veterans. Hopefully one of us will take you under our wing and teach you some of the stupid convoluted poo poo that you need to know before you quit in frustration. Then when you're a 10 season veteran with multiple world series wins you can pay it forward! As I said before, our commissioner is the esteemed ThatsMyBoye. You will need to be in contact with him to get the password to the world to be able to join. AWESOME THING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IF YOU DON'T ALREADY -ADVANCED ROSTER EDIT. This is essential. If you've got (I think) 3 seasons of HBD under your belt, you can take the stupid, WIS-mandated 'training wheels' off your "Edit Roster" page. That's right, no longer will you have to make promotions one player at a time -- which was always a terrible process when trying to bump up all your minor leaguers. To get to advanced roster mode, simply access the "Management Console" from the "Manager's Office" menu, then scroll down and select "Advanced Mode" under "GM Edit Rosters Options" SPRING TRAINING INFO YOU WILL NEED CURRENT GOON TEAMS -- NOW WITH TWITTER HANDLES! Updated as of 11/17 uublog made a Twitter list here pre:Forums name / WIS name / Franchise / Twitter nasboat / nasboat / Seattle Discontent / @nasboat Art Vandelay / thaneoffife / New York Vandelay / @ThaneOfFife gardenald / gardenald / Chicago Barons / @gardenald Devo / devomac / Pittsburgh Steel Birds / @Devo1999 Cory Lidle / dockellis70 / Boston Sophists / @DJWeedPizza Evilbeard / evilbeard / Durham Wolves / @evilbeard ????? / kingfatdik / Toledo Trash Men / @duyarvish jeffersonlives / tjefferson / Santa Fe Leo Egans / @ihateprospects Scrotos / Fervus / Charlotte Goyim / @scrotos uublog / uublog / Richmond Flying Squirrels / @uublog Tavarin / tavarin / St. Louis Gaedels / @tavarin CaptMurphy / captmurphy / Portland Beavers / @haassauce stimpy / stimpy_5 / Helena Thirty Helens / @sas_stimpy The broken bones / kingofspain / Los Angeles Los Angeles / @TheAmitie ????? / ck22 / Vancouver Mooses / @JaredJMassey Nerokerubina / koyunlu / Iowa City Subsidies / @QaraKoyunlu Operaterp / operaterp / Philadelphia Phatties / ernestborg9 / ernestborg9 / Ottawa BEEMOs / @ernest_borg9 ????? / spaldingball / Chicago Cubes / @spaldingethan AlleyViper / alleyviper / Cleveland Attack on Memory / @deanleyland chutwig / chutwig / Buffalo Garden Paths / @erhudy tatankatonk / tatankatonk / New York Metropolitans / @tatankatonk ????? / mattwithanh / Jacksonville Juggernauts / @mattwithanh AtheistDeals.com / atheistdeals / New Orleans Spirits / @DoubleScorpion ????? / cowhitchurch / Austin Express / @cowhitchurch ThatsMyBoye / mrincubus / Anaheim Los Angeleses / @paul_boye gyroball / gyroball / Colorado Burrellballers / @RedbirdMenace Power of Pecota / pecotaredux / Salem Saberhagens / @GeorgeMatanzas Season 9 Season 10 Season 11 Season 12 Season 13 Season 14 Season 15 Season 16 Season 17 Season 18 Season 19 Season 20 Season 21 Season 22 Season 23 Season 24 Season 25 Season 26 Season 27 Season 28 Season 29 Devo fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Dec 1, 2014 |
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We're full!
Devo fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Nov 21, 2014 |
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Come play this game so your team can do this in the World Series one day!
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 10:03 |
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You, too, can beat the poo poo out of Bo Chamberlain!
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Awww yeah looks like I'm only gonna need like five coaches and none of them are super important ones
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gardenald posted:Awww yeah looks like I'm only gonna need like five coaches and none of them are super important ones I need a fielding coach again
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 17:13 |
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Somebody do a FA preview so I know who to buy with my sheikh oil money
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I'm back but obviously messed up reserving and now apparently Anaheim is no longer available for the NL West so I guess I'm moving AND having my budgets reset this offseason is gonna blow +Anaheim is back hooray ++ Napoleon Brennaman is the pw for folks moving ThatsMyBoye fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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tatankatonk posted:Somebody do a FA preview so I know who to buy with my sheikh oil money Sean Creek, One hundred ten million dollars
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ThatsMyBoye posted:I'm back but obviously messed up reserving and now apparently Anaheim is no longer available for the NL West so I guess I'm moving AND having my budgets reset this offseason is gonna blow Hopefully the stigma of Pittsburgh has worn off from the league
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 17:32 |
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My budgets are ok too FALSE ALARM
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 17:33 |
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So TMB is obviously back and EB tweeted that he'd be back later this week. Before I start working on open team previews have we heard from CJL, Stimpy, or duyarvish yet?
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ThatsMyBoye posted:My budgets are ok too FALSE ALARM I love how the one thing that for sure stays when you leave is the commissioner role.
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Devo posted:So TMB is obviously back and EB tweeted that he'd be back later this week. Before I start working on open team previews have we heard from CJL, Stimpy, or duyarvish yet? The latter will be back
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Cliff Burnett will also be back >=]
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 23:47 |
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can't wait to max Sean Creek it ought to be a bannable offense to post the screenshot of Game 5
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 00:02 |
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I hate my team and I hope they all get crabs during the offseason. Except Wally
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I have three people on the wait list I've reached out to. SAS's own Tavarin is set to be joining us.
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oh hello thread, I am back
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 02:23 |
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nice only two ML coaches walking and neither one is my fielding coach
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ThatsMyBoye posted:I have three people on the wait list I've reached out to. SAS's own Tavarin is set to be joining us. The St. Louis Gaedels have joined up.
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all of my ML coaches are staying ~except my FI gently caress everything~
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 02:39 |
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i really love the lottery you have to play at the start of every season "hey are you going to have to set 3 million dollars on fire or not" that's a good as hell part of this game
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 02:40 |
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New owner of Kansas City->Chicago is @SpaldingEthan
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Are all of these openings real openings? Or are some people coming back?
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Tavarin posted:The St. Louis Gaedels have joined up. Welcome to the AL South! jeff has won the division 19 seasons in a row. You've been warned. Nerokerubina posted:i really love the lottery you have to play at the start of every season "hey are you going to have to set 3 million dollars on fire or not" that's a good as hell part of this game agreedo, gently caress FI hiring
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uublog posted:Welcome to the AL South! jeff has won the division 19 seasons in a row. You've been warned. At least I'm not coming in during Leo Egan's peak.
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^True!Scrotos posted:Are all of these openings real openings? Or are some people coming back? EB and Twitter's @duyarvish are allegedly both returning, leaving openings in just Tacoma and Baltimore. I think. Who's our new friend in Austin, TMB?
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 03:32 |
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St. Louis -> Austin is @cowhitchurch And these are real openings. Boston is coming back in the AL East but the rest are fair game right now + We're down to 3 openings, with 1 in the "maybe" ranks
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 03:38 |
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So EB is gone?
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CJL already is back in Boston And here's EB: gently caress; beaten uublog fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Nov 18, 2014 |
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Scrotos posted:So EB is gone? No, he's said he'll be back on Thursday, forgot to mention that one
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Nerokerubina posted:i really love the lottery you have to play at the start of every season "hey are you going to have to set 3 million dollars on fire or not" that's a good as hell part of this game Psh Yes, Marvin Watson was brought in as a free agent coach at 500k
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AlleyViper posted:Psh BECAUSE I LET HIM GO UGHHHHHHH
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 05:35 |
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If EB and duyarvish are returning as expected I believe we're down to one opening each in the NL and AL. I've written a short summary of each team in the second post.
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 11:13 |
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You misspelled terry galloway db
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# ? Nov 18, 2014 15:43 |
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Tacoma -> Vancouver is @JaredJMassey
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Down to one opening plus our AL East stragglers. That NL East team might be a good pickup for someone who's played before if we have any of those people laying around.
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I have someone with lots of previous HBD experience who may be interested in the NLE team. Waiting to hear back from him.
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ThatsMyBoye posted:I have someone with lots of previous HBD experience who may be interested in the NLE team. Waiting to hear back from him. Soxy's coming back
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