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 NEW OWNERS GUIDESomeone blew it so here's you late rear end thread for whining about coach hiring! WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LAST SEASON -Five straight 110+ win seasons couldn't do it, but finally nasboat stopped choking and took home the hardware! Good job Art. -Cleveland won the NL pennant for the fourth time in five seasons. -Defending champion and cool cool team New Orleans couldn't beat Cleveland in the DS this time. -Charlotte captured the top seed in the AL but couldn't win a single playoff game. -gardenald had his best season ever but could only win one playoff game against jeff. -Salem won 116 games but also got swept immediately. -Devo kept his division title streak, but lost his HBD thread making streak. -jeff made a deep playoff run as a 6 seed, what an underdog. -Buffalo and Chicago NL made the playoffs for the first time, Helena for the second time. Colorado for the 29th time. -Chip Steele's time has come. DIVISION WINNERS AL North: Chicago Barons AL East: Pittsburgh Steel Birds AL South: Charlotte Goyim AL West: Helena Thirty Helens NL North: Chicago Cubes NL East: Cleveland Attack on Memory NL South: New Orleans Spirits NL West: Salem Saberhagens WILD CARDS AL: Seattle Discontent, Santa Fe Leo Egans NL: Colorado Burrellballers, Buffalo Garden Paths AWARDS AL MVP: McKay Ray, Goyim NL MVP: Cliff Burnett, Burrellballers AL Cy Young: Omar DaSilva, Discontent NL Cy Young: Chick Wehner, Saberhagens AL ROTY: Michael Chang, Goyim NL ROTY: CHIP STEELE, Metropolitans INFO FOR NEW OWNERS AND HOPELESSLY INCOMPETENT VETERANS 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! 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 quote:Set your spring training rest hierarchy and pitch counts. CURRENT GOON TEAMS -- NOW WITH TWITTER HANDLES! uublog made a Twitter list here pre:Forums name / WIS name / Franchise / Twitter nasboat / nasboat / Seattle Discontent / @nasboat Art Vandelay / thaneoffife / Montreal Royal Kilted Yaksmen / @ThaneOfFife gardenald / gardenald / Chicago Barons / @gardenald Devo / devomac / Pittsburgh Steel Birds / @Devo1999 Cory Lidle / dockellis70 / Boston Sophists / @DJWeedPizza Evilbeard / evilbeard / Hartford Focus / @evilbeard ????? / kingfatdik / Dover Dumpsters / @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 / Salt Lake City Punks / @TheAmitie ????? / ck22 / Los Angeles Dodgers / @JaredJMassey Nerokerubina / koyunlu / Iowa City IOWA / @QaraKoyunlu Operaterp / operaterp / Philadelphia Phatties / ernestborg9 / ernestborg9 / Ottawa BEEMOs / @ernest_borg9 ????? / spaldingball / Chicago Cubes / @spaldingethan AlleyViper / alleyviper / Cleveland Hustlers / @deanleyland chutwig / chutwig / Buffalo Garden Paths / @erhudy tatankatonk / tatankatonk / New York Metropolitans / @tatankatonk ????? / mattwithanh / Jacksonville Juggernauts / @mattwithanh Atheistdeals.com / atheistdeals / New Orleans Spirits / @DoubleScorpion ????? / atomicruckus / Charleston Palmetto Bugs / ? 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 Season 30 Never forget: 
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atomicruckus (Charleston) is a non-goon. @MJ_Baumann
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ThatsMyBoye posted:atomicruckus (Charleston) is a non-goon. @MJ_Baumann He also hasn't logged in since Friday. Maybe isn't aware the season started?
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Feb 24, 2015 15:46
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AlleyViper posted:He also hasn't logged in since Friday. Maybe isn't aware the season started? That's not correct considering I walked through coach re-hiring and non-tenders with him yesterday. Not sure why that hasn't updated. 
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Feb 24, 2015 17:14
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that's the same poo poo it was pulling with Crion too, not reflecting his log-ins on the standings page for some reason
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Feb 25, 2015 01:37
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Atheistdeals.com posted:-Five straight 110+ win seasons couldn't do it, but finally nasboat stopped choking and took home the hardware! Good job Art.  Atheistdeals.com posted:Never forget: so glad i can look at this and not hate it nearly as much as I used to this was also basically Bo Chamberlain's death sentence
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Feb 25, 2015 01:40
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I used to actually win arbitration cases every once in a while and that was cool
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Feb 25, 2015 02:05
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Feb 25, 2015 02:39
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I will never understand which deals are nullified by contract extensions and which deals aren't.
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Feb 25, 2015 02:43
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What the gently caress is this new poo poo about the player automatically winning arb cases? I was eight minutes late on releasing Jesus Romero and Sid Chapman so now I'm paying them to  basically. That is some fuckin bullshit hbd, not unlike doing all arb cases at pm2 cycle 2, rather than am. gently caress you hbd.
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Feb 25, 2015 05:59
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uublog don't let your pitchers explode into bloody chunks this season
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Feb 25, 2015 06:03
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I win arb cases all the time in all the worlds I'm in, you just have to set your sights lower. (I'd estimate my success rate at 40-45%) The savings are never huge but I've won 4 out of 6 before and it ended up being almost $1.5m extra. Also there's nothing new about automatically offering players arbitration if you don't get to it in time. It says it in the description and I got burned on that early on.
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Feb 25, 2015 17:07
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tatankatonk posted:uublog don't let your pitchers explode into bloody chunks this season Yeah that's basically my goal for this season Capt Murphy posted:I win arb cases all the time in all the worlds I'm in, you just have to set your sights lower. (I'd estimate my success rate at 40-45%) The savings are never huge but I've won 4 out of 6 before and it ended up being almost $1.5m extra. There's definitely something different. It used to say "if you don't [blah blah blah whatever something about 70% of the player's demands]" and now it said "if you don't [blah blah blah whatever] the player automatically gets his demands."
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Feb 25, 2015 19:58
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Oh my god this fa class blows goats
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Feb 25, 2015 21:11
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So long, Haywood :\ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSz16ngdsG0
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Feb 26, 2015 04:35
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AlleyViper posted:So long, Haywood :\ Well hey there Heywood (Bye ruby sojo jokes)
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Feb 26, 2015 04:45
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looks like I am barely going to have time to do anything in this pre-season so I can't wait to see what garbage I enter the season with
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Feb 26, 2015 05:41
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king fat dick is in the building and ready to gently caress up another season, which it looks like i have already started doing
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Feb 26, 2015 05:50
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Lol how was there so little interest in Glenallen Brinkley that jeff got him at ask?
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Feb 26, 2015 14:21
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AlleyViper posted:Lol how was there so little interest in Glenallen Brinkley that jeff got him at ask? This poo poo happens every year and this is why Jeff will always be in contention.
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Feb 26, 2015 14:28
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I was on Brinkley until I traded for Haywood and then I didn't need him anymore 
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Feb 26, 2015 14:38
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Scrotos posted:This poo poo happens every year and this is why Jeff will always be in contention. A guy like Liverman signing right away doesn't surprise me much but I thought for sure Brinkley would be one of the hotter commodities.
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Feb 26, 2015 15:53
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I'm willing to embarass myself so here is where I admit I hadn't assigned Kyle Sparks do I thought I had a lineup hole to fill last night when I went put in my last bid on Martinez.
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Feb 26, 2015 16:12
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Hi Elston 
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Feb 26, 2015 16:25
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AlleyViper posted:Lol how was there so little interest in Glenallen Brinkley that jeff got him at ask? I was at 2/13.5 and bailed when that didn't lead because I needed to shift elsewhere
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Feb 26, 2015 17:13
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about what time do players respond on the latest rounds of bids?
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Feb 26, 2015 17:34
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AM part 1: ~ 4 AM AM part 2: ~ 7:30 AM PM part 1: ~ 12 PM PM part 2: ~ 3:30 PM PM2 part 1: ~ 8 PM PM2 part 2: ~ 11:30 PM Players are already starting to sign, and IIRC the first round of coaches will officially sign at the PM2 part 2 tonight.
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Feb 26, 2015 19:03
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Sure, nobody go after Harold Evert, either. I guess nobody is interested in sigining good FAs this season?
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Feb 26, 2015 21:31
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AlleyViper posted:Sure, nobody go after Harold Evert, either. Welcome to how lovely FA works, just no one bids and they go cheap.
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Feb 26, 2015 21:48
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AlleyViper posted:Sure, nobody go after Harold Evert, either. Hey Tony Martinez is gonna prove himself now that he's where he belongs in Coors
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AlleyViper posted:Sure, nobody go after Harold Evert, either. There was a 40 year old starter out there who needed a two year deal! edit: also I wouldn't sign Evert as my only type A so I didn't even bother making an offer Atheistdeals.com fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Feb 26, 2015 |
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Feb 26, 2015 21:55
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I just noticed that Rob Dunn is 37 years old and on the FA market which means I've been playing this game for way too long
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Feb 26, 2015 22:49
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AlleyViper posted:Sure, nobody go after Harold Evert, either. I know I've only got payroll to have 1-2 offers out at once - those two were both on my watch list.
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Fuuuuck me why did Alex sign so early??? Welp time to go back into rebuilding mode  Who wants a Cla Walsh or Chip Morandini or Benny Carreras or Al Dotel or whoever else I tried to violently murder and haven't already been spat in the face by on their way to free agency?
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Feb 27, 2015 00:31
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Welcome back, Humberto
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Feb 27, 2015 01:27
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Ronald Luke is gonna move so now's your chance to pony up for a Stud CatcherTM
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hey everyone i'm trading the future of my franchise away so if y'all want to get your offers in you have a couple hours
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Feb 27, 2015 22:57
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i hate this i hate trades i need to never trade anyone
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Nerokerubina posted:i hate this i hate trades i need to never trade anyone what have you done 
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