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CTRL+C, CTRL+V, Go! NEW OWNERS GUIDE WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LAST SEASON -Ignore the ratings, Leo Egan is alive and well DIVISION WINNERS AL North: Seattle Discontent AL East: Hartford Focus AL South: Santa Fe Leo Egans AL West: Tucson Seraperos (all hail our 60 win overlords) NL North: Chicago Cubes NL East: Cleveland Hustlers NL South: New Orleans Spirits NL West: Colorado Burrellballers WILD CARDS AL: Charlotte Goyim, St. Louis Gaedels NL: New York Metropolitans, Santa Cruz Conquistadors AWARDS AL MVP: Aaron Hanson, Leo Egans NL MVP: Cliff Burnett, Burrellballers AL Cy Young: Cody Roosevelt, Discontent (gently caress you art) NL Cy Young: Deivi Elcano, Los Angeleses AL ROTY: Terrence Weinhardt (shut up art) NL ROTY: Hub Woods, Burrelballers INFO FOR NEW OWNERS AND HOPELESSLY INCOMPETENT VETERANS 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 menasboat. 10. 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:
~Everything below here is being updated~ CURRENT GOON TEAMS -- NOW WITH TWITTER HANDLES! Yeah this isn't even close to correct I'll fix it later code:TMB never filled this in, thanks TMB  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
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Caught Cubs Posting
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He's actually decent too. Could stick around a while.
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Sep 5, 2015 20:52
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I vetoed both trades involving first year owners. Please don't scalp legitimate players and send back piles of garbage to new people.
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Sep 8, 2015 21:30
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Scrotos posted:I ran my deal passed two other owners who both said it was fine. It's two garbage prospects and a garbage #5 SP who is done growing for a .750 OPS shortstop. It's bad.
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Sep 8, 2015 21:35
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My problem with each deal isn't that the "name" player is good. My problem is that the return in both cases is waiver wire trash that shouldn't be played on any respectable ML team. And if any unrespectable ML team needs that trash they can just pick it up off the waiver wire.
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Sep 8, 2015 22:08
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I'm going to take a ride on the wayback machine and go back to season 17, when I was young and dumb at this game instead of old and dumb like now. I traded a bad OVR reliever for two guys who could play MIF because my team was desperately thin at that position. Not wanting to look bad in front of the league by putting up a 100 loss team for the second season in a row I made the trade without hesitation. I gave up an actual, if not great, asset for two guys that you can pick up multiple times a season on the waiver wire. This is the kind of shortsighted trade we should be protecting new owners from, especially with the new owner problems we've had recently.
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Sep 8, 2015 22:18
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FWIW if it was an owner with 2 or 3 seasons under his belt I wouldn't veto it.
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Sep 8, 2015 22:24
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Yeah I gave up on late AAA signings a few seasons ago
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Sep 9, 2015 17:12
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Somebody please sign Kurt "former top 10 pick" Cardona thank you
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Sep 11, 2015 02:19
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Your advanced scouting is equally terrible so why do you believe either?
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Sep 17, 2015 23:34
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Looks like we've lost a new player already
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Sep 20, 2015 00:58
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Anyone have a more realistic projection for the guy I got? My monkey scouts saw 95/100 splits and even though I know that's not right I had to throw money at him. His current ratings are decent for an 18 year old at least.
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Sep 20, 2015 16:13
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My team is terrible and I have no idea how they're on a giant win streak
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Sep 29, 2015 13:18
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ThatsMyBoye posted:Richmond's ML team is actually making me angry in its construction Well he's a 74 season vet so normally I'd say he's tanking on purpose. But he's only made the playoffs 3 times in 74 seasons so maybe he's just bad.
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Sep 29, 2015 19:10
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He also has a weird thing going where he's in a shitload of worlds and has 74 past seasons, but he doesn't have more than 2 past seasons in any current world he's in. Maybe he just really likes pissing money away.
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Sep 29, 2015 19:45
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Power of Pecota posted:Maybe he just launders money for HBD? WIS is just a front for Russian cyber criminals who have bought a share in Fox Sports and that's why it never gets updated. Makes too much sense not to be true.
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Sep 30, 2015 00:59
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SPARKY PLEASE STOP WITH THE EXTRA INNING GAMES
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Oct 4, 2015 18:29
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Needs to step up his weak rear end curveball game
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Oct 4, 2015 21:15
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duyarvish posted:I never realized just how great having good scouting would feel until I realized I should still get a good player at 15  I got this guy at pick #40 in Zimmer. Having good scouting is pretty cool right now.
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Oct 5, 2015 20:12
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I got an 87 OVR guy at pick 17. I mean, he sucks, but lookit dat OVR.
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Oct 11, 2015 11:03
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saintonan posted:If he had 90+ makeup, he'd have been the #2 guy on my draft board. Yeah that makeup is really going to hurt him. No injuries and it won't be too bad though. Plus it was at pick #17.
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Oct 11, 2015 11:46
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gardenald posted:Can anyone tell me if the shitheads I drafted are worth any sort of a drat tia and god bless Charlie Brown is actually interesting as hell. The other HS guys you drafted are not super cool or anything but probably worth signing for slot since that's all they want.
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Oct 11, 2015 23:34
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ThatsMyBoye posted:Don't care that I have an NL team and drafted a DH, this could be sexy as h*ck According to my draft scouting he could maybe, maybe, play catcher if you truly don't give a gently caress about pitch calling. e: also someone trade for some guys. Shop's open.
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Oct 12, 2015 02:38
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I like how they went live without fixing the reported bugs from the beta worlds
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Oct 16, 2015 00:08
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nasboat posted:Are you bailing? I still have my asterisk up (and 3 more seasons unreserved lol) but if everyone else is leaving I will too I'm gone for sure Also lol some of the teams in that playoff bracket aren't even readable with those colors
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Oct 16, 2015 22:07
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My team is actually on the cusp of being really good but I have to take a moral stand against whatever the gently caress happened there in chat and sitemails and such e: best last place team ever????? 
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Oct 16, 2015 22:25
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 loving hilarious that they would let something that looks this bad go live
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Oct 18, 2015 22:46
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ThatsMyBoye posted:Should post that in the forum thread Well it's not like they've fixed any of the other bugs I've reported over the last two months
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Oct 18, 2015 23:48
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Holy poo poo less than 14 mil. Nobody see him or is everybody just tapped already?
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Oct 20, 2015 16:54
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gyroball posted:I probably have more trouble getting to what I want on this new design on my browser than I ever did in the old version on my phone. Yeah I actually kind of like it when I'm at work checking things on my phone, but when it comes to actually sitting down at my PC to get deep into the game I can't even stand it
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Oct 23, 2015 01:01
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Just decided to rest a guy and yeah, sure, that's way easier than just changing his position to "R". Uh huh.
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Oct 24, 2015 00:51
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I always thought those tiebreak mechanics were stupid but at least they were reliable. This change kind of screws anyone who wants to play around in big free agency but had a hitting or pitching coach leave/retire in the offseason.
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Oct 24, 2015 19:29
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Funny thing is he was like 19-28 before this losing streak which isn't too bad. Variance I tell ya. And he has like $40 mil to play with so he probably should have had this fixed around L20 or so.
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Oct 25, 2015 22:43
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Art I've just gotta know what possible reason you had for releasing Wascar Nicasio at age 18 on a bare minimum contract
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Nov 4, 2015 14:57
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So did anyone ever think Heinie Laker would have a season this good? I obviously thought he was interesting or I wouldn't have traded for him, but I never thought he'd be my staff ace. Looking forward to next season when he puts up a 4+ ERA again. Eat it, control havers
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Nov 10, 2015 22:40
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Great time to start losing every single game
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Nov 12, 2015 02:46
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duyarvish posted:I haven't really been checking the standings and all of a sudden I'm in contention for the division. This division sucks. You suck buddy!
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Nov 13, 2015 11:30
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Does anyone know if DL stints are retroactive? Or does it kick my guy out for 15 cycles from the time put on the DL?
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Nov 16, 2015 02:25
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So which one of you suckas gets to get beat by the Pittsburgh playoff juggernaut?? CAN YOU DIG IT
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Nov 17, 2015 02:03
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Hi WIS please fix your poo poo so my lineups aren't all hosed up for game 1
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