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Intruder posted:Born outside the US? They're officially out of ideas To be fair, today was the day I learned Raul Ibanez was born in New York City. But yeah, outside the 50 states and DC, too, so Puerto Rico counts as a viable answer, in case that helps anyone (not that Japan, the Domincan, Cuba, and Venezuela aren't obvious enough.)
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Oct 23, 2023 19:47
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I was doing so well I can't believe Bream was so high, I expected it to be mostly Morton Got frustrated by how high he was and just said gently caress it and picked Cano instead of trying to bother thinking of a better name
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Oct 24, 2023 02:25
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 Not sure how I ended up with only two most popular answers. Other people's recency bias is all I can think of.
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Oct 24, 2023 17:23
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I got cute and used Greinke for Angels 3000Ks and now I'm stuck on the other column Are we the only two who still play this? lol
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Oct 24, 2023 20:51
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Intruder posted:I got cute and used Greinke for Angels 3000Ks and now I'm stuck on the other column Starting to wonder. 
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Oct 24, 2023 21:16
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I play almost every day but usually lose, I only remember Cubs.
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Oct 24, 2023 21:17
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I like the concept of the game but it requires me to follow teams I don't care about. How am I suppose to know who played for the Rockies and the Rangers without cheating?
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Oct 24, 2023 22:33
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I actually somehow got one of my lowest rarity scores of all time today, shout out to nobody remembering the Joe Smith trade.
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Oct 24, 2023 22:46
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For me it comes from a lot of playing fantasy baseball in the 00s which is why most of my more obscure pulls are from that time period and anything else is usually a more obvious name like there's no way I'd remember Glendon Rusch existed if not for the SAS all suck league Intruder fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Oct 24, 2023 |
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Oct 24, 2023 22:57
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Island Nation posted:I like the concept of the game but it requires me to follow teams I don't care about. How am I suppose to know who played for the Rockies and the Rangers without cheating? It depends on how you define "cheating". BRef does have a tool that will find you any players that played for any two teams, but I don't use that unless I'm really, really stumped, and usually by that point my rarity score is shot and I don't care about anything but completion, at which point it's just a fun research exercise. Personally, I try to remember a guy and then double check BRef's player page just to be sure. There's been a lot of times where some guy you think is a shoe-in for a stat wasn't, or some guy you barely remember from your favorite team did, in fact, get traded to Team X and it wasn't a figment of your imagination. The fun part for me is that I have huge gaps in my knowledge--I know jack poo poo about deadball outside a few names like Cobb and Speaker and Johnson, and my knowledge of modern era/liveball doesn't *really* start until the late '70s or '80s, and I took about a ten-year gap in paying attention at all from the mid-90s to the mid-00s. So outside of superstars and random That's Our Guy guys, I'm actually pretty bad. But I can backfill my knowledge by guessing and then double-checking. At some point I might finally remember every team Edwin Jackson, Rich Hill, and Bartolo Colon actually played for. But honestly, I don't actually consider it "cheating" unless I'm using the leader list they're pulling from or the multiple franchise tool. And if you want to get really picky, a lot of the larger trivia contests in the country don't give a poo poo if you look up your answer from any source at all. Hell, my partner's family has been recording Jeopardy! for decades to watch time-delayed and will pause in the middle of playback if they think they know but can't think of it right away. It's only cheating if it's against the rules. Ain't no rule says a dog can't look up baseball trivia answers on the internet.
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Oct 25, 2023 04:27
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Sydin posted:I actually somehow got one of my lowest rarity scores of all time today, shout out to nobody remembering the Joe Smith trade. i had really good cubs shane greene for detroit, quintana for angels, and the god david aardsma for sox but i genuinely have never paid attention to whether a guy has 2000 strikeouts in my entire life and i'll never get any of those right
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Oct 25, 2023 05:24
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rickiep00h posted:It's only cheating if it's against the rules. Ain't no rule says a dog can't look up baseball trivia answers on the internet. Exactly. Set your own rules and have fun. I don't use b-r.com myself other than an occasional "I think this guy might fit.... gonna check and see and if he does then I can't use him.... drat IT" Intruder posted:Are we the only two who still play this? lol I've been playing considerably less since the end of the regular season. A buddy and I at work were doing it daily, but it's fallen off for sure. Edit - doing it today. A quick 7/7, and now thinking about Texas Rangers on a Wednesday morning. Will post later. Edit again - now 8/8 and of course I just checked someone for my last square and yeah - he would have worked. Sigh. Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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Oct 25, 2023 14:54
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 Surprised that I came in at 113 considering two top answers and a several double digits. Babe Ruth continuing to be a single-digit anomaly, too.
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Oct 25, 2023 14:58
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rickiep00h posted:
I see you also put Babe Ruth in for every Boston stat category you can.
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Oct 25, 2023 15:34
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Oh hey, first immaculate! All it took was all the fields being stats or Rangers
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Oct 25, 2023 15:44
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rickiep00h posted:It depends on how you define "cheating". I’m not sure what trivia you go to but the bar trivia I go to has a simple method. If you're caught looking at your phone/other device for any reason, you and your team are banned PERMANENTLY. I don't care about rarity so much as getting a correct answer and due to the game not allowing for errors, it doesn't make sense for me to continue when I inevitably screw up.
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Oct 25, 2023 16:13
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4022501&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 Bar trivia takes itself way too seriously.
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Oct 25, 2023 16:53
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is it cheating to go to incognito and give up just to see how many there are in each category? cause that's how I found out I needed to just suck it up and use george brett for the royals mvp a little while back e: er hall of fame, not mvp Intruder fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Oct 25, 2023 |
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Oct 25, 2023 18:34
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Pretty good rarity of 52, I thought Cruz would be lower though. He and Palmeiro were literally the only two I could think of e: TIL Vlad spent the final two years of his career on the O's and Rangers
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Oct 25, 2023 18:56
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Intruder posted:is it cheating to go to incognito and give up just to see how many there are in each category? cause that's how I found out I needed to just suck it up and use george brett for the royals mvp a little while back That there's only 4 HOFers that ever played for the Royals is such a mind trip. Edit - Put Sweet Lou in whatever the committee is called nowadays.
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Oct 25, 2023 19:14
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They'll get a 5th when Hosmer retires Well 6th because Greinke will be in by then
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Oct 25, 2023 19:16
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Immaculate on NBA with the most obvious answers possible except for remembering some Supersonics
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Oct 25, 2023 20:54
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I knew they’d introduce loving WAR eventually. Never playing again 👍
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Oct 26, 2023 14:46
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Yeah that's a lovely one Not playing today's
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Oct 26, 2023 14:48
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LOL. If you're wondering - the current total percentage for the two obvious as Hell (ie - first black players in each league) answers for LA/CLE and played in Negro leagues is 122% edit : this one was actually not hard at all.  Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Oct 26, 2023 |
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Oct 26, 2023 14:55
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ok I lied, I did this one
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Oct 26, 2023 15:00
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Intruder posted:ok I lied, I did this one Thank you - I was wondering what the % was for your CLE / Negro League answer was. A combined 95% between them.
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Oct 26, 2023 15:03
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 Finally Babe Ruth gets a top spot. The WAR one was an attempt at gaming rarity, because I agree it's a pretty silly category, even as someone who rather enjoys stat categories. The Dads column was the only one that was really any sort of challenge, and even then all three of my choices were bog-standard, go-to guys. I do wish I'd have picked others for the Negro League players for rarity's sake, but honestly I don't think it's possible to feel bad about any of the choices there. I hope one day we get announcers and writers that work them into the history more.
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Oct 26, 2023 16:59
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lmao gently caress the rockies
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Oct 27, 2023 15:56
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dunno if I want to participate in the kind of perversion of thinking up Brewers players
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Oct 27, 2023 16:23
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Today's teams were picked just to ruin me. Did the 10 win column. Not sure I'll bother continuing.
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Oct 27, 2023 16:34
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I am so upset that I couldn't think of a white sock/rockies, but then I saw the top answer and had a Sensible Chuckle (I loved the guy going to sox games growing up and had no idea he played for the rockies.)
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R.D. Mangles posted:I am so upset that I couldn't think of a white sock/rockies, but then I saw the top answer and had a Sensible Chuckle (I loved the guy going to sox games growing up and had no idea he played for the rockies.) That's always gonna be Justin Morneau for me, for obvious reasons. I had an absolute hell of a time with the Reds today. Couldn't think of a single relevant player. Ended up rosterdiving for 4/9 answers. I also think 10 wins is a bullshit counting stat because not only are wins mostly irrelevant, 10 is a relatively low threshold. Nick Blackburn had THREE of those seasons and never played past hitting free agency. Jesse Crain had one *out of the bullpen*. Just a stupid, stupid stat.
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I don't know the last time I actually had a busy day at work on a Friday, but in the spirit of keeping this thread going... My 6/6 with three left that I never got to.
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Oct 27, 2023 22:37
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My Ooops all Rec Sox grid got me a pretty good rarity score today ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 209 9/9: Rarity: 10 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩  Though Wade Boggs was cheating a little because he won his gold glove somewhere else.
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Oct 28, 2023 14:49
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I got 7/9 Cubs players for a rarity of 5. That'll do. I love Stat Saturday.
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Oct 28, 2023 15:32
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I went deep into enemy territory for some picks but rarity of 9
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Stat Saturday has blessed me with a truly bonkers rarity on this day - praise be to the gods of Remembering Some Guys. I'll admit I went incognito mode to double check that -----Negro League All-Star Games----- counted. ⚾️ Immaculate Grid 209 9/9: Rarity: 2 IMMACULATE! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩  Getting closer to the fabled minimum. Is it possible to get 0 rarity if your total is less than 0.5, or is 1 the lowest it gets? edit: also Lloyd "nepotism" Waner is in the HOF with 29 WAR and 1 All-Star appearance lol Prof. Spaceman fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Oct 28, 2023 |
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 I figured 22 wasn't gonna get me anywhere. Stat/award grids are probably just rarity goldmines, huh?
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