We're almost 162 games through the season and I'm still not sure if I messed up the 100M league or not yet. If we can pull it together there then I'll be in much better shape than expected. If we can't, it could be a black mark for my chances

Posted by schwarze on 7/5/2025 10:00:00 AM (view original):
I mean... serously... what the f*ck?
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League__	Owner__________	Player____________	Season	AB____	AVG____	OBP____	SLG____	OPS
4-B	buddhagamer	Caruthers, Bob	1886	26	0.692	0.724	1.154	1.878
4-A	d_rock97	Caruthers, Bob	1886	30	0.433	0.528	0.633	1.161
4-C	toysboys	Caruthers, Bob	1886	27	0.296	0.457	0.407	0.865
4-C	sweil	Caruthers, Bob	1886	16	0.250	0.333	0.438	0.771
4-C	tridentric	Caruthers, Bob	1886	19	0.211	0.375	0.211	0.586
	Average			24	0.376	0.483	0.569	1.052
4-B	schwarze	Caruthers, Bob	1886	23	0.174	0.321	0.217	0.539
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League	Owner	Player	SN	AB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
4-C	gworear	Stratton, Scott	1890	20	0.450	0.500	0.600	1.100
4-A	SAKABAKBRG	Stratton, Scott	1890	23	0.261	0.370	0.435	0.805
4-C	Jtpsops	Stratton, Scott	1890	34	0.324	0.378	0.382	0.761
4-A	d_rock97	Stratton, Scott	1890	41	0.268	0.286	0.341	0.627
4-C	toysboys	Stratton, Scott	1890	37	0.189	0.231	0.189	0.420
	Average			31	0.298	0.353	0.389	0.743
4-B	schwarze	Stratton, Scott	1890	26	0.115	0.281	0.115	0.397

My Pete Conway is outhitting Stratton at the moment too. Great hitting from my pitching so far (as I jinx it)

We celebrated climbing into the top 5 of the standings with a 1-5 cycle. I see we are playing Chutes and Ladders now.

A little surprised how bad my 19-21 Dodgers team is.

It's really quite something. Besides my hitting pitchers (documented above) who can't hit in the $110M theme, here are some other rankings of key players in the tournament.

My '27 Ruth is ranked dead last in OPS out of twenty '27 Ruths in my 120M league (.219/.317/.486).

In the 140M league, my three Tris Speakers are all ranked way below the others in OPS (only 1 other team rostered '14 Speaker). We're playing home games in League Park II so I expected my Speakers to perform better than average, not way worse,
'12 Speaker (9th out of 10)
'23 Speaker (7th out of 9)
'20 Speaker (6th out of 8)

Also, in the 110M theme, my most expensive position player(1897 George Davis) is hitting .278 with 24 errors in 26 games (He's C/A- at SS). The other two 1897 George Davises in my league are at .363 w/15 errors and .315 w/9 errors. And it's not the SPs to blame. My two starters are from 1886 and 1890. The other Davis teams are using SPs from 1885 and 1886.

It would be nice if some of my "key" picks performed at least average and not be the worst or near worst in the entire league.

Waiting for positive regression to kick in.

And I thought my Ruth was bad. At least he's hitting HRs. All three are still performing worse than I'd expect for a $100M league though

Barry Bonds '02 (L)	LF*	2	90	119	84	4	16	0	.321	.521	.548	15.80M
Babe Ruth '27 (L)	RF*	3	100	121	105	10	22	0	.248	.339	.581	15.36M
Rogers Hornsby '22 (R)	2B*	4	100	117	108	5	20	0	.324	.368	.546	15.98M

My Hornsby is doing well thankfully, but my Bonds is ranked 8th out of 11 with a .950 ops (.329/.491/.459). He has 3 HRs and 7 RBIs in 85 ABs. That's not a typo. SEVEN RBIs in 25 games.

My Billy Hamilton is slashing .235/.295/.235. Any bets on how long it takes to get any XBH?

The other Hamiltons by OPS:
919
896
893
857
831
809
761
752
742
735
721
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530

Posted by redcped on 7/7/2025 6:15:00 PM (view original):
My Billy Hamilton is slashing .235/.295/.235. Any bets on how long it takes to get any XBH?

The other Hamiltons by OPS:
919
896
893
857
831
809
761
752
742
735
721
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530

Oh and I also have the worst 27 Ruth in the league!

.198/.306/.491

How many of the current Top 24 (at the 162 game mark) will make the cage? Plenty of heavy hitters still on the outside looking in

Rank	Owner
1	_JJP_
2	discodemo
2	rbow923
4	ozomatli
5	Qhadow123
6	contrarian23
6	jbohrman
8	jfranco77
8	toysboys
10	cubbies84
11	Bansberg
11	chargingryno
11	Jtpsops
11	mensu1954
11	mllama54
11	redcped
17	Relkcirts
18	emanes10
18	markeking
18	milest
18	schwarze
22	d_rock97
22	justinlee_24
22	ledfoot

I full expect to finish middle of the pack at best

WIS really needs to fix the 9th inning garbage in this game. Already had multiple multi-run blown saves after retiring the first two hitters of the inning.

Up 6-4 with two outs and no one on in the AM games, and single, single, HBP, single, single for the loss. With two very good, rested relievers on the mound.

Posted by Jtpsops on 7/8/2025 11:33:00 AM (view original):
WIS really needs to fix the 9th inning garbage in this game. Already had multiple multi-run blown saves after retiring the first two hitters of the inning.

Up 6-4 with two outs and no one on in the AM games, and single, single, HBP, single, single for the loss. With two very good, rested relievers on the mound.

What a shock. PM game, up 9-6 going into the 9th in the $120M league. First two hitters retired, then single, walk, walk, single, triple, loss.

Absolutely ridiculous that this happens so much.

Posted by Jtpsops on 7/8/2025 2:58:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Jtpsops on 7/8/2025 11:33:00 AM (view original):
WIS really needs to fix the 9th inning garbage in this game. Already had multiple multi-run blown saves after retiring the first two hitters of the inning.

Up 6-4 with two outs and no one on in the AM games, and single, single, HBP, single, single for the loss. With two very good, rested relievers on the mound.

What a shock. PM game, up 9-6 going into the 9th in the $120M league. First two hitters retired, then single, walk, walk, single, triple, loss.

Absolutely ridiculous that this happens so much.

I was originally going to reply to this with some snark, but that would be counterproductive.

I feel like if there were a 9th inning problem in the sim, it would show up via consistently, uncharacteristically low save percentages for closers used in a typical modern 9th inning, save situation fashion. The majority of my teams employ closers in this fashion, and I have never noticed anything out of the ordinary in this regard. Similarly, when perusing leaderboards, save percentages for the save leaders don't generally strike me as being out of whack. In the two current Juice tournament leagues, which use modern teams and are almost complete, the cumulative save percentages among the top 25 pitchers in saves are 84.6% and 83.1% respectively. Teams in these leagues average 5.55 and 5.65 runs/game, so a bit more offensive than the typical RL league. As such, those save percentages don't strike me as unreasonable.

Now that I've supplied what I consider to be a reasoned response, in the interest of full disclosure here's my originally planned aforementioned snark:

"They really need to fix the 9th inning garbage in this game. Up 5-3 with two outs and no one on in the 10th, and single, single, single, wild pitch, error for the loss."

- John McNamara, 10/26/86, probably

Just an awful start so far. My two dodgers based teams are greatly underperforming and the 2005 Yankees whom I spent the most time on are also playing well below expectations. Not good.