*OFFICIAL* WIS XI: The Uecker Era (1962-67) (1 Viewer)

[Koya]

Man I miss playing this. Got to get back in.

WOOT!

 

[Greco]

Man I miss playing this. Got to get back in.

WOOT!

This.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Good lord this series is ugly.

Nice 2 wins2-2 heading into Game 5

 

[Spartans Rule]

Good lord this series is ugly.

Nice 2 wins2-2 heading into Game 5

Bounced back strong at home.Odd that with both teams being better on the road all season, home field has held up.

 

[Spartans Rule]

Congrats jfranco. That's about as dominant a performance as we've had in these things.

Eephus - I'd be game for a live best-of-7 to determine the 2nd best team sometime this weekend.

 

[Hoos First]

Congrats jfranco77!

 

[Koya]

Congrats jfranc.

I hope to have more time next go around, this was not pretty.

 

[Super Nintendo Chalmers]

Nicely done jfranco, congrats.

I know there were issues with the playoffs and a lot of teams being out early (or so they thought), but I really like the realistic results this time. The stats ended up pretty much true to life.

 

[SofaKings]

Well done Franco!

 

[jfranco77]

Nicely done jfranco, congrats.I know there were issues with the playoffs and a lot of teams being out early (or so they thought), but I really like the realistic results this time. The stats ended up pretty much true to life.

Except Don Wert won the gold glove over Brooks Robinson! WTF?

 

[belljr]

NOT LAST!!!! SUCK IT....

 

[MrPhoenix]

Just looking things over, I'd be willing to come back if I'm invited back for next season. I really enjoyed the draft. Either way, just FYI for the decision-making process, there is a cool new feature that you can search multiple, un-contiguous seasons from the search box, if the decision was going to be 1894, 1930, 2008, etc. Next to the year selection drop-downs there is a little tiny red-blue circle with arrows, it says "switch season search type" and allows you to enter multiple years with a semicolon. So you could enter 1994;1995;1930;1981;1894 and it would only search those years.

I'm thinking we need a Deadball, Ruth, 80's, and Steroid Era year to go along with The Year of the Pitcher (1968). Something like:1908: The REALLY dead deadball year1930: Big Power Hitting Season1968: Year of the Pitcher1986: Random 80's year Sparty picked1998: McGwire/Sosa- Typical Steroid Era yearThat leaves one year open. I'm open to make it another Deadball Era year, a Disco Era, Golden Era, etc. Even the 2008 season might be appropriate. But, with jfranco announcing that the multiple season search is available, we NEED to make this happen.

 

[Eephus]

Congrats jfranco. That's about as dominant a performance as we've had in these things.Eephus - I'd be game for a live best-of-7 to determine the 2nd best team sometime this weekend.

Sorry Spartans, I was traveling and mostly off-net since Thursday. If the teams are still active, maybe we can still squeeze in a consolation Live series.Congrats to jfranco. Ueckered Again was the class of the league all season.

 

[jfranco77]

Just looking things over, I'd be willing to come back if I'm invited back for next season. I really enjoyed the draft. Either way, just FYI for the decision-making process, there is a cool new feature that you can search multiple, un-contiguous seasons from the search box, if the decision was going to be 1894, 1930, 2008, etc. Next to the year selection drop-downs there is a little tiny red-blue circle with arrows, it says "switch season search type" and allows you to enter multiple years with a semicolon. So you could enter 1994;1995;1930;1981;1894 and it would only search those years.

I'm thinking we need a Deadball, Ruth, 80's, and Steroid Era year to go along with The Year of the Pitcher (1968). Something like:1908: The REALLY dead deadball year1930: Big Power Hitting Season1968: Year of the Pitcher1986: Random 80's year Sparty picked1998: McGwire/Sosa- Typical Steroid Era yearThat leaves one year open. I'm open to make it another Deadball Era year, a Disco Era, Golden Era, etc. Even the 2008 season might be appropriate. But, with jfranco announcing that the multiple season search is available, we NEED to make this happen.

Personally I like this idea a lot. Using 2008 is a good idea. But whatever... I'd be happy just to play again!

 

[MrPhoenix]

Just looking things over, I'd be willing to come back if I'm invited back for next season. I really enjoyed the draft. Either way, just FYI for the decision-making process, there is a cool new feature that you can search multiple, un-contiguous seasons from the search box, if the decision was going to be 1894, 1930, 2008, etc. Next to the year selection drop-downs there is a little tiny red-blue circle with arrows, it says "switch season search type" and allows you to enter multiple years with a semicolon. So you could enter 1994;1995;1930;1981;1894 and it would only search those years.

I'm thinking we need a Deadball, Ruth, 80's, and Steroid Era year to go along with The Year of the Pitcher (1968). Something like:1908: The REALLY dead deadball year1930: Big Power Hitting Season1968: Year of the Pitcher1986: Random 80's year Sparty picked1998: McGwire/Sosa- Typical Steroid Era yearThat leaves one year open. I'm open to make it another Deadball Era year, a Disco Era, Golden Era, etc. Even the 2008 season might be appropriate. But, with jfranco announcing that the multiple season search is available, we NEED to make this happen.

Personally I like this idea a lot. Using 2008 is a good idea. But whatever... I'd be happy just to play again!

I think we should square away which 1980's year we should use. Are we talking early day Steroid Era of the late 80's or the more traditional early 80's?But, I like how this is taking shape. 1908, 1930, 1968, 1980-something, 1998, and 2008.How soon could we start drafting again?

 

[MrPhoenix]

How soon could we start drafting again?

 

[Spartans Rule]

I think we should square away which 1980's year we should use. Are we talking early day Steroid Era of the late 80's or the more traditional early 80's?

Steroid era, in terms of increased offensive production across the board, doesn't really begin until 1993. Sim III we did from 69-92 to capture that 70s/80s era.I like 1986 because it was the first year I had Strat-O-Matic cards for, and its playoff teams were on the original RBI Baseball game, the first video game I ever played. Basically 1986 was the year I learned the MLB. But, that's just a personal preference, so I'm open to changing it.From a statistical standpoint, 1986 saw slightly higher run production than your average 80s year, leading up to a spike in 1987. In the overall context of baseball history, it was a very average offensive year.

 

[MrPhoenix]

I think we should square away which 1980's year we should use. Are we talking early day Steroid Era of the late 80's or the more traditional early 80's?

Steroid era, in terms of increased offensive production across the board, doesn't really begin until 1993. Sim III we did from 69-92 to capture that 70s/80s era.I like 1986 because it was the first year I had Strat-O-Matic cards for, and its playoff teams were on the original RBI Baseball game, the first video game I ever played. Basically 1986 was the year I learned the MLB. But, that's just a personal preference, so I'm open to changing it.From a statistical standpoint, 1986 saw slightly higher run production than your average 80s year, leading up to a spike in 1987. In the overall context of baseball history, it was a very average offensive year.

And that would give us:Two strong pitching years (1908 and 1968)Two strong hitting years (1930 and 1968)One balanced year (1986)And last season, which I think you could say was closer to average than any year in the past two decades or so.

 

[Eephus]

I think we should square away which 1980's year we should use. Are we talking early day Steroid Era of the late 80's or the more traditional early 80's?

Steroid era, in terms of increased offensive production across the board, doesn't really begin until 1993. Sim III we did from 69-92 to capture that 70s/80s era.I like 1986 because it was the first year I had Strat-O-Matic cards for, and its playoff teams were on the original RBI Baseball game, the first video game I ever played. Basically 1986 was the year I learned the MLB. But, that's just a personal preference, so I'm open to changing it.From a statistical standpoint, 1986 saw slightly higher run production than your average 80s year, leading up to a spike in 1987. In the overall context of baseball history, it was a very average offensive year.

And that would give us:Two strong pitching years (1908 and 1968)Two strong hitting years (1930 and 1968)One balanced year (1986)And last season, which I think you could say was closer to average than any year in the past two decades or so.

Six seasons, six sides to a die Even though franco77 just dominated out of the #20 hole, I think there's still an advantage to be gained by picking from the top of a small draft pool. In order to reduce this effect, how about rolling one d6 before each pick in rounds #1 and #2 only. If you roll a one, you have to pick a player from the first season (e.g. 1908) and so on. I think it introduces some unpredictability to the draft and levels the playing field a bit re: draft position.ETA: plus, who doesn't like rollin' bones

 

[Spartans Rule]

I think we should square away which 1980's year we should use. Are we talking early day Steroid Era of the late 80's or the more traditional early 80's?

Steroid era, in terms of increased offensive production across the board, doesn't really begin until 1993. Sim III we did from 69-92 to capture that 70s/80s era.I like 1986 because it was the first year I had Strat-O-Matic cards for, and its playoff teams were on the original RBI Baseball game, the first video game I ever played. Basically 1986 was the year I learned the MLB. But, that's just a personal preference, so I'm open to changing it.From a statistical standpoint, 1986 saw slightly higher run production than your average 80s year, leading up to a spike in 1987. In the overall context of baseball history, it was a very average offensive year.

And that would give us:Two strong pitching years (1908 and 1968)Two strong hitting years (1930 and 1968)One balanced year (1986)And last season, which I think you could say was closer to average than any year in the past two decades or so.

Six seasons, six sides to a die Even though franco77 just dominated out of the #20 hole, I think there's still an advantage to be gained by picking from the top of a small draft pool. In order to reduce this effect, how about rolling one d6 before each pick in rounds #1 and #2 only. If you roll a one, you have to pick a player from the first season (e.g. 1908) and so on. I think it introduces some unpredictability to the draft and levels the playing field a bit re: draft position.ETA: plus, who doesn't like rollin' bones

I like it in theory. However, to accomplish the goal of reducing the first pick's advantage, it should be an odd number of rounds (1 or 3) that we roll dice for. There will be an advantage to be gained from having the first unrolled pick, as there will likely be one year that no one seems to be able to roll and a great value or two available from that year.

 

[Pumpnick]

I think we should square away which 1980's year we should use. Are we talking early day Steroid Era of the late 80's or the more traditional early 80's?

Steroid era, in terms of increased offensive production across the board, doesn't really begin until 1993. Sim III we did from 69-92 to capture that 70s/80s era.I like 1986 because it was the first year I had Strat-O-Matic cards for, and its playoff teams were on the original RBI Baseball game, the first video game I ever played. Basically 1986 was the year I learned the MLB. But, that's just a personal preference, so I'm open to changing it.From a statistical standpoint, 1986 saw slightly higher run production than your average 80s year, leading up to a spike in 1987. In the overall context of baseball history, it was a very average offensive year.

And that would give us:Two strong pitching years (1908 and 1968)Two strong hitting years (1930 and 1968)One balanced year (1986)And last season, which I think you could say was closer to average than any year in the past two decades or so.

Six seasons, six sides to a die Even though franco77 just dominated out of the #20 hole, I think there's still an advantage to be gained by picking from the top of a small draft pool. In order to reduce this effect, how about rolling one d6 before each pick in rounds #1 and #2 only. If you roll a one, you have to pick a player from the first season (e.g. 1908) and so on. I think it introduces some unpredictability to the draft and levels the playing field a bit re: draft position.ETA: plus, who doesn't like rollin' bones

I like it in theory. However, to accomplish the goal of reducing the first pick's advantage, it should be an odd number of rounds (1 or 3) that we roll dice for. There will be an advantage to be gained from having the first unrolled pick, as there will likely be one year that no one seems to be able to roll and a great value or two available from that year.

 

[larry_boy_44]

who's going to commish??

lol

can we just get the thread/draft starting already?!

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

We need 4 divisions again.

 

[MrPhoenix]

I think we should square away which 1980's year we should use. Are we talking early day Steroid Era of the late 80's or the more traditional early 80's?

Steroid era, in terms of increased offensive production across the board, doesn't really begin until 1993. Sim III we did from 69-92 to capture that 70s/80s era.I like 1986 because it was the first year I had Strat-O-Matic cards for, and its playoff teams were on the original RBI Baseball game, the first video game I ever played. Basically 1986 was the year I learned the MLB. But, that's just a personal preference, so I'm open to changing it.From a statistical standpoint, 1986 saw slightly higher run production than your average 80s year, leading up to a spike in 1987. In the overall context of baseball history, it was a very average offensive year.

And that would give us:Two strong pitching years (1908 and 1968)Two strong hitting years (1930 and 1968)One balanced year (1986)And last season, which I think you could say was closer to average than any year in the past two decades or so.

Six seasons, six sides to a die Even though franco77 just dominated out of the #20 hole, I think there's still an advantage to be gained by picking from the top of a small draft pool. In order to reduce this effect, how about rolling one d6 before each pick in rounds #1 and #2 only. If you roll a one, you have to pick a player from the first season (e.g. 1908) and so on. I think it introduces some unpredictability to the draft and levels the playing field a bit re: draft position.ETA: plus, who doesn't like rollin' bones

I like it in theory. However, to accomplish the goal of reducing the first pick's advantage, it should be an odd number of rounds (1 or 3) that we roll dice for. There will be an advantage to be gained from having the first unrolled pick, as there will likely be one year that no one seems to be able to roll and a great value or two available from that year.

What about a reverse order for even rounds? A 1 roll in odd numbered rounds could be 1908, while in even rounds, the same roll gets you 2008.

 

[MrPhoenix]

We need 4 divisions again.

This should go without saying.

 

[Old Hoss Radbourn]

I wish I could be drafted in WIS again.

 

[Hoos First]

roll them bones

 

[Frostillicus]

We need 4 divisions again.

This is a good posting

 

[jfranco77]

I actually worry that the dice roll for round 1 will hurt the lower-drafting teams more than the high drafting teams. Assume there are about 3 really good players in 1908. The 4th person to roll 1908 (who might be going 19th) is actually more screwed than if they just got the 19th best player overall.

But whatever we do I am in.

 

[Eephus]

I actually worry that the dice roll for round 1 will hurt the lower-drafting teams more than the high drafting teams. Assume there are about 3 really good players in 1908. The 4th person to roll 1908 (who might be going 19th) is actually more screwed than if they just got the 19th best player overall.But whatever we do I am in.

That's possible but when we've done short era drafts in the past, the biggest talent gaps were at the very top. Guys like Koufax and Brett gave the teams drafting early an advantage because there was much more parity between picks 2.01 & 2.24 than in the first round.Besides, whining about dice rolls made for good schtick.

 

[Hoos First]

lets quit talking about it and do something already

 

[MrPhoenix]

lets quit talking about it and do something already

Someone start the signup thread. I would, but my online time is inconsistent day to day.

 

[Greco]

IN #####es, in.

 

[MrPhoenix]

IN bitches, in.

Fixed

 

[Greco]

IN bitches, in.

Fixed

This.

 

[Hoos First]

 

[Kraft...]

George Kell passed today, one for George who's 1949 season has served many of us well

 

[Eephus]

My 2009 teams all suck

Let's light this candle

 

[Doctor Detroit]

My 2009 teams all suckLet's light this candle

I'm not available to draft until the first week of May.

 

[MrPhoenix]

So, are we doing the 6 Year Grab Bag?

 

[Spartans Rule]

My 2009 teams all suckLet's light this candle

I'm not available to draft until the first week of May.

First week of May sounds like a good goal for start time. It'll take a couple weeks to get everyone back in here and organized.

 

[Spartans Rule]

So, are we doing the 6 Year Grab Bag?

It's open to discussion but that was the clubhouse leader last I knew.

 

[Kraft...]

So, are we doing the 6 Year Grab Bag?

It's open to discussion but that was the clubhouse leader last I knew.

What's this now?

 

[Spartans Rule]

So, are we doing the 6 Year Grab Bag?

It's open to discussion but that was the clubhouse leader last I knew.

What's this now?

We would use a bunch of non-consecutive years from different eras, e.g. 1908, 1930, 1943, 1968, 1986, 2008.jfranco knows how to manipulate the draft center to search just from a pool like that, so that wouldn't be a problem.

 

[Koya]

####, I remember when I had time to focus on important stuff like this. That said, NO way am I missing a SIM league.

 

[Hoos First]

in again

 

[Frostillicus]

If we're doing something all complicated can we get some TRESheets up in this bizzle?

 

[Koya]