***OFFICIAL WIS XIV DRAFT THREAD*** (1 Viewer)

[boubucarow]

And a sweep gets me back to .500. Currently in line for 3 Gold Gloves at 3B, LF, and CF. Although I am a 4th of the way through my season, I know a lot will change with so many not having played 20 yet.

 

[belljr]

So I notice my bench guys starting some games now. How can I tell what my starters fatigue are at currently. Pat Listach lost his 12 game hitting streak after having to take a day off and losing his rhythm

 

[RnR]

The sacrifice bunt with a runner on third base is lame. That's all.

Its a safety squeeze. Play your INF IN and you should be able to negate it.

 

[the moops]

The sacrifice bunt with a runner on third base is lame. That's all.

Its a safety squeeze. Play your INF IN and you should be able to negate it.

I do play the infield in. They still score. It's a flaw.

 

[RnR]

The sacrifice bunt with a runner on third base is lame. That's all.

Its a safety squeeze. Play your INF IN and you should be able to negate it.

I do play the infield in. They still score. It's a flaw.

Interestingly enough, I've had very little success with it this season. Probably like 2-for-8 on the year. That feels about right if the infield is in.

 

[belljr]

So I notice my bench guys starting some games now. How can I tell what my starters fatigue are at currently. Pat Listach lost his 12 game hitting streak after having to take a day off and losing his rhythm

bump?

 

[RnR]

So I notice my bench guys starting some games now. How can I tell what my starters fatigue are at currently. Pat Listach lost his 12 game hitting streak after having to take a day off and losing his rhythm

bump?

On the manager's screen. There's a health %. If it is below 100, your guy is experiencing a level of fatigue.

 

[Eephus]

So I notice my bench guys starting some games now. How can I tell what my starters fatigue are at currently. Pat Listach lost his 12 game hitting streak after having to take a day off and losing his rhythm

bump?

On the manager's screen. There's a health %. If it is below 100, your guy is experiencing a level of fatigue.

You can set "auto rest" under advanced settings to automatically rest players when their fatigue level falls below a specified threshold

 

[boubucarow]

So I notice my bench guys starting some games now. How can I tell what my starters fatigue are at currently. Pat Listach lost his 12 game hitting streak after having to take a day off and losing his rhythm

bump?

On the manager's screen. There's a health %. If it is below 100, your guy is experiencing a level of fatigue.

Another thing I found. If you point to the health %, a stat will pop up showing you how much your rate of use is above by percentage over the PA/162. It appears only if you are over the rate.

 

[the moops]

Another thing I found. If you point to the health %, a stat will pop up showing you how much your rate of use is above by percentage over the PA/162. It appears only if you are over the rate.

This doesnt seem to work for me. I have a few guys that are over, yet nothing pops up.

 

[Koya]

FYI, if anyone else has underpeforming players, Im looking to swing a deal. Check my roster - full of bats that were supposed to do well but suck.

 

[the moops]

Another thing I found. If you point to the health %, a stat will pop up showing you how much your rate of use is above by percentage over the PA/162. It appears only if you are over the rate.

This doesnt seem to work for me. I have a few guys that are over, yet nothing pops up.

Nevermind. I was just moving around too fast.Is it true that we can safely go 10% over their PA/162 and not see too much difference? God I hope so.

 

[Arsenal of Doom]

Another thing I found. If you point to the health %, a stat will pop up showing you how much your rate of use is above by percentage over the PA/162. It appears only if you are over the rate.

This doesnt seem to work for me. I have a few guys that are over, yet nothing pops up.

Nevermind. I was just moving around too fast.Is it true that we can safely go 10% over their PA/162 and not see too much difference? God I hope so.

As long as your guys are in green they should be okay.

 

[boubucarow]

Quilvio Veras is on pace to walk 114 times. He is batting .210 but has a .350 OBP.

 

[the moops]

Quilvio Veras is on pace to walk 114 times. He is batting .210 but has a .350 OBP.

Have a similar thing going with Elmer Flick. On pace for the same 114 walks. Batting .221, but has a .385 OBP.On an unrelated note, Pat Neshek has pitched 6 innings, has struck out 10, walked none, and given up just one single. And he is 2-0. Too bad he can only pitch 40 innings.

 

[belljr]

Ok, thanks, I was on my stat page, ill look again when I get home.

 

[boubucarow]

Another thing I found. If you point to the health %, a stat will pop up showing you how much your rate of use is above by percentage over the PA/162. It appears only if you are over the rate.

This doesnt seem to work for me. I have a few guys that are over, yet nothing pops up.

Nevermind. I was just moving around too fast.Is it true that we can safely go 10% over their PA/162 and not see too much difference? God I hope so.

I am pretty sure that when their pace accounts for 10% over their PA/162, fatigue starts to set in. I have Fisk at 9% over after last game and he is still 100%. I bet his energy drops after next game.

 

[the moops]

Another thing I found. If you point to the health %, a stat will pop up showing you how much your rate of use is above by percentage over the PA/162. It appears only if you are over the rate.

This doesnt seem to work for me. I have a few guys that are over, yet nothing pops up.

Nevermind. I was just moving around too fast.Is it true that we can safely go 10% over their PA/162 and not see too much difference? God I hope so.

I am pretty sure that when their pace accounts for 10% over their PA/162, fatigue starts to set in. I have Fisk at 9% over after last game and he is still 100%. I bet his energy drops after next game.

Yep. I have Charles Johnson at 12% over and he is barely fatigued (98%). Same with Joe Mauer, 12% over and 98%. Looks like it is pretty close to a 1-1 ratio of anything over 10%. Olaf is 95% and 14% over, so it is not quite a 1-1 I guess.

 

[boubucarow]

By the way, I am simlive.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

As far as fatigue, my middle relief is getting murdered.

 

[belljr]

SCREW you WIllie Mitchell I hate you, need to figure out how not to let you touch the ball

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Quilvio Veras is on pace to walk 114 times. He is batting .210 but has a .350 OBP.

Have a similar thing going with Elmer Flick. On pace for the same 114 walks. Batting .221, but has a .385 OBP.On an unrelated note, Pat Neshek has pitched 6 innings, has struck out 10, walked none, and given up just one single. And he is 2-0. Too bad he can only pitch 40 innings.

GDB how many of those innings have been against me.

 

[Brady Marino]

Fun Fact: Johnny Pesky hit his 1st homer of the season before Fred Lynn.

The Pesky/Lynn HR watch is the new Delmon/Zobrist HR watch.

 

[Greco]

Bambino OPS @ 1.000 w/24 AB's. .333 avg, .333 obp, .667 slg. 1 HR, 4 2B's and 5 rbi. Moving the fat kid to RF this weekend.

 

[Koya]

Fun Fact: Johnny Pesky hit his 1st homer of the season before Fred Lynn.The Pesky/Lynn HR watch is the new Delmon/Zobrist HR watch.

Lets trade.

 

[belljr]

20 games in doing better than anticipated, thought I'd be a cellar dweller fo sho.

Highest payroll and it will be awesome to stink as I will in the end - simlive gives me heart attacks but my team is much better that way. ROCCO YOU SUCK

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

http://www.fangraphs.com/not/

by Dayn Perry - December 3, 2010

On Sunday, Americans celebrate a cherished national holiday: Repeal Day.

That’s right, on December 5 the Republic will once again fondly recall the downfall of Prohibition and its meddlesome enablers. Suffice it to say, the best way to honor this holy day of obligation is with some wholesome, nutritious alcohol!

Baseball, of course, has a long and bountiful relationship with drinking, and it’s only natural that the game takes part in Repeal Day exuberance. So since we can’t hang the bunting and play ball in December, we’re going to get in the Repeal Day spirit by naming the All-Time All-Drinkers Team …

C – Josh Gibson

Gibson may have been the greatest catcher ever to squat behind the dish, but he also had a legendary weakness for self-medication. Most notably, he missed the 1938 Negro League All-Star Game because he drank too much the night before and missed his train.

1B – Ed Delahanty

There are Drinking Men, and then there those, like Delahanty, who get drunk on a train, threaten to disembowel other passengers with a straight razor, get kicked off said train, and walk into Niagara Falls and die. (Yes, Delahanty was predominantly an outfielder, but for the sake of the narrative I’m deploying him at first base.)

2B – Billy Martin

While Martin’s strongest body of drinking work came as a manager, he was quite fond of the sauce in his playing days. The Copa incident, brawls too numerous to chronicle in this space, broken marriages, an affair with a 16-year-old when Martin was, oh, 50 … Hmm, turns out it’s possible to drink too much. “He’s got a good heart,” drinking buddy Whitey Ford once said of Martin, “but I can’t say much for his liver.”

3B – Wade Boggs

Perhaps it’s a tale that skews apocryphal, but … 64 Miller Lites on one cross-country flight? Even if the story’s not precisely true, it’s safe to say that Boggs embodies the Platonic ideal when it comes to choking down domestic swill.

SS – Swede Risberg

While I have a serviceable command of the sprawl of baseball history, I’m not a Bill James or a Rob Neyer or a John Thorn. As such, I had trouble coming up with a hard-drinking shortstop of renown. So the honor falls to Risberg. Why? Well, he spent a goodly portion of his baseball career in indulgent Chicago, he was one of the driving forces behind the Black Sox Scandal, and he owned a bar after his banishment from the game. Sounds like a Drinking Man!

OF – Babe Ruth

Like Ruth, many of us while thwockstoggled (I just made up a synonym for “drunk”!) have eaten too many hot dogs or submitted to some base urge or another. But how many of us have gotten plowed and, perhaps in a syphilitic rage, heaved a piano into a pond?

OF – Mickey Mantle

I’ve heard it said before that Mantle drank a lot.

OF – Hack Wilson

Lore has it that Cubs manager Joe McCarthy, in an attempt to persuade his star slugger to stop marinating himself in drink, dropped a worm into a glass of whiskey. McCarthy and Wilson both looked on as the worm writhed, squirmed, screamed undetectable worm screams and submitted to a fate far worse than the mockingbird’s beak.

“Now what does that prove?” McCarthy supposedly asked him.

“It proves that if you drink whiskey,” Wilson said, “you won’t get worms.”

Snare drum.

SP – Grover Cleveland Alexander

When it comes to tales of Ol’ Pete’s imbibing, truth and myth mix like, um, gin and tonic. What’s known is that Alexander returned from World War I with a severe case of PTSD, and drinking was the only way he could abide it. Whether or not Alexander actually pulled off this or that great moment while crocked is probably lost to history, but when in doubt bet on “crocked.”

RP – Ryne Duren

Duren makes the team for this quote alone: “I never really knew what it was like to pitch a sober inning.”

MGR – Bob Lemon

Managers who drank too much? Talk about wandering into a cornucopia … Lemon loved scotch more than most of us love oxygen or pizza. He was once asked whether he drank after losses. Lemon replied: “I drink after wins, I drink after losses, I drink after rainouts.”

Cheers, readers.

 

[oso diablo]

i briefly considered a schtick approach to this draft, to select only members of the Hall of Fame, or those who soon would be inducted. Looking back on the draft, could have assembled this team:

C - Cochrane, Campanella

1B - Mize, Greenberg

2B - Morgan

SS - Arky Vaughan, Pee Wee Reese, Ernie Banks

3B - have to move one of the SS (could pick Boggs instead of Morgan, and then move a SS to 2B)

OF - Kiki Cuyler, Willie Mays, Larry Doby, Hack Wilson, Heinie Manush

UT - Honus Wagner

Pitching Staff: Pete Alexander, Iron Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Bert Blyleven (should be voted in this year), Walter Johnson, Warren Spahn, Carl Hubbell, Whitey Ford, Juan Marichal, Early Wynn, and Satchel Paige

I think my hitting would have been better than it is, and that includes drafting 5 guys that weren't picked at all. Defense would have been better. But the pitching would have been worse, perhaps enough worse to offset the gains elsewhere.

I wish i had done this.

 

[the moops]

i briefly considered a schtick approach to this draft, to select only members of the Hall of Fame, or those who soon would be inducted. Looking back on the draft, could have assembled this team:C - Cochrane, Campanella1B - Mize, Greenberg2B - MorganSS - Arky Vaughan, Pee Wee Reese, Ernie Banks3B - have to move one of the SS (could pick Boggs instead of Morgan, and then move a SS to 2B)OF - Kiki Cuyler, Willie Mays, Larry Doby, Hack Wilson, Heinie ManushUT - Honus WagnerPitching Staff: Pete Alexander, Iron Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Bert Blyleven (should be voted in this year), Walter Johnson, Warren Spahn, Carl Hubbell, Whitey Ford, Juan Marichal, Early Wynn, and Satchel PaigeI think my hitting would have been better than it is, and that includes drafting 5 guys that weren't picked at all. Defense would have been better. But the pitching would have been worse, perhaps enough worse to offset the gains elsewhere.I wish i had done this.

I think a shtick draft would be an excellent idea.What if we came up with 24 different criteria, and each drafter had to follow the criteria they were given (or selected, or drafted).Having teams full of like-minded players would be awesome.Switch hittersPlayers who died before the age of 50RacistsVeteransRidiculously overpaidEtc...

 

[Tremendous Upside]

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by Dayn Perry - December 3, 2010

On Sunday, Americans celebrate a cherished national holiday: Repeal Day.

That’s right, on December 5 the Republic will once again fondly recall the downfall of Prohibition and its meddlesome enablers. Suffice it to say, the best way to honor this holy day of obligation is with some wholesome, nutritious alcohol!

Baseball, of course, has a long and bountiful relationship with drinking, and it’s only natural that the game takes part in Repeal Day exuberance. So since we can’t hang the bunting and play ball in December, we’re going to get in the Repeal Day spirit by naming the All-Time All-Drinkers Team …

C – Josh Gibson

Gibson may have been the greatest catcher ever to squat behind the dish, but he also had a legendary weakness for self-medication. Most notably, he missed the 1938 Negro League All-Star Game because he drank too much the night before and missed his train.

1B – Ed Delahanty

There are Drinking Men, and then there those, like Delahanty, who get drunk on a train, threaten to disembowel other passengers with a straight razor, get kicked off said train, and walk into Niagara Falls and die. (Yes, Delahanty was predominantly an outfielder, but for the sake of the narrative I’m deploying him at first base.)

2B – Billy Martin

While Martin’s strongest body of drinking work came as a manager, he was quite fond of the sauce in his playing days. The Copa incident, brawls too numerous to chronicle in this space, broken marriages, an affair with a 16-year-old when Martin was, oh, 50 … Hmm, turns out it’s possible to drink too much. “He’s got a good heart,” drinking buddy Whitey Ford once said of Martin, “but I can’t say much for his liver.”

3B – Wade Boggs

Perhaps it’s a tale that skews apocryphal, but … 64 Miller Lites on one cross-country flight? Even if the story’s not precisely true, it’s safe to say that Boggs embodies the Platonic ideal when it comes to choking down domestic swill.

SS – Swede Risberg

While I have a serviceable command of the sprawl of baseball history, I’m not a Bill James or a Rob Neyer or a John Thorn. As such, I had trouble coming up with a hard-drinking shortstop of renown. So the honor falls to Risberg. Why? Well, he spent a goodly portion of his baseball career in indulgent Chicago, he was one of the driving forces behind the Black Sox Scandal, and he owned a bar after his banishment from the game. Sounds like a Drinking Man!

OF – Babe Ruth

Like Ruth, many of us while thwockstoggled (I just made up a synonym for “drunk”!) have eaten too many hot dogs or submitted to some base urge or another. But how many of us have gotten plowed and, perhaps in a syphilitic rage, heaved a piano into a pond?

OF – Mickey Mantle

I’ve heard it said before that Mantle drank a lot.

OF – Hack Wilson

Lore has it that Cubs manager Joe McCarthy, in an attempt to persuade his star slugger to stop marinating himself in drink, dropped a worm into a glass of whiskey. McCarthy and Wilson both looked on as the worm writhed, squirmed, screamed undetectable worm screams and submitted to a fate far worse than the mockingbird’s beak.

“Now what does that prove?” McCarthy supposedly asked him.

“It proves that if you drink whiskey,” Wilson said, “you won’t get worms.”

Snare drum.

SP – Grover Cleveland Alexander

When it comes to tales of Ol’ Pete’s imbibing, truth and myth mix like, um, gin and tonic. What’s known is that Alexander returned from World War I with a severe case of PTSD, and drinking was the only way he could abide it. Whether or not Alexander actually pulled off this or that great moment while crocked is probably lost to history, but when in doubt bet on “crocked.”

RP – Ryne Duren

Duren makes the team for this quote alone: “I never really knew what it was like to pitch a sober inning.”

MGR – Bob Lemon

Managers who drank too much? Talk about wandering into a cornucopia … Lemon loved scotch more than most of us love oxygen or pizza. He was once asked whether he drank after losses. Lemon replied: “I drink after wins, I drink after losses, I drink after rainouts.”

Cheers, readers.

GB Wade Boggs

 

[Chemical X]

in for teh lunch sim

 

[Koya]

Well this is a first. The player of the game between me and MrP was his pitcher. And not because of a stellar performance in a losing cause:

player of the game: DeWayne Buice gets shelled

 

[jfranco77]

If anyone has a 150-ip guy and wants to swap him for one of my short relievers, make me an offer. My bullpen is completely decimated.

 

[Brady Marino]

Well this is a first. The player of the game between me and MrP was his pitcher. And not because of a stellar performance in a losing cause: player of the game: DeWayne Buice gets shelled

He's been turrible this year. Great time to melt down in the top of the 9th.

 

[the moops]

I got some free time if anyone wants some

 

[the moops]

If anyone has a 150-ip guy and wants to swap him for one of my short relievers, make me an offer. My bullpen is completely decimated.

I refuse to discuss any trade with you until you first get your ### on some simlive.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

somehow I am in 1st with a team .635 OPS

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Koya 2-7 at home.

Karma>sup

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Koya 2-7 at home. Karma>sup

 

[Doug B]

somehow I am in 1st with a team .635 OPS

Your team WHIP of 1.30 and team ERA of 3.28 are pretty stout in this thing.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

somehow I am in 1st with a team .635 OPS

Your team WHIP of 1.30 and team ERA of 3.28 are pretty stout in this thing.

Also am 3rd in FP%Yeah, Target Field really helpingI didn't expect a bopping lineup, but this is a bit absurdHeyward has been great though

 

[the moops]

somehow I am in 1st with a team .635 OPS

Your team WHIP of 1.30 and team ERA of 3.28 are pretty stout in this thing.

Also am 3rd in FP%Yeah, Target Field really helpingI didn't expect a bopping lineup, but this is a bit absurdHeyward has been great though

If you want to go live I will crush you and your absurdness.

 

[the moops]

#### you tre. I hope you slip and fall on the icy snow and get a concussion. Oh, and take Josh Hamilton down with you.

 

[RnR]

#### you tre. I hope you slip and fall on the icy snow and get a concussion. Oh, and take Josh Hamilton down with you.

Better chance Tre takes Josh out for a brew after a game and he falls off the wagon. He'll be snorting coke by sunrise.

 

[Koya]

Koya 2-7 at home. Karma>sup

Life's a #####. Especially when you suck.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

#### you tre. I hope you slip and fall on the icy snow and get a concussion. Oh, and take Josh Hamilton down with you.

Better chance Tre takes Josh out for a brew after a game and he falls off the wagon. He'll be snorting coke by sunrise.

:walkoff:

 

[Koya]

I fully expected normalization to hit G. Watkins' numbers down. Its a 1930 year and even with really nice plus numbers I get it.

But batting .250 under real life SLG? Ouch. Only one player (Gus Mancuso, 1/3 time catcher) above .480 SLG.

It happened and I can't get up.

 

[Koya]

PS: Bill Delancy .209.

SLUGGING!

 

[Koya]

If anyone is interested in a change of scenery trade (your headache for mine), these guys available:

Bill Delancy (1/2 time catcher)

Algie McBride (very good D OF)

George Watkins (Poor D but "allegedly" good-very good offense OF)

Joe Orengo (SS-2B-3B)

Hughie Critz (2B)

 

[Greco]

Come get fat in live.