OFFICIAL WIS XVII THREAD: Long Balls, Boy Bands, and Booming Economies (1 Viewer)

[Northern Voice]

23.04 - Jim Bullinger, RP

I think that gets me up to date

You owe one more, NV. Timlin was your 20th rounder, I believe, not 21st.

Thanks to Kraft for the text.

I'll take Craig Grebeck, utility guy.

That was actually me.

 

[RnR]

Make-up pick: Juan Encarnacion (OF)

 

[RnR]

Let's see if we can finish this tomorrow. I'm busy as #### with work this week, thanks to the folks that have kept this thing moving along.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

give me a 10 min clock tomorrow for round 24

TIA

 

[Frostillicus]

I'll take a 1 minute clock.

yeah, I know

 

[Brady Marino]

Bogart - OTC, no clockLolly - on deckTUP - in the hole

I think I had the last pick at 23.19 at 8est. Frosty up

Went off Google doc.

 

[Greco]

Denis Boucher, RP Les Canadiens

 

[Greco]

Txt me and give me 10 then skip.

 

[Brady Marino]

Let's see if we can finish this tomorrow. I'm busy as #### with work this week, thanks to the folks that have kept this thing moving along.

When do we kick off the Free For All?

 

[cheese]

Socal then me right?

 

[Kraft...]

OK think Google Doc is caught up:

AOD X6 Makeups

Sparty X3 Makeups

Moops X1 Makeup

SoCalBroncoFan - OTC (Clock up @ xx:30)
cheese
Koya

 

[cheese]

I think SoCal is on the clock until 1230, so if you see that he picks feel free to text. Thanks.

 

[Koya]

 

[the moops]

Dave Berg - UTIL

 

[Bogart]

Dave Berg - UTIL

Nice pick.

 

[Bogart]

You can probably just skip me today. 2 picks to go. Will probably just shtick it up.

 

[Kraft...]

Dave Berg - UTIL

Nice pick.

Why don't you two get a room

 

[oso diablo]

Now everyone quote it...

if i were commish, i'd dock you a million or two for this

 

[Eephus]

who's up?

 

[rodg12]

who's up?

SoCalDraftKillerTM

 

[oso diablo]

Denis Boucher, RP Les Canadiens

great cookie, but below $1mm

 

[RnR]

Let's see if we can finish this tomorrow. I'm busy as #### with work this week, thanks to the folks that have kept this thing moving along.

When do we kick off the Free For All?

Well, I suppose it depends on how quickly we can close out Rounds 23 and 24.

I'm thinking I may set the Free For All for tomorrow afternoon with the hopes that everyone will plan to enter their teams following making their 25th selection and that we can get this thing locked in and submitted to start before the weekend. No reason to wait around for days to get the teams entered.

Bigger question is what we are planning to do for the divisional alignments. Suggestions?

 

[rodg12]

For SoCal via text...

23.22 - Brian Harper, C

 

[Kraft...]

Bigger question is what we are planning to do for the divisional alignments. Suggestions?

Francings

 

[rodg12]

For Greco via text...

23.21 - Don Mattingly, 1B

Card

 

[rodg12]

AOD X6 Makeups

Sparty X3 Makeups

cheese - OTC to XX:02 (texted)KoyaKoyacheeseSoCalBroncoFan (skip)Greco (10 min clock)FrostillicusHoos Firstthe moops (10 min clock)Super Nintendo ChalmersDoug Brodg12Tremendous Upside (10 min clock)larry_boy_44BogartChemical Xjfranco77Arsenal of Doom (autoskip)BradyMarinoSpartans Rule (autoskip pending makeups)Doctor DetroitRnRNorthern VoiceKraft…Eephusoso diablo

 

[RnR]

Bigger question is what we are planning to do for the divisional alignments. Suggestions?

Francings

If he's up for it, I always enjoy these.

 

[oso diablo]

Well, I suppose it depends on how quickly we can close out Rounds 23 and 24.

almost surely will finish round 24 today.

 

[cheese]

Rick Honeycutt

 

[oso diablo]

Rick Honeycutt

taken at 16.18

 

[cheese]

Bigger question is what we are planning to do for the divisional alignments. Suggestions?

Francings

If he's up for it, I always enjoy these.

Schoolyard draft. Randomly select 6 owners to pick who they want in their div.

 

[RnR]

Well, I suppose it depends on how quickly we can close out Rounds 23 and 24.

almost surely will finish round 24 today.

That's what I figure as well.

Here's a tentative plan:

- Finish Round 24 today

- Allow for all skips to be made up tonight

- Have divisions aligned by tomorrow morning

- Conduct Free For All tomorrow at a time-zone neutral time

- Allow makeups on the FFA to be made through the evening

- Ask everyone to have team entered by close of business on Friday so that we can hit the "start button" before memorial day weekend begins.

 

[Koya]

Well, I suppose it depends on how quickly we can close out Rounds 23 and 24.

almost surely will finish round 24 today.

That's what I figure as well.

Here's a tentative plan:

- Finish Round 24 today

- Allow for all skips to be made up tonight

- Have divisions aligned by tomorrow morning

- Conduct Free For All tomorrow at a time-zone neutral time

- Allow makeups on the FFA to be made through the evening

- Ask everyone to have team entered by close of business on Friday so that we can hit the "start button" before memorial day weekend begins.

That's fine so long as the league is set up today.

Otherwise... mayhem.

 

[cheese]

Carlos Perez

 

[Hoos First]

Well, I suppose it depends on how quickly we can close out Rounds 23 and 24.

almost surely will finish round 24 today.

That's what I figure as well.

Here's a tentative plan:

- Finish Round 24 today

- Allow for all skips to be made up tonight

- Have divisions aligned by tomorrow morning

- Conduct Free For All tomorrow at a time-zone neutral time

- Allow makeups on the FFA to be made through the evening

- Ask everyone to have team entered by close of business on Friday so that we can hit the "start button" before memorial day weekend begins.

When are you setting up the league, so we can simlive?

 

[RnR]

League will be up tonight. Let's not get crazy, gals.

 

[Brady Marino]

Carlos Perez

I hate you.

 

[Koya]

Ray "On the RANGE" Sanchez - SS

Bob "Need some PAs" Henley - C

 

[Koya]

And with those two bench guys my Avg drops under .300 to .299 and slugging under .500 to .499.

 

[jfranco77]

Bigger question is what we are planning to do for the divisional alignments. Suggestions?

Francings

If he's up for it, I always enjoy these.

I have been sort of tracking rankings, I probably need to assign values for about 100 players, I can probably do it tomorrow.

 

[cheese]

Joe Crawford

 

[Doug B]

Did cheese pick out of turn, or did Koya get skipped?

EDIT: NM, I had Mattingly going to cheese.

 

[cheese]

I picked someone that was picked. Someone mentioned it so I picked again. Then Koya picked. Then I picked coming back.

 

[Doug B]

Ray "On the RANGE" Sanchez - SS

Former Cub Rey Sanchez?

 

[Doug B]

Have any of these picks been made up? Can't see GoogleSheet from work.

18 . 16 ( 424 ) Arsenal of Doom skip19 . 9 ( 441 ) Arsenal of Doom skip20 . 16 ( 472 ) Arsenal of Doom skip21 . 9 ( 489 ) Arsenal of Doom skip22 . 16 ( 520 ) Arsenal of Doom skip23 . 9 ( 537 ) Arsenal of Doom skip

20 . 13 ( 469 ) Bogart skip

20 . 14 ( 470 ) Chemical X skip

21 . 7 ( 487 ) Spartans Rule skip22 . 18 ( 522 ) Spartans Rule skip23 . 7 ( 535 ) Spartans Rule skip

 

[Koya]

Ray "On the RANGE" Sanchez - SS

Former Cub Rey Sanchez?

Um, yes, that would be the one.

I'm worse with names than Mad Dog.

 

[rodg12]

Greco just tried to take my 7th rounder via text. <_<

Talk about a

 

[rodg12]

Have any of these picks been made up? Can't see GoogleSheet from work.

18 . 16 ( 424 ) Arsenal of Doom skip19 . 9 ( 441 ) Arsenal of Doom skip20 . 16 ( 472 ) Arsenal of Doom skip21 . 9 ( 489 ) Arsenal of Doom skip22 . 16 ( 520 ) Arsenal of Doom skip23 . 9 ( 537 ) Arsenal of Doom skip

20 . 13 ( 469 ) Bogart skip

20 . 14 ( 470 ) Chemical X skip

21 . 7 ( 487 ) Spartans Rule skip22 . 18 ( 522 ) Spartans Rule skip23 . 7 ( 535 ) Spartans Rule skip

These two have...

20 . 13 Bogart Bobby Witt SP

20 . 14 Chemical X Mark Grudzielanek SS

 

[Greco]

Txt me and give me 10 then skip.

Greco just tried to take my 7th rounder via text. <_< Talk about a

Consider the source amd feel good about yourself.

 

[Doug B]

If we could get 3-4 IP out of the starter and then start bringing in aces out of the bullpen, I figured I could come out a good 1/2 run ahead of the league average in ERA despite picking 4 hitters in the first 5 rounds.

Is this kind of strategy still possible these days? I noticed in the last few sims that when a pitcher went over his real-life Games Pitched -- regardless of pitch counts or innings pitched -- that their fatigue and performance fell off a cliff.

Take your Alan Benes season. Looks like he's at 23 real-life starts (didn't look it up). You've got him in a five-man rotation, so you'll start him 33-34 times. Benes might perform as expected through 25 or 26 starts, but then hit a wall at his 27th start -- and then really fall apart thereafter. And as far as I can tell, limiting pitch counts/innings per start doesn't help with that at all.

Maybe I've misinterpreted some results that I've seen from my own squads, and maybe I've misunderstood some WIS forum postings. But I've been under the impression that the pitching strategy you've outlined has been sharply curtailed by recent (post 2009) sim-engine changes.

I guess we'll find out. As far as I know it should be fine. I don't think the # of starts a guy had in RL (or games he pitched) has any impact, other than some mysterious effect on how fast he recovers. If I'm wrong it will be bad.

The bigger issue for me is that when guys throw too many games as a reliever they get tired from appearance fatigue. Usually it's between 100-110 games a season, or a pace to get there. I've got Foulke, Dibble, Williamson and maybe Zimm who are all going to be pitching >80 games easy. And I am going to need to use at least 4-5 relievers a game. It could be an epic mess.

I might be thinking about the appearance fatigue thing (aka "The Silver KIng Adjustment"). When I get some time, I will post a query to the WIS forum about exceeding a starting pitcher's real-life games pitched.