WIS V All-Time Baseball Draft: HARRRRRRRIFIC (2 Viewers)

[UlyssesNorris]

Noob question: Am I supposed to have started a team already on WIS? Because I haven't yet done that.

No, you won't have to put your roster in until the very end. However, WIS does offer a "free exhibition season" that could be useful for searching their player database and keeping track of your current roster.

OK, thanks. I'll do that.

 

[Eephus]

normalized metrics.

I don't even know what this means.

As a whole, the '22 season is monster. The numbers don't lie. However, if you're talking about sim performance, '22 may not be the best. And really, that's what this draft is about.

Besides what does Bill James know. I PLAYED more baseball than him, that count for something right?

I was in Little League in 1922

 

[Doug B]

Noob question: Am I supposed to have started a team already on WIS? Because I haven't yet done that.

No, you won't have to put your roster in until the very end. However, WIS does offer a "free exhibition season" that could be useful for searching their player database and keeping track of your current roster.

OK, thanks. I'll do that.

When you do the exhibition season, don't actually input your entire team (unless you want to). WIS will let you keep your "free" team around for a long time while you take several months or longer to search their Draft Center.

 

[RnR]

Hey Doug, you can pick a stadium when you're ready....

We'll make some progress today one way or another...

 

[Eephus]

My stadium shall be:

Seals Stadium, San Francisco, CA

Home of the San Francisco Giants in the 1958 and 1959 seasons before they moved to Candlestick Park. Featuring large dimensions--including a 30-foot-high center-field wall 400 feet out--this place is partially responsible for the canard that Willie Mays would have Ruthian HR numbers had he played in a "hitter's park."

Fun facts:

Hank Aaron had his only 3-HR game there, on June 21, 1959;

Named after Jimmy Seals of the harmonic power pop duo Seals & Crofts

It's now a Safeway supermarket. I ran past there last night.

 

[10993]

Don't know where Pump is, but I take:1.05: 1922 Rogers Hornsby

.401 avg, 42 HR, 17 SB, .459/.722/1.181

Bill James calls Hornsby’s 1922 season the best by a second baseman ever. A little Hornsby story from the Abstract:

“1925 Hornsby was on the field, arguing loudly with Art Fletcher, when all of a sudden, without warning, he punched Fletcher in the face. Later a reporter asked him why he had hit Fletcher.

‘Well,’ replied Hornsby very seriously, ‘I wasn’t making any progress trying to talk to him.’”

So he’s feisty. He’s a great player. And he plays a position where the great seasons aren’t quite as plentiful as some others. I’m very happy to start my first ever WIS/FBG/BBT team with Rajah.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hornsro01.shtml

Bogart isn't going to like this one bit.

I love me some Rajah. Not sure if I would go with '22, but you really can't go wrong there. And yes, I was trying to get GWB to take Hornsby first over all.

That would have been a minor upset if the Babe didn't go first

It was an upset that Bonds didn't.

My Bonds hatred definitely makes me lean in a different direction but I still think if I was unbiased I would have taken 2 Babes ahead of him

So you'd only be wrong twice before picking Bonds.

how many championships has Bonds won for you harrier? I don't remember.

Don't blame the results of my bad managing on Bonds. He's been nails.PS Trade me Ronnie Brown in It Happened. I can fix your broken WR corps.

 

[Doug B]

Hey Doug, you can pick a stadium when you're ready....

We'll make some progress today one way or another...

My bad ... I missed Sammy's stadium pick.Please skip me immediately ... I want to check something out. Don't want to hold you guys up. I'll jump back in soon with a stadium pick.

 

[Giant Wooden Badger]

My stadium shall be:

Seals Stadium, San Francisco, CA

Home of the San Francisco Giants in the 1958 and 1959 seasons before they moved to Candlestick Park. Featuring large dimensions--including a 30-foot-high center-field wall 400 feet out--this place is partially responsible for the canard that Willie Mays would have Ruthian HR numbers had he played in a "hitter's park."

Fun facts:

Hank Aaron had his only 3-HR game there, on June 21, 1959;

Named after Jimmy Seals of the harmonic power pop duo Seals & Crofts

It's now a Safeway supermarket. I ran past there last night.

LMAO at "ran"You wheeled past there last night, gramps.

 

[UlyssesNorris]

My stadium shall be:

Seals Stadium, San Francisco, CA

Home of the San Francisco Giants in the 1958 and 1959 seasons before they moved to Candlestick Park. Featuring large dimensions--including a 30-foot-high center-field wall 400 feet out--this place is partially responsible for the canard that Willie Mays would have Ruthian HR numbers had he played in a "hitter's park."

Fun facts:

Hank Aaron had his only 3-HR game there, on June 21, 1959;

Named after Jimmy Seals of the harmonic power pop duo Seals & Crofts

It's now a Safeway supermarket. I ran past there last night.

 

[Funkley]

normalized metrics.

I don't even know what this means.

As a whole, the '22 season is monster. The numbers don't lie. However, if you're talking about sim performance, '22 may not be the best. And really, that's what this draft is about.

Besides what does Bill James know. I PLAYED more baseball than him, that count for something right?

I was in Little League in 1922

Before fences and grass were invented.

 

[Funkley]

"Trade me Ronnie Brown" is good shtick.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

normalized metrics.

I don't even know what this means.

As a whole, the '22 season is monster. The numbers don't lie. However, if you're talking about sim performance, '22 may not be the best. And really, that's what this draft is about.

Besides what does Bill James know. I PLAYED more baseball than him, that count for something right?

I was in Little League in 1922

Before fences and grass were invented.

A lot of people don't realize that Eephus hit .348 in LL using a human thigh bone as a bat.

 

[Bogart]

normalized metrics.

I don't even know what this means.

As a whole, the '22 season is monster. The numbers don't lie. However, if you're talking about sim performance, '22 may not be the best. And really, that's what this draft is about.

Besides what does Bill James know. I PLAYED more baseball than him, that count for something right?

I was in Little League in 1922

I saw you on Bill James' Baseball Disc One last night, you were bringing barrels in for the Beer and Whisky league. Good job my man.

 

[Sammy3469]

normalized metrics.

I don't even know what this means.

As a whole, the '22 season is monster. The numbers don't lie. However, if you're talking about sim performance, '22 may not be the best. And really, that's what this draft is about.

Besides what does Bill James know. I PLAYED more baseball than him, that count for something right?

I was in Little League in 1922

Before fences and grass were invented.

A lot of people don't realize that Eephus hit .348 in LL using a human thigh bone as a bat.

It's even more impressive when you consider how much shorter people were back then. That bat didn't give him much plate coverage.

 

[Bogart]

Don't know where Pump is, but I take:

1.05: 1922 Rogers Hornsby

.401 avg, 42 HR, 17 SB, .459/.722/1.181

Bill James calls Hornsby’s 1922 season the best by a second baseman ever. A little Hornsby story from the Abstract:

“1925 Hornsby was on the field, arguing loudly with Art Fletcher, when all of a sudden, without warning, he punched Fletcher in the face. Later a reporter asked him why he had hit Fletcher.

‘Well,’ replied Hornsby very seriously, ‘I wasn’t making any progress trying to talk to him.’”

So he’s feisty. He’s a great player. And he plays a position where the great seasons aren’t quite as plentiful as some others. I’m very happy to start my first ever WIS/FBG/BBT team with Rajah.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hornsro01.shtml

Bogart isn't going to like this one bit.

I love me some Rajah. Not sure if I would go with '22, but you really can't go wrong there. And yes, I was trying to get GWB to take Hornsby first over all.

That would have been a minor upset if the Babe didn't go first

It was an upset that Bonds didn't.

My Bonds hatred definitely makes me lean in a different direction but I still think if I was unbiased I would have taken 2 Babes ahead of him

So you'd only be wrong twice before picking Bonds.

how many championships has Bonds won for you harrier? I don't remember.

Don't blame the results of my bad managing on Bonds. He's been nails.

PS Trade me Ronnie Brown in It Happened. I can fix your broken WR corps.

I didn't like your offer. No offense but Brown is on the way up and your guy might be really lost this year. Adding the draft picks didn't help either.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

quote breaker.

 

[Bogart]

quote breaker.

it hurts when it happens.

 

[Kraft...]

I didn't like your offer. No offense but Brown is on the way up and your guy might be really lost this year. Adding the draft picks didn't help either.

Harrrr is trolling for RB's, interesting

 

[Funkley]

A lot of people don't realize that Eephus hit .348 in LL using a human thigh bone as a bat.

It was tough for early pitchers to get a monkey skull to travel 60' 6" but you could get some crazy action on it by placing your thumb in the eye socket. Earliest version of the modern day curve ball. True story.

 

[RnR]

What's the official ruling on trading? Pumpnick and I may have a deal worked out.

 

[Funkley]

What's the official ruling on trading? Pumpnick and I may have a deal worked out.

No trading.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

What's the official ruling on trading? Pumpnick and I may have a deal worked out.

i would advise against it.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

What's the official ruling on trading? Pumpnick and I may have a deal worked out.

i would advise against it.

 

[RnR]

 

[Kraft...]

What's the official ruling on trading? Pumpnick and I may have a deal worked out.

I say trade away, we're all adults here. . . . .

 

[RnR]

What's the official ruling on trading? Pumpnick and I may have a deal worked out.

I say trade away, we're all adults here. . . . .

no larry, no problems.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

14 Members: Notorious T.R.E., Mr. Pickles, Tremendous Upside, RockNRolen, Bogart, Funkley, IndividuallyWrapedKraftSingles, NOC, Sammy3469, Eephus, mrharrier, UlyssesNorris, Doug B, Giant Wooden Badger

COME TO US, NOC!

 

[Funkley]

SoCalBroncoFan off too a great start.

 

[RnR]

SoCalBroncoFan off too a great start.

I have a feeling that drafting behind him is going to be painful. Ugh.

 

[Capella]

harrrrrrr trade offers are good shtick.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

harrrrrrr trade offers are good shtick.

Pretty sure he offered me his 1st round draft pick (not #1 overall), for my 1st round draft pick (#1 overall), straight up.

 

[Capella]

harrrrrrr trade offers are good shtick.

Pretty sure he offered me his 1st round draft pick (not #1 overall), for my 1st round draft pick (#1 overall), straight up.

 

[Funkley]

harrrrrrr trade offers are good shtick.

Pretty sure he offered me his 1st round draft pick (not #1 overall), for my 1st round draft pick (#1 overall), straight up.

He's looking out for the small market teams by trying to save you signing bonus money. Harrrrrr, a history of helping the little guy.

 

[Pumpnick]

I'll be back at 3 pm est. Hopefully i'm up by then.

 

[Capella]

Anybody get offered his horrid $71 Randy Moss yet?

Yeah...pass.

 

[RnR]

SoCalBroncoFan off too a great start.

I have a feeling that drafting behind him is going to be painful. Ugh.

So this guy hasn't been in the thread in over a week... at what point do we give his team to MrPhoenix?

 

[Kraft...]

harrrrrrr trade offers are good shtick.

Pretty sure he offered me his 1st round draft pick (not #1 overall), for my 1st round draft pick (#1 overall), straight up.

He's looking out for the small market teams by trying to save you signing bonus money. Harrrrrr, a history of helping the little guy.

When we have the rookie draft will we have to drop players off our roster to make room?

 

[Sammy3469]

Harrrrrr, a history of helping the little guy.

He really is good like that

 

[UlyssesNorris]

SoCalBroncoFan off too a great start. 

I have a feeling that drafting behind him is going to be painful. Ugh.

So this guy hasn't been in the thread in over a week... at what point do we give his team to MrPhoenix?

Why don't we give it to Nipsey / Capella?

 

[Mr. Pickles]

harrier getting trashed in here.

 

[Funkley]

Anybody get offered his horrid $71 Randy Moss yet?

Yeah...pass.

 

[RnR]

SoCalBroncoFan off too a great start.

I have a feeling that drafting behind him is going to be painful. Ugh.

So this guy hasn't been in the thread in over a week... at what point do we give his team to MrPhoenix?

Why don't we give it to Nipsey / Capella?

 

[Funkley]

SoCalBroncoFan off too a great start. 

I have a feeling that drafting behind him is going to be painful. Ugh.

So this guy hasn't been in the thread in over a week... at what point do we give his team to MrPhoenix?

An hour ago?

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

SoCalBroncoFan off too a great start.  

I have a feeling that drafting behind him is going to be painful. Ugh.

So this guy hasn't been in the thread in over a week... at what point do we give his team to MrPhoenix?

An hour ago?

I say NOC gets it...

 

[Kraft...]

Anybody get offered his horrid $71 Randy Moss yet?

Yeah...pass.

 

[10993]

What's the official ruling on trading? Pumpnick and I may have a deal worked out.

No trading.

 

[10993]

harrrrrrr trade offers are good shtick.

Pretty sure he offered me his 1st round draft pick (not #1 overall), for my 1st round draft pick (#1 overall), straight up.

 

[10993]

SoCalBroncoFan off too a great start.

I have a feeling that drafting behind him is going to be painful. Ugh.

So this guy hasn't been in the thread in over a week... at what point do we give his team to MrPhoenix?

Never.

 

[Sammy3469]

He's here

 

[10993]

Anybody get offered his horrid $71 Randy Moss yet?

Yeah...pass.

Randy Moss is going to have a big year this year.Cappy should be the only one talking here, by the way. I cashed in after beating the rest of you around last year--without RBs and with McNabb and Moss hurt.