1870 Season Thread
 

Spring Training file is up. HTML will be up in a while.

Eusebio Salavisa is less than 150 hits away from 4500 hits for his career. He's about to start his 24th SLOP season and was Top 10 in WAR last year, despite his age and played in all 162 games for the Aces once again.

OOTP loves to retire guys at 45 automatically whether they're still good or not, but this dude shows no signs of slowing down. He's like SLOP's Julio Franco.

Since Salavisa was unretired does he get his old contract back?

I put him back on his FRANCHISE contract since the only reason he was retired is because the game does it at 45 no matter how well a guy is doing.

1st sim of the season tonight.

Looking forward to smacking around some division rivals tonight.

It's going to be another wide-open year ESPECIALLY in the AL. There's no definitive favorite in the AL East. Memphis and Cleveland probably have the best chances, but New York could sneak in depending on how the ping-pong balls drop.

Not sure how bad PUNX will be this first year out. Frankly, for an implosion job, I managed to get back a decent haul of talent and so we won't be horrible. But I think we'd be short of contending. Still, the East is wide open enough that it's not implausible.

In the AL West, anything could happen. You have to figure that Chicago and Winnemucca start off as the early favorites, but Grand Rapids will be right in there. Rio Grande has gotten off to decent starts the past few years but can't seem to finish.

In the NL East, the two-time defending champs will be fighting off the return of Columbus and a resurgent Washington Grays team en route to their 3rd straight title. Brooklyn got better, too.

In the NL West, Lake Tahoe might finally be back for the first time since switching leagues. Los Angeles will be lurking again and Wyoming probably had one of the best off-seasons of anyone. Portland will be in the mix, but will likely fall short.

So yeah, that's just me eyeballing it all. Should be an interesting start to the year for sure.

Also, MoenPDC will be taking over the Denver Crows.

JaxPowers told me that with his job getting busier, he had to bow out but sends his best and will come back when things calm down. Which we welcome. MoenPDC literally sent me a note last Thursday over at OOTP saying he wanted in the next time we had an opening and I didn't read my email until Saturday, realized we had an opening and so, lucky for us another opening goes by and doesn't last for more than an hour.

Welcome him aboard. Dunno if he's moving them or not yet, but it's within his rights to do so.

For whatever reason, the preseason predictions only seem to show the NL, not the AL, unless I am missing it

Preseason Predictions Report

Thanks. Trying to get the league setup now. Might take me a little bit to get used to how things run but looks like a fun league.

I see both.

Welcome.

Its all or nothing for wyoming this year. We are set to prove we are here to compete and send everyone runnin for high ground as we blast into the playoffs and our first championship

:cool:

Scroll down.

Denver Crows are moving to Worcester, Mass. and will be the Worcester Crows starting this year.

Here's the longest tenured Crow Mat Flicek showing up their new duds.

Worcester would prefer to move to the AL next year and I intend to accommodate. If any team in the AL is interested in playing no-DH beisbol starting next season, let me know. I'll give you a $5m cap exception next year if you agree to the move. (First owner to say yes, gets it.)

Worst case, I'll move my team. But I figure I'd give someone else a shot at it first.

Link to 1870 Finances

Weird. Shows on my phone, not my laptop

Party time, nerds.

APRIL 1, 1870

MAY 1, 1870

Well hello Lake Tahoe. Fancy seeing you up there.

JUNE 1, 1870

So far the Gomers are running away with it in the NL East, Wyoming of all teams manages to get out of that NL West scrum leading after the 1st set, Cleveland readies the ship in the AL East, with Memphis and New York on their heels and in the AL West sees Grand Rapids and Winnemucca duking it out with Las Vegas (?!?!?) not far behind, but then, every team in that division has a shot.

Like I said, it's going to be a craaaazy year.

On my laptop still no second set

A.J. Hoogland of Columbus is hitting .421 so far on the year, because apparently having the 1st .400 season in SLOP's history wasn't enough for him.

Pretty good start for the Robins. Looking forward to checking out the numbers.

Thanks, DC.

Hit refresh. I noticed the same thing when I went to that page from the main link, as well for some odd reason just now. I hit refresh and then it showed both.

I'm preparing the league file. Will note when it's uploaded (hello slowsie internet.) We'll sim the 2nd part of the season tomorrow (through July)

Weird. There now

19-8 in may after a horrible start, wonder who got hot

File is up. See you all tomorrow night.

Surprising to see us in the race, but I can't complain!

Salavisa is finally slowing down, and may now be just motivation on the bench. .242/.284/.373, -10.2 VORP.

A guy with 7 in mvmt has already allowed 32 HR. That is fucking stupid.

Player Report for #19 Alec Fioramonti

They account for half his ER, which isn't too bad

Ok now i feel better! :)

Your outfielders are too good. Hitters have to hit 'em out of the park. :eek:

oh boy! i suck

league totals still seem out of whack. Walks are WAY down, about a 1/3 to 1/2 of where they used to be. Players who used to average about 80 a year are doing 25-40, which sucks if you build around OBP (like I do). Any chance this can get corrected next season, if not sooner?

I'll take a look.

SLOP Guide To Winning
 

Obviously don't give away the secret sauce, but...what do you think makes a winning team in SLOP? What's the formula? We were having this conversation elsewhere today and I was trying to take a stab at it, but I'm curious to hear what other think about this.

My answer is that it seems to be variable every year, that there's no real consistency to it. That with "ratings inflation" that it seems you need to have a nice mix of elite starter veterans and young pitchers, that great defense is highly prized and the right mix of hitters.

But we've seen some teams do all sorts of interesting things. We're not talking as much about the post-season where it can be a crapshoot, but just getting there and what you think makes a successful SLOP squad?

I use the same formula no matter what league I'm in.

Winning = [(2 x Pitching) + (1.75 x Balanced lineup) + (1.65 x Defense)] x 1/[(1 x bad luck quotient) + (1.5 x bullshit German engineering quotient)]

Plus I don't tinker with strategy settings in this league, which seems to be working so far.

I have written this formula down for future reference. Bring on the championships!

Oh yeah, and walks are definitely way down this season compared to the norm.

I took a look at those numbers and I think I found modifiers that should work better for the rest of the year.

I agree with Gomer. I haven't had a lot of success with the team strategy modifiers in SLOP. I find they just screw my team up a lot. I know others have success with them tho. Probably good for methodical builders of teams.

I just turn stealing way way down. Everywhere. Everytime.

We noticed. ;)

Ok, about to get this party on the road.

Nah, you should just leave it where it is, I don't want to see the Aces come back down to Earth.