09-27-2008, 03:43 PM | #1 | ||
High School Varsity
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Cape Cod, MA
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Crack
This league really is a Friday night fix. Every Saturday, I decide to create a solo league and run it the same way (lock everything on opening day and sim the whole season)...then I get bored and frustrated with the AI and delete it by this time Saturday afternoon.
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09-27-2008, 03:44 PM | #2 |
Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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hahaha...I know! I hate it.
I think that the answer might be to create a Saturday league for when FOOL isn't in session. Maybe just a few teams of us who do it, nothing too complicated, just a short league we can run fast or something. I dunno...I'm totally with you on this. lol |
09-27-2008, 03:46 PM | #3 |
College Prospect
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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I'd be completely game on that. I'd even volunteer to run it. I've been wanting to learn how to commish a game, and that seems like the perfect low-pressure way to get started.
Something like 8 teams, one division, split season, either reserve rosters or a single minor league level would probably be very doable on a quick-sim schedule. |
09-27-2008, 03:48 PM | #4 |
Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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I'm down for that, too. Especially the part where you said "you'd run it."
I can bring uniforms to the Thanksgiving dinner, tho. Last edited by Young Drachma : 09-27-2008 at 03:48 PM. |
09-27-2008, 03:48 PM | #5 |
College Prospect
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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dola,
You're not alone, Tim. My game for today has been trying to figure out the best way to quick-sim a historical league, and I'm about to see how quickly I can destroy the '62 Mets fresh out of expansion. |
09-27-2008, 03:49 PM | #6 |
College Starter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Houston, or there about
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I'd be down for that. We could even test out theories about team function, such as 6 man vs 4 man rotations and things like that. Put me down for a team.
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09-27-2008, 03:49 PM | #7 |
Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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I broke your dola.
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09-27-2008, 03:50 PM | #8 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mass.
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Every time I run a solo league in spare time, it only takes a matter of 1 or 2 seasons before it ends up a test league where I get to try out some new crazy idea that forces the entire league to spiral into craziness and eventually abandoned once I finish my tests.
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09-27-2008, 03:50 PM | #9 |
Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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What should we call it? Saturday Night Baseball? Front Office Day League?
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09-27-2008, 03:51 PM | #10 | |
Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Quote:
+1 I was beta testing for so long that by the time the game came out, I was spent. When FOOL got underway, I had no idea that it'd ever ACTUALLY be successful, much less that it'd be how it's been. I always imagined it'd just be a little universe that I'd eventually end up running myself. I'm glad that didn't turn out to be true. But yeah, solo leagues are the death of me. |
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09-27-2008, 03:53 PM | #11 |
College Prospect
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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FLOP. FOOL's League for Offseason Play.
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09-27-2008, 03:54 PM | #12 |
Dark Cloud
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09-27-2008, 04:00 PM | #13 |
Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Can we have all 8 teams in the playoffs? Because seriously, that'd be hilarious and awesome.
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09-27-2008, 04:01 PM | #14 |
College Prospect
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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Ok. Don't know how others feel, but I think playing this in a really "small town ball" style would be fun. Maybe limit the maximum size of a member city to 100,000 -- or perhaps even 50,000 -- people. No place that currently has a real-world MLB or MiLB team. Keep salaries low. Perhaps set the "superstar" salary to, oh, $1,000,000?
Or we could go to the other extreme and do something bizarre like making it world-spanning with Grade A global cities and 9-figure budgets. Either way could be fun, but if it's going to be a silly day-league, I think something like that would be conducive to not-taking-it-seriously. |
09-27-2008, 04:03 PM | #15 |
Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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I like the small town league idea is cool with very little money involved and low contracts with a cap set pretty low.
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09-27-2008, 04:03 PM | #16 |
College Prospect
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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It does look like you can have all 8 teams in a custom playoff.
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09-27-2008, 04:05 PM | #17 |
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09-27-2008, 04:07 PM | #18 |
College Prospect
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Ah! Yeah, I think it's a potentially stupenderiffic idea.
Do you know what the difference between Position and Seeding is, for determining the bracket? |
09-27-2008, 04:09 PM | #19 |
College Prospect
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DC and I are in the chat room if anyone else wants to talk about this live.
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09-27-2008, 04:09 PM | #20 |
Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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In a single table, it won't matter. It's the same for the purposes of an 8-team league with no divisions, etc.
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09-27-2008, 04:09 PM | #21 |
Dark Cloud
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09-27-2008, 04:13 PM | #22 |
College Prospect
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Even better? ... Wonder what embedding it in an active thread will do.
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09-27-2008, 06:03 PM | #23 |
College Starter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Houston, or there about
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I like the 8 team playoff. I also like the small towns, but the world's largest cities and a huge payroll might be fun, in an insane way. Maybe with restrictions on keeping % of team your nationality or something.
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09-27-2008, 06:20 PM | #24 |
Dark Cloud
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South Hill (Va.) Anglers.
That's my team. |
09-27-2008, 06:21 PM | #25 |
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09-27-2008, 06:23 PM | #26 |
High School Varsity
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Cape Cod, MA
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I'm in.
I would like to honor the Cape (Wooden Bat Summer Amateur) League by locating my team in Sandwich, MA. |
09-27-2008, 06:24 PM | #27 |
High School Varsity
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dola
I was going to locate them in Provincetown but I didn't want anyone getting the wrong idea (not that there's anything wrong with that). |
09-27-2008, 06:36 PM | #28 |
College Prospect
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Presenting: FLOP. For when FOOL isn't fast enough. - Front Office Football Central
Sign up and comment away there. I'll get you down, Tim. |
09-28-2008, 06:12 AM | #29 |
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You guys are straight nuts, lol.
Interesting idea, but I think I will just be an interested spectator. I spend enough time agonizing over my Atlanta roster.
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