FOOL 2118 Regular Season Thread

[Alan T]

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Batters) (Hitter that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Marcos Pérez ANN 29.0304 100000 29.03

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Veteran Batters) (Veteran hitter that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Matt Clark COL 37.533 757500 4.95

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Pitchers) (Pitcher that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Pedro Lugo HAM 38.0942 100000 38.09

Best Bang for the Buck Award(Veteran Pitchers) (Veteran pitcher that did the most while being paid the least.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Bryan Richards BAL 18.8786 185000 10.20

Worst Bang for the Buck Award(Batters) (For the most overpaid hitter in the league.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Yo Shimizu LAN -20.8258 4358400 -9076716672000.00

Worst Bang for the Buck Award(Pitchers) (For the most overpaid pitcher in the league.)
Name Team VORP Salary Score Chris Gross ANN -21.8526 6160000 -13461201600000.00

Home Run or Nothing Award (For the hitter that hit home runs and not much else.)
Name Team HR RC Score Gregorio Guerrero HAR 41 78.723495 0.4621

Selfish Pitcher Award (For the pitcher that has all of the headlines but none of the wins.)
Name Team W L K BB IP Score Virgil Hart LAN 14 13 169 79 203.0 11969.8621

Unluckiest Pitcher Award (For the pitcher that would likely win an award if on a better team.)
Name Team W L K BB IP Score Seth Turpin NVY 8 16 191 58 219.0 1229.35135325

Running on Empty Award (For the baserunner that keeps attempting to steal and fails.)
Name Team SB CS SB % Score José Sánchez HAL 20 19 0.5128 7.30

Can't hit his weight Award (For the hitter that can't even hit his weight.)
Name Team Weight Batting Avg. Score Jeffrey Williams TOK 215 lbs 0.199 0.92698000

Should have stayed home Award (Batters) (For the Hitter that did so poorly he should have just stayed home.)
Name Team Batting Avg. HR RBI VORP Wen-huan Guao COL 0.263 5 57 -23.7318

Should have stayed home Award (Pitchers) (For the Pitcher that did so poorly he should have just stayed home.)
Name Team W L ERA VORP Tetsuzan Kanda BRK 5 21 5.92 -49.011

Stone Statue Award (For the Shortstop that had so little range that he resembled a statue.)
Name Team Total Chances Assists Put Outs Range Sukejuro Hayashi NVY 232 145 84 3.6869

Cannon-Arm Award (For the Catcher that showed off the best cannon-arm in games.)
Name Team SB attempts against Runners Thrown Out RTO% Score Michael Kirkup HAL 38 15 0.3947 43.4

Early Checkout Award (For the Starting pitcher that left games the earliest.)
Name Team W L ERA GS IP Score David Weaver TOK 10 9 4.55 40 188.0 0.2128

Never met a pitch he didn't like award (For the Hitter that never liked to watch a pitch go by without hitting it.)
Name Team Batting Avg. H BB Score Benjamin Rainey CHI 0.302 198 22 176

Take the Money and Run Award (Batters) (For the Hitter that stopped showing effort after signing a large contract.)
Name Team Contract Batting Avg. HR RBI Score Steve McAleer APX 8057500 0.255 10 56 42.7698

Take the Money and Run Award (Pitchers) (For the Pitcher that stopped showing effort after signing a large contract.)
Name Team Contract Wins Losses ERA Score Mario Gómez ANN 7000000 9 21 5.90 61.0022

Anger Management Award (For the pitcher that hit the most batters during the season.)

Name Team W L IP Hit Batters Will McMahon HAL 11 9 199.0 44

[Johnny93g]

I feel pretty good about the Marlies results this season. Seem's like pitching is taking a tiny step back right now. Good luck to the playoff teams tommorow

[CrimsonFox]

SO hyde et al,

Is there one particular page in the game where it is easy to see which minor leaguers need resigning otherwise you lose them? Or do you just go into each minor leaguer and give them a new contract every year?

I haven't seen a game page that tells me my minor leaguers are up

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by CrimsonFox

SO hyde et al,

Is there one particular page in the game where it is easy to see which minor leaguers need resigning otherwise you lose them? Or do you just go into each minor leaguer and give them a new contract every year?

I haven't seen a game page that tells me my minor leaguers are up

Go to front office then possible free agents and they are all listed there.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by hyde4us11

Go to front office then possible free agents and they are all listed there.

Just a note on this.. you'll want to check prior to the regular season sim, as well as prior to playoffs and then after playoffs. Depending on service time, players can appear or disappear from the list. So don't get caught offguard

[ekcut]

Originally Posted by Johnny93g

I feel pretty good about the Marlies results this season. Seem's like pitching is taking a tiny step back right now. Good luck to the playoff teams tommorow

You better 'feel pretty good' about the Marlies.
A good showing in this years playoffs might propel them to "The Greatest Dynasty Ever"

A championship this year will give the Marlies 3 in a row...which was only done once before by Alan's Valdosta Peanuts back in 1970-72. (at which time there were no wildcard playoffs, so to win the championship you only needed to win one round)

A title this year, also gives Toronoto 4 of the last 5 championships....which has only been done twice before. Valdosta again in 1970-74 and Teaches Winemakers in 2083-2087.

So be proud of what may become the greatest run in FOOL history!

[Alan T]

1970-72 feels such a long time ago!

Oh and I am still bitter about the 1969 season. I still swear I had the best team that year too! *shakes fist at Commo Soldier*.

1973 I rightfully stunk it up that year. Atlanta had a great pitching rotation, and I had to retool my team again. (Ironically enough, Atlanta back then ended up becoming the Hammersmith team of today.. but the team that beat Atlanta in the Classic that season? Chief Rum manager of the Colorado Rancheros!)

[hyde4us11]

Hitting wise all I have is power so I'll likely get swept. If my power gets going I could be dangerous though. Good luck Johnny and the other teams as well.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Alan T

1970-72 feels such a long time ago!

Oh and I am still bitter about the 1969 season. I still swear I had the best team that year too! *shakes fist at Commo Soldier*.

1973 I rightfully stunk it up that year. Atlanta had a great pitching rotation, and I had to retool my team again. (Ironically enough, Atlanta back then ended up becoming the Hammersmith team of today.. but the team that beat Atlanta in the Classic that season? Chief Rum manager of the Colorado Rancheros!)

That was a great Colorado squad those years, capable itself of being ultra dominant, except we kept running into that dern awesome Valdosta squad. The addendum to Alan's story is that prior to that wonderful (and odd, given the historical significance of me beating what has become my primary franchise) 1973 season, Valdosta beat my Rancheros in both the 1971 and 1972 Classics to finish off their threepeat. So while they were winning three in a row, I was getting to three Classics in a row, and only getting over the hump when Alan's Valdosta squad finally took a season off.

That was my last season with Colorado. I went on a two season hiatus from FOOL, and recruited some newb to take over my great Colorado squad. He immediately went on to F' it all up. I'm not sure what happened to him, hope he ended up a good manager (hi Tasan!).

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Alan T

Just a note on this.. you'll want to check prior to the regular season sim, as well as prior to playoffs and then after playoffs. Depending on service time, players can appear or disappear from the list. So don't get caught offguard

thanks for the tips guys. I guess since I see no minor leaguers on that list it means that I've lost them all already.

Oh and 3b Xu Chen joins the 20/20 club!

(HR/SB)

[Johnny93g]

Originally Posted by ekcut

You better 'feel pretty good' about the Marlies.
A good showing in this years playoffs might propel them to "The Greatest Dynasty Ever"

A championship this year will give the Marlies 3 in a row...which was only done once before by Alan's Valdosta Peanuts back in 1970-72. (at which time there were no wildcard playoffs, so to win the championship you only needed to win one round)

A title this year, also gives Toronoto 4 of the last 5 championships....which has only been done twice before. Valdosta again in 1970-74 and Teaches Winemakers in 2083-2087.

So be proud of what may become the greatest run in FOOL history!

I didn't realize these types of runs were so rare. Maybe it's cuz Teaches Winemakers just went on a really nice run. I'm very proud of what we have done up to now, and I'm gonna be doing everything i can to extend it.

[Johnny93g]

Chief owned Colorado!! Wow, that blows my mind. I need a FOOL history lesson!!

[CrimsonFox]

Gonna have to root for Apex this year. Their come from behind 4-th to 2nd run was inspirational and I like underdogs anyway