1871 (Season 34) Season Thread

[tvan]

finally after a decade of being in SLOP the plowboys have finally proved they are here to compete and make a name for themselves... i was begining to worry they would be the browns or potentially blue jays SLOP

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by tvan

finally after a decade of being in SLOP the plowboys have finally proved they are here to compete and make a name for themselves... i was begining to worry they would be the browns or potentially blue jays SLOP

Hahaha...I know that Blue Jays comment was for me. (You have to win back-to-back titles and then go 20 years without a playoff appearance first)

[Young Drachma]

Ok, so..we're good to go. All of the playoff teams have exported, so I'm going to go ahead and run this thing here in the little bit.

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ELIMINATION SERIES GAME 1
Grand Rapids 8, Rio Grande 1
Wyoming 12, Brooklyn 3

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ELIMINATION SERIES GAME 2
Grand Rapids 5, Rio Grande 3 (13 innings)
Brooklyn 5, Wyoming 4

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ELIMINATION SERIES GAME 3
Grand Rapids 7, Rio Grande 3 (GRP leads series 3-0)
Brooklyn 7, Wyoming 6 (11 innings) (BKN leads series 2-1)

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ELIMINATION SERIES GAME 4
Rio Grande 7, Grand Rapids 5 (GRP leads series 3-1)
Wyoming 6, Brooklyn 5 (Series tied 2-2)

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ELIMINATION SERIES GAME 5
Rio Grande 4, Grand Rapids 3 (GRP leads series 3-2)
Wyoming 11, Brooklyn 1 (WYO leads series 3-2)

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ELIMINATION SERIES GAME 6
Rio Grande 14, Grand Rapids 5 (Series tied 3-3)
Brooklyn 9, Wyoming 4 (Series tied 3-3)

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Hahaha...just when we thought these would be pretty easy series to end, neither team seems inclined to go home.

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ELIMINATION SERIES GAME 7
Grand Rapids 7, Rio Grande 2 (GRP wins series 4-3)
Wyoming 3, Brooklyn 2 (WYO wins series 4-3)

So both upstarts manage to escape their elimination series and now head to the LCS!

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LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP
NL GAME 1: Wyoming 1, Gettysburg 0
AL GAME 1: Grand Rapids 6, Memphis 1

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Gettysburg and Memphis have a combined 11 league pennants and 7 SLOP titles between them. Wyoming and Grand Rapids have 3 playoff appearances between them, joined the league in '62 and '65 respectively and have never won pennants. It's blue bloods versus upstarts in this one.

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LCS GAME 2
Gettysburg 4, Wyoming 3
Memphis 3, Grand Rapids 1

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LCS GAME 3
Grand Rapids 9, Memphis 8 (GRP leads series 2-1)
Wyoming 4, Gettysburg 3 (WYO leads series 2-1)

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LCS GAME 4
Grand Rapids 6, Memphis 5 (GRP leads series 3-1)
Wyoming 7, Gettysburg 5 (WYO leads series 3-1)

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LCS GAME 5
Wyoming 4, Gettysburg 2 (WYO wins series 4-1)
Grand Rapids 2, Memphis 1 (GRP wins series 4-1)

Wow, the upstarts make quick work of the juggernauts and with that, SLOP will crown a new champ in Sunset Series XXXIV

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Gettysburg gets struck by the curse that every team in SLOP that's attempted 4 pennants has been struck by, as it's just not happened before. Meanwhile, Memphis fails at the repeat.

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SUNSET SERIES XXXIV GAME 1: Wyoming 7, Grand Rapids 3

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SUNSET SERIES GAME 2: Grand Rapids 8, Wyoming 6

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SUNSET SERIES GAME 3: Grand Rapids 6, Wyoming 5 (11 innings)

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SUNSET SERIES GAME 4: Wyoming 10, Grand Rapids 0 (Series tied 2-2)

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SUNSET SERIES GAME 5: Grand Rapids 4, Wyoming 1 (GRP leads series 3-2)

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SUNSET SERIES GAME 6: Grand Rapids 10, Wyoming 6 (11 innings) (GRP leads series 4-2)

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SUNSET SERIES GAME 7: Grand Rapids 7, Wyoming 2 (GRP wins series 5-2)

Robins win their first title in franchise history!!!

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AWARD WINNERS:

NL MVP: Jaime Daughtry, Los Angeles
AL MVP: Dave Barry, Memphis

AL POY: Colin Hanna, Rio Grande
NL POY: Tristan Converse, Gettysburg

NL ROY: Bill Aranda, Brooklyn (2nd and 3rd were also Brooklyn players Alex Rodriquez and Ernie Puckett)
AL ROY: Dave Higgins, Winnemucca

[Young Drachma]

File is up. I think I need to release a condensed schedule this week, because I'll be traveling again later this week and won't have reliable internet for uploading and so forth on this trip. So I'm going to try to get FA done before I leave, so we can do the season next week.

[tvan]

OH!!! It was so close, im happy to finally get my team there, first playoff appearance and it to the big show. it was awesome

Also congratulations to grande rapids for winning the series.

[Online_Kevin]

[Online_Kevin]

Congratulations to Wyoming on making the finals. Hopefully this is the beginning of a long and prosperous fake baseball run for the Robins.

[tvan]

Originally Posted by Online_Kevin

Congratulations to Wyoming on making the finals. Hopefully this is the beginning of a long and prosperous fake baseball run for the Robins.

Here here, cheers to fake baseball

[Gomer]

When's the draft?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Gomer

When's the draft?

Tonight, as well as sim to the start of FA.
We'd do one FA stage tomorrow and then sim Spring Training on Wednesday.

[Gomer]

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

Tonight, as well as sim to the start of FA.
We'd do one FA stage tomorrow and then sim Spring Training on Wednesday.

I generally don't complain about the talent level of specific draft classes, but 22 guys with a power rating of 10 or higher (37 guys with 9 or higher) is a little extreme.

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We're likely going back to divisional play, too. I realize this isn't enough notice for the change crew, but..it was always just a temporary thing as I didn't want to add four teams in one year. One of the teams will be taken over by a friend of tvan's that I know in real life. The other team's owner is TBA.

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Gomer

I generally don't complain about the talent level of specific draft classes, but 22 guys with a power rating of 10 or higher (37 guys with 9 or higher) is a little extreme.

It's what the game generated.

[Young Drachma]

For the division-loving crew, found a 22-team setup for divisional play, so it'll come back. Staying at 22.

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Found an OOTPer who intends to join us, but preferred a rebuilding team he could make his own image, rather than taking over an established juggernaut. So the plan is to give him St. Louis and I will go back to Winnemucca, as HerbD has decided he's going to bow out.

Also, one of timv's homeys is joining but rather than expand, he's just going to take over Camden and move them to Nome, Alaska.

[Young Drachma]

I got the financials done for the end of this season.

Here's next year's salary cap figures for each team.

$95,203,500	St. Louis Aviators
$106,136,140	Gettysburg Gomers
$104,682,400	Columbus Crusaders
$123,483,311	Wyoming Plowboys
$97,515,000	Worcester Crows
$101,341,250	Winnemucca Lake Monsters
$105,503,816	Brooklyn Titans
$95,531,650	Las Vegas Aces
$100,008,000	Cuyahoga Spiders
$95,589,750	Chicago Hornets
$104,806,875	Washington Grays
$98,149,250	Lake Tahoe Syndicate
$97,868,650	Los Angeles Villains
$110,022,616	Rio Grande Rough Riders
$99,108,500	Carolina Kings
$99,114,000	New York Skyliners
$102,684,750	Cleveland Laborers
$115,351,140	Memphis Smokers
$147,952,002	Grand Rapids Robins
$106,485,500	Portland Thorns
$103,760,000	San Diego Fathers
$102,223,725	Nome Gnomes

[Young Drachma]

Brad Scots and Dave Breglia, both who are Top 10 all-time wins leaders for pitchers retired this past year.