Daylight Fading: A solo fast-sim dynasty - Page 3

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 12:13 AM

After four seasons in Bantam, my contract is up. Well, not really since these things don't exist. But I've decided that my contract is up and I'm leaving. After another playoff appearance and LCS loss, I've got an owner confidence of 143. That'd probably buy me at least 3 more seasons in Bantam, but...I'm not really enjoying this team and I feel like we're just not ever going to be able to break through. There's a reason this franchise hasn't won a title in almost 100 years.

The team would probably do well to rebuild completely. Just blow the whole show up, get a ton of prospects and then try to win that way in a few years. But that's not something I'm up for doing. So I might helm the fire sale or I might just leave and let the computer figure it all out, because I have just enough points to take over a bad team.

I can take over Boston, St. Louis, Colorado City, Pittsburgh, Carolina or Hawaii. I haven't decided where to go yet. Maybe I'll chronicle them and you all can help me decide? I dunno.

JetsIn06 · 10-11-2009, 12:41 AM

Quick question that I may have asked you before...how do you get those slick standings reports?

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 01:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JetsIn06

Quick question that I may have asked you before...how do you get those slick standings reports?

Just export the main page to browser and then copy/paste the standings from that page into Notepad and then you can line them up. Just use tab to do that. Then to post it into the forums, just use the [code] tag. It's a lot easier than it sounds, I promise.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 11:14 AM

The Pittsburgh Grays are on the move after 58 years in Pittsburgh, this time they're headed 3 hours northeast to Williamsport, PA. They will be the Williamsport Grays.

In other clerical news, another suggestion to GMExcel opened up the number of teams that I can move to, which makes sense after 3 playoff appearances, two LCS and back to back 90-win seasons. So I'm going to have a wider net to choose from. I was originally learning towards Boston or Pittsburgh/Williamsport, but I'm still debating at this point.

I think I'll do a quick snapshot of the teams so you can see the choices.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 01:35 PM

I can take over any team that's got 90 wins or less, so the field is a bit more open for me now. Here are the finalists that I'm considering:

Boston Yanks (1925: 67-95, 5th UL EAST)
'24: 71-91, 5th UL East
'23: 71-91, 5th UL East
'22: 65-97, 5th UL East

They have the #1 farm system in the league right now. Since their last playoff appearance in 1920, they've finished 5th (last) in their division each of the last four years.

Payroll is at $56.5 million (cap is $75m)

The best advantage to this team is that they have a ton of prospects who are just 2-4 years away from being solid, solid contributors. Some maybe sooner than that. But I dunno if I have a rebuild in me right now and if those guys falter or don't bring it all together, we'd have some work on our hands in a different way.

Still, they've got a boatload of talent over there and with the right mix, it could be a nice situation in Beantown for the right person.

PORTLAND ROADRUNNERS (84-78, 3rd PL WEST)
'24: 83-79, 1st PL WEST, SERIES CHAMPS
'23, 70-92, 5th PL WEST
'22: 74-88, 5th PL WEST

Since moving to Portland from Albuquerque, the Roadrunners have had some success, claiming a title in their second year in the city. Portland has the #6 farm system in the league, but a lot of those guys are already on the major league roster now. This team is what I'd call a transition rebuild. Get a few major leaguers around these kids who are developing and watch it grow and you'd be a contender here in 2-3 years at the most.

Portland also boasts the two-time Mares Award winner Sergio Sanchez, who came over as a free agent from Cleveland last season. With him on your team, you always feel like you're that much closer to winning.

Team payroll: $39,687,500

With over $30 million in cap room, you could make a lot of things happen here, though admittedly, that amount of money doesn't get you nearly as far as it used to.

It's a tempting situation though, except the PL West is probably the toughest division in baseball. Dallas is really good and so is Houston. No slouches down there and so, we'd have to scratch for postseason berths down there and while I'm all for scratching, it just seems like it could be a lot of going in neutral.

WILLIAMSPORT GRAYS (1925: 70-92, 5TH PL EAST)
'24: 88-74, 2ND PL EAST
'23: 94-68, 1ST PL EAST, SERIES CHAMPS
'22: 79-83, 3RD PL EAST

The newly relocated Grays are settling into their new home and are hoping to demonstrate a fast turnaround, too. Just two years removed from a title, the real story here is the two pitchers at the top of their rotation. 5-time Mares Award winner Brad Blanchard and 26-year old gunslinger Javier Tonche head up a top of the rotation that's one of the best in the league.

Sadly, there's not much else here.

Payroll: $43,720,000

The Grays are the most successful franchise in FOOL-D, with 10 championships in their 115-year history (no team has more titles, period.)

I don't really know, though, what one would do here. I used to think this would be a team that could be rebuild quickly, but with no farm to speak of at all, you'd really have to go out and try to find free agent bargains. Having already tried to bring up one team to lead the PL East and having to go directly compete against them if I took this job, I think it might be a task that I'm not as enamored with as I once was when I looked at it initially.

DALLAS STEERS (76-86, 4th PL WEST)
'24: 81-81, 3RD PL WEST
'23: 82-80, 2ND PL WEST
'22: 83-79, 3RD PL WEST

The Steers have a beefy lineup indeed with 6-time MVP Damien Savary leading the way. Unfortunately, this team doesn't have anything in the way of pitching at all.

$52.3 million payroll

It would be alluring to take over this team simply because with an offense like that and maybe engineering a trade or two, we could probably do some interesting things.

But Dallas doesn't really appeal to me.

TORONTO BLUESHIRTS (85-77, 2ND PL CENTRAL)
'24: 93-69, 2ND PLACE PL CENTRAL (PLAYOFFS)
'23: 88-74, 1ST PLACE PL CENTRAL (PLAYOFFS)
'22: 78-84, 3RD PLACE PL CENTRAL

PAYROLL: $28,580,000

This team reminds me of Bantam when I showed up, except their payroll wasn't that low. They've got some talent, but need some work, too. Michael Light is the ace of the staff (17-6, 2.61 ERA) and they've got a solid #2 and #3 as well.

They could really just use an offensive makeover. They pretty much need players throughout their order if they're going to be competitive. That said, it could be doable and if so, then this could be an interesting destination to land.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 01:47 PM

After mulling over it for a while, I've decided to return to Bantam for a 5th season. I feel like the core is intact and what we've been trying to build for years now, is pretty close to coming if we just make more moves to get us closer to the promised land. I'm year-to-year for now, but...the more I looked at other teams, the more I realized that what we had in Bantam was better than what I'd be moving onto. And well, it took us a bit to get here, so...I'm going to try to work with that.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 01:54 PM

We dealt fan favorite Darby Mason, whose production just never could catch up to what it was a few years ago to Toronto in a deal that contained a total of 10 players, with a number of prospects included. Major leaguers 3B Danny O'Rourke, another underachiever and 23-year old hurler Bernardo Davila were sent with three prospects to Toronto for Catcher Mike Ellingson, LF Doug Picot, SP Brady Patterson and reliever George Oliver.

We effectively solved a lot of our issues with that deal, giving oursleves a decisive middle of the rotation guy, a starting catcher and helping our outfield depth issues.

It's the start of a nice new day in Bantam.

We're at $66.3 million of salary, so we can't make a lot of moves, but we will do some work and see what we can make happen.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 02:53 PM

HAYMAKERS HEAD TO HOLLISTER
Another team is on the move to a smaller place than where they currently reside. Weeks after the Grays headed to Williamsport from Pittsburgh, the Fresno Haymakers have announced plans to head to Hollister, California for the 1926 season.

Hollister is about 3 hours east of Fresno closer to the ocean and about 94 miles south of San Francisco, giving that team a chance to claim fans who want a PL team to support closer to Metro San Francisco.

HAWAII ISLANDERS TO MOVE BACK TO MAINLAND
The PL has always been short one California team and league officials have made no bones about a desire to have a team on the mainland, feeling the Hawaii experiment wasn't working. So the Islanders will relocate back to the mainland after leaving Santa Ana for Hawaii after the 1917 season.

This time, the team will move to Compton, CA and become the Compton Brothers, giving the PL a foothold in the Los Angeles area, which the league was desperate for.

"This is a good day for the Presidents League," said J. Jack McKurth, "Dare I say it's a good day for fans of base ball everywhere? We believe this is just another opportunity to add fuel to the fires of those who support clubs and who wanted Presidents League clubs to support in their area."

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 06:07 PM

Well, it's 1926. We acquired a bunch of relievers for the glut of starting pitchers we had, as most were either holdovers from past years that used to start and got bumped.

The only new addition to the rotation this year is SP Brady Patterson who went 16-11 last year in Toronto, he came over in a trade. The bullpen has been revamped and I think we've got the best pitching staff in the league from top to bottom.

Offensively, we're balanced again. We dealt Julian Ayala to Newark as his contract was too expensive. The new offense contains a 115 RBI catcher named Mike Ellington who came over in a trade from Dallas. Another newcomer is Doug Picot, an outfielder who scored 100 runs in Toronto. The rest are holdovers by and large.

I think well be successful during the regular season and while the playoffs are a crapshoot, we could be poised to make some noise so long as guys do what they look like they're built to do -- get on base and score runs productively.

Well, let's get the show on the road.

PREDICTION: 95-67, 1ST PL EAST

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 07:23 PM

Welp. It's mid-season time. And so far, so good for the Originals. Truth be told, we've never seen a Bantam squad this dominant during my time here. But titles aren't won at mid-season.

Still, the team leads the league in most offensive and pitching categories at this point in the year. So that's good news.

1926 ALL-STAR BREAK STANDINGS
6-29-1926

Code:

Union League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Miami Amigos		56	32	.636	-
New York Gothams	52	36	.591	4.0
Philadelphia Quakers	44	42	.512	11.0
Newark Sentinels	45	44	.506	11.5
Boston Yanks		34	55	.382	22.5

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
St. Louis Perfectos	54	35	.607	-
Eau Claire Paws		52	35	.598	1.0
Cleveland Broncs	41	47	.466	12.5
Chicago Blue Collars	32	56	.364	21.5
Minneapolis Millers	32	56	.364	21.5

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Los Angeles Seraphs	59	29	.670	-
Colorado City Gold Sox	50	38	.568	9.0
Victoria Cougars	40	47	.460	18.5
Salt Lake City Elders	36	53	.404	23.5
San Francisco Peanuts	28	60	.318	31.0

Presidents League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Bantam Originals	60	27	.690	-
Chicago Red Caps	45	42	.517	15.0
New York Knights	41	45	.477	18.5
Williamsport Grays	41	47	.466	19.5
Baltimore Blue Wings	39	49	.443	21.5

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Augusta Tigercats	54	35	.607	-
Carolina Wrens		47	41	.534	6.5
Toronto Blueshirts	47	42	.528	7.0
Washington Maroons	39	50	.438	15.0
St. Petersburg Pelicans	35	54	.393	19.0

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Houston Buffalos	54	34	.614	-
Hollister Haymakers	50	38	.568	4.0
Portland Roadrunners	44	46	.489	11.0
Dallas Steers		40	47	.460	13.5
Compton Brothers	30	59	.337	24.5

JetsIn06 · 10-11-2009, 07:25 PM

Lookin' good!

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 07:51 PM

1926 FINAL REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS

Code:

Union League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Miami Amigos		94	68	.580	-
New York Gothams	89	73	.549	5.0
Newark Sentinels	82	80	.506	12.0
Philadelphia Quakers	82	80	.506	12.0
Boston Yanks		65	97	.401	29.0

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
St. Louis Perfectos	100	62	.617	-
Eau Claire Paws		95	67	.586	5.0
Cleveland Broncs	72	90	.444	28.0
Minneapolis Millers	66	96	.407	34.0
Chicago Blue Collars	65	97	.401	35.0

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Los Angeles Seraphs	103	59	.636	-
Victoria Cougars	83	79	.512	20.0
Colorado City Gold Sox	74	88	.457	29.0
San Francisco Peanuts	74	88	.457	29.0
Salt Lake City Elders	59	103	.364	44.0

Presidents League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Bantam Originals	110	52	.679	-
Chicago Red Caps	83	79	.512	27.0
Williamsport Grays	78	84	.481	32.0
New York Knights	76	86	.469	34.0
Baltimore Blue Wings	72	90	.444	38.0

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Augusta Tigercats	92	70	.568	-
Carolina Wrens		84	78	.519	8.0
Toronto Blueshirts	81	81	.500	11.0
St. Petersburg Pelicans	72	90	.444	20.0
Washington Maroons	71	91	.438	21.0

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Hollister Haymakers	96	66	.593	-
Houston Buffalos	93	69	.574	3.0
Portland Roadrunners	86	76	.531	10.0
Dallas Steers		77	85	.475	19.0
Compton Brothers	56	106	.346	40.0

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 07:54 PM

All right. Playoff time. Here's where we make our money.

Miami v. Los Angeles
Eau Claire v. St. Louis

Augusta v. Bantam
Houston v. Hollister

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 07:57 PM

LDS results
----
Miami def. Los Angeles 4-0
St. Louis def. Eau Claire 4-1
Bantam def. Augusta 4-0
Houston def. Hollister 4-1

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 07:58 PM

LCS results
---------
Miami def. St. Louis 4-2
Bantam def. Houston 4-2

For the first time in 95 years, the Bantam Originals are headed to the Daylight Series!

JetsIn06 · 10-11-2009, 08:00 PM

Wow, nice! They haven't even been there in 95 years? Yikes.

You better win it now. It could be another 95 years.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 08:05 PM

126th DAYLIGHT SERIES (1926)
-----------------------------
MIAMI AMIGOS v. BANTAM ORIGINALS

GM 1: Bantam 5, Miami 0
GM 2: Miami 6, Bantam 5
GM 3: Bantam 8, Miami 2
GM 4: Miami 3, Bantam 2
GM 5: Miami 4, Bantam 2
GM 6: Bantam 6, Miami 5
GM 7: Bantam 4, Miami 3
GM 8: Bantam 4, Miami 3

WHAT A SERIES!!

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JetsIn06

Wow, nice! They haven't even been there in 95 years? Yikes.

You better win it now. It could be another 95 years.

Yes. 95 years. We hadn't BEEN there. That's the only reason I came back. I felt like I had to come back here and help finish the job.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 08:21 PM

Conventional wisdom is I should probably stay with a title winning team, but I think I want out while the going is good.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 08:32 PM

But looking at other teams, again...I think Bantam is probably still the best situation.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 08:59 PM

All right. I've made my decision. I'm leaving Bantam to head to the bright lights and big city of New York City. The New York Knights have been in the league for 16 years, have made one playoff appearance during that time, having only finished 2nd in their division twice -- ever.

This past year they were 76-86, 4th in the PL East. Facing off against my old team 20 teams a year is probably a really bad idea, but New York's payroll is $15,490,000 and the opportunity to go out there and make them into a winner is an chance I don't think I can pass up.

Plus, imagine them giving me truckloads of money too.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 09:27 PM

I'm raising the salary cap. I almost want to go completely uncapped, because of where payrolls are, but...we'll save that for the really modern era. Cap is going to now be $85 million. It's been at $75 million for a long time, at least 50 years, probably more than that.

Young Drachma · 10-11-2009, 10:27 PM

I'm working on an update now, but...suffice to say we made some moves that'll either pay off or leave us scratching our head, but my charge was to come to New York and get them into the playoffs and so, I think I might have been able to do that...but we'll see.

I'll put together an update here shortly, as I'm going to update the HTML first.

In other news, if Baltimore were to magically disappear from the league, what city should replace them? Doesn't have to be in the east, either..just looking for a new place to perhaps put a team if that franchise were to somehow fold or something.

Young Drachma · 10-12-2009, 02:14 AM

TEAM MOVES FOR THE 1927 SEASON
Baltimore Blue Wings ---> Bluefield (WV) Jays
Augusta Tiger Cats ----> Dayton (OH) Rens

Young Drachma · 10-12-2009, 02:59 AM

1927 NEW YORK KNIGHTS TEAM PREVIEW
My proudest acquistion came pretty much at the start of my career here. We picked up Brad Blanchard from Williamsport. He was one of three top flight hurlers we acquired from teams in a series of salary dumps, but it became pretty apparently quickly that we wouldn't be able to do the 3 Muskateers deal, because they would've commanded 4/5ths of our payroll, so I shipped them off to other teams and began the process of building the ballclub that had 9 guys on the ML roster when I arrived.

The minor leaguers were pretty barren, save for the few prospects I could manage to peddle off in those early deals.

One of the little known tricks of this league is that minor leaguers get free agency after 3 years. I do that on purpose so teams can't horde FA prospects for cheap, if they wanna horde 'em, they better pay 'em and well, most teams forget or don't.

We're talking the sorts of guys who are slow to develop, who probably won't ever develop or are 23-24 and you're just not sure about 'em.

Well, we munched on a steady diet of these players during the off-season, as there was no other way to fill out our roster.

Among the free agents we signed that weren't in this category, we picked up 15-game winner Roy Moore from Los Angeles as a free agent and 16-game winner Rodrigo Rivera from Cleveland in the same manner. Considering Brad Blanchard is our ace, but won just 13-games on an underachieving Williamsport club last year, we're thinking that we've got a Top 3 that have the makings of something pretty special.

Offensively, there are some proven newcomers coming over via trade or free agency. We're expecting a huge market correction offensively this year, as I was trying to implement some old offensive settings I had laying around from an earlier FOOL iteration and the average league ERA shot up about 3 runs in each league. Given everything has been fairly consistent for the past 100+ years, last year will stand out as an anomaly forever. It's okay, but...I do want to get offense up, as the problem over the past 40-50 years or so, is that players just aren't as good as the ones from the past, so their production isn't where theirs is and so, we've seen a steady decline in the league batting averages and ERA has dropped too.

But that's too much.

But according to last year's stats, we've got 5 100+ RBI guys on our club including 160 RBI guy Woody McCann and 30 HR/150 RBI guy Don Carter.

I was pretty sensitive to the idea of us having the largest payroll in the league, because I never like to do that, because I feel like as a human I shouldn't. But there's something to keep in mind -- I always overpay for talent I want and THREE players account for over $30 million of our payroll. So that number is a bit deceiving.

Ownership sees this as our opportunity to burnish the Knights within the New York faithful. The Gothams have 9 championships, tied with Carolina for #2 on the all-time list, but Carolina has been around since the beginning, the Gothams are 40 years younger.

Meanwhile, the Knights haven't quite established themselves in the city and are looking hard to do so.

A failure to succeed with this club will be another line in a frustration set of problems for this ballclub, so...we're hoping this is the start of something.

Do I think we'll make the playoffs? No. Do I expect to? Yes. We really should, even with so many question mark players in certain spots and a less than sure bullpen.

PREDICTION: 86-76, 2ND PL EAST

Young Drachma · 10-12-2009, 03:06 AM

Well...the good news is, we're not in last. Besides that, we're facing off against a very powerful opponent and I never expected us to compete in the east. They're just too good, I should know, I built them that way.

I do think we have the horses to contend for a Wild Card, but it might be just short out of our grip this year, depending on how the 2nd half goes.

Code:

Union League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Miami Amigos		54	33	.621	-
New York Gothams	47	40	.540	7.0
Boston Yanks		45	43	.511	9.5
Philadelphia Quakers	42	43	.494	11.0
Newark Sentinels	33	55	.375	21.5

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Chicago Blue Collars	53	34	.609	-
Minneapolis Millers	48	39	.552	5.0
Eau Claire Paws		37	49	.430	15.5
Cleveland Broncs	37	50	.425	16.0
St. Louis Perfectos	35	53	.398	18.5

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Colorado City Gold Sox	51	36	.586	-
Los Angeles Seraphs	51	36	.586	-
Victoria Cougars	41	45	.477	9.5
Salt Lake City Elders	38	50	.432	13.5
San Francisco Peanuts	35	52	.402	16.0

Presidents League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Bantam Originals	55	31	.640	-
New York Knights	48	39	.552	7.5
Bluefield Jays		47	41	.534	9.0
Chicago Red Caps	40	47	.460	15.5
Williamsport Grays	31	58	.348	25.5

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Toronto Blueshirts	47	38	.553	-
Carolina Wrens		43	43	.500	4.5
Washington Maroons	43	44	.494	5.0
Dayton Rens		41	46	.471	7.0
St. Petersburg Pelicans	38	48	.442	9.5

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Houston Buffalos	54	34	.614	-
Hollister Haymakers	52	36	.591	2.0
Portland Roadrunners	43	45	.489	11.0
Dallas Steers		40	47	.460	13.5
Compton Brothers	37	51	.420	17.0

Young Drachma · 10-12-2009, 03:13 AM

Well here are the standings as of the last day of the season, BEFORE the last game is played. Hollister and New York are tied for the PL Wild Card. Hollister is at home against Portland and New York is at home againnnnnnstttt... BANTAM. In real life, Bantam would sit their starters and play the game at half strength, but since this is OOTP, the game won't do anything differently and we'll just have to see what happens.

Code:

Union League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Miami Amigos		96	65	.596	-
Boston Yanks		82	79	.509	14.0
Philadelphia Quakers	82	79	.509	14.0
New York Gothams	79	82	.491	17.0
Newark Sentinels	62	99	.385	34.0

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Chicago Blue Collars	98	63	.609	-
Minneapolis Millers	85	76	.528	13.0
St. Louis Perfectos	75	86	.466	23.0
Eau Claire Paws		69	92	.429	29.0
Cleveland Broncs	67	94	.416	31.0

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Los Angeles Seraphs	92	69	.571	-
Colorado City Gold Sox	89	72	.553	3.0
Salt Lake City Elders	84	77	.522	8.0
Victoria Cougars	83	78	.516	9.0
San Francisco Peanuts	62	99	.385	30.0

Presidents League Standings
Eastern Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Bantam Originals	100	61	.621	-
New York Knights	90	71	.559	10.0
Bluefield Jays		87	74	.540	13.0
Chicago Red Caps	69	92	.429	31.0
Williamsport Grays	53	108	.329	47.0

Central Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Toronto Blueshirts	92	69	.571	-
Carolina Wrens		85	76	.528	7.0
St. Petersburg Pelicans	82	79	.509	10.0
Washington Maroons	79	82	.491	13.0
Dayton Rens		68	93	.422	24.0

Western Division	W	L	PCT	GB
Houston Buffalos	96	65	.596	-
Hollister Haymakers	90	71	.559	6.0
Compton Brothers	73	88	.453	23.0
Dallas Steers		73	88	.453	23.0
Portland Roadrunners	73	88	.453	23.0

I pushed the quick sim button on Portland's game and they beat Hollister 5-4. That means, if New York wins, we clinch the Wild Card outright. If we lose? A one-game playoff tomorrow to determine who will advance to the post-season.

Final score? New York 13, Bantam 5. And just like that...we're putting the golf clubs back in the closet for a bit.

Young Drachma · 10-12-2009, 03:18 AM

I'd love to have written this story, but I didn't. Well, I guess I did when I went to a division rival. But...still.

LDS MATCHUPS
----
Chicago v. Colorado City
Los Angeles v. Miami
New York v. Bantam
Toronto v. Houston

Do I have expectations? Not really. I mean, we'll just push the button and see what happens. I don't expect us to beat them, but it's the playoffs and so, anything is possible. Besides, that team went 96 years without making the finals, so really...we'll see how their post-championship playoff fortunes are.

Young Drachma · 10-12-2009, 03:19 AM

LDS RESULTS
-----
Chicago def. Colorado City 4-3
Miami def. Los Angeles 4-3
New York def. Bantam 4-0
Toronto def. Houston 4-2

Ha. Well, at least the owners can't say I didn't deliver, yes?

Young Drachma · 10-12-2009, 03:21 AM

LCS RESULTS
----
Miami def. Chicago 4-1
Toronto def. New York 4-2

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

127th DAYLIGHT SERIES (1927)
-------
Miami def. Toronto 5-2

Young Drachma · 10-12-2009, 12:12 PM

I'm going to take some time off and sim more into the future now. I might create a new GM, I might not. This guyis young enough that he could come back 20 years if he wants to.

I kinda want to test the settings to find the right stats to get us back to where we were back in the earlier parts of the dynasty with league batting around .260-.280 and ERAs between 3.9-4.5 overall. That's ideal for me and consistent with how things had been for most of the years until talent went down and batting averages started to dip and pitchers started to get better.

So we'll probably 15-20 years into the future and then what I'd like to do, is spend a decade or so with a team, so I can really start to get a group of favorites again, get a lay of the league and so forth. I did that with Victoria and it's fun to go back and see the notables from that era. Eventually I'm going to slow down to start simming fewer seasons and keep the league established eventually. You'll see less franchise movement after the 50s or so, with the occasional change and I haven't decided if we'll expand again or not once we reach the 60s and 70s, but we probably will one more time at some point later no matter what.

Young Drachma · 10-12-2009, 06:29 PM

I got the league settings where I wanted them, so that's great over the past 20 years I took off.

Well I took 20 years off. It's the offseason of 1947 and here's what's happened the last 20 years since we went away in terms of championships. Most of the major championship droughts were vanquished by and large (it didn't take Bantam another 95 years to get the Series, either.)

Quote:

1928: Victoria Cougars def. New York Knights
1929: St. Louis Perfectos def. Houston Buffalos
1930: Cleveland Broncs def. Compton Brothers
1931: Minneapolis Millers def. New York Knights
1932: Carolina Wrens def. Los Angeles Seraphs
1933: Compton Brothers def. Minneapolis Millers
1934: San Francisco Peanuts def. Toronto Blueshirts
1935: Colorado City Gold Sox def. Hollister Haymakers
1936: San Francisco Peanuts def. Toronto Blueshirts
1937: Bantam Originals def. Cleveland Broncs
1938: St. Louis Perfectos def. Williamsport Grays
1939: Dallas Steers def. St. Louis Perfectos
1940: St. Louis Perfectos def. Dallas Steers
1941: Chicago Red Caps def. Victoria Cougars
1942: Philadelphia Quakers def. Bantam Originals
1943: New York Knights def. Philadelphia Quakers
1944: Atlanta Firecrackers def. Newark Sentinels
1945: Toronto Blueshirts def. Victoria Cougars
1946: Portland Roadrunners def. Newark Sentinels
1947: Dallas Steers def. Los Angeles Seraphs

The other thing is the Williamsport Grays folded and were replaced by the Atlanta Firecrackers in 1942. We did a bit of realignment too, but I'm not sure you all care about such mundane matters.

Young Drachma · 10-18-2009, 02:33 AM

Since we've got all of this history -- 161 years of it to be exact -- it might be nice to check out the past and see all of the teams we've got, how much history between all of them and profiling some of the history makers throughout our time to date.

ALL-TIME HOME RUN LEADER

Domingo Mendez, 886 HRs (1808-1832)

Mendez played all over, but the bulk of his career was in St. Louis and Pacific (now Philadelphia.) He won 7 MVPs during his career and until the 1870s, was the the all-time hits leader with 4,476 before he was eclipsed by Fernando Coronado.

ALL-TIME HITS LEADER

Fernando Coronado (1857-1881)
Coronado was a career .319 hitter, hit 266 career home runs, but made his mark getting on base. with close to 5000 hits. Many wondered why he didn't stick around to reach the iconic number, but he simply said at the end of his career, "when you've had enough, you've had enough. And I've had enough."

He only had 100+ RBI seasons, but was productive all over the place in his career spanning from his start in Bantam to San Diego, brief stops in New York and St. Louis before spending his last 10 years in Minneapolis.

His record has stood for over 80 years and so, far, no one has come particularly close to it at all. Maybe they never will?

CAREER WINS LEADER

David Bowman, 480 wins (1871-1898)

David Bowman isn't as well known as Nelson Mares despite having 9 more wins than him, but that doesn't make his accomplishments any less impressive. Bowman was the original iron horse pitching in the league, winning close to 500 games while spending the overwhelming part of his career in Santa Rosa. He left and went to Carolina towards the tail end and won a title playing with another talented standout (and reader contributed player) Jay Muns.

Bowman is also the all-time losingest pitcher with 334 losses, which is why many people criticized him at the end of his career and didn't think the pitcher of the year award ought to be renamed after him, despite taking over the mantle of most wins in league history. But critics of those critics, point to the fact that Bowman is also the league's leading strikeout pitcher with 7,474 and remains the only hurler in league history with over 7,000 strikeouts. Nelson Mares is #2 and trails him by over 700 strikeouts.

MOST SAVES
Ward Holliman, 119-140, 2.19 ERA, 1033 SAVES (1934-1959)
A 1st round pick of the Toronto Blueshirts, he spent his entire career in Toronto amassing an absolutely ridiculous figure out of over 1000 saves. The #2 guy on the list only has 806, so that gives you some perspective.

He has at least 29 saves for his entire career (and only did that once excluding his rookie year) and was one of the most reliable relievers during his career. Might he have won a Mares Award had he played elsewhere? Probably. But no matter, he was enshrined in the Hall of Fame and surely that's no booby prize.

SINGLE SEASON RECORDS
HR: Greg Dean 60 (1845)
BA: Konrad Rodinger .400 (1800)
RBI: John Ashley 221 (1926) (Ashley benefited from the "Year of the Grapefruit Ball" in 1926 when offensive numbers peaked considerably after some experimenting with the baseball caused some major spikes. We went back to the regular baseball after that one insane season.
SB: Tom Hayes 124 (1871) (Hayes is #1, 2 and 3, 5, 6, 7 and 10th on this list. With 1 2 and 3 he broke his own record each time.)

WINS: Lars-Erik Johansen 36 (1862) (The mythology of Lars-Erik Johansen coming back as a pitcher, after a reporter once said that he wasn't as good a pitcher as Nelson Mares in his prime, proved once and for all, that he was one of the best to ever play the game hitting OR pitching.) No one else has ever won 30 games. Gunner Carter, Johansen and Nelson Mares are #2 at 28 wins.

LOSSES: Millard Rouse, 29 (1869) (This was his ONLY season in the majors and he went 0-29 with a 10.89 ERA)

SAVES: Pedro Perez 59 (1914)

ERA: Lars-Erik Johansen 1.24 (1862)

Young Drachma · 10-29-2009, 03:30 AM

I updated the latest version of GMExcel today to a new version that includes a tool that helps you force yourself onto a budget, which I'd been meaning to add to it for two years now, so...I think it's pretty much good to go in terms of it being a super useful tool to solo gm with.

10-11-2009, 11:14 AM	#104
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	The Pittsburgh Grays are on the move after 58 years in Pittsburgh, this time they're headed 3 hours northeast to Williamsport, PA. They will be the Williamsport Grays. In other clerical news, another suggestion to GMExcel opened up the number of teams that I can move to, which makes sense after 3 playoff appearances, two LCS and back to back 90-win seasons. So I'm going to have a wider net to choose from. I was originally learning towards Boston or Pittsburgh/Williamsport, but I'm still debating at this point. I think I'll do a quick snapshot of the teams so you can see the choices. Last edited by Young Drachma : 10-11-2009 at 11:15 AM.

10-11-2009, 01:54 PM	#107
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	We dealt fan favorite Darby Mason, whose production just never could catch up to what it was a few years ago to Toronto in a deal that contained a total of 10 players, with a number of prospects included. Major leaguers 3B Danny O'Rourke, another underachiever and 23-year old hurler Bernardo Davila were sent with three prospects to Toronto for Catcher Mike Ellingson, LF Doug Picot, SP Brady Patterson and reliever George Oliver. We effectively solved a lot of our issues with that deal, giving oursleves a decisive middle of the rotation guy, a starting catcher and helping our outfield depth issues. It's the start of a nice new day in Bantam. We're at $66.3 million of salary, so we can't make a lot of moves, but we will do some work and see what we can make happen. Last edited by Young Drachma : 10-11-2009 at 01:56 PM.

10-11-2009, 08:05 PM	#117
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	126th DAYLIGHT SERIES (1926) ----------------------------- MIAMI AMIGOS v. BANTAM ORIGINALS GM 1: Bantam 5, Miami 0 GM 2: Miami 6, Bantam 5 GM 3: Bantam 8, Miami 2 GM 4: Miami 3, Bantam 2 GM 5: Miami 4, Bantam 2 GM 6: Bantam 6, Miami 5 GM 7: Bantam 4, Miami 3 GM 8: Bantam 4, Miami 3 WHAT A SERIES!! Last edited by Young Drachma : 10-11-2009 at 08:06 PM.

10-12-2009, 02:59 AM	#125
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	1927 NEW YORK KNIGHTS TEAM PREVIEW My proudest acquistion came pretty much at the start of my career here. We picked up Brad Blanchard from Williamsport. He was one of three top flight hurlers we acquired from teams in a series of salary dumps, but it became pretty apparently quickly that we wouldn't be able to do the 3 Muskateers deal, because they would've commanded 4/5ths of our payroll, so I shipped them off to other teams and began the process of building the ballclub that had 9 guys on the ML roster when I arrived. The minor leaguers were pretty barren, save for the few prospects I could manage to peddle off in those early deals. One of the little known tricks of this league is that minor leaguers get free agency after 3 years. I do that on purpose so teams can't horde FA prospects for cheap, if they wanna horde 'em, they better pay 'em and well, most teams forget or don't. We're talking the sorts of guys who are slow to develop, who probably won't ever develop or are 23-24 and you're just not sure about 'em. Well, we munched on a steady diet of these players during the off-season, as there was no other way to fill out our roster. Among the free agents we signed that weren't in this category, we picked up 15-game winner Roy Moore from Los Angeles as a free agent and 16-game winner Rodrigo Rivera from Cleveland in the same manner. Considering Brad Blanchard is our ace, but won just 13-games on an underachieving Williamsport club last year, we're thinking that we've got a Top 3 that have the makings of something pretty special. Offensively, there are some proven newcomers coming over via trade or free agency. We're expecting a huge market correction offensively this year, as I was trying to implement some old offensive settings I had laying around from an earlier FOOL iteration and the average league ERA shot up about 3 runs in each league. Given everything has been fairly consistent for the past 100+ years, last year will stand out as an anomaly forever. It's okay, but...I do want to get offense up, as the problem over the past 40-50 years or so, is that players just aren't as good as the ones from the past, so their production isn't where theirs is and so, we've seen a steady decline in the league batting averages and ERA has dropped too. But that's too much. But according to last year's stats, we've got 5 100+ RBI guys on our club including 160 RBI guy Woody McCann and 30 HR/150 RBI guy Don Carter. I was pretty sensitive to the idea of us having the largest payroll in the league, because I never like to do that, because I feel like as a human I shouldn't. But there's something to keep in mind -- I always overpay for talent I want and THREE players account for over $30 million of our payroll. So that number is a bit deceiving. Ownership sees this as our opportunity to burnish the Knights within the New York faithful. The Gothams have 9 championships, tied with Carolina for #2 on the all-time list, but Carolina has been around since the beginning, the Gothams are 40 years younger. Meanwhile, the Knights haven't quite established themselves in the city and are looking hard to do so. A failure to succeed with this club will be another line in a frustration set of problems for this ballclub, so...we're hoping this is the start of something. Do I think we'll make the playoffs? No. Do I expect to? Yes. We really should, even with so many question mark players in certain spots and a less than sure bullpen. PREDICTION: 86-76, 2ND PL EAST Last edited by Young Drachma : 10-12-2009 at 03:00 AM.

10-18-2009, 02:33 AM	#133
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Since we've got all of this history -- 161 years of it to be exact -- it might be nice to check out the past and see all of the teams we've got, how much history between all of them and profiling some of the history makers throughout our time to date. ALL-TIME HOME RUN LEADER Domingo Mendez, 886 HRs (1808-1832) Mendez played all over, but the bulk of his career was in St. Louis and Pacific (now Philadelphia.) He won 7 MVPs during his career and until the 1870s, was the the all-time hits leader with 4,476 before he was eclipsed by Fernando Coronado. ALL-TIME HITS LEADER Fernando Coronado (1857-1881) Coronado was a career .319 hitter, hit 266 career home runs, but made his mark getting on base. with close to 5000 hits. Many wondered why he didn't stick around to reach the iconic number, but he simply said at the end of his career, "when you've had enough, you've had enough. And I've had enough." He only had 100+ RBI seasons, but was productive all over the place in his career spanning from his start in Bantam to San Diego, brief stops in New York and St. Louis before spending his last 10 years in Minneapolis. His record has stood for over 80 years and so, far, no one has come particularly close to it at all. Maybe they never will? CAREER WINS LEADER David Bowman, 480 wins (1871-1898) David Bowman isn't as well known as Nelson Mares despite having 9 more wins than him, but that doesn't make his accomplishments any less impressive. Bowman was the original iron horse pitching in the league, winning close to 500 games while spending the overwhelming part of his career in Santa Rosa. He left and went to Carolina towards the tail end and won a title playing with another talented standout (and reader contributed player) Jay Muns. Bowman is also the all-time losingest pitcher with 334 losses, which is why many people criticized him at the end of his career and didn't think the pitcher of the year award ought to be renamed after him, despite taking over the mantle of most wins in league history. But critics of those critics, point to the fact that Bowman is also the league's leading strikeout pitcher with 7,474 and remains the only hurler in league history with over 7,000 strikeouts. Nelson Mares is #2 and trails him by over 700 strikeouts. MOST SAVES Ward Holliman, 119-140, 2.19 ERA, 1033 SAVES (1934-1959) A 1st round pick of the Toronto Blueshirts, he spent his entire career in Toronto amassing an absolutely ridiculous figure out of over 1000 saves. The #2 guy on the list only has 806, so that gives you some perspective. He has at least 29 saves for his entire career (and only did that once excluding his rookie year) and was one of the most reliable relievers during his career. Might he have won a Mares Award had he played elsewhere? Probably. But no matter, he was enshrined in the Hall of Fame and surely that's no booby prize. SINGLE SEASON RECORDS HR: Greg Dean 60 (1845) BA: Konrad Rodinger .400 (1800) RBI: John Ashley 221 (1926) (Ashley benefited from the "Year of the Grapefruit Ball" in 1926 when offensive numbers peaked considerably after some experimenting with the baseball caused some major spikes. We went back to the regular baseball after that one insane season. SB: Tom Hayes 124 (1871) (Hayes is #1, 2 and 3, 5, 6, 7 and 10th on this list. With 1 2 and 3 he broke his own record each time.) WINS: Lars-Erik Johansen 36 (1862) (The mythology of Lars-Erik Johansen coming back as a pitcher, after a reporter once said that he wasn't as good a pitcher as Nelson Mares in his prime, proved once and for all, that he was one of the best to ever play the game hitting OR pitching.) No one else has ever won 30 games. Gunner Carter, Johansen and Nelson Mares are #2 at 28 wins. LOSSES: Millard Rouse, 29 (1869) (This was his ONLY season in the majors and he went 0-29 with a 10.89 ERA) SAVES: Pedro Perez 59 (1914) ERA: Lars-Erik Johansen 1.24 (1862) __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

10-11-2009, 12:13 AM	#101
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	After four seasons in Bantam, my contract is up. Well, not really since these things don't exist. But I've decided that my contract is up and I'm leaving. After another playoff appearance and LCS loss, I've got an owner confidence of 143. That'd probably buy me at least 3 more seasons in Bantam, but...I'm not really enjoying this team and I feel like we're just not ever going to be able to break through. There's a reason this franchise hasn't won a title in almost 100 years. The team would probably do well to rebuild completely. Just blow the whole show up, get a ton of prospects and then try to win that way in a few years. But that's not something I'm up for doing. So I might helm the fire sale or I might just leave and let the computer figure it all out, because I have just enough points to take over a bad team. I can take over Boston, St. Louis, Colorado City, Pittsburgh, Carolina or Hawaii. I haven't decided where to go yet. Maybe I'll chronicle them and you all can help me decide? I dunno.

10-11-2009, 12:41 AM	#102
JetsIn06 Pro Rookie Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Rahway, NJ	Quick question that I may have asked you before...how do you get those slick standings reports?

10-11-2009, 01:35 PM	#105
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I can take over any team that's got 90 wins or less, so the field is a bit more open for me now. Here are the finalists that I'm considering: Boston Yanks (1925: 67-95, 5th UL EAST) '24: 71-91, 5th UL East '23: 71-91, 5th UL East '22: 65-97, 5th UL East They have the #1 farm system in the league right now. Since their last playoff appearance in 1920, they've finished 5th (last) in their division each of the last four years. Payroll is at $56.5 million (cap is $75m) The best advantage to this team is that they have a ton of prospects who are just 2-4 years away from being solid, solid contributors. Some maybe sooner than that. But I dunno if I have a rebuild in me right now and if those guys falter or don't bring it all together, we'd have some work on our hands in a different way. Still, they've got a boatload of talent over there and with the right mix, it could be a nice situation in Beantown for the right person. PORTLAND ROADRUNNERS (84-78, 3rd PL WEST) '24: 83-79, 1st PL WEST, SERIES CHAMPS '23, 70-92, 5th PL WEST '22: 74-88, 5th PL WEST Since moving to Portland from Albuquerque, the Roadrunners have had some success, claiming a title in their second year in the city. Portland has the #6 farm system in the league, but a lot of those guys are already on the major league roster now. This team is what I'd call a transition rebuild. Get a few major leaguers around these kids who are developing and watch it grow and you'd be a contender here in 2-3 years at the most. Portland also boasts the two-time Mares Award winner Sergio Sanchez, who came over as a free agent from Cleveland last season. With him on your team, you always feel like you're that much closer to winning. Team payroll: $39,687,500 With over $30 million in cap room, you could make a lot of things happen here, though admittedly, that amount of money doesn't get you nearly as far as it used to. It's a tempting situation though, except the PL West is probably the toughest division in baseball. Dallas is really good and so is Houston. No slouches down there and so, we'd have to scratch for postseason berths down there and while I'm all for scratching, it just seems like it could be a lot of going in neutral. WILLIAMSPORT GRAYS (1925: 70-92, 5TH PL EAST) '24: 88-74, 2ND PL EAST '23: 94-68, 1ST PL EAST, SERIES CHAMPS '22: 79-83, 3RD PL EAST The newly relocated Grays are settling into their new home and are hoping to demonstrate a fast turnaround, too. Just two years removed from a title, the real story here is the two pitchers at the top of their rotation. 5-time Mares Award winner Brad Blanchard and 26-year old gunslinger Javier Tonche head up a top of the rotation that's one of the best in the league. Sadly, there's not much else here. Payroll: $43,720,000 The Grays are the most successful franchise in FOOL-D, with 10 championships in their 115-year history (no team has more titles, period.) I don't really know, though, what one would do here. I used to think this would be a team that could be rebuild quickly, but with no farm to speak of at all, you'd really have to go out and try to find free agent bargains. Having already tried to bring up one team to lead the PL East and having to go directly compete against them if I took this job, I think it might be a task that I'm not as enamored with as I once was when I looked at it initially. DALLAS STEERS (76-86, 4th PL WEST) '24: 81-81, 3RD PL WEST '23: 82-80, 2ND PL WEST '22: 83-79, 3RD PL WEST The Steers have a beefy lineup indeed with 6-time MVP Damien Savary leading the way. Unfortunately, this team doesn't have anything in the way of pitching at all. $52.3 million payroll It would be alluring to take over this team simply because with an offense like that and maybe engineering a trade or two, we could probably do some interesting things. But Dallas doesn't really appeal to me. TORONTO BLUESHIRTS (85-77, 2ND PL CENTRAL) '24: 93-69, 2ND PLACE PL CENTRAL (PLAYOFFS) '23: 88-74, 1ST PLACE PL CENTRAL (PLAYOFFS) '22: 78-84, 3RD PLACE PL CENTRAL PAYROLL: $28,580,000 This team reminds me of Bantam when I showed up, except their payroll wasn't that low. They've got some talent, but need some work, too. Michael Light is the ace of the staff (17-6, 2.61 ERA) and they've got a solid #2 and #3 as well. They could really just use an offensive makeover. They pretty much need players throughout their order if they're going to be competitive. That said, it could be doable and if so, then this could be an interesting destination to land.

10-11-2009, 01:47 PM	#106
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	After mulling over it for a while, I've decided to return to Bantam for a 5th season. I feel like the core is intact and what we've been trying to build for years now, is pretty close to coming if we just make more moves to get us closer to the promised land. I'm year-to-year for now, but...the more I looked at other teams, the more I realized that what we had in Bantam was better than what I'd be moving onto. And well, it took us a bit to get here, so...I'm going to try to work with that.

10-11-2009, 02:53 PM	#108
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	HAYMAKERS HEAD TO HOLLISTER Another team is on the move to a smaller place than where they currently reside. Weeks after the Grays headed to Williamsport from Pittsburgh, the Fresno Haymakers have announced plans to head to Hollister, California for the 1926 season. Hollister is about 3 hours east of Fresno closer to the ocean and about 94 miles south of San Francisco, giving that team a chance to claim fans who want a PL team to support closer to Metro San Francisco. HAWAII ISLANDERS TO MOVE BACK TO MAINLAND The PL has always been short one California team and league officials have made no bones about a desire to have a team on the mainland, feeling the Hawaii experiment wasn't working. So the Islanders will relocate back to the mainland after leaving Santa Ana for Hawaii after the 1917 season. This time, the team will move to Compton, CA and become the Compton Brothers, giving the PL a foothold in the Los Angeles area, which the league was desperate for. "This is a good day for the Presidents League," said J. Jack McKurth, "Dare I say it's a good day for fans of base ball everywhere? We believe this is just another opportunity to add fuel to the fires of those who support clubs and who wanted Presidents League clubs to support in their area."

10-11-2009, 06:07 PM	#109
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Well, it's 1926. We acquired a bunch of relievers for the glut of starting pitchers we had, as most were either holdovers from past years that used to start and got bumped. The only new addition to the rotation this year is SP Brady Patterson who went 16-11 last year in Toronto, he came over in a trade. The bullpen has been revamped and I think we've got the best pitching staff in the league from top to bottom. Offensively, we're balanced again. We dealt Julian Ayala to Newark as his contract was too expensive. The new offense contains a 115 RBI catcher named Mike Ellington who came over in a trade from Dallas. Another newcomer is Doug Picot, an outfielder who scored 100 runs in Toronto. The rest are holdovers by and large. I think well be successful during the regular season and while the playoffs are a crapshoot, we could be poised to make some noise so long as guys do what they look like they're built to do -- get on base and score runs productively. Well, let's get the show on the road. PREDICTION: 95-67, 1ST PL EAST

10-11-2009, 07:25 PM	#111
JetsIn06 Pro Rookie Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Rahway, NJ	Lookin' good!

10-11-2009, 07:54 PM	#113
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	All right. Playoff time. Here's where we make our money. Miami v. Los Angeles Eau Claire v. St. Louis Augusta v. Bantam Houston v. Hollister

10-11-2009, 07:57 PM	#114
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	LDS results ---- Miami def. Los Angeles 4-0 St. Louis def. Eau Claire 4-1 Bantam def. Augusta 4-0 Houston def. Hollister 4-1

10-11-2009, 07:58 PM	#115
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	LCS results --------- Miami def. St. Louis 4-2 Bantam def. Houston 4-2 For the first time in 95 years, the Bantam Originals are headed to the Daylight Series!

10-11-2009, 08:00 PM	#116
JetsIn06 Pro Rookie Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Rahway, NJ	Wow, nice! They haven't even been there in 95 years? Yikes. You better win it now. It could be another 95 years.

10-11-2009, 08:21 PM	#119
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Conventional wisdom is I should probably stay with a title winning team, but I think I want out while the going is good.

10-11-2009, 08:32 PM	#120
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	But looking at other teams, again...I think Bantam is probably still the best situation.

10-11-2009, 08:59 PM	#121
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	All right. I've made my decision. I'm leaving Bantam to head to the bright lights and big city of New York City. The New York Knights have been in the league for 16 years, have made one playoff appearance during that time, having only finished 2nd in their division twice -- ever. This past year they were 76-86, 4th in the PL East. Facing off against my old team 20 teams a year is probably a really bad idea, but New York's payroll is $15,490,000 and the opportunity to go out there and make them into a winner is an chance I don't think I can pass up. Plus, imagine them giving me truckloads of money too.

10-11-2009, 09:27 PM	#122
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I'm raising the salary cap. I almost want to go completely uncapped, because of where payrolls are, but...we'll save that for the really modern era. Cap is going to now be $85 million. It's been at $75 million for a long time, at least 50 years, probably more than that.

10-11-2009, 10:27 PM	#123
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I'm working on an update now, but...suffice to say we made some moves that'll either pay off or leave us scratching our head, but my charge was to come to New York and get them into the playoffs and so, I think I might have been able to do that...but we'll see. I'll put together an update here shortly, as I'm going to update the HTML first. In other news, if Baltimore were to magically disappear from the league, what city should replace them? Doesn't have to be in the east, either..just looking for a new place to perhaps put a team if that franchise were to somehow fold or something.

10-12-2009, 02:14 AM	#124
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	TEAM MOVES FOR THE 1927 SEASON Baltimore Blue Wings ---> Bluefield (WV) Jays Augusta Tiger Cats ----> Dayton (OH) Rens

10-12-2009, 03:18 AM	#128
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I'd love to have written this story, but I didn't. Well, I guess I did when I went to a division rival. But...still. LDS MATCHUPS ---- Chicago v. Colorado City Los Angeles v. Miami New York v. Bantam Toronto v. Houston Do I have expectations? Not really. I mean, we'll just push the button and see what happens. I don't expect us to beat them, but it's the playoffs and so, anything is possible. Besides, that team went 96 years without making the finals, so really...we'll see how their post-championship playoff fortunes are.

10-12-2009, 03:19 AM	#129
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	LDS RESULTS ----- Chicago def. Colorado City 4-3 Miami def. Los Angeles 4-3 New York def. Bantam 4-0 Toronto def. Houston 4-2 Ha. Well, at least the owners can't say I didn't deliver, yes?

10-12-2009, 03:21 AM	#130
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	LCS RESULTS ---- Miami def. Chicago 4-1 Toronto def. New York 4-2 Well, it was fun while it lasted. 127th DAYLIGHT SERIES (1927) ------- Miami def. Toronto 5-2

10-12-2009, 12:12 PM	#131
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I'm going to take some time off and sim more into the future now. I might create a new GM, I might not. This guyis young enough that he could come back 20 years if he wants to. I kinda want to test the settings to find the right stats to get us back to where we were back in the earlier parts of the dynasty with league batting around .260-.280 and ERAs between 3.9-4.5 overall. That's ideal for me and consistent with how things had been for most of the years until talent went down and batting averages started to dip and pitchers started to get better. So we'll probably 15-20 years into the future and then what I'd like to do, is spend a decade or so with a team, so I can really start to get a group of favorites again, get a lay of the league and so forth. I did that with Victoria and it's fun to go back and see the notables from that era. Eventually I'm going to slow down to start simming fewer seasons and keep the league established eventually. You'll see less franchise movement after the 50s or so, with the occasional change and I haven't decided if we'll expand again or not once we reach the 60s and 70s, but we probably will one more time at some point later no matter what.

10-29-2009, 03:30 AM	#134
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I updated the latest version of GMExcel today to a new version that includes a tool that helps you force yourself onto a budget, which I'd been meaning to add to it for two years now, so...I think it's pretty much good to go in terms of it being a super useful tool to solo gm with.

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)