Season 25 (1862) Thread (Previews/ST/Season)

Young Drachma · 11-02-2012, 04:35 PM

1ST ROUND DRAFT ORDER:

1. Wyoming
2. Brooklyn
3. Lake Tahoe
4. Cleveland (NL)
5. Columbus
6. Kauai
7. Chicago
8. Memphis
9. Cleveland (AL)
10. Carolina
11. Gettysburg
12. Winnemucca
13. Washington
14. Wyoming (via St. Louis)
15 Rio Grande
16. Wyoming (via St. Diego)

2nd round: 2.14 Wyoming (via St. Louis)
3rd round: 3.7 St. Louis (via Chicago)

Young Drachma · 11-02-2012, 04:45 PM

Salary Cap this season:

Washington: $90.29 million
Kauai: $90 million
St. Louis: $119.71 million

All other teams at $100 million.

As of 11.2.12 5:38pm EST

At present, Cleveland Spiders are currently $4,384,000 over the cap and Rio Grande is $1,585,000 over the cap. That shouldn't be too hard for either club though.

In the future, though, the standard penalty for teams going over the cap is just going to be a loss of 1st rounder. The pick will then be auctioned off via blind auction and each team in the league will get a cap exception equal to 1/14th of whatever the pick gets sold for (St. Louis as long as I own them and the offending team will not benefit.)

Young Drachma · 11-02-2012, 04:52 PM

Also, this Strutchen shit is getting real..lemme tell ya. In the interest of full disclosure, once the period ends, I intend to release the list of all of the bids on him. Just so you don't think there were shenanigans.

scotto313 · 11-02-2012, 04:58 PM

Sorry for being stupid here but, do we PM our bid to you? What is the deadline? I made an in game offer already. Is this a problem?

Young Drachma · 11-02-2012, 05:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scotto313

Sorry for being stupid here but, do we PM our bid to you? What is the deadline? I made an in game offer already. Is this a problem?

You PM your bids for Strutchen to me. Since it's an odd situation, I didn't want to do it through the regular game channels. I'll ignore your in-game bid.

Thanks for asking. Tonight is the deadline. It's why I sent the PM to everyone, so everyone would know about it. It's a quick turnaround, but everyone had a shot to offer him as a FA the first time and it's better than releasing him on opening day.

Young Drachma · 11-02-2012, 07:32 PM

Oh random sidenote. The game will let you fill your active roster with more than 25 players during spring training. As in, it won't prevent me from simming ahead. It's only during the season it does that. So for those of you that want 40-man rosters in spring training, it's possible to do it right now without me changing it.

Just a note.

Young Drachma · 11-02-2012, 09:10 PM

FFP WINNING BIDS (1852)
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SP Amir Mangum ($23m) Columbus
SP Aiden Murphy ($44m) St. Louis

You all missed a crazy battle tonight in FFP auction craziness. It was down to the wire and we literally had to go to overtime to decide who was going to get STREP wonderhurler Aiden Murphy. In the end, St. Louis acquired the young hurler with a $44m signing bonus. Meanwhile, Columbus swooped in at the last minute and picked up SP Amir Mangum, the consensus 2nd best hurler in STREP this year with a $23m signing bonus.

A bunch of other kids were offered provisional deals, but those deals were pulled off the table once the two centerpieces were being bandied about.

A pretty crazy but fun down to the wire battle.

Young Drachma · 11-03-2012, 12:04 AM

D.J. STRUTCHEN BLIND AUCTION BID RESULTS
Washington $259,000
Winnemucca $10,000,000
Cleveland (AL) $30,000,000
Gettysburg $38,500,000
Memphis $43,000,000
San Diego $47,500,000

The defending champs just get richer using their 16th in league payroll advantage to make sure one of the best hittters in the game parks in San Diego for at least the next year.

Young Drachma · 11-03-2012, 12:30 AM

SPRING TRAINING
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NL
Washington 21-3
Gettysburg 16-8
Carolina 15-9
Brooklyn 13-11
Wyoming 11-13
Cleveland 10-14
Rio Grande 9-15
Kauai 1-23

AL
San Diego 19-5
Winnemucca 14-10
Cleveland 14-10
St. Louis 13-11
Memphis 11-13
Chicago 10-14
Columbus 9-15
Lake Tahoe 9-18

Young Drachma · 11-03-2012, 01:02 AM

Ok so the file is up. We'll sim the 1st half on Monday night. Happy weekend folks.

Young Drachma · 11-03-2012, 01:16 AM

The Associated League claimed its first title in the form of 91-win San Diego team that would've been good enough to finish 1st in the NL. So to say the AL is a deep league right now would be an understatement.

But with teams reloading and jockeying for position, someone is going to finish the year disappointed. Let's take a quick look at the league and see what the landscape looks like.

First off, here's my personal predictions in the AL this year:

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1. San Diego
2. St. Louis
3. Chicago
4. Lake Tahoe
5. Winnemucca
6. Cleveland
7. Columbus
8. Memphis

San Diego is coming off their surprise title last year. I mean, no one had the Dads on their list as possible championship caliber, but it's amazing what you can do when you've got a geritatric star in Salavisa coupled with decent young pitching, a strong bullpen and other offensive weapons rounding out your club. The Fathers didn't get worse this off-season, they got BETTER. They won the D.J. Strutchen auction, meaning they're going to be an even more formidable opponent to the rest of the AL this year and so, it's hard to vote against them as the likely top-seed out of the AL.

In the Elimination Zone, we've got an upstart club in the form of the Chicago Hornets. Nursing a 5-year playoff drought, the once proud franchise is so close and yet, so far from playoff contention. But after bringing back Ponty Lopez and also reacquiring former ace Brad Scots, you have to think they're going to drive a stake in the heart of AL teams that have been defeating them since they made the move over from the NL a few years ago. Junior Garza is no slouch and has proven himself to be just as good as everyone thought he'd be when he was a free agent leaving Rio Grande a few years ago.

The Winnemucca Lake Monsters are still around, riding their three-headed ace monsters all the way to what they hope will be a 5th overall title for the franchise. Offensively, they're not the club they once were and that gives me some pause. J.J. Tullgren leads an offensive unit that I think will struggle over a 162-game season to keep up with the rest of the Associated League's power teams. Still, enough has been lost in places like St. Louis that you have to think as long as their pitching comes around, the ~~Choos~~ Mucks are going to be in the thick of any playoff race.

St. Louis choked en route to another huge spending year where they missed the Series after falling to San Diego. Still, their core remains intact. Their biggest losses were a huge three -- Brad Scots, Clifton Marshall, D.J. Strutchen -- and to make matters worse, all THREE of them went to league rivals. That will raise the degree of difficulty, but in terms of WAR, the Aviators managed to get enough replacements through another active off-season that they should be able to mitigate those losses. It won't result in another 1st place regular season pennant, but it should be enough to get them back to the post-season.

Subby has done his best to put Lake Tahoe back into contention. The real problem is outside of "Rick" Ross, he lacks the real rotation to go with his star-studded offense. So he'll be able to slug with teams across the league, but the Mob haven't kept up with the arms race across the league and it's likely to cost them as we get down to the last few weeks of the regular season. If somehow, some unheralded guy can step up and have a career year as has been the case over the past few years in SLOP with some teams or he can swing a deal or two, then you have to be very afraid of this team as the Syndicate are a team NO ONE wants to play.

Cleveland did a nice move picking up Jimmy Evers to replace the one-year deal of Jimmy Ridgeway. But he's not going to be enough by himself to get them over the hump in the stacked, super competitive AL. Memphis is rebuilding and Columbus is stuck in a perpetual rut right now, but have been MASTERS as working the FFP market and so, their international scouting division has to be given huge grades. Just watch out for this over the next few years, as those guys all develop, they're going to be a team to be reckoned with year after, boasting the 2nd best farm system in the game right now and surely to be tops before long, with Chicago atop the list at the moment.

Anything can happen, but this is the landscape of the AL right now. It'll be a dogfight, but unlike the NL where it's a true free-for-all, there's a true upper and lower class in this league that should reveal itself when the season kicks off.

Young Drachma · 11-03-2012, 03:34 PM

The past two years, less than 3 games have separated the 3rd place team in the NL from the 4th place team. The NL is still in its days of parity and Season 25 will be no different for those fans of Nationwide League clubs. Still, as the past has proven, NL clubs might lack a DH but they make up for it during playoff time when they've proven more than adept at taking out the best the AL has to offer.

Still, the AL leads the overall Series title race 14-10.

Here's my off-the-cuff NL predictions:

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1. Washington
2. Gettysburg
3. Wyoming
4. Carolina
5. Brooklyn
6. Cleveland
7. Rio Grande
8. Kauai

The top half of the NL is comprised of a bunch of flawed, but talented teams who lack a lot of something and miss a lot of other stuff. Amongst that fray you have to like the chances of the Washington Grays who got back to the post-season for the first time since moving east from LA. claphamsa was active again in the market, attempting to get his team into position to contend and it seems like they have the pieces to make that happen.

They have the most complete rotation of any team in the NL, though none of them are necessarily aces. Offensively, teenager Darth Maul looks prepped to have a monster year. Bringing him along with Rodrigo Flores and Carlos Palacios, that's a scary lineup by any standard.

Gomer has had back to back post-season appearances with Gettysburg, but has yet to get over the hump. This year has enough talent to get back to the post-season in theory. Dave Beeman, Jamel Reid and Aidan Rice as a shakey, but potent 1-2-3 rotation situation. They walk entirely too many guys and their offense might struggle to keep up with some of the other more potent, traditional powers in the NL. But if J.R. Harman, Johnny Bice and perhaps some 3rd person can step it up this season for them, then you should expect to see the Gomers on the right side of the playoff cut line.

My 3rd choice for a playoff team will surprise you. But tvan went out and really improved his Wyoming team and they had a solid core and prospects to boot. Let's not forget, the ashes of the Lake Placid team was an AL playoff team for a few years before the fire sale. What's left behind is a team that managed to win 67 games last year and so, in the parity-filled NL, it's going to take pitching that can keep up. But Barragan, Ridgeway and Hilton are a strong lineup core, there are some solid defensive guys here; so they're going to win some games. It'll just be a question of whether their hurlers will be a liability or an asset. If they can manage to be the latter, they're going to sneak past the rest of the NL muck to claim their first playoff appearance in their new iteration.

Meanwhile in Carolina, the team is two years removed from a surprise title and followed that by missing the post-season for the first time in 11 years and only the 3rd time in 19 seasons. The fans will expect more from the Kings, but the always solid Johnny Ressano and Marco Espada don't have the help they're accustomed to this year. They'll be relying heavily on a lot of prospects and unknowns to see if they can right this team's ship. The pitching staff isn't what it used to be either, which leads me to believe they're going to fall a bit short of their own exceedingly high expectations.

Brooklyn is literally a wild card. This team could win 79 games or it could win 89. It's hard to say. There's no doubt they've improved. But after losing out to D.J. Strutchen due to a cap violation, the team still kept Tristan Farrell who they'll be relying on heavily to buoy the team's hopes. Carlos Sanchez and Bill Powell will be backed by a decent, but not as good as Brooklyn is used to bullpen. Offensively outside of Farrell and Tom White, the team lacks any firepower at all. It seems like a lottery year for the Titans.

The defending NL champion Rio Grande should probably begin rebuilding. They have no real farm system to speak of and while there are some very nice pieces on their roster (specifically Pedro Garcia, Alex Vasguez and Robby Braden) they're not going to have the pitching to keep up with anyone in the NL this year outside of maybe Kauai who are fully into rebuilding mode already, save for a possible mid-season deal to trade Jeremiah Bylerly to a contender who is making a go for it.

Cleveland is a dangerous team. They probably need to make an acquisition for more help offensively and could stand to improve their bullpen. But this is the kind of team that in a year full of parity, could sneak their way into the Top 5 easily. Unfortunately, they front-loaded a deal to pick up Don Hall as a free-agent and (unwisely) will pay him nearly $30m this year and that's going to really impede their ability to make a mid-season deal to get themselves into playoff contention.

Of course, all of this could be wrong. What do I know?

Cole · 11-04-2012, 10:09 PM

DC I have had some computer issues the last few days, but I'm now up and running on a different computer.. However, I need the league file and whatever other files are needed to download to be able to export... Can you hook me up with some links so I Can get up and running again? Sorry I was absent for a few days.

Young Drachma · 11-04-2012, 11:15 PM

Sent you a PM, but the link to all of the links is stickied atop the SLOP forum.

Young Drachma · 11-05-2012, 09:34 AM

1st half of the season is tonight!

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 12:27 AM

Ok nerds. It's party time.

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 12:28 AM

STANDINGS AS OF MAY 1, 1862

Code:

NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Washington Grays	19	18	.514	-
Brooklyn Titans		19	19	.500	.5
Gettysburg Gomers	18	18	.500	.5
Carolina Kings		17	21	.447	2.5
Cleveland Spiders	16	21	.432	3.0
Rio Grande Rough Riders	15	23	.395	4.5
Kauai Emeralds		13	25	.342	6.5
Wyoming Plowboys	12	24	.333	6.5

ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
St. Louis Aviators	26	12	.684	-
San Diego Fathers	26	12	.684	-
Winnemucca Lake Monsters25	12	.676	.5
Columbus Crusaders	21	17	.553	5.0
Cleveland Laborers	21	17	.553	5.0
Chicago Hornets		21	17	.553	5.0
Memphis Smokers		18	20	.474	8.0
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	13	24	.351	12.5

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 12:31 AM

STANDINGS AS OF JUNE 1, 1862

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NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Gettysburg Gomers	34	29	.540	-
Washington Grays	34	30	.531	.5
Brooklyn Titans		34	31	.523	1.0
Carolina Kings		31	34	.477	4.0
Cleveland Spiders	29	35	.453	5.5
Rio Grande Rough Riders	28	37	.431	7.0
Kauai Emeralds		24	41	.369	11.0
Wyoming Plowboys	21	42	.333	13.0

ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
San Diego Fathers	47	17	.734	-
St. Louis Aviators	40	25	.615	7.5
Cleveland Laborers	40	25	.615	7.5
Winnemucca Lake Monsters37	27	.578	10.0
Chicago Hornets		34	31	.523	13.5
Columbus Crusaders	33	31	.516	14.0
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	25	39	.391	22.0
Memphis Smokers		24	41	.369	23.5

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 12:39 AM

STANDINGS AS OF JUNE 20, 1862

Code:

NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Brooklyn Titans		46	37	.554	-
Gettysburg Gomers	42	39	.519	3.0
Washington Grays	42	40	.512	3.5
Carolina Kings		42	40	.512	3.5
Cleveland Spiders	38	42	.475	6.5
Rio Grande Rough Riders	38	44	.463	7.5
Wyoming Plowboys	29	51	.362	15.5
Kauai Emeralds		29	53	.354	16.5
	
ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
San Diego Fathers	58	23	.716	-
St. Louis Aviators	50	33	.602	9.0
Cleveland Laborers	49	33	.598	9.5
Winnemucca Lake Monsters47	34	.580	11.0
Columbus Crusaders	38	43	.469	20.0
Chicago Hornets		38	45	.458	21.0
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	34	47	.420	24.0
Memphis Smokers		33	49	.402	25.5

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 12:40 AM

As usual, the NL is a parity-filled show of wackiness. The AL has a bunch of underperforming teams in its underclass.

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 01:08 AM

Most surprising team so far is Cleveland Laborers. They've had a good farm system for a while dating back to the Myrtle Beach days so it's not especially surprising, but...I'm just wondering if they can sustain it. Winnemucca is aging, but with those big 3 hurlers, anything is possible. San Diego is a tour de force and St. Louis is better than I anticipated, but could still be really good and sitting at home.

In the NL, as usual there are six teams in the race. It'll be a dogfight, as usual.

I'm actually going to be out of town from Thu-early Sun so I want to get the season done before I go.

All it means is everything (for this week only) moves up a day:

TUE: DRAFT
WED: 2ND HALF

We'll do the post-season sim when I get back on Sunday night. I'll process trades through Wednesday at 8pm eastern or so. But this way, we'll at least have the regular season out of the way and then when I get back, we can resume our normal schedule with the following Monday and the off-season.

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 01:20 AM

All-star voting if you're into that: All-Star Voting

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 08:20 AM

HTML is updated, too, as is dev. Man, what a commish.

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 03:42 PM

Just a reminder, we're going to sim tonight. I guess unless all of you didn't get the memo in which case we'll stick to our normal schedule and there will be a break. I'll be able to tell when I look at who exported when I get home tonight and we can just see from there.

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 06:06 PM

Ok, we have at least half the league in for tonight, so I'll run the file at midnight eastern. Get those exports in before you start throwing popcorn at the election returns.

Gomer · 11-06-2012, 06:58 PM

Oh. Didn't get the memo. Just looked at the draft class today. Don't have game access tonight.
Oh well. Don't wait up for lil ol' me!

I do hate the auto draft though. Any chance of doing the regular schedule?

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 07:15 PM

We can do the regular schedule through Wednesday. But the 2nd half of the season and post-season would have to be postponed until I get back from my trip on Sunday. Because I'm not taking a laptop with me and running the season through iPad via LogMeIn is too cumbersome.

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 10:53 PM

Gonna see how many exports we have...

Young Drachma · 11-06-2012, 11:52 PM

I moved the draft in-game to October. We'll do the off-day tonight then and sim the 2nd half tomorrow and then sim the playoffs when I get back on Sunday. So we'll still move up a day, but just get your exports done for your teams and can save the draft for the off-season.

Gomer · 11-07-2012, 11:35 AM

YD for commish of the year!

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 12:24 PM

So just to clarify (since I posted after midnight) we are doing the 2nd half tonight, but there will be no draft until after the season ends. And we'll do the post-season on Sunday night.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 04:44 PM

Also, look what San Diego did quietly: Re-signed D.J. Strutchen to an extension. Carlos Salazar can come back, just not at his same price, so I wonder if San Diego will RFA him.

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03/23/1862: Signed a 4-year contract extension worth a total of $130,000,000 with the San Diego Fathers organization.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:01 PM

Ok, let's crown a champ so I can pack.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:08 PM

JULY 1, 1862

Code:

NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Brooklyn Titans		49	41	.544	-
Washington Grays	47	42	.528	1.5
Gettysburg Gomers	45	43	.511	3.0
Carolina Kings		45	45	.500	4.0
Rio Grande Rough Riders	41	48	.461	7.5
Cleveland Spiders	39	49	.443	9.0
Kauai Emeralds		31	59	.344	18.0
Wyoming Plowboys	30	58	.341	18.0


ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
San Diego Fathers	65	24	.730	-
Winnemucca Lake Monsters53	36	.596	12.0
St. Louis Aviators	53	37	.589	12.5
Cleveland Laborers	52	38	.578	13.5
Columbus Crusaders	45	44	.506	20.0
Chicago Hornets		44	46	.489	21.5
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	39	50	.438	26.0
Memphis Smokers		36	54	.400	29.5

I wanna move to the NL.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:13 PM

AUGUST 1, 1862

Code:

NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Washington Grays	62	56	.525	-
Brooklyn Titans		61	57	.517	1.0
Rio Grande Rough Riders	59	58	.504	2.5
Gettysburg Gomers	59	58	.504	2.5
Carolina Kings		58	60	.492	4.0
Cleveland Spiders	51	66	.436	10.5
Wyoming Plowboys	46	71	.393	15.5
Kauai Emeralds		36	82	.305	26.0

ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
San Diego Fathers	86	31	.735	-
Winnemucca Lake Monsters69	48	.590	17.0
Cleveland Laborers	69	49	.585	17.5
St. Louis Aviators	63	55	.534	23.5
Chicago Hornets		59	59	.500	27.5
Columbus Crusaders	57	60	.487	29.0
Memphis Smokers		54	64	.458	32.5
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	51	66	.436	35.0

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:13 PM

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:15 PM

SEPT. 1, 1862

Code:

NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Washington Grays	79	67	.541	-
Gettysburg Gomers	75	71	.514	4.0
Brooklyn Titans		75	71	.514	4.0
Carolina Kings		73	73	.500	6.0
Rio Grande Rough Riders	70	76	.479	9.0
Cleveland Spiders	65	81	.445	14.0
Wyoming Plowboys	60	86	.411	19.0
Kauai Emeralds		48	98	.329	31.0

ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
San Diego Fathers	102	44	.699	-
Winnemucca Lake Monsters85	61	.582	17.0
Cleveland Laborers	80	66	.548	22.0
St. Louis Aviators	77	69	.527	25.0
Chicago Hornets		76	71	.517	26.5
Columbus Crusaders	73	73	.500	29.0
Memphis Smokers		67	80	.456	35.5
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	64	82	.438	38.0

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:20 PM

16 GAMES LEFT in the regular season.

NL WILD CARD
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Gettysburg 75-71
Brooklyn 75-71
Carolina 73-73 2 GB
Rio Grande 70-76 5 GB

AL WILD CARD
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Winnemucca 85-61 --
Cleveland 80-66 --
St. Louis 77-69 3 GB
Chicago 76-71 4.5 GB
Columbus 73-73 7 GB

So that's the landscape as we head into the final weeks of the regular season. Cleveland sits on the doorstep of their first playoff berth in franchise history, St. Louis deceivingly looks like a high-spending team until you realize that $44m of this year's salary cap is Aiden Murphy's signing bonus and so, then the team doesn't quite seem as ridiculous that they're somehow on the cusp of missing the post-season.

Will Chicago -- my early season pick for AL grace -- make a late push? In the NL, can Carolina make their normal return to the post-season at the last minute? Rio Grande, the defending NL champ needs a bit of luck to get back into it.

Let's get it going.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:23 PM

Sept. 8th
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San Diego (107-45) has clinched the AL regular season pennant. Winnemucca (90-62) has clinched a playoff spot.

AL WILD CARD
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Cleveland (M#6) 84-68
Chicago 80-73 4.5 GB
St. Louis 78-74 6 GB

NL RACE
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Washington 81-71 --
Brooklyn 79-73 --
Carolina 78-74 --
Gettysburg 77-75 1 GB
Rio Grande 73-79 5 GB

NL is going to be a dogfight to the finish with 5 teams duking it out for 3 spots and no one having clinched yet.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:29 PM

SEPT. 14TH
Cleveland (87-71) clinched the 2nd AL Wild Card and will be thus making their first playoff appearance in franchise history this post-season! Congrats to the Laborers!!

Meanwhile in the NL, it's more insanity.

Four games left in the regular season and here's what we have in terms of standings:

Washington 85-73
Brooklyn 83-75
Gettysburg 80-78
Carolina 80-78
Rio Grande 78-80

So we have five teams still in the race, if the season ended today, Gettysburg and Carolina would play a one-game playoff to determine who gets the 2nd NL Wild card, but with the defending NL champs lurking only 2 GB, it's still truly anyone's race. Washington's magic number to clinch the NL regular season title is 3, but NO ONE has managed to secure a playoff bid in the NL yet.

It's going down to the wire folks. We've never had a tie in SLOP history before for a playoff berth, will this be the first time in Season 25?

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:30 PM

9/14
Carolina 7, Rio Grande 6
Wyoming 7, Gettysburg 4
Brooklyn 10, Kauai 3
Cleveland 4, Washington 1

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:32 PM

Washington and Brooklyn both clinched playoff spots in the NL. So now, there's Carolina, Gettysburg and a remote shot for Rio Grande if all hell breaks loose to play it out for the final spot.

Carolina 81-78 --
Gettysburg 80-79 1 GB
Rio Grande 78-81 3 GB

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:33 PM

9/15
Washington 5, Carolina 3
Rio Grande 8, Brooklyn 4
Gettysburg 9, Kauai 2

Now Carolina & Gettysburg are tied with two games to go, Rio Grande is two back with two games to go. So basically, Rio Grande needs to win its next two games and have both Carolina and Gettysburg lose their next two and then we'll have a three way tie for the 3rd spot. Otherwise, we'll see what natural things happen out.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:34 PM

9/16
Washington 7, Carolina 3
(The Grays are doing the Kings NO FAVORS here)

Brooklyn 4, Rio Grande 1
(Rio Grande is eliminated.)

Gettysburg 3, Kauai 1

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:35 PM

Ok, so with one more day left in the regular season...here's the story. If the Gomers win again, they're in. If they lose and Carolina wins, we have a tiebreaker game at the home of the team with the better head-to-head record.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:37 PM

9/17
Kauai 12, Gettysburg 4

The Gomers are going to have to hope to get some help from the Grays in order to back into the 2nd wild card.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:37 PM

9/17
Carolina 10, Washington 5

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:40 PM

For the first time in SLOP's 25 year history, we'll have a tiebreaker game to determine who goes to the post-season and we'll do so for the NL 2nd wild card.

The Gettysburg Gomers will host the Carolina Kings, by virtue of winning the season series 8-6. Gametime is at 4:05pm on September 18th.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:46 PM

NL WILD CARD TIEBREAKER
Carolina 3, Gettysburg 2 (11 innings)

The Kings struck first, scoring in the top of the 1st. The Gomers answered back in the bottom of the 7th and the game went to extra innings. In the top of the 11th, T.J. Marston hit an 2-RBI triple to give the Kings their first lead since the beginning of the game.

In the bottom of the 11th, J.R. Harman scored on a Tom Bialy single for the Gomers, but with two on and two out, Tom Warren flew out to end the game.

The Kings advance to the post-season for the 12th time in 13 years in the rematch of the '60 NLCS.

Young Drachma · 11-07-2012, 11:48 PM

This the third straight year that the NL playoff contenders all had worse records than any of the teams in the AL. Meaning effectively that none of the teams in the NL over the last three years, had they played in the AL with the records they boast, would've even made the playoffs at all.

The leagues have split those post-seasons though, with Carolina winning two years ago and AL 3rd place team San Diego claiming last year's title in a sweep over 3rd-placed Rio Grande.

What will this year have in the cards? I guess we'll see...

11-02-2012, 04:58 PM	#4
scotto313 n00b Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Avon Lake, OH	Sorry for being stupid here but, do we PM our bid to you? What is the deadline? I made an in game offer already. Is this a problem? Last edited by scotto313 : 11-02-2012 at 05:00 PM.

11-02-2012, 09:10 PM	#7
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	FFP WINNING BIDS (1852) ----- SP Amir Mangum ($23m) Columbus SP Aiden Murphy ($44m) St. Louis You all missed a crazy battle tonight in FFP auction craziness. It was down to the wire and we literally had to go to overtime to decide who was going to get STREP wonderhurler Aiden Murphy. In the end, St. Louis acquired the young hurler with a $44m signing bonus. Meanwhile, Columbus swooped in at the last minute and picked up SP Amir Mangum, the consensus 2nd best hurler in STREP this year with a $23m signing bonus. A bunch of other kids were offered provisional deals, but those deals were pulled off the table once the two centerpieces were being bandied about. A pretty crazy but fun down to the wire battle. Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-02-2012 at 09:10 PM.

11-03-2012, 12:04 AM	#8
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	D.J. STRUTCHEN BLIND AUCTION BID RESULTS Washington $259,000 Winnemucca $10,000,000 Cleveland (AL) $30,000,000 Gettysburg $38,500,000 Memphis $43,000,000 San Diego $47,500,000 The defending champs just get richer using their 16th in league payroll advantage to make sure one of the best hittters in the game parks in San Diego for at least the next year. Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-03-2012 at 12:05 AM.

11-04-2012, 11:15 PM	#14
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Sent you a PM, but the link to all of the links is stickied atop the SLOP forum. Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-04-2012 at 11:16 PM.

11-06-2012, 01:08 AM	#21
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Most surprising team so far is Cleveland Laborers. They've had a good farm system for a while dating back to the Myrtle Beach days so it's not especially surprising, but...I'm just wondering if they can sustain it. Winnemucca is aging, but with those big 3 hurlers, anything is possible. San Diego is a tour de force and St. Louis is better than I anticipated, but could still be really good and sitting at home. In the NL, as usual there are six teams in the race. It'll be a dogfight, as usual. I'm actually going to be out of town from Thu-early Sun so I want to get the season done before I go. All it means is everything (for this week only) moves up a day: TUE: DRAFT WED: 2ND HALF We'll do the post-season sim when I get back on Sunday night. I'll process trades through Wednesday at 8pm eastern or so. But this way, we'll at least have the regular season out of the way and then when I get back, we can resume our normal schedule with the following Monday and the off-season. Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-06-2012 at 01:09 AM.

11-02-2012, 04:45 PM	#2
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Salary Cap this season: Washington: $90.29 million Kauai: $90 million St. Louis: $119.71 million All other teams at $100 million. As of 11.2.12 5:38pm EST At present, Cleveland Spiders are currently $4,384,000 over the cap and Rio Grande is $1,585,000 over the cap. That shouldn't be too hard for either club though. In the future, though, the standard penalty for teams going over the cap is just going to be a loss of 1st rounder. The pick will then be auctioned off via blind auction and each team in the league will get a cap exception equal to 1/14th of whatever the pick gets sold for (St. Louis as long as I own them and the offending team will not benefit.)

11-02-2012, 04:52 PM	#3
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Also, this Strutchen shit is getting real..lemme tell ya. In the interest of full disclosure, once the period ends, I intend to release the list of all of the bids on him. Just so you don't think there were shenanigans.

11-02-2012, 07:32 PM	#6
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Oh random sidenote. The game will let you fill your active roster with more than 25 players during spring training. As in, it won't prevent me from simming ahead. It's only during the season it does that. So for those of you that want 40-man rosters in spring training, it's possible to do it right now without me changing it. Just a note.

11-03-2012, 12:30 AM	#9
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	SPRING TRAINING ---------- NL Washington 21-3 Gettysburg 16-8 Carolina 15-9 Brooklyn 13-11 Wyoming 11-13 Cleveland 10-14 Rio Grande 9-15 Kauai 1-23 AL San Diego 19-5 Winnemucca 14-10 Cleveland 14-10 St. Louis 13-11 Memphis 11-13 Chicago 10-14 Columbus 9-15 Lake Tahoe 9-18

11-03-2012, 01:02 AM	#10
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Ok so the file is up. We'll sim the 1st half on Monday night. Happy weekend folks.

11-04-2012, 10:09 PM	#13
Cole H.S. Freshman Team Join Date: Jan 2012	DC I have had some computer issues the last few days, but I'm now up and running on a different computer.. However, I need the league file and whatever other files are needed to download to be able to export... Can you hook me up with some links so I Can get up and running again? Sorry I was absent for a few days.

11-05-2012, 09:34 AM	#15
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	1st half of the season is tonight!

11-06-2012, 12:27 AM	#16
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Ok nerds. It's party time.

11-06-2012, 12:40 AM	#20
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	As usual, the NL is a parity-filled show of wackiness. The AL has a bunch of underperforming teams in its underclass.

11-06-2012, 01:20 AM	#22
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	All-star voting if you're into that: All-Star Voting

11-06-2012, 08:20 AM	#23
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	HTML is updated, too, as is dev. Man, what a commish.

11-06-2012, 03:42 PM	#24
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Just a reminder, we're going to sim tonight. I guess unless all of you didn't get the memo in which case we'll stick to our normal schedule and there will be a break. I'll be able to tell when I look at who exported when I get home tonight and we can just see from there. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

11-06-2012, 06:06 PM	#25
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Ok, we have at least half the league in for tonight, so I'll run the file at midnight eastern. Get those exports in before you start throwing popcorn at the election returns.

11-06-2012, 06:58 PM	#26
Gomer H.S. Freshman Team Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Central PA	Oh. Didn't get the memo. Just looked at the draft class today. Don't have game access tonight. Oh well. Don't wait up for lil ol' me! I do hate the auto draft though. Any chance of doing the regular schedule?

11-06-2012, 07:15 PM	#27
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	We can do the regular schedule through Wednesday. But the 2nd half of the season and post-season would have to be postponed until I get back from my trip on Sunday. Because I'm not taking a laptop with me and running the season through iPad via LogMeIn is too cumbersome. Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-06-2012 at 07:18 PM.

11-06-2012, 10:53 PM	#28
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Gonna see how many exports we have...

11-06-2012, 11:52 PM	#29
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I moved the draft in-game to October. We'll do the off-day tonight then and sim the 2nd half tomorrow and then sim the playoffs when I get back on Sunday. So we'll still move up a day, but just get your exports done for your teams and can save the draft for the off-season. Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-06-2012 at 11:53 PM.

11-07-2012, 11:35 AM	#30
Gomer H.S. Freshman Team Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Central PA	YD for commish of the year!

11-07-2012, 12:24 PM	#31
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	So just to clarify (since I posted after midnight) we are doing the 2nd half tonight, but there will be no draft until after the season ends. And we'll do the post-season on Sunday night. Last edited by Young Drachma : 11-07-2012 at 12:25 PM.

11-07-2012, 11:01 PM	#33
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Ok, let's crown a champ so I can pack.

11-07-2012, 11:13 PM	#36
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	grrr

11-07-2012, 11:20 PM	#38
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	16 GAMES LEFT in the regular season. NL WILD CARD ------- Gettysburg 75-71 Brooklyn 75-71 Carolina 73-73 2 GB Rio Grande 70-76 5 GB AL WILD CARD -------- Winnemucca 85-61 -- Cleveland 80-66 -- St. Louis 77-69 3 GB Chicago 76-71 4.5 GB Columbus 73-73 7 GB So that's the landscape as we head into the final weeks of the regular season. Cleveland sits on the doorstep of their first playoff berth in franchise history, St. Louis deceivingly looks like a high-spending team until you realize that $44m of this year's salary cap is Aiden Murphy's signing bonus and so, then the team doesn't quite seem as ridiculous that they're somehow on the cusp of missing the post-season. Will Chicago -- my early season pick for AL grace -- make a late push? In the NL, can Carolina make their normal return to the post-season at the last minute? Rio Grande, the defending NL champ needs a bit of luck to get back into it. Let's get it going.

11-07-2012, 11:23 PM	#39
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Sept. 8th ----- San Diego (107-45) has clinched the AL regular season pennant. Winnemucca (90-62) has clinched a playoff spot. AL WILD CARD ----- Cleveland (M#6) 84-68 Chicago 80-73 4.5 GB St. Louis 78-74 6 GB NL RACE ----- Washington 81-71 -- Brooklyn 79-73 -- Carolina 78-74 -- Gettysburg 77-75 1 GB Rio Grande 73-79 5 GB NL is going to be a dogfight to the finish with 5 teams duking it out for 3 spots and no one having clinched yet.

11-07-2012, 11:29 PM	#40
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	SEPT. 14TH Cleveland (87-71) clinched the 2nd AL Wild Card and will be thus making their first playoff appearance in franchise history this post-season! Congrats to the Laborers!! Meanwhile in the NL, it's more insanity. Four games left in the regular season and here's what we have in terms of standings: Washington 85-73 Brooklyn 83-75 Gettysburg 80-78 Carolina 80-78 Rio Grande 78-80 So we have five teams still in the race, if the season ended today, Gettysburg and Carolina would play a one-game playoff to determine who gets the 2nd NL Wild card, but with the defending NL champs lurking only 2 GB, it's still truly anyone's race. Washington's magic number to clinch the NL regular season title is 3, but NO ONE has managed to secure a playoff bid in the NL yet. It's going down to the wire folks. We've never had a tie in SLOP history before for a playoff berth, will this be the first time in Season 25?

11-07-2012, 11:30 PM	#41
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	9/14 Carolina 7, Rio Grande 6 Wyoming 7, Gettysburg 4 Brooklyn 10, Kauai 3 Cleveland 4, Washington 1

11-07-2012, 11:32 PM	#42
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Washington and Brooklyn both clinched playoff spots in the NL. So now, there's Carolina, Gettysburg and a remote shot for Rio Grande if all hell breaks loose to play it out for the final spot. Carolina 81-78 -- Gettysburg 80-79 1 GB Rio Grande 78-81 3 GB

11-07-2012, 11:33 PM	#43
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	9/15 Washington 5, Carolina 3 Rio Grande 8, Brooklyn 4 Gettysburg 9, Kauai 2 Now Carolina & Gettysburg are tied with two games to go, Rio Grande is two back with two games to go. So basically, Rio Grande needs to win its next two games and have both Carolina and Gettysburg lose their next two and then we'll have a three way tie for the 3rd spot. Otherwise, we'll see what natural things happen out.

11-07-2012, 11:34 PM	#44
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	9/16 Washington 7, Carolina 3 (The Grays are doing the Kings NO FAVORS here) Brooklyn 4, Rio Grande 1 (Rio Grande is eliminated.) Gettysburg 3, Kauai 1

11-07-2012, 11:35 PM	#45
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Ok, so with one more day left in the regular season...here's the story. If the Gomers win again, they're in. If they lose and Carolina wins, we have a tiebreaker game at the home of the team with the better head-to-head record.

11-07-2012, 11:37 PM	#46
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	9/17 Kauai 12, Gettysburg 4 The Gomers are going to have to hope to get some help from the Grays in order to back into the 2nd wild card.