1865 Season Thread (ST & Season)

Young Drachma · 12-14-2012, 11:42 PM

Here goes.

Young Drachma · 12-14-2012, 11:53 PM

Brooklyn, Rio Grande & Chicago are all still over the cap. If their respective owners don't figure the situation out by opening day, I'm going to release a player to get them under and take a draft pick. The first two are the real problem. Chicago is less than a million over, so it's a lot less complicated of a problem to fix. The other two will need to release someone or trade for cap space to fix the issue. My understanding is there are lots of teams that'd front them the space to keep who they have, though.

INDalltheway · 12-15-2012, 12:03 AM

I released a player making over 700k and it put me at 99.something million, no?

Young Drachma · 12-15-2012, 12:03 AM

SPRING STANDINGS
AL
Memphis 15-7
Cuyahoga 15-7
St. Louis 13-8
San Diego 12-9
Chicago 11-10
Winnemucca 9-12
Rio Grande 9-13
Cleveland 7-14
Boston 5-16

NL
Gettysburg 14-7
Washington 12-9
Columbus 12-10
Carolina 11-10
Denver 11-10
Lake Tahoe 10-12
Kauai 10-12
Brooklyn 9-12
Wyoming 7-14

Young Drachma · 12-15-2012, 12:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by INDalltheway

I released a player making over 700k and it put me at 99.something million, no?

I didn't get your export tonight, but so long as you did that, then yeah you'll be fine.

Young Drachma · 12-15-2012, 12:30 AM

I'll process any trades folks make through Sunday night or if necessary, through Mondayish.

Young Drachma · 12-15-2012, 12:38 AM

File is up. We'll sim the 1st half of the season Monday.

Young Drachma · 12-15-2012, 10:59 PM

Some clerical business.

Ramz is going to take over an expansion club in the AL called the San Diego Fathers. He's been busy lately, but doesn't want to leave (nor do I want him to go...) and this enables one of our waiting list dudes to get a team.

So robster1225 will be taking over the original Fathers who will become the Las Vegas Aces.

Meanwhile, in the NL, JonG will get an expansion team in the NL or we'll find someone else.

Unless you all indicate otherwise, the playoffs for this year will continue to be Top 3 in each league. Scheduling-wise, we could've had a 162 game schedule with divisional play or a customized schedule with 160 games, no more interleague play and continuing the single-table structure.

I opted for the latter, figuring that divisional play might be strange.

We could go to 5 teams in the playoffs and configure it so the 1st place team gets a straight bye to the LCS as it is now. This would force a new round of playoffs.

The Elimination Series would remain a best-of-five game tilt, but the 2 v. 5 would play and the 3 v. 4 would play. The winner of that series would advance to a new division series round which (presumably) would be best of seven. The winners of this series would take on the top seed in the LCS (best of seven) and then we'd do the best of 9 classic as usual.

The AL has been thick for a while now, so it might be worthwhile there. The NL sort of isn't as deep as they beat up on each other all year and as such, you don't have 89 win teams missing the post-season there.

Either way, I'm fine. I think I'm leaning towards an experimental one-year situation with the expanded playoffs to see what it looks like and to give up a snapshot and then we can decide if we hate it or not. I'd prefer not to do it only in one league versus the other, though OOTP's playoffs can be configured through the end of the season, so we can preemptively institute a rule that prevents teams with losing records into the playoffs unless they're somehow the #1 seed, which would mean that we in those years, we can simply lower the number of qualified playoff teams in that particular league.

Young Drachma · 12-16-2012, 09:16 AM

San Diego's Ryan Schaefer, Dave Norman, Memphis stalwart Derek Campbell and Rio Grande's venerable OF "Sugar" Joe Mosley are all inducted into SLOP's Hall of Fame this year.

Jack Raden · 12-16-2012, 12:10 PM

Was wondering if Campbell would ever make it.

Gomer · 12-16-2012, 08:00 PM

I finally downloaded the ST file, and my roster is all fucked up.

Did you not get my exports last week?
I exported like 20 times. WTF?
I'm exporting again shortly. Please let me know if you get it.

Young Drachma · 12-16-2012, 08:08 PM

Got yer export.

Young Drachma · 12-16-2012, 08:36 PM

1865 PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS
NL
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Washington 97-63
Gettysburg 93-67
Brooklyn 89-71
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Lake Tahoe 84-76
Columbus 84-76
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Carolina 83-77
Wyoming 82-78
Denver 77-83
Kauai 67-93
Minnesota 44-116

AL
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St. Louis 117-43
Cuyahoga 87-73
Winnemucca 86-74
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Memphis 85-75
Las Vegas 85-75
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Cleveland 83-77
Rio Grande 79-81
Chicago 78-82
San Diego 52-108
Boston 48-112

tvan · 12-16-2012, 09:11 PM

i think this is the year of the weak pitching staff. Wyoming is finally playoff bound

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 08:50 AM

First half of the season tonight nerds.

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 05:35 PM

With Christmas next week and many people celebrating that, I figure I will compress the free agency schedule. I'll remind you all this week, but if you will set your draft lists BEFORE the post-season, then we'll be able to just run the draft and post-season on Friday. Then next week we can do a compressed free agency from say, Thursday (or Friday) through the weekend, maybe and be back to a new season to start the new year.

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 06:45 PM

Brooklyn cap situation fixed in latest export. Crisis averted.

TurnerONU22 · 12-17-2012, 07:01 PM

Its been a couple of days since I submitted, is my export in? Thanks!

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 07:02 PM

Yup, got it.

claphamsa · 12-17-2012, 11:07 PM

FYI, ill export tonight, but then not again till after xmas.

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 11:07 PM

Okie dokie.

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 11:08 PM

Alright then. It's first-half sim time. Only two teams exports not received (Chicago, Cuyahoga.)

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 11:13 PM

I'll probably accelerate this week's schedule then for the holidays too, just so we can get it over with before people take off for the weekend.

So let's do:

TODAY: 1ST HALF
TOMORROW: 2ND HALF
WEDNESDAY: PLAYOFFS

This way, folks can get exports in and we can be done until late next week. I will hold off on the draft sim until next week Friday and then based on how many of you are around, we'll decide whether to push forward with free agency or wait until say, the 2nd of January.

No big deal. Happy Holidays to everyone in advance and I sincerely appreciate you playing fast-sim with me this year. It's been an absolute blast as I never expected this league to get anywhere and yet, here we are almost 30 seasons into this silly little experiment and a healthy group of active owners. So seriously, kudos to all of you.

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 11:16 PM

STANDINGS AS OF MARCH 31, 1865

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ATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Carolina Kings		7	3	.700	-
Brooklyn Titans		7	3	.700	-
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	6	4	.600	1.0
Kauai Emeralds		5	5	.500	2.0
Denver Crows		5	5	.500	2.0
Columbus Crusaders	5	5	.500	2.0
Wyoming Plowboys	4	6	.400	3.0
Washington Grays	4	6	.400	3.0
Minnesota Muskies	4	6	.400	3.0
Gettysburg Gomers	3	7	.300	4.0


ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Winnemucca Lake Monsters6	4	.600	-
Memphis Smokers		6	4	.600	-
Boston Blue Sox		6	4	.600	-
Rio Grande Rough Riders	5	5	.500	1.0
Las Vegas Aces		5	5	.500	1.0
Cuyahoga Spiders	5	5	.500	1.0
Cleveland Laborers	5	5	.500	1.0
Chicago Hornets		5	5	.500	1.0
St. Louis Aviators	4	6	.400	2.0
San Diego Fathers	3	7	.300	3.0

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 11:23 PM

standings as of may 1, 1865

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NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Denver Crows		23	15	.605	-
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	21	16	.568	1.5
Wyoming Plowboys	21	17	.553	2.0
Washington Grays	21	17	.553	2.0
Columbus Crusaders	21	17	.553	2.0
Gettysburg Gomers	19	19	.500	4.0
Brooklyn Titans		19	19	.500	4.0
Carolina Kings		17	20	.459	5.5
Kauai Emeralds		17	21	.447	6.0
Minnesota Muskies	10	28	.263	13.0

ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
St. Louis Aviators	27	11	.711	-
Winnemucca Lake Monsters22	16	.579	5.0
Cuyahoga Spiders	22	16	.579	5.0
Memphis Smokers		21	17	.553	6.0
Rio Grande Rough Riders	20	18	.526	7.0
Las Vegas Aces		20	18	.526	7.0
Chicago Hornets		18	19	.486	8.5
Cleveland Laborers	14	24	.368	13.0
Boston Blue Sox		13	25	.342	14.0
San Diego Fathers	12	25	.324	14.5

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 11:24 PM

Clifton Marshall leading all comers at .405 so far this year, explaining Denver's ascent. Erik Doucet, newcomer Willie Leon and R.J. Musumeci all leading the league with 7 wins apiece.

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 11:29 PM

STANDINGS AS OF JUNE 1, 1865

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NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Gettysburg Gomers	41	26	.612	-
Denver Crows		39	27	.591	1.5
Wyoming Plowboys	38	30	.559	3.5
Washington Grays	35	31	.530	5.5
Kauai Emeralds		35	31	.530	5.5
Brooklyn Titans		35	31	.530	5.5
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	34	32	.515	6.5
Columbus Crusaders	33	34	.493	8.0
Carolina Kings		27	40	.403	14.0
Minnesota Muskies	16	51	.239	25.0

ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
St. Louis Aviators	48	19	.716	-
Winnemucca Lake Monsters41	26	.612	7.0
Cuyahoga Spiders	40	27	.597	8.0
Chicago Hornets		35	31	.530	12.5
Memphis Smokers		36	32	.529	12.5
Rio Grande Rough Riders	34	32	.515	13.5
Las Vegas Aces		34	32	.515	13.5
Cleveland Laborers	25	42	.373	23.0
San Diego Fathers	21	44	.323	26.0
Boston Blue Sox		19	48	.284	29.0

claphamsa · 12-17-2012, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

Clifton Marshall leading all comers at .405 so far this year, explaining Denver's ascent. Erik Doucet, newcomer Willie Leon and R.J. Musumeci all leading the league with 7 wins apiece.

Muscumeci is available!!!!!

Young Drachma · 12-17-2012, 11:33 PM

STANDINGS AS OF JUNE 17, 1865

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NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Denver Crows		51	29	.637	-
Gettysburg Gomers	49	32	.605	2.5
Brooklyn Titans		44	36	.550	7.0
Washington Grays	43	37	.537	8.0
Kauai Emeralds		42	37	.532	8.5
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	41	38	.519	9.5
Wyoming Plowboys	42	39	.519	9.5
Columbus Crusaders	40	40	.500	11.0
Carolina Kings		31	49	.388	20.0
Minnesota Muskies	17	63	.212	34.0

ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
St. Louis Aviators	54	26	.675	-
Cuyahoga Spiders	50	30	.625	4.0
Winnemucca Lake Monsters47	34	.580	7.5
Memphis Smokers		43	38	.531	11.5
Las Vegas Aces		42	38	.525	12.0
Chicago Hornets		40	40	.500	14.0
Rio Grande Rough Riders	39	40	.494	14.5
Cleveland Laborers	31	49	.388	23.0
San Diego Fathers	28	51	.354	25.5
Boston Blue Sox		26	54	.325	28.0

Young Drachma · 12-18-2012, 12:09 AM

ALL-STAR SELECTIONS

NATIONWIDE LEAGUE

I'm tired of doing cards:

Quote:

SLOP News: The All-Star Game Rosters Have Been Announced
Saturday, June 17th, 1865
It is not an easy task to pick the best players for the annual baseball classic -- the All-Star Game. It is not possible to please everybody. Whether we agree or not, they have been chosen... and here they are. The rosters for this year's Second League of Offseason Play All-Star Game have been announced.

For the Nationwide League, the roster includes: SP D. Beeman (GET)
SP B. Powell (BKN)
SP I. Hines (CLB)
SP E. Hanlon (LKT)
SP E. Ewers (LKT)
SP P. Gillette (DEN)
CL Z. Rice (GET)
CL J. Lee (CLB)
SP C. Miller (WAS)
SP T. Moon (DEN)
CL T. Altair (WYO)
SP P. Geddes (GET)
RF M. Espada (CAR)
3B C. Marshall (DEN)
LF J. Harman (GET)
CF C. Salazar (DEN)
SS J. Speegle (WAS)
1B C. Joines (LKT)
C P. Welch (WAS)
2B J. Bush (DEN)
C D. Chieffo (DEN)
3B T. Farrell (BKN)
LF J. Daughtry (KAU)
CF J. Ridgeway (WYO)
SS H. López (KAU)
1B D. Maul (WAS)
LF B. McDaniel (CLB)
3B D. Lewis (GET)
.

For the Associated League these players have been selected: SP E. Doucet (WIN)
SP W. Leon (STL)
SP C. Ross (STL)
SP T. Llamas (STL)
SP W. Thomas (CUY)
SP P. Villegas (MEM)
CL I. Shan (CUY)
SP J. Carter (LAS)
CL D. Harrison (CGO)
SP D. Carrasco (CLE (A))
CL J. O'Herlihy (WIN)
SP C. Gallegos (MEM)
3B J. Frieden (RIO)
2B L. MacAulay (STL)
RF T. Burroughs (STL)
1B J. Berwind (WIN)
CF E. Salavisa (LAS)
LF J. Ziegler (CUY)
SS J. Tullgren (WIN)
C T. Burrell (CUY)
C D. Hall (CUY)
3B M. Rodriguez (STL)
RF P. García (RIO)
1B D. Cummings (MEM)
CF J. Witt (STL)
1B S. Grand (STL)
1B J. Moore (STL)
LF J. Garza (CGO)
.

Young Drachma · 12-18-2012, 12:27 AM

Ok, first half file is up. We'll do the 2nd half tomorrow night.

Young Drachma · 12-18-2012, 12:43 AM

Will update the HTML in the morning when I get up.

Young Drachma · 12-18-2012, 08:03 AM

HTML updating now.

Jax Powers · 12-18-2012, 10:41 AM

Oh wow, nice surprise. I'm not holding mybreath however.

robster1225 · 12-18-2012, 06:04 PM

Looks like I need to motivate these kids.

I'll be traveling tomorrow, I'm going back home after being gone for 2 months, so you won't see an export for me, most likely. I'll get one in tonight, however.

Young Drachma · 12-18-2012, 09:20 PM

A new file is up for wolvie post-trade.

Young Drachma · 12-18-2012, 11:23 PM

Ok, let's do it.

Young Drachma · 12-18-2012, 11:32 PM

JULY 1, 1865

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NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Denver Crows		53	36	.596	-
Gettysburg Gomers	53	37	.589	.5
Washington Grays	50	39	.562	3.0
Brooklyn Titans		48	41	.539	5.0
Kauai Emeralds		47	41	.534	5.5
Wyoming Plowboys	47	43	.522	6.5
Columbus Crusaders	46	43	.517	7.0
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	44	44	.500	8.5
Carolina Kings		36	53	.404	17.0
Minnesota Muskies	21	68	.236	32.0

ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
St. Louis Aviators	59	30	.663	-
Cuyahoga Spiders	54	35	.607	5.0
Winnemucca Lake Monsters54	36	.600	5.5
Chicago Hornets		46	43	.517	13.0
Memphis Smokers		46	44	.511	13.5
Las Vegas Aces		45	44	.506	14.0
Rio Grande Rough Riders	43	45	.489	15.5
Cleveland Laborers	36	53	.404	23.0
San Diego Fathers	32	56	.364	26.5
Boston Blue Sox		30	59	.337	29.0

Young Drachma · 12-18-2012, 11:35 PM

AUGUST 1, 1865

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NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Gettysburg Gomers	73	45	.619	-
Washington Grays	69	48	.590	3.5
Denver Crows		66	50	.569	6.0
Brooklyn Titans		63	53	.543	9.0
Wyoming Plowboys	62	56	.525	11.0
Columbus Crusaders	59	57	.509	13.0
Kauai Emeralds		59	58	.504	13.5
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	54	62	.466	18.0
Carolina Kings		50	67	.427	22.5
Minnesota Muskies	29	88	.248	43.5

ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
St. Louis Aviators	78	39	.667	-
Cuyahoga Spiders	71	45	.612	6.5
Winnemucca Lake Monsters64	54	.542	14.5
Las Vegas Aces		63	54	.538	15.0
Chicago Hornets		60	57	.513	18.0
Memphis Smokers		57	61	.483	21.5
Rio Grande Rough Riders	54	63	.462	24.0
Cleveland Laborers	50	66	.431	27.5
San Diego Fathers	47	69	.405	30.5
Boston Blue Sox		40	76	.345	37.5

Young Drachma · 12-18-2012, 11:38 PM

SEPTEMBER 1, 1865

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NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Gettysburg Gomers	93	52	.641	-
Washington Grays	89	56	.614	4.0
Denver Crows		80	65	.552	13.0
Kauai Emeralds		75	69	.521	17.5
Columbus Crusaders	74	71	.510	19.0
Brooklyn Titans		74	71	.510	19.0
Wyoming Plowboys	73	72	.503	20.0
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	69	75	.479	23.5
Carolina Kings		60	85	.414	33.0
Minnesota Muskies	37	108	.255	56.0




ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
St. Louis Aviators	100	45	.690	-
Cuyahoga Spiders	88	57	.607	12.0
Winnemucca Lake Monsters81	64	.559	19.0
Las Vegas Aces		73	72	.503	27.0
Memphis Smokers		72	73	.497	28.0
Chicago Hornets		71	74	.490	29.0
Rio Grande Rough Riders	69	75	.479	30.5
Cleveland Laborers	65	80	.448	35.0
San Diego Fathers	57	87	.396	42.5
Boston Blue Sox		48	97	.331	52.0

Young Drachma · 12-19-2012, 12:11 AM

FINAL 1865 REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS

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NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
Gettysburg Gomers	104	56	.650	-
Washington Grays	97	63	.606	7.0
Denver Crows		87	73	.544	17.0
Brooklyn Titans		84	76	.525	20.0
Kauai Emeralds		83	77	.519	21.0
Wyoming Plowboys	79	81	.494	25.0
Lake Tahoe Syndicate	78	82	.487	26.0
Columbus Crusaders	78	82	.487	26.0
Carolina Kings		67	93	.419	37.0
Minnesota Muskies	43	117	.269	61.0

ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS
			W	L	PCT	GB
St. Louis Aviators	108	52	.675	-
Cuyahoga Spiders	95	65	.594	13.0
Winnemucca Lake Monsters89	71	.556	19.0
Rio Grande Rough Riders	81	79	.506	27.0
Memphis Smokers		81	79	.506	27.0
Las Vegas Aces		80	80	.500	28.0
Chicago Hornets		79	81	.494	29.0
Cleveland Laborers	76	84	.475	32.0
San Diego Fathers	60	100	.375	48.0
Boston Blue Sox		51	109	.319	57.0

Under next year's geographic divisional structure, here's what the leagues would look like. Meaning, you can go ahead and claim these division titles starting from this year.

NL EAST
Gettysburg 104-56
Washington 97-63
Brooklyn 84-76
Columbus 78-82
Carolina 67-93

NL WEST
Denver 87-73
Kauai 83-77
Wyoming 79-81
Lake Tahoe 78-82
Minnesota 43-117

AL EAST
Cuyahoga 95-65
Memphis 81-79
Chicago 79-81
Cleveland 76-84
Boston 51-109

AL WEST
St. Louis 108-52
Winnemucca 89-71
Rio Grande 81-79
Las Vegas 80-80
San Diego 60-100

NL EAST CHAMPIONS: Gettysburg
NL WEST CHAMPIONS: Denver
NL PRESIDENT'S DIVISION (WILD CARD): Washington

AL EAST CHAMPS: Cuyahoga
AL WEST CHAMPS: St. Louis
AL PRESIDENT'S DIVISION (WILD CARD): Winnemucca

I'd originally setup this year's postseason to allow 5 teams per league, but I thought better of it. All of the 4/5s are average clubs, honestly.

So we'll sim the playoffs tomorrow night. Congrats to the playoff teams, to Denver for making their debut playoff appearance in their 3rd year of existence. Elimination Series has been increased to a best-of-seven game series up from best-of-five, mostly because if we're not going to expand the playoffs, we should have these wild cards playing a bit more than a short series.

Young Drachma · 12-19-2012, 12:39 AM

This is Winnemucca's 10th straight post-season appearance, Washington's 5th (they've been to the NLCS in every one of their five previous playoff appearances in franchise history, but still have no NL pennants to show for it.)

Denver's 1st appearance, the last expansion team to make the post-season in their 3rd year was Kauai and they won it all that year. Cuyahoga is making their 3rd straight appearance and seek to become the first repeat champion in eight years. St. Louis makes their 3rd appearance in five years, all of those coming since the team's 1st season in St. Louis in 1861. The team did make the playoffs during the 1st year (in Milwaukee) in '57.

Young Drachma · 12-19-2012, 12:39 AM

File is up.

Young Drachma · 12-19-2012, 12:42 AM

Will do HTML in the a.m.

Young Drachma · 12-19-2012, 08:37 AM

HTML updating now. Check back in a few hours.

Gomer · 12-19-2012, 02:24 PM

So when the hell is the draft?

Young Drachma · 12-19-2012, 04:21 PM

After Christmas.

Gomer · 12-19-2012, 04:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Young Drachma

After Christmas.

Cool... this is a busy week, and I do like to study my choices.

Good luck tonight, playoff teams.

And the Gomers are hoping for a chance to beat St Louis in 9 again!

Young Drachma · 12-19-2012, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gomer

Cool... this is a busy week, and I do like to study my choices.

Good luck tonight, playoff teams.

And the Gomers are hoping for a chance to beat St Louis in 9 again!

I don't think we'll start back up again until next week Thursday or Friday.

Subby · 12-19-2012, 05:01 PM

how do I get the game to stop fucking up my pitching rotations and assignments in the minors?

12-14-2012, 11:53 PM	#2
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Brooklyn, Rio Grande & Chicago are all still over the cap. If their respective owners don't figure the situation out by opening day, I'm going to release a player to get them under and take a draft pick. The first two are the real problem. Chicago is less than a million over, so it's a lot less complicated of a problem to fix. The other two will need to release someone or trade for cap space to fix the issue. My understanding is there are lots of teams that'd front them the space to keep who they have, though. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-14-2012 at 11:55 PM.

12-15-2012, 10:59 PM	#8
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Some clerical business. Ramz is going to take over an expansion club in the AL called the San Diego Fathers. He's been busy lately, but doesn't want to leave (nor do I want him to go...) and this enables one of our waiting list dudes to get a team. So robster1225 will be taking over the original Fathers who will become the Las Vegas Aces. Meanwhile, in the NL, JonG will get an expansion team in the NL or we'll find someone else. Unless you all indicate otherwise, the playoffs for this year will continue to be Top 3 in each league. Scheduling-wise, we could've had a 162 game schedule with divisional play or a customized schedule with 160 games, no more interleague play and continuing the single-table structure. I opted for the latter, figuring that divisional play might be strange. We could go to 5 teams in the playoffs and configure it so the 1st place team gets a straight bye to the LCS as it is now. This would force a new round of playoffs. The Elimination Series would remain a best-of-five game tilt, but the 2 v. 5 would play and the 3 v. 4 would play. The winner of that series would advance to a new division series round which (presumably) would be best of seven. The winners of this series would take on the top seed in the LCS (best of seven) and then we'd do the best of 9 classic as usual. The AL has been thick for a while now, so it might be worthwhile there. The NL sort of isn't as deep as they beat up on each other all year and as such, you don't have 89 win teams missing the post-season there. Either way, I'm fine. I think I'm leaning towards an experimental one-year situation with the expanded playoffs to see what it looks like and to give up a snapshot and then we can decide if we hate it or not. I'd prefer not to do it only in one league versus the other, though OOTP's playoffs can be configured through the end of the season, so we can preemptively institute a rule that prevents teams with losing records into the playoffs unless they're somehow the #1 seed, which would mean that we in those years, we can simply lower the number of qualified playoff teams in that particular league. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-16-2012 at 02:46 PM.

12-16-2012, 08:36 PM	#13
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	1865 PREDICTIONS 1865 PRE-SEASON PREDICTIONS NL ---- Washington 97-63 Gettysburg 93-67 Brooklyn 89-71 ----------------- Lake Tahoe 84-76 Columbus 84-76 ----------------- Carolina 83-77 Wyoming 82-78 Denver 77-83 Kauai 67-93 Minnesota 44-116 AL ------- St. Louis 117-43 Cuyahoga 87-73 Winnemucca 86-74 -------------- Memphis 85-75 Las Vegas 85-75 --------- Cleveland 83-77 Rio Grande 79-81 Chicago 78-82 San Diego 52-108 Boston 48-112

12-17-2012, 06:45 PM	#17
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Brooklyn cap situation fixed in latest export. Crisis averted. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

12-17-2012, 11:07 PM	#20
claphamsa Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: non white trash MD	FYI, ill export tonight, but then not again till after xmas. __________________ Dominating Warewolf for 0 games! GIT R DUN!!!

12-15-2012, 12:03 AM	#3
INDalltheway College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Chicago	I released a player making over 700k and it put me at 99.something million, no?

12-15-2012, 12:30 AM	#6
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I'll process any trades folks make through Sunday night or if necessary, through Mondayish.

12-15-2012, 12:38 AM	#7
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	File is up. We'll sim the 1st half of the season Monday.

12-16-2012, 09:16 AM	#9
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	San Diego's Ryan Schaefer, Dave Norman, Memphis stalwart Derek Campbell and Rio Grande's venerable OF "Sugar" Joe Mosley are all inducted into SLOP's Hall of Fame this year.

12-16-2012, 12:10 PM	#10
Jack Raden Mascot Join Date: Nov 2011	Was wondering if Campbell would ever make it.

12-16-2012, 08:00 PM	#11
Gomer H.S. Freshman Team Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Central PA	I finally downloaded the ST file, and my roster is all fucked up. Did you not get my exports last week? I exported like 20 times. WTF? I'm exporting again shortly. Please let me know if you get it.

12-16-2012, 08:08 PM	#12
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Got yer export.

12-16-2012, 09:11 PM	#14
tvan n00b Join Date: Oct 2012	i think this is the year of the weak pitching staff. Wyoming is finally playoff bound

12-17-2012, 08:50 AM	#15
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	First half of the season tonight nerds.

12-17-2012, 05:35 PM	#16
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	With Christmas next week and many people celebrating that, I figure I will compress the free agency schedule. I'll remind you all this week, but if you will set your draft lists BEFORE the post-season, then we'll be able to just run the draft and post-season on Friday. Then next week we can do a compressed free agency from say, Thursday (or Friday) through the weekend, maybe and be back to a new season to start the new year.

12-17-2012, 07:01 PM	#18
TurnerONU22 High School Varsity Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ashville, OH	Its been a couple of days since I submitted, is my export in? Thanks!

12-17-2012, 07:02 PM	#19
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Yup, got it.

12-17-2012, 11:08 PM	#22
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Alright then. It's first-half sim time. Only two teams exports not received (Chicago, Cuyahoga.)

12-17-2012, 11:13 PM	#23
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	I'll probably accelerate this week's schedule then for the holidays too, just so we can get it over with before people take off for the weekend. So let's do: TODAY: 1ST HALF TOMORROW: 2ND HALF WEDNESDAY: PLAYOFFS This way, folks can get exports in and we can be done until late next week. I will hold off on the draft sim until next week Friday and then based on how many of you are around, we'll decide whether to push forward with free agency or wait until say, the 2nd of January. No big deal. Happy Holidays to everyone in advance and I sincerely appreciate you playing fast-sim with me this year. It's been an absolute blast as I never expected this league to get anywhere and yet, here we are almost 30 seasons into this silly little experiment and a healthy group of active owners. So seriously, kudos to all of you.

12-17-2012, 11:24 PM	#26
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Clifton Marshall leading all comers at .405 so far this year, explaining Denver's ascent. Erik Doucet, newcomer Willie Leon and R.J. Musumeci all leading the league with 7 wins apiece.

12-18-2012, 12:27 AM	#31
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Ok, first half file is up. We'll do the 2nd half tomorrow night.

12-18-2012, 12:43 AM	#32
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Will update the HTML in the morning when I get up. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

12-18-2012, 08:03 AM	#33
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	HTML updating now.

12-18-2012, 10:41 AM	#34
Jax Powers n00b Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: USA	Oh wow, nice surprise. I'm not holding mybreath however. __________________ A murder of Crows

12-18-2012, 06:04 PM	#35
robster1225 Mascot Join Date: Sep 2006	Looks like I need to motivate these kids. I'll be traveling tomorrow, I'm going back home after being gone for 2 months, so you won't see an export for me, most likely. I'll get one in tonight, however. __________________ SLOP: Las Vegas Aces

12-18-2012, 09:20 PM	#36
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	A new file is up for wolvie post-trade. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

12-18-2012, 11:23 PM	#37
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Ok, let's do it.

12-19-2012, 12:11 AM	#41
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	FINAL 1865 REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS Code: NATIONWIDE LEAGUE STANDINGS W L PCT GB Gettysburg Gomers 104 56 .650 - Washington Grays 97 63 .606 7.0 Denver Crows 87 73 .544 17.0 Brooklyn Titans 84 76 .525 20.0 Kauai Emeralds 83 77 .519 21.0 Wyoming Plowboys 79 81 .494 25.0 Lake Tahoe Syndicate 78 82 .487 26.0 Columbus Crusaders 78 82 .487 26.0 Carolina Kings 67 93 .419 37.0 Minnesota Muskies 43 117 .269 61.0 ASSOCIATED LEAGUE STANDINGS W L PCT GB St. Louis Aviators 108 52 .675 - Cuyahoga Spiders 95 65 .594 13.0 Winnemucca Lake Monsters89 71 .556 19.0 Rio Grande Rough Riders 81 79 .506 27.0 Memphis Smokers 81 79 .506 27.0 Las Vegas Aces 80 80 .500 28.0 Chicago Hornets 79 81 .494 29.0 Cleveland Laborers 76 84 .475 32.0 San Diego Fathers 60 100 .375 48.0 Boston Blue Sox 51 109 .319 57.0 Under next year's geographic divisional structure, here's what the leagues would look like. Meaning, you can go ahead and claim these division titles starting from this year. NL EAST Gettysburg 104-56 Washington 97-63 Brooklyn 84-76 Columbus 78-82 Carolina 67-93 NL WEST Denver 87-73 Kauai 83-77 Wyoming 79-81 Lake Tahoe 78-82 Minnesota 43-117 AL EAST Cuyahoga 95-65 Memphis 81-79 Chicago 79-81 Cleveland 76-84 Boston 51-109 AL WEST St. Louis 108-52 Winnemucca 89-71 Rio Grande 81-79 Las Vegas 80-80 San Diego 60-100 NL EAST CHAMPIONS: Gettysburg NL WEST CHAMPIONS: Denver NL PRESIDENT'S DIVISION (WILD CARD): Washington AL EAST CHAMPS: Cuyahoga AL WEST CHAMPS: St. Louis AL PRESIDENT'S DIVISION (WILD CARD): Winnemucca I'd originally setup this year's postseason to allow 5 teams per league, but I thought better of it. All of the 4/5s are average clubs, honestly. So we'll sim the playoffs tomorrow night. Congrats to the playoff teams, to Denver for making their debut playoff appearance in their 3rd year of existence. Elimination Series has been increased to a best-of-seven game series up from best-of-five, mostly because if we're not going to expand the playoffs, we should have these wild cards playing a bit more than a short series. Last edited by Young Drachma : 12-19-2012 at 12:19 AM.

12-19-2012, 12:39 AM	#42
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	This is Winnemucca's 10th straight post-season appearance, Washington's 5th (they've been to the NLCS in every one of their five previous playoff appearances in franchise history, but still have no NL pennants to show for it.) Denver's 1st appearance, the last expansion team to make the post-season in their 3rd year was Kauai and they won it all that year. Cuyahoga is making their 3rd straight appearance and seek to become the first repeat champion in eight years. St. Louis makes their 3rd appearance in five years, all of those coming since the team's 1st season in St. Louis in 1861. The team did make the playoffs during the 1st year (in Milwaukee) in '57.

12-19-2012, 12:42 AM	#44
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	Will do HTML in the a.m. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

12-19-2012, 08:37 AM	#45
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	HTML updating now. Check back in a few hours.

12-19-2012, 02:24 PM	#46
Gomer H.S. Freshman Team Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Central PA	So when the hell is the draft?

12-19-2012, 04:21 PM	#47
Young Drachma Dark Cloud Join Date: Apr 2001	After Christmas. __________________ Current Dynasty:The Zenith of Professional Basketball Careers (FBPB/FBCB) FBCB / FPB3 Mods

12-19-2012, 05:01 PM	#50
Subby lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: sans pants	how do I get the game to stop fucking up my pitching rotations and assignments in the minors? __________________ Superman was flying around and saw Wonder Woman getting a tan in the nude on her balcony. Superman said I going to hit that real fast. So he flys down toward Wonder Woman to hit it and their is a loud scream. The Invincible Man scream what just hit me in the ass!!!!! I do shit, I take pictures, I write about it: chrisshue.com

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