MLB 16 Franchise Progress Thread

[boxboy99]

Re: MLB 16 Franchise Progress Thread

Cubbies take over 1st with a 2-1 win over the Reds. 14-8 now starting a 3 game series vs the Phillies. I was starting a dynasty blog but not sure I want to put the work and time into it. I would like to do some basic award and stat tracking in a spreadsheet. Any suggestions on items to track? I'm looking mostly for thing that are not tracked year to year in the franchise file. (I.e. Playoff results etc).

[boxboy99]

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Ouch Travis Wood just got blasted for 7 runs in the first innings vs the Phillies.

[LowerWolf]

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I'm off to a rough start. Beat the Nats in the opener and have lost five straight since. Still better than the real Braves though.

Freeman is something like 2-for-25 for me so far.

[Cowboy008]

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I'm 4-2 in spring training and the move to trade Forsythe looks good so far since the man we replaced him with has more speed and can field better. I went in to the roster page to edit some of my rookies equipment and when I did I seen that it says my roster thing is rebuilding. Don't know why it would say that since I kept just about everyone from last year and that team made it to the ALCS. The only thing I did was get rid of Smyly because he was starting to decline and Forsythe since we had a better and young guy we could bring up.

[shane79013]

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I'm off to a rough start. Beat the Nats in the opener and have lost five straight since. Still better than the real Braves though.

Freeman is something like 2-for-25 for me so far.

I'm sitting at 2-4 right now so far. I have kept up with the Braves real life roster moves so far so I have Smith in CF and he did well in his first game. Freeman was doing horrible for me the first 4 games. He is coming around in the last 2 and has gotten his batting average up to .240 One guy I can not no matter what make good contact with is Garcia. He is sitting at a miserable .120 on the year. I think I am going to go with Smith in CF, Stubbs in LF and move Kelly from LF to take over at 3B if Garcia can't get things going by May.

[TheAdamKennedy]

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I've got the Padres at 5-1 through our first week of the season. Swept the Dodgers and took 2 of 3 against Colorado.

Tyson Ross has looked absolutely dominant. Has a 1.13 ERA and 30 K's through two starts. The rest of the rotation is good, but not quite up to his level.

We also made a small trade after the final game against Colorado. We sent Melvin Upton Jr., an average Catching prospect and a below average pitching prospect to Tampa for Desmond Jennings, whom they just put on the trading block. Upton had zero hits in his first 5 games with the team, and the club wasn't necessarily excited about the prospect of two more seasons with him. Jennings is a very similar player, just with slightly better speed and defensive capabilities, and also his contract expires at the end of the 2016 season.

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This is my current plan for playing/simming games:
-Spring Training is always simmed, forever and always.
-All Home Games against division foes will be played.
-Any "rubber matches" on the road (or at home against non-division opponents) will be played.
-At least one game of any four-game series will be played (my choice).
-At least one game of any two-game series will be played (my choice).
-All Playoff games will be played.

I hope to get through AT LEAST a couple seasons playing like this.

[countryboy]

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Cardinals have now rattled off 6 in a row with a win in the home opener over the Brewers. The Cardinals lost the first game of the year but have since beaten the Pirates twice in PNC park, swept the Braves in Atlanta, and won the home opener vs the Brewers.

Our bats are starting to come around. Still leaving too many guys on base, but we just beat the Brewers with 3 doubles and timely hitting. It helped that the pitching staff overmatched the Brewers to the tune of 13 strikeouts.

[KBLover]

Re: MLB 16 Franchise Progress Thread

The 2021 season has hit the All-Star Break. Time to see some of the interesting things happening.

Team Records

The Giants own the league's best record at 62-25. The Diamondbacks have the worst at 26-62.

Division Races

The Giants are still within arm's reach for the Dodgers as LA finds themselves 7 games back.

The Reds hold a slim 2-game lead over the Pirates.

The Marlins are 6 up on the Mets.

In the NL Wild Card chase, the Dodgers and Mets hold the two spots. Pirates and Phillies are the closest at 3 1/2 and 7 games back, respectively.

The Red Sox have a 7 1/2 game lead over the O's.

The Tigers lead the league's weakest division by 4 games over the Twins and 5 1/2 over the White Sox.

The Mariners are 5 1/2 up over the Rangers and 6 up on the Angels.

The AL Wild Card is a tight race. The O's and Rangers are in control, but the Angels are just 1/2 game back. The Twins are 2 1/2 back and then there's four more teams all within 5 1/2 games back.

Notable Team Stats

The Giants are sporting an insane team ERA of 2.21.

The Diamondbacks are batting a paltry .204 as a team. They've managed just one shutout as well, picked up by former Marlin Jose Fernandez.

Of all the teams to be last in the league in home runs...it's the Rockies. They've hit just 54.

Marlins batters have struck out the least, thanks in large part to Yelich having just 31 K's.


Notable Individual Performances

Giants pitcher Chris Reed is leading the league with a 1.64 ERA. He's also 12-2 and has piled up 4.25 WAR as well.

Marlins ace Damien Boeve is right behind him with a 1.76 ERA, but passes him in WAR with a 4.49 mark.

The WAR leader is Boston's Shelby Miller. He has a 5.16 WAR, the only player, pitcher or otherwise, to surpass the 5 WAR mark thus far.

The middle of the Marlins order is standing out with Harper at a .988 OPS and Winter at 1.015. Kris Bryant and Javier Baez are over .900 as well.

Bryce Harper is one of only five players in all of baseball (who qualify for the batting title) to have a .300 or better batting average. Harper leads the way with a .316 average.

Javier Baez is trying to return to his break form he showed a few seasons ago. After two years struggling a bit at the plate, he's one of those five players batting .300 and is doing so with 14 HR and 51 RBI.


All-Star Voting

Boston's Shelby Miller leads all vote totals with 666,000 votes, nudging out San Fran's Chris Reed (644 K).

The Marlins will send five to the All-Star Game: SP Damien Boeve, 1B Chris Davis, LF Christian Yelich, CF Bo Winter, RF Bryce Harper.


Top Marlins Performers

Pitching:
Damien Boeve, 9-4, 1.76 ERA, 132.2 IP, 189 K, 4.49 WAR
Chris Tillman, 10-2, 1.95 ERA, 124.2 IP, 135 K, 3.99 WAR
Dominic Leone, 0-2, 24 Sv, 1.73 ERA, 26 IP, 40 K, 1.05 WAR

Hitting:
Bo Winter, .303/.392/.623, 24 HR, 55 RBI, 4.84 WAR
Bryce Harper, .315/.378/.609, 20 HR, 53 RBI, 2.95 WAR
Chris Davis, .267/.331/.557, 21 HR, 53 RBI, 2.42 WAR


Top Marlins Prospects

SP Andres Ordonez (AAA), 10-3, 2.54 ERA, 127.2 IP, 37 BB, 102 K
CF Freddie Santiago (AAA), .293, 8 HR, 52 RBI
SP Robinson Mota (AAA), 8-2, 2.71 ERA, 109.2 IP, 29 BB, 65 K
2B Jay Craft (AA), .286, 5 HR, 28 RBI
1B Chet Doyle (AAA), .340, 16 HR, 54 RBI
SP Will Bullock (AAA), 6-3, 1.82 ERA, 84 IP, 23 BB, 69 K
SP Tyler Kolek (AAA), 2-2, 3.57 ERA, 35.1 IP, 44 K

[mannyt55]

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I just recently started a Mets franchise with one of the popular rosters with prospects. This franchise I'm just playing as a "just-GM-and-sim" franchise. I'll be starting my real one when OSFM drops.

Almost halfway through the year, sitting at 47-30, 4 games ahead in the East (44-36 Nationals and PHILLIES tied....wow). We have the best rotation in baseball, 3rd best overall pitching.

Harvey/deGrom/Thor/Matz are a combined 29-13 (Wheeler was 0-4 through 8 starts, no run support but tore his shoulder).
Colon has been a nice surprise at 5-5 3.49ERA, and a league best 0.81 BB/9.

Bullpen started off rough, lot of changes made till we figured things out. Bastardo/Mejia are my L/R setups for Familia who has been lights out since a HORRIBLE April (7 runs allowed all season, all in April).

On the flipside, offensively has been tough. Guys are performing but not staying healthy. Granderson, Cabrera and Wright have all missed over a month. Same time Grandy went down, Lagares was in this insane slump so I was forced to bring up Nimmo and he's been great. In and out of the top 3 for ROTY voting so far.

Not even going to get into minors. Wheeler should be coming back soon, probably going to run a 6-man rotation here and there with Colon/Wheeler.

[TheMadleR]

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Waiting on the OSFM rosters but right now I'm playing two alternate franchises. One is a fantasy draft with legend FA's as the Cardinals. No trades just playing at the Polo Grounds.

The other is my AL team alternate franchise, I'm playing as the Baltimore Orioles. I made two big trades with the O's to acquire Zimmerman and Jon Gray (SP) from the Rockies. Zimmerman plays LF.

[Davidanthony813]

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After buying the Milwaukee Bucks and turning them into champions in NBA2k, I've decided to continue my success in Milwaukee and purchase the Brewers just in time for Commissioner Manfreds 30 team player draft.

Picking at #12 the starting line up is as follows:

C. Jason Castro
1B. David Ortiz
2B. Luis Valbuena
3B. Yangervis Solarte
SS. Andrelton Simmons
LF. Carlos Gonzalez
CF. Kevin Kiermaier
RF. Giancarlo Stanton

Backed by a decent starting rotation.

1. C.C. Sabathia
2. Rasiel Iglesias
3. Aaron Sanchez
4. Rich Hill
5. Daniel Norris



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[Robmia]

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HI guys, i want to start a franchise, suggestions? Fun teams to start this project?

Hey man honestly my team is red sox lol but I feel like it's so easy playing with them so I started a franchise with the d-backs I'm loving it man lol!! Took a break from American League franchise this year

[TattooedEvil]

Re: MLB 16 Franchise Progress Thread

After buying the Milwaukee Bucks and turning them into champions in NBA2k, I've decided to continue my success in Milwaukee and purchase the Brewers just in time for Commissioner Manfreds 30 team player draft.

Picking at #12 the starting line up is as follows:

C. Jason Castro
1B. David Ortiz
2B. Luis Valbuena
3B. Yangervis Solarte
SS. Andrelton Simmons
LF. Carlos Gonzalez
CF. Kevin Kiermaier
RF. Giancarlo Stanton

Backed by a decent starting rotation.

1. C.C. Sabathia
2. Rasiel Iglesias
3. Aaron Sanchez
4. Rich Hill
5. Daniel Norris



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not to big on defense are we? better place KK and Simba in the perfect spots for each batter

[Chetballard]

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I am off to the best start in Show history. I have played it since PS2 days and nothing like this season. I am 13-1 with the astros, I use dynamic diff for hit/pitch. I just cannot seem to lose, fish eye camera has helped me a lot to hit this year. I want games to be more competitive, however I am killing it so far. And although I am a show veteren I usually do not do so well. I did not post pitching stats because for the most part thats realistic. Its just the insane hitting stats I have. Now am i just off to a lucky start on is everyone else doing better this year. I also did not change any sliders either


<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link href="http://dynasties.operationsports.com/css/osdyn.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body><table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" class="osdyn" width="575"><tr class="masthead_alt"><td bgcolor="#0F4871" colspan="15"><span style="color:#FFFFFF">2016 Houston Astros Stats - Hitting</span></td></tr><tr class="stathead"><td width="23%">NAME</td><td align="right" width="5%">AB</td><td align="right" width="5%">R</td><td align="right" width="5%">H</td><td align="right" width="5%">2B</td><td align="right" width="5%">3B</td><td align="right" width="5%">HR</td><td align="right" width="6%">RBI</td><td align="right" width="5%">BB</td><td align="right" width="5%">SO</td><td align="right" width="5%">SB</td><td align="right" width="5%">CS</td><td align="right" width="7%">BA</td><td align="right" width="7%">OBP</td><td align="right" width="7%">SLG</td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Jose Altuve</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.397</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Carlos Gomez</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.246</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Carlos Correa</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.375</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Colby Rasums</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.288</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Luis Valbuena</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">16</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.309</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Evan Gattis</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.280</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Geroge Springer</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.180</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Jon Singleton</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.353</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Jason Castro</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.267</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Marwin Gonzales</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.346</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Tyler White</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.375</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="evenrow"><td>Max Stassi</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.300</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr><tr class="oddrow"><td>Jake Marisnick</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td><td align="right">.000</td><td align="right"></td><td align="right"></td></tr></table></body></html>

[Cowboy008]

Re: MLB 16 Franchise Progress Thread

Had an exciting and long spring training game against the Blue Jays that went 16 innings. The Rays were down by 1 in the 9th when Souza hit a RBI double with two outs. Both teams had chances in the extra innings to take the lead but came up short. Shaffer won the game with a RBI single recording his first hit of the game.