I'm actually doing better than I thought I would at this point.  Overall, without including the Twins/Senators team in the fold, I'm 93-82 with two of my teams in first place.  Of course, once you throw in the 5-20 Twins, it screws everything up...

Posted by thejuice6 on 4/4/2011 11:48:00 AM (view original):
I'm actually doing better than I thought I would at this point.  Overall, without including the Twins/Senators team in the fold, I'm 93-82 with two of my teams in first place.  Of course, once you throw in the 5-20 Twins, it screws everything up...

Team A is doing really well.  Without including my 7 - 18 orioles and juice's 5 -20 Twins we are 182 - 168 or 14 games over 500.  Who cares about those other two teams.....

I know that feeling...I'm 90-85 when you get rid of those 5-20 Cards.

The Yankees and Red Sox are the only of my teams who aren't performing below their pythag. 

'96 Brady Anderson.

Through 140 PA's - 3Hr's 14RBI 1SB .195Ave .257OBP .273SLG, Actual? 50HR's 110RBI 21SB .297Ave .396OBP .637SLG, True he's playing in a .92 stadium but still?!? I figured I'd give up awful defense by playing him at 2b (he is a A/A outfielder) but make up for it on the offensive side.  The WIS gods were not amused.

'05 Carpenter is now 0-9 in 9 starts.  That is some stellar work right there.

Posted by Rose 4D Hall on 4/6/2011 7:37:00 PM (view original):
'96 Brady Anderson.

Through 140 PA's - 3Hr's 14RBI 1SB .195Ave .257OBP .273SLG, Actual? 50HR's 110RBI 21SB .297Ave .396OBP .637SLG, True he's playing in a .92 stadium but still?!? I figured I'd give up awful defense by playing him at 2b (he is a A/A outfielder) but make up for it on the offensive side.  The WIS gods were not amused.

Anderson now has 29 errors in 39 games.  An A/B+ outfielder goes from .992 to .872 w/ a move to 2b?  I expected a penalty but this seems a bit excessive, on pace for a 120 error season.

Posted by Rose 4D Hall on 4/6/2011 7:37:00 PM (view original):
'96 Brady Anderson.

Through 140 PA's - 3Hr's 14RBI 1SB .195Ave .257OBP .273SLG, Actual? 50HR's 110RBI 21SB .297Ave .396OBP .637SLG, True he's playing in a .92 stadium but still?!? I figured I'd give up awful defense by playing him at 2b (he is a A/A outfielder) but make up for it on the offensive side.  The WIS gods were not amused.

I wonder if the penalty is amped up, considering he throws lefthanded (and like a girl.)

The Legendary Lefty 2B

Two straight 7-1 updates, the only loss on today's PM1 coming in a game where I gave up 0 earned runs. 

OK I have had it. The SIM officially hates me. I screwed up. I am from new York and I picked a Red Sox team...bad karma to start with, but this is ridunculous. I've got Pedro and Roger and the man they name the best pitcher after, Cy Young. I also have tris Speaker, Teddy Ballgame, Yaz, Nomar and Boggs. Old XX was a good Red Sox, but nooooooo..not for me. I am on a streak of 3 - 22. I mean I could put a team of $200,000 players out there and they would win more than 12% of the time. The '62 frickin Mets won 1/4 of their games.  The 1972 New York islanders, maybe the worst professional sports team in the last 50 years ( I was at all 39 of their home games) won almost 17% of their games. We are talking all time futility here. Maybe if I apologize and promise to never take a Red Sox team again, the SIM will let me off the . Probably not.

I feel your pain, Oli.  My Cardinals team is terrible. '05 Carpenter is now 0-12 in 13 starts. How in the hell is that even possible.

OK, let's start posting some really underachieving player stats and see who's got the biggest flop thus far...

1933 Jimmie Foxx (Athletics)
.356 avg, .449 obp, .703 slug, 1.153 OPS in real life
.248 avg, .307 obp, .441 slug, .749 OPS in sim
Difference of .404 OPS

1990 Dennis Eckersley (Athletics)
0.62 WHIP, .160 OAV, 0.61 ERA in real life
1.18 WHIP, .246 OAV, 6.88 ERA in sim
Difference of 6.27 ERA

1936 Luke Appling (White Sox)
.388 avg, .473 obp, .508 slg, .981 OPS in real life
.283 avg, .329 obp, .321 slg, .650 OPS in sim
Difference of 331 OPS

1923 Harry Heilmann (Tigers)
.403 avg, .481 obp, .662 slg, 1.148 OPS in real life
.234 avg, .320 obp, .371 slg, .691 OPS in sim
Difference of .457 in OPS

This is my big one

1915 Tim McCabe
.185 OAV#, 1.89 BB/9#
.327 OAV, 3.75 BB/9, 9.75 ERA

He needed five straight scoreless appearances to get those numbers down to where they're at now.