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My first try for the HR challenge is only 11 games in, and my word... these games are nuts. Example:
https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=34293876&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10
https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=34296830&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10
https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=34291032&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10
https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=34284894&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10
https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=34275726&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10

Haha... how fun and frustrating is this going to be... Long season... but currently tracking for 740+ HRs. Just need to run into a fatigued pitcher or two... ;-)

And right now projecting to 90 wins, so that seems to be where this is going to be the tightest...

I jinxed myself. We haven't won since, am 6 games under .500. HRs, however, are still tracking well with the team currently tracking to 783 HRs. We're looking to hit close to 400 and give up slightly more. Now we just need to turn this L streak around... and gang up on a fatigued pitcher or two...

Through 20 games, we had hit 49 HRs and given up 51. Tracking for 810 total. However, we were 2 games under .500, so...

Through 40 games we've hit 103 & given up 81... tracking for 745. We're also winning at a .550 clip (89 wins), so this one is looking closer... it'll be fun regardless....

60 games in, tracking for 404 HR hit and 353 allowed (757), and 84 wins... lot of season left, but it looks like I may fall just short on all counts

100 games in and the team fell off the cliff HR-wise. Barely tracking for 300 HRs. Was still tracking for over 400 as recently as game 86. Pitchers on track to give up 300. Currently tracking for 611 total HRs. Team is winning though, and on pace for 90 wins... seems the less HR we hit the more we win.

Got a 2nd one going already... that one started out much better, after 11 games am tracking for a combined 1,030 HRs (603 hit and 427 allowed), and we're winning at a much better rate (8-3). Way too early to know anything yet, but it feels better. We’ll see how it ends up for both.

Edited to add: game 12 started like this:

1 Bountiful Hunting:

J.McGinnity enters the game to pitch. F.Schulte hits a flyball solo homer to LCF. H.Johnson hits a flyball solo homer to RCF. BH E.Hubbard hits an infield single to 3B. DP M.Donlin hits a flyball 2-run homer to CF. C.Williams lines out to 3B. D.Johnson grounds out to 3B. D.Allen hits a linedrive solo homer to RF. Y.Darvish flies out to deep LF.

2 Bountiful Hunting:

J.Clements hits a flyball solo homer to RCF.

5 HR in the first 9 batters... 10 total from the game... increased the projections above...

Original HR team 130 Games in: On pace to hit 326 and give up 291. We hit a major wall in HR production around game 85 and it hasn't picked back up. On the plus side, wins seem to be correlated in reverse to HR. The less we hit, the more we win. Team currently tracking to win 91 games.

Second HR team 40 games in: has also slowed down a bit, but is still cranking HR. Started out 13-0, Currently 19-21. 1-13 in 1-run games, all of which occurred over the last 17 games, and most of which have been of the 11-12 or 14-15 variety. Pythag has this team winning at a .704 clip, and given that we've scored 350+ runs and allowed less than 200 at this point, I feel good about them picking up some wins as the season progresses. HR-wise, they've hit 138 and given up 88, so they're tracking for 559 hit and 356 allowed (915 total). This one is definitely worth keeping an eye on, especially if the wins pick back up.

First shot at the HR challenge: I hit the win goal, but fell short on the HRs... unfortunately, my home ballpark hurt my HRs more than helped... we hit 330 HRs and allowed 267. Goal was to hit 450 and give up 350. So, my ratio was correct, and I got to 90 wins, but ultimately didn't even crack 600 HRs (597) on this first shot.

Second shot still looks promising. 76 games in we've hit 237 (505 pace) and given up 166 (354 pace) which means we've already eclipsed 400 total prior to the AS break (859 pace). Downside is we're not quite at a 90 win pace. We're currently 4 under .500, but we have a .595 pythag. Up to 7-13 in 1-run games, so that bad luck seems to have abated, but we're still not quite winning as many as needed. We'll need to win at a .628 clip (54-32) over our remaining games to win out, so it'll be tough there, but the HRs look like they'll hit.

I may need to run out one more attempt on this to make this work... first one got the wins but not the HR, second looks like it'll get the HRs, but not the wins... just got to hone in on that balance.

Best performance on team 1:

Player	SN	B	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	HBP	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	STRK	L STRK
Johnson, Howard	1991	S	161	697	164	208	38	8	61	135	77	115	5	0	0	.298	.371	.638	1.010	4	24

Best performance team 2:

Rank	Name	SN	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	HBP	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	STRK	L STRK
1	Williams, Cy	1923	76	318	78	104	13	0	42	100	30	40	3	0	0	.327	.387	.764	1.151	3	12

At the AS break team hit 242 (484 pace) and gave up 177 (354 pace) for 419 (838 pace) and team went 39-42, meaning they have to go 51-30 over 2nd half to reach win goal.

Individual HRs by Lineup, position, and player:
Leadoff - 24
2nd - 27
3rd - 42
4th - 33
5th - 46
6th - 22
7th - 23
8th - 24
9th - 1

P - 0
C - 24
1B - 42
2B - 22
3B - 23
SS - 27
LF - 34
CF - 46
RF - 24

Cy Williams '23 - 46
Babe Ruth '22 - 39
Howard Johnson '91 - 27
Frank Schulte '11 - 24
Dick Allen '68 - 23
Jack Clements '93 - 22
Davey Johnson '73 - 22
Gavvy Cravath '19 - 17
Mike Donlin '00 - 16
AAA OF - 3
AAA C - 2
AAA SS - 1

Through 142 games, team is tracking for 810 total HRs... Unfortunately, we've been on a massive losing streak. 90 wins is out of the question, 81 will be a stretch. We've also only hit 7 HR over our last 11 games... Hoping we can get back to hitting HRs again down the stretch, but in any case, happy overall with this team despite not getting to 90 wins.

I have three HR teams active right now:
One that is for sure going to reach 800 HRs, but 90 wins is out.
One that I tried to go for both errors & HRs that is going to miss both HR and wins by large margins. Was committing so many errors I had to hit WW to drop some of the more error prone players who were individually tracking for 200+ errors. Team is tracking for 348 HR and 347 errors, but only winning at a .364 clip.
One that is just starting (22 games in) and is winning well so far, but HRs are a little off pace (434 hit and 41 allowed).

I have two error teams active right now:
The one mentioned above, and then a second with an identical pitching staff, but an offense designed more for overcoming errors, and a ballpark to supplement the team better in that regard. Tracking for 377 errors, and winning at a .596 clip.

I have one SB team active right now:
This team has 791 SB and 166 CS through 121 games for net 625 SB, so is tracking for 837 net SB. However, They've been a .500 team most of the season, though are currently at .521, so I have an outside hot at 90 wins still, but seems unlikely.

I'm probably not going to put in another SB team... it's not my style at all... the error teams are fun, but this active one seems like an odds on favorite to win, so I likely won't enter another of those. This HR bounty though... I'll probably be focused on this pretty hard until I get it.

Posted by just4me on 8/21/2020 11:57:00 PM (view original):
SimBaseball Bounty Five -- The One About the + Play:
For this bounty you will need to have your defense reach 250 "+" plays or more while winning at least 90 games. In going through the 212+ play thread, and the one linked within to the + play record tracking thread, it appeared that teams with more than 240 + plays mostly had losing records, but teams with less than 240 + plays seemed to win 95 plus games.

This bounty was inspired by the resurgence of the + play thread and conversations.

Activated, and to clarify, this is a first to achieve like bounties 1 & 2, not a highest total like bounties 3 & 4.

My first attempt at the HR bounty finished with just south of 600 total HRs, but won 91 games. We hit 330 and gave up 267.

My second attempt switched to Coors instead of Kingdome to get the benefit of both the + hit and + HR factors working together. We finished with 439 HRs hit and 380 HR allowed for a total of 819 HRs. Unfortunately, we only won 74 games. We had a positive run differential by a fairly good margin, and had one all season long. They only had one game against severely fatigued pitchers on the season, hitting 7 HRs in 2.1 IP off a AAA guy at 50%. So the differential wasn't from beating up on tired guys. I think this same team with a few modifications to the pitching staff has a real chance at 90 wins.

My third team tried to do too much and isn't going to do either, though I'm wasting what is perhaps '19 Cravath's best season ever on that one. Through 75 games he's slashing .469/.538/.966 with 17 HRs in just 169 PA for for 78 RC (4th in the league despite playing less than half as many games as the others in the top 10).

My fourth team is virtually the second team with a couple minor changes to the offense and drastic changes to the pitching to go for the HR differential aspect of the bounty instead of the combined total, and they are also failing drastically. They are tracking to hit well more than 400 HRs and to win more than 90, but are also tracking to give up around 75 HRs. So, unless they can pump out an additional 120-150 HRs, they won't come close.

My fifth team is what a modified version of the second team should look like. It looked promising pre-season with multiple Coors teams in my league and only a couple of -HR ballparks, but every roster has deadball anti-HR studs and it's been a really rough start. We've given up 21, but only hit 10 HRs through the first 12 games, We're also losing alot and have a very negative run differential to support the record. I'll give it another 20 games or so, but will probably enter essentially this same team into another league and see if I get better luck on deadball pitchers...

TL;DR:
HR attempt 1: 90+ wins, but missed the HR total.
HR attempt 2: 800+ HRs, but missed the win total.
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Still trying...

SB BOUNTY UPDATE:

18 games left to play - we currently have 1127SB with 118CS for a NET total of 1009. A pretty solid mark! We're currently on pace for 1268SB, which would set the current SB record (we currently have the #3 spot, 2 more SB and we move into #2, 82 and we move into the #1 spot. We'd have to get really hot at the end of the year, but the ALL TIME record (looking at the old records as well) is 1298SB, and we're well within shot of it!

We already have one record on the books, stealing 26 bases in one game (previous mark was 24).

Individually, 85 Vince Coleman is still hot on the tails of the single season SB record (just recently set by Funksteady1!) We're on pace for 206, which is good enough for 2nd best, 1 shy of tying the record. I have 3 others on pace for 170+, and will have 7 players over 130 if they all continue their current trajectory.

As good as all of that sounds, my team is currently 77-67, and we need to go 13-5 in order to secure the bounty, as there is a 90 win minimum.

Posted by just4me on 8/21/2020 11:57:00 PM (view original):
SimBaseball Bounty Five -- The One About the + Play:
For this bounty you will need to have your defense reach 250 "+" plays or more while winning at least 90 games. In going through the 212+ play thread, and the one linked within to the + play record tracking thread, it appeared that teams with more than 240 + plays mostly had losing records, but teams with less than 240 + plays seemed to win 95 plus games.

This bounty was inspired by the resurgence of the + play thread and conversations.

10 games in and the DoD is 9-1 with 27 "+" plays...heck of a start but I've got Just4Me on my heels with 19 "+" already as well. We both have a similar strategy of bad, but not horrendous pitching, with A+ range guys who can mash. The crazy thing is 6/8 guys are hitting over .350 with unsustainable pop (Max Carey and Elvis Andrus each with 3 HR already??). I've played the worst teams in the league so far, all in Hilltop or Coors, but I'm starting to build up a nice cushion for making a run at the bounty.

Worst teams in the league so far

i take great offense to that ;) hahaha

lol to be fair your expected record is more like 1.5-8.5 so your 0-10 record isn't actually indicative of how good the team is

I’ve scored 10+ twice, but gave up 17 and 27 respectively!

Posted by tpistolas on 8/27/2020 11:27:00 AM (view original):
lol to be fair your expected record is more like 1.5-8.5 so your 0-10 record isn't actually indicative of how good the team is

Comment of the year right here...

Started a SB team.... Lots of A+ arms in my league.....
I think getting lucky with the arms is key

Posted by milest on 8/29/2020 2:10:00 AM (view original):
Started a SB team.... Lots of A+ arms in my league.....
I think getting lucky with the arms is key

Absolutely.

Just4me and I both have a SB team in the same league - he's AL, I'm NL. Partly due to me being the superior owner, and partly due to luck of the A+ arms, I have about a 300 net SB lead. Most of our players are the same on offense.

Posted by milest on 8/29/2020 2:10:00 AM (view original):
Started a SB team.... Lots of A+ arms in my league.....
I think getting lucky with the arms is key

After 3 games vs an A+ arm at C, my team is 3-0 with 11 SB & 4 CS. I'll be facing an A+ arm in the next 3 games as well.

My 2nd series didn't go well... 3rd series of the season coming up. 3rd A+ arm at catcher of the season... My 1st 9 games will be against A+ catchers.... I want my money back. Lol. What a waste.

Posted by milest on 8/31/2020 7:41:00 PM (view original):
My 2nd series didn't go well... 3rd series of the season coming up. 3rd A+ arm at catcher of the season... My 1st 9 games will be against A+ catchers.... I want my money back. Lol. What a waste.

if you can win the 90 games, you may still be in luck...