Is anyone else getting tired of Addie Joss being on every team?  I even have him on one of my teams but I WISH that they would adjust the cost of him so not EVERY team has him.

Posted by mindtrap on 2/13/2012 2:58:00 PM (view original):
Is anyone else getting tired of Addie Joss being on every team?  I even have him on one of my teams but I WISH that they would adjust the cost of him so not EVERY team has him.

Join a theme league, check out the classifieds.  You will find much greater variety.

Another team in that same OL just finished the season with the best record I've ever seen in an OL (127-35),

I had to look that team up.  Incredibly, the owner has barely a .500 record in 23 full seasons (was below .500, in fact, before this team).  He's also never won a WS before, or even made it to the Finals.  He had some help from good AAA hitters (2 of them posted an OPS of .866 in 437 and 301 PA), but still, 127 wins is nuts.  And while there were a few really bad teams in the league, his division wasn't a walk in the park -- the other 3 teams averaged 83 wins.

He's only got the one active team.  I'm curious to see what his next team does...

Posted by SpotSell on 2/13/2012 5:02:00 PM (view original):

Posted by mindtrap on 2/13/2012 2:58:00 PM (view original):
Is anyone else getting tired of Addie Joss being on every team?  I even have him on one of my teams but I WISH that they would adjust the cost of him so not EVERY team has him.

Join a theme league, check out the classifieds.  You will find much greater variety.

Don't get me wrong.  I have 6 teams and only one with Addie Joss.  They are all in 1st place but I just get tired of seeing him.  I got so tired of it I was trying to see how many team I could make with without Addie and still be a winner.

WE NEED AN UPDATE!

Note:  6 Addies in the for the CY Young canidates.  (I have Walsh and Buffington, btw)

Cy Young Award - AL
Rank	Name	Team
1	'08 Addie Joss	Lady and the Tramps
2	'86 Lady Baldwin	Lady and the Tramps
3	'08 Addie Joss	Team H
4	'08 Addie Joss	AA III: Addietude With A Vengeance
5	'08 Mordecai Brown	Cookies

Cy Young Award - NL
Rank	Name	Team
1	'08 Ed Walsh	The Dynamic Duo
2	'88 Charlie Buffinton	The Dynamic Duo
3	'08 Addie Joss	MOTOR KINGS
4	'08 Addie Joss	Such Great Heights
5	'08 Addie Joss	Carnegie & Ontario II

Joss? Nevah heard of him.

Posted by crazystengel on 2/13/2012 5:51:00 PM (view original):
Another team in that same OL just finished the season with the best record I've ever seen in an OL (127-35),

I had to look that team up.  Incredibly, the owner has barely a .500 record in 23 full seasons (was below .500, in fact, before this team).  He's also never won a WS before, or even made it to the Finals.  He had some help from good AAA hitters (2 of them posted an OPS of .866 in 437 and 301 PA), but still, 127 wins is nuts.  And while there were a few really bad teams in the league, his division wasn't a walk in the park -- the other 3 teams averaged 83 wins.

He's only got the one active team.  I'm curious to see what his next team does...

Check out his pitchers, nearly everyone had an all-time best or close to it.  Having A+ range at short and center helps, but still...

with which one of your squads?

Posted by crazystengel on 2/13/2012 5:51:00 PM (view original):
Another team in that same OL just finished the season with the best record I've ever seen in an OL (127-35),

I had to look that team up.  Incredibly, the owner has barely a .500 record in 23 full seasons (was below .500, in fact, before this team).  He's also never won a WS before, or even made it to the Finals.  He had some help from good AAA hitters (2 of them posted an OPS of .866 in 437 and 301 PA), but still, 127 wins is nuts.  And while there were a few really bad teams in the league, his division wasn't a walk in the park -- the other 3 teams averaged 83 wins.

He's only got the one active team.  I'm curious to see what his next team does...

How do you lookup a team?

Click on contrarian23's profile, then click on the league # below his team Mostly new guys.

Here it is:

whatifsports.com/mlb-l/view.asp

Posted by mindtrap on 2/13/2012 2:58:00 PM (view original):
Is anyone else getting tired of Addie Joss being on every team?  I even have him on one of my teams but I WISH that they would adjust the cost of him so not EVERY team has him.

Yes, so much so that I haven't started up a team in over 6 weeks.  The last league I've entered, is a theme league (created by Mixtroy) where players must have less than 50 past uses. It's great to see what your actual drafting skills are in leagues like this, as opposed to facing some copy and paste, born or third base and thinks he hit a triple, pitchers parking, triples loading, maybe I can steal 1000 bases because we can't hit homeruns, cookie abusing owner every third day. I'll just wait for more leagues like this.