The very first session after these drafts is always filled with anticipation. My eight teams went 6-2 with two 1-run wins. My two blown saves resulted in a 6-3 extra-innings loss where I used ten pitchers and a 2-1 extra-inning win. I won one game 23-1 b/c bigsteve12 let '92 Steve Far throw 82 pitches in 2 innings in a game he was already losing 8-1 in the eighth.

Seriously though... I'd be thrilled to go 5-3 every session.
3/8/2025 8:07 AM
1-7 in session 2, got outscored 48-16. Yikes
3/8/2025 4:01 PM
This is the type of game that would make a long-time SIM player quit.

https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=45287271&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=9.95
3/9/2025 9:29 PM (edited)
Posted by schwarze on 3/9/2025 9:29:00 PM (view original):
This is the type of game that would make a long-time SIM player quit.

https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=45287271&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=9.95
Oh my. 11 straight reach base with two outs in the 9th to blow an 8-run lead.
3/9/2025 10:12 PM
My Rangers team started 4-0 and I was filled with optimism. Then they lost the next 4 by a total of 6 runs.
3/10/2025 2:46 PM
Just had my first 8-0 session (and my two other teams also won) and I feel like I should just costanza this thing and go out on top!
3/13/2025 10:31 AM
I have some time so I thought I'd post the "Way Too Early" poor performing players. With such a small sample size, things should normalize over time - but it's always fun to find the anomalies in player stats. (Note that last round, after 29 games, my 1912 Cubs were 13-16. They finished with 109 wins).

League 1 - 2007 Mets 6-10
This team won game #1 by the score of 2-1 after blowing a 9th inning 1-0 lead. Since then, they are 0-7 in games decided by 1-2 runs and 5-2 in games decided by 3+ runs. Their .561 Exp Win% is top 4 in the NL. '99 Pedro Martinez has a 6.00 ERA in 3 starts. '02 Shawn Green (.944 ops irl) is currently at .442. (.125/.192/.250), 500 points worse.

League 1 - 2016 Angels 6-10
2009 Albert Pujols (.327/.443/.658 irl) is currently hitting.131/.274/.262. His .536 OPS is 575 points below his real life OPS (1.101). My second worst hitter. 2001 Albert Pujols .206/.286/.349. RP Andrew Bailey is 0-3 with a 9.64 ERA with opponent slash of .435/.458/.652.

League 2 - 2000 Astros 7-9
I thought I'd try footballmm11's RP strategy with this team. It's been a disaster. Based on current usage, my ten RPs have a real life aggregate HR/9 rate of 0.54. These 10 RPs have appeared in 86 games, thrown 72 innings and have allowed 18 HRs, a rate 4 times higher than real life. Their ERA of 5.88 has actually come down almost 1/2 run in the last two games, so maybe there's some positive regression coming.

League 2 - 2013 Rangers 11-5
This has been my best team, starting 7-0, but 4-5 since. '14 Matt Garza (1.18 whip irl) is somehow outpitching '02 Derek Lowe (0.98 whip), 1.56 ERA to 5.16 ERA. I'm using three Tandems and it's working, as the regular RPs are coming in much later in the game and haven't been crushed yet. Oddly,, Berkman (1B: A-), Kinsler (2B: A+), Beltre (3B: A) have zero + plays so far.

League 3 - 2008 Padres 10-6
My two Greg Maddux are a combined 3-4. Everybody else a combined 7-2. '98 Hoffman with a 10.29 ERA. My two Mike Adams ERAs of 5.79 and 6.75. Not sure how this team is 10-6.

League 3 - 1983 Brewers 10-6
I just benched '80 Cecil Cooper (.352 irl) due to his .191/.230/.206 slash line. Who would've predicted '78 Ben Oglivie (hitting .417) would be twice as good as the superior '80 Ben Oglivie (hitting .207)? The bullpen is overachieving so far - of course the team's best bullpen arm is a short-inning season of SP Tom Candiotti (0.66 era in 13.2 innings).

League 4 - 1984 Expos 9-7
Hitting stats inflated due to playing at Hilltop. Pitching stats also inflated. Bullpen allowed 30 ERs in 43 IPs (6.28 ERA). Blew a 2-out-nobody-on-9th-inning 8-run lead. Worse sim loss in recent memory.

League 4 - 2015 Royals 8-8
I should have taken 1990 Royals (12-4). Nice pick juice. This team feels like a .500 team. Hitting is overachieving. Pitching is underachieving. Sicks Stadium has something to do with that.
3/13/2025 11:58 AM
Blowing 8 run leads is commonplace with my teams. 12 of the 13 runs scored against me came after 2 outs.

https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=45308479&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10
3/13/2025 6:10 PM
Posted by redcped on 3/9/2025 10:12:00 PM (view original):
Posted by schwarze on 3/9/2025 9:29:00 PM (view original):
This is the type of game that would make a long-time SIM player quit.

https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=45287271&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=9.95
Oh my. 11 straight reach base with two outs in the 9th to blow an 8-run lead.
Think about the math on this. Even if you assume every single batter is a .350 hitter, that's 11 hits in a row (actually 10 hits and a walk), but we'll call it a hit for purposes of this exercise. Using .350, the odds of 11 hits/walks in a row is 0.35 ^ 11 = .00000965 which is 103,574 to 1.

And the .35 assumptions is certainly on the high side.

Clearly, something is broken in the sim. It's getting tiring.


3/13/2025 6:22 PM
I'm just going to start recording all the ridiculousness on this thread, then when the data becomes overwhelming, I will submit it to admin.
3/13/2025 6:24 PM
Posted by schwarze on 3/13/2025 6:10:00 PM (view original):
Blowing 8 run leads is commonplace with my teams. 12 of the 13 runs scored against me came after 2 outs.

https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=45308479&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10
Rough day for the Mike Maddux fan club.
3/13/2025 6:40 PM
Bad News: Went 1-7 this afternoon
Good news: None of the seven losses were blown multi-run leads in the 9th inning or later.

Baby steps.
3/16/2025 5:59 PM
I have a candidate for worst underperforming batter.

2002 Shawn Green
Real life stats: .285, .385, .558, 42 HRs (.944 ops)
Sim stats: 83 ABs, .096, .194, .181 (.375)
(Home park: Robison Field, which should help lefty power hitters.)
569 OPS points worse
3/17/2025 5:47 PM
It's always fun when most of your teams are in massive slumps at the same time...

Angels 8-10 start, 2-10 since
Rangers 11-3 start, 6-11 since
Brewers 17-8 start, 1-5 since
Padres 14-6 start, 5-6 since
Expos 11-7 start, 3-10 since
Royals 15-9 start, 3-4 since

Totals: 76-43 start, 20-46 since.
3/18/2025 9:32 AM
In the latest inter-league series 4 out of my 7 teams played against footballmm11's teams. We went 1-7. I am really not sure how we won the one game.
3/20/2025 6:34 AM
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