Just had 1981 Tim Raines break 1982 Rickey Henderson's record for most stolen bases in a season, in an OL.
The record was shared by redsox1966 and wdfox at 205.
Raines managed to steal 209 in only 136 games, got caught stealing only 25 times for a success rate of 89.3%.

Funny thing is, I grew up in Oakland and was 14 years old in the summer of 1982 when Rickey broke Lou Brock's record. The A's had a terrible team that season but nobody really cared if they won or lost, it was all about "How many did Rickey steal?"
Game after game we followed his quest for glory that summer. It was really exciting for me personally as he had been my favorite player ever since he had joined the team in 1979.
So it's kind of ironic that I have Tim Raines break his record in WIS and the weirdest thing is that I did it with a team I named A's...

nicely done!

what was the key in getting so many? just luck in facing a ton of D- catcher arms, or did you have some kind of strategy beyond setting his base stealing setting at 5

Thanks 06gsp.

Well, there was that, lots of weak armed catchers, in 16 years that I've been playing this game, it's the first league where I see that many D and C arm catchers. The other thing is that Raines was hitting around .380 for 3/4 of the season.
But he did get into a slump near the end of the season where he hit around .120 for a streak of about 25 games. At some point I started to think he might not get the record because he just wasn't getting on base.
I had his base stealing set at 5 against D arms, and at 4 for the others, 3 when facing the few A+ in the league.

Incredible - and Rickey with 192 as well. Your net SB of 513 puts you in the lead for just4me's bounty...

Quote post by just4me on 8/8/2020 1:08:00 PM:
SimBaseball Bounty Three -- The One About Stolen Bases:

This bounty is a little different, it's not going to be awarded to the first to achieve something, but the one who reaches the highest score between now and the end of the year (with games ending on 12/31/20 PM2 cycle). This one will be a guaranteed winner to the one who achieves the most net stolen bases (stolen bases minus caught stealing) as a team during this time frame for a team that wins at least 90 games.

I'll keep a tally of the leader right here in this box for easy reference.

Current Leader:
Contrarian23: 432 net SB

Oh, I didn't know about that Bounty thing, I'll look into it, BCBSMA!

I’ve got a 1985 Vince Coleman on pace for 203. Hoping he gets hot down the stretch to challenge that record funk!

I have 7 guys over 100SB right now. 43 games to go!

And to update on that team, just won me a World Series!

Most fun team I've had in a long while.