Was born in Sydney Australia; Barranjoey Head and Point Piper are both places there.

“Barranjoey” ran a league I was smug enough to call “League of Champions” but never won. Eventually I got over myself and called it Bill’s invitational. We varied the cap and had blacklists in later seasons. Competitors included a couple of RL college friends who had introduced me to the site in 2001, jlipton and kuff6; kuff6 was WS champion one season. Others winners included revhow, khan, dbackbill (twice), jefcat, ARomano, dinguses, zackaryl, and tiger 19; other participants included dan6768, tracyr, eschwartz67, sptguy33, the original admin (Tarek), mudyhelmut, addunn99, laura, rob infinite and paland (aka philipdenman). There was a fair bit of turnover.

I quit in 2004 or ‘05 and came back in ‘06, playing at a much lower volume. Got hooked on hoops dynasty for a while though which was even more labor intensive. Anyway, the salaries had changed and we had just moved cities so I felt like starting over. Barranjoey’s team names were loaded with San Diego people and places, point_piper’s were initially full of LA references when it was all new and interesting to me.

That 133-win team played at Coors and scored 1450 runs with a team slash line of .389/.429/.564. Rogers Hornsby ‘21 drove in 246 runs and Joe Jackson ‘11 218. The rotation featured the not quite immortal Jim Bagby ‘18 (RL ERC# 3.54) and Will Calihan 1890 (3.17), plus one of Joe McGinnity’s worst years, 1900 (3.82). That approach really played in early ‘04 before an overdue update. But like I said we lost the WS, 4-3 to a team run by seymourhiney (yes that’s real) that had gone 107-55. MLB27460.

Another thing I notice looking back through my barranjoey notebooks is that I took a lot more risks in open and theme/private leagues - lots of experiments ending up sub-.500. When I was playing so many at once, it was like, why not? Now I play three or four and wouldn’t want to waste one. Kind of cowardly.

That seems like too much reminiscing, sorry I detoured your thread ozomatli.

I think it's interesting that the majority of the owners who've responded to this poll so far have had a team that's won so many games. More than anything, I think that's one more piece of evidence that the owners who read and are active in the forums are generally the owners who learn the game and end up doing well.

Eh, I read the forums but I’m still the master of making wildcard teams that get eliminated in the first round.

A lot of people who don’t are the masters of not making the playoffs.