You don't get to see this very often, but it's possible early in the season...

1970 Luis Aparicio's slash line is .200 / .188 / .267.

Yes, his OBP is lower than his AVG.

8.3 million dollar Hank Aaron's stats in 43 at bats: .163 average and .415 OPS.

Fun stat:
In his 1st start, 1928 Dazzy Vance allowed 7 earned runs in 4.1 innings. HIs ERA is 14.54.
In his 2nd start, 1928 Dazzy Vance allowed 8 earned runs in 5.2 innings and his ERA improved to 13.50
In his 3rdd start, 1928 Dazzy Vance allowed 7 earned runs in 5.2 innings and his ERA improved to 12.64.

I have rarely played the 70s Dodgers in this game because they tend to disappoint. I've got the 73-78 group in this tournament ... and of course as you would surely predict currently the member of the famed Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey infield with the highest SLG is ... Bill Russell! At .297!

Oh the joys of having your childhood joys upended.

Setting lineups & pitching rotations for 31 teams... something like this was surely going to happen. Luckily, I caught it after game #12.

On my 1985-02 Cardinals team, Albert Pujols was drafted as my starting 3B, but since it's not his primary position, he was slotted in as a starting LF. Since Pujols is my only eligible 3B, sparky slotted Willie McGee as my starting 3B. I missed this until just now. Somehow, McGee played 65 error-free innings with one + play.

CF is left of 3b on the defensive spectrum but RF and LF are to the right. I’ve always wondered how WIS treats this when playing out of position as all outfielders are grouped together in the sim? Maybe your McGee experiment shows center fielders are treated differently than other fielders?

Posted by schwarze on 11/13/2022 6:40:00 PM (view original):
Setting lineups & pitching rotations for 31 teams... something like this was surely going to happen. Luckily, I caught it after game #12.

On my 1985-02 Cardinals team, Albert Pujols was drafted as my starting 3B, but since it's not his primary position, he was slotted in as a starting LF. Since Pujols is my only eligible 3B, sparky slotted Willie McGee as my starting 3B. I missed this until just now. Somehow, McGee played 65 error-free innings with one + play.

That's not bad for 31 teams to be the biggest mistake. I find it hard enough with 10 teams remembering which guys need more rest and what plan I had in mind for backing them up.

I'm still kicking myself for a WISC goof in which I had two backups on one team named Greg and Craig and mistakenly used the worse one much too often because I got them confused. That is on me, though.

Well, that's the only mistake that I've noticed... so far. And the only reason I noticed is b/c I was moving McGee to the bench for a game off, and replaced him with a different OF and it was rejecting my lineup change. I kept changing the position from CF to RF to LF, trying to figure why it wasn't accepting my changes. Then I realized I had 4 outfielders in the lineup.

Examples of "Running Good" despite the bullpen blowing games... all these games occurred just this morning.

1901-13 Cleveland
Leads 5-0 going into the 9th. Opponent scores 5 runs in the 9th thanks to two errors. We score a run in the bottom of the 9th to win 6-5.

1917-22 Giants
Leads 7-5 going into the 9th. Opponent scores 2 runs in the 9th. We hit a 3-run HR in the bottom of 9th to win 10-7.

1924-42 Dodgers
Leads 6-4 going into the 9th. Opponent scores 2 runs in the 9th to force extra innings. We score in the bottom of the 11th to win 7-6.

1964-81 Phillies
Leads 7-5 going into the 9th. Opponents scores 2 runs in the 9th. We hit a 2-run HR in bottom of 9th to win 7-5.

1969-07 Padres
Leads 3-2 going into 9th. Opponents score 3 runs in the 9th. We score 1 in the bottom of the 9th and lose 5-4 (almost got there).

1978-94 Royals
Leads 8-3 after 5 and 9-7 going into bottom of 8th. Opponents score 2 in the 8th. We score 1 in 9th and win 10-9.

That's 6 leads blown in the 8th or later and somehow I went 5-1 in those games. Normally, I'm lucky if I win one out of six.

The opposite of the Fireman Award could possibly be called the Pyromaniac Award.

On my teams the Pyromaniac Award would right now go to 1962 Ron Perranoski

4 games 1.2 IP- W-L 0-2- OAV .636- WHIP 5.40- ERA 32.40- Saves- 1 (remarkably)

Perranoski was relieved of his closer duties.

Anecdotally though I seem to think more relievers are pitching well than in seasons past. I have no stats to support this.

It looks like barracuda's 1959 Aaron ($8.3M) and my 1956 Mantle ($18M) really need to face Perranoski a few times. Aaron and Mantle are the two worst hitting OFs in the entire league (min 50 AB). Mantle's OPS is .640 worse than real life. Aaron's is .580 worse. Did I mention Mantle's $18 million salary?

Had a nice run. Went 13-18 in game 1. Since then, 12 straight winning sessions, until game 14... with another 13-18. Will take 12 out of 14 winning sessions, every time.

In League 15 today, footballmm11's 75-80 Reds scored 13 in the top of the 1st off my 76-85 Royals. We actually came back and tied it at 14 by the 7th, only to see Quiz give up a couple runs late and lose 16-14.

In every league at about this point I am faced with the slow-starter dilemma. Slow starters are hitters that have high salaries (over 6.5 M) but they are really under-performing. The dilemma is, how can I keep them in the lineup, how can I take them out of the lineup? After 16 games and at least 60 PA's my examples of slow-starter's are;
L. Waner 60 PA .155 .183 .172 8.56 M
D. Dimaggio 68 PA .154 .191 .246 6.89 M
J. Morgan 74 PA .159 .216 .275 8.22 M
I'm sure there are other examples out there.

The Joe Dimaggio clones after 16 games played.....Boom or Bust?


1937 Dimaggio - .167/.234/.287 with 14 runs and 10 RBIs

1940 Dimaggio - .183/.279/.383 with 6 runs and 15 RBIs

So both Dimaggio aren't hitting a lick but if my math serves me, at this rate, 37' Dimaggio will score 140 runs and knock in 100 runs. 1940 Dimaggio will score only 60 runs but knock in 150 runs.

Boom or bust? How about calling it fortunate....I expect the anemic slashlines to improve over time (but by how much?) and I am not sure if the Ribbys can keep up their robust pace.

Right now the Dimaggio's are hitting like "Mr. Clutch"- the few hits they make seem to be very productive.