I love the "Guess the Player" game...

Player A: 64 AB, 1 double, 2 homers, 11 runs, 6 RBIs, .188 avg, .297 slug
Player B: 60 AB, 2 doubles, 2 homers, 10 runs, 10 RBIs, .283 avg, .417 slug
Player C: 56 AB, 2 doubles, 2 homers, 15 runs, 7 RBIs, .250 avg, .393 slug

The three players' salaries are $5.5M, $14.1M and $18.1M.

Of course, Player B is '62 Tom Tresh and the other two players are Mickey Mantle's two best seasons ('56 & '57).

I love looking for guys who's OPS is 550+ points worse than real life. Found two guys on the same team...

2002 Manny Ramirez
Real Life: .349/.450/.647 (1.097)
Sim: 41 AB, .195/.271/.195 (.466) - no extra base hits
-631

1996 Reggie Jefferson
Real Life: .347/.388/.593 (.981)
Sim: 27 ABs, .148/.148/.148 (.296)
-585

2004 Jim Thome
Real life: .274/.396/.581 (.977 with 42 HRs in 508 ABs)
Sim: 65 AB, .123/.197/.169 (.366 with 0 HRs)
-611

It's also fun when your players' sim stats are upside down when compared to real life... Example: 1936-51 Giants

Real Life OPS for starters
1. '36 Ott 1.036
2. '38 Ott 1.024
3. '47 Mize .998
4. '51 Irvin .929
5. '48 Gordon .927
6. '49 Thompson .873
7. '50 Stanky .872
8. '37 Bartell .836 (15 HRs)

Sim Stats
1. '49 Thompson 1.095
2. '48 Gordon .996
3. '47 Mize .850
4. '37 Bartell .837 (leads team in HRs w/4)
5. '50 Stanky .792
6. '38 Ott .766
7. '51 Irvin 740
8. '36 Ott .580

Got my first Schwarze of the tourney!

1906-1918 Napping Naps with an extra Nap	Theme	MLB135788	12-5	1st Place	W: 9 - 6	[none]
2017-2022 Gonsolin’s Got The Fraudgers	Theme	MLB135807	11-6	1st Place	W: 3 - 2	[none]
Y-Eck! The 1976-92 A’s Bullpen is Nasty	Theme	MLB135800	11-6	1st Place	W: 11 - 2	[none]
2001-2017 Indians Lean Heavily On Miller	Theme	MLB135805	9-8	1st Place	W: 21 - 10	[none]
Hubbell Telescope Spots 1924-1930 Giants	Theme	MLB135791	9-8	2nd Place	W: 16 - 11	[none]
2005-2022 Verlander and the Blastros	Theme	MLB135806	8-9	2nd Place	W: 10 - 3
1993-1998 B2B Maddux Braves	Theme	MLB135804	7-10	3rd Place	W: 10 - 1

Interleague play starts with the pm2 games today. In theory the NL teams should beat up on the AL. It'll be interesting to see the extent to which that's true.

I’m already getting beaten up by AL teams, so I’d imagine it’s all downhill from here.

League 1 - PM Game of 11/16. Two teams tied at 15 all after 9 innings. The visiting team scores 4 runs in the top of the 10th. The home team comes back with 5 runs in the bottom of the 10th to win the game 20-19. Fans got their money's worth in that one!

https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=40275667&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=9.95

Granted, I know these stats may say many things or may not say anything relevant at all. I just thought they were interesting...

I've got 30 teams in this tournament. I did pick the majority of my teams in the first couple of days that the tournament was opened. Therefore, that's why most of my teams (22 out of 30) are on the N.L. side of each league. When it comes to the divisions, my teams are broken down as such:

N.L. East - 10 teams
N.L. Central - 5 teams
N.L. West - 7 teams
A.L. East - 4 teams
A.L. Central - 1 team
A.L. West - 3 teams

The winning percentages of my teams in those divisions are as such:

N.L. East - 51%
N.L. Central - 47%
N.L. West - 54%
A.L. East - 54%
A.L. Central - 55%
A.L. West - 52%

Either I'm better at picking my teams late or when I pick early, I just pick the wrong ones.

Posted by thejuice6 on 11/16/2022 1:51:00 PM (view original):
League 1 - PM Game of 11/16. Two teams tied at 15 all after 9 innings. The visiting team scores 4 runs in the top of the 10th. The home team comes back with 5 runs in the bottom of the 10th to win the game 20-19. Fans got their money's worth in that one!

https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=40275667&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=9.95

Quickly checking to see if I was on the losing end...

Surprisingly, nope.

Divisional Play has really slowed down my hot start. In the first 12 (non-divisional games), my 31 teams averaged a W-L record of 7.25 wins and 4.75 losses (.605 winning%). In the eight divisional games, my 31 teams averaged a W-L record of 4.25 wins and 3.75 losses (.532 winning%).

I was fortunate to be around when the tournament was first posted so I have a disproportionate number of NL East teams. That being said, I actually have a better aggregate winning% with A.L. teams (.589 to .570). Here is the breakdown by division.
.

Division	Teams	Win%
NLE	18	0.583
NLC	3	0.483
NLW	1	0.600
ALE	4	0.525
ALC	2	0.625
ALW	3	0.650
Overall Total -->		0.576

Here are my top 8 teams and the bottom 8 teams. As you can see, 4 of my top 8 are in the A.L. while 5 of my bottom 8 are in the N.L.
.

Team Name League__ Pick#____ Wins-Loss__ Winning% 1903-15 Boston Americans (Speaker) 3 22 15-5 0.750 1922-39 Cincinnati Reds (Luque) 6 24 15-5 0.750 1978-94 Kansas City Royals (Brett) 15 1 15-5 0.750 1894-06 New York Giants (Mathewson) 1 14 14-6 0.700 1994-99 Atlanta Braves (Maddux) 19 1 14-6 0.700 1964-83 Chicago White Sox (Horlen) 12 19 14-6 0.700 1967-85 St. Louis Cardinals (Gibson) 13 2 14-6 0.700 1981-01 Houston Astros (Bagwell) 16 1 14-6 0.700 1985-02 St. Louis Cardinals (Tudor) 17 2 9-11 0.450 1956-62 New York Yankees (Mantle) 11 3 9-11 0.450 1924-42 Brooklyn Robins (Vance) 6 1 9-11 0.450 2007-19 Cleveland Indians (Kluber) 22 13 9-11 0.450 1917-22 New York Giants (Frisch) 5 24 9-11 0.450 1939-46 New York Yankees (Chandler) 8 5 8-12 0.400 1936-51 New York Giants (Ott) 8 15 8-12 0.400 2013-18 Los Angeles Dodgers (Kershaw) 22 3 6-14 0.300

In the first game of inter-league play, my 22 NL teams went 14-8. My 9 AL teams went 2-7. (None of my teams played each other).

My 10 teams are all AL. Somehow we went 7-3 in the first go-round. Not much of a sample size, though.

Posted by schwarze on 11/16/2022 3:18:00 PM (view original):

Posted by thejuice6 on 11/16/2022 1:51:00 PM (view original):
League 1 - PM Game of 11/16. Two teams tied at 15 all after 9 innings. The visiting team scores 4 runs in the top of the 10th. The home team comes back with 5 runs in the bottom of the 10th to win the game 20-19. Fans got their money's worth in that one!

https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=40275667&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=9.95

Quickly checking to see if I was on the losing end...

Surprisingly, nope.

Quickly checking to see if I was on the losing end…

And not surprisingly, yep