Believe It or Don't! Topic

Posted by crazystengel on 3/26/2023 10:28:00 AM (view original):
That was 1958, and we had a powerhouse team that won 115 games. The playoffs were never in doubt, so to keep myself entertained I micromanaged Spahn to as many wins as possible -- starts only against the weakest teams, and against everyone else he was in the Tandem B role, with the Tandem A guy a decent righty like Ralph Terry or Art Ditmar to set up the righty-to-lefty switch. I was disappointed Spahn didn't get to 50 wins, because he had a shot near the end of the season.
Slacker.

Seriously, it's great to see Spahn used creatively here, as not oonly is he under-utilized, but un the real world too often left out of the debates over greatest pitchers of all time. Is this, like Aaron and Musial, a case of being underrated for not playing in NY?
3/27/2023 6:35 AM
Continuing with Spahn, we just finished the 1964 season in this prog. Spahn's real life 1964 stats are bad:

174 IP
W-L 6-13
ERC+ 69
ERC# 5.20
$2.77M

With that in mind, here are the league's top 10 pitchers this season by wins:



Finished 3rd in Cy Young voting, too.

Heading into his final season, Spahn's career W-L record in this prog sits at 519-197 — never mind 300 wins, he's more than 300 games above .500!

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6/15/2023 12:20 AM (edited)

64 games into the season of this long running 80M theme league (OG Twist) and here's something you don't see every day: 11 teams in the National League at .500 or better!
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East W-L PCT GB MagN L10 STRK Home Away Owner
1922 Giants 36-28 0.563 - - 4-6 L4 21-13 15-15 joerat1
Bosox '77 35-29 0.547 1 - 6-4 L1 18-15 17-14 gwhouse
1966 San Francisco Giants 33-31 0.516 3 - 5-5 W3 17-16 16-15 DarthDurron
'07 Northsiders 33-31 0.516 3 - 5-5 W1 15-19 18-12 0soup4u
Central W-L PCT GB MagN L10 STRK Home Away Owner
Los Angeles Dodgers 1979 41-23 0.641 - - 7-3 W1 19-11 22-12 barracuda3
1990 CINCINNATI REDS 40-24 0.625 1 - 7-3 L1 14-17 26-7 summerfield
88 A's 100OG! 34-30 0.531 7 - 3-7 L1 17-13 17-17 ff09
1987 San Francisco Earthquakes 32-32 0.500 9 - 4-6 W1 16-15 16-17 redwingscup
West W-L PCT GB MagN L10 STRK Home Away Owner
92 Athletics 39-25 0.609 - - 4-6 L1 19-14 20-11 halo23
99 NYM 34-30 0.531 5 - 6-4 W1 16-18 18-12 Dougsdawgs13
Space Cadets (1991) 32-32 0.500 7 - 7-3 W1 15-16 17-16 _jwillis
95 NYY 21-43 0.328 18 - 2-8 L1 10-20 11-23 trd3
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7/19/2023 1:31 AM (edited)
Posted by crazystengel on 7/19/2023 1:31:00 AM (view original):

64 games into the season of this long running 80M theme league (OG Twist) and here's something you don't see every day: 11 teams in the National League at .500 or better!
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East W-L PCT GB MagN L10 STRK Home Away Owner
1922 Giants 36-28 0.563 - - 4-6 L4 21-13 15-15 joerat1
Bosox '77 35-29 0.547 1 - 6-4 L1 18-15 17-14 gwhouse
1966 San Francisco Giants 33-31 0.516 3 - 5-5 W3 17-16 16-15 DarthDurron
'07 Northsiders 33-31 0.516 3 - 5-5 W1 15-19 18-12 0soup4u
Central W-L PCT GB MagN L10 STRK Home Away Owner
Los Angeles Dodgers 1979 41-23 0.641 - - 7-3 W1 19-11 22-12 barracuda3
1990 CINCINNATI REDS 40-24 0.625 1 - 7-3 L1 14-17 26-7 summerfield
88 A's 100OG! 34-30 0.531 7 - 3-7 L1 17-13 17-17 ff09
1987 San Francisco Earthquakes 32-32 0.500 9 - 4-6 W1 16-15 16-17 redwingscup
West W-L PCT GB MagN L10 STRK Home Away Owner
92 Athletics 39-25 0.609 - - 4-6 L1 19-14 20-11 halo23
99 NYM 34-30 0.531 5 - 6-4 W1 16-18 18-12 Dougsdawgs13
Space Cadets (1991) 32-32 0.500 7 - 7-3 W1 15-16 17-16 _jwillis
95 NYY 21-43 0.328 18 - 2-8 L1 10-20 11-23 trd3
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I feel jinxed. After you posted this oddity, I proceeded to drop under .500. Darn it! haha
7/19/2023 7:44 PM
From the same league, here's the American League after 97 games:
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East W-L PCT GB MagN L10 STRK Home Away Owner
2006 Blue Jays 41-56 0.423 - - 1-9 L8 22-25 19-31 SAKABAKBRG
Blanton's Bourbon Boozers 2009 Vintage 40-57 0.412 1 - 5-5 L2 21-27 19-30 tridentric
2011 Colorado Rockies (II) 39-58 0.402 2 - 3-7 W1 21-27 18-31 crazystengel
OGT100 2009 SF Giants 31-66 0.320 10 - 2-8 W1 17-30 14-36 ceno1515
Central W-L PCT GB MagN L10 STRK Home Away Owner
Rocky 13: Crazy Made Me Do It 47-50 0.485 - - 5-5 L1 23-26 24-24 xfl outlaw
2012 Los Angeles de Anaheim 46-51 0.474 1 - 4-6 L1 26-24 20-27 Jdh34
2017 St. Louis Cardinals 38-59 0.392 9 - 6-4 W4 20-29 18-30 dn3524
2016 Toronto blue jays 34-63 0.351 13 - 7-3 L1 19-31 15-32 gees51
West W-L PCT GB MagN L10 STRK Home Away Owner
2018 Twisted Mets 62-35 0.639 - - 8-2 L1 35-14 27-21 ronthegenius
2018 Guardians 58-39 0.598 4 - 6-4 W1 29-19 29-20 chewy3344
2021 Dodgers 58-39 0.598 4 - 5-5 W1 34-13 24-26 gweek
2021 Bru Cru 54-43 0.557 8 - 9-1 W9 31-19 23-24 scjensen51
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7/30/2023 10:49 AM
All or nothing (mostly nothing) dept.

I just noticed an L56 streak in my 2018 prog. This team is in the opposite league so I don't really pay attention to it, but it seemed to me they've been terrible for a while, so I clicked on the League Records link to check it out:

2018: 4-60
2017: 13-149
2016: 25-137:
2015: 39-123
2014: 6-156
2013: 43-119
2012: 23-139
2011: 38-124
2010: 109-53
2009: 44-118
2008: 35-127
2007: 33-129

The above represents all the seasons the owner's been in this prog.

By the way, it's a 24 team prog, and since he won the World Series with that 2010 team, his rate of one ring every 12 seasons is damn good!

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EDITED TO ADD: This team won its PM game, ending their L56 in the first cycle after I posted here.

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7/31/2023 4:58 PM (edited)
8/23/2023 8:26 PM
We're 15-24 -- .385
Expected % -- .174
8/23/2023 11:26 PM
efficient bullpen
8/24/2023 11:38 AM
111 games into the season in a 1984 progressive, pitchers Dave Stieb and Jack Morris have exactly the same ERA, OAV, and WHIP! Most other stats are pretty close, too.
Player SN T G GS CG SHO W L SV SVO IP H R ER HR BB SO OAV OBP SLG WHIP ERA
Stieb, Dave 1984 R 28 28 2 0 16 7 0 0 201.3 181 84 79 20 68 149 .236 .304 .362 1.24 3.53
Morris, Jack 1984 R 29 29 1 1 15 6 0 0 191.3 171 81 75 18 67 96 .236 .301 .348 1.24 3.53

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8/25/2023 8:05 PM
Warren Spahn's career in the 100 Year War prog is over!

1965 is in the books. In real life in 1965, 44-year old Spahn went 7-16 record; in SLB, his ERC# is 4.45, his ERC+ is 82, and his salary is $3.5M. For us this season he went 24-9 (on a 60-102 team), marking the 19th straight time he's reached 20 or more wins!



If any owner reading this (today, or years from now) encounters a prog pitcher with more career wins than this, go ahead and post the numbers!

543 career wins!

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8/29/2023 3:24 PM
Here's a pitching stat line for you:
Player % IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
Nolan Ryan 100 3.0 0 0 0 3 5 0 56 5.84
Tom Hall 100 2.1 1 6 5 5 3 1 54 5.59
Drew Pomeranz 100 0.2 1 4 4 6 2 0 45 5.13
Jose Valverde, BSV (2) 100 0.2 0 0 0 2 1 0 18 6.35
Troy Percival, W (4-2) 96 1.1 0 0 0 0 4 0 20 3.67
Ricky Bottalico, SV (6) 100 1.0 0 0 0 1 3 0 18 5.74
Game Totals 99 9.0 2 10 9 17 18 1 211 ---


10 runs on 2 hits!

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9/1/2023 2:12 PM
Thanks, 06gsp.

I was curious what the MLB record was for most runs on 2 or fewer hits, so I looked it up on b-r.com:



Your 10 runs are truly Believe It or Don't!
9/2/2023 9:40 AM
the 10 runs scored on a 2 run home run, a wild pitch, and seven (!!!) bases loaded walks

its a league where you have to draft pitchers and hitters who are low AVG, high BB high K, high HR, been a lot of fun. it's also validating the three true outcomes strategy, as the current league batting average is .203 while the league ERA is 5.71. overall league slash line is .203/.356/.427.

9/2/2023 7:52 PM
In my Random Captain league (90M cap), another owner had 1987 Dave Smith start the season with 45.2 consecutive scoreless innings before giving up an earned run. As far as I can tell, the MLB record for consecutive scoreless innings from the start of a season is 41, set by Fernando Valenzuela in 1985 (please post below if this is not correct).

Dave Smith was good in RL (1.65 ERA), but throwing the equivalent of five straight shutouts is overperforming!

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9/17/2023 3:05 AM
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