Posted by Bilfert on 2/13/2011 11:51:00 AM (view original):
This thread cracks me up that so many great SIm Stalwarts are commenting in here.  You are arguing with a guy that has played in one league.  If he doesn't like it, he should find another game to play.  This is the same guy that wanted to start a league just to get the free team.  I think you have wasted enough of your breath.  

As far as the Exclusive player, other than donburghs league or a live draft it would be ridiculous.  The founder would choose first and he would pick the 24 players he wants, then the next guy picks his favorite remaining 24, and so on.  This would mean that the the founder picks his team without a blacklist and the 24th guy gets to pick with a blacklist of 552 players.  Now that is something I want to spend my money on.

Posted by Bilfert on 2/13/2011 11:51:00 AM (view original):
This thread cracks me up that so many great SIm Stalwarts are commenting in here.  You are arguing with a guy that has played in one league.  If he doesn't like it, he should find another game to play.  This is the same guy that wanted to start a league just to get the free team.  I think you have wasted enough of your breath.  

As far as the Exclusive player, other than donburghs league or a live draft it would be ridiculous.  The founder would choose first and he would pick the 24 players he wants, then the next guy picks his favorite remaining 24, and so on.  This would mean that the the founder picks his team without a blacklist and the 24th guy gets to pick with a blacklist of 552 players.  Now that is something I want to spend my money on.

If my tone comes off wrong, I do apologize. Many of on this forum were expressing points of view and were argumentive and my apologies if I came off too strong. With that said, I'll keep an open mind about the small sample size.  I just hope veterans of SimLeague also keep an open mind about criticisms of the game from a life long baseball fan who has just started playing.  Sometimes it takes a fresh pair of eyes to see aspects of something that needs improvement.  I certainly enjoy this game, but at the same time am frustrated by some of its limitations and the lack of technical support from the people running it.  As I said before, computer technology ought to be user-friendly and any simpleton like myself should be able to use a good program with ease.  Especially a game. 

Your experiences as a "lifelong baseball fan" only limit your perception of what Mariano Rivera would do against vastly superior lineups over a 162 game schedule. All you have ever seen Mo do is dominate and ESPN told you he was the greatest of the great ever and as a result of these two things you find it completely implausible that he would ever put up "mediocre" numbers against any competition. In fact, all of the players in the sim would have muted stats against the competition they see in the sim. What is implausible, is not that Mo would have an ERA of 3.00 or even 4.00 against this level of competition, but that he would ever face such stiff competition on a nightly basis. That is where the fantasy comes in.

While you might have a fresh pair of eyes, you lack perspective and come off like some bitter Yankee fan who is distraut that his hero might be fallible. That is why you have gotten hostile comments (like this one) because you are so sure you are right (even though you are clearly wrong) and you fail to "accept" that he might be facing stiffer competition in an 80 million open league when it is AN irrifutable fact that has been demonstrated to you repeatedly.

Posted by GuerillaZen1 on 2/13/2011 6:28:00 PM (view original):

Your experiences as a "lifelong baseball fan" only limit your perception of what Mariano Rivera would do against vastly superior lineups over a 162 game schedule. All you have ever seen Mo do is dominate and ESPN told you he was the greatest of the great ever and as a result of these two things you find it completely implausible that he would ever put up "mediocre" numbers against any competition. In fact, all of the players in the sim would have muted stats against the competition they see in the sim. What is implausible, is not that Mo would have an ERA of 3.00 or even 4.00 against this level of competition, but that he would ever face such stiff competition on a nightly basis. That is where the fantasy comes in.

While you might have a fresh pair of eyes, you lack perspective and come off like some bitter Yankee fan who is distraut that his hero might be fallible. That is why you have gotten hostile comments (like this one) because you are so sure you are right (even though you are clearly wrong) and you fail to "accept" that he might be facing stiffer competition in an 80 million open league when it is AN irrifutable fact that has been demonstrated to you repeatedly.

An 80M team put together by an owner who knows what he's doing could compete with most of the very best teams in baseball history.  If Rivera were facing that kind of talent in real life every day, what do you think his numbers would look like?  At best all you can say is "I don't know" because he has never faced that level of competition over a sustained period of time.  My opinion is that there is no pitcher in baseball history who would routinely put up a sub-3.00 ERA against this kind of talent.