Posted by crazystengel on 2/22/2016 12:30:00 AM (view original):
There's a team in the 110M Post-Season Twist theme (take two teams who met in the post-season and create a team by twisting their rosters) that's dominating the rest of the league. At the all-star break, this team:

-leads the league in wins (59-22) and has the biggest division lead (20 games)
-leads the league in runs scored with 491 (2nd place has 482, average is 388)
-leads the league in runs allowed with 280 (2nd place has allowed 294, average is 388)
-leads the league in plus plays with 84 (2nd place has 65, average is 30)
-has the fewest minus plays with 4 (2nd place has 9, average is 22)

Alas, since it's a team consisting of twisted 1907 Cubs and Tigers, they can't field worth a damn: they're 23rd in fielding percentage!

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Update on this team:

They finished the regular season with the most wins (107) and held onto their leads in the categories mentioned above: runs scored, runs allowed, most plus plays, fewest minus plays. They won their division by 28 games and entered the playoffs very rested.

Naturally, they didn't even get to the WS, let alone win it.

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Never underestimate fielding percentage ! (just kidding, fielding percentage is bull...).

10,180 Games, 62 Seasons, almost all of them in Theme Leagues, a.505 winning percentage, and FINALLY my first championship! The league is a progressive playing in the 1924 season. My Tigers went 103-59. Firpo Marberry, certain to be a fixture in the bullpen for years to come, recorded saves in all 4 Detroit wins. Eeyah!

Congratulations gbakker ! I know how you feel, took me a looong time to win one. Great work.

Overperformance Dept.

I have 2012 James McDonald in a 2012 prog. Real life numbers:

171 IP
ERC# 3.57
ERC+ 108.

Pretty ordinary pitcher, whom I had pencilled in as my #4 starter on a contending team.

Thru 100 games, McDonald's record is 13-1. His ERA is 3.31 -- 9th best in the league, but even more impressive when you realize his home park is Coors.

McDonald's salary is $3.8M -- 69th among all 2012 pitchers. Nevertheless, he's currently leading the Cy Young voting!

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From a morning box score:

Scot Thompson takes over in RF In the 7th as a defensive replacement, goes 4 for 4, and scores 5 runs...in a 9 inning game...


https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=26365883&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10

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My theme league "Break Up the Yankees" in which owners chose any non-Yankees team they wanted from a season in which the Yankees won the Series, and broke up the Yankees adding 5 of them to their own team.

I went with the 1927 Cardinals, and with a $90 mil cap could add Babe Ruth but not Gehrig. So with Frankie Frisch and Bob Muesel batting ahead of him, and Jim Bottomley - who hit .319 with 35 home runs and...185 RBI (!) - batting behind him, Ruth would hopefully get a lot of chances to drive in runs.

result: Babe Ruth 1927: .379 - .479 OBP - 89 home runs (!) and..252 RBI (!!!).

But the team went into an inexplicable tail spin after mid-season. We did manage to win the wildcard and won the first round playoffs against the 1943 Cardinals plus five Yankees and are now in the League Championship Series against the 1998 Braves plus five Yankees, won the first two games, lost the third as David Cone out-pitched Grover Cleveland Alexander. So up 2 games to 1.

Ruth: 89 homers, 252 RBI - Believe it or Don't !

Through my first 70 games in my 110 mill cap Chinese Zodiac Sign theme league, My 1941 Ted Williams has needless to say, under performed. And where Ted goes, the team goes (27-43). Batting .237 OBP .389 SLG .315 with just 3 HR and 21 RBI. He is last on my team in RBI's,BA, and SLG. Even Eddie Cicotte is closing in on 8th in RBI's on my team.

Posted by crazystengel on 4/3/2016 3:33:00 AM (view original):
Overperformance Dept.

I have 2012 James McDonald in a 2012 prog. Real life numbers:

171 IP
ERC# 3.57
ERC+ 108.

Pretty ordinary pitcher, whom I had pencilled in as my #4 starter on a contending team.

Thru 100 games, McDonald's record is 13-1. His ERA is 3.31 -- 9th best in the league, but even more impressive when you realize his home park is Coors.

McDonald's salary is $3.8M -- 69th among all 2012 pitchers. Nevertheless, he's currently leading the Cy Young voting!

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Update: Since the prog team above was coasting to a division title, I decided to use McDonald in the so-called "Superman Long A" role just to see how many wins I could get out of him. In the last game of the season he won his 26th for a final record of 26-1 and an ERA of 3.68, which also bumped him ahead of Justin Verlander (26-4, 2.89) for the Cy Young. Again, McDonald's salary is $3.8M -- almost exactly half of Verlander's $7.5M!

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That's almost McAnally-esque!

Nice callback to the very first post in this thread, over four years ago!

From Season 31 of Random Captain, a 90M theme league: 1967 Cisco Carlos appears in 46 games, goes 46/46 converting saves with an ERA of 0.79 in 45.1 IP. I've searched through past seasons of all my progs and multi-seasons themes (probably 150+ seasons total), and haven't found a single pitcher with as many saves opps without a blown save.

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My pitcher's line from a game in a 1994 prog. Terrible inning for his WHIP, but the ERA improves!

Bobby Ayala

100

1.0

5

0

0

0

1

0

22

4.01

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From Season 3 Elysian Fields Twist League and from the unbelievable sim results category:

In the Top of the 3rd in a 1-0 game, Addie Joss has loaded the bases with 1 out and is facing all-time speedster Tim Raines (91 speed). With the defense set to double play depth and Raines hitting from the left side, Tim grounds into the less than conventional 3-2-3, that's First to Catcher and back to First inning ending double play. Joss ultimately wiggles his way through 12 hits in route to a 1-0 complete game shutout.

Being a Raines fan, I had to look into this and it appears that Tim Raines hit into 142 double plays in his 23 year career, a surprisingly high number for someone with his skill set, however according to bbref, not 1 was of the 3-2-3 variety. Probably because the mechanics of such a play in that situation and time of the game are just too hard to fathom, but with the defense set to DP depth as opposed to Infield In or Corners In, the first baseman would take a position behind the runner at 1B. Tim would have to have hit a missile and the first baseman (George Stovall) make the risky decision to come home with the throw rather than the safer throw to 2B and the catcher (Ted Easterly) completing the backend all before the speedy Raines reached first. I grant you the pitcher with his 33 speed is the runner coming home and is easy pickings, but doubling up someone with Raines speed in this manner seems a bit far-fetched even with the plus defenders involved in the play.

https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=26527593&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10

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I have the 1930 Senators in a theme league where owners use real life teams (no twisting). In RL, the 1930 Senators hit 98 triples in 154 games, or 0.64 triples a game. In the PM2 game vs. the 1923 Reds, here's what my Senators did in Redland Field, which is listed as neutral for triples:

B.Harris enters the game to pitch.
	G.Goslin flies out to deep RF.
	J.Judge hits a flyball solo homer to CF.
	J.Cronin lines a single to LF.
DP	S.West hits a groundball single to RF.
DP	B.Myer hits a triple. J.Cronin scores. S.West scores.
J. Couch enters the game to pitch.
II	O.Bluege hits a triple. B.Myer scores.
II	M.Ruel hits a triple. O.Bluege scores.
II	S.Jones hits a triple. M.Ruel scores.
II	J.Couch lets one get away and all runners advance on the wild pitch. S.Jones scores.
	S.Rice grounds out to 2B.
	G.Goslin grounds it thru the hole to RCF for a single.
++	J.Judge lines out to SS.

4 triples in 4 consecutive at-bats -- the 4th by pitcher Sad Sam Jones, who in RL hit 0 triples in 1930!

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