Man, the playoffs have me so on edge

Posted by duece_duece on 9/26/2016 1:50:00 PM (view original):
Steve Rogers tosses a perfect game for my 73 orioles team in the first game of the playoffs!! My first one ever I believe...good timing

That is amazing!

1st in regular season wins, losing my shirt in the playoffs.

Posted by rbow923 on 9/27/2016 9:19:00 PM (view original):
1st in regular season wins, losing my shirt in the playoffs.

That's what I hate the most about the sim...there is very little correlation between the regular season and the playoffs. One is cursed if they have the best record.

The road team won 12 of 13 games in my three playoff series.

Posted by bighooze on 9/27/2016 11:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by rbow923 on 9/27/2016 9:19:00 PM (view original):
1st in regular season wins, losing my shirt in the playoffs.

That's what I hate the most about the sim...there is very little correlation between the regular season and the playoffs. One is cursed if they have the best record.

So the sim is very much like real life then.
https://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/2016/09/19/despite-best-record-in-mlb-odds-are-against-cubs.html

Posted by schwarze on 9/27/2016 11:34:00 PM (view original):
The road team won 12 of 13 games in my three playoff series.

This is becoming crazy. The road team in all my playoff series are now 16-1. Fortunately for me, I was the road team in two of the three playoff series. So my results went like this...

70M (I was the #1 seed)
LLWWL

110M (I was the wildcard w/100 wins)
WWLLW
WW

255M (I was the wildcard)
WWW
WW

Time to break this road winning streak.

Looking as my best chance for points might be my $70M mess, they won the first two. Then again, they play the next two at home...would be good to knock out mpitt76, he's one that could overtake me in the standings...not good when you gotta rely on a team that began 3-16...

Posted by mildnhazy on 8/23/2016 11:54:00 AM (view original):
I really need to vent about the 140 mil league. The pitching stats are not making any sense. Have a look at my 4 starting pitchers - all AAA quality. All get bombed every game. The whips are insane. Kershaw has given up 27 homers in 87 innings. '99 Pedro has a 7.31 ERA. '96 Kevin Brown has a .323 opp avg. And my "ace" '95 Maddux has looked very un-ace like.

When comparing Kevin Browns in my league - all are '96 version. My 6.96 ERA is well, well, well behind everyone as is his 1.78 (!!) whip. No one is even close. Of all the '15 Kershaws mine has given up the most homers and has the second worst ERA and tied for worst WHIP. Of all the '99 Pedros mine has the worst WHIP at 1.71 and worst ERA by about 1.5 runs. I have the 3rd worst Maddux in ERA and 2nd worst in WHIP.

I'm not sure how all these guys can be so incredibly bad at the same time. It's not the ballpark - mine is -1 for singles and doubles (although positive for homers so that affects the ERA but WHIP should be helped by the negative factors). It's not my defence - we have the lowest (-) plays in the league by far and above average on (+) plays. Just about everyone in my 9 man bullpen has been much, much better across all stats so whatever IT is that is causing a problem it's only affecting my SPs.

I just got swept by a team that is/was well under .400. It's complete BS and it's making me insane. I have no idea how they are .500 as we seem to struggle in every game. Which would be the case since our SP is getting bombed every time out.

Ok - I'm done and feel a little better. Until the pm games........

So this team ended up winning the world series - pretty funny.

Looks like the cost of having to abandon the 1981 Astros was a 3rd place finish vs. a 6th-8th place finish. So, basically, no difference at all because A) that's definitely something I can make up in Round 2, while B) the difference between 3rd and 1st seems just as insurmountable as the difference between 6th-8th and 1st.

I mean, does anyone really think they are going to score 40+ points better than WaitNSee in Round 2?

I guess we'll have to wait and see

Lol