With 6 games left, 1982 Wade Boggs is 3 PA away from qualifying for the batting title in contrarian23's "No Whining Progressive".  At game 120, he was playing at 96% and was hitting .401 in 297PA's.  Knowing he would need 500 to qualify for the BA title, and wanting to see if I could get my first .400 hitter, I put his auto rest to 70 and hit him leadoff.  He is currently at 77%, and is hitting .403 in 497PA, having hit .463 in his last 10 games (7 of which where below 80%).  

I guess fatigue doesn't mean that much...

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In the last couple of pages I posted about the 9th inning comebacks my TOC team was pulling out.  That TOC is over now; the team won.  

It was an 80M team from a franchise tourney.  I had Detroit.  Only two of my five teams in the tourney made the playoffs, and neither won the World Series, so it's a pleasant surprise to get some TOC credits out of one of the teams.  

This particular team played in Bennett Park (+3/+3 for HR) and was loaded with Tiger hitters who hit a lot of HR and Tiger pitchers who didn't give up many.  In 22 TOC games we hit 56 HR.  Even our pitchers, who in real life hit a combined 0 HR, hit 2 in this TOC.  

And how many HR did the pitchers allow?  

One!  A single shot!  We out-homered our five opponents by a combined 56-1 -- and our pitchers out-homered them 2-1!

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Posted by chargingryno on 2/10/2014 12:38:00 AM (view original):
With 6 games left, 1982 Wade Boggs is 3 PA away from qualifying for the batting title in contrarian23's "No Whining Progressive".  At game 120, he was playing at 96% and was hitting .401 in 297PA's.  Knowing he would need 500 to qualify for the BA title, and wanting to see if I could get my first .400 hitter, I put his auto rest to 70 and hit him leadoff.  He is currently at 77%, and is hitting .403 in 497PA, having hit .463 in his last 10 games (7 of which where below 80%).  

I guess fatigue doesn't mean that much...

Believe it or don't.  

Every now and then you will get great performances from severely fatigued players, especially in small sample sizes.  For instance, I currently have a $300K, 60 PA player I picked up off the WW (Marc Newfield).  And after starting him in the OF for 9 straight games, even though he's down to 40%, he's still hitting .462 .488 .692 with several multi-hit games, and has committed NO errors.    Believe it or don't!

And btw...he also has 11 RBIs in 44 PAs!

Just finished an OL where my team won 112 games and my $3mil 2B was 5th in the entire league in doubles with 45!

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A few notes regarding my 1918 Chicago Cubs in 0soup4u's Best 90M Team Ever theme (choose a real life team, add 5 "free agents" from any other team in the same season):

- Four batters with 0 real life HR hit HR for me; one of them, Bill Killefer, hit 3.

- The team was not great, finishing with 87 wins, but did win its division by 1 game. This was due largely to our record in extra inning games: 19-5.  I don't think I've ever seen a team win that many in extras (if anyone has seen more than 19, please post below).

- The main reason we did so well in extras was our 4 pitching FA, who all happen to be WIS favorites from 1918: Fred Toney, Jack Quinn, Jake Northrop and Carmen Hill.  This quartet went a combined 34-9 with an ERA of 1.86.  

- The main reason we won only 87 games was our lone FA hitter, Ty Cobb.  A $9.35M salary, probably the highest paid batter in the league, and he didn't finish Top 50 in Runs Created.  His batting line was a disappointing but not horrible .321/.378/.394 (real life: .382/.440/.515), but it was his hitting with RISP that really stunk.  Half my losses seemed to see him making the final out with the tying run on third base and the winning run on second.   Cobb hit second in the order; for comparison's sake, here are the rest of the top 4 with their salaries, RC and RBI:

Lead off hitter Charlie Conacher ($5.51M): 105 RC, 65 RBI
#3 hitter Les Mann ($4.27M): 108 RC, 104 RBI
#4 hitter Dode Paskert ($5.67): 94 RC, 122 RBI

Cobb, who costs nearly as much as the #1 and #3 hitters combined, finished with 92 RC and a measly 42 RBI.

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Should have dumped him!!!  Ha ha ha!

No WW in that theme, but if there were I might have "gone mixtroy" for once.  

This is from the BOBL progressive and the 1894/1924 season...

1894 Tuck Turner just had an amazing season for me... 170-379, 31 2B, 11 3B, and an amazing .449/.475/.588/1.064, yet finished 2nd in all those stats on my team, to Hugh Duffy and his full season (I traded for him mid season): 306-672, 76 2B, 13 3B, 25 HR's, 195 RBIs, 43-23 SB-CS, and .455/.521/.719/1.240.

Yet Duffy was second in OPS to Bill Joyce and his .425/.549/.724/1.273 OPS.

24 batters had 150+ RBI's, 6 qualified hitters over .409, a team scored 1447 runs, everyone had 1000+ runs, two TEAMS hit .340

Kid Nichols lead the league in wins for the 3rd straight year, but this year it was due solely to volume, he pitched 115 innings more than 2nd place...gave up 193 (!!) more hits than second place...129 more runs (431 to 302)...

4 pitchers in the entire league with a sub 4 era, 14 with a sub 5 era. The best team ERA was 5.70

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I have a player in the current OG Twist theme (80M cap with average AAA) who, 31 games in, is 4th in the league with four triples hit. 

What's unusual about this?  My player, 1974 Frank Robinson, is a 200K scrub who's played only five games.  What's more, in real life he hit just one triple.

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I'm not sure if I've ever seen this before, at least not in a league where everyone's playing with the same cap.  79 games in, and the three Wins leaders from Got Worm's "Franchise league 90+ loss seasons" theme (80M cap) are all from my Mets team:

1977 Tom Seaver	Can't Anybody Here	14-1
1974 Jon Matlack	Can't Anybody Here	13-3
1974 Jerry Koosman	Can't Anybody Here	12-4
1968 Tommy John	Chicago White Sox	11-3
1971 Clay Kirby	San Diego Padres	11-6
1976 Andy Messersmith	Tombstone	11-2
1969 Sam McDowell	Tribes and Tribulati	11-8
1997 Brad Radke	Twin City Failure	11-6
1961 Camilo Pascual	Twin City Failure	11-4
1969 Andy Messersmith	Awesome Angels	10-7

That's a combined 39-8 from my trio of starters!  We must have clinched a playoff spot by now!

Nope.  The rest of the staff is no great shakes (13-18) so overall we're 52-27 and only 2 games up in the division.

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From a single season progressive league we just finished up, my #1 starter Bobo Newsome went 22-9 in 43 starts to lead my team in wins and was my only SP to not lose double digit games. His stat line on the season aside from W/L: 246 IP, .310 OAV, .375 OBA, .417 SLGA, a 1.71 WHIP and 5.41 ERA - all the highest on my team BY FAR!!!

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Pfeffer-facts I recently discovered:

There's a Big Jeff Pfeffer and a regular (no nickname) Jeff Pfeffer.  They were both pitchers.

Big Jeff was in the bigs from 1905-1911; regular Jeff played from 1911-1924, so their MLB careers overlapped one season.

Big Jeff was 6'1 and 185 pounds; regular Jeff, at 6'3 and 215 pounds, was bigger than Big Jeff.

Oh yeah, and they were brothers.

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i knew there was 2 but brothers? thats funny i suppose he was big jeff cause he was older i had a older cousin who was big bob and i was bobby when we were kids

Big Jeff's given names were Francis Xavier; regular Jeff's were Edward Joseph.  

So you've got two brothers with four given names between them -- none of them Jeff -- and both wind up going by Jeff.

this just keeps getting funnier and fuunier kind of like that old tv show with the two brothers named darrell