7-4 on my first games. Good/great pitching from Walsh, Brown, Pedro and Jose. Though Walter Johnson got shelled for 6 runs in 4 innings. My worse team the 1916 Braves won 12-11 in 11 innings.

My 1965 Sandy Koufax went 6 Innings on 97 PC and Allowed 1 Run and the Brooklyn Bums 55 1965 Sandy Koufax went 7.2 Innings on 105 PC and Allowed 1 Run but we Lost 2-1 on RP 1969 Pete Richert Retiring 1 but allowing 3 Singles for one Run

My 2000 Pedro threw a 1-hit shutout with 7 Ks, no walks, 96 pitches. It can only go downhill from there, though.

Another 10-5 session. Can we stop the count now?

No teams at 0-2. My two Walter Johnson's have combined for 17 innings of one-run ball. Let's hope that continues.

Posted by redcped on 10/28/2024 1:49:00 AM (view original):
My Tigers team allowed 32 runs on opening day, but in the 7 leagues I’m in I found two higher totals. There was a 51 in the Orioles and 39 in Red Sox. Can’t say fatigue factored in either.

The good news for my Tigers is my one good pitcher, Dutch Leonard, threw 6 shutout innings. The bad news is we gave up 12 runs anyway.

first games: 12-4
second games: 8-8

don't like the trend.

With the many of the matchups between teams with similar rosters, I expect a lot of close games. Sadly, this means 1-run game luck will have a lot of impact on W-L records.

Just had another 9-8 session (my third 9-8 today). In this session, I went 0-5 in 1-run games and 0-1 in 2-run games. 9-2 in games decided by 3+ runs.

Fun fact: My 1917 Braves went 1-2 in their first series. Ed Walsh took the two losses (combining to go 11.2 innings, allowing 17 hits, 6 walks & 8 runs.). My crappy SP, Jesse Barnes allows zero runs over 8 innings. Exactly what I anticipated when I drafted this team first overall.

my whites sox team is still perfect.

4 losses. team era over 10.

Some interesting stats from my teams, so far...

1908 Christy Mathewson (1916 Giants) gives up 12 hits and 11 runs in 3.1 innings in a 15-7 loss to 1919 Giants. Hopefully, that will be his worst outing of the year, else it will be a long season.

My 1961 Dodgers won 15-2 and have now scored 43 runs in 4 games (3-1) despite Frank Howard having a slash of .105/.150/.263. The 12 NL teams are averaging 5.7 runs/game. The 12 AL teams are averaging 4.3 runs per game.

My Indians lost 10-1 (now 1-3) and have allowed a league high 11 HRs in 4 games. I knew this pitching staff would allow HRs, but they are all low-whip pitchers (team whip 0.92 in real life). Sadly, their 1.66 team whip in the sim is in the bottom half of the league. High whip + high HR frequency = 2nd worst pitching in league.

My 1915 Red Sox dropped another game (1-3). My nine regular batters, in order of batting average are '23 Speaker (.500), '20 Hooper (.350), '20 E.Scott (.300), '12. Speaker (.286), '12 Gardner (.250), '09 Carrigan (.231), '11 Gardner (.231), '23 Ruth (.231) and '21 Ruth (.154). Yes - my $52 million dollars of Babe Ruths are my two worst batters (incl. ties) on the team and have hit zero HRs!

My offensively-challenged '63 White Sox finally won a game (won 2-1). We are last in the league with a .230 batting average and have scored only 12 runs in 4 games. The starting pitching has been fine... '64 Horlen, '67 Horlen and '63 Peters have combined to throw 22 IPs, allowing just 6 runs, 5 earned (2.05 ERA). The bullpen has thrown 10 combined IPs and have allowed 11 runs, 9 earned (8.10 ERA). Has anybody ever had success with Hoyt Wilhelm or Eddie Fisher? On the plus side, the entire pitching staff has 30 Ks to just 4 walks.

My Tigers team has an odd pitching build. I am a bit light on RPs but have six SPs with 200+ IPs, so I went with three tandems so the bullpen won't be needed until the 8th inning or later. In four games, my bullpen has thrown only 1.1 IPs (3 appearances). My '11 Verlander / '17 Scherzer tandem is 2-0, but Verlander has a 1.74 ERA while Scherzer has an 8.53 ERA.

My 1913 Phillies have scored only 7 total runs in 4 games, yet we are 2-2 thanks to wins of 3-2 and 1-0. We did lose a game 4-3 due to a 2-run 9th or we could be 3-1. Six of my 9 starting batters are hitting .214 or lower.

My 1922 Senators improve to 3-1 with all three wins coming in Walter Johnson starts. In fact, Johnson has combined to pitch 22.2 IPs w/8 ERs (3.18 ERA). The rest of the staff has 13.1 IPs, 16 ERs, 10.80 ERA. I expect this trend to continue.

Posted by 3dayrotation on 10/29/2024 9:56:00 AM (view original):
my whites sox team is still perfect.

4 losses. team era over 10.

Wait until you play my White Sox. Weakness vs weakness.

"My 1922 Senators improve to 3-1 with all three wins coming in Walter Johnson starts. In fact, Johnson has combined to pitch 22.2 IPs w/8 ERs (3.18 ERA). The rest of the staff has 13.1 IPs, 16 ERs, 10.80 ERA. I expect this trend to continue."

Doc Ayers threw 7 shutout innings in my third game, but we lost 2-1. Then in Game 4, Walter gave up 4 and we couldn't score off Firpo Marbury. I fear a long season is coming with this "offense".

First five rounds:

7-9
8-8
8-8
7-9
7-9

Consistent with my 21-year average - always just below .500...

Posted by Jtpsops on 10/29/2024 10:43:00 AM (view original):
"My 1922 Senators improve to 3-1 with all three wins coming in Walter Johnson starts. In fact, Johnson has combined to pitch 22.2 IPs w/8 ERs (3.18 ERA). The rest of the staff has 13.1 IPs, 16 ERs, 10.80 ERA. I expect this trend to continue."

Doc Ayers threw 7 shutout innings in my third game, but we lost 2-1. Then in Game 4, Walter gave up 4 and we couldn't score off Firpo Marbury. I fear a long season is coming with this "offense".

And then my second Johnson gives up 7 while we get shutout by *checks notes*...Hod Lisenbee.

What a fun season this is going to be.

Thru 8 games, my best team is 6-2 and my worst team is 3-5. My highest ranking team is #33 overall and my lowest is #300 (out of 384).

There are 10 teams with a 7-1 record and 3 teams at 8-0. That means my best 6-2 team is behind 19 other 6-2 teams on the tie-breaker (Exp Win%).

Overall, I am happy with my performance so far, as 12 of my 17 teams would advance to round 2, if the season ended today.

I will post the overall standings after the last undefeated team loses.
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Rank	Owner	Team	Franchise	Pick	W-L	Exp W%
1	DarthDurron	2017 Chicago Cubs	Cubs	1	8-0	0.792
2	contrarian23	1940 Tigers	Tigers	8	8-0	0.784
3	chewy3344	1998 Late Great Mates	Red Sox	17	8-0	0.773

Wow, after the pm2 session, nearly all my 5-3 teams lost and all my 3-5 teams won... so now, 13 of my 17 teams are either 5-4 or 4-5.