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Posted by crazystengel on 6/28/2015 10:44:00 PM (view original):
Can you guess how many games up this team is?

I've got a 1930 prog team that's currently in the Top 25.  66 games in and we're 47-19.  We've got the top 4 MVP vote getters, as well as the 1-3-4 leading Cy Young candidates.  

How many games up are we?

We're one game back!

Believe It or Don't!

Update: 

Season's over for my1930 prog team.  We held onto the top 4 MVP spots, and the 1 and 3 Cy Young spots.  We scored the most runs, allowed the fewest runs, and won 113 games. 

And finished 3 games out of the playoffs.

Believe It or Don't!

Posted by crazystengel on 6/28/2015 10:45:00 PM (view original):

Posted by crazystengel on 6/28/2015 10:44:00 PM (view original):
Can you guess how many games up this team is?

I've got a 1930 prog team that's currently in the Top 25.  66 games in and we're 47-19.  We've got the top 4 MVP vote getters, as well as the 1-3-4 leading Cy Young candidates.  

How many games up are we?

We're one game back!

Believe It or Don't!

Update: 

Season's over for my1930 prog team.  We held onto the top 4 MVP spots, and the 1 and 3 Cy Young spots.  We scored the most runs, allowed the fewest runs, and won 113 games. 

And finished 3 games out of the playoffs.

Believe It or Don't!

To quote Fun Boy Three's cover of that old jazz standard, "It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it".

According to b-r.com, the most similar pitcher to Dallas Keuchel is:

Dallas Braden!

Apparently having the same soap opera leading man first name factors into these things.

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I once won a game with a 1918 Jake Northop Grand Slam.

Is that worth a ...

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Worst offensive season ever for a hitter with 120 SB?  From the Random Captain league (90M theme), my 1986 Vince Coleman:

.199/.265/.252

Believe It or Don't!

Running Hot & Cold (& Cold & Cold & Cold...) Dept.

9 games ago, another team in an 80M theme I'm in exploded for 10 HR in a single game as they reached the .500 plateau (64-64).  Since then, they've lost 8 straight.  In those games, they've scored the following number of runs:

2, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0

6 shutouts in 8 games -- just 4 runs total!

Believe It or Don't!

Posted by crazystengel on 7/1/2015 4:16:00 PM (view original):
Worst offensive season ever for a hitter with 120 SB?  From the Random Captain league (90M theme), my 1986 Vince Coleman:

.199/.265/.252

Believe It or Don't!

still can't figure out how he was on base enough to swipe that many bases, but I played in the league with you and to quote the now-touring Grateful Dead.."what a long, strange trip it is" (or was)

1974 Tommy John just won a Cy Young award for me. His stats? 1.52 WHIP, 4.32 ERA, .288 OAV, 0 Games Started... not good enough to make leaderboard in any category!

Believe it or Don't!

His 25-2 record probably had everything to do with winning it.

Posted by bheid408 on 7/4/2015 7:34:00 PM (view original):
His 25-2 record probably had everything to do with winning it.

Indeed. Overvaluing wins and abusing tandem rotations FTW.

Yes, the Awards rules are a bit quirky.  Wins factor into Fireman: when was the last time a Win for a Closer wasn't the result of a Blown Save?   It happens, yes, but not most of the time.  Yet that Win counts.

Player of the Game awards can be odd, too.  Recently in a theme league my 1915 Pete Alexander had a rough outing -- 6 innings, 10 hits, 4 walks, 7 runs allowed (all earned), although he did get the W since the offense came through.  At the bottom of the boxscore under POG: "Pete Alexander strikes out 10."

I don't know, but to me a W and 10 K don't really make up for 7 runs allowed in 6 innings.  That's still a bad start.  I also had a couple of batters with 3 hits, and one with a double and HR and 3 RBI.  It's not as if there was nothing to choose from for POG.

And for POG, I love the occasional "Pitcher X gets shelled".

In CLWECW's 24 Extreme Themes league ($140M), celticus' 2000 Pedro Martinez just threw a perfect game.  Noteworthy, but what makes his performance relevant to this thread is what Pedro did in his very next start...a no-hitter.  Only an Ozzie Smith error prevented Pedro from consecutive perfect games.

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