Do you remember in Tecmo Super Bowl, whenever you did season mode, around game three quarters of the way through the season the computer would make it almost impossible to win? The other team will call all your plays, and your best player will fumble the ball 3 or 4 times?

Well, I'm in the playoffs now in one of my leagues. My team ran roughshod through the league winning 118 games. So what does this sim do in the playoffs? It goes all Tecmo Super Bowl on me. I have 69 Mike Andrews on my team. Because of roster issues, I have him playing SS. He's C+/A- at 2B in real life, he fielded .933 in the regular season. He's not good, but he's not awful. No biggie.

So in game 1 I eke out a 5-4 extra inning win at home. It would have been a lot easier had two Mike Andrews errors not led to a pair of unearned runs. But still, everyone's bound to have a bad game, and I won and that's the important thing. No big deal.

Game two of the series rolls around, and what happens? Andrews gets two more errors to bring his total up to four for the series. These ones matter, because they lead to three unearned runs and I lose 4-2.

By now I'm panicking, so in a desperate move I put Andrews back at 2B and bring my .183 batting shortstop off the bench. Fine, I sacrifice some offense, but now at least my defensive issues are settled, right? Check out this last game's box score:

Fielding

Errors: M.Andrews 2 (6)

I end up losing again, and now I'm down 2-1 to a team I finished 25 games ahead of.

Again, it's too early to be going apeshit, and the series is far from over. But at the moment I am equal parts angry, distressed, and shell-shocked. I can feel myself being Tecmo'd out of this series right before my eyes.

There you go. I just needed to vent for a while.

You aren't going to go Charlie Finley on us, are you?

In the second game of the 1973 World Series between the Oakland A s and the New York Mets, Andrews committed two errors in a four-run twelfth inning, leading to a Mets' victory. Oakland owner Charlie Finley forced him to sign a false affidavit saying he was disabled, thus making him ineligible to play for the rest of the series. Andrews' teammates, manager Dick Williams and virtually the entire viewing public rallied to Andrews's defense. Finally, commissionerBowie Kuhn forced Finley to reinstate Andrews for Game 4. He entered Game 4 in the eighth inning as a pinch-hitter to a standing ovation from sympathetic Mets fans. He promptly grounded out, and Finley ordered him benched for the remainder of the Series. Andrews never played another major league game, playing baseball in Japan in 1975 before retiring.

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A couple of thoughts:

A great team in the regular season is not the same as a great team in the post-season, especially in the sim...

The post-season is a crap shoot. Even very good teams can be swept out of the post-season. That is just the nature of baseball.

You need to use some real life baseball strategy here. Bench the bum. Teach him that starting spots need to be earned. Then bring him back for the next game (if there is one). Sim or not, break the curse.

You referenced Tecmo Super Bowl







I love it

i had a team which won its division with 79 wins. i had to play the best team which had 118 wins. my team beat his in the first round.....hope that helps.

It's not the losing I mind, it's more because it seems like the sim is trying to pull a screwjob right before my eyes. To wit: I just won the PM game 5-4, but again my team had 4 errors, with Andrews adding one more to his total (but I guess at least he cut his errors in half this game).

I won the World Series with the '68 Tigers, winning my division at 82-80. I felt dirty. I came back from a 3-1 WS deficit against the Cardinals (which is ironically what happened in the 1968 World Series), and even apologized for making a mockery of the season by claiming the title. But I had people on the board telling me, hey, apologize for nothing. These championships are hard to come by, and when you get one, savor it, cherish it, marry it. Sometimes it is frustrating, to be sure. I wish you the best in your series.

BTW, how many of you kept your stats on a legal pad in Tecmo Bowl? I did.

Maybe the new fielding update is screwing with him. Do you have a bunch of deadball pitchers, or are you playing a team with a bunch of deadball batters?

Quote: Originally Posted By Calder on 10/18/2009BTW, how many of you kept your stats on a legal pad in Tecmo Bowl? I did

Guilty...........

Quote: Originally Posted By eastvanmungo on 10/18/2009Maybe the new fielding update is screwing with him. Do you have a bunch of deadball pitchers, or are you playing a team with a bunch of deadball batters

I thought it might have been the update, but it's a single season 1969 progressive. I think it's either very bad luck or that dreaded curse of the 100-win team.

The curse of the best record.

I dont buy into the "teams built for playoffs" argument on here. I know what it means but I have had pitchers dominate all year at home park then get crushed in playoffs at home 3 straight times. Same goes for .380 hitters who hit .120.

Yes, slumps happen but teams you dominate throughout the year shouldnt all the sudden just sweep you....simply because it is playoffs. Can happen I agree, has happened to me 4 times when I had the best record.

Quote: Originally posted by The_Creeper on 10/20/2009The curse of the best record.I dont buy into the "teams built for playoffs" argument on here.  I know what it means but I have had pitchers dominate all year at home park then get crushed in playoffs at home 3 straight times.  Same goes for .380 hitters who hit .120.  Yes, slumps happen but teams you dominate throughout the year shouldnt all the sudden just sweep you....simply because it is playoffs.  Can happen I agree, has happened to me 4 times when I had the best record.

I believe in both "Building for the Playoffs" and "Luck". It is possible to hone your team for peak performance in the playoffs, and it is also possible that those carefully managed players will end up totally sucking when you need them the most.

That's pretty much the story of every team I've had for the last couple of years.