Not Your Traditional Leadoff Hitter Dept.

The regular season for a 90M theme league of mine just wrapped up.  This was not a gimmick league where you start bad or tired pitchers so you can get football scores -- the league-wide batting line was .268/.330/.412.  Keep that in mind when you look at the stats of my leadoff hitter:

.352/.441/.785, 84 HR, 200 RBI 

1927 Gehrig was our leadoff hitter all season, and he finished second in the league in HR and RBI -- to our #2 hitter, 1927 Ruth (101 HR, 210 RBI).

Of course, spending all that dough on our top two hitters hurt our staff, as did our home park, Coors.  Even with those monsters at the top of the order, we finished  with 81 wins and out of the playoffs.

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101 home runs !! 

out of the playoffs!

Posted by crazystengel on 11/10/2015 2:35:00 PM (view original):
Re: The team in the above post.  I reverse forum jinxed 'em!  They just ended their L38 with a 6-5 win, in a game started by an 18% pitcher and closed by a 43% pitcher.

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Final update on the OL Waiver Wire madness owner:

He tailed off a bit after the above post, losing 106 games in a row to finish the season 6-156!

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13 MLB pitchers have won 3 games in a single World Series, most recently Randy Johnson in 2001.  No one's ever won 4.

At WIS it happens occasionally that a pitcher will win 4 WS games.  With everything on the line, a lot of owners will send their ace with 250+ innings to the mound every second game. 

But how often do relievers win 4 WS games?  And ordinary relievers, at that?  

I've just seen my first example of this, from the No Whining Prog's 1992 WS:

Game 1: Brian Barnes (real life ERC# 3.32, in the regular season pitched 112 IP, went 4-5 with a 3.85 ERA) enters the game in the bottom of the 8th, 2-2 tie.  Pitches a scoreless inning.  Then pulled for a PH'er as the offense scores 2 in the top of the 9th and he wins his first.

Game 2: Barnes enters the game in the bottom of the 7th, two outs, team trailing 6-3.  Strikes out the final batter.  Then pulled for PH'er as the offense scores 6 en route to a 12-6 win.  Barnes wins #2.

Game 3: Barnes pitches a scoreless 7th with his team down 6-2; no comeback forthcoming, no decision.

Game 4: Barnes, apparently ticked about not getting a W in Game 3, sits this one out, another loss for his team.

Game 5: Barnes comes takes the mound in the top of the 7th with his team down 7-3, pitches a scoreless inning.  In the bottom of the 7th his team scores 4 runs to tie things up, so, knowing he needs to go back out for the win, he pitches a scoreless 8th.  His team scores 2 in the bottom of the 8th, Barnes comes out, final score 9-7.  Win #3.

Game 6: Barnes is at 89%, and it looks like he might not pitch.  His team enters the 9th trailing 11-3.  They score 9 to take the lead, but the home team fights back and ties it in the bottom of the 9th.  Score is still tied in the bottom of the 10th when Barnes comes in to get the final two outs.  In the top of the 11th Barnes comes out for a PH'er, his team scores one to pull ahead, and they hold the lead in the bottom of the inning to win, 13-12.  Win #4.

4-0 with a 0.00 ERA!

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MANAGER OF THE YEAR
 
I have a prog team in 1932.  I didn't expect to compete this season, but coming up on the trade deadline we were about 3 games out and surging.  The team lacked SS PA, so I decided to make a trade and acquired Dib Williams from a non-contender.  From the draft center I learned that Dib had 477 PA, and an AVG+ OBP+ SLG+ OPS+ of 106/100/114/107 -- solid batting for a SS of that era.  

Now, 17 games into Dib's stint, I see his batting line is .134/.169/.149 with 71 PA.  Well, that's distressing! Also, he's at 96%, which is odd since I platoon him and he's had a few games off already.  After scratching my head a while, I concluded the following:

The stats I was looking at in the draft center when I made the trade were for 1933 Dib Williams -- 1932 Dib Williams is a bum!

Strangely enough, it hasn't mattered much, as we're now a couple of games up on the 2nd place team with 38 games to go.  Although I sure wish we had a decent SS to play for those 38 games!

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BETTER THAN THE 2013 DODGERS.

In one of my leagues by ssupfoo (shoutout to ssupfoo) my team was 35-33 (.514 win %) and was 10 games out of 1st place. My team then won 45 OUT OF THE NEXT 53 GAMES (.849 win %)! to improve to 80-41 (.661 win %) and over take 1st place by 7 games.

Better than the 2013 Dodgers when they won 46 out of 56 games.

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There's a team in the 110M Post-Season Twist theme (take two teams who met in the post-season and create a team by twisting their rosters) that's dominating the rest of the league. At the all-star break, this team:

-leads the league in wins (59-22) and has the biggest division lead (20 games)
-leads the league in runs scored with 491 (2nd place has 482, average is 388)
-leads the league in runs allowed with 280 (2nd place has allowed 294, average is 388)
-leads the league in plus plays with 84 (2nd place has 65, average is 30)
-has the fewest minus plays with 4 (2nd place has 9, average is 22)

Alas, since it's a team consisting of twisted 1907 Cubs and Tigers, they can't field worth a damn: they're 23rd in fielding percentage!

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Posted by crazystengel on 1/19/2016 6:26:00 PM (view original):
There's a team in the 110M Post-Season Twist theme (take two teams who met in the post-season and create a team by twisting their rosters) that's dominating the rest of the league.  At the all-star break, this team:

-leads the league in wins (59-22) and has the biggest division lead (20 games)
- leads the league in runs scored with 491 (2nd place has 482, average is 388)
-leads the league in runs allowed with 280 (2nd place has allowed 294, average is 388)
-leads the league in plus plays with 84 (2nd place has 65, average is 30)
-has the fewest minus plays with 4 (2nd place has 9, average is 22)

Alas, since it's a team consisting of twisted 1907 Cubs and Tigers, they can't field worth a damn: they're 23rd in fielding percentage!

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This post is a good illustration of the general un-relatedness of fielding and range.

I had a theme league time a couple of months back. Pedro Martinez got 7 hits in the entire season.


5 of them for triples.



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I have 1923 Wally Kimmick in a 90M theme league.  

Real life line: .225/.271/.275 with 2 doubles in 93 PA.

Thru 15 games in the sim: .909/.917/.1.364 with 5 doubles in 12 PA.

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sim stats for mike o rourke - 1890....196 innings in 5 games.

Posted by dino27 on 1/24/2016 2:13:00 PM (view original):
sim stats for mike o rourke - 1890....196 innings in 5 games.

That doesn't really have anything to do with what this thread is about, but for what it's worth the numbers are accurate.

The 5 games is exactly how many he pitched in 1890.

The 1890 Baltimore club in the AA took over for Brooklyn late in the season.  They only played 34 games that season.  O'Rourke pitched in 5 games, all starts.  He threw 41 innings.

The 196 you cite is his IP prorated to 162 team games.  41 innings in 34 games equates to 195 innings.

All of the stats for Baltimore players that season look equally weird, but are correct.

Irv Ray played in 38 games but is credited with 749 PA/162, etc.

2 outs with a runner on first then....17 runs!!!!

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https://www.whatifsports.com/slb/Boxscore.aspx?gid=26031963&pid=1&pbp=0&tf=10