First of all the women's basketball team is called the Storm. San Diego should be the last one to start trouble because it looks as if all their players are surfing instead of playing baseball. Hey "Dude" what is this stick for?
Lol. Hey, who is this? Remember sign with name, GM and team dude (...gosh, now I know why they were trying to put fins on the bats (slaps head'...:)
Okay, even more tweaking to try and get my MRs some more playing time. They're just not getting on the field enough and they're really, really good pitchers for the most part.
Also, our division is completely up for grabs. While I can't seem to manage to break .500, I'm only a little back as the leader is 1 game over .500.
Okay, even more tweaking to try and get my MRs some more playing time. They're just not getting on the field enough and they're really, really good pitchers for the most part.
Also, our division is completely up for grabs. While I can't seem to manage to break .500, I'm only a little back as the leader is 1 game over .500.
My pen experiment is going well so far. A few more weeks and I'll post some of the FIP vs usage data.
I feel out of the running at last place, but I've got the talent to compete- it just hasn't all come together yet.
Pittsburgh's Woody Wallace spinning out this line: 8.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 8 K's.
What up, Female Doggoes!!
My Pierogies went 5-1 this week and swept the mighty, division-leading Brooklyn Sandwiches.
I'm feeling pretty good about my starters right now.
The downward trend begins for the Sandwiches. Hopefully we'll hang in there, but we've got more potential than current ability and our best player (outfielder Bobby Doyle) went down for eight months with a leg injury.
My relievers got to pitch?!?!?! Finally. Too bad it was all in the same game.
The view is nice from up here. You guys ought to come up and try it, after I quit the league.
I'm not quitting the league.
Another week, another mediocre showing from Boston (hey, at least it matches real life).
The good news is a lot of pieces to the puzzle are in place, but young and developing. The bad news is that won't help much this year :). I'm looking to trade some players (there aren't really any "untouchables" on my roster, just some that it would take a lot to pry away from me) for draft picks and prospects. I didn't mark it as such, but anyone you see in my organization that's much over 30 is on the block.
NEED HELP ON THIS PROBLEM!!!!!
The Seattle Rain have many problems.... battling for 1st place in a close race isn't one of them. However, there is a problem with signing free agents and players on waivers. I had signed three free agents over the past two weeks and two of them were assigned to my minor leagues, the third hadn't made a decision on contract. But no notification this week on pending contract. One of the players Davidson had pitched for AAA team last week. This sim week noticed the two players in minors were no longer in organization and found them back in free agency. Also the player on waivers is gone and not on my roster.
So today I went to offer those players a contract (re-sign) players on free agency and offer contract a new player. BUT, message indicated that I had already offered contract and would let me know their decision. Very strange.
I've taken players from waivers and free agency without a problem in the past without a hitch.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Mitchson - Seattle Rain
From OOTP forums:
Quote:
Originally Posted by kingcharlesxii:
Just make a decision and go with it. OOTP has so many options that if you spend too much time debating options, you'll never actually play the game.
Response:
So very true.
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I sooo concur.
It's nice about Burke, but what I really need is pitching. But I'll take what I can. Besides Rios, I had bad luck in that I was showing someone the game and manager options and failed to put 'trades' back to me and left them on for the AI. BAM. One of my few good hitters, Tom Price, got trades for some minor league rabble. Live and learn.
My 'apparent' problem is my budget, out of no where, my budget is now projecting red number's for next year. I did some extentions well within the budget, actually saving the club about 20 mil (I was surprised that some of the acceptances, but I had bonus goals all over the place and I think that helped.) So the 'red numbers' are worrisome.
Lastly, I have x amount for the draft. If I go after some hard to get, but very much needed folks, I may have to shoot my wad on two, if not just one to meet demands. It's going to be some tough decisions, especially if I fail to land them and end up with zilch. (and how are we dong the draft?)
All in all, I have no clue how the drafting will work and really am unsure how finicials seem to work. But will just try and deal and hope.
To Pred
Could you read about my problem above as I need the free agent problem solved or have to not utilize that function of ootp.
Thanks
Mitchson
I just promoted one of my middle relievers to be a starting pitching. The Bridgeburners are only one game below .500 and half a game out of first place and the organization is hopeful that this move will solidify their starting rotation for the rest of the season.
Guys can you point me to where i can download the league file? I'm a potential new member and Prederick told me the file is in this link somewhere.
I appreciate your help.
Steve - Breadmanben
I haven't had any issues with waiver pickups or free agents, but I haven't signed one for many uploads now.
I'm 100% okay with people joining the league right now so the other divisions fill up with humans. I don't know if I'm all that good of a GM, but our division is mostly human, I believe, and we're pretty much the tightest division. Course we could all just suck.
...we're pretty much the tightest division. Course we could all just suck. :P
Looking at the standing, the NL East, with my Fighting Pieorgies leading the way at 26-26, I think we all just suck
We are like the NFC West of the OOTP world.
Also, welcome to BreadmanBen. Which team will you be taking?
I got two outfielders back from the DL this week (can you believe three of them went down at once?). Watch out world!
Do you guys ever check out the injury report? Just for sh*t and giggles?
http://gwjleague.allsimbaseball5.com/game/lgreports/leagues/league_100_injuries.html
There are some funny ones:
Pittsburgh Fighting Pierogies: SP Héctor Martínez was injured while falling out of bed after having a nightmare. The Diagnosis: wrist tendinitis.
Phoenix Henchmen: SS Arlen Harper was injured . The Diagnosis: food poisoning.
Baltimore Bridgeburners: 1B Nate Bradley was injured when he attempted to do a wheelie on his motorcycle. The Diagnosis: back stiffness
San Diego Surfers: SP Edward Carruth was injured when he tripped running down the stairs. The Diagnosis: sore ankle.
What? He wasn't carry scissors?
garion333 wrote:...we're pretty much the tightest division. Course we could all just suck. :P
Looking at the standing, the NL East, with my Fighting Pieorgies leading the way at 26-26, I think we all just suck
We are like the NFC West of the OOTP world.
I got two outfielders back from the DL this week (can you believe three of them went down at once?). Watch out world!
Yeah, injuries have been a problem in my outfield, but for me it's mostly been pitching, which is why I'm shuffling things around and I overpaid for that youngster from Puerto Rico I scouted. I really needed him. A lot.
We're not the NFC West, we're the Patriots/Steelers/Ravens/Saints/Green Bay/Colts-with-Manning-division. Okay, we're all the 1927 Yankees.
Pred, thank you for your in depth answer to my two problems. Both are plausible and 1. will have more patience with signings (don't understand why they wouldn't jump at the chance to play on top notch, well managed team like Seattle Rain.) 2. Will have a talk with minor league managers about letting go players I deem a worthwhile risk to solidify minors until prospects develop. Maybe I'm just having a "Moneyball" moment.
Thanks Again - appreciate your taking time to research.
Mitchson - Seattle Rain
I want to fire my scouts. But first, and I looked all thru the 11 manual, I want to know what the rating scale is. It game no linear list. I want to know if 'ok' is better or worse then 'decent', or 'average' etc. When I look at other succcessful teams, there scouts are highly rated. Mine aren't and therefore my farm organization, imo, suck. I need pitchers and I see very little in the pike.
Anyway, if someone can give me a link or list of the ratings mention above I would be most appreciative.
Welcome BreadmanBen!!!
"The Draft"
I haven't seen any conversation regarding upcoming draft after Pred threw it out for suggestions. Here is mine....
I would like to be involved in the 1st through 5th Rounds. After that the A1 can do the rest of the draft. Curious if A1 would use our scout's potential rating to pick players for the subsequent rounds?
Do a live draft for 5 rounds with everyone having one minute to pick. Then if you don't pick, A1 picks for you for that round. That way it would take no more than 80 minutes for five rounds. Could be less if people pick quickly.
Not sure if feasible or how much work this would make for the "Commish."
It is now happy hour on the west coast so now i will enjoy my 1st round of my second favorite draft.
Thanks all for the welcome. I looked at the league website and I can't find the league file. I'm thinking it might be because I need to have a league sign in?
I think it's just that most of us are new (or new-ish) to the game. I also think that using a thread for all things makes it harder to have conversations and whatnot.
That said, first place! Finally over .500 and in first. I may have overpaid for that pitcher, but I'll spend $8 mil/season if it means I can win since my starting pitching was, ah, pretty terrible earlier in the season.
Greetings all. A few observations about this forum:
1) Several of us are new, so we ask things that might be labelled, 'RTFM', but still, it would be nice to have everyone's input for surely not everyone has all aspects memorized of such a complex game. And usuall different viewpoints lead to new understanding.
2) Discussions on the game, the stat's, the financials etc. are minimal. Pred does a good job at keeping this going and it's really should not be up to him to answer or discuss all the questions etc. So again, it's either the
'RTFM' syndrome, or folks are a very competitive here and are keeping things close to the chest to make sure their teams do well regardless of the rest of the leagues.
3) People just don't have the time or energy to discuss. This is understandable considering the working a long day and coming home to play a game of this depth, AND discuss it too, one is just too tired to deal with it. I totally relate.
Deal is, 2 & 3 or so unlike GWJ. Usually there's lot's of talk and chatter. Lot's of help and coaching so all have some idea, especially new folk, of how and why something does or does not work and the where's and why fors.
And 4), I'm totally out of line and should keep quite and just play the game. Hopefully that's not the feeling of everyone, but if it is, then I will do just that (or try to:))
Granted, I'm a casual baseball fan, just like I'm a casual gamer, so maybe I'm just out of my league and will stumble along the best I can. I can definitely do that too (well actually I AM doing that *chuckle*)
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