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2052 WBL Season Thread
- Thread starter Travis7401
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Losing my best player for any amount of time when I'm at .500 sucks doe
Julio is ballin'
Sad year for Weber so far. I hope this isn't the beginning of the end. His hitting ratings are still fine but his defense has taken a hit. I hope he has a few more years left.
NML
Well-Known Member
After three wins in the first three sims, we've gone 7-5 in the last two. My pitching has got to regress to the mean at some point so hopefully we keep these good performances going.
@Yankee151 ur better off doubling down on winning now. I basically own ur drafts for the next three seasons.
@Yankee151 ur better off doubling down on winning now. I basically own ur drafts for the next three seasons.
Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
Ur record says otherwise also
NML
Well-Known Member
I've been lucky enough to avoid the bad morale bug despite the worst record in the league.
Yankee151
Hot Girl Summer
I think my in-game general manager is the most loathsome of all creatures and it's affecting me negatively somehow. He has the worst career record of all the league managers among other things and that's the main difference I can think of that makes all my players tank.
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I really like that aspect of tanking not being rewarded in OOTP. It is realistic because if you tank in real life you create such a culture of losing that it just destroys the hopes and dreams of even your best prospects. It takes years and years of trying to claw your way out of that loathsome trog-hole and redefine your identity. When I started playing OOTP I made the decision to field the best lineup I could every year and never tank. I assumed it would take at least 4 years to build that non-loser identity. I stacked my minor league teams with 28 year old washed up WBL players as ringers so that at least the YOUTHS would learn a culture of winning! That's why even on losing teams I resisted trading away my good players until I felt like I could get more than fair future value out of them while also providing adequate replacement coverage for the position they vacated.
Yankee turned his team into the Oakland Raiders, basically. A proud franchise goes from a super bowl appearance to suffering through decades of loathsome performance as that culture of losing clings to them. During that losing time period they've actually had a ton of talent on the roster too, they just didn't believe they could win.
I'll use the Tim Tebow example again to explain why he was one of the best first round draft picks Denver ever made simply because of his TALISMAN powers. I don't give a shit about his lack of talent, he believed he'd win and he got the entire team to believe they'd win as well. He took a team that had a culture of losing (from McDaniels and Orton) and transformed them to a team that could win even WITH his shitty QB play. That's ultimately what drew Peyton to Denver too. He realized that if the team went to the playoffs with Shitty Tebow playing, they could be really good with competent QB play. Now that Manning is so old and terrible, he's similarly just riding the culture of winning despite the fact that he's playing terrible.
I was hoping CICIO would be the type of Talisman that could help the rest of Yankee's pitchers discover the BABIP cheat, but it just hasn't worked that way. Instead, CICIO has been infected by Yankee's toxic clubhouse and his BABIP has now reached failure levels.
I think what Yankee needs is just many more Talismanic creatures. Fortunately for him, I have a plentiful supply of Talismans.
Yankee turned his team into the Oakland Raiders, basically. A proud franchise goes from a super bowl appearance to suffering through decades of loathsome performance as that culture of losing clings to them. During that losing time period they've actually had a ton of talent on the roster too, they just didn't believe they could win.
I'll use the Tim Tebow example again to explain why he was one of the best first round draft picks Denver ever made simply because of his TALISMAN powers. I don't give a shit about his lack of talent, he believed he'd win and he got the entire team to believe they'd win as well. He took a team that had a culture of losing (from McDaniels and Orton) and transformed them to a team that could win even WITH his shitty QB play. That's ultimately what drew Peyton to Denver too. He realized that if the team went to the playoffs with Shitty Tebow playing, they could be really good with competent QB play. Now that Manning is so old and terrible, he's similarly just riding the culture of winning despite the fact that he's playing terrible.
I was hoping CICIO would be the type of Talisman that could help the rest of Yankee's pitchers discover the BABIP cheat, but it just hasn't worked that way. Instead, CICIO has been infected by Yankee's toxic clubhouse and his BABIP has now reached failure levels.
I think what Yankee needs is just many more Talismanic creatures. Fortunately for him, I have a plentiful supply of Talismans.
Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
Well that's quite a theory
Also, starting this fucker at 1B for more than half your games is probably part of the problem, Tankee. Positional rating of 25 at 1B, terrible bat, terrible intangibles. Currently has a Defensive EFF of .71 which apparently means he drops like a quarter of the balls thrown to him, lol.
http://utopia.allsimbaseball9.com/game/lgreports//players/player_8108.html
What's going on here, Yankee? You need a rental 1B? Why aren't you starting Von Sherman against RHP? So many questions.
http://utopia.allsimbaseball9.com/game/lgreports//players/player_8108.html
What's going on here, Yankee? You need a rental 1B? Why aren't you starting Von Sherman against RHP? So many questions.
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Mark Rathwell can help you @Yankee151
That's the best part... he's got a good 1B already, he's just playing him at DH for some reason that only Yankee can comprehend (and only starting him against LHP when he's better against RHP?)
CICIO can't help you if you can't unfuck urself!
Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
Yankee is next level tanking because he's gotten so close to BANT. He signs big contracts but puts his players in the position to fail.
I just realized I'm playing Yankee this week.... fuck me for pointing that out 
Oh well, I'm in a promising position which means it is time for that annual sweep at the hands of yankee. I don't think the riggers have beaten Istanbul a single time since I"ve been in the league.
Oh well, I'm in a promising position which means it is time for that annual sweep at the hands of yankee. I don't think the riggers have beaten Istanbul a single time since I"ve been in the league.
I have no clue how waivers work, lol. I signed 2 dudes and then I couldn't place them on any of my teams because they were out of options, so they had to clear waivers first? I thought if I signed them that was like "clearing waivers" and I could move them to my lineup?
So I put them on waivers and someone else signed them?
I was pleased to at least win 1/3 against Yankee.
So I put them on waivers and someone else signed them?
I was pleased to at least win 1/3 against Yankee.
In good news, Douglass Tagg doubled his season hit total and I signed him through 2057
ZackMills
Have mercy
WTF, swept at Dublin? Tanners playing awful this season. Bullpen shitting the bed. Easily the best rated they have ever been too. Infielders who were good defensively last year are bad. Fuck it, I'm making it Zach Mills Day!
In other news, the first diagnosed concussion of Roy Lomond's career ended his playing days. So dumb.
In other news, the first diagnosed concussion of Roy Lomond's career ended his playing days. So dumb.
Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
I'm no happier than you are Mills.
Karl Hungus
Here to fix the cable
The injuries are dumb. 36 y/o pitcher tears his labrum? 4 months. 33 y/o outfielder tears labrum? 3 months. 26 y/o outfielder tears labrum? Career over.
Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
Monday, May 13th, 2052
Dublin Distillers: C Jorge Quintanilla was injured while helping an old lady cross the street. The Diagnosis: wrist tendinitis. He's expected to miss about 2 weeks.
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Dublin Distillers: C Jorge Quintanilla was injured while helping an old lady cross the street. The Diagnosis: wrist tendinitis. He's expected to miss about 2 weeks.
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Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
Thursday, May 9th, 2052
San Francisco Tanners: Roy Lomond has suffered a setback in his recovery from injury. He has elected to retire rather than continue his rehabilitation. This is a CAREER ENDING injury!
San Francisco Tanners: Roy Lomond has suffered a setback in his recovery from injury. He has elected to retire rather than continue his rehabilitation. This is a CAREER ENDING injury!
ZackMills
Have mercy
Monday, May 13th, 2052
Dublin Distillers: C Jorge Quintanilla was injured while helping an old lady cross the street. The Diagnosis: wrist tendinitis. He's expected to miss about 2 weeks.
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That's what you get for fucking with Indie developers.
His brain is soup though. No rehabbing that.
ZackMills
Have mercy
Monday, May 13th, 2052
Dublin Distillers: C Jorge Quintanilla was injured while helping an old lady cross the street. The Diagnosis: wrist tendinitis. He's expected to miss about 2 weeks.
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This is such a cover story. Bet he's a chronic masturbator.
Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
That avatar smile had never seemed more genuine
Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
My friend is down to take over Key West, I'll get him registered unless anyone has an objection.
I described the league as a cesspool of shtick oriented trollers and Key West as a Royals knock-off. He's still down.
Unless we're still waiting for some Nutopian native to string us along for 6 seasons.
I described the league as a cesspool of shtick oriented trollers and Key West as a Royals knock-off. He's still down.
Unless we're still waiting for some Nutopian native to string us along for 6 seasons.
Mr. Radpants
Trog Five Standing By
That is a strong post but no, sorry.
Karl Hungus
Here to fix the cable
Sounds good, but we should get @jdlikewhoa to do a background check and maybe follow him around for a bit.
Can't be too careful with the WBL.