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    The Rugby Thread, 2nd Tackle

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    Posted

    Just a bit of "on-the-napkin" math done to compare and contrast how crazy that last week was:

     

    Round 1: Points Scored: 89
    Round 1: Average Point Differential: 11.5
     
    Round 2: Points Scored 142
    Round 2: Average Point Differential:  13.3
     
    Round 3 Points: 102
    Round 3 Average Point Differential: 7.3
     
    Round 4 Points: 106
    Round 4 Average Point Differential: 16
     
    Round 1-4 Points Scored: 439
    Average Point Differential: 12.025
     
    Round 5 Points: 221
    Round 5 Average Point Differenital:30.3

    Sports Games Thread

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

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    Fozzie put the idea in my head and I tried the 1901 random player listing, and decided to play and gave myself the first pick of the introductory draft and damn do I hate you.

     

    Do I take 20 year old Mike Trout, 23 year old Rogers Hornsby, or 22 year old Ed Delahanty? I think I'm going Hornsby.

    You HAVE to go with Hornsby, every day and twice on Sunday. Trout might get close some day, but he's not there yet. . . .

     

     

    5 years in, and I'm not sure I made the right decision. Admitted I've won a world series since then, but that's cause I got Bob Feller and Tim Lincecum in the draft and they are destroying the world. Hornsby has an MVP, but Trout has 3. 

     

    Plus side is there was depth at OF, and I was able to pull in CarGo and Marte. Toss in a trade for 22 year old Larry Walker and my lineup hasn't fallen off.

     

    Now just to replace my old as balls corner infielders.

     

     

     

    Regarding the who should you have played, also it depends on the historical settings you set up, if you have 1901 settings in 1901, then you're basically taking away one of Trout's pluses (while he's still ++ Power, not so important in 1901 when that's 10 HR a year), and pitchers get a maximum plus (they start 50 odd games a year and are expected to go the whole 9 just about every time, so they affect more games then they do in 2015

    The Rugby Thread, 2nd Tackle

    in SPORTS

    Posted

    Ireland crush Scotland, 40-10.. so Ireland are now +63, so England must win by 27 to claim the six nations (tiebreaker if they win by 26 is try count)

     

    considering England are playing France, the toughest of the opponents, you have to think Ireland are home and dusted,

    Sports Games Thread

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    Done through 2010 season.

     

    Selected hall of famers:

     

    Mike Schmidt (1987-2004), (.297, 660 Homers, 1751 RBI) 96% on 1st Ballot

    Jim Rice (1986-2003) (.298, 496 Homers, 1685 RBI) 80.9% on third ballot (and somethings never change, he's below average on all the game's Hall of Fame metrics)

    Edgar Martinez (1977-1997) (.290, 291 Homers, 1223 RBI) 75.3% on fifth ballot (Not sure how he got in, but he was a 7 time All Star)

    Christy Mathewson (1965-1983) (342-149, 2.25 ERA) 97.4% on first ballot (even though he played in the semi-deadball era before the power splurge, holy shit, those numbers! And to add, he's the career strikeout leader with: 5,363... (!!!!) )

     

    Others inducted include:

    Mo Vaughn

    Lenny Dykstra (no word if he's a embezzling scumbag in this world too)

    Freddy Lynn

    Andy Van Slyke

    Will Clark

    Mark Texiera

    Frank Robinson

    Bobby Bonds

    Hank Aaron

    Lou Gehrig

     

    Career Homer Leader is High Pockets Kelly (great name from the 1910's-20's) who hit 948 (!!!!) Homers from 1953-1976.He also has 4,440 hits to be the hit king). Izzy Alcantra, who was best known for Karate Kicking a catcher in the face after a brushback pitch in real life, is the single season HR king with 68 (he just got fortunate)

     

    Somethings never change, Mariano Rivera is the all time saves leader (544)

    SOCCER - Spring 2015

    in SOCCER/FUTBOL

    Posted

    If Real Madrid and Barcelona is El Clasico, is Celtic-Dundee United El Hacksico? ;)

     

    And bad news, good news for West Brom.

     

    Bad News, they went down a man in the 2nd minute due to a red card and trail City 2-0 in the second half..

     

    the good news, the ref sent off the wrong player (take a shot), and already admitted it, so there will be no suspension coming...

    Sports Games Thread

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    And before I go to bed, one little bit from the 1941-1960 sim that's complete

     

    Apparently Shoeless Joe Jackson can't get a break in any universe, real or OOTP.

     

    He comes in at age 17 in 1943 and hits .383 for the White Sox. Year after year, he churned out great hitting (by year, .369, .376, .371, .349, .366, .372)

     

    Then came that fateful day: May 12th, 1950: In a game against the New York Yankees, Jackson is hit by a pitch, and suffers a career ending fractured skull. He was hitting .400 in the early part of the season too.

     

    Despite the fact that he holds the career batting average mark of .370, the writers refused to consider him for the Hall of Fame, because players had to have 10 years in the league.

     

    In this case, I'm glad there's still a manual override, because damnit, the story's too good.

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    Sports Games Thread

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    1921-1940 in: Some notable hall of famers:

     

    Larry Doby (.310, 192 HR, 1304 RBI, 2844 Hits) (1912-1933)  94.7% (1st year on Ballot)

     

    Chris Carpenter (209-152, 12 SV, 2.73 ERA) (1913-1929) 79.9% (3rd year on Ballot)

     

    Robin Yount (.271, 38 HR, 931 RBI) (1905-1925) (7th year on Ballot)

     

    Oil Can Boyd (279-223, 12 SV, 2.98 ERA) (1911-1926) 82.5% (Fifth Year on Ballot)

     

    Sid Fernandez (221-149, 16 SV, 2.60 ERA) (1914-1929) 90.1% (first year)

     

    And funny story about one of the new features, in 1931 Jamie Moyer (221-179, 2.55 ERA) was in his 8th year of 10 years on the ballot. He had built up slowly in the Hall of Fame Voting:

     

    1924: 39.3%

    1925: 49.3%

    1926: 53.8%

    1927: 57.8%

    1928: 58%

    1929: 66%

    1930: 73.5%

     

    So he had three years left to get in. Shoe in, right? Except, he got even CLOSER to the magic 75% in 1931, 74%, and then fell off in the last couple years. (67.5%, 57.9%). Sad thing was in 1931 NO one got elected (no one got in from 1914-1918 (obviously, the game had just started, five year waiting period AFTER a hall of fame career, etcetera), but no one got in 1924, 1929, 1930-1931, or the year that the writers hated everyone, 1938 (when the top vote getter, gets 55% of the vote, you know that there's not a legit Hall of Famer in the group)

     

     

    Record holders of note

     

    Single season batting average (.426) Eddie Collins, 1930, who is still chugging along at age 36 next season (1941) with 3,580 hits and a LIFETIME batting average of .369 (also tops)

     

    The ex-Miracle Met, Art Shamsky holds the single season HR record with 40, Fred Luderus holds the career record with 354.

     

    El Guapo, Rich Garces holds the records for most games pitched (926) and saves (112)

     

    Bryan Rekar holds the record for both most wins (383) and losses (311)

    Sports Games Thread

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    Yeah, 2010. I don't get that decision at all. It's not even that cheap.

     

    Arlie posts over at FOFC, a text-sim board I hang out at.. he said he is trying to use Steam to build awareness amongst gamers but wants to hold out on putting newer games on the service because the margins are lower on Steam then elsewhere. Personally I think you'd make it up in volume, but...

     

    and in my OOTP Universe

     

    Players seen include Yasiel Puig, Thurman Munson (the current Hit King with 2745), Pete Rose (imported at Age 26 in 1901, so, sorry no Hit Dog), Scott Brosius (the current HR King with a career total of.. 102.), the current all time leader in Wins ABove Replacement (and 11 time Gold Glover) Robin Yount.
     
    The three Hall of Famers (remember, five years retired, so you had to be imported young, and play as close to 1915 as possible).
     
    Class of 1919:
    Johnny Sain (201-130, 2.29 ERA) 77.6% of votes
    Alex Fernandez (254-204, 2.53 ERA) 85.7%
     
    Class of 1920:
    Steve Carlton (201-178, 2.54 ERA) 76.1 %

    Sports Games Thread

    in COMPUTERS & GAMES & TECH

    Posted

    The first thing I do each year with OOTP is a "Random Debut Historical League" sim from 1901 to the present year.

     

    What that does is, takes all the players in history, and assigns them random debut dates. They are normalized to the era, so Babe Ruth would be a power hitting legend now matter what era he played in, but he might hit 60 homers in the modern day.. but if he played in the deadball 1900's, 10 might be a record.

     

    It's running the first batch of sims now (from 1901-1921), but just from the sidebars of the league leaders as the game sims, I can see the following players in the first few years: Boog Powell,  Thurman Munson, Ernie Banks, Pete Rose (Sr, the Hit King), and Yasiel Puig.

    The Rugby Thread, 2nd Tackle

    in SPORTS

    Posted

    Matchday Six:

     

    England (+37) vs France

    Ireland (+33) At Scotland

    Wales (+12) At Italy

     

    Italy @ Wales first, Ireland @ Scotland second, and England vs France last. So, in each case the team will know what the previous team did and what they need to do.

     

    cricket

    in SPORTS

    Posted

    Well, since I had a bit of time, I bought and read Kevin Pietersen's auto biography on Kindle. I have a jumble of thoughts about it, but this is most prevalent.

     

    A) Kevin Pietersen is a diva. He is the epitome of the modern cricket superstar. A bit prone to creating drama and needs careful management. He straight up admits he has no interest in warm up games (he calls them Harvey Norman or "Zero Interest Down" games), and dislikes ODI's.

     

    BUT..

     

    B ) What we saw in England this World Cup is just the end result of bad decisions five+ years ago where cliques basically destroyed the Ashes winning side of 2009. When you get modern superstars on one side, and dyed in the wool, conservative stick in the mud types running the show on the other, things are going to break down. Hard. They failed to develop the next Freddy Flintoff (or Kevin Pietersen for that matter, even if he is South African), and the current generation of players are just not up to the challenge. I feel like they're going to wilt hard under the pressure of this summer's Ashes series.

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