Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:nevermind i saw

Wiers is a great guy and a big A's fan and way into stats. Seemed like a perfect fit.

I'm only on board with this if he promises to have Rickey Henderson on his team.

I would assume that's a forgone conclusion

@SkitchP wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:nevermind i saw

Wiers is a great guy and a big A's fan and way into stats. Seemed like a perfect fit.

I'm only on board with this if he promises to have Rickey Henderson on his team.

I would assume that's a forgone conclusion

Some quick FAQ stuff for Wiers, should he decide to join. Basic tips beyond the actual rules, more so about navigating some of whatif's finer points.


Here's the blank stat sheet made by chud (@peternclarke)

cutuphalfdead wrote:Blank stat sheet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1s84m09sc4pcu ... t.xls?dl=0

Modify it as you see fit for your own needs.

Spoiler: show

1. Stats are not REQUIRED to be kept, but it is strongly recommended. Takes about 5 minutes a day and is not difficult to keep up with if you do it every day or two. anything longer than that starts to feel like a chore

2. No Roster Changes once the season starts.

3. If you select more than I think 6 SP, it will put the others in the bullpen- and you wont be able to use them as starters at all. And you don't get to pick which ones get assigned where.

4. In game management is all up to the SIM. it picks your pinch hitters, relief pitchers, etc. Each Game is run independently of one another, so you could, in theory have your closer blow 4 games in a row.

5. Have an extra starter (at least 1) beyond your planned rotation. Inevitably, one of the guys you were counting on being dominating will get lit the fuck up.

6. Don't overlook the importance of some platoons, even with all time greats. Don't base your entire roster on them (i tried that once. It went poorly).

7. Positions matter.... kinda. When building your team, you need to have all position slots filled out with a guy that was assigned to that position. From there when you're setting your lineup, you can assign anyone to any position. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it will kill your team.

8. To make it easier to run the games, Name your team (for example) WIERSvsRHP. Then make another team and import the roster from the first, and then name that team WIERSvsLHP. This will let you set lineups for against both types of starters so that the guys running the games dont have to adjust your lineups for you all the time. All you have to do to get a lineup to save is simulate a game using that lineup. Usually I have my SkitchVsRHP play a game against my SkitchVsLHP with the lineups how I want them. This also makes it easier because you dont have to report your lineup changes to anyone, you just change them as you see fit.

9. You can organize your rotation however you want, within the rotation rules that lament has in the OP, BUT if you deviate from it, you must post it in the thread so that whoever is running the game knows who you want to start.

10. Whatif does not allow for a DH unfortunately. So if you want 1996 Mark McGwire's bat in the lineup, you'll have to sit Jimmie Foxx- or find a position where their defense wont kill you.

11. You will get very very mad at the AI of Whatif. It may decide that Carney Lansford is your best pinch hitter and use him every damn game in that role, even if you know he's been 0-17 as a pinch hitter. We all get used to it.

12. EH Ruddock is a veteran of our armed forces and he really wants you to have rickey henderson on your team.

Does that mostly cover it guys?

McGwire was not an Athletic in 1998.

cutuphalfdead wrote:McGwire was not an Athletic in 1998.

Damn it. I meant 96. Thanks for your feedback.

@SkitchP wrote: 12. EH Ruddock is a veteran of our armed forces and he really wants you to have rickey henderson on your team.[/spoiler]

More importantly I am Henderson's biggest fan and the president of his unofficial fan club.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

@SkitchP wrote: 12. EH Ruddock is a veteran of our armed forces and he really wants you to have rickey henderson on your team.[/spoiler]

More importantly I am Henderson's biggest fan and the president of his unofficial fan club.

Let's get together, do some blow, and steal third.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

@SkitchP wrote: 12. EH Ruddock is a veteran of our armed forces and he really wants you to have rickey henderson on your team.[/spoiler]

More importantly I am Henderson's biggest fan and the president of his unofficial fan club.

Let's get together, do some blow, and steal third.

Lol

so did I miss anything in my faqs?

I don't think so.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't think so.

I appreciate your support.

@SkitchP wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:I don't think so.

I appreciate your support.

Thank you for your service, Skitch.

Wiers is in! I think he's going to start making his A's team tonight!

Guys, we have an honest go goodness MLB writer for a major site involved in our nonsense. We're legitimate! I bet he writes a column on how stats have impacted all corners of the internet!

@SkitchP wrote:Wiers is in! I think he's going to start making his A's team tonight!

Guys, we have an honest go goodness MLB writer for a major site involved in our nonsense. We're legitimate! I bet he writes a column on how stats have impacted all corners of the internet!

Please tell him to only read this thread. He'll high tail it out of here if he wanders anywhere else.

READ ONLY THIS THREAD (or the homicide or kesha threads). The rest of this place is a damned dumpster fire.

Do you like Star Wars? If so we have plenty of great threads.

CopperTom wrote:Do you like Star Wars? If so we have plenty of great threads.

Do you want to play phatj's mario maker levels. do you. please. do you. please. thank you. please. you played the wrong ones. please.

he'll have a finalized roster by sunday night. So we can get this going by monday at the latest. (going into a weekend i figured to go with a loose deadline anyways, since weekends are dead here).

I'll have mine in by Sunday for sure.