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Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 3:46 am
by spike
Lament wrote:Are you one of his dozens of illegitimate children?
Unlikely, I was always pretty bad at baseball.

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 3:47 am
by E.H. Ruddock
davidwiers wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
davidwiers wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:Killing the board to replace it with a sub-reddit is an offensive concept to me, qwiers. We like our duct-taped, Crackpotted, individual board. I'm gonna call this guy McWalMart. Score another one for Big Internet.
Ah, okay.

I guess this reply took so long since you had to take a break from shuffling your Myspace Top 8 via AOL dial up.
Asher doesn't even have a twitter dot com.
Technology is new and therefore scary! /buries head in sand
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Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 3:47 am
by The Argonaut
My wife and I would like to thank you for having us over to your dinner party

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 3:48 am
by Norah
The Argonaut wrote:
davidwiers wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
davidwiers wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:Killing the board to replace it with a sub-reddit is an offensive concept to me, qwiers. We like our duct-taped, Crackpotted, individual board. I'm gonna call this guy McWalMart. Score another one for Big Internet.
Ah, okay.

I guess this reply took so long since you had to take a break from shuffling your Myspace Top 8 via AOL dial up.
Asher doesn't even have a twitter dot com.
Technology is new and therefore scary! /buries head in sand
more like: You just came into my house and said "Why the hell do you live in this dump!? There are condos available in the Trump Tower down the block! nom nom nom"
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Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 3:52 am
by Lament
spike wrote:
Lament wrote:Are you one of his dozens of illegitimate children?
Unlikely, I was always pretty bad at baseball.
Are you good at marrying strippers half your age?

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Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:05 am
by davidwiers
The Argonaut wrote:
davidwiers wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
davidwiers wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:Killing the board to replace it with a sub-reddit is an offensive concept to me, qwiers. We like our duct-taped, Crackpotted, individual board. I'm gonna call this guy McWalMart. Score another one for Big Internet.
Ah, okay.

I guess this reply took so long since you had to take a break from shuffling your Myspace Top 8 via AOL dial up.
Asher doesn't even have a twitter dot com.
Technology is new and therefore scary! /buries head in sand
more like: You just came into my house and said "Why the hell do you live in this dump!? There are condos available in the Trump Tower down the block! nom nom nom"
Well, if both site options are free (hint: they are) then why choose the lesser of them? Concrete sequential? Masochism? I'm perplexed, so enlighten me.

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:06 am
by Norah
davidwiers wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:
davidwiers wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
davidwiers wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:Killing the board to replace it with a sub-reddit is an offensive concept to me, qwiers. We like our duct-taped, Crackpotted, individual board. I'm gonna call this guy McWalMart. Score another one for Big Internet.
Ah, okay.

I guess this reply took so long since you had to take a break from shuffling your Myspace Top 8 via AOL dial up.
Asher doesn't even have a twitter dot com.
Technology is new and therefore scary! /buries head in sand
more like: You just came into my house and said "Why the hell do you live in this dump!? There are condos available in the Trump Tower down the block! nom nom nom"
Well, if both site options are free (hint: they are) then why choose the lesser of them? Concrete sequential? Masochism? I'm perplexed, so enlighten me.
this is where our community is

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:07 am
by E.H. Ruddock
I mean, we've always run it here. I don't want to have to see these people on any more Internet sites than I have to.

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:09 am
by philpritchard
This feels like as good a time as any to point out that I use Fangraphs to make pretty much all of my decisions in these things, and I've been terrible. So...

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:10 am
by davidwiers
So...inertia? Okay, I can accept that. It's just an unusual medium of choice for a league.

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:11 am
by Norah
it's where we were when we decided to start doing it

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:12 am
by davidwiers
philpritchard wrote:This feels like as good a time as any to point out that I use Fangraphs to make pretty much all of my decisions in these things, and I've been terrible. So...
Lies, damn lies and statistics!

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:12 am
by 4/5
Still a work in progress, but here's the first version. I haven't thought about righty/lefty stuff yet, so I have another 10-12 players in a pool I can swap for some of these guys if necessary. Does the sim swap in good defensive players late in games, or is it waste to carry a couple guys who that would be their main role? Also, I chose 6 starters and 4 closers. Is that the right type of strategy for this sim?

Dontrelle Willis 2005
Josh Johnson 2010
Kevin Brown 1996
Jose Fernandez 2013
Carl Pavano 2004
AL Leiter 1996
Armando Benitez 2004
Bryan Harvey 1993
Rob Nen 1996
Todd Jones 2005


SS—Hanley Ramirez 2009
OF—Cliff Floyd 2001
OF—Gary Sheffield 1996
3B—Miguel Cabrera 2006
OF—Giancarlo Stanton 2014
2B—Dee Gordon 2015??
IF—Luis Castillo 2000??
C—Charles Johnson 1997
IF—Dan Uggla 2010
1B—Carlos Delgado 2005
C—Ivan Rodriguez 2003
OF—Moises Alou 1997
3B—Mike Lowell 2004
OF—Juan Pierre 2004
1B—Derrek Lee 2002

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:13 am
by The Argonaut
You will learn to love it here. Because here is better than some sub-reddit. I know I'm being kind of hypocritical right now, but stop being a dick. This is our home.

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:16 am
by Lament
davidwiers wrote:Well, if both site options are free (hint: they are) then why choose the lesser of them? Concrete sequential? Masochism? I'm perplexed, so enlighten me.
Because this is where our history was made. This is where John Candelaria and Gary Peters threw their no-hitters. Where the SkitchPs pulled off a shocking sweep of Winning By Numbers in one of the greatest upsets ever. Where Pedro Martinez put chud and numbers on his back and carried them to a World Series title. Where the Garainals and Chudville Nine forged the greatest rivalry of the twenty-first century. Where Roger Clemens once started three different games for three different teams on the same day. Where we discovered #AvilaDevilMagic. Where we learned where George Brett invested all of his earnings.

This is our home.

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:16 am
by Norah
I don't think he was being antagonistic here, he just doesn't know how rooted we all are.

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:16 am
by Norah
Lament wrote:
davidwiers wrote:Well, if both site options are free (hint: they are) then why choose the lesser of them? Concrete sequential? Masochism? I'm perplexed, so enlighten me.
Because this is where our history was made. This is where John Candelaria and Gary Peters threw their no-hitters. Where the SkitchPs pulled off a shocking sweep of Winning By Numbers in one of the greatest upsets ever. Where Pedro Martinez put chud and numbers on his back and carried them to a World Series title. Where the Garainals and Chudville Nine forged the greatest rivalry of the twenty-first century. Where Roger Clemens once started three different games for three different teams on the same day. Where we discovered #AvilaDevilMagic. Where we learned where George Brett invested all of his earnings.

This is our home.
I just teared up.

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:17 am
by E.H. Ruddock
Also we're all pearl jam fans

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:18 am
by Norah
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Also we're all pearl jam fans
shhhhhh

Re: 2015 All-Time Franchise Tournament: Sign Up/Discussion

Posted: Fri January 29, 2016 4:19 am
by The Argonaut
Thank you for having us to your dinner party. The wife and I had a truly nice time.