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NeoGAF OOTP Baseball 2016 League: Because We All Know The Show Will be Broken
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CrimsonCommie
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Pennant Chase is finally available!!
Braves have a 100% chance! Magic # 16
22 games left with 16 of them at home.
Braves have a 100% chance! Magic # 16
22 games left with 16 of them at home.
Got the Shakes
Member
I was really hoping I could pull off the AL Central miracle in the last 40 games like last season, but I just don't have any faith in my pitching holding up for the last 3 weeks.
Purple Cheeto
Member
5.5% playoff odds, hardest remaining schedule of any AL contender.
I am already dead. I guess considering my offense is 14th or 15th in nearly every offensive category it shouldn't be a surprise. Its like my team revolted after I traded off LogDog.
Edit: Interesting, I was looking at a bunch of my young arb eligible guys. They are all open to negotiate but they pretty much all want 1 year deals. So I could save a bunch next year but have to potentially pay out more long term.
I am already dead. I guess considering my offense is 14th or 15th in nearly every offensive category it shouldn't be a surprise. Its like my team revolted after I traded off LogDog.
Edit: Interesting, I was looking at a bunch of my young arb eligible guys. They are all open to negotiate but they pretty much all want 1 year deals. So I could save a bunch next year but have to potentially pay out more long term.
DUFFMCWALIN
Member
First place! Look out here comes Mr. MoneyPants. Gonna buy myself a way into a division championship.
CosmicQueso
Member
Oh zip it. Gawd how I hate the Angels.
CrimsonCommie
Member
Just found out that you can have "Iron Man" as your Injury history. Simulated a historic season from 2002 and the Cubs won the WS
CrimsonCommie
Member
Great now Freeman is out for 4 weeks! And dropped to 4th in the power rankings even though I still have the best record.
CosmicQueso
Member
Delicious Angel tears.
Purple Cheeto
Member
Kyle Seager had 3 homers in his first 9 at bats. Got hurt and was out for like a month, came back and has only hit 3 homers since. Ugh. .264 SLG% this month.
On the plus side my Short A team won the Northwest League, so huzzah.
On the plus side my Short A team won the Northwest League, so huzzah.
Owner will give you all the monies now!
Purple Cheeto
Member
Ha. At least I've got talent, even if it is a ways away. Funnily enough one of my best pitchers on that team is a 1B/DH in real life: http://www.baseball-reference.com:8080/minors/player.cgi?id=zangar000cor
http://gobl.obleague.com/lg/reports/news/html/players/player_24521.html
I will refer you to his personal trainer Bret Boone
DUFFMCWALIN
Member
Well that was a terrible sim.
CrimsonCommie
Member
Boo! I just hired a new trainer to start juicing up my team.
CosmicQueso
Member
The antici................................................pation is killing me.
CrimsonCommie
Member
Clinched at least a Wild Card spot this sim. Magic number is 3 for the division! Shelby Miller has a small chance of getting the pitching triple crown. 2nd in ERA, wins, and strikeouts! Miller for Cy Young and MVP!
Lol you still have a 93% chance at the wild card.
Lol you still have a 93% chance at the wild card.
3 games against the Nats, 3 against the Braves, 3 against the Phillies
93% chance seems insanely high. If I get swept by the Nats...
And damn, Jarred Cosart has not regressed to the mean at all since he came back. If only did I have the duo of him and Jose, I would feel great about any potential playoff series
Now I'm relying on Matt Garza!
Purple Cheeto
Member
0.8% odds, so you're telling me there's a chance!
Purple Cheeto
Member
Polanco is 169/519
Wong is 180/558
If you assume both get an average of 4 ABs per game, that's 40 abs left. Doing some math, it seems like both if they hit how they have would end up with roughly 13 more hits. So yeah, you gotta root for a couple of 0-fers.
I dunno what your likelihood is for dingers.
CrimsonCommie
Member
Mark Reynolds leads my team with 31 home runs and 80 RBI. Definitely the reason we're winning
Purple Cheeto
Member
Because you have a top 10 defense and a top 5 bullpen and your run prevention is really good.
You're basically like my Mariners team, except with a better offense.
You have the best run prevention in the NL!
I am astounded that I have a top 10 defense. I swear I've noticed about ten games this season where it was like "well damn that 2 run error fucked me over in the 8th/9th inning!"
CrimsonCommie
Member
I know I was just joking. We have the best ERA, Starters ERA, and defensive eff. Had one of the best bullpens too but once a couple of my better relievers got hurt a few guys just fell apart. At one point in the season my entire pitching staff had an ERA under 4.00 except for Alex Wood.
Purple Cheeto
Member
Errors aren't really a good way of measuring defensive acumen.
Just curious, what is? I kind of assumed that fielding percentage played a big role in it.
I would guess that how well your defense does with runners on base counts.
Purple Cheeto
Member
Well the game's defensive rankings of your team is based on a thing they call "Defensive efficiency":
When I am checking to see if a player in OOTP is good I usually look at a combo of range factor, zone rating and defensive efficiency.
Errors and fielding percentage only really measure how well a player does at fielding balls they actually get to.
I personally also try not to play a guy at a position if he has less than 50 as his positional rating for that position.
Purple Cheeto
Member
How would you like to trade for one Mike Zunino! He played for the University of Florida!
Purple Cheeto
Member
But he's got 80 power! Give me that scrub Yelich for him!