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Fantastic reporting of a well-designed and great league idea. Thanks ! I would have liked to see the 1977 or 78 Yankees or the 1998 Yankees in there instead - Bill James has a famous essay on why the 1961 Yankees were not a great team - see the RBI totals for Maris and Mantle for example - Richardson and Kubeck were NOT good leadoff hitters, rarely on base, Whitey Ford was the only great pitcher, but they are doing well in your league just as they did in real life. Who knows? I think the 1969 Mets are underrated - certainly they are not an all-time powerhouse like the great 1986 team or the very underrated 1999 team that SHOULD have beaten Atlanta to face the Yankees on more even terms than they did a year later. But the 1969 team dominated baseball the last third of the season, won 100 games, won the division by 8 over a very, very good Cubs team, beat the Atlanta Braves (Aaron, Cepeda, Niekro) in three straight and after losing the opener of course won four straight against an alltime great Orioles team that could not hit the Mets' pitching. I don't think it was just luck, or getting hot at the right time. They had real accomplishments, but they remain highly under-rated.
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