Looking For "Friends" to join "Our League" Season 3

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

I shut it down after my last post, because one of sons, in rooting through a closet for old games for game night, came across two Strat-O-Matic game boxes, that were bought probably 20 years ago at the Salvation Army store. They were, it seemed, little played, and in great shape. the 1982 and 1984 seasons. The were priced at $2.50 each. They also later found an SOM hockey, but we haven't opened it yet. We're gonna work them into a game night for sure. I'll kill them.


Actually the reason I'm not going right to bed is because I'm cooling down from me best start with them in Samurai Swords, the game my son was getting when the other stuff was found. It's Risk type game that was originally called "Shogun," and was put out to capitalize on the popularity of the mini-series based on the James Clavell novel. There actually a log book inside the game that documents my string of failures. Anyway, we played for two hours and my set up has been my best yet, I think. They've only figure out half my moves before I know them, down from my usual 90%.


Anyway, that will be left set up and returned to over the coming days. It takes awhile. I'll report on anything interesting that comes from the SOM.


What this long introduction is for is to say that Hooterville clings to a one-game lead over Brigadoon in OL ST165. However, the race is still five wide, with only Port Ruppert with little seeming shot. They have only four games left and even a sweep of them would have them just a bit above .500.


The rest of the league has a ton of games left, with some teams close to doubling their schedule. Vlora plays the least at 7, but those seven are all against Brigadoon and all on the road, so their path would seem a steep one. Anyway, here's the standings. I'll post the remaining schedule using my abbreviations immediately after this.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

In order they'll be played, probably. Sorry, forgot the dates and it's late to go back and get them. The sim will have already started by the time I get up.
vs. = home; @ = away



BRH - 4 vs. VWS, 3 vs. VWS, 3 @ SVS
HOH - 3 @ LCL, 4 @ KWR, 3 vs. LCL
KWR - 3 vs SVS, 3 @LCL, 4 vs. HOH
LCL - 3 vs. HOH, 3 vs. KWR, 3 @ HOH
PRM - 4 @ SVS
SVS - 3 @ KRW, 4 vs. PRM, 3 vs. BRH
VWS - 4 @ BRH, 3 @ BRH


Sorry in advance if order is corrupt and for any typos. Good luck.

[OMGPuppies]

Stanley you sure have an enviable life.

[Edster007]

The race for the OL Crown will come down to the wire. Off an 11-3 day Hidden Valley has overtaken Kansas by a percentage point with Weston Pointe a close third. As we head to the last day here are their OL schedules:

Hidden Valley: 18 games remaining.
3 vs. Transylvania
6 vs. Bluffton
6 vs. Midwest
3 vs. Weston Pointe

Kansas: 11 games remaining
3 vs. K-Town
5 vs. Coney Island
3 vs. Palolo

Weston Pointe: 9 games remaining
3 vs. Transylvania
3 vs. Annadale
3 vs. Hidden Valley

In Iron League play

In the American Conference all three divisions have been clinched. OL Division winners Hidden Valley and Weston Pointe are headed for a clash in the divisional series as it doesn’t seem likely either will overtake top seed in the AC St. Paul.

The AC wildcard show Annadale controlling their own destiny as the top seed. Bluffton holds the second spot by 2.5 games.

In the National Cary seems in line to clinch the west and after playing .750 ball in August Kansas has opened up a 9.5 game lead in the East.

The NC wildcard has all OL teams on the outside looking in. Vegas is shoe in for the first spot with Coney Island is trailing Minnesota by 2.5 games. The teams play seven times including a three game series to end the season. Palolo still has life, four games behind the Warriors and 6.5 behind the last WC spot.


Should be some good September baseball

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

If I don't have your team's logo from this year or last year, please post it. If you put one up, believe me I have it. Otherwise you get a fuzzy screenshot job, or something I make for you. Thanks.

[mcdog512]

Originally Posted by Edster007

The race for the OL Crown will come down to the wire. Off an 11-3 day Hidden Valley has overtaken Kansas by a percentage point with Weston Pointe a close third. As we head to the last day here are their OL schedules:

Hidden Valley: 18 games remaining.
3 vs. Transylvania
6 vs. Bluffton
6 vs. Midwest
3 vs. Weston Pointe

Kansas: 11 games remaining
3 vs. K-Town
5 vs. Coney Island
3 vs. Palolo

Weston Pointe: 9 games remaining
3 vs. Transylvania
3 vs. Annadale
3 vs. Hidden Valley

In Iron League play

In the American Conference all three divisions have been clinched. OL Division winners Hidden Valley and Weston Pointe are headed for a clash in the divisional series as it doesn’t seem likely either will overtake top seed in the AC St. Paul.

The AC wildcard show Annadale controlling their own destiny as the top seed. Bluffton holds the second spot by 2.5 games.

In the National Cary seems in line to clinch the west and after playing .750 ball in August Kansas has opened up a 9.5 game lead in the East.

The NC wildcard has all OL teams on the outside looking in. Vegas is shoe in for the first spot with Coney Island is trailing Minnesota by 2.5 games. The teams play seven times including a three game series to end the season. Palolo still has life, four games behind the Warriors and 6.5 behind the last WC spot.


Should be some good September baseball

It's a real tight race for sure. Been fun to watch to be honest.

[stl jason]

Rookie league update:

Terra Incognita holds a solid lead as we hit the stretch run to the end of the regular season.

From a pro-rel perspective, Terra Incognita, Hartford and Daytona Beach are within the promotion range, with Asheboro, Ring Road and Waffletown lurking just on the outside (though I wouldn't complain if the Syrups failed to move up and spent another season at the rookie tier )

[adion]

Originally Posted by Bottom Of The Sixth

Who's interested in playing Perfect Team 21 our way?

"Our League" is a group of unique Perfect Team owners who are starting our 3rd season and we all enjoy playing the same way:


1) We play for free; we do not purchase additional Perfect Points (PP) with real money.


The ONLY PP we use is the PP that is earned from achievements in our games and from selling off any baseball cards that we don't want; we don't buy additional PP with real money.


2) We play using only Non-Live player cards


We Do NOT use any baseball cards that are of live players from the 2020 Live, 2020 All-Star, Future Legend, 2020 POTM (Player of the Month), or 2020 Team Of The Year cards sets.

This means that we only use players that can be found on the following cards:

One-Hit Wonder
Rookie Sensation
All-Time Legend
Historical All-Star
Snapshot
Unsung Heroes
Hardware Heroes
***Special Edition***Eligible Card Sets: One Hit Wonder, Legend, Snapshot, Negro League Stars, All Star (Non 2020), Special Edition, Hardware Heroes
***Special Edition***Not Eligible Card Sets for "Our League" Play: MLB 2020, MLB 2020 All-Stars, & MLB 2020 POTM



Also, if you enjoy playing with only era specific players, then we are the league for you!

For example, if you play with all pre WWII players, or all 1980's players, then you will easily fit into "Our League"


In order to be eligible to be included in "Our League", besides agreeing to the above conditions, you must also agree to use the " - OL" suffix at the end of your team name and you must use the "+" at the end of your teams abbreviation. (See Image Below)




The use of these symbols is to help identify your team as a "Our League" member.


If you do not use the -OL and the +, your team will not be recognized as a member of "Our League".


To be able to add the" - OL" and the "+" to the end of your team name, start off at the Main Menu and go to Perfect Team, next select Profile & Setting, next go to Customize Team, next select Edit Team Name and add the - OL and the + ; please make sure you hit the "Submit Team" button at the upper far right part of the screen otherwise your changes will not be taken.


In order to be setup in the same league as other "OL" members, you will need to change your League Placement Setting.

Start off at the Main Menu, next go to Perfect Team Setting, next go to Profile & Settings.



Under the "League Placement Setting" make sure to select "Use Friends List".



Next, select the "Submit Team" button. If you do not do this, you will not show up in the same league as other "OL" members.





This next step requires you to manually add each OL member.

Start with the Main Menu. Next, go to Perfect Team Universe. Next, go to Managers & Rankings.

In the window labeled Search User, type in the PT user name you are looking for.

Next, from the list of user names displayed, select the user name you are looking for and at the far right of the screen you will see the option to "Add as Friend" and select it.



If you did things correctly, you will see a green check mark at the far right end of the screen, with the option of selecting it to remove that user as a friend.



As Our League members advance levels or are regulated, you may find yourself having to edit your Friends List on a regular basis as your friends list will only show 50 members.

If you have any questions, just let us know.


Please note that if your PT21 user name is different than your forum board user name, please include it when you list your team.


Always Updated OL Friends List:



Thanks in Advance,

Bottom of the Sixth

I am going to add a third team to OL on Monday 20 April. The Cochise County Sidewinders user: adion

Please add to the friends list.
Thanks.



Thanks.

[Charlatan]

Brigadoon and Annandale maintain their psychic link for the month, with both teams going 15-11.

Annandale is playing for pride though, as Saint Paul has already clinched the division. I'm hanging in there, only 37 games back though! We do lead the WC race though, and are one of only 2 American League non-division leaders playing over .500 ball!

I was looking at the Promotion/Relegation standings for the Iron league and noticed that all the top teams were playing under their Pythagorean predicted win totals. After thinking about it a bit, I guess it's because we have 5 teams playing .700 ball, and since they face each other a fair bit (and since SOMEONE has to lose those games!) they are losing more than you'd think from just looking at the numbers.

Good News re: Auction House

In Auction House news, the offering of Historical Packs has had a massive positive effect on historical AH supply. I've never bought one of those packs (if I had 10k PP I'd buy a player) but there are obviously a lot of people who *are* buying, because the AH is now chock-full of historic players. And that's great for us. I've seen many players that I've never run into before on the AH.

Over the last 24 hours prices have also fallen a bit on good cards - prices appear to be holding steady on what I'd call the "marquee" cards - maybe coming down a little. Prices for good golds have softened a lot in the past 24 hours and I'm hopeful this will continue due to the influx of more usable historical cards.

Weird Pricing

There still seems to be some weirdness in pricing of some well-known players... not all, but some. And the extra supply hasn't affected prices for these guys (yet?). Maybe it's the familiarity factor - the prices of certain cards really seem out of whack to me. Three examples: 86 Rod Carew, which is offered at 9k PP, 82 Don Mattingly, which goes for 17k, and the 83 Pete Rose, which is around 9.5k.

Don't get me wrong - if I received any of those cards in a pack, I would play them (well... I would probably sell the Mattingly!). These are good cards (and in fact the Rose card is one that is particularly wanted for Brigadoon). But according to my card evaluations, none of these cards is really worth it. There are always plenty of first basemen who can hit, so Mattingly seems way overpriced (and I do realize he's an important card in a mission but even so, the card seems priced at at least double what I'd pay for it). The Carew card is good hit but only average field, and seems about 30% overpriced to me. And the Rose card -good hit, above average corner OF player - seems overpriced by about 2k to me. Part of the price is in the novelty factor - well-known players who haven't been seen on the AH a lot (although actually Mattingly and Rose cards have been showing up in droves!). So I can only hope that with more supply the price of the Rose card will fall so Brigadoon can someday buy one!

Missions

Oh yeah, had to edit my post because I forgot one of my main points: I usually keep an eye out for missions to complete, but with the recent influx of historical players to the AH, it seems I'm putting missions on the back burner, at least for a short while. It's interesting in that a couple of weeks ago all I was doing was looking at missions. Now all I'm doing is looking at the AH!

[SPBJT]

Was going to get an Historical pack (had 9000 points plus more coming with playoffs, but no guarantee that the people I wanted would be drawn. Almost got a Diamond Billy Williams for DH but I could easily fill two holes with 2 solid gold cards, so purchased C John Stearns (88) for 4500 and 89-Dennis Leonard for 4000. My strategy is also to get more good gold cards to enter the gold tourneys with. I should make the playoffs and get promoted to Stone (finally), but in the middle of the pack for the OL season.

[Bottom Of The Sixth]

Originally Posted by Charlatan

Brigadoon and Annandale maintain their psychic link for the month, with both teams going 15-11.

Annandale is playing for pride though, as Saint Paul has already clinched the division. I'm hanging in there, only 37 games back though! We do lead the WC race though, and are one of only 2 American League non-division leaders playing over .500 ball!

I was looking at the Promotion/Relegation standings for the Iron league and noticed that all the top teams were playing under their Pythagorean predicted win totals. After thinking about it a bit, I guess it's because we have 5 teams playing .700 ball, and since they face each other a fair bit (and since SOMEONE has to lose those games!) they are losing more than you'd think from just looking at the numbers.

Good News re: Auction House

In Auction House news, the offering of Historical Packs has had a massive positive effect on historical AH supply. I've never bought one of those packs (if I had 10k PP I'd buy a player) but there are obviously a lot of people who *are* buying, because the AH is now chock-full of historic players. And that's great for us. I've seen many players that I've never run into before on the AH.

Over the last 24 hours prices have also fallen a bit on good cards - prices appear to be holding steady on what I'd call the "marquee" cards - maybe coming down a little. Prices for good golds have softened a lot in the past 24 hours and I'm hopeful this will continue due to the influx of more usable historical cards.

Weird Pricing

There still seems to be some weirdness in pricing of some well-known players... not all, but some. And the extra supply hasn't affected prices for these guys (yet?). Maybe it's the familiarity factor - the prices of certain cards really seem out of whack to me. Three examples: 86 Rod Carew, which is offered at 9k PP, 82 Don Mattingly, which goes for 17k, and the 83 Pete Rose, which is around 9.5k.

Don't get me wrong - if I received any of those cards in a pack, I would play them (well... I would probably sell the Mattingly!). These are good cards (and in fact the Rose card is one that is particularly wanted for Brigadoon). But according to my card evaluations, none of these cards is really worth it. There are always plenty of first basemen who can hit, so Mattingly seems way overpriced (and I do realize he's an important card in a mission but even so, the card seems priced at at least double what I'd pay for it). The Carew card is good hit but only average field, and seems about 30% overpriced to me. And the Rose card -good hit, above average corner OF player - seems overpriced by about 2k to me. Part of the price is in the novelty factor - well-known players who haven't been seen on the AH a lot (although actually Mattingly and Rose cards have been showing up in droves!). So I can only hope that with more supply the price of the Rose card will fall so Brigadoon can someday buy one!

Missions

Oh yeah, had to edit my post because I forgot one of my main points: I usually keep an eye out for missions to complete, but with the recent influx of historical players to the AH, it seems I'm putting missions on the back burner, at least for a short while. It's interesting in that a couple of weeks ago all I was doing was looking at missions. Now all I'm doing is looking at the AH!

The Negro Card Collection just got released yesterday so I wonder if AH prices are dropping due to some guys needing to free up PP so they can be the first one to buy those way over priced Negro cards.


It was amazing what some guys with asking. I saw one card priced at 800,000 PP and one person had already bid on it!


That is crazy.

[Maxfire5]

Originally Posted by Stanley Kuppchaser

If I don't have your team's logo from this year or last year, please post it. If you put one up, believe me I have it. Otherwise you get a fuzzy screenshot job, or something I make for you. Thanks.

I have the Rangers one, but the Bombers were re-branded for this year. If you have something in mind for them, that's great. I am not particular. They are a team focused on HRs and Eye.

[OMGPuppies]

Originally Posted by Maxfire5

I have the Rangers one, but the Bombers were re-branded for this year. If you have something in mind for them, that's great. I am not particular. They are a team focused on HRs and Eye.

How are you faring with the various types of teams you have?

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Originally Posted by Maxfire5

I have the Rangers one, but the Bombers were re-branded for this year. If you have something in mind for them, that's great. I am not particular. They are a team focused on HRs and Eye.

I actually did one when they were still the Kansas Bombers. Maybe I forgot to put it up or you missed it, or didn't care for it. In any event, here it is again. If it's okay, I'll use it when needed. If it needs work, suggest away. If you like it, it's sized to fit the game. By the way, the one you have now seems fine. Is that game generated? If that's what you want to go with it, just post it or I'll see if I can find it in the game.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Sometimes you're working the AH, and you get surprised. Like tonight. I know I have to move on from Mule Haas because the Mundys will be getting promoted, and his numbers are starting to not hang in there as we've moved up. And with a little more than 18,000 to spend, thanks to a sound fiscal approach bolstered by a weird haul yesterday, I figured the next increment would be a piece of cake, get a lefty swinging counterpart to Torrii Hunter for at most a couple of grand, and then judiciously keep improving incrementally.


Then it popped out as I scrolled through with a bigger bankroll than I was used to. It wasn't too hard to kick the tires on most of the 8 to 15K players that popped up. I was only looking for a platoon centerfielder with just okay fielding because of Hunter.

If you grew up when I did, and where I did, there was an obvious second choice to Willie Mays. For some people he was the first choice. I am slowly coming to grips with the fact that it's gonna be awhile before an incredible stroke of luck, or an affordable new card issue, gets me a Willie. And I'll be happy with one. In fact I've retired the Willie Mays exception, so that even he will appear on only one of my rosters, should I get so lucky.

Back to the story. I was shocked to see that second choice, a 1955 Mickey Mantle for 17,000 with a buy now of 17,500. Now I had never been shopping for a centerfielder with this much money, so I expanded to see if there were others and the only other one available was 29,000/35000, or so. In my excitement I forgot. You bet your ass that my heart won over my head and incrementalism was sidelined for the moment. Meet the new centerfielder for the Port Ruppert Mundys. Torii Hunter will be a helluva backup for all three spots.

[mcdog512]

Originally Posted by Stanley Kuppchaser

Sometimes you're working the AH, and you get surprised. Like tonight. I know I have to move on from Mule Haas because the Mundys will be getting promoted, and his numbers are starting to not hang in there as we've moved up. And with a little more than 18,000 to spend, thanks to a sound fiscal approach bolstered by a weird haul yesterday, I figured the next increment would be a piece of cake, get a lefty swinging counterpart to Torrii Hunter for at most a couple of grand, and then judiciously keep improving incrementally.


Then it popped out as I scrolled through with a bigger bankroll than I was used to. It wasn't too hard to kick the tires on most of the 8 to 15K players that popped up. I was only looking for a platoon centerfielder with just okay fielding because of Hunter.

If you grew up when I did, and where I did, there was an obvious second choice to Willie Mays. For some people he was the first choice. I am slowly coming to grips with the fact that it's gonna be awhile before an incredible stroke of luck, or an affordable new card issue, gets me a Willie. And I'll be happy with one. In fact I've retired the Willie Mays exception, so that even he will appear on only one of my rosters, should I get so lucky.

Back to the story. I was shocked to see that second choice, a 1955 Mickey Mantle for 17,000 with a buy now of 17,500. Now I had never been shopping for a centerfielder with this much money, so I expanded to see if there were others and the only other one available was 29,000/35000, or so. In my excitement I forgot. You bet your ass that my heart won over my head and incrementalism was sidelined for the moment. Meet the new centerfielder for the Port Ruppert Mundys. Torii Hunter will be a helluva backup for all three spots.

My buddy and I are playing a regular OOTP historical series when we started in 1901. We're in the early 50's now and Willie and the Mick were both in the same draft class. Our New York Giants didn't pick high enough, but we do have Ted Williams at least.

[mcdog512]

As a side note Stanley, I have 73 of the Topps 1971 coins and about 40 of the Topps 1964 coins. Fun stuff to collect.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

In my previous post, I pointed out the race was wide open, and I would like to thank the War Robots for proving me right for a change. With only 6 OL games played heading into September, Krikkit sizzled at an 8-2 pace to capture the stone crown.



I've also attached the PT playoff tree, which contains the possibility of an all OL final, as well as the promotions and the two that remained. I posted that for the curious nature of their positions.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

This is what I came up with. Using the snipped logo got horridly fuzzy as soon as I re-sized it upward, so I incorporated it into the hat. Congratulations. If you like it, I can re-post one without a crown.

[Ormondbeachdan]

Originally Posted by Stanley Kuppchaser

If I don't have your team's logo from this year or last year, please post it. If you put one up, believe me I have it. Otherwise you get a fuzzy screenshot job, or something I make for you. Thanks.

Could you make one for me?.. Thanks.. or the Tortugus one that is in the game won't post it's an oi file?.. can you convert it to a jpg??
Thanks