|
1 Attachment(s)
Rookie league update:
Hartford makes the most of their limited OL games so far and shoots to the top of the standings. |
Quote:
|
Quote:
I was able to sell off all the rewards for maybe 140k or so. |
Seems to me that the dual influences of tournaments and collections are being felt in the Auction House. Having both available from the start of PT21 has made improving your team much more challenging. And the process feels a lot slower.
A popular AH strategy appears to be overpricing any non terrible card that ends with an 8 or 9 because those appeal to the tournament crowd. So you see 78s priced at 3 or 4K. So I guess a good counter strategy would be looking for value in those cards that end in 0, 1, and 2. As for collection mania... any card used in a collection seems to have its price inflated by 2 to 3x, regardless as to the value of the collection reward. I find it amusing when I look at a collection that needs 5 silvers - each offered at 1000 - that awards an 80 that’s worth 3 or 4K. If you look at the AH sales prices you will see few people fall for that, yet it keeps on happening. I get that the sellers are hoping there are eager collectors who aren’t price conscious, but it’s pretty silly to see it happening for most collections. From my analysis there are just a handful of collections that are economically worth completing (especially if you’re starting more or less from scratch). For many it makes a lot more sense to just buy the reward! It also seems to me that many low diamonds are priced really high - maybe I am forgetting what the auction house was like last year, but I see many low 90s priced at 15k plus. Maybe I need to hope for a sale on diamond packs so we can get a good supply of those cards! I have time for all these musings because my teams are busy getting pounded and not generating PP for me to use! |
Quote:
yeah, I haven't even bothered with collections.... I figure some of those (like the 'lives') will slowly fill in as I rip the occasional pack (very very slowly, but what's the rush...) as far as the AH, trying to be supremely patient and nab the good deals when I can catch em... (every once in awhile, been able to grab a decent gold for near quick-sell prices).... mainly focused on the offense so far (my old timey bunch is actually ranked 2nd in home runs :laugh:), hoping that they will generate more points for me.... we'll see how it goes |
[QUOTE=Charlatan;4624558]
As for collection mania... any card used in a collection seems to have its price inflated by 2 to 3x, regardless as to the value of the collection reward. I find it amusing when I look at a collection that needs 5 silvers - each offered at 1000 - that awards an 80 that’s worth 3 or 4K. If you look at the AH sales prices you will see few people fall for that, yet it keeps on happening. Indeed! I noticed that my iron team was only short a Diego Segui. I figured, in this case, I'd spend a couple hundred. I checked the AH, and the lowest starting bid was 999 with two bids already in. WTF? Guys, the reward is only a freaking pack. Don't get it. Another thing, ain't it fun when the tourneys go cold? A team that generated 12 packs one day goes two without a sniff. Thank goodness, it only takes a minute to pop your team in. |
[QUOTE=Stanley Kuppchaser;4624630]
Quote:
|
What Does It Mean?
When you view a PT mission reward card, it has this displayed below it.
Can someone tell me what is means and/or how you read it? http://www.theblitz.org/uploads/file...20Question.jpg Thanks |
1 Attachment(s)
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
Quote:
If the order is 1 Locked, 2 Inactive, 3 Reserve, 4 Active: OOTP looks for a locked Frank card - doesn't find one. Then it looks for an Inactive Frank card. It finds card A and locks it. However, if the order is 1 Locked, 2 Active, 3 Reserve, 4 Inactive: OOTP looks for a locked Frank card - doesn't find it. Then it looks ion the Active roster - not found. Then it looks on the Reserve roster. It finds and locks Frank "B". So this lets you know with certainty which card will be locked when you submit a collection. Note that if you only have 1 copy of the card this doesn't have any effect... OOTP will eventually find the card and lock it! |
Quote:
I responded before seeing your second response. Thanks Jason for clarifying things. |
Quote:
not really if you ask me.... figure even if you lock your active roster cards first, if/when you replace them in the lineup they'll just end up on the reserve/inactive eventually anyway... and it doesn't really impact me since I just sell off my dups as soon as I get them... some people will collect multiples of the same card to play the market and such |
Ok, you might have been wondering where I went...
So I had open heart surgery (right chest wall entry so sternum did not have to be broken) to replace my aortic valve last Friday morning. I was released from intensive care to hospital on Saturday afternoon, and then released from the hospital Monday afternoon. Since then I have been convalescing at my parents' house but I have no access to OOTP 21 while that is going on.
So essentially, my three teams: Weston Pointe Caspers-OL, Cary Southpaws-OL, and Perfect Pitch-BFF, have all been on autopilot since last Thursday morning, and will continue to be for the next several days at least. I am finally feeling up to touching base with you all, though, and caught up to the thread. I look forward to getting back to the game! |
1 Attachment(s)
Quote:
Damn, hope all is going well. The Caspers are kicking some ass as expected. |
Quote:
Wow...I hope you know that there are easier ways to get attention instead of going through all of that! I am sure that your folks and yourself are relieved and hopefully the worst is in the past and it is all down hill sailing from here on out. Glad you touched base with us to let us know what was going on. Make sure you follow the doctors orders and don't over do it as you only get one chance on healing the right way. |
Quote:
|
Today's Iron Shuffle
3 Attachment(s)
The top three have all changed places with Kansas making its way to the top. I did a quick scan, Kansas has 17 OL games left, Hidden Valley 30 and Weston Pointe 19. Weston Pointe and Hidden Valley have 7 games left head-to-head.
In PT play- Four of the five divisions housing OL teams are all but decided. Kansas has pulled ahead of Vegas in the NC East and has a four game lead. Either way the second place team is assured the top wildcard. This is where re-seeding after the WC would seem more fair-Unless your Cary Southpaw fan as their division series opponent has a .481 winning % while Kansas and Vegas could go head-to-head. In the wildcard races Annadale holds down the top spot in the AC with Bluffton in a dead heat for the second spot. In the NL Coney Island off a dismal 9-15 July trail for the second wildcard spot by 2 games with Palolo 6.5 behind the Warriors. |
1 Attachment(s)
Quote:
Glad to see things going well so far. Just be like like your first OL mascot. Your teams seem to be doing their best for you. Hang in there, and welcome back brother. |
Hooverville Heats Up
1 Attachment(s)
Haymakers grab the top spot late on the back stretch.
|
Shinbone Feasts Again with Late Rally
The Stars realigned themselves after Asylum came back from a 3-games-to-one, deficit in the "Food Fight 2," tying the season series and taking a 3-2 lead into the top of the 7th. Shinbone tied it on a sacrifice fly for the second out, and then tacked on three more two-out tallies to win the game, 6-3, and the season series, 4-3. Both teams appear set to remain in silver, though a late run might push one of them up. Neither is likely for relegation.
The Stars were once again well fed, this time at the famous Shinbone floating restaurant, Di Mezzo il Mare, before being whisked to a private party, headlined by The Count Five, at their club, "The Psychotic Reactor." Pictures are available in a previous post in this thread. |
Quote:
|
1 Attachment(s)
Rookie league update:
Terra Incognita rises to the top as we head into the final months of the season. |
Quote:
|
My 2 OL teams had a pretty good month last month. They both seem to play the same, one month they both play mediocre, the next month they both play great, like they have some sort of psychic link between the two of them. It’s strange.
I got a big PP windfall for Brigadoon when Ethan Allen hit four homeruns and had 10 RBIs in one game. Funny thing is, with the PP he earned I’m probably going to replace him since he’s one of the last Bronze players who’s playing every day on that team! So that’s ironic. |
Quote:
Too bad the Rock Piles don't meet Weston Pointe during this season -- you'd probably get a nice bucket of Get-Well-PP's from playing them. So far K-Town has fulfilled expectations by getting pummeled by Kansas and Vegas...a 4-24 combined record against the two top dogs. (Plus another 3-13 against non-OL, but division-rival Minnesota Twinkies.) Amazingly enough, K-Town is not on target to get relegated. Fortunately, Weston Pointe, Kansas, and Vegas should all move up. |
Quote:
|
To put it together.
3 Attachment(s)
I left some of this out earler. In the famous Venetian Quarter of Shinbone, a few Stars arrive in a more traditional manner traditional for the feast before heading to the Pychotic Reactor, which I also include here since it all should have been together earlier.
|
So many line items...
4 Attachment(s)
Getting ready to shut it down for the night, so I figured I'd pop the Mundys into a couple of tourneys and see if they had done some OL magic. No such luck. They went 3-3 and with only four OL games left, their crown-less streak will continue for a 33rd (I'm pretty sure) season. Their stable mates, the surprising (at least to me) Terra Incognita Rustlers are 5-1 with two games left to play. They will continue to be in the race.
Where the Mundys did surprise the #%$@ out of me was in a particular game. I've attached the relevant screen shots. I don't believe I've seen so many line items for one game before, like 13. They added up to a 12,000 haul. Nice. |
Quote:
Geez Mark, if I didn't know any better I'd say you were in Vegas! Boy, what a jackpot! Can't say I've ever seen anything like that before! Tell the boys...."nicely done!" :thumbup: |
Twas up, so...
1 Attachment(s)
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%. :o 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. |
The remaining games
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. |
Stanley you sure have an enviable life.
|
And down the stretch they come
3 Attachment(s)
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 |
A good time to remind you.
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.
|
Quote:
It's a real tight race for sure. Been fun to watch to be honest. |
1 Attachment(s)
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 :rolleyes:) |
New team
Quote:
Please add to the friends list. Thanks. Thanks. |
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! |
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.
|
Quote:
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. |
Quote:
|
Quote:
|
1 Attachment(s)
Quote:
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. |
If you can't have Willie...
1 Attachment(s)
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. |
Quote:
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. |
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.
|
Krikkit Finally Joins the Battle in Earnest and Wins the War in OL ST165 2023
4 Attachment(s)
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. |
Gotta make the donuts...
1 Attachment(s)
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.
|
Quote:
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 |
| All times are GMT -4. The time now is 07:19 AM. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.10
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Copyright © 2024 Out of the Park Developments