Does OL have a discord? Let's get on it.

My team, whom the Puppies beat like a rented mule, would say they definitely not pushovers. More like immovable objects. :ohmy:

Welcome aboard. If you haven't yet done it, look back in the thread to grab the current Friends List and check out the few rules we follow. Hope to see your team with the - OL and the + next week.

Alas, the opener has been one of the very few bright spots in Vlora's opening month. Mr. Plank has continued his dreadful pitching (0-3, 7.06 ERA) and the team trails the league in most every category.

Meanwhile, Hooterville has fashioned a respectable 8-7 record so far, including winning the last 2 of the aforementioned 3-game series with the White Stallions.

yeah, doesn't get much traffic but one was setup last version for the OL group:

https://discordapp.com/channels/5630...34873053577217

Bronze OL Standings
 

A couple of teams yet play.

finally got a nice pull from a pack this season.... oh so tempted to scrap the old timey theme and slide him into the closer position, but going to stick to my theme guns and see if he can bring in some funds to nab someone else.... so if anyone needs a closer:

(as a Cardinals fan, the first thing I think of when I see Brad Lidge is that monstrous home run Pujols his off him in the playoffs :laugh:)

Midwest Make Monstrous Mayhem to Open OL I210
 

The Kaiju crashed through the competition to begin the 2025 campaign while Hartford and Waffletown tried to keep them in sight.

The investment from the sale of Mookie Betts seems to be paying dividends! Completed the Nats collection this morning and slid Galarraga into the lineup for today.

After posting a record of 110-52 and winning the Iron Level Championship :happy:, Krikkit is struggling to stay above .500 at Bronze Level. :mad:

Bad pack luck and a slow down in collections resulted in the War Robots only adding 1 player to the roster in the offseason. 1930 RF Chuck Klein (93) replaces 1940 Wally Judnich (83) in right. To make room on the roster, 1996 RF Jay Buhner (82) was sent to the reserves.

After the first month of the season, the offense is about 5th in the league. While, the pitching sits about middle of the pack. I'm not sure how I'll improve the all-diamond starters without spending big bucks. But, the relievers are little more pp-friendly to upgrade.

Looking over position players, the most obvious upgrade need would be at catcher. 2000 C Mike Piazza SE has been targeted. His defense is trash, but he's certainly a better hitter. Besides, there seems to be much debate on whether catcher D matters or not.

I think someone ran a bunch of sims using baseline defensive players vs top level players and Catcher was 3rd in importance behind SS and CF. This was in OOTP and in the regular game not PT, but I think the sim engine should be pretty much the same.

Yeah, I'd like to think catcher D matters, seems to be a bit of disagreement, though. I do prioritize defense and, honestly, didn't realize Piazza's was so bad. Anyway, he's just a stepping stone to Yogi when I get all the live cards collected.

Whalers holding tough in first season in Iron. Many underachievers (in my opinion) despite the +.500 record at this level. Im 4 players away from completing Astros LIVE mission for Bagwell, but sitting at 100PP and will need to practice patience. It will be several days before I accumulate enough to finish this mission. Entering a few tournaments but no luck so far. Only immediate hope is for Tourney pack luck. Gotta keep telling myself this will be a marathon and not a sprint!

We've reached 31
 

The Friends List is now at 31, as I added bighurtt56's Missoula Red Baron to the master list. That means that, from now on, it will be up to each of to make sure we have the 30 teams closest to our own level on our list and adjust each week as we go along. Thanks, and tell a friend.

Bronze
 

Krikkit will finally see some action today with 10 games (20 overall). Cary only has 15 more on the season and Transylvania 24

In teams with enough games to qualify for the crown currently, there is Weston Pointe and then the rest of us.

The Battle is Joined in OL I210
 

Midwest continues to lead, but is now stalked closely by Brigadoon, Hartford and Hooterville. The other chasers can even join the race with a hot streak, now that the Kaiju seem a bit more vulnerable. A key to the tightening was an early three-games-to-one home series victory for Terra Incognita over Midwest. Two unannounced, but important visitors were spotted by a Times reporter in the owners box in the stands. Emi and Yumi Ito, directors of Education and Mental training at the Ulysses Fairsmith Fukuoka Baseball Academy had not been expected before the Fairsmith Group's annual conference, during the post season. Hmm...

Interesting Pack
 

Had a half-dozen tourney packs to pull during morning coffee. Unfortunately, they yielded nothing of great use and the total sale value, with no good live pulls, will be maybe 1500 PP. There was, however, the attached pack. Doesn't seem to have any great value, but, in a way I can't explain, seems kind of cool to me. Any thoughts?

If that’s a regular pack that’s a pretty cool haul.

Catcher defense seems to be one of his things that is really hard to get a handle on. I have seen people run simulations on the OOTP boards using great defensive catchers and poor defense catchers and tell the truth it was not clear what the effect was. I know that for example defense is not directly related to Catcher ERA. A guy who is a 100 catcher will not always have a better CERA than a guy who plays 50 defense. But there are so many factors to take into account… The defense behind the pitcher, the type of pitcher himself, the ballpark he plays in,… I don’t know if I have seen a study where someone removes all the variables except catcher D.

I guess to summarize: I would like to think that catcher defense is very important, but I don’t really know. And unlike hitting, it seems very difficult to quantify.

Waffletown-Asheboro with a 17 innings pitcher's duel

I know it's still early in the season, but looking at the standings in the Iron league so far, if the season ended today, 5 of the 6 teams in the promotion range are OL (and the other is BFF), so quite a testament to our two groups.

(can't say I'd be upset if my bunch didn't get promoted :laugh: but if they are good enough to rack up the wins, so be it)

Id almost welcome getting demoted.....more points! Im on the mission kick and the PP are coming in at a trickle....and no luck with 2-3 tourneys a day.

yeah, my tourney team have become experts at bowing out in the round just before prizes are handed out :rolleyes: doesn't matter how many teams are in it and how many rounds of prizes.... if it's an 8 team-only the winner gets paid, I'll take 2nd.... if it's a 16 team-only the final 2 get paid, I'll lose in the semis.... it's a gift :p

Happens to me all of the time, almost as if the game is teasing you!!!!

Bombers get a nice pull! Had 8 packs from 2 tourney wins today, and got a Live Trout!

Since this is a power/eye team, he fits that idea perfectly. I'm half tempted to withdraw from OL on Bombers just because it's Trout! I may just sell him, but I'm not sure. Super tough to not use a Live Trout when you pull him. Never pulled him anywhere before.

Not a bad pull to help out that team though.

Tough Decision
 

Would hate to see anyone leave OL. You could hang in there and troll the auction house until you find a 2018 Trout and perhaps still make 10-15,000.

might have to study his games from 2019 and see how he managed to drastically improve his sac bunt and bunt-for-hit game over his 2018 stats :p :laugh:

Bronze at the midway point
 

Weston Pointe is still the far and away leader at the halfway point. They were only 8-2 in OL play yesterday dropping their winning percentage to a mere .848.

In Bronze play:

On the AC side-Weston Pointe has 20.5 game lead in the Central. Palolo is holding down the second WC spot in the AC.

In the NC Cary has a 1 game lead in the East while Krikkit trails Laramie by 1 game for the second WC spot.

I was following a lot yesterday and noticed the Puppies Eddie Collins had a hitting streak going, it was eventually snapped last night at 36 games. I don't recall many streaks above 30 games in PT play.

Coney Island tried one gold pack this morning.Picked up for the 4th time this season a DJ LeMahieu and also Snapshot Jim Beattie. Worst case I turn a small profit on the pack as I don't know I want to hold onto Beattie. I have 5 cards up sale now with these two and one other I am poised to sell and hoping to turn that into a starting pitcher for next week.

Brigadoon Vaults to Lead in OL I210
 

The Highlanders leapt into first place, and super fan Willie leapt into action. Brigadoon's most rabid rooter remarked, "I've brought along a bandwagon fer yuz all ta jump on. Aye Highlanders!"

I don't think there's any comparison there, in my opinion. The other would be the 100 Legend/Peak Trout but he's 75k, and might be slightly worse than the Live Trout. I think I've got to give it a shot, for now at least. It also doesn't help that there's only 3 teams in OL at the Silver level (me being 2 of them). I may rejoin once we're all caught back up, but for now, I've got to give Trout a go. He just fits the mold too well for this team, and I mean, it's Trout!

I was ready to commiserate with all of you, but, as seems to happen when I'm ready to start messing with the line ups, my teams were able to push past into payoff circle. I went to bed last night, already content that I had 8 packs to open over my coffee this morning (I save any up during the day). Of course, the last thing, I made sure each of my teams were entered just before I shut down. This morning, wow! I had seven more.



What I can commiserate about is the luck of those 15 packs. There were 5 live silver, one OL silver, three OL bronze and the rest live bronze. Even the irons were thin on OL cards. Hopefully the streak continues into today. For the tourneys, not the pulls.



It is funny, though, how tourney teams can just go cold, or, maybe worse, do that "one round short" thing. I guess it shows just how little there is to separate the teams.

perhaps I should point out my teams tourney woes more often.... not long after posting that yesterday, the Wed super gold no DH tourney kicked off.... managed to reach the semi finals and nabbed 3 packs :D

Waffletown's old timey theme coming along nicely.... filled in a guesstimate year for 'peak' players (basically pulled up their stats on baseball ref and picked a season in their prime) to keep a running average for the 'year' of the team as a whole... got 'em down to an average of 1922 already :D

Nice job! Came across this great picture of Kid Gleason. Been hoping for a reason to use it.

that's the alternate Sunday uniform for the Syrups :laugh:

hey.... Highlanders.... can you lose some games? I'm trying to catch you :p (I guess I can still say I have the 2nd best record in the league :rolleyes:)

The Rich get Richer
 

Weston Pointe goes 9-0 yesterday as they continue their rampage toward the crown.

Brigadoon Continues to Ride High in OL I210
 

The Highlanders roar and so do their fans at the ballpark.

In Iron .210, I think it's fair to say my Uecker's Underdogs BFF team are being carried a fair bit by 1B Zeke Bonura, but hey, we're hanging in there :p

Just a friendly reminder that your use of Live cards, disqualifies that team from being considered an OL team, and none of your games will be counted.

Continued occurrences of being disqualified, will lead to a team's removal from the OL.



Thanks

It has truly been a magical season for Brigadoon. And it all started with that game where we scored 20 runs last season. That got me enough PP to get the collections rolling and yesterday morning I completed all the live collections. I feel a little bit embarrassed about how well they’re playing so… And I’m not kidding here… I’m not going to put Yastrzemski, Cano, or Yogi Berra on the team until next year. I figure the guys who been playing well so far deserve to finish out the year.

Meanwhile I am praying that Annandale gets relegated this year so I can regroup a little in iron. I’m not sure exactly where I took a wrong turn but none of my players are hitting worth a lick in bronze. And I am thinking about changing the focus of the team.

One of the highlights of completing the collections was being able to open a couple of historical packs. I will never buy one since they are 10K PP, but the two I opened were fun. One of them had three golds in it though together they might sell for around 7K so it would still have been a money losing proposition if I purchased it directly.

Since I have been in a collection completing mood, I looked at a few other collections to see if any were economically viable but I don’t see any worth completing. I was thinking about the Year of the Pitcher one but it doesn’t make sense to me to spend 30,000 PP on cards that award a 20,000 PP reward.

I have been focusing pretty much exclusively on Brigadoon the past two weeks, but now it’s going to be Annandale‘s turn! Let me see if I can unscrew them up!

I am glad to hear that you are using common sense, which alot of guys appear not to be using.


For example, in order just to get a free regular pack as a mission reward, some guys are bidding on player cards that cost more pp on just one card than on what it costs to acquire one regular pack, on your own.


It just doesn't make any sense. :confused:

and from the intra-divisional opponent view... it's been annoying as heck to go 53-23 in the last 3 months and *still* lose ground (was only 5 games back on May 1... now it's 15.5).... :crying: :laugh:


all part of baseball fun

I agree. It's weird. My iron team has been sitting for two weeks just short a Neftali Feliz from completion for a free standard pack. I checked the AH for the first time in three days and there was one bid up to more than 900 PP with three bids on it. And that's the first time I've seen it less than 1,000. WTF? At this point, if I pulled one, I might just sell it and say the hell with the free pack.

yeah some of those AH prices just make me shake my head and chuckle.... only completed one mission here so far (Oakland for Plank).... just taking the slow route for now and letting them fill in as I obtain packs... I'm just happy when I open a pack, then check my roster for dupes and find zero :laugh: every new card is one step closer to finishing a collection


edit: after just being swept by Terra Incognita, I'm putting forth the following prediction.... Syrups will finish the year with the second best record in the league, but end up with the wild card spot as the top team is in the same division. They will face off against Terra Incognita in the wild card match and promptly get booted from the post season after a single game.

User : King_Julien
Team : Highland Raccoons

King!!!

welcome aboard.... added you to the league sheet


be sure to update your settings to 'use friends list' and add the -OL tag to your team name and + to the end of your abbreviation.

These Are the Logos I have
 

If you don't see yours, please post it, or e-mail it to kidheckett@gmail.com. If you'd like help with making one, please holler. I love doing them.


King_Julien brings us back to 31, so you'll have to leave off one name that's not on your level. I do have a question for bighurtt56, the Missoula Red Barons. I notice your team has the BFF, not the OL for Our League. If it's Our League you want, you need the - OL and the +. Thanks.