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[stl jason]

Silver league:

[stl jason]

Originally Posted by Edster007

Remember the schedule changes after the first sim at 10am-hopefully you pick up a few more.

Fifth week for my Jefferson Valley team and they only got placed with everyone else 2x.

everyone should take a moment sometime this week and double check their friend's list.... there are only 29 OL members, so no reason everyone can't check off all the others on the list... shouldn't be missing anyone unless a setting reverted back to random (so check that too)

[STLRS95]

Originally Posted by Stanley Kuppchaser

Hidden Valley pulled a live Steve Trout from a pack a couple of weeks ago and left OL. Couldn't bear to part with it. Too bad about Jefferson Valley. Seems they've had a couple of problems this season, sort of like what happened to Bluffton last year, only they really got bounced a lot.


I guess I'll be doing silver since all three of my teams will be there, I assume. Just now getting ready to fire up PT. Here's to a great week.

Steve Trout? Wow, he is still pitching.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Originally Posted by STLRS95

Steve Trout? Wow, he is still pitching.

That's called being an old-timer. When you can't think of a name, go with the guy you saw. Of course, I meant Matt Trout.

[revmcgator]

Originally Posted by Stanley Kuppchaser

That's called being an old-timer. When you can't think of a name, go with the guy you saw. Of course, I meant Matt Trout.

The problem is, I can't tell if you're intentional or if this just got funnier.

[Edster007]

Originally Posted by revmcgator

The problem is, I can't tell if you're intentional or if this just got funnier.

Wait until we find out it was actually Tim Salmon

[Charlatan]

It all sounds fishy to me.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Originally Posted by revmcgator

The problem is, I can't tell if you're intentional or if this just got funnier.

Perhaps I should have said Dizzy Trout, instead of Matt and then did a google search for more, but I didn't want to continue.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

[QUOTE=Edster007;4644675]Wait until we find out it was actually Tim Salmon[/QUOT


If it were, I'd have called him Chico.

[Bottom Of The Sixth]

Geez Mark, I'm glad I'm not the only OL team in Silver who is in for a very long and painful week!


We are getting beat up bad as just about everyone is using the same SE player cards in their rosters!


I refuse to go that route!

[stl jason]

Originally Posted by Bottom Of The Sixth

Geez Mark, I'm glad I'm not the only OL team in Silver who is in for a very long and painful week!


We are getting beat up bad as just about everyone is using the same SE player cards in their rosters!


I refuse to go that route!

heh.... sometimes I look at the next set of pitchers I'm going to face and think "hey, didn't I just face them?" if the move up to Silver mirrors the move up to Bronze, it's going to be a roller coaster season, so just going to roll with it... might be awhile before I can afford a new upgrade, so not much to do besides watch

[Charlatan]

First day of the Silver league has been brutal! I think my teams currently both have a team ERA of over 7 in Silver.... there are a lot of teams that are pretty good in our Silver league.

Speaking of the SE cards, I have been toying with the idea of making my 3rd OOTP team and calling it "Regular Edition" or similar - where I limit myself to not using any SE cards. The missions are so tempting to complete though, and since the SE cards are relatively easy to get it's quite difficult to not use them.

[Edster007]

Highland jumps to the lead after the first day. Krikkit and Shinbone will see their first action today. Unfortunately Krikkit will not play the required 10 games to qualify them for the crown.

[Bottom Of The Sixth]

Originally Posted by Charlatan

The missions are so tempting to complete though, and since the SE cards are relatively easy to get it's quite difficult to not use them.

If I were doing missions, I'd be wanting to use them too, especially since the AH market is so flooded with so many SE cards that you would be lucky to break even in some cases if you sold the reward SE card.


I am sure at some point all of those powerhouse teams using 75%+ SE cards will all eventually meet up at the same level.



Once they do, I wouldn't be surprised that they will be lucky to play .500 ball and then they will be scrambling to upgrade from their SE cards, so they can get an advantage to win and advance some more.

[Stanley Kuppchaser]

Hooterville and Brigadoon both broke clean from the gate and set the early pace, with Annandale yet to see action. The comments of the others is why OL is so great. You're generally in a race with folks you can compete with. As for the similar lineups, I understand why people do what they do. To me, it's fine, just not for me. I don't replace my players unless I have some feeling for the replacement (and he needs to be better). Some players will just never play for me because I didn't like them for some reason, often inexplicable. For example, couldn't abide Pete Rose, Jeff Bagwell, or Mike Piazza, just off the top of my head. I think Bill Skowron has reached the limit of his effectiveness, but I still hang with him because he was one of the few Yankees I really liked growing up. Now, soon as I can afford a Ted Klusczewski or Willie McCovey, or a Will Clark, that could easily change.

[Charlatan]

Originally Posted by Bottom Of The Sixth

If I were doing missions, I'd be wanting to use them too, especially since the AH market is so flooded with so many SE cards that you would be lucky to break even in some cases if you sold the reward SE card.


I am sure at some point all of those powerhouse teams using 75%+ SE cards will all eventually meet up at the same level.



Once they do, I wouldn't be surprised that they will be lucky to play .500 ball and then they will be scrambling to upgrade from their SE cards, so they can get an advantage to win and advance some more.

You are correct about breaking even on these missions. Thing is, the bonus card you get for completing each division or league really tips the scale in favor of completing missions. So even if you lose 2000 PP completing the White Sox mission, you really make up for it when you eventually get Ichiro.

I track all this stuff on my spreadsheet and I have calculated that Brigadoon has gained 77,000 PP from completing the national league and 85,000 from completing the American League. Annandale‘s numbers are similar. That’s a combination of using and selling players. If you were selling all of them maybe knock it down 15%.

I am pretty sure if you sold all those players and bike replacement your team would not be quite as strong. Maybe you would like it more though!

As far as all the SE teams running into each other I think that’s what’s happening in silver. So I do suspect my teams will be spending a few seasons here trying to work out some upgrades.

[Jeff1787]

All of the Live Missions cost me 55,306 PP. This after selling off many of the cards. I spent 122,354 to complete and sold off 67,048 in cards I didn't want. I think I did the math right!!

I ended up with these 16 cards:

Joe Nathan
Randy Johnson
Eddie Plank
Adam Wainwright
Steve Carlton
Ted Lyons
Bert Blyleven
Greg Maddux
Carl Yastrzemski
Jeff Bagwell
Robinson Cano
Duke Snider
Ichiro Suzuki
Yogi Berra
Billy Williams
Mel Ott

The average price per card is 3457. Not a bad way to go to get started. I will replace many of those cards in the future.

[Bottom Of The Sixth]

With so many missions and so many players, how do you guys keep track and determine how much PP you are willing to spend on a player, if you have to acquire him from the AH?


7 day average is not always a good and accurate benchmark on prices.

[Jeff1787]

Originally Posted by Bottom Of The Sixth

With so many missions and so many players, how do you guys keep track and determine how much PP you are willing to spend on a player, if you have to acquire him from the AH?


7 day average is not always a good and accurate benchmark on prices.

I don't have much patience, so I just went by the 7 day average. Sometimes I paid less and sometimes more. I just wanted to finish the missions!!

[StatMan22]

I'm not an OL player, but I'm with y'all this week in Silver .257. I got promoted after somehow tying my Bronze division with a 77-85 record and a win in the tiebreaker, so it will be a short stay... Best of luck to all!