2016 Regular Season SIM 4 Complete - Next SIM Friday 04/08

[Sharkn20]

As I have said before, I applaud your commitment to pitching and defense.

Denver is currently first in the DL in defense and and ERA. Dallas won the Wild Card last year with first DL defense/ERA and they were just 9th in runs scored. I think if you can find a little more offense, you could have a similar season.

Why are you giving my secret away?? I should send some Sharks to Seattle´s beaches sooner than expected.

[funclown]

We are in a bit of a quandary.

It is beyond clear that my pitching is better than even Pat expected. We are absolutely doing a phenomenal job keeping the ball in the park, sucking up balls all over the field (enjoy my gift!) and being all-around awesome on the mound. I had a goal with this staff but it's better than I anticipated it would be this soon.

The problem is we cannot score runs, but if we could, this team might be pretty damn good.

Another problem is, by adding offense we could essentially be removing the defense that's benefiting our pitching staff. And the only players out there that can play both sides of the field (another gift!) are not exactly available at amazing discount rates.

So now I basically watch what might be the best pitching staff I've ever had in this league (assuming this keeps up) lose games it should win easily. And what does that eventually do to my young arms? It would have to be frustrating to pitch the heck out of the baseball and see nothing from it.

I think I have no choice but to wait and see if maybe we get lucky. Maybe we end up winning more 2-1 games. Maybe two or three guys out of the group of Bromely, Pugh, Johnson, Lerma, Richards and Eckstein step up and raise their averages into the .240 range. Even if del Rio can just wake up, we could be slightly better. If we get lucky with Wood and Ballek, that could help tremendously. But even if Banuelos, Del Rio, Wood and Ballek hit, we will still need a couple more guys to step up and at least help us score 3.5 runs a game.

1 more run a game. That's what we need. It's a lot, honestly. I'm not sure where I'm going to find it yet.

Maybe it's this guy. http://www.simgamingnetwork.com/blb/...layer_845.html

I think your team is in the right spot. Pitching to me DOES win championships with an average offense.

Here's the thing with defense (An opinion) it gets you a bunch of regular season wins (like tilted stadiums if done right), but come playoff time it doesn't seem to matter as much. Pawtucket tries to stay in the top 1/3 if possible with D, but Pitching, Hitting then a huge drop to the next 2 Character & defense for playoff success.

Pat is way way better I researching past champions and ranking in D they had, but I KNOW 2011 Carolina defense was one of the worst in recent memory to take the cup.

Hope you enjoy the Funclown ramble.

[Delandis]

I think your team is in the right spot. Pitching to me DOES win championships with an average offense.

Here's the thing with defense (An opinion) it gets you a bunch of regular season wins (like tilted stadiums if done right), but come playoff time it doesn't seem to matter as much. Pawtucket tries to stay in the top 1/3 if possible with D, but Pitching, Hitting then a huge drop to the next 2 Character & defense for playoff success.

Pat is way way better I researching past champions and ranking in D they had, but I KNOW 2011 Carolina defense was one of the worst in recent memory to take the cup.

Hope you enjoy the Funclown ramble.

Tons of great teams have had outrageously great pitching and got bounced in the playoffs. Denver made it to the cup on the strength of his bats.

It is more about balance, match ups and basically, dumb luck.

[funclown]

It is more about balance, match ups and basically, dumb luck.

Have to agree. I guess what I was trying to say if since maybe Z's Maine team I haven't seen defense really equate to many Cups.

Lets be honest, Clay's fake teams from a ratings standpoint never really were about defense.

[Delandis]

Have to agree. I guess what I was trying to say if since maybe Z's Maine team I haven't seen defense really equate to many Cups.

Lets be honest, Clay's fake teams from a ratings standpoint never really were about defense.

Except Pawtucket cups.

Those were about tanking.

Too soon?

[Carlos]

Why are you giving my secret away?? I should send some Sharks to Seattle´s beaches sooner than expected.

Do not fret. OOTP 15 put a greater emphasis on defense and I think plenty of us noticed. I been prepping my team for this. You did a good job getting there faster!

[Carlos]

As I have said before, I applaud your commitment to pitching and defense.

Denver is currently first in the DL in defense and and ERA. Dallas won the Wild Card last year with first DL defense/ERA and they were just 9th in runs scored. I think if you can find a little more offense, you could have a similar season.

That's the hope here. Most important is that word patience. I don't want to jump the gun just yet. Maybe these guys pick it up a bit with their bats. The concern is they aren't exactly world beaters that are struggling. This is who these guys are. So I need a lot of lucky bounces.

I think your team is in the right spot. Pitching to me DOES win championships with an average offense.

Here's the thing with defense (An opinion) it gets you a bunch of regular season wins (like tilted stadiums if done right), but come playoff time it doesn't seem to matter as much. Pawtucket tries to stay in the top 1/3 if possible with D, but Pitching, Hitting then a huge drop to the next 2 Character & defense for playoff success.

Pat is way way better I researching past champions and ranking in D they had, but I KNOW 2011 Carolina defense was one of the worst in recent memory to take the cup.

Hope you enjoy the Funclown ramble.

I always enjoy them even if I hate them.

[Delandis]

I think I might put Mr. Martin on waivers. I don't like threats and people f'n up our locker room chemistry.

Anybody need a closer?

[funclown]

With that, there's always more then one way to skin a cat so totally get it.

Its good to change philosophies every 12-15 seasons.

Think my next version is gonna be a pesky high average speed team with pitchers that always try to complete games.

Seems the price tag for power hitters has become a bit much.

[Delandis]

And Falvey is hurt......again.

This time a hamstring injury. Looks like he's going to be a "what might have been."

[Delandis]

Pat, who is that in your avatar?

[Pat]

Have to agree. I guess what I was trying to say if since maybe Z's Maine team I haven't seen defense really equate to many Cups.

Washington Bats 1983, 1988, 2002, 2003 were great defensive teams. 2004 and 2012 were not.

I do agree with your assement of regular season success vs. post-season success. A heavily tilted stadium can produce a lot of regular season success and then the team is exposed in the post-season. We have seen that in the BLB. We have seen that in the MLB too (think 2001 Mariners). I also think defense keeps you in a lot of games when you are playing the entire league...a lot of average to below average clubs. However, in the post-season, defense plays a very small role compared to ace SP and great hitting.

That's how I also feel about depth. In the regular season, you can have a lot of success by being deep. Solid players everywhere. An above average #1-#5 SP. Depth in the pen. Solid players at #1-#9 in the order. But in the playoffs, it's about studs. The rotations, bullpens and benches get shorter, and it shows.

Pat, who is that in your avatar?

Me.




Just some generic player.

[Delandis]

I do agree with your assement of regular season success vs. post-season success. A heavily tilted stadium can produce a lot of regular season success and then the team is exposed in the post-season. We have seen that in the BLB. We have seen that in the MLB too (think 2001 Mariners). I also think defense keeps you in a lot of games when you are playing the entire league...a lot of average to below average clubs. However, in the post-season, defense plays a very small role compared to ace SP and great hitting.

That's how I also feel about depth. In the regular season, you can have a lot of success by being deep. Solid players everywhere. An above average #1-#5 SP. Depth in the pen. Solid players at #1-#9 in the order. But in the playoffs, it's about studs. The rotations, bullpens and benches get shorter, and it shows.



Me.




Just some generic player.

Hmm. The real Pat has returned.

[funclown]

That's how I also feel about depth. In the regular season, you can have a lot of success by being deep. Solid players everywhere. An above average #1-#5 SP. Depth in the pen. Solid players at #1-#9 in the order. But in the playoffs, it's about studs. The rotations, bullpens and benches get shorter, and it shows.

This always reminds me of the LA Dino's. Usually thin as can be with crazy #4 & #5 starters an some backups I wouldn't allow to even be bat boys.

Yet come playoff time when you get down as low 3 man rotations and your facing Lona, St. Thomas , Perkins........

[Cory]

My suggestion, if you have not done this already, is to download the league file on the site and start from scratch.

Save any image files you have or you'll need to download those again as well.

I ended up manually downloading the tar from the address in that error and then manually extracting it into the brewers folder and it worked. Thanks for the suggestion that got me down that path.

This wasn't a great sim for the Blues. After Aguilar's perfect game last week we were riding high. In true Philip Humber fashion, he followed that performance up by giving up 7 runs in the first inning of his next start. He didn't even finish the inning, managing only 2 outs.