Name Change ?

[doctrcpa]

This is the first time that I have ever had Barry Bonds on my team. Oh wait, I'm sorry, this is the first time that I have ever had Y A on my team. Imagine my surprise this morning when I saw that he had become SF Leftfielder.... :?

Old Name:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/league/boxscore.html?group_id=49920&g_id=808

New Name:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/league/boxscore.html?group_id=49920&g_id=816

[TomSiebert]

Yup. Just noticed that this morning, too, and was going to post here and ask. All his stats start from scratch as well.

Could it have something to do with his forced retirement, not appearing all season and now the season is over? I have no clue, but woudl be quite interested.....

tws

[Delbird]

Notice that he hit his 0th homerun also. There are some flukey things in the box scores from last night. I had Jon Garland get his first loss, yet it shows 2-0 and I had Juan Cruz get his first win yet it shows 0-1. The team stats are right, but the box scores have some weird things.

Example #1
Sea Gulls II IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Garland LOSS(2-0) 7 11 5 5 1 1 1 106 2.88

Example #2
Shorebirds PC5 IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J.Cruz WIN(0-1) 0 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 4.26

[TomSiebert]

You're right....Last night Billy Wagner was shown with a 2.90 ERA at the end of the boxscore of the first game he pitched, then a 3.12 ERA at the end of the second -- except he pitched an inning of shutout ball for the save in the second?

:?

tws

[keyzick]

Interesting, thought it was just me...I had Roger Maris enter a game at .199, go 0-2, and then have the boxscore list his new average at .200.

Luckily, the roster stats page had his correct average though.

[Palmtana]

[quote:342ff7a7cc="doctrcpa"]

Old Name:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/league/boxscore.html?group_id=49920&g_id=808

New Name:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/league/boxscore.html?group_id=49920&g_id=816[/quote:342ff7a7cc]



Tomorrows name? - Bonds, Barry

[url=http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/league/player.html?player_id=3955&year=2007]Here's his newly named '07 card. [/url]

[TomSiebert]

Anyone else think it's odd that Bernie & Co. haven't addressed this at all? I've still got box-score stats all over the place, but not for all players; only some of them. Very odd.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong that's infecting the integrity of the game, but I am curious just what the he11 is going on.

tws

[JIMDAKE]

You posted this on a Friday. It takes a team of corporate attorneys just to open this file and remember where they left off. Asking for a cleanup in 24-48 hours over the weekend is perhaps expecting a little much.

All the YA/SF Leftfielder/Bonds stuff comes from licensing minutae cr*pola between TSN, SOM, the MLBPA, and Bonds' own army of lawyers. IIRC, TSN and SOM both license active players' names from MLBPA, but Bonds set up his own licensing arrangements - this mess has been going on for years - which I think SOM did not pay for, hence "Y.A.". Use your imagination. One more example of Bonds thinking he's bigger than the game. My understanding is that it's already confused because TSN has certain rights to use players' names, including maybe Bonds', that SOM does not. Did something change because Bonds hasn't played for a year now? Maybe, maybe not, but make no mistake there are attorneys all over this turkey. Hopefully Bernie's not been slow-roasted over a fire over this.

Of course, this is where some Strat fan attorney responds by describing the great importance to Western civilization of a vigorous defense of trademarks and other intellectual property rights....

[coyote303]

Have some sympathy for SOM. The stupid MLBPA almost put them out of business years ago with their initial demands for royalties. Top paid baseball players each probably make more than SOM grosses in revenue, not to mention profit. But hey, the MLBPA goes after SOM anyway to get every cent they can.

Coyote