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I've been lucky(??) enough to have 5 100-win seasons...none of which resulted in a championship though!! And only one of which even made it to the finals!

Just wanted to share the SOM curse with you all...



2007: 100-62...lost in the semi's

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=154200


2008: 104-58...lost in Finals

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=206683


2008: 105-57...my best team yet, 3 20-game winners, lost in semi's

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=212347


2008: 100-62...lost in semi's

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=213191


1999: 102-60...lost in semi's

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=253228

Are you per chance from Seattle? :wink:

Here's one of mine....

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=179523

ATG4...200M league...wanted to put together an all "0" INJ team (hence the name "Cairo Practors")...but...couldn't make it happen after auto draft...got the good pitchers instead...got knocked out in semis....

[quote:becdaae421="keyzick"]I've been lucky(??) enough to have 5 100-win seasons...none of which resulted in a championship though!![/quote:becdaae421]

Three words: That's just wrong!

I do feel your pain. My only 100-win team didn't win the championship.

I think it's a plot. TSN is afraid too many managers would quit the game so they could go out on top!

This all sounds very familiar! I've only had one 100-win team and it too flopped in the semis. Taking it a step further, I have had seven 97+ win teams and only 1 took a championship from those teams. But I did have a 79-83 take a championship. HAL's a funny guy!

How's this for painful - a 96 win team that misses the playoffs. Ouch.

Back in 2003, I had two 100 win teams both take rings. Since then, I've gone 0-5, losing four of those in the semis.

But I'll one-up [b:2457b5d2df]PM770[/b:2457b5d2df], with the Greatest of Ironies:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/team/team_other.html?user_id=6890

A 2006 Tour League, winning the ring with a 78-84 record, a negative run differential and a 10th place ERA [i:2457b5d2df]with a sweep[/i:2457b5d2df] against a 103-59 record team (who was 2nd in offense and 3rd in pitching).

Playoff record was 7-1, and playoff ERA was 2.13 w/ a 1.00 WHIP.


:D :) :( :o :shock: :? 8-) :lol: :x :P

As many regular season best record teams we have all had tank in the simis over the years, it still feels a bit dirty winning a championship with a sub-500 team.

By the way, the playoffs just finished in the league were I missed the wild card by 1 game with a 96 win team. All 3 division winners had 100+ wins and the wild card had 97. I bet it won't take you long to figure out who won the championship.......

That HAL, what a joker.