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i probably didnt post the link right, but if followed, it will take you to the front office where you can find my team get no hitted back to back, and shutout the game before...... (games 61-63)

now i dont know about you, but look at my offense...... are you going to tell me in 60 consecutive rolls i did not get a single hit???????????????? iv got guys like vlad, cabrera and ensberg (all over 850 ops, ensberg at 950) nick johnson hitting 429, grudzilenik hitting 300 and others)

in my first 25 strat teams, i made the playoffs 8 times and won 4 ws, im my last 15, with the same strategies, iv made two playoff and only three teams over .500 winning percentage

did something change? am i on some **** luck list? every loss it seems like i lose to some inning where the entire offense for the other team gets hitters rolls (1-3) or my favorite, which happens about ten to twlevev times in a 162 game schedule, the famous 3 or 4 rolls in a row of the same 3 dice, just so happens its a HR or some ****.

no to mention the boneheaded moves hal makes. i love the fact we cant tell him to throw our **** closers in the ninth inning and not the 8th and 9th. im pretty close to giving up on this **** if something doesnt turn around.

any advice is welcome, heres the link to a new 2006 teams. looks great on paper, as do most of my teams, but gurentee i go 70 and 92

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2007/team/team.html

Your links are not coming through.

I had very early luck: My fourth team won the series; my fifth made the playoffs, winning over 90 games.

However, my last five or six -- up to my most recent playoff spot -- I had no luck. I did SOMEthing different, I think, in my choices.

You must have subtly changed your philosophy, maybe in how you draft.

What do YOU think did it?

You have better odds of being no-hit back-to-back than you do of winning the Powerball Lottery. Yet, eventually someone will with the lottery and eventually someone gets no-hit twice in a row. Bad luck for you that it was your team.

Speaking of the lottery, the Colorado Lottery has a clever advertising campaign called "Luck Happens." They are right. Of course, sometimes that luck is bad.

With enough trials every probability will play out. It just sucks it was you.

As the card sets get more use, more managers figure out better strategies, so old strategies don't work as well.

Back to back no hitters???? Just plain bad dice.