NLD 13 Draft thread

[Jeepdriver]

It's gonna be hard Niner with Beach and Big playing each other. If you sweep the best you can hope for is a tie with whomever takes that series, and then have the tie-breaker go your way. The only way Silver can not make it is if he is swept, and either Beach or Big sweeps, and he loses the tie-breaker to Niner, who would have tied him with a sweep.

Yall might want to work on some tie-breaker scenerio's today. :)

[Jeepdriver]

Check out Arod's and Vlad's numbers when you combine them:

HR's: 87
RBI's: 252
Runs: 221

Now that's a 1-2 punch! 8)

[Ninersphan]

First things first, I NEED to sweep. I hold tie breakers over Qksilver and Beach

I was:

7-5 vs qksilver
8-4 vs Beach
4-5 vs Big

So I need Beach to take the series 2-1 (again assuming I sweep)
and qk to just win 1,
I think.

I'm not sure of the tiebreakers in the west division.

Again the one I thing I KNOW, [b:cca532b567]I HAVE [/b:cca532b567]to sweep tonight to have any chance.

[ArrylT]

Well that was a pleasant, if unexpected surprise. I was simply hoping to win at least 1 game, and secure the tiebreaker over Ninersphan in case we ended the series tied - but I forgot how good my team has played on the road.

Unless I sweep tonight - my first sweep of the season was on the road vs. the Dragons, and so I suppose it would be sort of neat to have had my last sweep of the season on the road vs. the Dragons.

Not that I won't object to finishing out the season with another sweep - after all it is always good to end the season on a high note.

Thanks to Beach for his congratulations. I must admit this has been one of the more enjoyable teams I've ever had - guess having a swpyschic type comeback will do that for you.

Considering we play better on the road - I am not sure if I want to finish with the 2nd best record (which looks likely). ;) Anyway - best of luck to Ninersphan & Beach & bigmahon & qksilver as they fight to determine who gets which playoff spot (West title & WC).

[Jeepdriver]

Congrats to Arryl, Beach and QK for making the playoffs.

My team improved by 30 games over the NLD 12 season. From 64 wins to 94 wins. :D

[qksilver69]

Thanks Jeep. Bill, sorry it had to happen like this - you had your team going well most of the year....

Let's see what happens in the playoffs!

[ArrylT]

I made my first set of changes on May 3rd. Replaced McCarthy/Millwood with Mulder. Mulder went 10-6 with a 3.91/1.35 stat line compared to 4-8 for the duo (although McCarthys ERA/WHIP was good). I also replaced B. Donnelly with Julio Mateo. Donnelly had been 6.98 2.02 up to that point and Mateo went 3.43 1.14.

Then 2 days later on May 5th. I replaced Youkilis, cut a couple of bench players and got Alou & Branyan. Branyan was a disappointment but Alou is probably what caused my team to finally click. I [put him at DH, moved Giles to RF and benched Suzuki vs. RH pretty much. Alou had gone .276 .372 .440 with the Jarheads - but protected by all my LH Hitters he went .307 .422 .526 with my team.

Anyway that meant at Game 79 I was 31-47 .397, 16 games below .500. For the remaining 84 games I went 59-25 .702 to finish 90-72, 18 games above .500.

If you go from the time I won my first series after the changes (Games 85-87 - beginning of Week V) my squad went 57-21 .731, after being 33-51 .393. I'd have to do a search, but I am pretty sure that is the most amazing turn around I have ever had for a team, save maybe 1.

I can honestly say that I kept expecting for the team to crash, and every time we lost a series I wondered if this would be the end of the run. Scarily enough - we never lost consecutive series after Week IV.

Week V: 15-6
Week VI: 15-6
Week VII: 17-4
Week VIII: 10-5

I do not think there is any way I will ever be able to top this in NLD - but I'll just have to try! :wink:

[joethejet]

AT,

I know you whipped us down the stretch even though our numbers v LHP are way better than v RHP, you managed to kill us anyway. :(

Congrats on the turn around and congrats to all the playoff teams. We'll get you next time! ;)

Jet

[PAULCAREY]

Good Luck to all th playoff teams...my team was DUSTED this go 'round :oops: - Welcome back Sandy - we'll miss you Semper...

[Ninersphan]

BTW for those that care here's a recap of my ESPN trip from earlier this week:

First, it wasn't an "official" visit. I just went down to see my old college roomie and some other people I know down there and to tour the facilities. As I said before, I do have an application in for a job that I am qualified for, but of course, there's a lot of competitition.

ESPN itself is [size=24:99f7208cfa][b:99f7208cfa]H U G E[/b:99f7208cfa] [/size:99f7208cfa]

It's unbelievable how big it has gotten in just the last 13 years since I was on campus last. For a TV guy like, me it's Nirvana. They have all the latest toys. Some are so new ESPN gets the "joy" of working out the bugs for the companies that make them before they are in wide distribution.

To give you an example of how big they are, There's an entire BUILDING, thats dedicated to just the little crawls at the bottom of the screens on their various networks. That's all the people in the building do is make sure the information is current and running correctly. :shock:

They currently employ 6000 people on the Bristol campus Working on 7 different ESPN TV networks + ESPN Radio, don't think the magazine is located there though.

All that said, there are some drawbacks to working there if I get the gig, hours tend to change every 6 months as they rotate schedules, cost of living in Bristol Connecticut is E-X-P-E-N-S-I-V-E as it's near Hartford and New York, and the biggie would be moving my immediate family away from extended family, granted it's only 4 and 1/2 hours away, but it would still be tough.

I still need to get an interview though, and like most large corporations, the Disney Company moves at a glacial rate when it comes to hirings, so who knows what myt future will bring...