Quicksilver Chat Thread for 1-9-09

[ADRIANGABRIEL]

A Quicksilver retrospective:
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TMS PCT MGR
6 0.537 deepdrive
6 0.531 agabriel
6 0.528 Petrosian
6 0.511 olwill
6 0.500 Simon31
5 0.512 Cubs48
5 0.459 wjanssen
4 0.495 jamesgang77
4 0.477 Muadib1950
4 0.446 he's meat
4 0.438 Dugger
3 0.541 Frank Bailey
2 0.549 minnie minoso
2 0.509 modmark47
2 0.506 dacelo
1 0.519 Bo Snikle
1 0.506 djmacb
1 0.494 Private Jet Mama's Boys
1 0.488 oaktvmike
1 0.451 cb3137
1 0.438 G_T
1 0.426 Moriarity
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[Simon31]

Nicely done Adrian! Thank you! 8-) 8-) 8-)

[Muadib1950]

... tomorrow night is ...

[Simon31]

[size=24:c1838ba9c9][/size:c1838ba9c9][b:c1838ba9c9][u:c1838ba9c9]SEVEN THIRTY EST (7:30)[/u:c1838ba9c9][/b:c1838ba9c9]

[ADRIANGABRIEL]

a.m., right?

[Simon31]

I'm on vacation! I don't get up that early! But make that 7:30 est PM for those that might be brave enough to live draft before morning coffee! :lol:

[The Last Druid]

Looks like the Fatheaded Freak is headed to Petroland!

Unless of course I need to change my mind. :wink:

[The Last Druid]

P.S. This stadium selection process seems extraordinarily ill advised and the best way I can imagine to potentially screw up loading by midnight. Better to just add a round and have that be the stadium selection round according to the order determined by the second lottery. Keeping track of two separate draft orders during a time constrained live draft is lunacy. IMHO.

:roll:

[Simon31]

Actually, we have tried the 7th round stadium pick route. Even with experienced managers, it has in the past, taken longer for people to get their stadium picks in after the draft. JOEOC first started the 7th round stadium pick in his LA-Z-BOY League. I followed suit in my Fast Six League. I abondoned the concept after 2 attempts. Instead of hanging around to pick their stadium, managers were flipping back and forth from their draft cards to the chat thread to see when it was their stadium pick, and there were longer waits in between picks. Granted if everyone hung around and just waited to get their pick out of the way, it should work fine. It just hasn't worked out well so far, in my league or in Joe's. I'm open to suggestions, but getting the stadium pick out of the way early seems to be the best way to finish the draft as fast as possible. Thats one reason why I have tried to stress you can make your stadium selection AT ANY TIME during the live portion of the draft. I'm willing to give the 7th round stadium pick another try if everyone will agree to hang around until their pick is out of the way. Nothings engraved in stone here. Fellas? Just add a stadium (7th) round? Any other suggestions?

[Simon31]

ok! <Whew!> Finally done. For those that like to see what happened in the last league before moving on to the next...the stats are caught up with. A fair amount of records broken, mostly hitting, in that last round, including an impressive hitting streak by olwill's Chuck Klein of 43 games!
Ruth, Mantle and Cobb had impressive seasons and deepdrive pretty much dominated the pitching stats along with wjanssen. Anyway, some interesting bits of league history to peruse. Enjoy! :D I'm sending out the password now so everyone should have them. If you don't have it in old league mail or PM's, let me know ASAP! -David