by voovits » Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:50 pm
Didn't mean to make it sound like your team was garbage.
Even when I was 37-50 and 14 games out of first place, my expected W/L was at or around .500. However, I clearly was not one of the front runners as my offense was just pathetic. It was when I dumped Bradley for Lezcano and had noticed that Chris Bando was still a free agent and pounced on the opportunity to grab him, that my team really took off.
It was after these moves, in combination with getting Howe and Reynolds that I became, in my opinion, the best team in the league. I had my chance to prove it too. When I was 83-73 (which by then my expected W/L was around 93-94 wins I think) and in the lead by one game, I was already figuring out matchups for the first round of the playoffs. I was one game up on you, and had the tiebreaker, and I was 2 games up on the next highest team, without the tiebreaker.
Both teams gave me every opportunity to claim a playoff spot. It worked out that all I had to do was win one lousy stinking game and I would have clinched a spot. But a collapse of New York Met proportions prevented me from winning any of my last 6 games and you won the division by 2 games and I lost the wildcard on a tiebreaker to a team that had beaten me early in the season when I had a lousy team.
I blame nobody but myself, I could have easily made the Lezcano/Bando moves much earlier. Bradley had gotten off to a good start, so I stuck with him a little too long.
Anyway, sorry for trailing off to a vent about the team. As you can see, I'm still not over the loss. You had a worthy team, I'm not downing your team or any other team from the league, I'm just upset at my own failures. I haven't been able to win anything in strat for a while now and this just added to the frustration exponentially.