Worst Start Ever? 4-24: The rest of the story

[Misterg78582]

My team has started the season 4-24 -- a whooping 20 games under .500. They've been outscored 240-112. A six-game losing steak, a five-game losing streak, a seven-game losing streak, another 5-game losing streak. All I can do is throw my hands up every morning when I see the game results. How can any team be this bad???

This is a live draft team. Walter Johnson 0-5, Carlton 2-4, Clemens 1-6. Is there some reverse normalization button the strat gods can push to help this team turn it around???

[supertyphoon]

It's not going to happen. The Strat Gods have spoken.

Realistically, the best you can hope for is a .500 record the rest of the way. 70 wins, tops.

[motherscratcher]

I feel your pain. I have 4 more days until my first foray into a live draft league comes to a merciful end. It'll be a miracle if I don't reach 100 losses. To top it off, a dude I'm my league mocked me because I didn't want to trade Honus Wagner for Mel Ott. His reason was basically, my team sucks anyway, I might as well.

It's been a miserable experience.

Can you post a link to your team? That way I can check in from time to time to feel better about my team? :D

[Mr Baseball World]

[quote:02e36cd4ae="motherscratcher"]I feel your pain. I have 4 more days until my first foray into a live draft league comes to a merciful end. It'll be a miracle if I don't reach 100 losses. To top it off, a dude I'm my league mocked me because I didn't want to trade Honus Wagner for Mel Ott. His reason was basically, my team sucks anyway, I might as well.

It's been a miserable experience.

Can you post a link to your team? That way I can check in from time to time to feel better about my team? :D[/quote:02e36cd4ae]

That is unfortunate. Curious who would do that?????? Eventually here I am going to dive into a live draft league again.........been probably 2 years since I did one.

[Misterg78582]

Ok here is the link

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=347488

I've been a bit facetious with this post since the season has already ended
and I did make the playoffs. Got eliminated by the Don in game six of the finals last night. This team finished the season 84-54 after starting 4-24. Tied for the second best record in the league. Which raises the question how can a team start so bad if it is truly play-off worthy?

[supertyphoon]

You have my vote for POY. Well Done.

[motherscratcher]

Wow! That's incredible! That gives me some hope.

I think I will try it again sometime soon. Maybe put in a little more prep work and try to work out some of the pitfalls I had this time around. Maybe I can keep it under 90 losses next time. :)

@Mr Baseball World - In truth, a lot of that trade disagreement was probably me being a little more sensitive than I needed to be. It was a ridiculous trade, though.