Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Since I won’t be moving on to the semifinals, I’ll just start a thread of unusual or fun stuff that’s has happened during the tournament and see if anyone else wants to play along:

I’ve now had a player throw a perfect game (Jim Lonborg, 70s) and been no-hit (Tom Glavine, 90s, Fenderman as manager). Even weirder was that Glavine’s no-no was a 2-1 final: I scored a run on 4 of his 6 walks (1 was intentional).

Anyone ever seen a division this tough?

90's League #12

94-68
92-70
90-72
86-76

Outside the division record of 218-142.

JuicedJC was the 3rd place team. He started out 14-30 (16 games behind) and actually probably has the best team by the end of the year but the clock ran out.

All of those teams were significantly in the black on run differential, too. Rare is the division I've been in that has all teams at least five games over .500 and with that kind of run diff. Wow.

Just for fun ...
Is 86-76
a) 5 games over .500
Or
b) 10 games over .500
???

mjsm01 wrote:Just for fun ...
Is 86-76
a) 5 games over .500
Or
b) 10 games over .500
???

I always looked at it as 10 games over .500. Those games are already in the books, so you would have to lose your next 10 games to fall back to .500.

60's: 5 wild card teams won the championship
70's: 5 wild card teams won the championship
80's: 2 wild card teams won the championship
90's: None!
00's: TBD

League 9 of the 2000s has had a couple oddities. Two teams (my team and gcripe's) combined for 110 transactions while the rest of the league had only 97 combined. I tried to be thrifty and still have a roster value of 71.3 mil after 59 cuts and managed a 75-66 record. Overall in the league, there was no real correlation between number of roster moves and records. jomboy has run what looks like an experimental team. He started with all .75 mil pitchers and has replaced 16 pitchers and still has near the minimum possible salary for his pitching staff - cutting so many .75 mil players hasn't cost much as he still has a 75.4 mil roster value. His team plays in Coors and includes Bonds (70 HR), Giambi (47 HR), Kent (50 HR), Piazza (38 HR), and Hundley, Edmunds and Sheff (30 HR apiece). The RBI leader is Miguel Cabrera with 145 RBI and 45 HR. Obviously, jomboy's team has a huge lead in both runs scored and runs allowed. The team has a +93 run differential, a record of 72-69, and is in the playoff hunt.

What's the most homers by one player in a playoff series? In the 90's, Kevin Mitchell hit 7 against me as ggrover15 beats me in 7 games.

Three amazing stats from that series - 1) Mitchell was hurt early in game #6 and was done for the series, 2) my team had the top ERA in the league and gave up 66 runs in the series, and 3) the two teams from one of the best divisions ever seen both lost in the semi's.