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Frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling, totally enjoyable

PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2015 8:52 pm
by tcochran
A bunch of us just finished both the AL round-robin and the NL round-robin tournaments, 24 seasons of play since the end of 2012. One of our managers summarized the experience in these tournaments -- and in Strat, in general -- as follows:

rookssa1958 wrote:I ... found it to be frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling and totally enjoyable.


I second that emotion!

Re: Frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling, totally enjoy

PostPosted: Sun May 24, 2015 4:56 am
by Radagast Brown
Tell us more about these tournaments.

Re: Frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling, totally enjoy

PostPosted: Sun May 24, 2015 11:25 am
by tcochran
Radagast Brown wrote:Tell us more about these tournaments.


These were each 12-season events where each manager had each team once.

AL Google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0

NL Google doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0

Re: Frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling, totally enjoy

PostPosted: Sun May 24, 2015 12:48 pm
by KEVINEHLE
Cool concept. I give an A+ for record keeping. :D

Re: Frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling, totally enjoy

PostPosted: Sun May 24, 2015 5:43 pm
by ROBERTLATORRE
I played in the AL version. Biggest lesson learned? Don't swim with the Sharks!!!!

Re: Frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling, totally enjoy

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2015 7:46 am
by chris.sied@yahoo.com
That is a very cool concept. Takes alot of effort, but looks like a great challenge.

Re: Frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling, totally enjoy

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2015 2:22 pm
by tcochran
chris.sied@yahoo.com wrote:That is a very cool concept. Takes alot of effort, but looks like a great challenge.


As it turns out, I am a better organizer than a manager. Even so, it was great fun!

Re: Frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling, totally enjoy

PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2015 9:53 pm
by ROBERTLATORRE
tcochran wrote:As it turns out, I am a better organizer than a manager. Even so, it was great fun!


Well I could have told you that! (kidding Terry)

Re: Frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling, totally enjoy

PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 12:28 am
by tcochran
Ho ho ho! Actually, Rob and I both appear to be pretty much "average" managers -- but I gotta say, he is one hell of an organizer. He ran a 10-season 1950s league offline and we are now into a 1960s one. Outstanding effort!

Re: Frustrating, heart breaking, hair pulling, totally enjoy

PostPosted: Tue May 26, 2015 6:57 am
by ROBERTLATORRE
So if a "community organizer" can become president, can a "strat organizer" aspire to secretary of dice and split cards?