625 stolen bases
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:37 amHere's an interesting 1986 team of mine that just finished up:
http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/sim/1401681
Had 625 steals, including 117 for Davey Lopes. The team actually won 91 games as well, which was just a bonus. For the season, my stolen base % was well above the league average at 76.5% successful. This was a 24 team league, so it got to face many more plus armed catchers that it might normally see in a 12 team league, so that was probably quite helpful. But at a 65M cap, it's not like I had a team with Henderson, Raines, and Gwynn in the outfield either! I got some pretty impressive SB stats out of some pretty marginal players like John Cangelosi and Otis Nixon.
I was set to "very aggressive" every game, and nearly every player on the team was set to steal more. For the season, HAL attempted 24 steals of home, and I was successful 9 times there. Stealing 3rd was successful 70.6% of the time, which I thought was great--in fact I wish HAL would have done it more.
My team was dead last in league HRs and slugging percentage, yet still managed to be the number two seed in the playoffs. Got bounced out in the 2nd round, unfortunately when I ran into a bad matchup against a team with a strong defensive catcher and decent holds on the staff. This was a _really_ streaky team which dominated certain teams but could also be very bad against those teams with -4 catchers and good holds in hitter's parks!
So, the obvious question--is this a record?
http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/sim/1401681
Had 625 steals, including 117 for Davey Lopes. The team actually won 91 games as well, which was just a bonus. For the season, my stolen base % was well above the league average at 76.5% successful. This was a 24 team league, so it got to face many more plus armed catchers that it might normally see in a 12 team league, so that was probably quite helpful. But at a 65M cap, it's not like I had a team with Henderson, Raines, and Gwynn in the outfield either! I got some pretty impressive SB stats out of some pretty marginal players like John Cangelosi and Otis Nixon.
I was set to "very aggressive" every game, and nearly every player on the team was set to steal more. For the season, HAL attempted 24 steals of home, and I was successful 9 times there. Stealing 3rd was successful 70.6% of the time, which I thought was great--in fact I wish HAL would have done it more.
My team was dead last in league HRs and slugging percentage, yet still managed to be the number two seed in the playoffs. Got bounced out in the 2nd round, unfortunately when I ran into a bad matchup against a team with a strong defensive catcher and decent holds on the staff. This was a _really_ streaky team which dominated certain teams but could also be very bad against those teams with -4 catchers and good holds in hitter's parks!
So, the obvious question--is this a record?