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Immaculate Grid?
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Sun Jul 16, 2023 9:07 amby supertyphoon
I had never heard of this before, it showed up in the Wall Street Journal online edition today. Apparently it's a popular daily game that highlights the careers of lesser-known baseball players that have so-called high "rarity scores". It seems like it would be something guys like us who remember the greats and the not-so-greats of yesteryear would appreciate. Does anyone have experience with this?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/immaculate ... _permalink
Re: Immaculate Grid?
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Sun Jul 16, 2023 12:42 pmby MaxPower
Been enjoying it for a couple weeks now. It was just bought by Baseball Reference a couple days ago. Definitely up the alley of a lot of folks around these parts!
https://www.immaculategrid.com/
Re: Immaculate Grid?
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Mon Jul 17, 2023 1:13 pmby harper34
I've also been trying this for a couple of weeks. It's a mental challenge, which I like, and it highlights journeymen players who had long careers, guys you remember seeing on TV but don't remember which team they were playing for. I'm glad the WSJ gave it a shout out, maybe more will catch the bug, especially with more visibility from Baseball Reference.
Re: Immaculate Grid?
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Thu Jul 27, 2023 5:07 pmby lanier64
I've been playing it as well and love it and I always try to get a low rarity score. But it just amazes me how many younger people know absolutely zero history. I work with a lot of under 30s and they literally don't know any player who played more than 15 years ago with a few notable exceptions. An example is todays quiz: name a StL Cardinal who won a gold glove and I blurted out Keith Hernandez and they said "who?" so I said just put him in and he came up with 1% meaning that only one percent of people responded with his name. Really! 99% of people who call themselves baseball fans don't know who the greatest defensive firstbaseman IMHO in the history of the game is? Well hopefully they will get an education. It is very addicting.
Re: Immaculate Grid?
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Thu Jul 27, 2023 6:54 pmby bkeat23
lanier64 wrote:I've been playing it as well and love it and I always try to get a low rarity score. But it just amazes me how many younger people know absolutely zero history. I work with a lot of under 30s and they literally don't know any player who played more than 15 years ago with a few notable exceptions. An example is todays quiz: name a StL Cardinal who won a gold glove and I blurted out Keith Hernandez and they said "who?" so I said just put him in and he came up with 1% meaning that only one percent of people responded with his name. Really! 99% of people who call themselves baseball fans don't know who the greatest defensive firstbaseman (IMHO) in the history of the game is? Well hopefully they will get an education. It is very addicting.
You should have reminded them Hernandez was the baseball player that dated Elaine, they'd have remembered him.
Re: Immaculate Grid?
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Thu Jul 27, 2023 9:37 pmby labratory
Today I learned that Mike Trout never won a gold glove.
Who was better than CF-1 (-2) e0?
Re: Immaculate Grid?
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Thu Jul 27, 2023 9:45 pmby jjii66
You should have reminded them Hernandez was the baseball player that dated Elaine, they'd have remembered him.[/quote]
They weren't born yet. Let that sink in for a minute!
Re: Immaculate Grid?
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Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:07 pmby bkeat23
jjii66 wrote:You should have reminded them Hernandez was the baseball player that dated Elaine, they'd have remembered him.
They weren't born yet. Let
that sink in for a minute![/quote]
Get offa my lawn!
Re: Immaculate Grid?
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Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:08 pmby MaxPower
Yeah the popular results definitely skew towards more recent players but that just creates more opportunities for the history buffs among us to get those sweet rarity scores.
I'm always surprised how hard it is to remember players who played for two different given teams. There's usually one obvious answer that will be popular but I sit and stew trying to come up with someone obscure.
Re: Immaculate Grid?
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Mon Aug 14, 2023 9:36 pmby barterer2002
The problem for me is always when they throw rays or diamondbacks out there. Spent the last 20+ doing a lot of things like raising kids and not paying as much attention to who plays where for two weeks like I did back in the day.