Here's what I love about the Mystery Game:

60's team wins standard league championship with $69 million roster.

http://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/1118869

$ isn't really a factor in the Mystery Game.

It's luck and being able to decipher which cards you have.
(As well as fitting your players to your park)


I love when ya get the $.75 RP in their best year.

It looks like you had to make a lot of moves but you handled it just right, nice job!

Getting the best card on a sub 1.00 million dollar player, and realizing it, is a GREAT aspect to the mystery game!

Can anyone tell me when reading a Stratomatic card when it says......LO MAX on the players hitting card. I am assuming Line out...but is the "Max" meaning injury related? Max injury? I thought all the cards were set up as example............P.o .(plus injury)


Thanks, bh327

Can anyone tell me when reading a Stratomatic card when it says......LO MAX on the players hitting card. I am assuming Line out...but is the "Max" meaning injury related? Max injury? I thought all the cards were set up as example............P.o .(plus injury)

LO MAX is short for lineout into as many outs as possible; it has nothing to do with injuries.

I believe in the super advanced game the result is modified if there are two (or three) runners on base with zero outs:

d20:
1-7 lineout triple play
8-20 lineout double play

I once whittled my roster down to 50 million (in the regular game) ,....won my division with a .500 record.....and swept the WS in 4.....It will never happen again!...AMAZING!

I once whittled my roster down to 50 million (in the regular game) ,....won my division with a .500 record.....and swept the WS in 4.....It will never happen again!...AMAZING!

Coming from a guy known to be more likely to make too many moves than not enough... that is awesome.

Congrats to both johnsain and mrherzog. What you guys did goes against "conventional SOM wisdom", and is truly hard to accomplish successfully.

Thanks!....Once I get down to the final days of the transaction period, due to the standings, I felt strongly about who the 2 teams were that I'd have to get past for the Championship (I was also battling a team in my own division with about a .500 record). I felt I had zero chance of beating either of those 2 likely playoff teams based on the players matchups and my record against them. I saw that those 2 tops teams had made some modest changes on their own (to better match up with and win their own divisions).

Both those teams were built on powerful left handed hitting and pitching. I sacrificed 9 or 10 of my best pitchers/hitters (on the last trading day) and chose players to best exploit that dynamic (I had already made a fair amount of transactions during the season focused on strengthening my team against my division rivals). I probably had 3 or 4 of my original players left from opening day!

My team was reconstructed just to beat those 2 teams I'd be playing in the postseason. I knew I'd be risking losing my own division with these drastic changes - but I also felt I had no chance to do anything in the playoffs with the team I had. I had a 3 - 4 game lead in my division at the time - and ended up winning it by a tiebreaker with a .500 record.

First series was won 3-1,..then Championship 4-0. Boggles the mind! Lots of luck was surely involved. One player I remember was Javy Lopez (his monster 2003 season) hitting homeruns every game (3 in one game) in the WS sweep (my last high priced player). I wish I could put up a link but it seems SOM hasn't stored them as far back as 2004, when this happened. I saved screenshots of all this but not sure what drive I have them on... (Are all the records from the Sporting News years gone?).

By the way,....My next 2 teams after that finished with the league's best records,....both 3 and out in the 1st round.