EVENT 7: BILLY, YOU'RE FIRED!

Round 26
301. rjnewman- Tim Stoddard 1983
302. LMBombers- Jim Presley 1984 (proxy)
303. RickSmith - Elias Sosa 1980
304. AllStarInc. - Yankee Stadium 1978
305. GordieHowe - Bob Knepper 1985
306. Risden - Matt Young 1984
307. ehlekev - Darrell Evans 1984
308. KrazyKat - Dan Petry 1983
309. Musial6 -
310. gfdwarf - Luis Leal
311. Doug_Tucker - Random .50 scrub..will drop if someone has him on roster after waivers.
312. KenHutchings -

Note the PW must be entered with a capital T...and my random scrub was Randy G Johnson 1982

Doug,

Randy Johnson was picked by someone. You can pull out before it goes off tonight and readjust and re-enter if you like. Below are the available 50¢ hitters remaining:

Cruz, Todd 1983 500,000
Engle, Dave 1984 500,000
Howell, Roy 1982 500,000
Lee, Manuel 1985 500,000
Matuszek, Len 1985 500,000
Mercado, Orlando 1984 500,000
Owen, Dave 1984 500,000 (Spike's brother)
Ramos, Domingo 1984 500,000
Stennett, Rennie 1979 500,000
Summers, Champ 1984 500,000
Torres, Rusty 1980 500,000
Veryzer, Tom 1984 500,000
Wilfong, Rob 1982 500,000

Just for the haibut i took brother Dave (not Spike or Reginald) Owen.

For my last player, I selected Barry Bonnell. My team is already entered.

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There are still 4 open spots remaining in this league.

4 hours left and 4 teams to go. This might be a close one! The anticipation is palpable.

4 hours left and 4 teams to go. This might be a close one! The anticipation is palpable.

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last." - Willy Wonka

We missed it. I guess we will have to wait an extra week to get the festivities going.

Who is the most expensive pitcher left at 3.52 M or less?

Who is the most expensive pitcher left at 3.52 M or less?

Looking at the list that LMBombers posted a few pages back, it looks like knuckleballer Charlie Hough at $3.44 M.

Since there has been some discussion regarding future leagues, I figured that I should probably weigh in now that we are in the process of selecting the players for the final league.
When the twelve of us originally discussed the idea for a league, we were a group of disappointed, former 1969 league players, and proposed to have an ATG league consisting of players from the 1960s era. After that was proposed, then someone else proposed to expand the league concept to its current eight league format. Most of the managers seemed enthused with this concept; however, I was a bit hesitant to want to make a long term commitment, but eventually decided to do so. And in spite of my earlier reservations, and subsequently my overall record, I have enjoyed my participation in this tournament. Kudos to Dan for doing a great job as commissioner. I also want to congratulate Randy for the great job that he did in dividing up the players into the different eras.
That having been said, I will be taking a hiatus from online SOM after completing the last (70s) league in this tournament. It sounds like many of you are planning on continuing, so I wanted to inform you of this so that you would have sufficient time to recruit another manager.
If I were to make any recommendations for any future tournaments, they would be these:
1) Reduce the draft length to either 16 (15 players and a stadium) or 21 (20 players and a stadium) rounds. I found the latter rounds of most drafts to be quite frustrating.
2) Speaking from personal experience of having the first draft choice for many of the leagues, I don’t feel that having the first choice necessarily worked to my advantage. What I would suggest is that if the manager with the least points is to be rewarded, first arrange for a random selection for the draft, then prior to the draft allow the manager with the least points to make the first selection, and then proceed with the draft. So if the manager with the least number of points were to have the 4th/21st selections by random assignment, he would select 1st, then 4th (which would actually be 5th) and then 21st (actually 22nd). Because he would be one ahead of all other managers through the course of the draft, he would end up skipping the last round. (Hopefully that didn’t sound too confusing).
3) Lower the threshold for some of the extra point hitting performances (maybe 7 or 8 ribbies in a game, for example).
Best wishes to y’all. Ken