ATG 8 is cake

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we are eating the cake like marie asked us to .our hunger has temporarily been sated. but has the underlying problem been fixed? ervin santana has a card and carlos delgado does not

slightly off-topic, but sorta related I hope - I would think that in the age of 'big data' it would be possible (it must be conceptually possible) to load every strat card available in the computer games to the site.


I suppose it could take guys forever to draft a team, but using the filters now available (by franchise, and within salary ranges and within limits for defense ratings etc.) and adding some creative new ones. it seems likely that it could be done.


at some level one hopes that its just a matter of the right SQL queries to make the complete set of strat cards usable in terms of looking for players to select. although it is conceivable that Hal (the real Hal) in his wisdom, uses some custom database structure and logic and not an SQL-standard database like Access or Oracle which might make searching for players so computer-cycle intensive that it couldn't be done.

I acknowledge that doing that (loading all players) would make downloading to excel impractical and downloading in any form probably just as problematic

But anyway, more directly to what i think is your point, not sure 8 is that much better than 7 and personally, I am bummed that Terry 'Tub of Goo' Forster lost a lot of his utility, going from a $1.54 lefty killer who doesn't have homer chances against righties either to a no* SP who, at $3.5 and change is too expensive for an $80M team and I will bet few guys will use him as a 5 man rotation starter at a higher cap either

slightly off-topic, but sorta related I hope - I would think that in the age of 'big data' it would be possible (it must be conceptually possible) to load every strat card available in the computer games to the site.

Also, in the age of "big data," it would be possible for me to like your post. Alas ...

What kind of cake?

more importantly, who is Marie?

The phrase is commonly misattributed to Marie Antoinette

"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was made from dough enriched with butter and eggs, making it more expensive than bread, the quote supposedly would reflect the princess's obliviousness as to the condition of the people.

The phrase is commonly misattributed to Marie Antoinette

"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", supposedly spoken by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread. Since brioche was made from dough enriched with butter and eggs, making it more expensive than bread, the quote supposedly would reflect the princess's obliviousness as to the condition of the people.

Bastille Day

I'm old enough to have been at this show.
Montrose and Foghat on the same bill.
There was no cake.