3 and Out

Or like how can 14.5 Barry Bonds hit 62 Hrs for my squad...and 2.45 D. Johnson hit 57 for that same team.
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On a current team of mine after 75 games
The 10.15 Luis Gonzalez has 78 more at bats than the 3.71 kirk Gibson
Gonzo has 15 HRs and 46 rbi
Kirk has 19 HRs and 50 rbi

Apparently 1-4 and 1-5 dice rolls don't exist when Gonzo is at the plate

What this thread SHOULD be saying to most people is:

Hey, maybe there is something either wrong or undisclosed going on in the game...

MAYBE we should try and get SoM collectively to actually answer the questions that come up here...

OR NOT...whatever.

Support apathy, but only if ya feel like it.

Customer service answers my questions at about a 1 out of 3 ratio (I don't write to them often) because my belief is, when they don't have a sensible answer...they just don't answer..

To me, this speaks volume. Nevdully has over 2000 teams under his belt. Let's assume that he got 50% out of free credits, that's still 25 000$...most probably around 30 000$...and as a service customer, you don't answer that guy's emails???

I mean, SOM should have given Nevdully a direct phone line!!!

I was in a rut there for a while also, down to about two or three teams. But then I started hanging out with an old friend that had originally turned me on to the game in the early 70's. He hasn't created any of his own teams yet, but he enjoys following the progress of my teams each week. That refreshed my addiction to the game (luckily?). Now I'm running with about eight to ten teams at a time.
Nev, I think I'll probably end up in a league with you again sometime. Even so, I still want to give you props for helping me when I was a rookie.

Michael, I can't tell you how sorry I am to read your decision. You've helped me a lot in the past, even if it has been mostly studying your teams to try to figure out how this game SHOULD be played. I have thoroughly enjoyed your contributions on the board and am truly sorry I've never had the opportunity to meet you. You'd be a great subject for a profile!

I think I can almost understand the logic behind your decision, particularly your comments about not getting responses to questions that a lot of us would like answered. But if failing to understand this game--which, in my opinion at least, you've succeeded in understanding better than the rest of us--is a reason for leaving, well, I'm not at that point yet. I don't pretend to understand it and, if I ever did, I'd likely quit. It's like bridge, my other raison d'etre. Unlike chess, where there's a new computer program that can defeat any grand master arriving seemingly every other week, there will never be such a thing with bridge. It's just too complicated a game to be fathomed completely by minds such as mine. Same thing with online Strat.

That's what keeps me playing here. Oh, one other thing: It also helps me remember what life was like when I was younger.

Best of luck to you in the future. But I'll keep hoping that you'll change your mind.

Tom

Kudo's Michael on having the strength of will and character to shed this addiction. I will miss you buddy, but I fear the game and the community have gone downhill considerably over the past 10 years. Hard to imagine actually feeling nostalgic about our time with TSN and Bernie etc. but there it is. I wish I were surprised by the few negative, mocking posts that this thread generated, but I guess that's just par for the course here.

All the best my friend. Go in peace and be happy with what you have. It is quite considerable you know.

Ok, no teams but does that also mean no credits. I had similar feelings at one time but had credits left so I kept coming back hanging around. Down to about a dozen now. Suspect if there are credits left temptation to dabble will remain and after a break the addiction will kick in. But Ithink it is noteworthy that nev took the trouble to stop buying credits and get to having no teams. I think I believe him that this is the end. I only have this to say.... I will miss Nev.

Sorry to see you go, Nev. But you have never understood the mathematical fact that, if nothing weird ever happened (i.e. Bonds always hit from 75-95 HR and your starting pitchers always had ERAs that were in order of salary), THAT would be evidence that there was something fishy going on. And if a pair of dice always rolled 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12 in the proportion of 1:2:3:4:5:6:5:4:3:2:1 over any given 36 rolls, then Vegas would go broke in a week. Vegas is thriving, and weird things happen in SOM online too.

Years back I was in a play by mail keeper league where we sent CM's around to each other and played the games on our own computers, then mailed the results. I was playing the guy who had Ripken the year he was a 1e4. Ripken made two errors in one inning, and another a couple of innings later. I knew nobody would understand, so I abandoned the game and replayed it from the start. But stuff like that does happen. There were probably tens of thousands of games played that year using that player card set and involving Ripken. The odds of that happening were about (1/40) cubed, or one in 64,000. So I was the guy it happened to.

I used to play the face to face tournaments using dice and cards. I was in game 7 of the semifinals, and had maneuvered my opponent into a situation where he had to leave his 1WR reliever in to hit against my reliever who had a fractional double chance at 6-5 with 2 on and 2 out in the bottom half of an extra inning where he trailed by a run. 6-5 game up, the low split number came up, and I lost. That was probably an 800 or 1000 to one occurrence. It happens.

Nev, I hope you'll decide to come back. I've enjoyed competing with you thru the years. The game IS a head-scratcher a lot of the time, and it sure ain't what it used to be -- especially with the huge deck we have to choose from now. It's probably time for to "thin the herd" as far as that goes. Another major need IMO: repricing. But I don't think the powers that be have the manpower OR the desire to tackle that problem.