Losing manager accuses HAL of cheating for me.

As one who owns the computer game, I can definitively say that the current version of the computer game does not cap teams or players at or near their actual stats. The standard deviation of wins vs. actual wins for an auto replay of the past MLB season is probably 6 or 7. I've done dozens of such replays just to satisfy myself.

Some teams (for example, last year's Cubs) consistently overshoot their actual wins, others seldom reach their real win total. But that's to be expected; SOM is a simulation, not a re-creation.

Oh, the very first SOM computer game DID do as danno suggests. But that game ran in MS-DOS on 8086 based machines, and came on a couple of 5 1/4" floppy disks. I seriously doubt that you could even run it any more. And alert customers, possibly even including danno, made quite a fuss and the "normalization" routine for stats and records was deep-sixed quickly.

The version of the game corresponding to the current online game engine probably dates from the late 1990's, when this problem was far in the SOM rear view mirror. In any case, just how does danno think SOM decides which teams should win? Does every player card have a secret value? No, every card has a public value, and that fluctuates around the card's salary based on the ballparks in use and the L-R balances of the opposing rosters.

Managers who spend their time complaining about their bad luck, or how HAL has screwed them, are simply delaying the journey of acquiring the knowledge necessary to win consistently here.

This line made me laugh:

"I had the wildcard locked up"

The only way you have it locked up is if your lead is greater than the number of games remaining or if you have a tie-breaker in hand with another team you could finished tied with. If either of the above was correct for Danno then the system IS rigged. If not he should stop pointing fingers at anybody but himself and stop .

This Statement is false IMHO

If you hav Frank, JPav and Kev in your Division than you have it locked up before the season starts.

Hey, I was just reading through these posts and found that my old buddy Chasenally taking shots at me. At least he included JPav which is quite the honor!! Frank not so much. On a similar topic, I did notice that the system was rigged against me for my first 500 teams. I've been losing ever since on my own volition!
Now, what do I do to get back at CnA?!

Hey, I was just reading through these posts and found that my old buddy Chasenally taking shots at me. At least he included JPav which is quite the honor!! Frank not so much. On a similar topic, I did notice that the system was rigged against me for my first 500 teams. I've been losing ever since on my own volition!
Now, what do I do to get back at CnA?!

OH MY GOD It took you this long! Where have you been? You had to be living in a cave for the last 500 teams to not know the (system) sorry game is rigged! You must have erased all of the emails I sent you with your comb over. The FBI investigated you and found out the you were not smart enough to know that classified HAL documents were marked with a red circle! My guess is you have built a wall around you not to let in any wins after you hit 500 teams. Maybe you almost fell to the ground before you were caught but a 1 range centersecertservicefielder to save you from falling on your 501st losing team. Quit going to Russia for Spring Training they don't play ball there but if you go to Alaska you can see the games from there. JPav is OK but Frank is the MAN!

Don't read anymore into this people as this is all about Baseball. Move along nothing to see here! OMG they killed Kenny You Basterds!

Please draft Stan and Kyle for your next team.

Well the theory that teams are set to lose would explain my theme league that is 30-39 with a +26 run differential, but 10-22 in 1 run games.

I thought just bad luck, now because of one post I'm convinced I'm set to lose!!

Please, I know you can't sense the sarcasm on the internet, but my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek

My bad luck with HAL is at 600 plus teams and counting

Ok Ive won once in a great while but thats only because someone elses bad luck was even worse than my bad luck

IMO, he's a troll. I'm in another auto league with him now. 21 games into the season and he's dropped eleven players. He sent this message out before the season even started:

Re: wow, wtf

To: All
From: Portland Riptide (danno)
Date: Tuesday, 10/04/2016 1:59am

PHIL. I would like to be encouraging but the winners have already been determined. They will be:
-- French Inhaler
-- Jug IJsland Crites
-- Anarcho Syndicalists
WC -- Last Ditch Efforts II

You and I will be battling it out for last place.

There are no baseball skills required here. It's a computer goat rope.

I probably have the best team in the league and you watch them sink into oblivion.
Take Gutierrez for example. He's led league after league after league in HR / RBI. I manage to get the sob and he's already in the hole.

I can tell by the behavior of certain teams and players. They get into a pattern and they will stay there for the rest of the season.

This guy BDR529 is the number one SOM player "OF ALL TIME!" It was our bad luck to end up in his division. He has about $12,000 invested into playing this game and they sure and hell aren't going to let you or me beat him. LOL. Our only chance is to win the wildcard. Good luck to you.

I used to be a happy guy until I started playing this game.

Here's a post to/about me in a recent league where I finished 2nd to Geekor. The guy who wrote the post finished 2nd in my division, 4 games back, and then posted this (the asterisks are mine, he wrote the complete word, but I was afraid it wouldn't get past the censor):

(no subject)

To: All
From: Brooklyn Breaking Bad (Rich34631)
Date: Sunday, 10/02/2016 10:45am

That's such bullshit using Gutierrez and Den Dekker cause they haven't figured a way to stop guys like you from cheating. Fuckin p**** !!!!

I see some other bad words, lol.

Apparantly, you can run for president with words like these. This kid's future might be brighter than it seems to be.

Wavy & Marc: lol