How many people here from ATG1 days?

I've been here all along.

A memory from ATG1 is a live draft. JoelPetrie beat Supertyphoon for the championship. Hank Aaron was the first pick. My ace was Mort Cooper at $10.17 go 27-9. TSN absolutely had the "normalization" box checked but had not yet publicly admitted it. They did soon after this league ended, but they said they would only give credits if you "PROVED" it adversely affected your team, which is absolutely moronic. They were very insistent on "proved". Once they admitted the box was checked, of course it affected everyone's teams.

Maybe you can remember your team from this list
Alberta Beer Guts 5564 839 1471 247 44 247 804 636 827 32 27 .264 .340 .458 .798
Slobbering Pigs From Hell 5594 836 1491 225 38 258 798 557 750 40 26 .267 .333 .459 .792
New York Knights 5534 821 1478 212 51 245 783 582 768 106 42 .267 .337 .457 .794
Miller Bears 5674 814 1602 259 52 204 784 584 694 74 43 .282 .351 .454 .805
Arlington Bionics 5583 802 1534 261 49 123 762 624 834 100 62 .275 .348 .405 .753
Psychic Friends Network 5568 796 1535 246 56 102 753 724 633 185 81 .276 .358 .395 .753
Happy Hollow Hillbillys 5575 796 1444 216 59 227 763 483 829 46 30 .259 .318 .441 .759
Uptown Guerrillas 5580 724 1481 238 72 105 664 556 678 114 46 .265 .331 .390 .721
Cresco Admirals 5503 695 1389 195 59 154 659 510 753 134 78 .252 .316 .393 .709
Missouri Mashers 5654 680 1485 279 52 123 638 401 678 114 51 .263 .312 .396 .708
Confervaceous Confucian's 5496 660 1340 150 41 156 632 570 832 93 56 .244 .318 .371 .689
Reds & More 5412 643 1298 170 42 158 604 670 829 62 33 .240 .324 .374 .698


Team Pitching (sortable)
Team W L S BS IP H R ER BB SO CG SHO ERA WHIP
TOTALS 972 972 267 0 17,410.0 17548 9106 8078 6897 9105 533 111 4.18 1.40
Confervaceous Confucian's 92 70 19 1,471.1 1302 598 544 526 921 75 17 3.33 1.24
Psychic Friends Network 95 67 33 1,458.1 1365 677 581 636 728 25 8 3.59 1.37
Uptown Guerrillas 85 77 10 1,453.1 1301 677 591 590 783 63 15 3.66 1.30
Missouri Mashers 81 81 32 1,466.2 1439 725 646 563 887 35 7 3.96 1.37
Slobbering Pigs From Hell 88 74 22 1,447.0 1457 727 651 544 739 46 13 4.05 1.38
New York Knights 84 78 17 1,440.1 1469 750 659 551 737 57 5 4.12 1.40
Alberta Beer Guts 92 70 35 1,441.0 1404 736 659 623 881 23 6 4.12 1.41
Cresco Admirals 73 89 22 1,461.1 1471 747 687 515 717 39 10 4.23 1.36
Arlington Bionics 79 83 27 1,452.0 1483 772 690 627 588 32 9 4.28 1.45
Happy Hollow Hillbillys 77 85 16 1,451.0 1634 865 757 554 673 47 8 4.70 1.51
Reds & More 61 101 18 1,431.0 1598 865 755 483 632 49 7 4.75 1.45
Miller Bears 65 97 16 1,437.0 1625 967 858 685 819 42 6 5.37 1.61

Indeed the New York Knights. Thanks for the memories

Is the normalization box still checked by Strat?

I was here for ATG 1... I came in at the very end, had one team and was annihilated! lol! I valued cards by my favorite real Strat cards, not the simulated ones and was eaten alive. I had 65 Koufax in Jack Murphy and he lost 24 games ATG II I figured it out a bit and got my first two titles there. I miss not having the opportunities to do another season in one of those early leagues, the banter was also livlier then imo. Good stuff!

I'm been playing ATG since the beginning too - agree on earlier comments on the player pool - the frenzy was way more important in those days to save a bad draft but do like the expanded player pool - especially for franchise type leagues

LJs

Been playing since ATG1 and the days when everyone wanted Mays, Yount, Canseco and Mike Garcia. My forum ID was kenny_landreaux back then before we migrated to the new site.

I do miss ATG1 with everyone playing under the same rules ($80m, no DH). Leagues filled a lot quicker because of it, and the forum was more lively because we all played each other. I used to check the forum every day. Now it's once a month and if you try to start a thread topic to just talk about the games or cards it's like a tree falling in the forest.

I still play, usually 1-2 teams at a time at the most although now there are gaps where I go a couple months with no teams playing. And I still only play $80mil.

Present and accounted for. The key cog to my first championship teams were Bill Doran at leadoff and Cecil Cooper at 1b. Miss the old frenzy days, though the random time between 12am and 3am led to some long/short nights.

Back after a long layoff...

Looking back at some old teams, I think this might be ATG's first 30-game winner. If I recall, 32 wins was a record for a long time. http://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1249917

...and here's 4 of a Kind in ATG3 http://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/2928

I was there in those days, I felt like a kid in a candy store after being a long time game board player. I hadn't played in a head to head league in about 15 years when I heard about the Sporting News Strat ATG on line game. Still addicted all these years later. Bill

I started in '01 too. Started out playing ATG and won a championship with my 1st team!!! It's been downhill ever since I was Frank Zappa Lives !!! back then.

- The Sheik