Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

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Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

PostSun Jul 17, 2022 2:33 pm

I got Josh Gibson to hit .403 https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/258758
I got Bill Lee, one of my hero's to win 20 https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/333226
I got Dizzy Dean to win 30 https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/141332

these are a few of my Faves.
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Re: Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

PostSun Jul 17, 2022 4:09 pm

Mine is easy, but it wasn't ATG. It was Giancarlo Stanton hitting 6 HR's in a game with the 2015 card set. Prior to that, I'd never had a player hit even 4 HR's in a game in over 45 years of playing!
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Re: Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

PostSun Jul 17, 2022 4:12 pm

St. James Infirmary blow out Caz Life, 17-2

St. James Infirmary 17, Caz Life 2
Game 68


FINAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Life
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 7 2
Infirmary
4 0 2 2 0 1 4 4 - 17 24 1
W: Teheran, J. (3-3)
L: Miller, S. (7-4)
HR: J.Turner(10th), M.Teixeira(14th), G.Stanton-6(33rd), M.Wieters(5th)


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Giancarlo Stanton rocketed 6 homeruns and Julio Teheran went the distance as the St. James Infirmary man-handled the Caz Life - the final score was 17 to 2.

It seemed that Caz pitching was serving up softballs for Stanton to hit. He launched a rocket shot out of the park for a Grand Slam homerun in the 1st inning, cracked a solo homerun in the 3rd inning, smashed a bases-empty 'big-fly' in the 4th inning, smashed a solo-shot out of the park in the 6th inning, blasted a two-run home run in the 7th inning and lofted a three-run 'big-fly' (his 33rd of the season) in the 8th inning. St. James provided plenty of action in the 1st inning with 4 runs on 4 hits, the 7th inning which saw them plate 4 runs on 5 hits and the 8th inning when they had 4 runs on 4 hits. St. James dominated offensively as they scored in 6 different innings.

The victory was credited to Teheran(3-3) who went the distance, allowing 2 runs. The losing pitcher was Shelby Miller(7-4). He was touched for 4 homeruns in his 4 innings of work.

'I had good swings today,' Stanton said, 'Everything felt right'.

at Citizen's Bank Pk '15


Caz Life
Hitters AB R H RBI BA
T. Thompson RF 4 1 1 0 .256
M. Duffy 3B 4 0 2 1 .268
B. Posey C 4 0 1 0 .319
E. Encarnacion 1B 4 0 0 0 .243
C. Correa SS 4 0 1 0 .246
I. Kinsler 2B 4 0 1 0 .265
M. Taylor LF 4 0 0 0 .196
J. Giavotella DH 2 1 0 0 .292
M. Bourn CF 3 0 1 0 .182
Totals 33 2 7 1

Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
S. Miller (L, 7-4) 4 13 8 7 0 2 4 96 3.49
E. Stults 2 4 3 3 2 1 2 45 5.31
J. Hoover 0 3 2 2 0 0 1 10 4.50
F. Morales 1.1 2 3 3 2 1 1 30 5.40
G. Kontos 0.2 2 1 1 0 0 1 7 7.78
Totals 8 24 17 16 4 4 9
St. James Infirmary
Hitters AB R H RBI BA
K. Bryant CF 6 2 2 0 .267
J. Turner DH 6 3 3 2 .267
M. Teixeira 1B 5 4 2 1 .259
G. Stanton RF 6 6 6 12 .293
T. D'Arnaud C 4 1 1 0 .224
A - M. Wieters C 1 1 1 1 .241
K. Blanks LF 6 0 4 0 .280
D. Pedroia 2B 4 0 1 0 .275
R. Tejada 3B 4 0 1 0 .273
J. Iglesias SS 5 0 3 1 .313
Totals 47 17 24 17

Pitchers IP H R ER BB SO HR PC ERA
J. Teheran (W, 3-3) 9 7 2 1 1 9 0 134 6.49
Totals 9 7 2 1 1 9 0


A-Subbed Defensively (C ) For D'Arnaud In 8th Inning

ATTENDANCE- 26,352
T- 3:52
LEFT ON BASE- Life: 5 Infirmary:11
DOUBLE PLAYS- Life: 3 Infirmary: 2
ERRORS- I.Kinsler, S.Miller, J.Teheran
DOUBLES- C.Correa(11th), J.Iglesias(9th)
TRIPLES- T.Thompson(4th), I.Kinsler(5th)
HOME RUNS- J.Turner(10th), M.Teixeira(14th), G.Stanton-6(33rd), M.Wieters(5th)
WALKS- J.Giavotella, M.Teixeira, D.Pedroia-2, R.Tejada
HIT BY PITCH- T.D'Arnaud
STRIKE OUTS- T.Thompson-2, B.Posey, E.Encarnacion-3, M.Taylor-2, M.Bourn,
K.Bryant-3, J.Turner
GIDP- M.Duffy, B.Posey, D.Pedroia, J.Iglesias
BALKS- F.Morales
WILD PITCHES- F.Morales
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Re: Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

PostSun Jul 17, 2022 9:35 pm

This 12-0 postseason run in a 24-team league: https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/sche ... son/808174
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Re: Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

PostMon Jul 18, 2022 12:13 am

A 39 - 3 stretch (games 72 - 113) with a 23 game winning streak. Got swept in the Finals.
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Re: Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

PostMon Jul 18, 2022 12:49 am

$60M Barnstormer league. No hitter by "Big" Ed Farmer.

This was back in the good ole days when Ed cost a nickel.

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/game/349467/405
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Re: Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

PostMon Jul 18, 2022 12:51 am

This team lost their first game and then one 18
in a row .Lost a game then won 9 straight to
start the season 27-2.
The team came down to earth a bit and
did not win the championship , but oh
what a rush this was . Trying to catch
that lightning in a bottle again has
become my holy grail.

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1647891
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Re: Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

PostMon Jul 18, 2022 11:01 am

That’s an easy one for me.

I won the first Championship in the Barnstormers tournament way back in 2001. I’ve never come close to repeating though and my skills (and luck) in playing this game continues to dramatically decline :D :lol: ;) Nonetheless, I still find game to be a lot of fun and enjoyable.

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Re: Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

PostMon Jul 18, 2022 12:17 pm

I've been truly fortunate to have had many fine individual achievements in SOM. Below are a few:

Josh Gibson wins the triple crown with .374 79 198 .445 .848.

With more than 400 teams, I've never previously seen a triple crown winner in any of my leagues. But with just 6 games left in the season I realized that Josh Gibson was leading the league in the triple crown categories, which I didn't think any player could ever accomplish in a $140 mil non-theme league. Gibson hung on to win the triple crown at .374 79 198. Gibson also led the league in runs, total bases, slugging and OPS, and finished second to teammate John Beckwith in hits, 239-238. For his efforts Gibson also ran away with the MVP award with 420 votes and was the playoff MVP as well.

For what it's worth, of his 721 plate appearances, just 27.7% were against lefties, with the usual average being somewhere between 30-35%. However, Gibson mauled lefties all season, batting .475 with 37 HRs, an OBP of .572 and slugging of 1.315 in just 162 ABs.

Here's a link to the team:

https://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/team/1595951

Here's a link to the league:

https://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/league/450310

The team is probably my favorite ATG team and checked a lot of boxes:

1. Ring winner;
2. Led league with a 109-53 W-L record. Only the 4 playoff teams finished above .500;
3. 60 home wins and 49 road wins to lead the league in both categories. Just 3 teams were above .500 on the road;
4. 1344 runs to easily lead the league;
5. +384 run differential to easily lead the league;
6. 536 home runs to easily lead the league;
6. .310 team batting average to easily lead the league;
7. .384 team OBP to easily lead the league;
8. .648 team slugging to easily lead the league;
9. 1.032 team OPS to easily lead the league;
10. All 9 hitters in the starting lineup had 106 or more RBI, with a high of 198, & the average being 144;
11. All 9 hitters in the starting lineup scored 132 or more runs, with a high of 165 & the average being 146;
12. All 9 hitters in the starting lineup had 47 or more HRs, with a high of 79 & the average being 59;
13. All 4 starting pitchers won 20 or more games, with a high of 29;
14. Just 4 blown saves all season & was the only team in the league to have 5 times as many saves (20) as blown saves;
15. Just 3 caught stealing all season, but only 16 SBs.

The only player in the starting lineup who wasn't taken in the autodraft was Ralph Kiner, who was picked up when another manager dropped him during waivers.
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1928 Goose Goslin, .424 60 186 .486 .799. Led the league in BA, RBI, H, OBP, SLG, OPS and was second in runs scored. Goslin led in all three triple crown categories most of the season, but in the end finished in a 5th place tie for HRs with Barry Bonds. Only Griffey (69), Ruth (66), Kiner (64) and Mantle (61) had more HRs. Goslin dominated all season, winning the batting crown by a whopping 50 points over runner up Oscar Charleston, winning the RBI title 186 to 163 over teammate Earl Averill, had 13 more hits than second place Charleston, led the league in OBP by 22 points over Babe Ruth, beat Ruth by 64 points in OPS, and again beat Ruth by 43 points to lead the league in slugging. For his efforts, Goslin was named the league MVP.

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1658418

This is an ongoing league, with a cap of $100 mil that season, with a live draft each new season, and needless to say, I haven't had the opportunity to draft Goslin again since then.

Here's a link to the league:

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/457543

While there's certainly an argument to be made that Ted Williams is the best hitter who ever lived, for my money, I get far better production out of Goslin and Stan Musial than Ted Williams.
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Randy Johnson ties an ATG 9 inning record with 22 strikeouts in a game against a team owned by The Last Druid in the Barnstormer's Tourney:

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/game/434589/51

For the season, Johnson finished 24-13 3.08 with 405 Ks, nearly winning the pitching Triple Crown, as he lead the league in strikeouts and ERA, and finished second in wins to Greg Maddux, who had 26 wins. Despite his efforts, Johnson finished second in Cy Yong voting to Jake Arrieta.

The team also featured Babe Ruth and Josh Gibson, who both had big seasons. Below are links to the team and the league:

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1463316

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/434589
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Geoff Zahn goes 24-4!

Has anybody ever gotten a better season out of 1978 Geoff Zahn? For that matter, I don't know if I've ever had a pitcher win 20 or more games with just 4 losses.

I've used Zahn a number of times and no season ever for him comes close to the season he had.

Zahn was second in the league in wins behind teammate Leroy Matlock, who had 26 wins, and easily led all qualifying starting pitchers in the league with an .857 winning percentage. For his efforts, Zahn didn't get a single Cy Young award vote and barely made the All Star team!

Zahn got a no decision in his only playoff start, as his 107 win team lost the semis 4-2.

1950 Yogi Berra on that same team also had the best season I've ever had using him.

Leroy Matlock, Ben Oglivie and Eddie Mathews also had excellent seasons, but I've actually had some comparable, if not better, seasons from them.

http://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1414894

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/428258

Note that the cap was $80 mil with no DH in the ATG8 post WWII set.
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Satchel Paige wins 30 games, going 30-7 4.68 and easily winning the Cy Young Award.

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1387650

Josh Gibson batted .374 74 200 .445 .811 in numbers eerily similar to his Triple Crown season noted above. He finished second in MVP voting to Barry Bonds.

Mule Suttles had his best season for me with .320 63 201 .377 .707.

The team had a + 350 run differential.

Here's a link to the league:

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/425013
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1995 Randy Johnson goes 30-9 4.17 with 423 strikeouts. For his efforts, Johnson finished SECOND in Cy Young voting to 1972 Don Sutton, who went 31-7 3.57 with 240 Ks.

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1454321

1956 Mickey Mantle was on Johnson's team and had as good of a season that he's ever had for me, hitting .328 76 174 .426 .728.

Here's a link to the league:

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/433186
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I've had big performances from other players as well, including 100+ RBI seasons from platoon players such as Ted Kluszewski, Willie Aikens (see Goslin's team above) and Juan Gonzalez, 5 HRs in a game from Babe Ruth, 12 RBI in a game by George Foster and Sammy Sosa, Pete Browning and 1941 Joe Dimaggio batting .400+, multiple 400 K seasons from Randy Johnson, and $6.17 mil 3R Pete Alexander tossing a perfect game against a lefty heavy lineup, but it would take me forever to find those.
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Re: Your Favorite Individual Achievement in SOM

PostTue Jul 19, 2022 3:52 am

My favorite achievement:

Finals sweep with 4 shutouts in ATG8! - Seaver/Koufax/Paige/Carlton

https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/sche ... on/1404832
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