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/1595951Here's a link to the league:
https://onlinegames.strat-o-matic.com/league/450310The 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/1658418This 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/457543While 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/434589/51For 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/1463316https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/434589________________________________________________________________________________________________________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/1414894https://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/428258Note 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/1387650Josh 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________________________________________________________________________________________________________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/14543211956 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________________________________________________________________________________________________________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.
Sun Jul 17, 2022 2:33 pm
Nonetheless, I still find game to be a lot of fun and enjoyable.