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Play With Your Buddies / 1991 Preseason and Hotstove
« on: August 31, 2017, 06:02:40 pm »
Figured it was worthwhile before I the beginning of the 1991 season to take a look at a few of the notable players in the league to this point.

Omar Stephens New York Kings

Mentioned before, Omar is looking to begin his second season with the Kings after winning Rookie of the year and finishing 3rd in MVP voting.  Should be a force for New York for years to come.

Jorge Orrego New York Kings

Winner of 1990 MVP award, Jorge Orrego has been consistantly excellent with the Houston, leading the league in RBIs the last two years.  He decided to take his talents to New York in the Offseason, and looks to be a integral part of a New York team hungry for revenge against Houston. Career leader in WAR in the ABL.

Adam Williquette SS, Los Angeles Hollywood Knights

The centerpiece of an otherwise journeyman laden Hollywood Knights, Williquette is currently the highest paid player in the league, with a 3-year contract worth $14,320.  He's led the league in stolen bases the past 2 years, while putting up a 3.3 WAR over the last 2 years.

Mike Murphy SP, Houston Noise

Winner of Pitcher of the Year in 1989, he is the face of the Houston franchise, and as such is signed to the largest contract so far in the league, at 5 years and a total value of $17,680.

Brett Bruce CL, Houston Noise

The only player to receive the Reliever of the Year award, he was able to take the award last year in spite of the fact he moved out of the closer spot.  In 1991 he is expected to retake the closer spot and gun for a three-peat as the league's top reliever.

Mike Homola SP, Chicago Wind

Traded to Chicago from New York before the inaugural season, Homola has stepped into become the lead pitcher in Chicago's rotation.  He won the 1990 Pitcher of the year award, taking both the ERA and strikeout crowns.  Sadly the poor performance of the Wind cost him a chance at the Triple Crown.

Kevin Gibbs 2B, Chicago Wind

Part-time in 1989, he blossomed into the starting second baseman for Chicago in 1990, hitting 5 HRs and a .376 Avg in 28 games.

Nick Hepworth CF, Philadelphia Brothers

A career platoon player, he is nonetheless the leading batter in WAR for the Brother's, with a 1.3 career rating.  He started his career with Philly in 1989, before heading to Houston to get a ring with the champs.  Back in Philadelphia he is expected to start at CF for the Brothers.

Chester Simons SP, Philadelphia Brothers

 Philadelphia's Ace pitcher, he lead the league in strikeouts in 1989, though had a bit of an off year in 1990, with his ERA blooming for 2.73 to 4.04.  He was, however, awarded the Silver Slugger award for Pitchers in 1990 while batting in 5 RBIs for .500 Avg

And finally (just to demonstrate one of those things about OOTP that's interesting, as well as a little color into what these players do the other 10 months of the year)

Nate Hood

While not a star, Hood is notable for getting crushed (Multiple broken bones, severe internal bleeding) by his own tractor while working on his farm in the 1990 offseason.  While not a fulltime player in 1989, Chicago is excited to have the 37 year old back for the 1991 season.

The BNN report of Hood's incident:


Enough with current stars, here's the some Draft hype for the 1991 season:


And the results from the first 3 rounds of the 1991 draft:


The with the first pick, and in subsequent rounds, Los Angeles went for pitchers out of college they'll hope can start right away.  Philadelphia looks to be building for the future, as they took exclusively high schoolers in the opening rounds.  While they are projected by BNN to finish second, I have a feeling it's going to be a long season for the Brothers (Seriously, I'd be surprised if they are even in the mix for the wildcard, they may have pitchers but their bats are completely unproven.)



The preseason predictions for the 1991 season.

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Play With Your Buddies / 1990 Season
« on: August 31, 2017, 04:36:24 pm »
(Again, 1990 season has some spotty records, mostly because if I feel like it with 4 teams I can sim an entire year in about 2 minutes, however, got some better information for this one.  In retrospect will probably fiddle with how I show the championship, but since I haven't finished 1991 season these reports can only get better from here.)

In the second season of ABL, it appeared that the Houston Noise would again field a strong team, though the reigning champions in New York would be neck and neck for the championship.



And those predictions would be borne out, as New York and Houston were again the class of the league, though this year New York would be the ones to capture the regular season Pennant.



They were propelled by the sweet bat of rookie Omar Stephens

Who hit for .400 with 7 HRs and 29 RBIs.

After Houston survived the wildcard round against the Philadelphia Brothers, it was again a New York Houston Matchup for all the marbles.



As you can tell, while New York had victimized the rest of the league, Houston seemingly had their number during the season.  In the newly expanded 7-game championship series, There would be no sweep this year. 



Houston was able to overcome a 3-2 game deficit and the MVP performance of Ryan Keller (3 HRs, 10 RBIs for a .414 AVG in 29 ABs) to take the series in 7 and avenge their loss to the Kings in the previous season. 

With such an exciting championship series and the excellent financial health of all the teams, it was decided that the league would expand to the a 5th team in 1991, with the league announcing than none other than America's sweetheart, the leader of Silver Bullet Band and the last troubadour, Bob Seger would be the owner of the ABL's newest team:  The Los Angeles Hollywood Knights! (I am so sorry)



There would be no expansion draft, so the Los Angeles team will have to build their team through Free Agency and trades.  On the bright side, Mr. Seger is an understanding owner, though he definitely will be looking to win in the near future.

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Play With Your Buddies / 1989 Season: It Begins
« on: August 31, 2017, 04:03:09 pm »
(alright, I kinda screwed the pooch and didn't record nearly anything I wanted to during the season, and I let the game purge the reports, so this is definitely not the format I want on this, but we'll just say game to game records for 1989-1990 were accidently thrown away by an intern at league headquarters.  And that intern later ended up becoming an IT specialist for the State Department.)

The inaugural Season of the American Baseball League was to be 36 games with 9 games to be played between each team a piece.  A champion would be decided in a best of 5 series between the pennant winner and the winner of the wildcard between the 2nd and 3rd placed teams.   While this did not allow for a perfect allocation of home and away games, it was felt that keeping the games within the summer months of July and August would allow for professionals to play the game while not interfering with their work schedules, which was necessary as the vast majority of players started at the league minimum of $300.  Owner Jonathan Greene was able to convince the cable network ESPN to carry games on delay to fill out their 24 hour schedule, and the other owners were able to get small contracts with local television networks to help with financing.

Immediately, it was apparent that the Houston Noise was the class of the league, and they rode excellent pitching to capture the ABL pennant.



Houston's Mike Murphey provided the league with an instantly recognizable ace and Brett Bruce took on the mantle of star reliever for the Noise, and together they swept the major awards of the season.



The playoffs were another story, however, as the New York Kings broke through the Noise's aces to a championship sweep in 3 games, including a memorable performances by Cory Stillwell (who took home the MVP) and their hot hitting and speedy shortstop Adam Williquette.



So ended the 1989 season, and with all 4 teams in the league profitable it looked like another great season would be in the offing.

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Play With Your Buddies / Out of the Park Baseball '17: Global Resurgence
« on: August 31, 2017, 03:19:00 pm »
Well, I decided to do a Let's Play inspired by this game in the OOTP forums: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/board/showthread.php?t=261369.  It is a sim only dynasty and I found it to be quite the interesting concept.  I'm not sure whether I'll be able to build up to CivicEvo's amazingly complex international tournaments, but since I'm two seasons in and I made an imgur to share this, I thought I'd give it a shot.
Thus ends the introduction, let's talk baseball

This story begins in 1919, when eight members of the Chicago White Sox threw the world series in what would become known as the the infamous Black Sox scandal.  Or rather it would be, except that after the 1920 season the MLB folded due to an inability to prove that corruption was not rampant in the league.  Famous atheletes like Jim Thorpe and Babe Ruth (Who would go onto become the greatest Tight End to ever play) left the sport to join fledgling Football leagues like the American Football Association, where they captured America's heart and the sport of baseball whithered and for the most part faded from public memory.  There were pockets of baseball activity over the comings decades, but for the most part the only competitive games took place in the negro leagues, where Jim Crow and segregation made it impossible for the sport to gain any national presence and left it not much more than a regional curiosity.

It wasn't until the summer of 1980 and the boycott of the Summer Olympics held in Russia that baseball would again gain some relevancy.  As Americans did their patriotic duty and averted their gaze from the worldwide spectacle, the United States Government held a series of a promotional sports events during the Olympics.  The event that ended up drawing the most attention was a three game, two team baseball series that included a star studded class of Olympians. A team dubbed the 'Patriots', that included boxer Sugar Ray Leonard as the lead off hitter, who scored 3 runs on stolen home bases, and Bruce Jenner as fearsome pitcher who also ended up not only pitching a shutout in the first game, but also ended the series hitting a perfect 11 for 11 with 4 Home Runs.  They would go on to adorn Wheaties boxes and brought baseball back into the national conversation.

Soon recreational softball teams became a hot new trend in the summer of 1981, and not long after schools began putting baseball games into the Physical Education curriculum.  It wasn't long before after school baseball clubs began popping up along the country and intermural baseball teams became a craze on campus, replacing the Frisbee craze of the 1970s as the sport of choice.  In 1984, with many countries bowing out of the Los Angeles Olympics, they even had a much hyped Reunion of the 'Patriots' team as an Exhibition before the opening ceremonies.

Enter Kyle Moody


In 1986, Canvas magnate and baseball enthusiast, Kyle Moody, met with 7 investors to discuss opening a league in the United States to capitalize on the growing baseball trend.  Among them were

Wayne Webb, famous real estate mogul


Jonathan Greene, Textile magnate


Chris Tate, who made his fortune in pork belly futures


And Donald Trump, who was looking to unload hundreds of thousands of New Jersey Generals hats after the USFL had folded
(Not pictured due to Trump's demands on licensing of his likeness for this official league history)
 
While Kyle Moody could not convince all the investors (Donald Trump in particular balked at the revenue sharing model, as well as the fact they would not require all signings to be paid in New Jersey Generals merchandise), plans were laid for the American Baseball leagues, with the four owners listed above starting franchises in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City and Houston.

After all the red tape was cleared, stadiums were leased and teams were put together for the summer of 1989.  The league would kick off on July 4th, and there was definitely a buzz in the air for the inaugural season.

(Alright, the stage is set, and that was exhausting, let's get to some baseball!  Also I really couldn't help it with the Trump stuff, but you know there's some dump somewhere filled with Generals merchandise a la the ET Atari game.)

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Other Games / Re: Out of the Park Baseball
« on: August 27, 2017, 08:05:14 pm »
Thanks for the tips Ekaton.  The Saguaros missed the playoffs in their first season by 1/2 game, beating their preseason projection by about 10 wins, so I guess I'm doing something right.  Thankfully I got good reputation hitting and pitching coaches over the offseason (my original ones jumped ship after the first season, but that's probably because CPU GM could charm them where I couldn't).  My scout is iffy, so this year I'm having to jump back and forth from OSA and his ratings to try to keep a good baseline.

Edit: Found the option to enable extensions, so now this is just a thanks for the tips post.

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Other Games / Re: Out of the Park Baseball
« on: August 24, 2017, 02:40:21 am »
Bought the 2017 and have been playing through a season with the Tucson Saguaros, anyone got any experience playing in an independent league?

I'm mostly wondering if I will get any development for the reserve roster or if I have to cycle them onto the team for improvement.

Was also going to ask some additional development/ratings questions then found the button that makes all the ratings relative to the league.  Been spending the entire season so far arbitrarily deciding between which 30 30 30 player I wanted to start.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread: D. C. on summer break
« on: August 19, 2017, 12:26:24 am »
Quote from: sluissa on August 18, 2017, 11:11:06 pm
Quote from: Playergamer on August 18, 2017, 07:00:45 pm
Alright, here's my take on that article.

At the end of the article it's mentioned that they don't get all the incentives unless they expand up to 13,000 employees, so we'll assume that number. That's a little more than 200k per job, about five years at the average salary.

I see literally nothing wrong with this.

I kid, I kid, but I consider this very acceptable. Industrial jobs tend to create and support more jobs; a 50k average salary for 13,000 people can support a pretty big town. Assuming the factory sticks around, it's more sustainable than just paying them 50k each from the state budget.

I really wish that article said where in Wisconsin this factory would be. I'm curious how 50k stacks up to cost of living in the area. The negotiators for the state could've done a much better job, but I think it's not too terrible a deal.

Edit: Old but gold article, relevant. It /is/ written by a manufacturing dude, but the point gets made.

Edit2: To clarify, I don't particularly support this deal. Wisconsin is in a fairly strong economic position and doesn't need to spend so much cash on one deal. But at the same time, someone has to defend it, right?

I don't think anyone really has to defend it... and I MIGHT agree with you on some level if it weren't coming out of taxpayer pockets to fund the whole thing. You're taking money from people, filtering it through State Government, then FoxConn, then employees, then it goes back to the community it was taken from... maybe. I get that socialism is evil and all, but at the same time, in this one specific case at least, putting that money into social projects or just flat out welfare payments to people would cut out a couple of layers where the money is getting siphoned off and diluted.

There's the argument that after the whole thing is paid off in 4-15 years 2043*, depending on how the math works out, then there might be some potential return on investment. But there's no guarantee of that either. Large companies like FoxConn are more than able to shift locations every few years to take advantage of more favorable political favors. Even any "Loss" on capital they might sustain by abandoning their Wisconsin holdings would work itself out in the accounting.

I'm not even saying that governments helping businesses get started is a bad thing. It often works out well for new and emerging areas of business and for smaller businesses trying to establish a foothold in their first few years. However this isn't anything new, nor is it a small business. This is the worlds 4th largest tech manufacturing company just plopping down another factory to crank out TVs. My big question is if there's even anything in this for FoxConn other than the government subsidies.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#United_States
Wikipedia suggests Wisconsin's budget office isn't even looking at a "break even" point until 2043.
I was thinking about this today, if they're really into that sort of business welfare, then why not put the 50k per job they're investing there into small businesses around the state?  It would make more sense than the state subsidizing one community/county, and small businesses tend to churn capital much more efficiently than a corporate entity would (especially one whose profits would end up going to china anyway).

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Other Games / Re: Triple X Tycoon - Adult Industry Strategy
« on: August 19, 2017, 12:09:51 am »
Saw the trailer for this on steam and it's pretty damn funny.  Feels like I've been watching this project since it was first announced here, warms my heart to see a live action goblin veteran pizza man motivated by cocaine to pound a naïve farmboy (who keeps doing that one thing).

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread: D. C. on summer break
« on: August 17, 2017, 09:38:41 pm »
Quote from: Helgoland on August 17, 2017, 09:23:03 pm
I'm talking about their vision, their endgame. Now, I may be wrong, but are they opposed to private property, to keeping around the existing bodies of government (President, Senate, House), the capitalist way of doing business? Do they want to disestablish the quote-unquote traditional family in favor of radical social experimentation? Hell, do they  want to significantly mess with the social stratification at all, apart from lynching a couple politicians and Wall Street fat cats? Are they opposed to the place the military occupies (heh) in American society?


Hell, I'd wager most would agree that the state monopoly on violence should be a thing - once it's the right people wielding it.

Ok, I see where you're getting at, but practically they'd have to concentrate power to finish their plans, so I'd expect something more like the house and senate being dissolved and being replaced (A la venezuela).

Thinking about it, extreme libertarians would be for radical change, though they are kinda on that cusp where the extremes of right and left meet. 

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread: D. C. on summer break
« on: August 17, 2017, 09:18:09 pm »
Quote from: Helgoland on August 17, 2017, 09:10:34 pm
Right-wingers don't threaten the state itself. There's nothing surprising about it. If there was a right-wing movement advocating societal transformation as radical as that proposed by the leftist extremists, you could bet your ass they were going to be cracked down on as well.

Umm... isn't ethnic cleansing a little more extreme than socialism?  Sure, less radical than anarchy... but that's like saying you're less dead if you get shot in the head vs. getting a cruise missile through the chest.  (I mean, I wouldn't consider the Government legitimate if it endorsed that and I'm one of those center-left dudes that suck) 

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread: D. C. on summer break
« on: August 15, 2017, 09:51:19 pm »
Quote from: Lord Shonus on August 15, 2017, 08:07:03 pm
The Obama's former pastor was rather nasty, and would have fit in with these protestors quite well if he wasn't on the opposite end of the racial spectrum.

This is a direct quote from after the 2008 election, when asked about his relationship with the President

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"[T]he Jewish vote, the A-I-P-A-C vote, that's controlling him, that would not let him send representation to the Darfur Review Conference, that's talking this craziness on this trip, cause they're Zionists, they would not let him talk to someone who calls a spade what it is."

Some other choice remarks

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Uncle Clarence who sexually harassed Anita Hill, and a closeted Klan court, that is a throwback to the 19th century, handpicked by Daddy Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, between Clarence and that stacked court, they are about to undo Roe vs. Wade, just like they are about to un-do affirmative action. The government lied in its founding documents and the government is still lying today. Governments lie.

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The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. Governments lie.

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The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America". No, no, no, not God Bless America. God damn America

I dunno, Clarence Thomas is a piece of shit and the CIA did invent crack cocaine then countered it with a war on drugs (Just not on its operators).  I couldn't tell you what the Darfur review council is, but I dunno, pretty much the rest of the world is getting tired with the apartheid in Israel.  I don't see anything about creating a black state or anything so I don't really see how it's up there with you know, white supremecists calling for a white revolution.

Edit: I suppose the Aids thing could be a stretch, but even if the government didn't invent it they surely ignored it for 15 years.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread: D. C. on summer break
« on: August 13, 2017, 02:26:32 pm »
I will be more serious next time. x500

But David Duke was there.  So there's that.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread: D. C. on summer break
« on: August 13, 2017, 02:16:10 pm »
It's straw men all the way down.  And as to the taking away their rights, I can only assume if the only way to keep the peace is to allow nazis the exclusive right to protest in some areas, then that means others don't have the right to protest in said area.

Plus, I like the fact that hey, the KKK used violence and murder throughout it's history for political effect (cough, like ISIS), but again they shouldn't be blamed when they attend a rally that becomes violent, because both sides, am I rite?

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread: D. C. on summer break
« on: August 13, 2017, 01:38:03 pm »
You see, we have to protect the rights of white supremists speech by taking away the rights of people that oppose them.  We have to give them the benefit of the doubt, because obviously the movement has always been peaceful until provoked.

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Other Games / Re: Space Station 13: Urist McStation
« on: August 07, 2017, 11:55:58 pm »
I've actually tried that, and was able to make it from the escape shuttle area all the way to arrivals suitless.  I can't explain the monkey, but I believe I mixed the super oxygen loss stuff with tricord, a bunch of painkiller and speed.  This was a while ago, so I don't know if it changed but I was able to do it with only moderate bruising and toxicity.  That said, I couldn't make it from Arrivals to engineering, so it seems chemically surviving without oxygen is something like 1:30-2 minutes max.

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