1981 Season Thread

[leecemark]

--Welcome to the 21st season of CKL baseball! Normally one series will be played everyday. After each series game results, standings and injury reports will be posted. I'll alternate between team pitching/batting reports and league leaderboards every other series.
--Also, a new league file will go out for DMB owners after every other series. Lew posts box scores and additional information on his web site after each new league file so non-DMB owners can access that info. He also provides a news sheet and picks batter/pitcher of the week so its worth a peak for DMB owners as well.

[catcher24]

Ready to go. I hope both teams are competitive this year. I can foresee the Legends winning close to 90 games again without making the playoffs. Could happen to the Jaxx, too.

[rmadachik]

I think this year has the potential to see some very good teams miss the playoffs.

[leecemark]

--THis should be one of our most competitive seasons ever. I see 13 of 16 teams with realistic playoff hopes and not monster teams with a virtual lock. I've seen my Knights finish from 1st to third with some frequency - although first is probably the least often. The Corsairs have finished from 1st to last, although again first is an "everything goes right" scenario.

[catcher24]

--THis should be one of our most competitive seasons ever. I see 13 of 16 teams with realistic playoff hopes and not monster teams with a virtual lock. I've seen my Knights finish from 1st to third with some frequency - although first is probably the least often. The Corsairs have finished from 1st to last, although again first is an "everything goes right" scenario.

I'll be running some sims myself once I get the official DB with all the human generated MPs. Using the computer generated MPs doesn't usually give a very accurate picture, with some teams having guys play at 400% usage or more, and many over 200%.

[leecemark]

--Well some of the initial MPs also have guys going well over, but less than the random generator. The human MPs made a huge difference in my sims. The Knights were winning the division about half the time and the wild card half of the remainder with the roughs, but only an occasional division title and slightly more occasional wild card since (the Angels were the main result changer for them). The Corsairs weren't doing quite as good against the rough MPs, with less than a 50% playoff chance, but its dropped down to more like a 10% chance with the owner inputs.

[scubadan]

I'll be running some sims myself once I get the official DB with all the human generated MPs. Using the computer generated MPs doesn't usually give a very accurate picture, with some teams having guys play at 400% usage or more, and many over 200%.

I prefer the computer generated sims. My Boys were consistently winning over 100 games and usually were division champs in this environment. I'm guessing that will change for the worse against human MP's. :-)

I usually use preseason Sims to measure playing time more than performance.

[J W]

Because the season seems so up in the air, I predict the playoff picture will be clear by mid August. :hyper:

[Windy City Fan]

Mark, somehow I missed the fact that Jim Norris who I had on the Tyrants roster retired after the 80 season, so scratch him from the roster and all lineups. Lopez is indeed Lopes, just a typo on my end. And if I can get an update FA list, I'll sign a replacement for Norris for the Tyrants.

[catcher24]

Because the season seems so up in the air, I predict the playoff picture will be clear by mid August. :hyper:

Based on what Mark was saying, I'm not so sure. Taking what I said about computer generated MPs into account, the sims I ran often went down to the final few days, with a one game margin deciding the division on more than one occasion.

I usually use preseason Sims to measure playing time more than performance.

I generally use them to test different lineups/rotations, and to check usage in doing so. Sounds like we use them for pretty much the same thing.

[leecemark]

--First series' in the books. Four teams got to celebrate opening days with sweeps. The Thunder demonstrated they are a very different team from last year by managing only 2 runs in getting swept - and lost starting Lfer Jose Cruz for a month as a bonus. The Knights and Tyrants put up the most fireworks to start the season, putting a combined 49 runs on the board and ranking 1st and 2nd in runs scored.
--Teams with the cap space may sign 1 additional player after each series to a max of 45.

[leecemark]

--Tom Burgmier is on the free agent pitching list, but I know he belongs to somebody. Please let me know if you are that somebody.

--The Corsairs sign catcher Dave Schmidt

--The Knights sign Lf Gene Roof

[jaybird_1981]

The Iron will sign Dave Edler for 250K/2-Yrs

[jaybird_1981]

Hard Cider sign John Wathan for 2-Yr/250K.

[J W]

Skipjacks sign Jamie Quirk for 1-Yr/250K.