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« on: March 24, 2021, 07:23:40 PM »
I keep seeing good players at good prices so I keep signing them, and now I've got a log jam... everywhere. Ideally I'd like to package these guys with someone else to give myself a major league upgrade, but nobody wants to do that. So prospects and picks, or cash, or maybe a good C if any are available. Would trade any of these guys for a 27-man roster, straight-up. Infield1 or 2 of these 3 needs to go. 2B/3B/(SS) Raul Soto - 3.7 WAR in 500 ABs last year. Great defender, decent switch-hitting bat, elite base stealer. Shoo-in for GG if playing 3B. 2yrs @ $6.3M/yr left. Just want to save the money. SS/3B Jose Gonzales - Elite defender. Amazing platoon hitter vs. LHP, good enough to start vs. RHP. Leaning toward keeping him instead of Soto, but feel free to offer. 1yr @ $4.25M left 2B Rich Grant - Signed him 'cuz I thought it was fantastic value, but I really don't have room in my infield. 7/6/4/6/8 ratings both sides of the plate, OK 2B defender with 6 range. 2 years @ 1.4M left. Might train him up as a backup 1B. Would trade for $1. OutfieldLF/RF Cisco Gonzales - 2.3 WAR in 445 PAs last year, but just has no place on my roster anymore. Could go for a flyer prospect. LF/(CF)/RF Ryan Schenkel - Great utility OF. 2.1 WAR in 355 PAs last year, but probably has no place on my roster anymore...looking like my top reserve in AAA Hoping for something like a 3rd rd pick? CF Yuki Yoshioka - Paid huge for him last year, he was awful. Should be good at everything based on ratings, and I expect somewhat of a bounceback, but not room for both him and Marcus Oliver on the roster. Enters Arbitration after this season. CF Marcus Oliver. Elite CF defender + basestealer, Hucklebatter. Leaning towards keeping him instead of Yoshi but would listen to offers. 1.5yrs of service time. Would want something like a mid first rd pick. PitchingI'm not even sure which guys to list here. I've got ~20 pitchers that I want on my roster. These guys are pretty much all on cheap contracts so I'm not desperate to move, but if I can get value I'll take it: SP Hyun-chul Lee, RP Felino Escamillan, SP/RP Josh Van Buizen, SP/RP Jose Monzo, RP Tim Martin
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« on: March 24, 2021, 01:48:37 PM »
Trash.
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« on: March 24, 2021, 07:52:43 AM »
Rio sends Jaguar Legend William Kalman.
Rome sends 1 million WBA Bucks.
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« on: March 17, 2021, 11:30:36 AM »
Confirmed
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« on: March 17, 2021, 11:30:07 AM »
Rio sends 350k
Beijing sends Jose Monzo
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« on: February 26, 2021, 08:23:19 PM »
Rio sends 1.6M
Beijing sends 5th rd
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« on: February 26, 2021, 05:59:21 PM »
Kev was a dick and snuck in first. Feel free to process either hayes trade
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« on: February 26, 2021, 05:38:34 PM »
Haha, yes, bob sucks
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« on: February 26, 2021, 05:37:36 PM »
Sorry, my definitions were unclear, need to decline
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« on: February 26, 2021, 05:28:02 PM »
Plug Cabrera in at LF (vs. both LHP and RHP) and make Aromin a regular middle reliever.
Cabrera and Delgado will bat 1/2, order doesn't really matter.
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« on: February 26, 2021, 05:17:44 PM »
Plug Delgado in at 1B vs. LHP
Edit: Actually better stick him there vs. RHP, too
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« on: February 26, 2021, 05:11:50 PM »
Rio sends this years 1st, 5th rd picks
Daegu sends OF Jesus Cabrera, P Francisco Aromin, this years 3rd rd pick
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« on: February 26, 2021, 05:06:38 PM »
Rio sends $999,999 WBA-bucks ;-)
Beijing sends 1B Jesus Delgado
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« on: February 24, 2021, 01:51:51 PM »
Hokay. I'll make room for him at 1B vs. RHP
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« on: February 02, 2021, 01:09:02 PM »
Rio sends Shaun Bloye (signed last night).
Karachi sends RP Escamillan.
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« on: January 30, 2021, 12:33:41 PM »
I am happy to announce the addition of 1B/2B Alfredo Ruiz to the Rio De Janeiro Hall of Fame! Ruiz was a career Jaguar. He was drafted by Rio in Rd 2 of the 2105 draft, debuted in 2108, and spent 11 seasons at the major league level with Rio. Ruiz was a prototypical leadoff hitter, and that's where you would find him in the lineup in nearly every game that Rio played between 2108 and 2118. Ruiz came up through the Rio system as a 2B, but played out the peak seasons of his career at 1B. As a 1B, he broke against the conventional wisdom that says you need a big bad HR masher at the position, instead offering elite OBP, baserunning, and defense. For his career he never hit more than 4 HRs in a season, but consistently offered a high-.300's OBP and 40+ stolen bases. As of 2128 Ruiz is the #2 base-stealer in ABL history, with 538 SBs. He trails only the incomparable Pio Seixas. Career accolades include 1 Silver Slugger (at 2B), 2 Gold Gloves (at 1B), and 4 ABL Championships (all with Rio). As is becoming a trend with Rio Hall of Famers, he had a brief swansong with Santo Domingo where he continued to give his all for Rio De Janerio by putting up -0.1 WAR for the Palmchats in a brief 8-game stint. Over the course of his career with Rio, accumulated 39.1 WAR. 39.2 WAR, if you consider his time with SD ;-). ---------- Ruiz joins: 1B Ze Vargas, 2B Ricardo Ramirez, 3B Ernesto Colon, SS Piero Folena, CL Justin White, SP Bob Turner. Also, as I'm looking at the above list of already-inducted HoFers, I now realize that Ruiz is the first Rio HoFer who wasn't part of Rio's first WBA Championship in 2105. Interesting.
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« on: January 28, 2021, 08:49:23 PM »
Y'all are gonna be jealous when he leads the league in (K+HR)/BB
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« on: January 25, 2021, 07:29:12 PM »
Yup
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« on: January 08, 2021, 04:54:01 PM »
Melbourne sends RP Datini
Rio sends 2128 3rd and 2129 5th and hopes this is worth it.
Huck, I'll make room in my bullpen. Just label Datini a typical MR.
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« on: December 31, 2020, 03:49:50 PM »
Yup. Both my guys will be in AAA
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« on: December 22, 2020, 09:13:23 AM »
$1 for Domingo Sanchez
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« on: December 20, 2020, 11:29:44 AM »
NA Division
Northwest Emeralds - 88 Wins
Phoenix Burros - 78
Mexico City Aztecs - 73
Los Angeles Stars - 71
Edmonton Trappers - 70
Latin American Division
Havana Dolphins - 104
Sao Paulo Toucans - 85
Rio De Janeiro Jaguars - 83
Puerto Rico Coqui - 69
Santo Domingo Palmchats - 59
Afro-European Division
Cairo Pharaohs - 97
Ljubljana Dragons - 96
Rome Generals - 89
Paris Fleur-de-lis - 54
Black Forest Foxes - 53
Asian Division
Mumbai Cobras - 97
Melbourne Meteors - 90
Karachi Falcons - 84
Manilia Folders - 80
Tokyo Shogun - 40
Team Power Rankings (under-lined = playoff team)
Havana - 112 Star-PointsTM
Mumbai - 104
Cairo - 104
Ljubljana - 103
Melbourne - 97
Rome - 95
Sao Paulo 92
Karachi - 91
Northwest - 90
Rio de Janeiro - 89
Manila - 86
Phoenix - 80
Mexico City - 75
Puerto Rico - 74
Los Angeles - 73
Edmonton - 72
Santo Domingo - 63
Paris - 58
Black Forest - 57
Tokyo - 43
Division Power Rankings
Latin American - 86 Star-PointsTM
Asian - 84.2
Afro-European - 83.4
North American - 78
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« on: December 18, 2020, 12:17:05 PM »
Its minor league affiliates.
AAA Recife --> AAA Belo Horizonte
AA Belém --> AA Belém
A Garulhos --> A Manaus
R Sao Luis --> R Recife
That is all.
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« on: December 09, 2020, 08:07:29 PM »
Yeah
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« on: December 03, 2020, 03:15:33 PM »
Salary dumped.
Good luck, Dustin!
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« on: December 03, 2020, 12:52:16 PM »
After the Raul Soto trade, I no longer have need for Dustin Russell and Jose Buenrrosero. Russell is a 3 true outcomes hitter who can play strong defense anywhere in the IF. 1 yr, 7M left on his contract. This is purely a salary dump. Would pay some money to have someone take him off my hands.Dustin Russell is gone. Buenrrosero is an average 3B. With 3 yrs of control left. Would want like a 4th rd pick or maybe just sone money in return. I'm not really looking for anything specific to add to my team, but could afford to improve in the OF and am interested in acquiring extreme groundball pitchers. I don't really have any "vacancies" on my roster, though so would prefer to do package deals to acquire any ML player. (e.g., trade OF Cisco Gonzales + aforementioned Buenrroserro for a better OF, or do a direct swap of pitchers... something like that).
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« on: December 02, 2020, 09:22:26 PM »
Now it's all coming together. I wanted Monzo. And now I know why Soto was available.
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« on: December 02, 2020, 09:17:10 PM »
Yeah. Too bad you didn't win that series, huh?
Still yes after the 9:21:15 edit.
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« on: November 18, 2020, 01:59:51 PM »
Okie Dokie
Just stick Critter in my ML bullpen (normal middle relief role)
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« on: November 09, 2020, 08:38:54 PM »
Rio sends C Gu Jong, next 5th rd pick
Melbourne sends next available 4th rd pick.
I may end up regretting this, but I'm starting to penny-pinch in an attempt to keep my window open until I get some hot prospect arrivals in 2129 (hopefully).
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« on: November 02, 2020, 12:43:21 PM »
You sound bitter.
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« on: October 23, 2020, 12:12:53 PM »
Rio sends RP Norbert Schulberg, 1B Jeremy Walden.
Melbourne sends Karachi's 3rd rd pick and Paris's 5thrd pick in the next draft.
Also Rio sends RP Jaime Gonzales.
Melbourne sends $650k.
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« on: October 20, 2020, 06:31:06 PM »
I know the FSSL is long dead, but I just saw this post for the first time while clearing out the "unread" tags on all the forum posts and couldn't resist chiming in to say SUCK IT, ROME!!!
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« on: October 12, 2020, 01:00:42 PM »
Rio sends: recently re-signed Nelson Ackland
Melbourne sends next yrs 4th rd pick.
EDIT: make that "next available" 4th rd pick
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« on: October 10, 2020, 01:02:21 PM »
Rio sends next years 2nd + 5th rd picks.
Cairo sends this yrs 1st rd pick (19th overall)
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« on: September 01, 2020, 05:39:40 PM »
Rio sends next 4th rd pick
Phoenix sends RP Arthur Cole, $1.3M WBA-bucks
Huck, please put Cole in my major league bullpen as a middle reliever and slide RP Amaral from my ML team to my AAA team
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« on: August 30, 2020, 01:20:14 PM »
Rio sends:
3B Tariq Wattu
RP Jose Morales
Karachi sends:
SP Rodrigo Medina
EDIT: Huck, put Medina in the open spot in my AAA rotation. Need to make sure he gets a chance to shake the offseason rust off considering he didn't pitch much in ST.
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« on: August 22, 2020, 09:52:02 PM »
Rio receives: CF Robin Marteau
Cairo receives: 1.5M WBA Bucks
OOTP receives: 1,000 swift kicks to the nuts.
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« on: August 13, 2020, 09:04:39 PM »
Rio sends next 5th rd pick.
Melbourne sends C Brandon Crabbe
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« on: August 13, 2020, 09:02:29 PM »
Rio sends next 1st rd pick
Rome sends 16.5 million WBA-bucks.
Don't ever like sending my 1st rd pick away, but what must be done must be done.
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« on: August 10, 2020, 09:53:19 AM »
Yeah. Glad this is done, I hate trade negotiations 
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« on: August 08, 2020, 03:52:44 PM »
I've never really understood what the "Baserunning Skills" rating is supposed to do in OOTP, so I did some experimenting this afternoon to find out. I've got an OOTP "Test League" in which I've got 2 identical (cloned) teams. All batters for each team have the same batting ratings. All SPs have the same pitching ratings. All RPs have the same pitching ratings. I've tweaked the fielder's defensive ratings to mimic what a very good defensive team could realistically like. All batters have a "normal" batting profile as it relates to both pull-hitting and GB/FB ratio. Ditto for pitchers (OOTP says avg groundout% is 54%, so I set all pitchers to that #). I tweaked the "hits" stat modifier so that league-wide batting avg is ~.250. With these two teams I can simulate large #'s of games in the "simulation module" to see how edited player ratings impact team results. --------- Anyways, what I did is set the "Baserunning Skills" rating of all batters on Team One to 250/250 in the editor. Team Two's batters are all at 100/250. I then ran 5 sets of 10,000 games in the simulation module. Results!!!Base-running skill does not impact frequency of doubles, triples, or hits in general. Nor does it impact stolen bases in any measurable way. It does, however, impact runs scored. Over the course of the 40,000 game simulation, Team One scored 1.25% more runs than Team Two. Mathed out to the impact on a 162 game season, we're looking at ~17 additional runs scored. This suggests to me that the "Baserunning Skills" rating *only* impacts a player's ability to navigate the bases while another player is up to bat--e.g., tagging up on a fly ball, scoring from 2nd on single. This is not what I expected. Realistically, baserunning skills should also impact the frequency of doubles and triples hit by a player, as it *should* encapsulate the ability to make a good slide to avoid a tag or make the proper decision whether or not to try to extend a single into a double or a double into a triple. But it does not. --------- So... I also decided to do a test run of a team full of max-speed guys. I reset team 1's Baserunning Skills back to 100/250, and increased their Speed ratings to 250/250. Again, Team Two's Speed rating remained 100/250. Results!!!Speed does not impact total quantity of hits OR total quantity of XBHs....but it does drastically increase the frequency Triples. It appears that the total quantity of Extra Base Hits a player generates is based solely on the Gap rating... And every double or triple that a player hits is pulled from that pool. Oddly enough, this means that a fast OOTP player can *never* turn a single into a double with his speed. Over the course of all 50,000 games simmed, Team Two (the "control" team) made 9,395 triples on 76,098 total XBHs. Team One (the fast team) made 34,196 triples on 76,339 total XBH's. Over the course of the 50,000 game simulation, Team 1 scored 1.86% more runs than Team Two. Mathed out to the impact on a 162 game season, we're looking at ~25 additional runs scored. Also surprising, is that the max Speed team didn't generate any extra hits in total. I fully expected that Team One would have a higher batting avg due to their ability to run out additional in-field hits, but that doesn't appear to be the case. -------------- But wait, there's more!!!First of all, one caveat to the Speed Test results--Team One's run total was "artificially" depressed by by their horrendous stolen base record. I'm not going to get into my theories on stolen bases, but here's the results from one random 10,000 game sim, just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about. Team One SB: 3239 Team One CS: 4043 Team Two SB: 1072 Team Two CS: 782 ^^And those results are typical^^ Anyways, dis-regarding everything I just said about SBs...you'd expect that the High-Speed team would be more desirable than the High-Baserunning team. But despite consistently scoring runs at a better rate than the High-Baserunning team, that did not translate into any statistically significant improvement on their win total. Over 162 games, both High-Stat teams are expected to win approx. 83.5 games vs. the control team. This had me concerned that I was missing something, but I think it's just a statistical anomaly. After seeing that result I pitted a High-Speed team directly against a High-Baserunning team and found that the High-Speed team would typically score 600-800 more runs than the High-Baserunning team over a 10,000 game sim and also win a proportionally correct # of times more often. Some of my data is saved here, if you want to take a peek: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CICl-0QyD04brYMOwQz_55kPTT5nF-oc/view?usp=sharing
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« on: July 24, 2020, 07:34:08 PM »
Rio sends Kevin Moore
Rome sends Arthur Cole
(Please put Cole in my bullpen in place of Diego Garza)
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« on: July 21, 2020, 07:08:35 PM »
Huck, please put Gonzales in my AAA lineup at *record scratch* ... Shortstop?
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« on: July 21, 2020, 07:03:52 PM »
Rio sends:
C Celso Periquito
3B Alejandro Valencia
Karachi sends:
Next 4th rd pick
3B Jose Gonzales
Not certain that this is a good deal for me, but I like Gonzales.
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« on: July 20, 2020, 05:44:08 PM »
Good stuff.
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« on: July 07, 2020, 04:27:33 PM »
Rio sends:
CF Sebastian Hurley
5th Rd pick
Ottawa sends:
SP Tony Canseco
I'll leave a gap in my rotation for Canseco, Huck.
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