MLB 2009 Tourney [Playing 5/28-5/31]

by **geigerm** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:19 am

jwithington wrote:BTW, I see you have an all-star game listed.

I, for one, am INTRIGUED.

Maybe they can make us a big ole Team Battle Royale?

Ooh ... I like that idea. Wasn't quite sure how to handle the All-Star Game, but I knew I wanted to do something and just figured I had enough time to figure it out later. If anyone has other suggestions, please let me know.

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The second set of games is out now. A few notes:

You might notice there's a bit of a "lag" in having pitcher records affect game settings--some of your first games are done, but the records aren't reflected in the way I chose settings for the new set of games. This issue will be constant throughout the tourney, since I want to try setting up (at least) 2 series at a time and will therefore not always have the most up-to-date records when I do that.
I have no idea why the image sizes (for the first and second set of current games in post #2) are different.
Thanks to those of you who have sent me updates already as your games finish. Please, please, please keep doing this. It's very easy for me to check active games quickly right now, while there are only a few series going on, but as the tournament goes, this task will get progressively harder. Any help you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated.

by **plash.ricrem** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:37 pm

The Toronto Blue Jays led by Manager Plash Ricrem, split their opening series of the year against the Detroit tigers 2-2. The ace of the staff Roy Halladay picked up his his first win of the year (4345245) and he was joined by Dustin Mcgowan (4345253) in the win column. However, Marcum and Litsch were less successful, suffering opening week losses (4345249) and (4345247). Ricrem was brief in his post game comments, saying that he "thought the team did an alright job, but thought they missed a couple of key opportunities to score some runs. We have to improve our situational hitting.."

by **HighlanderAttack** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:33 pm

Angels start off 3-1 at home. The fans waived little monkeys at Oakland all night long. Our best pitcher sruggled in the only loss of the series with Oakland but he vows he won't lose his next game at home.

Tournament Game: MLB 2009 Tournament - OAK@LAA: Holtzman(0-0) vs. Weaver(1-0)
4345286 Enter Game Standard
Sequential Arms Race!
Arms Race! Flat Rate
Unlimited No

* HighlanderAttack 4.8
* joeeeeeeee 4.7

Tournament Game: MLB 2009 Tournament - OAK@LAA: Odom(0-0) vs. Saunders(1-0)
4345284 Enter Game Standard
Sequential Arms Race!
Arms Race! Escalating
Adjacent No

* HighlanderAttack 4.8
* joeeeeeeee 4.7

Tournament Game: MLB 2009 Tournament - OAK@LAA: Hunter(0-0) vs. Santana(1-0)
4345283 Enter Game Standard
Sequential Arms Race!
Arms Race! Flat Rate
Unlimited No

* HighlanderAttack 4.8
* joeeeeeeee 4.7

Tournament Game: MLB 2009 Tournament - OAK@LAA: Blue(0-0) vs. Lackey(0-1)
4345280 Enter Game Standard
Sequential Arms Race!
Arms Race! No Spoils
Adjacent Yes

* HighlanderAttack 4.8
* joeeeeeeee 4.7

by **geigerm** on Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:04 pm

Thanks again for the updates, folks. Just to get into the spirit:

The Boston Red Sox opened their season with a three-game sweep over division rival Tampa Bay. Playing at home in Actium Park ... or is that the Battle of Fenway? Whatever ... anyway, the Sox were able to use their home field to their advantage, wearing down the Rays with relentless offense and some excellent pitching from Beckett, Lester, and Matsuzaka.

by **jwithington** on Sun Mar 01, 2009 4:02 am

Browns win over Yankees
Jim Palmer over CC Sabathia in 4 rounds
Game 4345230

Said Browns manager jwithington, "Palmer just brought the heat. I didn't know he had such a performance in him."

by **dcc1220** on Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:28 pm

Kansas City Royals @ Chicago White Sox

Grienke vs Danks - Danks wins. As usually the case the Royals provided no offensive help for Grienke. Rounds 4 through 7 provided only one card and put him in an impossible position.

Quisenberry vs Floyd - Quisenberry wins. Both teams scored quickly acquiring bonuses on opposite sides of the field. Then the Royals were just able to manage more extra base hits (bigger flat rate cards) than the White Sox.

Saberhagen vs Buehle - It's the bottom of the ninth with the Royals in control. Soria has been brought in to close. Unless the White Sox can hit a couple big HRs (need a 3-card mixed set now) the Royals will close in out.

*UPDATE* - Saberhagen gets the win.

by **MuEagles79** on Sun Mar 01, 2009 5:18 pm

dcc1220 wrote:Kansas City Royals @ Chicago White Sox

Grienke vs Danks - Danks wins. As usually the case the Royals provided no offensive help for Grienke. Rounds 4 through 7 provided only one card and put him in an impossible position.

Quisenberry vs Floyd - Quisenberry wins. Both teams scored quickly acquiring bonuses on opposite sides of the field. Then the Royals were just able to manage more extra base hits (bigger flat rate cards) than the White Sox.

Saberhagen vs Buehle - It's the bottom of the ninth with the Royals in control. Soria has been brought in to close. Unless the White Sox can hit a couple big HRs (need a 3-card mixed set now) the Royals will close in out.

*UPDATE* - Saberhagen gets the win.

Ozzie Guillen has already broken 3 water coolers...2 batting helmets...and 1 bat boy....the early season struggles at home cannot continue.

by **geigerm** on Sun Mar 01, 2009 11:26 pm

MuEagles79 wrote:Ozzie Guillen has already broken 3 water coolers...2 batting helmets...and 1 bat boy....the early season struggles at home cannot continue.

Good to see you're playing this in character.

Thanks again for the updates, folks ... expect another set of games within a couple of days.

I've updated the spreadsheet, but please note that we have a wildly variant range of results--some people haven't joined their second set of games yet (and they still have some time to do so within the 72-hour window), and others have finished those games already!

Needless to say, I haven't really figured out standings at all--doing that is a little more difficult than I'd like when some teams haven't even finished a game yet. I'm also trying to make it a little easier to track home/road/division records by writing a function for the spreadsheet. I started handling those records by hand, and the results are what you can see under the AL East, but even handling that was enough of a pain that I honestly think the code will be quicker if I can get it to work fairly quickly.

Keep those updates coming ...

by **jwithington** on Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:44 pm

St Louis takes another from the Yankees
Sutcliffe over Guidry
Game 4345229

Good game!

by **the.killing.44** on Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:56 pm

Good game my friend.

Yankees manager Casey Stengel (lol) offered this to the media:

We just seemed startled in St. Louis … something about playing on the road there got to our guys, and we couldn't get over it. We'll just move on against KC, somewhere we're better at despite the current opponent, and take it from there.

(Translation: I had no idea what the hell I was doing on City Mogul)

.44

by **Sackett58** on Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:38 pm

Dodgers vs Padres
WP- Koufax
LP- Peavy
Dodgers 15 Rounds

WP-Newcombe
LP- Baek
Dodgers 11 Rounds

LP-Podres
WP-Geer
Padres 9 Rounds

WP-Drysdale
LP-Young
Dodgers 7 Rounds

by **jwithington** on Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:54 pm

The St. Louis Browns continued to dominate the Yankees today, completing their three-game season-opening sweep as Steve Stone grabbed the win.

Manager jwithington remarked, "Well, I gotta hand it to him, the.killing.44 is a gutsy, quick manager. He just had some bad luck with that suicide squeeze."

And indeed he did, as the Yanks' manager attempted to make good use of the arsonist, but was done in by (most likely) a horrendous auto-attack dice roll.

W: Stone
L: Wang
Game: Game 4345233

by **RedBaron0** on Tue Mar 03, 2009 10:58 am

Phillies vs. Braves Series: 1 - 2

LP- Lowe(0-1) vs. WP- Hamels(1-0)
WP- Vazquez(1-0) vs. LP- Myers(0-1)
WP- Jurrjens(1-0) vs. LP- Moyer(0-1)

by **freakns** on Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:09 pm

after dreadful start of the season, defending AL champs, Tampa Bay Rays have shown they havent forgot how to play baseball(or City Mogul). in their second consecutive road series Rays players seems to found their stroke and took all 3 games...

Sonnanstine over Myers
Price over Shocker
Kazmir over Sutcliffe

after the series has ended, Rays manager freakns gave rather strange interview...

(reporter): mister freakns, your players seems to come pretty hot in this series?
(freakns): yeah, thats because im hot.
(reporter): errrrrr... ok... but that was really awesome transformation if we look season opener against Red Sox?
(freakns): well, they knew i was hot when we played Red Sox, but Red Sox had alien help on their side and my sexiness couldnt overcome that.
(reporter): alien help? what do you mean?
(freakns): what do i mean? green monster, hello!!! pffff, and you call yourself reporter...
(reporter): sir... green monster is that wall on the stadium...
(freakns): no its not. its alien.
(reporter): im pretty sure its name of the wall...
(freakns): and im curtain you are an idiot. green AND monster... how could you even question its alien?!
(reporter): well, maybe because aliens dont exist?
(freakns): WHAT?! are you nuts?! and who is batting cleanup for Cubs then?! ha?! ha?! are you claim Aramis Ramirez is from this planet?! IS THAT HOW YOU PREPARE YOUSELF FOR THE INTERVIEW?! pfffffffff. im off, and you better go and check your facts... mister "reporter"
//freakns running away, singing loudly 'im too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, im too sexy...'

in other news, freakns twin brother Joe Maddon has escaped mental institution. there are unconfirmed rumours that he can been seen playing computer games and have found his place on some site called conquerclub. last time he was seen was 3 days ago, somewhere in Europe in isolated net cafe. witnesses said he was hitting monitor and shouting loudly "stupid dices! f-you random.org!" CIA is still investigating what those words couldve meant...

ps. =D>

for jwithington. good games mate

by **dcc1220** on Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:04 pm

New York Yankees @ Kansas City Royals

Royals Sweep:
Cone (1-0) defeats Reynolds (0-1)
Davies (1-0) defeats Ruth (0-1)
Saberhagen (2-0) defeats Guidry (0-2)

by **geigerm** on Tue Mar 03, 2009 9:43 pm

Wow. Now I know where the "freak" in "freakns" comes from ... :shock:

Keep those updates coming, folks. I'm guessing the next set of games will come out Thursday-ish--bad week, or I'd get 'em out sooner.

by **RedBaron0** on Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:17 pm

Phillies vs. Rockies Series: 2-1

LP Blanton(0-1) vs. WP De La Rosa(1-0)
WP Happ(1-0) vs. LP Smith(0-1)
WP Hamels(1-1) vs. LP Cook(0-2)

by **joeeeeeeee** on Wed Mar 04, 2009 6:17 pm

Oakland takes 2 of 3 from Seattle in the Opening homestand....

Game 4361208 Rowland-Smith beats Hamilton
Game 4361210 Vida Blue beats Hernandez
Game 4361211 Catfish Hunter beat Bedard

by **jwithington** on Wed Mar 04, 2009 8:10 pm

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Seriously, though, your squad EMBARRASSED the Browns. Well played.

freakns wrote:after dreadful start of the season, defending AL champs, Tampa Bay Rays have shown they havent forgot how to play baseball(or City Mogul). in their second consecutive road series Rays players seems to found their stroke and took all 3 games...

Sonnanstine over Myers
Price over Shocker
Kazmir over Sutcliffe

after the series has ended, Rays manager freakns gave rather strange interview...

(reporter): mister freakns, your players seems to come pretty hot in this series?
(freakns): yeah, thats because im hot.
(reporter): errrrrr... ok... but that was really awesome transformation if we look season opener against Red Sox?
(freakns): well, they knew i was hot when we played Red Sox, but Red Sox had alien help on their side and my sexiness couldnt overcome that.
(reporter): alien help? what do you mean?
(freakns): what do i mean? green monster, hello!!! pffff, and you call yourself reporter...
(reporter): sir... green monster is that wall on the stadium...
(freakns): no its not. its alien.
(reporter): im pretty sure its name of the wall...
(freakns): and im curtain you are an idiot. green AND monster... how could you even question its alien?!
(reporter): well, maybe because aliens dont exist?
(freakns): WHAT?! are you nuts?! and who is batting cleanup for Cubs then?! ha?! ha?! are you claim Aramis Ramirez is from this planet?! IS THAT HOW YOU PREPARE YOUSELF FOR THE INTERVIEW?! pfffffffff. im off, and you better go and check your facts... mister "reporter"
//freakns running away, singing loudly 'im too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, im too sexy...'

in other news, freakns twin brother Joe Maddon has escaped mental institution. there are unconfirmed rumours that he can been seen playing computer games and have found his place on some site called conquerclub. last time he was seen was 3 days ago, somewhere in Europe in isolated net cafe. witnesses said he was hitting monitor and shouting loudly "stupid dices! f-you random.org!" CIA is still investigating what those words couldve meant...

ps. for jwithington. good games mate

by **freakns** on Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:45 am

geigerm wrote:Wow. Now I know where the "freak" in "freakns" comes from ...

and ns stands as initials of my home town

by **MuEagles79** on Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:32 pm

is there going to be a standard day games for the week go out?

Maybe I finished my games for the week fairly quick but I'm jonesin' for some MLB action right now!

by **geigerm** on Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:36 pm

Hopefully, I'll be able to get into a particular routine as the season goes on and get games out on a fairly regular schedule. This week has just been ridiculously busy at work, so I haven't gotten the updates done on this tourney I would have liked.

by **geigerm** on Fri Mar 06, 2009 4:49 pm

OK folks, the next set of games are (finally) out. The spreadsheet has been updated, but the second and third posts of the thread haven't--expect that update later today/early tomorrow. Good luck, and enjoy!

As a general rule, I think you probably won't see games on a particular day, but I will try to send out series within 3-4 days of each other (i.e., after the 72-hour window for joining a series has passed).

by **Sackett58** on Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:25 am

Dodgers(5-2) at D'Backs (France)
_______________________________________________
WP-Maglie(1-0)
LP-Garland
Dodgers Round 9
Boxscore------------------Dodgers-----D'Backs
Armies Recieved------------75---------- 39
Spoils-----------------------N/A---------- N/A
Territories Won-------------30-----------13
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WP-Webb
LP-Drysdale(1-1)
D'Backs Round 7
Boxscore-----------------Dodgers------D'Backs
Armies Recieved------------22------------47
Spoils-------------------------32------------57
Territories Won-------------11-------------28
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WP-Koufax(2-0)
LP-Scherzer
Dodgers Round 16
Boxscore------------------Dodgers-------D'Backs
Armies Recieved------------87---------------58
Spoils-------------------------44-------------- 40
Territories Won------------ 49---------------35