This is a non-paid advertisement by the baseball sim league. Anyone want to play more baseball? A lot of fantasy baseball threads are popping up these days, but a good or possibly better alternative is haven's sim league. http://www2.bc.edu/~mendola/ccnet/league.htm So, what do we do? Well, a lot of the things are on the site. Too lazy to look? Here's a few things we do on the BBS: Free agency: Bidding is held in the chat at the beginning of each player in an auction format. Los Angeles : P Pedro Martinez, 15.000.000 per year, for 2 years. Houston : 1B Jason Giambi, 25.000.000 per year, for 1 year. Baltimore : P Colt Griffin, 21.000.000 per year, for 4 years. New York (A) : CF Preston Wilson, 11.000.000 per year, for 2 years. San Francisco : P Aaron Sele, 7.000.000 per year, for 1 year. Toronto : P Jeff C. D'Amico, 9.000.000 per year, for 3 years. Anaheim : 3B Fernando Tatis, 8.089.200 per year, for 3 years. Portland : 1B Paul Konerko, 8.500.000 per year, for 4 years. Baltimore : 3B Chipper Jones, 9.000.000 per year, for 1 year. San Francisco : 2B Frank Catalanotto, 6.000.000 per year, for 2 years. New York (A) : P Brad Radke, 8.000.000 per year, for 2 years. Rosters: Atlanta Braves Lineup vs. RHP 1. Joe Tarpley CF 2. Johnny Damon LF 3. Alex Rodriguez SS 4. Roberto Martinez 2B 5. Darin Erstad 1B 6. Otis Coghlan RF 7. Albert Pujols 3B 8. Juan Deroche C Starting Pitching 1. Tim Redding 2. Jung Bong 3. Freddy Garcia 4. Josh Girdley 5. Scott Williamson Trades: all done in chat, email, BBS, etc. There is no salary cap, just like real baseball, but you need to stay within your team's revenue. You can go over, but only by what your cap allows. DBacks trade: Justin Duchsherer Tony Blanco Jamie Flinn Roy Martinez Mets trade: Vladimir Guerrero Manny Ramirez Shawn Chacon Finances: easy to understand. You can pay your team up to revenue. Cash allows you go to over. Atlanta This Season (Last Year): Attendance : 857.127 (3.867.982) Attendance/Game : 47.618 (46.602) ---------------------------------------------- Attendance Revenue : $ 5.999.889 (27.075.874) Revenue/Game : $ 333.327 (326.215) Broadcast Revenue : $ 14.446.183 (64.816.519) Merchandising Revenue : $ 4.658.593 (20.924.205) Play-Offs Revenue : $ 0 (957.601) ---------------------------------------------- Total Revenue : $ 25.104.665 (112.816.598) Payroll : $ 108.957.000 (121.725.412) Total + / - : $ 819.234 (-8.908.814) ---------------------------------------------- Cash : $ 12.000.000 Ticket Price : $ 7 Money left for contract extentions : $ 15.656.598 Money left for signing free agents : $ 15.859.598 Worried that you can't afford all your players? Well, you can always move once you join. Mexico City has a 75-80 million revenue stream per year, and Brooklyn, London, Paris, etc. would also be likely to have large revenue streams. Of course, you can also trade for prospects, which are free: BATTERS BY TALENT: TALENT RATINGS RUNNING DEF. Name Age Pos HITS HOMERS WALKS SP STA RANGE H. Lancaster 22 RF Brilliant Good Brilliant B B A C. Brownfield 21 2B Good Brilliant Brilliant B D C J. Hernandez 20 SS Good Brilliant Good B B C Talent levels range from poor, fair, average, good, brilliant. Strengths in speed, stealing ability, defensive range range from A (best) to E (worst). Worried that you can't learn, or don't know how much time you have? Just give it a shot. Boville had no idea what a baseball was, much less understand it, and now he's one of the more active and better GMs around. It's a lot of fun for anyone involved. Current members: haven (commish), Cat, BGM, Puedlfor, Zac_D, Heath, boville, deanbcurtis, Sam Cassell, Nomar, Hayes Street, SteveFrancis3, Anticope, kidrock8, JAG, Dvauthrin, Castor27, franchise, Manny Ramirez, DieHard Rocket, mduke, DrewP, moestavern19..... If you're even interested, post below. Some of us are usually in the chat, and you can talk with us more there. Essentially, if you like or dislike baseball, the league is a lot of fun, and you chat with some of your favorite BBS personalities. To see what teams are available, just open up the site link at the top of the post, and when you click on each individual team look at the top where it says: Houston Astros Pages : MANAGER : haven If, next to manager, it says "computer manager", that team is available. Even if you don't like the team's city or market, you can move them to somewhere where you can make more money. It's a lot of fun, and I encourage some of you to give it a shot...
Yep, even if you don't know baseball, you wouldn't be worse off than boville or Heath, who under my tutelage have blossomed into managers of first place teams - the same might happen to you.
"Before, I thought I knew what hardcore competition was about. Now, I know I didn't know anything at all. The sim league has broadened my horizons on baseball and impacted me in more ways than anyone can imagine. Where else could I have met such great people as Puedlfor, haven, BGM, theCat and others. "Join the baseball sim." Take it from me, future hall of fame broadcaster David Vauthrin. You wont regret it.
The sim is quite a fun thing to be involved in. You can collect Stovers like SteveFrancis3. You can change your team's name to the "Peace Keepers" like franchise_3. You can completely dismantle a championship team for tons of amazing young (and undeveloped) talent like Nomar. You can create an a magnificently good superteam like haven. You can make outlandish offers to free agents like deanbcurtis. You can sign a talented young pitcher to a $7 million contract, only to have him grossly underperform for you, like Manny Ramirez. You can take Troy Glaus to the negotiating table and come away feeling like he just hit you over the head with his Louisville Slugger, like SamCassell. You can trade Vladimir Guerrero for a small pile of horse manure, like me. There's really something for everyone...
Want more baseball? Yes. Yes I do. That's the reason I joined haven's league at its inception. I had gotten frustrated with Fantasy Baseball. The simple fact is that Fantasy sports can't hold a candle to Sim Sports. There is just too much luck invovled in Fantasy. The appeal of sim sports it that you have nearly total control of the performance of your team. In Fantasy sports, an off day or a DNP-Coaches Decision, etc. can ruin a game. In sim sports, you control almost EVERYTHING. And besides, the chat room trash talk is tremendous. Also, no excuses about not knowing much about baseball. If Heath from Norway and Boville from Spain can both excel, anybody can.
Cool, Dirt. As you'll see if you follow the link from Cat's post, the current sim date is May 28, 2010. Available teams are: Tampa Bay Detroit Oakland Anaheim Milwaukee Pittsburgh (an EPICALLY bad team) Austin (former Philadelphia Phillies) Las Vegas (former Kansas City Royals) I figure having a list is easier than clicking on every team to see if it says "computer manager" next to team owner name. Feel free to check out those teams and claim the one you think you'd have the most fun with. Anyway, once you take over a team, the first order of business is to sort yourself out a lineup. The computer already has one in place, of course, but you can post a custom one in the Lineup Thread in the fantasy forum. This thread is also where you call up players from the minors and send 'em back down again. Have a look at it, and you'll figure out how it works. Trades go in the Transaction Thread. Haven usually sims a couple weeks of game time per night, so we go through seasons relatively quickly. As far as the draft is concerned, there is a free agency bidding session at each season's conclusion, followed by a rookie draft. There's no set date for this, yet - after the season ends, haven gives us a couple days' notice to prepare for free agency and the draft. Really, the whole sim's pretty simple - you set your lineup, try to make trades to improve on weaknesses, and then watch your team perform.
69-10, Well I guess you would have trouble remembering that though Dunk at your age. I was watching this interesting infomercial the other day about how you can now remember everything with this new...
You can't hold scores involving the Red Sox against the realism of the sim league. That team was pitching A ball guys in the majors for several years .
Well, at least you'll have number one draft picks the next five years! Seriously, though, don't take them unless you're either one of the two: really committed, or willing to move them. If you're committed, you can field a respectable team most anywhere. Even if you are, though, I think it'll be hard for anything to work in the Pittsburgh market which I think pulls in about 55k per year. Mexico City would pull in 75-80k. Brooklyn might be a little larger, as could London and Paris. The league is essentially based in the chat, so I'm sure if you drop by now or later this evening someone can fill you in with more details.
If it's still free, I could take Oakland... though I haven't watched pro baseball almost at all, besides the world series. So I'm pretty clueless. with everything
Its still free Iron. But Manny Ramirez just switched to Oakland, leaving Portland available. You don't really have to know about baseball...
which chat room...where do i go...what do i do...ahhhhhh the madness...hawaii pirates sound good...mmmmmmmmmmm
