Silly me. I thought I was getting into a simulation baseball league. Simulation being as true to life as one can get. In other words, simulating baseball. This reminds me of something which happened to me in a Football Pro '98 league I was in. The owner of the SF 49'ers designed a play in which Jerry Rice lined up in the backfield, ran a straight fly pattern down the field, and because of the game mechanics, your outside linebacker had to cover him. Is that a true simulation of football??? Of course not.
Luckily, my series this week contained some of the idiotic things I'm speaking of to use as examples...
I'm in LL35 and my most recent series is available if you'd like to see the boxes....
Game 1-Opponents pitcher... Gregg Olson.. 7.0 IP, 8H, 5R, 1ER, 31 BFA.
Game 2-Opponents Pitcher... Billy Wagner.. 9.0 IP, 8H, 3R, 3ER, 17 K's, 41 BFA. If only Larry Dierker realized what a stud starter he was wasting as a closer....
Game 4-Opponents Pitcher... John Franco.. 9.0 IP, 17H, 8R, 8ER, 52 BFA.
Am I wrong, but in real baseball aren't all of these guys closers????
I can't agree with the fact that if a player takes advantage of game mechanics and wins, that in some way he is a better "manager".
This reminds me of something that my friend and I did to show just how much a game can be taken advantage of. We were playing a game called Ultimate College Basketball (a board game with player cards based on the previous seasons stats) and he was Georgetown of 1984. They won the National Championship that year, so were obviously the best team but that was not the most unusual thing about our replay of their Final game against the Houston Cougars (w/Akeem Olajuwon). We had decided to let Michael Graham, the Hoyas starting PF (a good, but in no way dominate player, who averaged 18 min per game), play as many minutes possible and shoot as much as possible. Heck, their was no rule saying we couldn't, it was just ASSUMED by the designers of the game, that realism was the goal. Well, I think his field goal % that year was in the 60% neighborhood, he got hot and dropped... get ready for this...49 pts on 22-29 shooting. And yes, I remember the exact facts. From that point on, we always knew the other was going to play by the book, because if I wanted to play a game like that, I'd play Tecmo Bowl or Konami's basketball game for Nintendo. see my point. i want real baseball....

Mike