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Craig Costello · 07-12-2008, 04:15 PM

A couple of extra points to the above.

You can actually use the foreign player limit differently. My understanding how it works is as per the following table (the first 3 columns are the settings, the next three columns are the results) -

Foreign Players Limit	Foreign Pitcher Limit	Foreign Hitter Limit	Max Total Foreigners	Max Foreign Pitchers	Max Foreign Hitters
10	10	10	20	10	10
10	8	7	15	8	7
10	10	No Limit	10	10	10
10	No Limit	10	10	10	10
10	No Limit	6	10	10	6
10	6	No Limit	10	6	10

I've never actually played a game with the settings as per the bottom 4, so I don't know how smart the AI is at using up it's quota. I would hope that each team would have different numbers of foreign hitters and pitchers, but I think there is a chance that every team in the league will simply have 10 foreign pitchers and no hitters (or vice versa).

I've created a quickstart of the EBL with new fictional players and all the unis, logos. If anyone is interested, send me a private message with your Email address and I'll send it along.

Carplos · 07-12-2008, 04:45 PM

Any chance you could post your Hungarian name set?

Craig Costello · 07-12-2008, 07:56 PM

I hijacked name set 37 (Pakistani) so if your world has lots of Pakistanis, you might want to do something different.

My entry in the ethnicities.txt file for set 37 looks like -

37,Hungarian,0,0,0,1000,0,

I changed the nations.txt entry for Hungary to -

88,Hungary,Hungary,HUN,Hungarian,3,2,37,100,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0,1000,0,0

The name files are attached.

Craig Costello · 07-14-2008, 03:14 PM

1983 Preview

March 30th 1983 - Another off-season without much free-agency movement promises to lead to a season where the teams that were good last year are good this year. We did think that before the 1982 season as well though and most of the 1981 playoff teams had a poor season.

A few teams have made some aggresive trade moves. Copenhagen made a trade for reigning WL Glove of the Year for Right Field, Vitaly Woevedin. He is a career .284 hitter and is 35 years old, but he should make the team better for this season. They also brought in 1982's AAA Hitter of the Year, Antosha Litvintsev, who becomes their best (and youngest) first baseman.

There was also one huge other trade, with 2 men who were drafted in the top 10 of 1981's inaugural draft swapping teams. The Oslo Metros sent Bernard Wulker (#8 overall, average year .322/10/72) and relief pitcher Vavrinec Puskar to Prague in return for Ian Meoni (#2 overall, average year .289/22/87) and a minor league shortstop with no chance of making the EBL.

Magnus Leeuwenburgh (Vienna) and Eskil Junge (London) have both returned to the EBL after long term injuries, but as both are over 35, it is probably the case that they will not be the same as they were before their time out.

Craig Costello · 07-14-2008, 06:19 PM

Barcelona's Second Consecutive #1 Pick Is A Pitcher

June 15th 1983 - Here is the top 10 of this year's draft.

1. Barcelona: SP Juliao Virgolino (POR)
2. Sofia: SP Eytan Peretsky (POL)
3. Zurich: C Ianos Kukar (CZE)
4. Lisbon: LF Danny Day (IRL)
5. Warsaw: SS Joakim Tronstad (NOR)
6. Moscow: SS Carlos Hernandez (ESP)
7. Vienna: CF Nicolas Gerard (FRA)
8. London: SP Marcos Morales (ESP)
9. Oslo: 3B Gerd Klinck (GER)
10. Helsinki: SP Christian Blassneck (GER)

Craig Costello · 07-15-2008, 04:56 PM

1983 All-Star Break

June 22nd 1983 -

Code:

WL North Sea                 EL Baltic
            W   L  GB                     W   L  GB
Amsterdam  47  28   -        Copenhagen  45  30   -
Brussels   45  30   2        Oslo        40  35   5
Dublin     42  33   5        Stockholm   38  37   7
London     37  38  10        Hamburg     35  40  10
Glasgow    29  46  18        Berlin      34  41  11
Paris      26  49  21        Helsinki    31  44  14

WL Meditteranean             EL Black Sea
            W   L  GB                     W   L  GB
Milan      45  30   -        Warsaw      47  28   -
Barcelona  40  35   5        Prague      46  29   1
Vienna     36  39   9        Moscow      43  32   4
Lisbon     35  40  10        Athens      39  36   8
Madrid     34  41  11        Budapest    29  46  18
Zurich     34  41  11        Sofia       23  52  24

Notes -

The three teams mentioned in the preview as having made major trades (and Dublin who we failed to mention) are all having good years.
Zurich and Lisbon were involved in the EBLs second ever 20 inning game on 7th April. Zurich won 12-11, meaning they have been involved and won both EBL games that have gone that distance.
Sofia started 2-18. They fired their GM and skipper in May.
Oslo beat Moscow 5-3 on 19th May, a game remarkable because each team committed the same number of errors as they scored runs. Moscow followed this up by committing 5 errors the next day.
Budapest had a 6-18 run in May. Copenhagen had a 16-5 run and Prague won 18 out of 24.

Player Notes -

In the 20 inning game, Lisbon RF Dylan Rosenburg was 4/5 with 2 HR, 6 RBI and 5 walks.
Brussels players Theo Brittain, Jorge Perez and Fabio Quinhones all hit 2 home runs as the Hitmen beat Amsterdam 22-11 on 10th April. Perez was later named the WL Hitter of the Month for April, he hit .379 with 5 home runs and 23 RBIs.
Ebbe de Bie (Prague) became the first relief pitcher to win a Pitcher of the Month award, by winning the EL award in April. He saved 12 games in the month and had a 1.02 ERA.
The other April award winners were Paulo Simon (Athens, EL Hitter) and Magnus Leeuwenburgh (Vienna, WL Pitcher), who returned from injury with a 5-0 month.
Claudio Lwenholm (Amsterdam) hit in every game he played in May, finishing with a 31 game hitting streak. He hit .424 for the month of May and was named as the WL Hitter of the Month.
Prague CF Josef Metternech hit 3 HR versus Oslo on 15th May. 2 weeks later Randy Schmidt (Hamburg) hit the first cycle of the season.
May's Pitchers of the Month were - WL: Odysseus Hristopolous (Zurich), EL: Alexis Martin (Copenhagen).
Ian Meoni (Oslo) had a great May for his new club. He hit .400 and was named EL Hitter of the Month.
Dublin SP Jere Ronkko (who they got in return for Vitaly Woevodin in the pre-season trade) is 10-1 at the All-Star break with a 3.44 ERA.

Significant Injuries -

Vienna SP Joseph Sykora will miss the whole of the 1983 season with bone chips. Last season he was 15-10 with a 3.47 ERA.
Two time reigning WL Pitcher of the Year, Nike Rousakis (Milan), missed 3 weeks in May with a strained rotator cuff.
Dolf Pellenaars (Hamburg) was injured just before the All-Star break and will miss the rest of the year. He is a career .305 hitter and will definitely be missed.

Craig Costello · 07-16-2008, 02:39 PM

Hitmen Trade Brittain

July 20th 1983 - In a move that has shocked the EBL, the Brussels Hitmen have traded away Theo Brittain less than a year after he was a big part of them winning the European League Series.

The Irish Left Fielder was Brussels' 1st pick (at #11 overall) in the EBL Inaugural Draft and had been consistently their best hitter. He has a career average of .312 with 81 HRs and 295 RBI in the nearly three seasons of EBL play, putting him in the top 5 career-wise of the HR and RBI categories. He was also very good in their 1982 playoff run, with 20 hits, 6 of which were homers, in their 19 playoff games.

With a record such as his, you might expect the Hitmen's return in the trade to be bountiful - it was anything but. They received in return from the Barcelona Iguanas relief pitcher Marco Baan, whose career ERA of 3.60 and WHIP of 1.23 in 240 innings are good but not spectacular, and that was all they got.

Many rumours have been swirling as to why the Hitmen made the deal, ranging from them being scared of how much Brittain would cost them in arbitration in years to come, to them simply overvaluing Baan because he is Belgian and hence doesn't count against their foreigner limit. The most prevalent rumour being that Brittain's face simply didn't fit and they were glad to be rid of him.

Slightly less astonishing, but equally newsworthy, is another trade that recently took place. Lisbon have traded 1981's WL Hitter of the Year Zosimo Patrianakos to the Budapest Smoke in return for starting pitcher Admes Tzannetakis. Patrianakos couldn't repeat his 1981 efforts last year, and had seen his playing time severely reduced this season, with only 104 at-bats before the trade. Tzannetakis is a servicable EBL starter but has an overall losing record and a career ERA of 4.76.

Craig Costello · 07-16-2008, 05:01 PM

1983 Final Standings

September 26th 1983 -

Code:

WL North Sea                 EL Baltic
            W   L  GB                     W   L  GB
Amsterdam  94  68   -        Copenhagen  89  73   -
Dublin     87  75   7        Hamburg     87  75   2
London     86  76   8        Stockholm   87  75   2
Brussels   82  80  12        Berlin      83  79   6
Paris      67  95  27        Oslo        81  81   8
Glasgow    64  98  30        Helsinki    72  90  17

WL Meditteranean             EL Black Sea
            W   L  GB                     W   L  GB
Milan     100  62   -        Warsaw      87  75   -
Barcelona  87  75  13        Moscow      86  76   1
Lisbon     84  78  16        Athens      85  77   2
Zurich     77  85  23        Prague      84  78   3
Vienna     75  87  25        Budapest    70  92  17
Madrid     69  93  31        Sofia       61 101  26

Notes -

Stockholm had a 20-8 run to pull close in their division.
Budapest fired their manager in September, when they were 59-86.
Helsinki scored 11 runs in an inning in a 14-3 win over Athens.
Brussels lost 14 out of 17 to drop out of contention.
The WL Divisions were tied up early, but the Wildcard race was tight. Barcelona had a 10-1 run in September, while Dublin lost 8 in a row and London lost 9 in a row. During this run Barcelona beat Dublin 17-6 by scoring 10 times in the 9th inning. London lost in extra innings to Glasgow on the last day of the season to hand the Wildcard spots to the Iguanas and the Wolfpack.
The EL was pretty much all knotted up through all of August and September. Hamburg snuck up on the rails with a 15-3 finish to overtake Moscow, Athens and Prague, but the other teams involved were always within a couple of games of each other. Moscow lost 6-5 in 11 innings on the last day against Berlin to miss out on the playoffs.
There was a marked difference in the leagues with the WL having an ERA of 4.24 and the EL 3.83.

Player Notes -

Jan Heinonen (London) struck out 16 in a 2-1 win over Glasgow on 13th July.
Jonas Solvik hit a walk off Grand Slam in Amsterdam's 5-3 win over Paris on 14th July.
Max Sabin (Milan) was the WL Hitter of the Month for June and July. August's winner was Claudio Lwenholm (Amsterdam). The other 9 awards for the second half of the season were won by 9 different players. Bernd Vonschroeder (Budapest), Paulo Simon (Athens) and Pantalian Lobeiro (Helsinki) won the EL Hitter award. The successful pitchers were - Fillipio Nota (Milan), Jere Ronkko (Dublin), Emanuel Biancardi (Amsterdam), Klement Follerup (Moscow), Robert Wood (Stockholm) and Alexis Martin (Copenhagen).
Barcelona's Theo Brittain hit .274 with 8 home runs in 62 games for his new club and added some impetus to their race into the playoffs.
London Closer Phillip Haaland saved 49 opportunities in a row (dating back to 1982).

Significant Injuries-

1982's EL Hitter of the Year, Kyle MacKillop (Prague), has retired from the game after rupuring a disc. He is only 29. He was not having quite as good a year this year, but he was one of Prague's best players still.
'Pop' Annoni (Athens) missed all of July. He was hitting .266 with 12 homers and 36 RBIS at the time.
Brussels CF Jorge Perez missed 2 months with a torn groin. He was hitting .336 before the injury. The Hitmen also lost 2B Anatolio Jovine, who fractured an ankle and might not be ready for the start of next season.

Craig Costello · 07-16-2008, 06:08 PM

1983 Playoffs

October 21st 1983 -

Wildcard Round:

Barcelona 5 Amsterdam 8 - Amsterdam scored 7 of their runs in the 6th inning (all were unearned).
Barcelona 4 Amsterdam 1 - Christer Laundsen was 2/4 with a 2-run homer.
Amsterdam 5 Barcelona 0
Amsterdam 5 Barcelona 1

Dublin 2 Milan 5 - Dublin starter Stuart Seaward injured his calf in the 2nd inning and is out for the rest of the playoffs
Dublin 5 Milan 2 - Behlil Kilic had a double and a triple
Milan 4 Dublin 5 - Vladimir Pantelic had a 2-out RBI single in the 9th to win it.
Milan 6 Dublin 1
Dublin 1 Milan 8 - Nike Rousakis gave up 5 hits and 1 walk in 8 innings

Hamburg 0 Warsaw 5 - Bialy Basinski gave up just 2 hits and 2 walks in 8 innings.
Hamburg 10 Warsaw 6 - Starter Roque Vilardeb had 2 hits and 3 RBIs.
Warsaw 5 Hamburg 4
Warsaw 1 Hamburg 3
Hamburg 3 Warsaw 2 - Roque Vilardeb won a pitchers battle against Bialy Basinski

Stockholm 4 Copenhagen 1
Stockholm 3 Copenhagen 8
Copenhagen 4 Stockholm 0 - Yoan Lelievre pitched 7 strong innings to lead the Armada.
Copenhagen 0 Stockholm 2 - Finley Whipp gave up only 2 hits in 8.1 innings.
Stockholm 5 Copenhagen 3 - Stockholm led 3-1 after their half of the 8th, then Copenhagen levelled it, only for Stockholm to score 2 more in the 9th to win.

League Championship Series:

Amsterdam 6 Milan 8 - Milan scored 5 in the 1st inning and held of Amsterdam depsite a 4/4 day (with 2 homers and a triple) from Gerrie Ruijghaver.
Amsterdam 6 Milan 2 (10)
Milan 0 Amsterdam 2 - Sammy Daugherty won against Nike Rousakis, giving up 4 hits in 7 innings.
Milan 7 Amsterdam 1 - Max Sabin was 3/4 with a home run.
Milan 0 Amsterdam 5 - Milan only got 2 singles. Claudio Lwenholm had 2 triples.
Amsterdam 3 Milan 4
Amsterdam 1 Milan 4 - Roland Sbarro and Marcello Pierdomenico homered for the Mud Cats and Nike Rousakis and 2 relievers allowed only 5 hits.

Hamburg 8 Stockholm 3
Hamburg 6 Stockholm 3
Stockholm 6 Hamburg 3 - Finley Whipp had 7 strong innings to get Stockholm back into the series.
Stockholm 1 Hamburg 2 - Janos Racz gave up 4 hits and no walks in 7 innings.
Stockholm 2 Hamburg 0 - Rhys Angus had an RBI single and pitched 8 good innings.
Hamburg 5 Stockholm 2 - Randy Schmidt had a triple and a home run.

European League Series:

Game 1 starters - Hamburg: Roque Vilardeb (17-9, 3.41 ERA, 1.24 WHIP), Milan: Filippio Nota (16-12, 3.97 ERA, 1.38 WHIP)

Code:

           1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Hamburg    0  0  0   5  0  0   0  0  0    5 10  0
Milan      3  0  2   2  0  2   1  0  X    8 10  0

Vilheim Bogedal (MIL) - 2/3, 2 RBI, 2 R
Dennis Frangopoulos (MIL) - 1/3, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R

Game 2 starters - Hamburg: Ned Zijm (14-5, 3.38 ERA, 1.29 WHIP), Milan: Tuure Lumme (16-12, 4.14 ERA, 1.20 WHIP)

Code:

           1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9   10 11 12  13    R  H  E
Hamburg    0  0  0   0  0  0   1  0  0    0  0  0   2    3 10  1
Milan      0  0  0   0  0  0   0  1  0    0  0  0   4    5 10  2

Roberto Ybarra (MIL) - 1/3, 2-out game tying 2-RBI double
Rudolf Tuhina (MIL) - 1/4, 2-out game winning 2-RBI home run

Game 3 starters - Milan: Nenad Jevtic (4-0, 3.45 ERA, 1.36 WHIP), Hamburg: Aca Haravan (10-12, 4.60 ERA, 1.46 WHIP)

Code:

           1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Milan      2  0  0   0  0  0   0  0  0    2  6  1
Hamburg    0  1  0   0  0  0   0  0  0    1  4  0

Nenad Jevtic (MIL) - 8 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 9 K

Game 4 starters - Milan: Nike Rousakis (17-9, 3.14 ERA, 1.18 WHIP), Hamburg: Janos Racz (7-15, 5.21 ERA, 1.28 WHIP)

Code:

           1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Milan      0  0  0   2  3  3   0  0  0    8 12  0
Hamburg    0  0  0   0  0  3   1  1  0    5 11  2

Max Sabin (MIL) - 3/5, HR, 4 RBI, 2 R

Milan Mud Cats win the series 4-0
Series MVP - Max Sabin (MIL) - 8/15, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 6 R, 3 BB, 1 K

Craig Costello · 07-17-2008, 03:12 PM

1983 Stats and Awards

October 22nd 1983

Code:

                            AVG                             ERA
Max Sabin (MIL)            .364    Alexis Martin (COP)     2.32
Claudio Lwenholm (AMS)     .341    Robert Wood (STO)       2.33
Vilheim Bogedal (MIL)      .339    Malcolm Kennedy (PAR)   2.37

                            OPS                               W
Max Sabin (MIL)           1.108    Klement Follerup (MOS)    21
Jakob Sebeok (LIS)        1.021    Robert Wood (STO)         21
Eskil Junge (LON)         1.013    Alexis Martin (COP)       20

                             HR                              SV
Matthieu D'Urso (MIL)        35    Theo Gerritsen (STO)      51
Max Sabin (MIL)              35    Reidar Stordal (OSL)      45
3 players                    30    Jim Boogermans (HAM)      44
                                   Jorge Medina (BAR)        44

                            RBI                              IP
Claudio Lwenholm (AMS)      144    Klement Follerup (MOS) 245.2
Max Sabin (MIL)             137    Kaspar Ahlmann (BER)   253.2
Matthieu D'Urso (MIL)       128    Jasha Galagan (OSL)    251.1

                              R                               K
Lukas Happ (DUB)            138    Helmuth Siepel (ATH)     237
Max Sabin (MIL)             133    Malcolm Kennedy (PAR)    225
Claudio Lwenholm (AMS)      124    Panos Karabatsos (SOF)   224

                             SB                            WHIP
Vladimir Erantsev (COP)     100    Klement Follerup (MOS)  1.04
Dieter Gestel (VIE)          82    Robert Wood (STO)       1.06
Francisco Cruz (OSL)         75    Roth Fruehwirt (PRA)    1.07

WL Hitter of the Year

Max Sabin (MIL): .364 AVG, 35 HR, 137 RBI, 1.108 OPS, 133 R

EL Hitter of the Year

Thomas Meinert (COP): .321 AVG, 28 HR, 100 RBI, .926 OPS, 111 R, 30 SB

WL Pitcher of the Year

Malcolm Kennedy (PAR): 16-10, 2.37 ERA, 1.22 WHIP, 239.1 IP, 66 BB, 225 K, 2 HR

EL Pitcher of the Year

Robert Wood (STO): 21-8, 2.33 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, 239.0 IP, 46 BB, 208 K

WL Rookie of the Year

Pablo Hernandez (GLA): .306 AVG, 8 HR, 42 RBI, .805 OPS, 55 SB

EL Rookie of the Year

Nunzio D'Elia (HAM): .296 AVG, 7 HR, 86 RBI, .786 OPS

WL Homegrown Player of the Year

Armando Barrios (BAR): .308 AVG, 15 HR, 81 RBI, .878 OPS, 77 R, 97 BB

EL Homegrown Player of the Year

Thomas Meinert (COP)

Glove of the Year Awards

Code:

                          WL    EL
   Preki Komljenovic (PAR)   -P-   Jan Hjelm (WAR)
        Daniel Denis (PAR)   -C-   Elias Majoros (OSL)
    Eero Lehvaslaiho (BAR)  -1B-   Athan Panaotis (BUD)
       Behlil Killic (DUB)  -2B-   Vladimir Erantsev (COP)
         Fedya Makin (ZUR)  -3B-   Leonardo Resendes (SOF)
          Erem Erkal (GLA)  -SS-   Manuel Helfrich (BER)
      Ony Proskurnya (ZUR)  -LF-   Patrick Lacroix (WAR)
          Lukas Happ (DUB)  -CF-   Josef Metternich (PRA)
    Carel de Krijger (AMS)  -RF-   Jordan Barnstaple (HEL)

Craig Costello · 07-17-2008, 03:40 PM

Baseball To Have European Championship

February 15th 1984 - Whilst EBL franchises are busy building towards the new season, the league offices have announced that they will bring together the national teams of Europe for a tournament to decide which nation is the champion of the continent.

The tournament is scheduled to take place every 4 years. This year's tournament will put the 22 nations into 2 groups of 11 with each team playing the others in their group 4 times, with the top 2 moving on to the knockout stages.

The draw for the 1984 tournament has taken place and the groups are as follows -

Code:

Group A          Group B

Germany          Denmark 
Poland           Scotland
Sweden           Greece
England          Belgium
Czech Republic   Ireland
Portugal         Italy
Finland          Norway
Spain            Hungary
Bulgaria         Switzerland
France           Netherlands
Austria          Russia

Craig Costello · 07-17-2008, 04:37 PM

1984 Preview

March 31st 1984 - Again there was not a lot of player movement in the off-season. Some teams have started sigining long term contracts with their star players, rather than let them go through arbitration.

Milan look to be the class of the league again after 204 wins in two seasons, but Amsterdam looked good last year and they have added former Rookie of the Year, Bernd Vonschroeder, who hit 25 home runs last year.

Stockholm will miss Robert 'Razor' Wood for the first half of the season. The 1981 and 1983 EL Pitcher of the Year and the EBL's current all-time leader in wins has a badly scolded pitching hand from a domestic accident.

Craig Costello · 07-18-2008, 05:27 PM

Fish Goes First

June 15th 1984 - Here is the top 10 of this year's draft.

1. Sofia: C Tommy 'Fish' Woestenberg (NED)
2. Glasgow: C Ludwig Herzog (AUT)
3. Paris: LF Niels Willadsen (DEN)
4. Madrid: LF Rutger Strolin (GER)
5. Budapest: 1B Ricardo Trujillo (ESP)
6. Helsinki: 3B Jay Kerr (SCO)
7. Vienna: CF Nandor Vas (HUN)
8. Zurich: RF Bortolomej Burik (CZE)
9. Oslo: CF Obelix Barraboutis (GRE)
10. Brussels: RF Mang Vogel (GER)

Craig Costello · 07-18-2008, 05:51 PM

1984 All-Star Break

June 22nd 1984 -

Code:

WL North Sea                 EL Baltic
            W   L  GB                     W   L  GB
Amsterdam  44  31   -        Hamburg     43  32   -
Paris      41  34   3        Berlin      39  36   4
Brussels   36  39   8        Copenhagen  38  37   5
Glasgow    34  41  10        Oslo        37  38   6
London     32  43  12        Stockholm   37  38   6
Dublin     31  44  13        Helsinki    32  43  11

WL Meditteranean             EL Black Sea
            W   L  GB                     W   L  GB
Barcelona  48  27   -        Moscow      47  28   -
Zurich     41  34   7        Warsaw      44  31   3
Madrid     37  38  11        Prague      37  38  10
Vienna     37  38  11        Athens      35  40  12
Milan      36  39  12        Budapest    35  40  12
Lisbon     33  42  15        Sofia       26  49  21

Notes -

Moscow won 13 of their first 14 games.
Warsaw and Paris both scored 9 runs in an inning in different games on the same day on 20th April.
Athens scored 10 runs in the 1st against Budapest to win 14-9. All 10 runs came with 2 outs.
Zurich won 12 out of 15 in May to pull closer to Barcelona.
Reigning champs Milan have their 4th and 5th starters and a lack of run production from their line-up (except Max Sabin) to thank for their under .500 record.

Player Notes -

Jose Alonso (Barcelona) hit 2 doubles in the 10th inning to take the Iguanas to a 9-2 win over Paris on 28th April.
There have been two one-hitters in the first half of the season. One by Hamburg's Janos Racz and one by Oslo's Bart Taft.
Callum Maxwell (Stockholm) won the EL triple crown in April with a .409 average, 9 homers and 24 RBIs. He won the Hitter of the Month Award. The WL's winner was Scott Ashwell (Paris).
Warsaw reliever Emmett O'Neill won the April EL Pitcher of the Month award thanks to 7 wins. (He currently leads the league with 12 wins). The WL winner was Adrastos Demarchis (Dublin).
Pantalian Lobeiro (Helsinki) hit for the cycle and got 8 RBIs versus Budapest on 7th May.
Kai Hofer (Zurich) was 6 for 6 in an 18-7 win over London on 15th May.
Lisbon's Ignacio Rosado had 2 home runs in back-to-back games against Brussels in mid-May.
The May awards went to -

WL Hitter: Max Sabin (Milan) - .333/9/30
EL Hitter: Holly Connich (Warsaw) - .432/5/18
WL Pitcher: Manfried Muller (Glasgow) - 5-0/2.89
EL Pitcher: Janos Racz (Hamburg) - 6-0/1.99

Jakob Pedersen (Athens) scored 6 runs in a 19-5 win over Moscow on 12th June.

Significant Injuries -

1983's WL Rookie of the Year, Pablo Hernandez (Glasgow) missed the first 9 weeks of the season with a fractured wrist.
Marcello Pierdomenico (Milan) was hitting .500 over the first 2 weeks of the season, but then he fractured his foot and missed the next 7 weeks.
20 year old starter Jeirgif Izvekov (Budapest) tore his rotator cuff in April and won't be back until a fortnight after the All-Star break.
Phillip Haaland (London), who has 92 career saves, injured his back in May and will have missed 6 weeks by the time he returns.
Moscow's best starting pitcher, Gaspar Kertesz, is out for 8 months with a herniated disc. He has a career ERA of 2.38 in 42 starts.

Craig Costello · 07-19-2008, 04:12 AM

Sabin To Miss Euros

July 16th 1984 - Milan's reigning WL Hitter of the Year and European League Series MVP, Max Sabin, left today's game against Zurich with a back injury and the team doctors have confirmed that he will be out until the start of next year.

His injury will mean that he will also not be available for England in the upcoming European Championship. He would likely have been the first name on the team list for the Englishmen, but his torn muscle is going to take more than 6 months to fully heal.

He was having another superb season, hitting .364 with 24 home runs and 86 RBIs and is the EBLs all time leader in RBIs (as well as being 3rd overall in OPS).

Sdpm100 · 07-19-2008, 04:35 AM

I had my own European League on these boards back in the 6.5 days of OOTP, and with no roster nation files I can tell you that was hairy sometimes. Still very fun, and I hope you have as much fun as I did with this one.
I'm guessing you're going to copy the file and use a second one for the Nations Championship right?

Craig Costello · 07-19-2008, 06:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sdpm100

I had my own European League on these boards back in the 6.5 days of OOTP, and with no roster nation files I can tell you that was hairy sometimes. Still very fun, and I hope you have as much fun as I did with this one.
I'm guessing you're going to copy the file and use a second one for the Nations Championship right?

Right! I'm going get to the end of the 84 season, then use a copy to do the national championship.

I'm thinking I can let the AI pick the teams without any input from me, but then again picking the 22 squads might be something fun to do.

Craig Costello · 07-19-2008, 06:47 AM

1984 Final Standings

September 26th 1984 -

Code:

WL North Sea                 EL Baltic
            W   L  GB                     W   L  GB
Amsterdam 100  62   -        Copenhagen  92  70   -
Brussels   85  77  15        Oslo        91  71   1
Glasgow    80  82  20        Berlin      86  76   6
London     79  83  21        Hamburg     85  77   7
Dublin     77  85  23        Stockholm   79  83  13
Paris      76  86  24        Helsinki    75  87  17

WL Meditteranean             EL Black Sea
            W   L  GB                     W   L  GB
Zurich     89  73   -        Warsaw      87  75   -
Milan      88  74   1        Moscow      81  81   6
Barcelona  84  78   5        Prague      79  83   8
Vienna     75  87  14        Budapest    76  86  11
Madrid     70  92  19        Athens      71  91  16
Lisbon     69  93  20        Sofia       70  92  17

Notes -

Paris and Moscow both fell away gradually over the second half of the season.
Oslo and Helsinki played 14 scoreless innings on 26th July. Helsinki won 2-1 in 15.
London scored 11 in an inning in a 13-5 win against Paris on 22nd August. The Cyclones got their revenge the next day, when they scored 8 times in the 13th inning to win.
For much of the second half of the season the 4 WL playoff spots looked to be going to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Zurich and Milan. Things got interesting in late August as Glasgow went on a 14-5 run to pull into the race. Later in August (and into September), Barcelona lost 11 games in a row and Brussels won 16 of 19 and the race came down to the last day. The Iguanas lost 7-5 to London in their final game to miss out.
Copenhagen won on the last day to clinch their division and Hamburg lost the same day to miss out on the final Wildcard spot.

Player Notes -

Max Sabin (Milan) won the WL Hitter of the Month for June trophy before his injury. Callum Maxwell (Stockholm) won the EL award.
Jesus Ruiz (Brussels) and Bart Taft (Oslo) won the June pitching awards. They also both won the same awards in August.
'Pop' Annoni (Athens) hit a 10th inning Grand Slam in a 6-0 win against Budapest.
The July awards went to -

WL Hitter: Claudio Lwenholm (Amsterdam) - .382/7/20
EL Hitter: Thomas Meinert (Copenhagen) - .402/10/34
WL Pitcher: Joseph Bell (Glasgow) - 4-1/0.77
EL Pitcher: Jeirgif Izvekov (Budapest) - 5-0/1.29

Paulo Simon (Athens) hit for the cycle against Berlin on 29th August and was subsequently named the EL's Hitter of the Month. London's Eskil 'Mr Reliable' Junge won the WL award.
Antonio Rodriguez (Madrid) threw a no-hitter against Paris on 5th September in a 6-0 win. Two days later his team-mate, Milos Vostatkova, hit 3 homers in a 7-6 loss to Zurich. He only had 5 home runs before that game.

Significant Injuries -

Sabin as mentioned previously.
Holly Connich (Warsaw) was hitting .372 with 12 home runs before missing 2 months with a fractured ankle.
Timon Panayi (Berlin) missed 8 weeks with a broken arm. He was hitting .277 with 10 home runs at the time.
Milan's Nenad Jevtic missed 6 weeks with a strained ligament in his pitching elbow. His record stood at 8-7 with an ERA of 2.33.
Aetos Zikos (Berlin) is going to be out for nearly a year with a tricep injury. His ERA of 2.81, was not necessarily reflected in his 12-13 record. He was a probable squad member for Greece in the European Championship.

Craig Costello · 07-19-2008, 07:53 AM

1984 Playoffs

October 21st 1984 -

Wildcard Round:

Milan 0 Zurich 9 - Pierangelo Magherini gave up just 3 hits in 8 innings.
Milan 4 Zurich 3
Zurich 3 Milan 2 (11)
Zurich 4 Milan 11 - Vilheim Bogedal had a 3 run homer to put Milan up for good.
Milan 14 Zurich 3 (10) - Roland Sbarro hit a homer and double in the 10th as Milan scored 11 times.

Brussels 7 Amsterdam 6 (11)
Brussels 6 Amsterdam 2 - Ruben Strauss had 2 homers for the Hitmen.
Amsterdam 1 Brussels 8 - Jesus Ruiz pitched 7 strong innings as Brussels knocked out Amsterdam at this stage for the 2nd time in 3 seasons.

Oslo 2 Warsaw 11 - Holly Connich had a homer and 5 RBIs.
Oslo 9 Warsaw 8 (12) - Simao Munster was 4/4 with 2 home runs.
Warsaw 2 Oslo 5 (13) - Simao Munster hit a walk-off home run.
Warsaw 7 Oslo 2
Oslo 0 Warsaw 5 - Adrien Pierre pitched 7 shutout innings.

Berlin 2 Copenhagen 15 - Valdimir Erantsev was 3/5 with a double, a triple, a home run and 6 RBIs.
Berlin 2 Copenhagen 8
Copenhagen 9 Berlin 1 - The Armada's top 5 combined for 12 hits.

League Championship Series:

Brussels 9 Milan 2
Brussels 0 Milan 4 - Tuure Lumme shut out the Hitmen over 7 innings.
Milan 7 Brussels 1 - Nenad Jevtic shut out the Hitmen over 8 innings.
Milan 4 Brussels 7 - Jorge Perez was 2/3 with 5 RBIs
Milan 0 Brussels 6 - Jesus Ruiz gave up just 2 hits and a walk in 7 innings.
Brussels 2 Milan 3 - Philippe Martin was 3/4 with a double and a home run.
Brussels 5 Milan 1 - Penn Heldt pitched 8.2 innings, giving up 6 hits and a walk and only 1 run.

Warsaw 0 Copenhagen 7 - Alexis Martin allowed only 3 hits and a walk in 8 innings.
Warsaw 4 Copenhgen 6 - Vladimir Erantsev was 4/4.
Copenhagen 1 Warsaw 2 (13)
Copenhagen 10 Warsaw 4
Copenhagen 2 Warsaw 3
Warsaw 4 Copenhagen 5 (12) - Vitaly Woevodin hit a 2-out home run to win it in the 12th.

European League Series:

Game 1 starters - Brussels: Jesus Ruiz (16-10, 2.12 ERA, 1.00 WHIP), Copenhagen: Alexis Martin (11-12, 3.57 ERA, 1.21 WHIP)

Code:

             1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Brussels     0  0  0   1  0  0   0  0  0    1  4  0
Copenhagen   0  0  0   0  0  0   0  0  0    0  2  0

Jesus Ruiz (BRU) - 7 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 7 K
Alexis Martin (COP) - 8 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K

Game 2 starters - Brussels: Norman Wijnstekers (18-12, 4.30 ERA, 1.17 WHIP), Copenhagen: Michal Slimak (11-9, 3.94 ERA, 1.48 WHIP)

Code:

             1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Brussels     0  0  0   1  0  0   0  0  1    2  3  0
Copenhagen   0  0  0   0  0  1   0  0  0    1  3  0

Norman Wijnstekers (BRU) - 8 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K
Michal Slimak (COP) - 8 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 6 BB, 4 K

Game 3 starters - Copenhagen: Yoan Lelievre (16-10, 3.21 ERA, 1.21 WHIP), Brussels: Axel Johansson (6-18, 5.72 ERA, 1.49 WHIP)

Code:

             1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Copenhagen   1  1  1   0  1  0   0  0  2    6 10  0
Brussels     0  0  1   0  0  3   3  0  X    7  9  1

Fabio Quinhones (BRU) - 2/3, 2B, HR, 3 RBI, 2 R
Hugo Muehlegg (BRU) - 1/1, 2 RBI, pinch hit HR in 7th

Game 4 starters - Copenhagen: Martin, Brussels: Penn Heldt (12-11, 4.83 ERA, 1.51 WHIP)

Code:

             1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Copenhagen   0  0  2   0  0  1   1  0  0    4  8  1
Brussels     0  0  0   1  0  0   0  0  0    1  6  0 

Alexis Martin (COP) - 8 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K

Game 5 starters - Copenhagen: Guy Brady (15-8, 3.75 ERA, 1.33 WHIP), Brussels: Ruiz

Code:

             1  2  3   4  5  6   7  8  9    R  H  E
Copenhagen   1  0  0   0  1  0   0  0  0    2  8  2
Brussels     0  0  0   2  0  0   0  2  X    4  5  0

Ruben Strauss (BRU) - 2/4, go ahead 2-out 2-RBI single in 8th

Brussels Hitmen win the series 4-1
Series MVP - Jesus Ruiz (BRU) - 1-0, 1.38 ERA, 0.92 WHIP, 13 IP, 10 K

Brussels become the first team to win multiple championships with their second title in 3 seasons. Ruiz is also the first man to win multiple series MVPs. The WL has won all 4 of the EBL titles thus far.

Craig Costello · 07-19-2008, 04:59 PM

1984 Stats and Awards

October 25th 1984 -

Code:

                            AVG                              ERA
Callum Maxwell (STO)       .379    Jesus Ruiz (BRU)         2.12
Ony Proskurnya (ZUR)       .369    Bart Taft (OSL)          2.26
Thomas Meinert (COP)       .351    Nenad Jevtic (MIL)       2.33

                            OPS                                W
Callum Maxwell (STO)      1.037    Kaspar Ahlmann (BER)       22
Gunnar Rippner (BER)      1.023    Bart Taft (OSL)            20
Eskil Junge (LON)         1.017    Tuure Lumme (MIL)          19

                             HR                               SV
Ignacio Rosado (LIS)         40    David MacIlroy (OSL)       45
Theo Brittain (BAR)          36    Jim Boogermans (HAM)       42
Claudio Lwenholm (AMS)       33    Francesco Barriere (BUD)   41

                            RBI                               IP
Thomas Meinert (COP)        130    Klement Follerup (MOS)  260.1
Claudio Lwenholm (AMS)      129    Rory Begley (WAR)       254.0
Ignacio Rosado (LIS)        127    Emanuel Biancardi (AMS) 251.1

                              R                                K
Patrick Lacroix (WAR)       124    Jesus Ruiz (BRU)          229
Eskil Junge (LON)           114    Malcolm Kennedy (PAR)     224
Thomas Meinert (COP)        114    Jan Heinonen (LON)        221

                             SB                             WHIP
Dieter Gestel (VIE)          90    Rory Begley (WAR)        0.97
Patrick Lacroix (WAR)        83    Bart Taft (OSL)          0.98
Vladimir Erantsev (COP)      78    Jesus Ruiz (BRU)         1.00

WL Hitter of the Year

Theo Brittain (BAR): .308 AVG, 36 HR, 97 RBI, .983 OPS, 106 R

EL Hitter of the Year

Thomas Meinert (COP): .351 AVG, 27 HR, 130 RBI, .987 OPS, 114 R, 40 SB

WL Pitcher of the Year

Jesus Ruiz (BRU): 16-10, 2.12 ERA, 1.00 WHIP, 234.0 IP, 59 BB, 229 K

EL Pitcher of the Year

Bart Taft (OSL): 20-5, 2.26 ERA, 0.98 WHIP, 223.0 IP, 61 BB, 203 K

WL Rookie of the Year

Ignacio Rosado (LIS): .328 AVG, 40 HR, 127 RBI, .996 OPS, 110 R

EL Rookie of the Year

Noah Cawston (BER): .254 AVG, 15 HR, 61 RBI, .788 OPS, 57 R

WL Homegrown Player of the Year

Armando Barrios (BAR): .301 AVG, 17 HR, 73 RBI, .868 OPS, 85 R

EL Homegrown Player of the Year

Thomas Meinert (COP)

Glove of the Year Awards

Code:

                          WL    EL
        Evzen Bartos (GLA)   -P-   Petter Nordby (STO)
   Christer Laundsen (BAR)   -C-   Nunzio D'Elia (HAM)
    Eero Lehvaslaiho (BAR)  -1B-   Randy Schmidt (HAM)
      Gregers Meindl (BAR)  -2B-   Adam Voros (BUD)
   Vladimir Pantelic (DUB)  -3B-   Leonardo Resendes (SOF)
          Erem Erkal (GLA)  -SS-   Soren Cabble (BUD)
      Ony Proskurnya (ZUR)  -LF-   Patrick Lacroix (WAR)
          Lukas Happ (DUB)  -CF-   Josef Metternich (PRA)
       Casey Ferrell (DUB)  -RF-   Steven Kennedy (WAR)

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Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	Barcelona's Second Consecutive #1 Pick Is A Pitcher June 15th 1983 - Here is the top 10 of this year's draft. 1. Barcelona: SP Juliao Virgolino (POR) 2. Sofia: SP Eytan Peretsky (POL) 3. Zurich: C Ianos Kukar (CZE) 4. Lisbon: LF Danny Day (IRL) 5. Warsaw: SS Joakim Tronstad (NOR) 6. Moscow: SS Carlos Hernandez (ESP) 7. Vienna: CF Nicolas Gerard (FRA) 8. London: SP Marcos Morales (ESP) 9. Oslo: 3B Gerd Klinck (GER) 10. Helsinki: SP Christian Blassneck (GER) Last edited by Craig Costello; 07-30-2008 at 05:14 PM.

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Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	1983 All-Star Break June 22nd 1983 - Code: WL North Sea EL Baltic W L GB W L GB Amsterdam 47 28 - Copenhagen 45 30 - Brussels 45 30 2 Oslo 40 35 5 Dublin 42 33 5 Stockholm 38 37 7 London 37 38 10 Hamburg 35 40 10 Glasgow 29 46 18 Berlin 34 41 11 Paris 26 49 21 Helsinki 31 44 14 WL Meditteranean EL Black Sea W L GB W L GB Milan 45 30 - Warsaw 47 28 - Barcelona 40 35 5 Prague 46 29 1 Vienna 36 39 9 Moscow 43 32 4 Lisbon 35 40 10 Athens 39 36 8 Madrid 34 41 11 Budapest 29 46 18 Zurich 34 41 11 Sofia 23 52 24 Notes - The three teams mentioned in the preview as having made major trades (and Dublin who we failed to mention) are all having good years. Zurich and Lisbon were involved in the EBLs second ever 20 inning game on 7th April. Zurich won 12-11, meaning they have been involved and won both EBL games that have gone that distance. Sofia started 2-18. They fired their GM and skipper in May. Oslo beat Moscow 5-3 on 19th May, a game remarkable because each team committed the same number of errors as they scored runs. Moscow followed this up by committing 5 errors the next day. Budapest had a 6-18 run in May. Copenhagen had a 16-5 run and Prague won 18 out of 24. Player Notes - In the 20 inning game, Lisbon RF Dylan Rosenburg was 4/5 with 2 HR, 6 RBI and 5 walks. Brussels players Theo Brittain, Jorge Perez and Fabio Quinhones all hit 2 home runs as the Hitmen beat Amsterdam 22-11 on 10th April. Perez was later named the WL Hitter of the Month for April, he hit .379 with 5 home runs and 23 RBIs. Ebbe de Bie (Prague) became the first relief pitcher to win a Pitcher of the Month award, by winning the EL award in April. He saved 12 games in the month and had a 1.02 ERA. The other April award winners were Paulo Simon (Athens, EL Hitter) and Magnus Leeuwenburgh (Vienna, WL Pitcher), who returned from injury with a 5-0 month. Claudio Lwenholm (Amsterdam) hit in every game he played in May, finishing with a 31 game hitting streak. He hit .424 for the month of May and was named as the WL Hitter of the Month. Prague CF Josef Metternech hit 3 HR versus Oslo on 15th May. 2 weeks later Randy Schmidt (Hamburg) hit the first cycle of the season. May's Pitchers of the Month were - WL: Odysseus Hristopolous (Zurich), EL: Alexis Martin (Copenhagen). Ian Meoni (Oslo) had a great May for his new club. He hit .400 and was named EL Hitter of the Month. Dublin SP Jere Ronkko (who they got in return for Vitaly Woevodin in the pre-season trade) is 10-1 at the All-Star break with a 3.44 ERA. Significant Injuries - Vienna SP Joseph Sykora will miss the whole of the 1983 season with bone chips. Last season he was 15-10 with a 3.47 ERA. Two time reigning WL Pitcher of the Year, Nike Rousakis (Milan), missed 3 weeks in May with a strained rotator cuff. Dolf Pellenaars (Hamburg) was injured just before the All-Star break and will miss the rest of the year. He is a career .305 hitter and will definitely be missed.

07-16-2008, 02:39 PM	#27 (permalink)
Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	Hitmen Trade Brittain July 20th 1983 - In a move that has shocked the EBL, the Brussels Hitmen have traded away Theo Brittain less than a year after he was a big part of them winning the European League Series. The Irish Left Fielder was Brussels' 1st pick (at #11 overall) in the EBL Inaugural Draft and had been consistently their best hitter. He has a career average of .312 with 81 HRs and 295 RBI in the nearly three seasons of EBL play, putting him in the top 5 career-wise of the HR and RBI categories. He was also very good in their 1982 playoff run, with 20 hits, 6 of which were homers, in their 19 playoff games. With a record such as his, you might expect the Hitmen's return in the trade to be bountiful - it was anything but. They received in return from the Barcelona Iguanas relief pitcher Marco Baan, whose career ERA of 3.60 and WHIP of 1.23 in 240 innings are good but not spectacular, and that was all they got. Many rumours have been swirling as to why the Hitmen made the deal, ranging from them being scared of how much Brittain would cost them in arbitration in years to come, to them simply overvaluing Baan because he is Belgian and hence doesn't count against their foreigner limit. The most prevalent rumour being that Brittain's face simply didn't fit and they were glad to be rid of him. Slightly less astonishing, but equally newsworthy, is another trade that recently took place. Lisbon have traded 1981's WL Hitter of the Year Zosimo Patrianakos to the Budapest Smoke in return for starting pitcher Admes Tzannetakis. Patrianakos couldn't repeat his 1981 efforts last year, and had seen his playing time severely reduced this season, with only 104 at-bats before the trade. Tzannetakis is a servicable EBL starter but has an overall losing record and a career ERA of 4.76. Last edited by Craig Costello; 07-19-2008 at 06:00 PM.

07-16-2008, 05:01 PM	#28 (permalink)
Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	1983 Final Standings September 26th 1983 - Code: WL North Sea EL Baltic W L GB W L GB Amsterdam 94 68 - Copenhagen 89 73 - Dublin 87 75 7 Hamburg 87 75 2 London 86 76 8 Stockholm 87 75 2 Brussels 82 80 12 Berlin 83 79 6 Paris 67 95 27 Oslo 81 81 8 Glasgow 64 98 30 Helsinki 72 90 17 WL Meditteranean EL Black Sea W L GB W L GB Milan 100 62 - Warsaw 87 75 - Barcelona 87 75 13 Moscow 86 76 1 Lisbon 84 78 16 Athens 85 77 2 Zurich 77 85 23 Prague 84 78 3 Vienna 75 87 25 Budapest 70 92 17 Madrid 69 93 31 Sofia 61 101 26 Notes - Stockholm had a 20-8 run to pull close in their division. Budapest fired their manager in September, when they were 59-86. Helsinki scored 11 runs in an inning in a 14-3 win over Athens. Brussels lost 14 out of 17 to drop out of contention. The WL Divisions were tied up early, but the Wildcard race was tight. Barcelona had a 10-1 run in September, while Dublin lost 8 in a row and London lost 9 in a row. During this run Barcelona beat Dublin 17-6 by scoring 10 times in the 9th inning. London lost in extra innings to Glasgow on the last day of the season to hand the Wildcard spots to the Iguanas and the Wolfpack. The EL was pretty much all knotted up through all of August and September. Hamburg snuck up on the rails with a 15-3 finish to overtake Moscow, Athens and Prague, but the other teams involved were always within a couple of games of each other. Moscow lost 6-5 in 11 innings on the last day against Berlin to miss out on the playoffs. There was a marked difference in the leagues with the WL having an ERA of 4.24 and the EL 3.83. Player Notes - Jan Heinonen (London) struck out 16 in a 2-1 win over Glasgow on 13th July. Jonas Solvik hit a walk off Grand Slam in Amsterdam's 5-3 win over Paris on 14th July. Max Sabin (Milan) was the WL Hitter of the Month for June and July. August's winner was Claudio Lwenholm (Amsterdam). The other 9 awards for the second half of the season were won by 9 different players. Bernd Vonschroeder (Budapest), Paulo Simon (Athens) and Pantalian Lobeiro (Helsinki) won the EL Hitter award. The successful pitchers were - Fillipio Nota (Milan), Jere Ronkko (Dublin), Emanuel Biancardi (Amsterdam), Klement Follerup (Moscow), Robert Wood (Stockholm) and Alexis Martin (Copenhagen). Barcelona's Theo Brittain hit .274 with 8 home runs in 62 games for his new club and added some impetus to their race into the playoffs. London Closer Phillip Haaland saved 49 opportunities in a row (dating back to 1982). Significant Injuries- 1982's EL Hitter of the Year, Kyle MacKillop (Prague), has retired from the game after rupuring a disc. He is only 29. He was not having quite as good a year this year, but he was one of Prague's best players still. 'Pop' Annoni (Athens) missed all of July. He was hitting .266 with 12 homers and 36 RBIS at the time. Brussels CF Jorge Perez missed 2 months with a torn groin. He was hitting .336 before the injury. The Hitmen also lost 2B Anatolio Jovine, who fractured an ankle and might not be ready for the start of next season. Last edited by Craig Costello; 07-17-2008 at 05:59 AM.

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Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	1983 Preview March 30th 1983 - Another off-season without much free-agency movement promises to lead to a season where the teams that were good last year are good this year. We did think that before the 1982 season as well though and most of the 1981 playoff teams had a poor season. A few teams have made some aggresive trade moves. Copenhagen made a trade for reigning WL Glove of the Year for Right Field, Vitaly Woevedin. He is a career .284 hitter and is 35 years old, but he should make the team better for this season. They also brought in 1982's AAA Hitter of the Year, Antosha Litvintsev, who becomes their best (and youngest) first baseman. There was also one huge other trade, with 2 men who were drafted in the top 10 of 1981's inaugural draft swapping teams. The Oslo Metros sent Bernard Wulker (#8 overall, average year .322/10/72) and relief pitcher Vavrinec Puskar to Prague in return for Ian Meoni (#2 overall, average year .289/22/87) and a minor league shortstop with no chance of making the EBL. Magnus Leeuwenburgh (Vienna) and Eskil Junge (London) have both returned to the EBL after long term injuries, but as both are over 35, it is probably the case that they will not be the same as they were before their time out.

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Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	1983 Playoffs October 21st 1983 - Wildcard Round: Barcelona 5 Amsterdam 8 - Amsterdam scored 7 of their runs in the 6th inning (all were unearned). Barcelona 4 Amsterdam 1 - Christer Laundsen was 2/4 with a 2-run homer. Amsterdam 5 Barcelona 0 Amsterdam 5 Barcelona 1 Dublin 2 Milan 5 - Dublin starter Stuart Seaward injured his calf in the 2nd inning and is out for the rest of the playoffs Dublin 5 Milan 2 - Behlil Kilic had a double and a triple Milan 4 Dublin 5 - Vladimir Pantelic had a 2-out RBI single in the 9th to win it. Milan 6 Dublin 1 Dublin 1 Milan 8 - Nike Rousakis gave up 5 hits and 1 walk in 8 innings Hamburg 0 Warsaw 5 - Bialy Basinski gave up just 2 hits and 2 walks in 8 innings. Hamburg 10 Warsaw 6 - Starter Roque Vilardeb had 2 hits and 3 RBIs. Warsaw 5 Hamburg 4 Warsaw 1 Hamburg 3 Hamburg 3 Warsaw 2 - Roque Vilardeb won a pitchers battle against Bialy Basinski Stockholm 4 Copenhagen 1 Stockholm 3 Copenhagen 8 Copenhagen 4 Stockholm 0 - Yoan Lelievre pitched 7 strong innings to lead the Armada. Copenhagen 0 Stockholm 2 - Finley Whipp gave up only 2 hits in 8.1 innings. Stockholm 5 Copenhagen 3 - Stockholm led 3-1 after their half of the 8th, then Copenhagen levelled it, only for Stockholm to score 2 more in the 9th to win. League Championship Series: Amsterdam 6 Milan 8 - Milan scored 5 in the 1st inning and held of Amsterdam depsite a 4/4 day (with 2 homers and a triple) from Gerrie Ruijghaver. Amsterdam 6 Milan 2 (10) Milan 0 Amsterdam 2 - Sammy Daugherty won against Nike Rousakis, giving up 4 hits in 7 innings. Milan 7 Amsterdam 1 - Max Sabin was 3/4 with a home run. Milan 0 Amsterdam 5 - Milan only got 2 singles. Claudio Lwenholm had 2 triples. Amsterdam 3 Milan 4 Amsterdam 1 Milan 4 - Roland Sbarro and Marcello Pierdomenico homered for the Mud Cats and Nike Rousakis and 2 relievers allowed only 5 hits. Hamburg 8 Stockholm 3 Hamburg 6 Stockholm 3 Stockholm 6 Hamburg 3 - Finley Whipp had 7 strong innings to get Stockholm back into the series. Stockholm 1 Hamburg 2 - Janos Racz gave up 4 hits and no walks in 7 innings. Stockholm 2 Hamburg 0 - Rhys Angus had an RBI single and pitched 8 good innings. Hamburg 5 Stockholm 2 - Randy Schmidt had a triple and a home run. European League Series: Game 1 starters - Hamburg: Roque Vilardeb (17-9, 3.41 ERA, 1.24 WHIP), Milan: Filippio Nota (16-12, 3.97 ERA, 1.38 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Hamburg 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 10 0 Milan 3 0 2 2 0 2 1 0 X 8 10 0 Vilheim Bogedal (MIL) - 2/3, 2 RBI, 2 R Dennis Frangopoulos (MIL) - 1/3, HR, 2 RBI, 2 R Game 2 starters - Hamburg: Ned Zijm (14-5, 3.38 ERA, 1.29 WHIP), Milan: Tuure Lumme (16-12, 4.14 ERA, 1.20 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 R H E Hamburg 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 10 1 Milan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 5 10 2 Roberto Ybarra (MIL) - 1/3, 2-out game tying 2-RBI double Rudolf Tuhina (MIL) - 1/4, 2-out game winning 2-RBI home run Game 3 starters - Milan: Nenad Jevtic (4-0, 3.45 ERA, 1.36 WHIP), Hamburg: Aca Haravan (10-12, 4.60 ERA, 1.46 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Milan 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 1 Hamburg 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 Nenad Jevtic (MIL) - 8 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 9 K Game 4 starters - Milan: Nike Rousakis (17-9, 3.14 ERA, 1.18 WHIP), Hamburg: Janos Racz (7-15, 5.21 ERA, 1.28 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Milan 0 0 0 2 3 3 0 0 0 8 12 0 Hamburg 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 5 11 2 Max Sabin (MIL) - 3/5, HR, 4 RBI, 2 R Milan Mud Cats win the series 4-0 Series MVP - Max Sabin (MIL) - 8/15, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 6 R, 3 BB, 1 K Last edited by Craig Costello; 07-17-2008 at 06:05 AM.

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Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	Baseball To Have European Championship February 15th 1984 - Whilst EBL franchises are busy building towards the new season, the league offices have announced that they will bring together the national teams of Europe for a tournament to decide which nation is the champion of the continent. The tournament is scheduled to take place every 4 years. This year's tournament will put the 22 nations into 2 groups of 11 with each team playing the others in their group 4 times, with the top 2 moving on to the knockout stages. The draw for the 1984 tournament has taken place and the groups are as follows - Code: Group A Group B Germany Denmark Poland Scotland Sweden Greece England Belgium Czech Republic Ireland Portugal Italy Finland Norway Spain Hungary Bulgaria Switzerland France Netherlands Austria Russia Last edited by Craig Costello; 08-08-2008 at 10:37 AM.

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Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	1984 Preview March 31st 1984 - Again there was not a lot of player movement in the off-season. Some teams have started sigining long term contracts with their star players, rather than let them go through arbitration. Milan look to be the class of the league again after 204 wins in two seasons, but Amsterdam looked good last year and they have added former Rookie of the Year, Bernd Vonschroeder, who hit 25 home runs last year. Stockholm will miss Robert 'Razor' Wood for the first half of the season. The 1981 and 1983 EL Pitcher of the Year and the EBL's current all-time leader in wins has a badly scolded pitching hand from a domestic accident. Last edited by Craig Costello; 07-18-2008 at 05:29 AM.

07-18-2008, 05:27 PM	#33 (permalink)
Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	Fish Goes First June 15th 1984 - Here is the top 10 of this year's draft. 1. Sofia: C Tommy 'Fish' Woestenberg (NED) 2. Glasgow: C Ludwig Herzog (AUT) 3. Paris: LF Niels Willadsen (DEN) 4. Madrid: LF Rutger Strolin (GER) 5. Budapest: 1B Ricardo Trujillo (ESP) 6. Helsinki: 3B Jay Kerr (SCO) 7. Vienna: CF Nandor Vas (HUN) 8. Zurich: RF Bortolomej Burik (CZE) 9. Oslo: CF Obelix Barraboutis (GRE) 10. Brussels: RF Mang Vogel (GER) Last edited by Craig Costello; 07-30-2008 at 05:14 PM.

07-18-2008, 05:51 PM	#34 (permalink)
Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	1984 All-Star Break June 22nd 1984 - Code: WL North Sea EL Baltic W L GB W L GB Amsterdam 44 31 - Hamburg 43 32 - Paris 41 34 3 Berlin 39 36 4 Brussels 36 39 8 Copenhagen 38 37 5 Glasgow 34 41 10 Oslo 37 38 6 London 32 43 12 Stockholm 37 38 6 Dublin 31 44 13 Helsinki 32 43 11 WL Meditteranean EL Black Sea W L GB W L GB Barcelona 48 27 - Moscow 47 28 - Zurich 41 34 7 Warsaw 44 31 3 Madrid 37 38 11 Prague 37 38 10 Vienna 37 38 11 Athens 35 40 12 Milan 36 39 12 Budapest 35 40 12 Lisbon 33 42 15 Sofia 26 49 21 Notes - Moscow won 13 of their first 14 games. Warsaw and Paris both scored 9 runs in an inning in different games on the same day on 20th April. Athens scored 10 runs in the 1st against Budapest to win 14-9. All 10 runs came with 2 outs. Zurich won 12 out of 15 in May to pull closer to Barcelona. Reigning champs Milan have their 4th and 5th starters and a lack of run production from their line-up (except Max Sabin) to thank for their under .500 record. Player Notes - Jose Alonso (Barcelona) hit 2 doubles in the 10th inning to take the Iguanas to a 9-2 win over Paris on 28th April. There have been two one-hitters in the first half of the season. One by Hamburg's Janos Racz and one by Oslo's Bart Taft. Callum Maxwell (Stockholm) won the EL triple crown in April with a .409 average, 9 homers and 24 RBIs. He won the Hitter of the Month Award. The WL's winner was Scott Ashwell (Paris). Warsaw reliever Emmett O'Neill won the April EL Pitcher of the Month award thanks to 7 wins. (He currently leads the league with 12 wins). The WL winner was Adrastos Demarchis (Dublin). Pantalian Lobeiro (Helsinki) hit for the cycle and got 8 RBIs versus Budapest on 7th May. Kai Hofer (Zurich) was 6 for 6 in an 18-7 win over London on 15th May. Lisbon's Ignacio Rosado had 2 home runs in back-to-back games against Brussels in mid-May. The May awards went to - WL Hitter: Max Sabin (Milan) - .333/9/30 EL Hitter: Holly Connich (Warsaw) - .432/5/18 WL Pitcher: Manfried Muller (Glasgow) - 5-0/2.89 EL Pitcher: Janos Racz (Hamburg) - 6-0/1.99 Jakob Pedersen (Athens) scored 6 runs in a 19-5 win over Moscow on 12th June. Significant Injuries - 1983's WL Rookie of the Year, Pablo Hernandez (Glasgow) missed the first 9 weeks of the season with a fractured wrist. Marcello Pierdomenico (Milan) was hitting .500 over the first 2 weeks of the season, but then he fractured his foot and missed the next 7 weeks. 20 year old starter Jeirgif Izvekov (Budapest) tore his rotator cuff in April and won't be back until a fortnight after the All-Star break. Phillip Haaland (London), who has 92 career saves, injured his back in May and will have missed 6 weeks by the time he returns. Moscow's best starting pitcher, Gaspar Kertesz, is out for 8 months with a herniated disc. He has a career ERA of 2.38 in 42 starts. Last edited by Craig Costello; 07-21-2008 at 11:19 AM.

07-19-2008, 04:12 AM	#35 (permalink)
Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	Sabin To Miss Euros July 16th 1984 - Milan's reigning WL Hitter of the Year and European League Series MVP, Max Sabin, left today's game against Zurich with a back injury and the team doctors have confirmed that he will be out until the start of next year. His injury will mean that he will also not be available for England in the upcoming European Championship. He would likely have been the first name on the team list for the Englishmen, but his torn muscle is going to take more than 6 months to fully heal. He was having another superb season, hitting .364 with 24 home runs and 86 RBIs and is the EBLs all time leader in RBIs (as well as being 3rd overall in OPS).

07-19-2008, 04:35 AM	#36 (permalink)
Sdpm100 Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Cheltenham, England Posts: 7,597 Thanked 41x in 40 posts	I had my own European League on these boards back in the 6.5 days of OOTP, and with no roster nation files I can tell you that was hairy sometimes. Still very fun, and I hope you have as much fun as I did with this one. I'm guessing you're going to copy the file and use a second one for the Nations Championship right?

07-19-2008, 06:47 AM	#38 (permalink)
Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	1984 Final Standings September 26th 1984 - Code: WL North Sea EL Baltic W L GB W L GB Amsterdam 100 62 - Copenhagen 92 70 - Brussels 85 77 15 Oslo 91 71 1 Glasgow 80 82 20 Berlin 86 76 6 London 79 83 21 Hamburg 85 77 7 Dublin 77 85 23 Stockholm 79 83 13 Paris 76 86 24 Helsinki 75 87 17 WL Meditteranean EL Black Sea W L GB W L GB Zurich 89 73 - Warsaw 87 75 - Milan 88 74 1 Moscow 81 81 6 Barcelona 84 78 5 Prague 79 83 8 Vienna 75 87 14 Budapest 76 86 11 Madrid 70 92 19 Athens 71 91 16 Lisbon 69 93 20 Sofia 70 92 17 Notes - Paris and Moscow both fell away gradually over the second half of the season. Oslo and Helsinki played 14 scoreless innings on 26th July. Helsinki won 2-1 in 15. London scored 11 in an inning in a 13-5 win against Paris on 22nd August. The Cyclones got their revenge the next day, when they scored 8 times in the 13th inning to win. For much of the second half of the season the 4 WL playoff spots looked to be going to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Zurich and Milan. Things got interesting in late August as Glasgow went on a 14-5 run to pull into the race. Later in August (and into September), Barcelona lost 11 games in a row and Brussels won 16 of 19 and the race came down to the last day. The Iguanas lost 7-5 to London in their final game to miss out. Copenhagen won on the last day to clinch their division and Hamburg lost the same day to miss out on the final Wildcard spot. Player Notes - Max Sabin (Milan) won the WL Hitter of the Month for June trophy before his injury. Callum Maxwell (Stockholm) won the EL award. Jesus Ruiz (Brussels) and Bart Taft (Oslo) won the June pitching awards. They also both won the same awards in August. 'Pop' Annoni (Athens) hit a 10th inning Grand Slam in a 6-0 win against Budapest. The July awards went to - WL Hitter: Claudio Lwenholm (Amsterdam) - .382/7/20 EL Hitter: Thomas Meinert (Copenhagen) - .402/10/34 WL Pitcher: Joseph Bell (Glasgow) - 4-1/0.77 EL Pitcher: Jeirgif Izvekov (Budapest) - 5-0/1.29 Paulo Simon (Athens) hit for the cycle against Berlin on 29th August and was subsequently named the EL's Hitter of the Month. London's Eskil 'Mr Reliable' Junge won the WL award. Antonio Rodriguez (Madrid) threw a no-hitter against Paris on 5th September in a 6-0 win. Two days later his team-mate, Milos Vostatkova, hit 3 homers in a 7-6 loss to Zurich. He only had 5 home runs before that game. Significant Injuries - Sabin as mentioned previously. Holly Connich (Warsaw) was hitting .372 with 12 home runs before missing 2 months with a fractured ankle. Timon Panayi (Berlin) missed 8 weeks with a broken arm. He was hitting .277 with 10 home runs at the time. Milan's Nenad Jevtic missed 6 weeks with a strained ligament in his pitching elbow. His record stood at 8-7 with an ERA of 2.33. Aetos Zikos (Berlin) is going to be out for nearly a year with a tricep injury. His ERA of 2.81, was not necessarily reflected in his 12-13 record. He was a probable squad member for Greece in the European Championship.

07-19-2008, 07:53 AM	#39 (permalink)
Craig Costello Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 295 Thanked 1x in 1 post	1984 Playoffs October 21st 1984 - Wildcard Round: Milan 0 Zurich 9 - Pierangelo Magherini gave up just 3 hits in 8 innings. Milan 4 Zurich 3 Zurich 3 Milan 2 (11) Zurich 4 Milan 11 - Vilheim Bogedal had a 3 run homer to put Milan up for good. Milan 14 Zurich 3 (10) - Roland Sbarro hit a homer and double in the 10th as Milan scored 11 times. Brussels 7 Amsterdam 6 (11) Brussels 6 Amsterdam 2 - Ruben Strauss had 2 homers for the Hitmen. Amsterdam 1 Brussels 8 - Jesus Ruiz pitched 7 strong innings as Brussels knocked out Amsterdam at this stage for the 2nd time in 3 seasons. Oslo 2 Warsaw 11 - Holly Connich had a homer and 5 RBIs. Oslo 9 Warsaw 8 (12) - Simao Munster was 4/4 with 2 home runs. Warsaw 2 Oslo 5 (13) - Simao Munster hit a walk-off home run. Warsaw 7 Oslo 2 Oslo 0 Warsaw 5 - Adrien Pierre pitched 7 shutout innings. Berlin 2 Copenhagen 15 - Valdimir Erantsev was 3/5 with a double, a triple, a home run and 6 RBIs. Berlin 2 Copenhagen 8 Copenhagen 9 Berlin 1 - The Armada's top 5 combined for 12 hits. League Championship Series: Brussels 9 Milan 2 Brussels 0 Milan 4 - Tuure Lumme shut out the Hitmen over 7 innings. Milan 7 Brussels 1 - Nenad Jevtic shut out the Hitmen over 8 innings. Milan 4 Brussels 7 - Jorge Perez was 2/3 with 5 RBIs Milan 0 Brussels 6 - Jesus Ruiz gave up just 2 hits and a walk in 7 innings. Brussels 2 Milan 3 - Philippe Martin was 3/4 with a double and a home run. Brussels 5 Milan 1 - Penn Heldt pitched 8.2 innings, giving up 6 hits and a walk and only 1 run. Warsaw 0 Copenhagen 7 - Alexis Martin allowed only 3 hits and a walk in 8 innings. Warsaw 4 Copenhgen 6 - Vladimir Erantsev was 4/4. Copenhagen 1 Warsaw 2 (13) Copenhagen 10 Warsaw 4 Copenhagen 2 Warsaw 3 Warsaw 4 Copenhagen 5 (12) - Vitaly Woevodin hit a 2-out home run to win it in the 12th. European League Series: Game 1 starters - Brussels: Jesus Ruiz (16-10, 2.12 ERA, 1.00 WHIP), Copenhagen: Alexis Martin (11-12, 3.57 ERA, 1.21 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Brussels 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 Copenhagen 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Jesus Ruiz (BRU) - 7 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 7 K Alexis Martin (COP) - 8 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 6 K Game 2 starters - Brussels: Norman Wijnstekers (18-12, 4.30 ERA, 1.17 WHIP), Copenhagen: Michal Slimak (11-9, 3.94 ERA, 1.48 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Brussels 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 Copenhagen 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 0 Norman Wijnstekers (BRU) - 8 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K Michal Slimak (COP) - 8 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 6 BB, 4 K Game 3 starters - Copenhagen: Yoan Lelievre (16-10, 3.21 ERA, 1.21 WHIP), Brussels: Axel Johansson (6-18, 5.72 ERA, 1.49 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Copenhagen 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 6 10 0 Brussels 0 0 1 0 0 3 3 0 X 7 9 1 Fabio Quinhones (BRU) - 2/3, 2B, HR, 3 RBI, 2 R Hugo Muehlegg (BRU) - 1/1, 2 RBI, pinch hit HR in 7th Game 4 starters - Copenhagen: Martin, Brussels: Penn Heldt (12-11, 4.83 ERA, 1.51 WHIP) Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Copenhagen 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 8 1 Brussels 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 Alexis Martin (COP) - 8 IP, 6 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 K Game 5 starters - Copenhagen: Guy Brady (15-8, 3.75 ERA, 1.33 WHIP), Brussels: Ruiz Code: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Copenhagen 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 8 2 Brussels 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 X 4 5 0 Ruben Strauss (BRU) - 2/4, go ahead 2-out 2-RBI single in 8th Brussels Hitmen win the series 4-1 Series MVP - Jesus Ruiz (BRU) - 1-0, 1.38 ERA, 0.92 WHIP, 13 IP, 10 K Brussels become the first team to win multiple championships with their second title in 3 seasons. Ruiz is also the first man to win multiple series MVPs. The WL has won all 4 of the EBL titles thus far. Last edited by Craig Costello; 07-30-2008 at 05:14 PM.

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