1975-2006 Season Sim Results

[Sagitta]

I left the game run overnight and simmed 1975-2006 to see how my results would be. There were no minors, and rookies were drafted, rather than being assigned to their original teams.

Interesting notes:

The AL won 14 World Series, the NL 17

The Red Sox won the World Series in 1975, 1976, 1978, 1985, 2002, and 2003.

The Astros won it all in 1980, 1983, 1984, 1998, and 2004.

The Yankees have made only two World Series appearances, in which they lost both times (once to Houston in '83, and once to Atlanta in 2006).

Oakland and Montreal have never even made the playoffs.

Only 8 players have hit 50 or more HRs in a season, and none were named Barry. The HR record is currently held by Mark McGwire, with 65 in 1991. Sammy Sosa's best record was 49 in 1992, and Barry Bonds managed to hit 47 in 1987.

Barry Bonds did not make the Hall of Fame. He spent his entire effective career with the Angels. He played 5 games in 1998 with 3 seperate teams - the Brewers, Expos, and Orioles. He hung on until 1999 when he signed a minor league contract with Pittsburgh and was used as a defensive replacement for 5 innings over 3 games.

Mariano Rivera developed as a starter, and pitched the Cubs and Tigers before having his career cut short with a fractured elbow in May of 2005. He retired at the end of the year. During his 11 year career he went 132-57 with a 2,88 career ERA, and won the Cy Young in '98, '99, and 2000 with Detroit.

The record for saves in a season belongs to Dave Smith of Philadelphia, who threw 56 in 1981.

The only player to steal over 100 bases after 1975 was Kenny Lofton, with 101 in 1992. Lofton had posted 517 before he had a CEI in 1998.

Speaking of stealing bases... Ricky Henderson managed only 515, before retiring in 1995.

The following players threw over 300 strikes in a season (between 1975 and 2006): Randy Johnson 325 (1991); Joe Nathan 311 (2006); Joe Nathan 311 (2001); John Wetteland 307 (1996); Ugueth Urbina 306 (2002); Joe Nathan 302 (2002).

In 'Art Imitates Life', Nathan was THE number one draft pick overall in 1998 by Boston. They traded him after 3 very poor seasons to the Braves in 2000 for Manny Ramirez, Ryan Hawblitzel, and and Jack Cust, plus $800,000. After going 16-30 over three seasons with the BoSox, he has gone 112-59 with Atlanta. He has 2,285 career K's and is only 32.

In the "Just HOW does he still have a career?!" category falls one Brian Cooper. I'll let his stats speak for themselves.

Year/Team/League G   GS  W  L SV   ERA    IP  HA   R  ER  HR  BB   K CG SHO WHIP BABIP   VORP 
1999 CHN - MLB   22   0  0  2  0  9.69  26.0  43  33  28   7  21   6  0   0 2.46  .343   -9.7 
2000 CHN - MLB   15   8  2  6  0 10.12  40.0  73  47  45  11  18  13  0   0 2.27  .388  -18.8 
2001 CHN - MLB   64   7  8  8  0  8.30 116.0 164 113 107  35  46  47  1   0 1.81  .316  -35.2 
2002 CHN - MLB   67   0  2  6  1  8.75  85.1 128  93  83  23  35  50  0   0 1.91  .350  -30.4 
2003 CHN - MLB   46  29  5 27  0  8.56 184.0 277 179 175  48  75  79  2   0 1.91  .355  -52.7 
2004 CHN - MLB   19   6  1  6  0  8.44  48.0  80  51  45  14  35  22  0   0 2.40  .377  -14.7 
2005 CHN - MLB   85   0  5  6  0  6.44 102.0 130  82  73  15  77  34  0   0 2.03  .322  -10.3 
2006 PIT - MLB   12   4  0  4  0 10.16  28.1  53  34  32   6  16   9  0   0 2.44  .395  -15.8 
Total MLB        330 54 23 65  1  8.40 629.2 948 632 588 159 323 260  3   0 2.02  .348 -187.7

If anyone has any questions about any players or teams or whatever, let me know.

[redmarkYankees]

Is Jeter Clutch?

[Sagitta]

Originally Posted by redmarkYankees

Is Jeter Clutch?

Looking at his page... he can't run, he can't field, and he has taken a tendency over the past 3 years to strike out a lot more than when he was younger. I'd say he WAS clutch, but isn't anymore.

He was drafted first round by the Yankees in '95 and still plays with them. He used to play SS/DH and now is primarily their DH.

EDIT: He has a career AVG of .307 and OBP of .808.

[Sagitta]

I may as well add in the HOF (default settings for qualification):

Batters:

Bob Watson
BJ Surhoff
Matt Stairs
Pete Rose
Frank Robinson
John Olerud
Eddie Murray
Paul Molitor
Mark McGwire
Don Mattingly
Javy Lopez
Harmon Killebrew
Howard Johnson
Gregg Jeffries
Kent Hrbek
Tony Gwinn
Pedro Guerrero
Mark Grace
Leon Durham
Wade Boggs
Hank Aaron

Pitchers:

Jim Perry
Gaylord Perry
Dave McNally
Juan Marichal
Jim Kaat
Bob Gibson
Britt Burns
Gary Beare

[billethius]

Griffey, Buhner, Edgar, and Randy Johnson?

[Sagitta]

Well I somehow managed to delete my game. :-/

I'm getting errors and such so... yea. Consider this thread dead. *sighs*

[Cheesehead]

How did you handle expansion? What database did you use?

Also, how do you continue to sim over several years? I'm simming a season at a time. Are you using 2006?

[redmarkYankees]

Originally Posted by Cheesehead

Also, how do you continue to sim over several years? I'm simming a season at a time. Are you using 2006?

Go to league 'schedule' screen. Click on the date fields at the top of the screen (year, in particular). Select date you want to sim to. Click 'action' at bottom of screen. Click 'sim to selected date'.

[Cheesehead]

Thanks. If you don't manually handle expansion (add teams and assign players), will the players just sit in free agent purgatory? I experencing that right now in a simulation where I didn't add teams in an expansion year and players like Nolan Ryan aren't getting picked up... Is there a work around?

[blgoblue2]

No Gload?

[Cheesehead]

Gload?

[Stoney McGlynn]

Originally Posted by Cheesehead

Gload?

He drives with manual transmission.

[redmarkYankees]

Originally Posted by Cheesehead

Thanks. If you don't manually handle expansion (add teams and assign players), will the players just sit in free agent purgatory? I experencing that right now in a simulation where I didn't add teams in an expansion year and players like Nolan Ryan aren't getting picked up... Is there a work around?

Not really. I expect to see automatic historical expansion and relocations built into OOTP2007...

[Cheesehead]

Originally Posted by Stoney McGlynn

He drives with manual transmission.

Or maybe a stick shift shy of a full transmission?