Four weeks left to go in the regular season, and the four playoff spots are still up for grabs. Certainly, this is what Fantasy RBI Baseball fans live for.
A commissioner's note: I'm setting next Monday as the trade deadline. If you want to make a trade, it has to take place and get to me on or before Monday at noon Pacific. Now, after that time, you can cut players and make free agent acquisitions up until the start of the playoffs, but you can't make any trades...
The first game is Creamy Pirates @ Stiffs, and I'll be simulating that shortly.
Video of The Creamy Pirates @ The Stiffs is up at the Web site (http://fantasyrbi.rbicentral.com/Media/Media.html). Box score and recap to follow later.
Game Summary:
The Creamy Pirates' pitching staff held The Stiffs in check for four of the six innings in their Fantasy RBI League game on Monday at Tengen Stadium. It was those other two innings that killed them. The Stiffs used innings of seven and ten runs to roll to a decisive 19-9 victory and remain in first place with three games remaining in the regular season.
Kent Hrbek continued his recent hot hitting with three home runs and six RBI for The Stiffs (8-3). while Brian Downing added four RBI. The Stiffs won despite hitting into three double plays in six innings.
The Creamy Pirates (3-8) dropped their sixth straight despite two home runs from Tom Brookens and a good effort from Vince Coleman, a surprise starter in the leadoff spot. They climbed back to tie the score at 9-9 after the top of the sixth, only to see The Stiffs score ten runs to end the game.
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I think Hrbek is making his case for MVP. Will there be a vote on cy young and mvp at years end?
Absolutely there will be, probably before the playoffs start (so we don't get the postseason stats mixed together).
My own personal MVP voting today would look like this:
1. Andre Dawson (U7)
2. Kent Hrbek (St)
3. Ruppert Jones (Pd)
Hawk is going to need a pretty big game to keep pace with Hrbek's performance today.
Both these guys are making a run at the triple crown. I think its going to be a tight vote if these two RBI studs keep a it.
Any chance of a fireman award for the 'best' reliever?
Video for the Fighting Tony Danzas/OC game is on the Web site (http://fantasyrbi.rbicentral.com/Media/Media.html). Box score and recap to follow.
What is this Kent Hrbek at 3b and Wally Joyner at SS bullshit?
you've gotta love the lost art of pitching and defense. one-two-three innings are your friend.
Quote from: JoeDirt on 01/06/05, 12:11:52 PM
What is this Kent Hrbek at 3b and Wally Joyner at SS bullshit?
When we drafted, we just separated the players into infielders, outfielders, and catchers, rather than going position-by-position. Our only rule is that you have to start 3 OF, 4 IF, and a C - it gave us a little more flexibility in our starting lineups, and it also made it easier to start guys who were originally bench players (it'd be more of a pain to assign them individual positions than it was to just make them IFs, OFs, or Cs).
And the scoring software I use requires that you give each player a position. So, if you have three starting IFs who would normally first baseman, you're going to wind up with guys playing "out of position".
Quote from: JoeDirt on 01/06/05, 12:11:52 PM
What is this Kent Hrbek at 3b and Wally Joyner at SS bullshit?
Hrbek (http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hrbekke01.shtml) actually played one game at 3B in 1990.
Quote from: JoeDirt on 01/06/05, 12:11:52 PM
What is this Kent Hrbek at 3b and Wally Joyner at SS bullshit?
This from the King Cheater, you know you do what you can get away with, Mcclane tried to start the year with Ruppert catching, but we called him on it.
i have a spreadsheet with everyone's position that they played for the most games in their RBI year if anybody wants it.
Cool, could you post it?
fantasy roster with players positions, notify me of any corrections, please.
Game Summary:
Errors, poor baserunning, untimely hitting...it's become an all-to-frequent pattern for the Fighting Tony Danzas, and their 11-4 loss to The OC in Fantasy RBI League game on Wednesday at Tengen Stadium showed exactly why they are currently tied for last place.
Three errors led to four unearned runs against The Fighting Tony Danzas (3-7), while they also had a runner tagged out at home and another runner doubled off of second on a line drive. Those errors, combined with no home runs, was enough to send them to their fourth straight defeat.
The OC (6-5) moved back above .500 and one-half game ahead of the idle Poopydicks for the final playoff spot. Rich Gedman drove in three for them, while Willie McGee added a pinch-hit home run.
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Quote from: ultimate7 on 01/06/05, 12:40:46 PM
This from the King Cheater, you know you do what you can get away with, Mcclane tried to start the year with Ruppert catching, but we called him on it.
I especially like the fact that you were able to masterfully cram 3 or 4 sentences into 1. Great job, Ultimate! :P
Rereading that was hilarious. Each idea was only very vaguely tied to my previous thought, I'm not sure how my head is working right now.
Video of the Poopydicks vs. Nimrods game (http://fantasyrbi.rbicentral.com/Media/Media.html) is up at the Web site. Recap to follow...
Game Summary:
Andre Dawson certainly did not hurt his MVP chances with a two home run performance against The Poopydicks and their MVP candidate Ruppert Jones. But The Nimrods' 16-12 victory on Thursday was about getting offensive contributions from multiple players and holding on despite some awful defense.
Jeffrey Leonard, Tom Brunansky and Gary Gaetti each homered twice for The Nimrods (8-3), who remained tied for the league lead with The Stiffs. The Nimrods won despite committing five errors during the game. Bert Blyleven picked up the win against his former team by scattering three earned runs over 4 2/3 innings.
The Poopydicks (4-7) dropped their fourth straight thanks in large part to a lack of power or timely hitting. They stranded 11 runners and hit into a pair of double plays, while managing only one home run - a solo shot by Chet Lemon to lead off the ninth inning. Jones hit three doubles and scored two runs.
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Two questions concerning these games:
1. I remember reading a few months ago on this forum that each team has it's own setting for how often BOP's would occur. Have these settings been modified in this ROM to "level the playing field"? Or was the setting left alone, and each team inherits the original RBI team's setting?
2. How do you get to watch mode while using an emulator, and which emulator are you using? I've used both FCE Ultra and Nesticle, and neither seem to allow you to use the watch mode.
I haven't had a problem on FCEU doing watch mode, just select down to WATCH.
As far as BOP settings I believe they are supposed to be set the same for every team, but apparently no one told this to my team.
1. thread link (http://forums.dee-nee.com/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=4776;start=0)
I'm not sure how they did it to start the season though
2. Every rbi rom I've ever seen had the watch on the title screen under the 1 or 2 player options.
Quote from: ultimate7 on 01/07/05, 03:12:11 PM
I haven't had a problem on FCEU doing watch mode, just select down to WATCH.
For some reason it's stuck on 1 Player for me, and won't advance to 2 Player or Watch. Oh well.
It is not the down key, you have to use the "select" button whatever it is set at for your emulator.
When the season started, the RBI Editor didn't have a way to modify the BOP-level. Once nightwulf did that, I updated the ROMs to level out the BOPs to what should be an average number (keep in mind that errant throws happen quite often in Watch Mode and count as errors).
I've been using VirtuNES for the games, just because they have the best way to record AVIs of the game (I had been using nnesterj, but once I downloaded Windows Media 9, it started having all sorts of problems).
You need to go into the menu and change your keyboard control settings to add a button to act as the "Select" button to get to 2p or Watch mode.
Quote from: ultimate7 on 01/07/05, 03:17:12 PM
It is not the down key, you have to use the "select" button whatever it is set at for your emulator.
Aaahhh.... you had mentioned
select in your previous post and I didn't pick up on it. Thanks Ultimate.
Quote from: Nails on 01/07/05, 03:22:16 PM
Quote from: ultimate7 on 01/07/05, 03:17:12 PM
It is not the down key, you have to use the "select" button whatever it is set at for your emulator.
Aaahhh.... you had mentioned select in your previous post and I didn't pick up on it. Thanks Ultimate.
You know, back in the day, every NES game required you to use "Select" to select things in menus, rather than using the d-pad. Eventually, game developers realized that this was a generally dumb idea, and "Select" became a pretty useless button. It's used for bunting in RBI 2 and 3.
Sorry for the delay. Video of the BeefMaster/ShitPaw game is up on the Web site...recap to follow.
Game Summary:
BeefMaster used a strong start by Jimmy Key and some clutch hitting to surge past Da ShitPaws 15-11 on Friday night at Tengen Stadium and create a three-team logjam for third place in the Fantasy RBI Baseball League.
BeefMaster fourth straight victory moved them into a tie with Da ShitPaws and The OC at 6-5 with three games remaining. The top four teams will advance to the playoffs.
Both teams had solid starting pitching efforts, although neither starter figured in the decision. Key gave up three earned runs on five hits over 4 1/3 innings, while Bret Saberhagen give up five hits and two earned runs over the same time frame for Da ShitPaws.
George Brett homered twice and drove in three to pace the BeefMaster offense.
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The comeback continues! Arising from the depths, I am!
Quote from: BeefMaster on 01/10/05, 12:07:58 PM
The comeback continues! Arising from the depths, I am!
That visit from Master Yoda must have given you strength.
Quote from: BeeJay on 01/10/05, 12:58:06 PM
Quote from: BeefMaster on 01/10/05, 12:07:58 PM
The comeback continues! Arising from the depths, I am!
That visit from Master Yoda must have given you strength.
Cross my mind when I wrote it, it did, but decide to change it I did not.
Hard to write, this is.