Fantasy RBI Arcade Game thread. Rebooted from 2018

[Darky]

Darky's doing great work, here.

After this league is done, any chance you'll run the league that we drafted after this one? I was excited about my "Ye Old Stylers" team.

Thanks Nacho! That is the plan with the SuperNes league. I mentioned that before since nomaaa handed the league over. I actually wanted to run that league first, but the Shooty and nomaaa convinced me to run this league first.

And the SupNes FRBI league will be expanded to 18 games along with some minor changes.

[Darky]

Sides of Beef cruise to victory behind Soto complete game gem, move into second place.

* All stats in the boxscore show season total in parenthesis

[Darky]

Down 13-5 in the bottom of the 8th, Pete Rose ignites furious comeback with pinch hit double. Babe Ruth completes comeback with 2-out walk-off HR. Nolan Ryan and Spiders bullpen shutdown Steely Dan offense in final 5 innings. Spiders bench storm homeplate and carry off the Babe on players' shoulders. Tempo's look of disbelief goes viral on social media.


* A mistake was made in an inning where a bat around was not inputted and when I re-saved the game, it doubled the total stats. So just deduct the total season stats in parenthesis by the appropriate number: for instance, Bonds hit 2 HRs, but his season total is 13 and not 15 and so on.  I'll fix it in the database.

[Darky]

Davey Johnson sets FRBI Arcade record with 9 RBI, blasts four HR's. Mike Scott pitches 4th complete game win (8 innings), improves to 4-0. Hulk Hulksters surge into sole possession of first place, obliterates Blue Foot Boobies in first place showdown - sends a strong message to the Arcade league.

[Darky]

Through week 8

[Darky]

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[Shooty]

Wow Mantle has 33 hits (and no walks) and has scored 33 runs.  That's some good production behind him.

[Nacho]

Mantle seems to be the clear MVP favorite. Need to have a midseason home run derby imo.

[Gantry]

My vote is for Reggie Jackson

[Darky]

Team leaders and a screenshot of my scoresheet program and how I score the games.

[Darky]

We are just about the halfway point of the season and the second half will go much faster since I can run the scorebook and statbook program much better and faster.

I've noticed a lot of BOPs the past two slates. The errors have been on 5 all year, so I thought it was unusual to see a sudden surge compared to earlier in the season. The errors will rotate each week for the second half and I will juice the errors up to 12 on a given week. So put on your seatbelts and cross your fingers that the RBI Gods bless you!

I will update the playoff format and it'll just be the semi-finals being a 5-game series and the quarter finals being a 3-game series. The FRBI WS will be a 7 game series. The play-in still stands as a do-or-die game.

After week 9, I'll try and post a first half recap of the season and do a quick analysis of all the teams. A huge maybe depending if I can pull it off so it is interesting to watch on YouTube.

As far as my team so far, I'll take it I guess considering that Donnie Baseball (team captain) and Hank Aarron haven't been living up to their attributes - the random generator hasn't been kind to the Empire. And Hank Wilson hasn't reached his potential yet. In the scouting sims I ran, Hack Wilson hit 27 jacks and .747 in 87 at-bats! In 44 at-bats, he's only hitting .659 with 10 homeruns. Great by most measures, but his 10 contact and 975 power should be speaking a better truth. And Donnie Baseball with his 10 contact and 855 power should be closer to .500 on either side. He started swell the first two games and was hitting .572 with a 4-hit game, but man, the random generator has bit him and I can't find a good spot in the lineup for him to thrive. I'll see how he does in the 4-hole for today's game - another lineup change!

Jackie Robinson (.568) has been overachieving as well as Jodi Davis (.553, 5 HRs) - both are over .500. Cey, DwEvns, and AlDark are all doing roughly what they should be in BA, but they are under-performing in HRs according to my scout sims with 100 at-bats - they all have only 2. Oh, Guidry is hitting .500! He's 10-20!

I thought Drysdale would be my ace since he has the same unknown attributes as Gooden, but not the same stuff as far as speed, drop, and curve. Guidry is a nice surprise and savior. Anyways, if Donnie can get back to his usual form and he has the past two games, and if Aarron and Hack stay within themselves and do what they are supposed in the second half, then that would be great! My team speed is killing me! Ron Cey is leading the league in double plays and DwEvns has 2, then Drysdale has 2 - rally and momentum killers!

This Arcade version is pretty fun to watch and I am glad I found that program to score games and keep stats since that makes running the league so much more fun. Twitch is coming as soon as I buy a new laptop - should happen on Monday maybe.

[Darky]

The dice have rolled - Week 9

[fightonusc]

Well, our pitching stinks, but at least our hitting does too!

[TempoGL]

I'll take losing in the bottom of the 9th twice in a row as opposed to what happened the two games beforehand

[Gantry]

Well, our pitching stinks, but at least our hitting does too!

That's actually not a good thing

[Darky]

Mantle dropped another 4 bombs, holy shit! He is hitting a homerun every 2.22 at-bats. He has a league leading 23 HRs in only 51 at-bats. Fuente, Santo, Vida, and nomaaa's pinch hitters were the difference at the bottom of the lineup. Good game there.

I was actually pulling for Steely to beat the Hulksters since I know GDavis is lurking and smirking with his team ... and not saying anything. Nah, I just wanted to see the leader get taken down. Tough luck there Tempo - 2 games in a row with 1-run losses. Good game there as well. GDavis' bullpen is even tough. Tempo, I see why your offense is struggling - Bando is hitting only .278, the Arcade version of Dale Murphy isn't as good and he's hitting .417, Fisk is hitting low .400, and Doran is hitting .345.

I think I saw Foster hit a bomb and he's been a bit better the past two games. He was only hitting .400 coming in today with 3 homeruns. He is just killing Fighton's team since he's a 945 guy hitting like a 780 power guy. Fighton, move in somewhere else in the lineup and see how he responds ... or Lord Vader will for the greater good!

About time my team hits! Captain Donnie Baseball held a clubhouse meeting to talk about Empire standards and expectations with the news guys. We hit into another double play to give us the league lead at 11!

Anyways, I'll be out most of tomorrow, but I have scored 2 games and have 3 to go. I think I'll get them done and we should be set for week 10 tomorrow ... about 5pm dee nee time. So get any changes into your lineup by 4:45 dee nee time. Errors will be set to 12 for week 10 - stormy and gusty weather all across the Republic of Arcade.

[Shooty]

I'm thinking about changing my team name to the Montreal Mantles.

[Gantry]

Mantle dropped another 4 bombs, holy shit! He is hitting a homerun every 2.22 at-bats. He has a league leading 23 HRs in only 51 at-bats.

That's.....   really good

[Darky]

Purple Reign easy victory over mistake prone Cleveland Spiders. 3rd straight win for Purple Reign moves them into 4th place. Walters pitches complete game gem.

[Darky]

Hack Wilson, Aarron, and Mattingly carry The Empire to victory, hold off last inning surge by the Swinging Dicks.