Fantasy RBI Arcade Game thread. Rebooted from 2018

[Guido13]

Warms my fart to see this shit still going in full force.

[BeefMaster]

Managed to catch the end of the stream... hell of a last two innings in that Montreal/Empire game. Nice work, Darky.

[BeefMaster]

SCREEN CAPTURE

[nomaaa]

Managed to catch the end of the stream... hell of a last two innings in that Montreal/Empire game. Nice work, Darky.

same, only caught the last game, but good stuff

[Darky]

Week 17 gentlemen

(Thanks Shooty!)

[BeefMaster]

Someone explain the play that ended the top of the sixth (4:51 in the video), because I cannot for the life of me figure out why the second runner went.

[Shooty]

Yeah.  That was weird.

[Darky]

I've never seen that before and it was a shocker! It happens at third when a runner gets chased back and tagged out before reaching third, then the runner on third decides to take off and get tagged out. But I've never ever seen that happen at second.

Drysdale brought his good stuff today and we got some heroic efforts from JDavis and AlDark and Borbon. Crazy. JDavis must have had 4-5 hits I think. I don't know if there's a glitch with him, but if not for him, I'm not sure we are where we are right now. He's a 801 guy hitting mostly bleeding singles and clutch hits and some HR's at the right time. I didn't even scout him, so I had no idea. I thought there was no way Borbon was going to hold Shooty's heart of the lineup scoreless in the bottom of the 9th, but this team has some heart and a will to win.

And the final playoff spot is wide open between the Spiders, Steely Dans, and Purple Reign. The top 7 are locked in the playoffs right now. So the finale on Sunday will decide the final playoff spot. And a lot will be decided when the Purple Reign meet the Spiders. Steey Dan will have the tough task of beating the Hulksters. Those three teams have the same record right now.

[fightonusc]

I guess our game was joined "in progress?"

[Darky]

I guess our game was joined "in progress?"

Well, better to miss a couple batters than being Heidi'd gamed! Actually while live on Twitch, I went big screen on the emulator and consequently the game stopped recording. Fortunately I caught it quickly and started recording again. If you need to see the missed batters, you can watch your game again on my Twitch channel and hear my commentary when I fucked up with that, haha! Hey man, you guys beat Purple Reign and if the Steely Dans lose to the Hulksters, you're in!

Here's the standings before I unload on the recaps and boxscores. Also, I have 1 new follower on my channel and he's not from the forum. My channel clearly describes I'm all about RBI fantasy and simulations - also promote nightwulf editor and dee nee.com. So pretty cool that we got somebody else following the Arcade league! Post game gibberish shot of me. And BeefMaster, that funny look I am making when you screenshot'd me - I was trying to see the screen without my glasses! I need to squint to see, haha!

[Darky]

U7 wake up "dangerous", quickly dismantle Purple Reign in 4 innings via mercy rule, now on 3-game winning streak with outside shot for automatic semi-final birth. Purple Reign losing streak now at 6, still in position for #8 seed in the Wildcard round with win over Cleveland Spiders.

U7's Phil Niekro was in form and had command of all his pitchers. Put simply, U7 overwhelmed the Purple Reign. Purple Reign's locker room appears to have conflict - rumors swirling that players are not happy about GM Nacho calling them bitches to the media.

[Darky]

Down 20-16 in the 8th, Pete Rose sparks Cleveland Spiders with 8th inning leadoff pinch hit homerun, spurs Spiders on 8-0 run the last two innings to win 24-20. Spiders make the playoffs with season finale win over Purple Reign no matter how the Steely Dans Revenge vs Hulk Hogans game turns out - Spiders hold the head-to-head tiebreaker over the Steely Dans. 

Steely Dans Revenge blew 18-10 lead after 6 innings, outscored 14-2 down the stretch. Steely Dans scored 10 runs in the first inning, game looked like on way to being mercy rule blowout, but Spiders once again come back from the dead. Durham and Doerr deliver with clutch homeruns and production from the bottom of the lineup. LGrove and Richrd pitched lights out from the bullpen -allowed zero runs and only three hits.

Steely Dans win against the Hulksters in the season finale, they are in they can make up the difference of a -19 run differential deficit to the Purple Reign if the Reign win against the Spiders.

[Darky]

After 3 innings and the Blue Foot Boobies leading 6-5, Hulksters run wild and outscore the Blue Foots 15-2 in the next three innings in route to a 20-6 mercy rule blowout. Fred Lynn blasts a pair with 4 RBI in 5/5 showing at the plate. Mike Scott rebounds after turbulent Empire outing and was back to his spectacular self - now #1 in the Arcade lead in ERA.

With season sweep over Blue Foots, Hulk Hogans have inside track for semi-final birth, almost a lock with run differential advantage over U7 if U7 win season finale against the Sides of Beef. Will gain #1 seed with win over Steely Dans in regular season finale and Empire loss, or if both Hulksters and Empire win, Hulksters will need to make up a -24 run differential deficit to the Empire.

Blue Foots can do no better than a #3 seed and can do no worse than a #5 seed.

[Darky]

Sides of Beef use strong pitching from Tiant and Soto along with two big enough innings to win 13-8 over the Swinging Dicks in low scoring game. Sides of Beef took 13-3 lead into the 9th before a last stand effort by the Dicks. Soto now #5 in Arcade league in ERA and showed the Arcade world he can be a force on the mound and into the playoffs. Davey Lopes led BeefMaster's offense with 3 hits - HR, 3B, 2B, 4 RBI, 3 runs. DThon (30C/810P/136S) continues overachieving year with .538 clip and 33 RBI - Thon chipped in with 3 RBI and 1 HR. Sides of Beef have inside track for the 7th seed, improbable to get #6 seed due to run differential deficit.

McGwire in 2-game homerless drought. DEvans and Cronin cripple Dicks hitting with 1-9 combined effort from the middle of the lineup. Clemens looked sharp and appears playoff ready. Swinging Dicks can only gain the 7th seed with win over the Empire and a BeefMaster loss to U7. Sides of Beef hold the head-to-head tiebreaker edge over Ryno's squad. Swinging Dicks can do no worse than the #7 seed.

[Darky]

Down 17-15 and to the final out in the 9th, Empire get clutch hitting from Cey, JDavis, & AlDark to take 19-17 lead into the 9th. Pedro Borbón earns second straight win and save with scoreless 9th - get Reggie and Mathews to ground and lineout with Gehrig on second base.

AlDark went 4/6 with a 2 HR, 2 2B, & 6 RBI to lead the Empire. AlDark hit go-ahead 3-run HR with two outs in the 8th - second consecutive game of hitting 2 HRs. Arcade League singles leader JDavis continues magical season with 5/6 game, hit 4 singles and 1 HR now hitting .617 - +900 power territory. Drysdale was brilliant in his start, now #4 in ERA. Empire clinch semi-final birth.

For the Exposé, Mantle added another homer and 3 more RBI to his league lead. 2-6 performance may have costed him the Triple Crown, but still a lock for league MVP.

#1 team in scoring and homers Exposé quiet with the bats until 8th inning eruption. Radatz only 1-out away from victory and Exposé heart of the lineup couldn't produce in the 9th. Montreal will gain #3 seed with season finale win over the Blue Foots, loss will either land them at #4 or #5.

[Darky]

I fixed the schedule for today since I thought I had switched home-away for the teams who were home or visitor in the first half of the season. 3:30 pm  Dee Nee time is the first pitch on Twitch. The live broadcast will begin about 3:20 pm with some rundowns about the fantasy league, the players, and so on. That's mostly for the new follower who is not from Dee Nee.

Huge games today gentlemen!

[TempoGL]

Would that new follower happen to be HotLocalMom?

[Darky]

Would that new follower happen to be HotLocalMom?

Nah, his name is baseballboy079. His banner says "i like baseball". I never saw HotLocalMom during the feed and she's not a follower. I gotta admit, some of the "just chat" streams are pretty cool with people just chatting about everything and nothing from around the world. I watched a good hour of two Cali women (bout 27 years old) just shooting the shit in their pool. Helped that they were good looking.

[nomaaa]

the ABCs of twitch:

Adroit gameplay
Bewbs
Cats

[Darky]

Game time has been pushed back to 4 PM Dee Nee time. First pitch will be exactly at 4 PM. I doubt I have time to get creative and run an entertaining pregame show with info popping about the league and players, as well as the history of the FRBI league.

I'll re-post the schedule here. And as always, the order of games you see will be the exact order played live on Twitch. After that is done, the upload and editing on YouTube will follow about 20 minutes after here in this thread.