2020 Fantasy RBI Super League Game Thread (reboot)

[Darky]

Teams

The Empire - Darkside
Hollywood Star Whackers - Fightonusc
Tropicana Staircases - Tempo
Pabst Blue Ribbons - Ryno
Canada Shootys - Shooty
High Fives - Stu
Ye Old Styles - Nacho
Beefy Masters - Beefmaster
UHF Ch. 62 - Ultimate7
Blueberry Kings - Nomaaa


Season Rules

- 18-game season, home and away. Schedule: https://www.recleague.net/sites/fantasyrbisuperleague/schedule/upcoming_games
- 15-run mercy rule.

-The baseline for errors will be at 5 and may change from week-to-week at Lord Vader's discretion.
- Various glitches will be resolved by an Imperial operator with pressing the A or B or arrows on the keyboard. No joystick will be used during game recordings. A common glitch is when the baserunner freezes in-between second and third.
- Another common glitch is when the RF or LF mysteriously loses a ball in the sun near the wall and fails to make the catch. This is part of the game if you do not know this already. If a "Fernando" walk glitch occurs, the game will be immediately restarted.

Pitching

- You may start who you please
- No SP/RP may start in consecutive games
- The SP who does not start may be placed anywhere in the relief order
- RP may be used in any order

Position players/Rosters

C
1B
2B
3B
SS
3 OF
4 Bench
4 P (any combinations of SP & RP)

Trades

Trades will be available from weeks 4-14. Power deficits will be strongly weighed while speed deficits won't carry the same weight, but will be considered. Anything not covered in the trade rules does not imply you may trade as you wish. All powers are granted in Lord Vader's discretion, but Lord Vader will openly hear pleas. Fightonusc and BeefMaster shall weigh in on trade decisions.

Waiver Wire/Free Agents

You are free to release a player and pick up a player from the waiver wire up until week 18. The waiver wire will be closed once the playoffs begin. The free agent pool is listed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QXfsyZeYKar5240iMYX6Cm-pCdzRSs0wPQy3NaT89iI/edit#gid=230022496

Playoffs

- The top 5 teams earn an automatic bid.
- The 8th and 7th place teams shall play a one-game wildcard playoff in order to play another one-game playoff against the 6th place team. The pitching rotations continues from the last week of the season.
- The winner of the wildcard playoff will play the 6th place team in a one-game playoff/play-in to earn the 6th seed in the FRBI Super League playoffs. The pitching rotation for the winner of the wildcard playoff will continue from the previous wildcard game. The 6th place team may choose who to start.
- The top two teams shall earn a bye and automatically advance to the semifinals.
- The rest of the numbered seeds will play a 5-game playoff to earn a birth for the semifinals.
- The semifinals will be a 7 game series.
- The FRBI Aracade World Series will be a 7-game series.
- All errors in the playoffs will be determined be at 5.
- Higher seeded team has the option to choose to play home or away for the series and play-in.

Tiebreaker rules for placement in the standings

- Head-to-head
- Run differential

[Darky]

Starting lineups. The ROM is named SuperLeague and is found here: http://nightwulf.rbicentral.com/rbi-editor/

Player stats text file listing all of the players and their attributes
http://nightwulf.rbicentral.com/cgi-bin/rbi-editor2/rbi-editor.pl?action=textdump

Hollywood Star Whackers

Starting Lineup

1.   Hrnsby (2B)
2.   DaEvans (1B)
3.   J.Rice (OF)
4.   Bell (OF)
5.   Horner (3B)
6.   TWilms (OF)
7.   Tenace (C)
8.   Gagne (SS)

Bench

1.   Leonrd
2.   Herndz
3.   Brett
4.   WBoggs

Rotation

1.   M.Soto
2.   Krukow
3.   Grelts
4.   Hunter



Ye Old Stylers

Lineup

1. Robinson (OF)
2. Mays (OF)
3. Aaron (OF)
4. Foxx (1B)
5. Lopes (2B)
6. Campanaris (SS)
7. Cey (3B)
8. Heath (C)

Bench

1. Jones
2. Puckett
3. Garvey
4. Dark

Rotation

1. PNikro
2. Cox
3. Young
4. Sutton


Beefy Masters
1. Brnsky
2. Armas
3. Kingmn
4. Adcock
5. Brookn
6. JTorre
7. JRbnsn
8. DThon

GDavis
DwEvns
DHndrs
Dwning

BGibsn
Sutclf
Sutter
Jenkns


Canada Shooties

1. Eric Davis
2. Tim Burks
3. Davey Johnson
4. Kent Hrbek
5. Joe Dimaggio
6. Doug Decinces
7. Gary Carter
8. Cal Ripken

Bench:
Mattingly
Lynn
Boone
Fisk

Rotation:
Gooden
Blue
Saberhagen
Spahn


Tropicana Staircases

1. Tramml SS
2. Foster OF
3. Wilson OF
4. Strwby OF
5. Cepeda 1B
6. Whttkr 2B
7. Mitchl 3B
8. Brenly C

PH:
SBando
Teuful
Speier
Rickey Henderson

Pitchers:
Ojeda
JNikro
Clemns
McDowl


Pabst Blue Ribbons

1 Mantle
2 WClark
3 Ruth
4 Maris
5 Gedman
6 Hojo
7 Sandberg
8 Wills

B Joyner
B Yaz
B Bera
B Spilmn

SP Scott
SP Blyleven
SP Ryan
CP Valenzuela


The Empire

1. BBonds
2. Gaetti
3. Bench
4. DMurphy
5. TPerez
6. CDavis
7. Schfld
8. Fuente/Lmbrdz

Bench
Lemon
Musial
Cedeno
Lmbrdz/Fuente

Pitching
1. Guidry
2. Drysdale
3. Tiant
4. Hubbel


UHF Ch. 62

1   Gehrig
2   Jackson
3   Mathews
4   Gibson
5   Campy
6   Snider
7   Grich
8   Osmith
   
   DwMurphy
   Williams
   Madlock
   Santo
   
   Perry
   Ford
   Gullet
   Rueshel


blueberry kings

1. banks
2. schmidt
3. mccovey
4. ott
5. raines
6. nokes
7. morgan
8. maldonado

b1. guerrero
b2. winfield
b3. nettles
b4. brock

p1. marichal
p2. key
p3. alexander
p4. viola


High Fives

1. Baylor
2. Canseco
3. McGwire
4.Dawson
5. Laudner
6. Clark
7. Reynolds
8. Wilfong

b1: Lindamen
b2: Hendrick
b3: Sheridan
b4: Morris

p1: Tudor
p2: koafax
p3: LGrove
p4: fingers

[Darky]

Transactions:

The Empire has released:
SP Spahn
2B Doran
2B Rizuto
SS Mrnvil

The Empire has signed:
SP Guidry
2B Fuente
2B Lmbrdz
CF Cedeno

Official list of free agents: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QXfsyZeYKar5240iMYX6Cm-pCdzRSs0wPQy3NaT89iI/edit#gid=230022496

[Darky]

I'll be doing a season preview of the 2020 FRBI Super League live on Twitch:

I'll cover each team, identify the strengths and weaknesses, and use past season stats to help prognose possible projections.

Here is the schedule for opening day on Wednesday. Everyone has up until 1 hour before the start of game 1 to make changes to the lineups. Times represent Dee Nee time.

Beef, I recall you went with a 3-man rotation, can you go over that again for me please? 

[Shooty]

Hold On. 

You can't just start the season and then grab 4 free agents.  Doesn't there have to be a fair waiver process or something? 

[Shooty]

Like I want to drop Walters and grab a different pitcher.

[Darky]

I was begging nomaaa to change the free agent waiver wire process since I wanted to drop and pick up players (2B/pinch hitter) when he had the league going. I will say that of course during the Arcade season that I wanted Guidry. So it's first come first serve and there are no rules to the waiver wire - and I wasn't notified of any changes when I announced in nomaaa's thread last week that free agents are a go and that I picked up Guidry and Lmbrdz.  The only rule is that changes such as signings and releases need to come 1hr before the slate of games begin.

Shooty, feel free to drop Walters and grab who ever. Everyone is free to do what ever as far as dropping players and signing players at any time. This gives more of a managerial experience as well.

The list is here in case you missed it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QXfsyZeYKar5240iMYX6Cm-pCdzRSs0wPQy3NaT89iI/edit#gid=230022496

[nomaaa]

ah, starting the season off fair & right


this is probably why i didnt allow FAs. maybe wait until week 3 or something

[Shooty]

I guess I'll drop Walters for Spahn.

Vids Blue will move to my #2 starter and Spahn will close out games. 

[Darky]

All set Shooty and all changes fixed.

Well nomaaa, we got this huge pool of players on the market, so why not. We've seen three games from brief season you ran and the Arcade players from the season I just did. Fighton allowed a free and open waiver wire when he ran the league last in 2017, so this isn't nothing out of the ordinary ... just more excitement and managerial options, amigo!


Season preview coming up in 50 minutes via Twitch.

And here's the players stats text file - hoping it works this time so everybody can have a look at the players and make sure things are right. Also, you can go on nightwulf editor and click on the SuperLeague link to have a view of all the players, lineups, and team colors.

http://nightwulf.rbicentral.com/cgi-bin/rbi-editor2/rbi-editor.pl?action=textdump

[Shooty]

I think the difference is this season was on hiatus.  Then you started it up without really any notice of when it was starting and then grabbed 4 free agents.   

[nomaaa]

personally, i'm not making any changes at the outset, but scooping 4 guys the moment you announce the league is janky at best. you deserve a quality ribbing at the very least

[ryno]

Any time i want to complain i remind myself that we are grown men playing a fantasy league from a 32 year old video game.  Darky could take mickey mantle off my team and I'd still have fun. 

For the record, leave Micky the Hell alone!

Also wasnt i the first one to drop a player?  I dropped arcade Nando and picked up NES Nando

[Nacho]

Fuck yeah.

[Darky]

Okay guys, we are one day away from opening day with the rebooted FRBI Super League! It'll be live on Twitch and the schedule and times are posted a few posts back - 1pm Dee Nee Time.

All rules are in the opening post.

As I mentioned before, we'll more than likely be seeing 2 games week, possibly 3 up until October. Once October hits, I can't project anything other than 1 game every 10 days at worst. I'll be back home in Vegas and Cali from October until the middle of November, so it's hard to commit to say anything since I'll be on the move here and there. So a preliminary projection is that the season ends (including playoffs) sometime in December. The hope is to get it done by November. The optimistic view is that the season is done around before I come back to Sweden on November 15th.

Anyways, this league is going to be damn exciting and we'll see what kind of storylines develop! There'll be lots of scoring and big innings and remember that no lead will be safe in this league. BTW, the mercy rule will be at 15.

I may come back and do a quick preview of each team with some forecasts - huge maybe. I did the season preview on Twitch last night, but I don't think there were any viewers, lol! Screw it, it was fun.

[Darky]

I have changed emulators in order to be free from the throwing glitches that happened all too often on the virtual nes emulator. The glitches happened on linedrives to an infielder and instead of the infielder running back to the base for the putout or tag, the infielder would throw it away somewhere. There was another throwing glitch where the infielder would receive the throw from an outfielder, and instead of making the putout, the infielder would immediately throw the ball back into the outfield. So we'll be using the Mesen emulator. So far, no glitches. A plus is that I can have a video capture alongside the game on Twitch, so viewers will be able to see my reactions! I may try out another emulator to test out, so we'll see if I change directions again. In any case, all I care about at this point is being free from the glitches that the virtual nes emulator contained.

[Darky]

First pitch for opening day has been pushed back to 2:25 PM due to lightning strikes and that fact that I need to crush food right now.

[Nacho]

My team name is Ye Old Stylers, not Ye Old Styles. Thanks.

[nomaaa]

that name doesn't fit, so figure something else out

[fightonusc]

Nacho right now: