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Hi, and welcome to HBD! I'm making this thread because nasboat literally can't beat me in the playoffs and won't do it anymore. I've lifted most of this stuff verbatim from the last OP only I erased all the silly wrestling nonsense. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LAST SEASON The King is dead! Long live the King? Third time is the charm as AV's Cleveland Attack on Memory take down jeff's Santa Fe Leo Egans in five games after failing to do so in seasons 26 and 27. Elsewhere... There were only two 100 game winners in the entire major leagues. Nasboat's Trenton Tarantinos pulled out 119 wins and cruised to a third straight #1 seed in the AL. The other 100 win team was... Art?!? That's right the Vandelay won 102 games! These two teams won a combined two games in the playoffs because SNOWBIRDS. And then jeff won the AL because that's what he does and Curtis Moreno is the best. On the other side of the bracket new ownership wasn't enough to keep the former Hartford team out of the playoffs. Monicro's Dover Phantoms won 97 games; good for the third best record in the NL but only a #5 seed because of sharing a division with AV's 99 win team. IOWA pissed away a pretty sizable lead down the stretch to Kansas City, and the NL West is still a monster division, but Deivi couldn't make it back to another world series this time. DIVISION WINNERS AL North: Trenton AL East: Tampa Bay AL South: Santa Fe AL West: Portland NL North: Kansas City NL East: Cleveland NL South: New Orleans NL West: Anaheim WILD CARDS AL: New York, Montgomery NL: Dover, Colorado Seven of eight division winners remained the same, and eleven of twelve playoff contenders were unchanged. Will a new challenger appear?!? AWARDS AL MVP: Erick Duran (Trenton) NL MVP: Julio Blanco (Anaheim) AL Cy Young: Bud McDonald (Santa Fe/Charlotte), Joe Brantley (Tampa Bay) what the gently caress were you people voting on? NL Cy Young: Deivi Elcano (Anaheim) AL ROTY: Virgil Martin (Toronto) again, what? NL ROTY: Enny Alcantara (Buffalo) OUR PITCH TO YOU, THE PROSPECTIVE NEW GOON OWNER Hardball Dynasty is a game on the sports simulation site WhatIfSports.com. HBD puts you in control of a fake baseball franchise with fake players. You make the decisions. Draft young talent, trade with competing franchises, sign free agents to help you make the postseason, and inevitably lose to jeff in the playoffs. We're looking for dedicated owners to make sure every franchise is run competently, effectively, and, perhaps most importantly, actively. And that's where you come in. Currently, DiMaggio is a majority-goon world. Most of the remaining pubbies are pretty reasonable, but if you're new to HBD it's always a good idea to run any potential trades by veteran goons. Ask any questions you like in the thread here, we're always happy to give advice to a new owner. I don't have any idea if we have any openings! We might! Some people said they might not come back! Please contact our esteemed commissioner ThatsMyBoye (@paul_boye) or post in this thread if you'd like to play! We'd love to have you! But especially if you're not going to quit a week into the game! WAITING LIST 1. Tavarin 2. some dodgers guy on twitter 3. NEW OWNERS GUIDE 1. Consider running trade offers by the veteran owners in thread. We'll tell you if you're getting ripped off too badly. 2. Figure out a plan and stick to it. If you decide your team needs a rebuilding period, don't abort it halfway through and try to win. That's how you get a consistently mediocre team that doesn't go anywhere. 3. Overall rating is pretty much meaningless, other than to inflate a guy's asking price or determine draft comp. 4. During the preseason, you need to pay more attention to your team than at any other time. After the season starts, you can get away with checking your team once a day or so. During the preseason, you need to be much more active. Don't commit to a team if you can't do that. The main cycles run at (roughly) 3:45am, 11:45am and 7:45pm Eastern, with half cycles in between each. I'd advise that you check every half-cycle, as this is when you get feedback on coach hiring, free agent offers, re-signings, etc. 5. Go through your team roster when you get your team. Figure out what assets you have. Figure out what players you need to protect from the Rule V draft. Failing to do so can seriously set your team back. I'm bolding this part because nasboat is AN IDIOT WHO LOST THREE GOOD PROSPECTS AT ONE POINT BECAUSE I FORGOT TO DO THIS EXACT THING, SO IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU, TOO! SERIOUSLY! 6. Don't be afraid to ask questions! HBD can be overwhelming at first. There's a lot to figure out, and we've all been through it. Use your goon resources. 7. Don't listen to Art's advice. EVER. 8. Coach Hiring Sucks. But it's not that bad honestly if the world works together. We can do this. Trust me. 9. Most of all, have fun with it. Don't get too worked up about fake baseball. Unless you're As I said before, our commissioner is the esteemed ThatsMyBoye. You will need to be in contact with him to get the password to the world to be able to join.  AWESOME THING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IF YOU DON'T ALREADY -ADVANCED ROSTER EDIT. This is essential. If you've got (I think) 3 seasons of HBD under your belt, you can take the stupid, WIS-mandated 'training wheels' off your "Edit Roster" page. That's right, no longer will you have to make promotions one player at a time -- which was always a terrible process when trying to bump up all your minor leaguers. To get to advanced roster mode, simply access the "Management Console" from the "Manager's Office" menu, then scroll down and select "Advanced Mode" under "GM Edit Rosters Options" SPRING TRAINING INFO YOU WILL NEED quote:Set your spring training rest hierarchy and pitch counts CURRENT GOON TEAMS -- NOW WITH TWITTER HANDLES! pre:Forums name / WIS name / Franchise / Twitter nasboat / nasboat / Trenton Tarantinos / @nasboat Art Vandelay / thaneoffife / New York Vandelay / @ThaneOfFife gardenald / gardenald / Chicago Barons / @gardenald Devo / devomac / Tampa Bay Snowbirds / @Devo1999 Cory Lidle / dockellis70 / Boston Sophists / @DJWeedPizza Evilbeard / evilbeard / Durham Wolves / @evilbeard ????? / kingfatdik / Toledo Trash Men / @duyarvish jeffersonlives / tjefferson / Santa Fe Leo Egans / @ihateprospects Ivan Drago / rmdriskill / Montgomery Burns / @rmdriskill Scrotos / Fervus / Charlotte Goyim / @scrotos uublog / uublog / Richmond Flying Squirrels / @uublog CaptMurphy / captmurphy / Portland Beavers / @haassauce stimpy / stimpy_5 / Helena Thirty Helens / @sas_stimpy dryb / dryb / Tacoma Mount Rainiers / The broken bones / kingofspain / Los Angeles Los Angeles / @TheAmitie Goetta / goetta / Kansas City Bucks / @SteveMcBarks Nerokerubina / koyunlu / Iowa City Subsidies / @QaraKoyunlu Operaterp / operaterp / Philadelphia Phatties / ernestborg9 / ernestborg9 / Ottawa BEEMOs / @ernest_borg9 AlleyViper / alleyviper / Cleveland Attack on Memory / @deanleyland chutwig / chutwig / Buffalo Garden Paths / @erhudy tatankatonk / tatankatonk / New York Metropolitans / @tatankatonk ????? / pdalauro / Baltimore Red Tops / @TweetTheTreat AtheistDeals.com / atheistdeals / New Orleans Spirits / @DoubleScorpion ????? / hpjoker / St Louis Best Fans in Baseball / @hpjoker ThatsMyBoye / mrincubus / Anaheim Los Angeleses / @paul_boye gyroball / gyroball / Colorado Burrellballers / @RedbirdMenace Power of Pecota / pecotaredux / Salem Saberhagens / @GeorgeMatanzas Season 9 Season 10 Season 11 Season 12 Season 13 Season 14 Season 15 Season 16 Season 17 Season 18 Season 19 Season 20 Season 21 Season 22 Season 23 Season 24 Season 25 Season 26 Season 27 Season 28 Devo fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Aug 25, 2014 |
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OP needs more wrestling stuff, 2/10
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Aug 12, 2014 13:09
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If you beat me four times in the playoffs you win OP and power ranking privileges *quietly celebrates*
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i hope he returns home to vancouver where he belongs
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chutwig posted:Enny is not from IOWA Of course he's not. I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
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We need something in the new owner's guide about setting budgets Otherwise, good OP would read again
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We will be losing monicro and goetta, just off the top of my head.
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Anybody know if there's still a way to get back into Correspondence, Trade Chat, etc.?
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uublog posted:Anybody know if there's still a way to get back into Correspondence, Trade Chat, etc.? there isn't
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I decided to re up because I am a waffling idiot
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Goetta posted:I decided to re up because I am a waffling idiot also it's good that you're coming back to keep your team together because last time things just didn't materialize the way everyone thought they would for your old franchise  RIP George Stearns, Frankie Redmond, uhh that Joey guy (or was it Joey Redmond and that Frankie guy, gently caress I don't even remember), was one of the Espinosa pitchers on that team too?
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Yeah Benito Espinoza was like a top 5 draft pick iirc. I actually signed old rear end Joey Slocumb for nostalgia last year.
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nasboat posted:there isn't poo poo pffffffft
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Goetta posted:I decided to re up because I am a waffling idiot Oh excellent, welcome back I also have two off-site friends interested in spots.
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ThatsMyBoye posted:Oh excellent, welcome back Remind them that the condition for their admittance is trading me all of their good players
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I'll be back in tomorrow.
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Two other worlds are eligible for roll starting today, Banks and Upper Deck. So I don't suppose we'll go early.
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We are rolling ladies and gents
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Two of the 5 openings are claimed by non-SA members
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ThatsMyBoye posted:Two of the 5 openings are claimed by non-SA members Are they all for sure open?
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e: nevermind
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Sandy wants to re sign!
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ArtVandelay posted:Sandy wants to re sign! Pre-budgets and scheduling! That totally means he's gonna re-sign! (...)
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Aug 15, 2014 00:29
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How do you change your franchise name?
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The five teams currently up for grabs: Arizona Baltimore Dover Jacksonville Washington Do we know if any of those five owners are returning?
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Dover (monicro) is definitely open. I also believe Baltimore (quasimango) is open. I've not heard from Jacksonville (insertname).
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I'll put a breakdown of the open teams in the OP when I get home from work. So if two spots are spoken for I guess we need a maximum of three? That's the most we've lost in a while.
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For the first time ever all my important MLB coaches want to re-sign, this is amazing.
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Tony Stark retired, mother fucker.
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Agggh Paul Zheng retired. I've had him since season 19 
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Godspeed Mateo Cordero. At least your retired with the team that drafted you  Edit: I was hoping he would become a coach, but alas, it wasn't in the cards for him. I recognize some other familiar faces for pitching coaches, though. ArtVandelay fucked around with this message at 02:45 on Aug 15, 2014 |
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gyroball posted:For the first time ever all my important MLB coaches want to re-sign, this is amazing. Yeah my 94 HC/PC and 91 FI all wanna re-sign, kind of nice for a change
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Scrotos posted:Tony Stark retired, mother fucker. Devo posted:Agggh Paul Zheng retired. I've had him since season 19 Tyreace Swann has been my FC since S19 too and he retired :/
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I hate that I was out of town and unable to properly enjoy the WS but auuuuggghhhh it happennnnnned This one's for art: 
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AlleyViper posted:I hate that I was out of town and unable to properly enjoy the WS but auuuuggghhhh it happennnnnned I think I'm going to be sick
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Orlando Vizcaino, Rickey Daly, and Geronimo Sanchez all retired without going into coaching what the gently caress is that bullshit Zach Holmes also retired, I gave him one ML AB back in S23 Tex Watson wants $8.3M in arb2, boy howdy is he ever gonna cost me long-term. so long player payrolls that aren't absurdly extravagant! *waveys*
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Ramiro Quentin and Sean Creek are both testing free agency hahahaha gently caress me.
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