P.W. Game(s) Planning

[PitchingWinsGames]

First Test Sim Results:

Batting Average:

Joe Mauer - .346
Victor Martinez - .342
Ichiro - .341
Justin Morneau - .335
Prince Fielder - .331
Gary Matthews - .326
Jose Reyes - .322
Dustin Pedroia - .322
Vladimir Guerrero - .321

OBP

Nick Johnson - .448
Prince Fielder - .423
Joe Mauer - .414
Carlos Beltran - .409
Alex Rodriguez - .401
JD Drew - .401
Justin Morneau - .400
Travis Hafner - .398
Bobby Abreu - .397

SLG

Prince Fielder - .629
Justin Morneau - .585
Carlos Delgado - .581
Grady Sizemore - .578
Gary Matthews - .576
Adrian Gonzalez - .573
Alex Rodriguez - .565
Ryan Braun - .559
Victor Martinez - .559

OPS

Prince Fielder - 1.051
Nick Johnson - .995
Justin Morneau - .985
Gary Matthews - .968
Alex Rodriguez - .967
Carlos Beltran - .965
Victor Martinez - .954
Carlos Delgado - .952
Grady Sizemore - .948

HRs

Prince Fielder - 48
Ryan Howard - 43
Carlos Pena - 43
Albert Pujols - 42
Adrian Gonzalez - 41
Alex Rodriguez - 40
Manny Ramirez - 39
Mark Teixeira - 38
Jim Thome - 36

SBs

Ichiro - 61
Michael Bourn - 59
Carl Crawford - 58
Dave Roberts - 49
Jose Reyes - 42
Jimmy Rollins - 42
Chone Figgins - 41
Rafael Furcal - 40
BJ Upton - 37


ERA

Justin Verlander - 2.50
Cole Hamels - 2.76
Jake Peavy - 2.97
Carlos Zambrano - 3.09
Tim Lincecum - 3.21
Tom Gorzelanny - 3.22
Brandon Webb - 3.33
CC Sabathia - 3.46
Braden Looper 3.54

Saves

Trevor Hoffman - 42
Bobby Jenks - 40
Akinori Otsuka - 39
JJ Putz - 35
Joe Nathan - 34
Rafael Betancourt - 33
Jonathan Papelbon - 33
Dan Wheeler - 33
Cla Meredith - 33

WHIP

Cole Hamels - 1.01
Justin Verlander - 1.04
Tom Gorzelanny - 1.13
Jake Peavy - 1.13
Tim Lincecum - 1.17
Mark Buehrle - 1.18
Danny Haren - 1.19
Cliff Lee - 1.19
Brandon Webb - 1.19

K/9

Francisco Liriano - 10.55
Tim Lincecum - 10.46
Scott Kazmir - 10.17
Tom Gorzelanny - 8.90
Justin Verlander - 8.88
Carlos Zambrano - 8.61
Matt Cain - 8.51
Pedro Martinez - 8.27
Cole Hamels - 8.24

BB/9

Jon Lieber - 0.68
Mark Buehrle - 1.55
Greg Maddux - 1.57
Ben Sheets - 1.62
Danny Haren - 1.61
Roy Halladay - 1.83
Curt Schilling - 1.84
Jamie Moyer - 2.07
Bronson Arroyo - 2.08

HR/9

Roy Oswalt - 0.41
Braden Looper - 0.52
Tim Lincecum - 0.58
Brandon Webb - 0.65
Cole Hamels - 0.66
Aaron Cook - 0.69
Jake Peavy - 0.69
Justin Verlander - 0.69
Jeff Francis - 0.69

Second Test Sim Results:

Batting Average:

Joe Mauer - .352
Hanley Ramirez - .351
AJ Pierzynski - .341
Jose Reyes - .341
Dustin Pedroia - .340
Nick Markakis - .333
Russell Martin - .328
BJ Upton - .327
Josh Hamilton - .322

OBP

BJ Upton - .411
Joe Mauer - .401
Hanley Ramirez - .395
Jose Reyes - .391
Russell Martin - .390
Brian Giles - .389
Aaron Rowand - .389
Grady Sizemore - .388
Jim Thome - .386

SLG

Grady Sizemore - .623
Josh Hamilton - .570
Adrian Gonzalez - .569
Hanley Ramirez - .561
Nick Markakis - .542
Carlos Pena - .541
Victor Martinez - .536
Joe Crede - .536
Ryan Braun - .536

OPS

Grady Sizemore - 1.011
Hanley Ramirez - .956
Josh Hamilton - .945
Adrian Gonzalez - .933
Nick Markakis - .928
Jim Thome - .917
Victor Martinez - .914
Nick Johnson - .906
Travis Hafner - .906

HRs

Grady Sizemore - 47
Jim Thome - 44
Ryan Howard - 43
Adrian Gonzalez - 40
Josh Hamilton - 39
Alex Rodriguez - 39
Travis Hafner - 38
Nick Johnson - 38
Carlos Pena - 38

SBs

Jose Reyes - 58
Rafael Furcal - 45
Dave Roberts - 45
Carl Crawford - 44
BJ Upton - 43
Shane Victorino - 40
Eric Byrnes - 38
Hanley Ramirez - 36
Chone Figgins - 35


ERA

Cole Hamels - 2.44
Tim Lincecum - 2.49
Jon Lester - 2.50
Cliff Lee - 2.64
Ryan Feierabend - 2.93
Ricky Nolasco - 3.26
Tom Gorzelanny - 3.27
Jeremy Bonderman - 3.31
Johan Santana 3.35

Saves

Joe Nathan - 42
JJ Putz - 40
BJ Ryan - 40
Chad Bradford - 38
Billy Wagner - 36
Rafael Betancourt - 35
Bobby Howry - 33
Mariano Rivera - 33
Bob Wickman - 33

WHIP

Cole Hamels - 1.05
Ryan Feierabend - 1.10
Javier Vazquez - 1.14
Tim Lincecum - 1.15
Justin Verlander - 1.15
Zack Greinke - 1.16
Jon Lester - 1.16
Jeremy Bonderman - 1.17
Cliff Lee - 1.21

K/9

Tim Lincecum - 9.63
Scott Kazmir - 9.47
Cole Hamels - 8.91
Felix Hernandez - 8.76
Ricky Nolasco - 8.76
Carlos Zambrano - 8.56
Tom Gorzelanny - 8.47
Josh Beckett - 8.43
Kevin Slowey - 8.37

BB/9

Greg Maddux - 1.33
Roy Halladay - 1.42
Roy Oswalt - 1.65
Curt Schilling - 1.67
Jamie Moyer - 1.67
Chris Carpenter - 1.69
David Bush - 1.72
Danny Haren - 1.74
Od. Perez - 1.87

HR/9

Jon Lester - 0.25
Brandon Webb - 0.30
Tim Lincecum - 0.42
Roy Halladay - 0.51
Jake Peavy - 0.62
Javier Vazquez - 0.62
Tom Gorzelanny - 0.63
Cole Hamels - 0.63
Cliff Lee - 0.67

A couple notes:

• I just sim'd a draft and let the teams run through a full season with CPUs managing and trades turned off, so I can track stats easier.
  
• Because of the autodrafting, different players went to different teams, which explains some of the variations in outcomes, so, obviously Prince Fielder hitting in Coors would have more HRs than Prince Fielder in PetCo (for example, I don't know which teams have which ML stadiums offhand)
  
• Ryan Feierabend was a weird callup in the second sim that was just pitching lights out, but he only had like 20 GS and however many RP innings.

[MiamiHomer]

I wish that first sim Nick Johnson was on the Marlins.

[Madman81]

Jose Reyes is being seriously bigged up, and why was Albert Pujols murdered?

[DColts]

And why did Halladay and Youkillis not show up in the stats?

[PitchingWinsGames]

Jose Reyes is being seriously bigged up, and why was Albert Pujols murdered?

Albert Pujols's ratings are top 2 in the game, with Miggy, Im guessing/hoping he got injured in the second sim, but in the first one, he was just outside the top 9 OPSs

I can't, in good faith, "boost" Pujols's ratings to try to fix that... 'cause I know, if I do... he'll put up like a 1.300 OPS and hit 583893 HRs in a season.

Reyes is good, but certainly not great, just a good leadoff hitter.

And why did Halladay and Youkillis not show up in the stats?

Halladay had like ~250 IP and a 3.5-3.6 ERA the second sim (I don't remember the first) and Youkilis was good, just didn't dominate anything in particular to be top 9 (I don't know why OOTP's stat pages does top 9s and not top 10s)
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Double checked Reyes's ratings, he's a low .300-high .290 rating, so, Im going to do some league variable tweaks

[PitchingWinsGames]

Notes of this sim, Tim Lincecum got a rate down, which is why he didn't show up on the leaderboards like you would expect him to. For those not in the know, players are subject to talent changes, albeit rare for impact players like Lincecum, but anyways, they can negatively impact a player like this, or like you'll see, dramatically impact a player positively, and anywhere in between)





Now, after you pick up your jaws, yes, Prince Fielder got a HUGE rate up here, it was pretty weird watching him decimate pitching, as he had 45 homeruns before July...

Jose Reyes also got a more subtle rate up as evidenced by the numbers he put up.

As for the IP stuff going on, the CPU defaults to "start highest rested SP" and we'll be using strict 5 man rotations, but basically, yeah, it nets another 4-6 GS for the stud aces...

I think, outside of the anomaly Prince Fielder face-smashing, THIS will be the league file we roll with.

[MiamiHomer]

Prince did it for the SAS...hope if I end up getting him that does occur lol.

[PitchingWinsGames]

San Antonio plays in Citizens Bank Park... /life makes sense now

[AdamRavs]

That 1st sim my team was studly!