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Lookout Landing League 4!

Password is edgar. The league won’t start until there are 30 owners. If we can’t fill it up, it won’t take off.

I’ve ran Baltimore and San Diego before so I think I’d like to try out the Marlins. I think they are due for another World Series victory.

I’m in the other league as the Pirates. I just signed up for this one as the Red Sox… I’d like to see how this game works with a bigger budget, haha. Feel free to kick me out if there are more people that want to join this one that didn’t get in to the last league.

Also, are you going to set up a message board on Lefora or something for this one?

Lookout Landing League 4 Forum

Two World Series winners have already quit.

There are some things that need discussing.

For those of you in LLL3 that would like another team (perhaps you are in the NL in 3 and want an AL team, or maybe you want to try a bigger payroll), feel free to join up.

But I want in!

Is there a place where I can see what teams are available still?

Let’s go Marlins!

I’m paying 9 mil to Aaron Harang, 10 mil to Francisco Cordero, and 7 mil to Bronson Arroyo?

I got my work cut out for me.

However, in this league, I have about 5 times the budget of my other team, so this should be fun.

60 game days per real day?

Awesome. Just…awesome.

Game on bitches.

I can nerf the computer teams as the season goes. Some leagues remove all the comp’s spending money because the computer tends to be a dick about free agents and such.

We’re going to start this thing up. If you’ve joined, I’d suggest you go over to the forum and start voting and bidding on free agents. You can also request to drop an albatross, if you’d like.

Let me know if there’s ever an opening or something!

We still need to fill four slots. Won’t start until those four slots are filled.

Morneau is hitting .261 with a .702 OBP. 68 walks in 114 PAs.

Awesome!

Pujols and Wainwright both injured. Bruised spleen? What?

Thought the spending cap was $30mill

I even adjusted all my strategies to “normal” instead of tweaking them, but my starters’ ERAs are all right around 6.00, which is ridiculous… even for guys ranked in the 80s and 90s. Am I missing something, or just getting unlucky?

My relievers are even more inconsistent. K-Rod, at 89, has a 7.04 ERA while Arthur Rhodes is an 88 with a 1.17 ERA.

I added Jesus Merchan to my bench because I felt sorry for him (I know, felt sorry for a virtual simulation player); and he suddenly got good?

I’m playing as the Pirates over there, and I stuck Shelby Ford in the leadoff spot playing 2B, straight from the minors. In the minors, he projected as something like a 74(79), I believe. As soon as I put him in the majors, he jumped up to a 80(88), and hung around in between those numbers for the next couple years. Then I benched him and he fell to a 73(75) type player. I guess some players respond well to opportunities.

It should be mentioned that, while his ratings changed a lot (I had pretty good scouting, too), his stats were pretty mediocre. He won a Gold Glove, but always had a terrible fielding percentage, and he normally had an OBP under .300. I was just using him as a placeholder until my good prospects hit the majors.

I won’t be able to commit much time in the next month or so, and would like someone to take it off my hands. You’re not inheriting crap either. As the Rockies, I won 104 games last year (though didn’t make the playoffs — what the hell?) and have a very strong position player core but with limited pitching.

He had 220 hits and 312 strikeouts, good for a BABIP of .990.