This was great, man. The song literally made me tear up a little at the “we’re talking Homerrr” part (like it did since I was a child) Really great idea.
How big of a factor was pitcher fatigue? My guess is that Clemens, who was considered a workhorse for his time, but still only completed about 10 games per year (vs. Brown who routinely completed over 20), probably lost a lot of games in the late innings, and the fact that Team Smithers collapsed late in the year also seems to suggest that Clemens was a lot more tired than Brown.
I would be interested in seeing the 2016 Cubs that won the World Series vs the 2003 team. I've often wondered if they could have gone all the way in 03 if not for the infamous Batman ball
Could they have gone all the way? Dunno. Was it because of the Bartman ball? No way. the 2003 cubs collapsed in every way and then lost the next game. They were playing bad baseball
How about 1990s decade pinned against the 1960s. My reasoning is probably the most dominant power era of MLB history vs probably the most dominant pitching decade ever.
I did a sim of an all-decade team from each decade 1870-2020. I ended up not making the video because it highlighted a few faults in OOTP sims and didn't really lead to interesting baseball related results. The 1910s team absolutely dominated, and teams in either dead-ball or lower HR hitting environments performed much much better on the whole while teams from the 90s, 2000s, 2010s performed way worse. The top 6 teams by a wide margin were 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, and 1920s. The trend was so significant that it said way more about how OOTP does simulations than which decade is actually better. The game struggles with how to address stats from different eras and the extremely high batting contact ratings and low power ratings of some eras playing versus pitchers from other eras. You can see some of that issue pop up in this sim as the old-fashioned players beat up the more recent ones.
@@BaseballsNotDead Seems like this demonstrates that the value of making contact and getting on base is far greater than the value of power hitting. Doesn't account for the degree of difficulty of doing either across eras, but still an interesting learning tool.
I made my own power plant softball team using the 1991 stats without choosing Smithers picks I got Frank Thomas Julio Franco Edgar Martinez Cal Ripken Jr Mickey Tettleton Rickey Henderson Brett Butler Barry Bonds And Tom Glavine as my pitcher.
I'm planning to do a signed team photo, what would really be something is collecting Mr Burns team autos. The guy that doesn't exist might have signed a contract at some point, probably not many checks. Wagner is a valuable auto but fair price, Joe Jackson couldn't sign his name well since he was illiterate; his auto is pretty valuable. Those are the only autos I have either knowledge or thoughts on. I think there was some harsh judgement on Smithers team, WAR has flaws. Jose Canseco came close to another 40/40 season and was told to stop stealing bases (finished with 29 sb's in a season with 40+ HR's (I forget the exact number.) Boggs was a career long great, as were Clemens and Griffey (Griffey was my generations Mantle, he overcame injury to finish a comparable career; though just like Hank Aaron he wasn't fully appreciated in this case because the big numbers were often single seasons of PED users.) Strawberry, Sax & Sciosia I will agree that they were past their prime and only Strawberry was a household name outside of this show (a lay person would think he was only not HOF due to coke.) Ozzie was a great that was later in his career (that flip video was cool, thanks) Mattingly remained a good defender (9 gold gloves) and his batting average is HOF worthy but his WAR was the same as Canseco's (bare minimum for HOF, but both were household names; Jose of course is a more complex story than Mattingly but I have 100 signed or soon to be signed Canseco's (83 Fritsch, 86 Donruss, 86 Topps Traded Tiffany, Desert Shield, 93 Refractor) from Canseco. I wish Mattingly were as fan oriented as Canseco or Boggs who sign affordably (Mattingly charges 150, he's not HOF; personally I think HOF should factor in fan orientation.) But, if you happen to meet Mattingly; he'll probably be nice and sign something free (same with Koufax, but he's hard to meet; still $3k to sign a RC; I'll try and meet him lol.)
I have a copy of OOTP 12 I haven't played in years, mostly because the installer won't verify my copy as legitimate. A server it's supposed to be checking against must be finished.
Can you do a simulation between thr best players in the Negro League against the National League and American league. Im curious to see how that would come out.
In order to help the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's softball team win the semi-pro softball championship, Mr. Burns makes a $1 million bet with fellow billionaire and Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant owner Aristotle "Ari" Amadopolis.
Incorrect. Check his baseball reference page. www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lajoina01.shtml They list lah-ZHWA or LAJ-way as possible pronunciations. I did work with someone with the last name Lajoie before and he pronounced it La-Joy, so understand thinking that.
