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WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC Final

Can’t match Ohtani vs. Trout but I did have a thrilling finale for my tournament.

The Dominican Republic, on a roll since its stunning opening game loss to Israel, faced USA Metro, fresh off an upset win over USA West in the U.S. bracket. Johnny Cueto on the hill for the DR with Metro calling on steady southpaw John Tudor.

Metro got on the board in the second with Craig Biggio doubling home Rico Petrocelli.

Back-to-back doubles by Manny Ramirez and Vladimir Guerrero evened things in the top of the fourth.

The bottom of the fourth got wacky. Alex Rodriguez led off with a double and Petrocelli singled him home. Ken Singleton walked to put runners at first and second. Cueto proceeded to hit THREE straight batters — Biggio, Derek Jeter and Mike Trout) to force in two more runs giving Metro a 4-1 lead.

Things stayed quiet until the ninth when David Ortiz hit a three-run homer off Orel Hershiser to tie the game. Pedro Martinez retired Metro 1-2-3 in the bottom half of the inning to send the game into extras.

In the bottom of the tenth with one out, Singleton blasted a home run to right giving USA Metro the WBC Championship. Singleton hit .476 with 3 HRs and five RBI in the tournament and was named MVP for his heroics, edging out USA West’s Jeff Kent (.348-4-10) and the DR’s Ortiz (.250-4-9).

Hiroki Kuroda of Asia threw the most scoreless innings (14), six pitchers recorded two wins (including Metro’s Hershsier and John Candelaria), Joaquin Benoit of the DR posted the most saves (2) and Fernando Valenzuela of Mexico led all pitchers with 17 strikeouts.

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@DSchulz Try now.

@Bruce66

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Looks like it could be a bug. Can you please forward the play by play to support@apbago.com?

Thanks,
Jeremy

@pwdparis-yahoo-com I’ll let people know this is still coming up and see where we get to.

Thank you,
Jeremy

@dbacknate I always say no to the Mets making the playoffs. It is the safe bet.

@BogotaBrave Yikes…

That is an excellent question, that I counter with something tangential and mostly unrelated. Look! The dice rolls from six ‘games’ based on your criteria. There are some wide swings, relatively speaking, with some results getting hit 6 times in a game. But it’s never the same… 36, 12, 61. Sixty-six gets a lot of hits, except game 4, where it’s a bad day to need a home run I guess.

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To try and provide some color data for your question, let me show some results for 10x rolls:

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A decade or so back I wrote an application that simulated our big country-wide lottery (not as big as powerball, say, but I always thought it would be nice to win ;) ), and I had a bunch of work acquaintances try it. There were (relatively) quite a few free tickets, $2 wins, a fair number of $5s and a good amount of $20s but things tapered off quickly. And no one won the ‘easiest’ $20,000 prize - even me, who macroed my own app to play it hundreds of times trying to win it. People thought I rigged it. :)

Numbers are mean.

Jeremy

@Isotopecrunch not surprised. There are some monster cards in that season. Have fun. If ya need a partner to roll some of those tedious games gimme a shout I’d be willing

Ah Puig, you contentious Free Agent, you.

Looks like we’re down to a two-way tie for first, and I have to bust out the tie breaker… who was the closest contract prediction for Gerrit Cole?

MikeW - 7 years, 217 million
pararamids - 3 years, 54 million

Actual: 9 years, $324 million

That makes MikeW the 2020 FA Contest Winner!

Congratulations, MikeW!

MikeW wins 20,000 credits for his GO account, and a set of 2019 season cards.

Please send me an email at jeremy@apbago.com with your shipping address at your earliest convenience, and we’ll get them out to you as soon as we can.

The rest of you have received your credits in your GO account.

Thank you everyone for participating, it was another fun (and very difficult) contest! See you next year!

Well, I know I am severely behind in keeping this thread up-to-date, but life is busy. We have completed the 2010 season, and also expanded our league to compete in both directions. We call it LABL Retro. Since we launched on Apba GO with the 2002 season, we started the retro version with 8 interested managers and will be working seasons in reverse. Since my last posting here, we have completed the 2001 and 2000 seasons. The 1999 season expanded to 12 managers with that season just getting ready for the playoffs! After 1998, we would like to get to 16 managers and we are looking for 1-2 of you to be a part of this fun!

Please keep in mind that we want our newest expansion managers to be as competitive as possible sooner than later. We think our plan is a good one to ensure that possibility. If interested, please respond to this ad below asap.

**The LABL is a unique league that works in both directions.

Currently, the league is in the middle of the 2011 season with 16 managers. This end of the league moves forward likes most leagues.

However, it also runs in the opposite direction with 12 managers currently in the 1999 season. This league is called LABL Retro and we are looking for 2 new managers to expand to 16 by the 1997 season.

This is a laid back league with a great group of managers. Seasons generally run 4-5 months max with an 86 game schedule. With Apba GO taking care of the stats, it is a great way to simply play the basic game with your own roster management and meet a lot of great community people.

If interested in our drafting website and other league details, reach out to Commissioner Ken at schulzka02@yahoo.com for more information.**

Hi Jeremy - still missing arm and steal rating?

Thanks for the info.

@TSBL Tuesday :P

ERA Leaders:

R. Ames (NY) 0.69 (none unearned)
J. Taylor (CHI) 0.78 (8 unearned of 10)
R. Collins (BOS) 0.86 (2 unearned of 5)
W. Johnson (WAS) 0.93 (3 unearned of 9)
J.Pfister (CHI) 1.13 (4 unearned of 9)

Wins
J. Coombs (PHI) 5-1
J. Wood (BOS) 5-1
M. Brown (CHI) 4-0
J. Pfiester (CHI) 4-1
W. JOhnson (WAS) 4-2

@mlbkdog Hi and welcome. The best way to report issues is to file support tickets. Each submission is logged in our internal system, prioritized every two weeks, and assigned to devs. This is the best and most efficient way to report problems. Problems reported outside this system are addressed, but put more administration load on the team. The support form can be found here: https://baseball.apbago.com/support

Also, thank you!

The upgrade shows when the pitcher is on the mound not on his card.

Hi!
There seems to be some strange behavior in the master game on base advancement anytime the calculation comes out over 36. I “believe” the calculation should be: Hit Value - Arm Rating + Runner Speed. I don’t have the boards, but as there are 36 combinations on 2 dice I assume 1-36 is the ‘roll’ range. So here’s an example

2 OUTS ; CONCEPCION on 2nd. Ken GRIFFEY SINGLES to right:
Result: SINGLE to right: 42 *52/44 *54/46 *56; RF (1B-SS) C (PL-to left: 46 *56/48 *58/50 *60; LF (3B-2B) C) SAC: Batter out; A-1B PO-2B†
Sub-Result: game-cso-2

I assume game-cso-2 is a roll of 2 so first group = Hit Value of 52. Right Fielders Arm is 33 and Runner Speed is 18 = 52-33+18 = 37. This is what the advancement dialogue told me and gives a percentage of 99.00% (Actually should be 37/36 = 102.78%…automatic). But the play by play says:
The defense throws to catch out Dave CONCEPCION
A 5 is rolled against Dave CONCEPCION’s 1
The 1 is 36 less than the calculation and is 2.78% instead of 102.78%
I have seen many examples of this and it’s always when the calculation is OVER 36 it seem to roll against that number - 36.

I had some screenshots, but can’t seem to copy them here. Anyone else notice this? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!!!

@sstein lol!

I like how you think!

Jeremy

thanks for the update J

So does anyone know what John said at the convention regarding GO?

@apba-go-jeremy I’d put a strong request in for less than 25 players per team, like 11. For example, I still can’t play 1883 which has never been fixed because the roster sizes are too small. Sigh.