He won it loads of times, including 2010 for Texas.
9/9 today for the first time in a while. Unimpressive rarity score at 191 but I wasn’t taking any chances with my run of luck lately.
9/9 I went with the first names I thought of so I had a high rarity score of 312.
Never seen this number before
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I routinely get that (and similar) from some of the old scrubs from the memory of my 50’s/60’s era baseball card collection – the collection itself was jettisoned by a “helpful” parent during my freshman year at college.
I had a real nice baseball card collection with almost every card Topps issued from 64-71. I also had a great comic book collection that included every Amazing Spider-Man from the original through issue 113. All were ruined in a basement flood - circa 1978. I quit collecting both cards and comic books in the 10th grade because I was made fun of and embarrassed by one of the cool guys at school. Years later I realized that guy wasn’t cool, he was just a bully and that damn flood cost me a small fortune. Copies of that Amazing Spider-Man #1 have sold for over $300,000.00.
8/9 today. Lost a pick because I just assumed Frank Robinson had 3,000 hits. Turns out he “only” had 2,943.
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9/9 with a rarity score of 66…Used four HOFers. Lowest was John “Tonight Let It Be” Lowenstein at 0.2%
9/9 with a 189 rarity score. 88% of that was Rickey Henderson.
I used Henderson and Jeter and still was pretty low.
Well, the other options are from WW1 era
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Even Ty Cobb was 5%
In another grid game a NYY/Oak Reggie Jackson yielded 6.2%.
Recency bias is real, yo.
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I think there was one with 500+ home runs and Babe Ruth was like 0.9%
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9/9 today with a 71 rarity score. Used as many ex Astros as I could. Got to work in Blummer, Dierker and Craig Shipley.
9/9 today. I got Roberto Petagine, Tripp Cromer, Joe Niekro, and Geoff Blum (Sox and Padre). Also remembered to use Eddie Cicotte and John Candelaria for my other 20 game winners. I added trying to remember who guys were traded for to my strategy. I thought of Ricky Gutierrez and Derek Bell almost instantly so I thought of who else was involved in that trade and I went with Petagine.
I went with Candelaria too, and was surprised at how high he was on the list. And I thought of that exact same Astros/Padres trade. I thought about trying to go all ex-Astros across the board, but couldn’t think of an ex Astro 20 game winner for the White Sox.
Used Phil Nevin for the Astros Padres, he was a 2%er
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I’m just upset I didn’t think to use Pud Galvan.
Just noticed this, guess it was rolled out a few weeks ago.
So they are saying for an Astros .300 hitter grid, I can use John Hudek who batted 1.000 for the season in 1995. 1/1, which was a bases loaded single to drive in James Mouton and Jeff Bagwell vs the Expos.
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The other day at the dog park I got into a bit of a row with a permanently butt-hurt dodger fan over the usual delusional dodger fan bullshit regarding the Astros defeat of the dodgers in 2017. Anyway, the conversation turned to the 1919 White Sox and Eight Men Out and the fact that Eddie Cicotte won 28 games that year.