Game Overview: MLB PP 2k8 The Alaska Yetis

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Maybe not the most interesting edition of GO for you readers, but I’ve finally completed my MLB PP team and played quite a few games as them. As of right now, I’m not doing so hot, with a 6-9 win/loss record to make the Alaska Yetis look bad sitting five games back in the NL East (behind the Braves, Phillies, Mets, and Marlins (in that order), but ahead of the Nationals). Why NL East when Alaska is clearly a western state? I love the NL East and that’s where I recognize the most players, so that’s where I wanted to play. I shuffled the Pittsburgh Pirates out to AL Central and added another expansion team, the Hawaii Samurai, to balance out my expansion team.

As for why I’m not doing so well, I’m still sort of ironing out the difficulty level. With the hitting too hard, I can’t score any runs, but I also don’t want my players to be able to hit home runs every at bat. Getting pretty close to finding that proper balance.

My roster looks something like this (last names left off for privacy reasons, but repeated first names do not imply that they are the same person):

Pitchiing
Starters:

David
Colin
Min
Josh
Varun

Relievers:

Will
Mike
Simon
Eric
Dean
James

Closer:

Gordon

Fielders

C – Dan (me)
1B – Eric
2B – Dan
SS – Ian
3B – James
LF – Cu
CF – Lee
RF – Phil

Bench

Arjun
Dan
Ben
Robin
Darek

So, after 15 games, let’s check out who’s doing best on the team compared to the best in the league:

Batting

Batting Average

Cu: .526

BEST: .526 Cu (Yetis)

Home Runs

Dan: 9

BEST: 9 Dan (me) (Yetis)

RBIs

Dan: 19

BEST: 21 Alou (Mets) / Jacobs (Marlins)

Stolen Bases

Phil: 9

BEST: 9 Phil (Yetis)

Pitching

ERA

Dave: 5.68 with 19 innings pitched (Starter)
Will: 3.18 with 5.2 innings pitched (Reliever)
Gordon: 3.18 with 5.2 innings pitched (Closer)

BEST: 0.75 Lohse (Cardinals)

Wins

Dean/James: 2 (Relievers)
Josh/Varun: 1 (Starters)

BEST: 3 Nolasco (Marlins) / A. Miller (Marlins)

Saves

Gordon: 4

BEST: 5 Fuentes (Rockies)

Strikeouts

Dave: 14

BEST: 24 Smoltz (Braves) / Sheets (Brewers) / Paulino (renamed player not in MLBPA) (Reds)

Here are the team stats as a whole, with which place in the league in parens:

Pitching

ERA: 6.68 (6/6)
Runs (scored on): 104 (6/6)
Hits: 251 (6/6 by like 100)
Home Runs: 20 (2/6)
Strikeouts: 55 (6/6)
Walks: 3 (1/6)

Batting

Batting Average: .343 (1/6)
Runs: 80 (4/6)
Hits: 188 (2/6)
Home Runs: 30 (1/6)
Sacrifice Hits + Sacrifice Flies: 0 (6/6)
Stolen Bases: 12 (3/6

I’m definitely enjoying the game so far though! Hopefully the Yetis can slowly move up the standings in the east to keep from looking like they were a mistake to establish.

100th post! YAY!