Baseball Simulator » Back to the 80′s

Secret draft results page revealed

Bill — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:18:59 +0000

One day I was reading the source page of the Front Office page for my Stratomatic Online League. I don’t remember why I was viewing the HTML source in the first place but I discovered a URL link that was commented. I haven’t checked to see if this link is still viewable but it was only visible after waivers and disappeared when the league started. This URL is http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/draft/draft_results.html. This page shows a list of all players that were requested by multiple teams. The results also show which team landed the player and substitutes that were given to the other teams that requested the same player.

Here are the draft results from my current league. Six teams, including my team (Timlins), went after Brian Shouse. Edinson Volquez was another popular choice with four requests. Surprisingly, only two managers, including myself, tried to land Manny Ramirez!

Results from one of my Back to the 80′s league:
Chris Bando – 5 requests
Tim Burke – 6 requests
Robin Yount – 5 requests

I suppose one of the reasons why SportingNews decided to leave this page out was to prevent managers from learning the draft patterns used by the system. The draft order is random so I don’t think anyone would gain much of an advantage with this information. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to analyze.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, SportingNews had to shut the page down due to some complaints.

Back to the 80′s hack for L/R splits

Bill — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:28:08 +0000

Let’s say you’re browsing the daily transactions in your Back to the 80′s league and notice someone dropped Robin Yount. You’d like to view his L/R splits stats to help determine what year his card might fall under. Unfortunately, when a player becomes a free agent, the L/R splits are no longer accessible for that player. Now with, Strat-O-Matic View Yesterday’s Splits, you can access some L/R split stats.

When today’s game results are processed, go to your team page and click the Save Splits link. This will store the lefty/righty splits for each team in the league. The next time you are browsing the daily transactions and notice that a player was dropped, go to your team page and click on the Load Splits link to bring up splits that were saved before the transaction occurred.

Download:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12238

Tips on finding your mystery card

Bill — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:20:48 +0000

Stratomatic Baseball: Back to the 80′s features a Mystery Card component where each player get’s one card out of 5 possible pre-selected years. You never find out which card you get until the end of the season. There are some ways to figure out which card you have during the season:

Injuries

1. If a batter is injured, review the play by play. Make a note of the play and the handedness of the pitcher. Let’s say the batter was injured by a HBP and he was facing a left-handed pitcher. Review each year of your batter card to check to see what years have a HBP + injury against left-handed pitchers.

2. In a DH league, pitchers can only get injured while they are facing an opposing DH. The injury would occur if the roll is 6-12. Look at your pitcher’s card for the hand of the batter he faces and see if the 6-12 result matches the play by play results. This may help eliminate cards and narrow down what season you may have.

3. Take note of a player’s number of injured games. If card has more than 600 plate appearances a player can’t get injured more than three games.

Lefty/Righty splits

1. Everything is about ratios. Compare a batter’s splits on baseball-reference.

2. Study K/BB ratios for hitters and pitchers.