We got a bunch of people from ESPN, MLB Network, Elias Sports Bureau, etc., to rank their top 20 teams of all time. From their, we combined all the lists, and took the top 12 teams, and we're adding 4 more from the fan vote (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/16in16), to put on a 16 team tournament using OOTP 17's new Historical Exhibition Mode to determine the greatest baseball team of all time.

They actually only named 12 so far, with a vote for the final 4 to be added. The 12 teams selected are:

12. 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates
11. 2001 Seattle Mariners
10. 1906 Chicago Cubs
09. 1984 Detroit Tigers
08. 1970 Baltimore Orioles
07. 1986 New York Mets
06. 1961 New York Yankees
05. 1929 Philadelphia Athletics
04. 1975 Cincinnati Reds
03. 1939 New York Yankees
02. 1998 New York Yankees
01. 1927 New York Yankees

And you can vote for the final 4 seeds out of 14 choices by following this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/16in16

> What's real or not real anyway? Perhaps all of us all exist in the mind of some superbeing who is only simulating our minds in order to get an extremely accurate ticket sales of their baseball team.

If you're willing to slog through a bad book to learn how deep this rabbit hole could conceivably go...I recommend The Universal Baseball Association, J.Henry Waugh, Prop. as a casual read.

> When I was young, the Internet didn’t exist. I created a baseball game with a friend that used a random number from my Commodore 64 to roll numbers between 1 and 1000 to determine the outcomes of every pitch.

In that case, you're older than me. Old enough, in fact, to appreciate this book:The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.

I also invented an RNG-based baseball game in my youth. Instead of dice or computers, I used 3 pennies and a nickel to determine batting outcomes.

I found it. It's from the book, The Drunkard's Walk. It's a 269-game series. Here's a link to the book. It's one of the best books I've ever read. Definitely a big recommend, especially to fellow stats nerds.

skimmed through the stream from last night

12- 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates

11- 2001 Seattle Mariners

10- 1906 Chicago Cubs

9- 1984 Detroit Tigers

8- 1970 Baltimore Orioles

7- 1986 New York Mets

6- 1961 New York Yankees

5- 1929 Philadelphia Athletics

4- 1975 Cincinnati Reds

3- 1939 New York Yankees

2- 1998 New York Yankees

1- 1927 New York Yankees

and here's the survey to vote for the final four

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/16in16

Prospect

* I traded him to Oakland for the #1 prospect in baseball who was MLB ready and in a position of need

I simulated from 2018 to the conclusion of the 2040 season! in the episode, i go over the general outcomes that baseball has had in the 22 years I simulated. Now, I look to continue as the GM of one of three franchises: Tampa Bay, Milwaukee, and Montreal (as an expansion team)

Here is the strawpoll link to help vote for who you would want to see: https://www.strawpoll.me/15440293/r

If you vote other, please comment back on this thread OR on my Video!

This reminds me of <em>The Only Rule is it has to Work</em>. Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller (of Effectively Wild fame) acted as GMs of an independent league team and the main problem they ran into in the second half of the season was that a bunch of the good players they scouted out ended up getting bought out by big league orgs.

Working a double today (security for a college, 8am to 1am)

Now that Cologne is over for Counter-strike, I have nothing better to do, so I logged into ProXPN on my nexus 7 tablet (had to, TeamViewer ports are apparently blocked) and launched teamviewer. It works well, a little slow obviously, but with ootp it works fine.

I'm a big fan of Three Nights in August: Strategy, Heartbreak, and Joy Inside the Mind of a Manager by Buzz Bissinger, the guy that wrote Friday Night Lights.

"Three Nights in August captures the strategic and emotional complexities of baseball's quintessential form, the three-game series. As the St. Louis Cardinals battle their archrival Chicago Cubs, we watch from the dugout through the eyes of legendary manager Tony La Russa, considered by many to be the shrewdest mind in the game today."

Audible Link - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BDC8N8?tag=thats0d-20