In our first year - and my own first in roto-ball - I drafted a so-so team, including Jack McDowell, Juan Gonzalez, Jose Canseco, Mo Vaughn, Tim Raines, Dennis Eckersley, Mike Stanley and Chili Davis. Some of these picks worked out very well, as Stanley had his breakthrough year and Davis started a string of years in which he was an outstanding DH. Other picks fared less well, as Canseco hurt his arm in his infamous pitching escapade, and Charlie Leibrandt's arm finally fell off.
However, I had some phenomenal luck, primarily in making several trades. I started with trading Todd Stottlemyre for Kirk Gibson, and then came the big one: I was able to trade Canseco, Leibrandt, Gonzalez, Eckersley, and several other players for Rafael Palmeiro, Kevin Appier, Lance Johnson and Ben
McDonald, all of whom went on to have career years.
Eventually, it turned out that I won the league, and got to have a six-pack of icky Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink poured over me. Oh, and I took my winnings and bought myself a modem.
Here's what the final stats looked like:
PLACE TEAM SCORE
1 Hot Rawds 80.5
2 Street Pizzas 71.0
3 Hope Diamonds 69.5
4 Craven's Littl 68.5
5 Cracklin' Macl 67.5
6 Opitz Not a Ro 67.0
7 Peeping Weazle 43.0
8 Rut & Lut's Ma 37.0
9 Sweet Tomcats 33.0
10 Seattle Pilots 13.0
TEAM AVG AB H R HR RBI SB
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Street Pizzas 0.272 6516 1770 928 184 839 186
Sweet Tomcats 0.270 6406 1731 967 151 795 139
Opitz Not a Ro 0.272 7030 1913 937 199 880 93
Craven's Littl 0.270 7198 1946 1019 230 998 168
Cracklin' Macl 0.269 6931 1864 1004 235 1024 139
Hot Rawds 0.278 6786 1888 1004 225 983 155
Hope Diamonds 0.274 6581 1801 985 168 794 175
Rut & Lut's Ma 0.269 5566 1499 770 198 794 81
Peeping Weazle 0.264 6297 1665 837 153 877 143
Seattle Pilots 0.258 3453 890 404 49 373 46
TEAM AVG R HR RBI SB TOT
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Street Pizzas 7.0 4.0 5.0 5.0 10.0 31.0
Sweet Tomcats 5.0 6.0 2.0 4.0 4.5 21.5
Opitz Not a Ro 8.0 5.0 7.0 7.0 3.0 30.0
Craven's Littl 6.0 10.0 9.0 9.0 8.0 42.0
Cracklin' Macl 3.0 8.5 10.0 10.0 4.5 36.0
Hot Rawds 10.0 8.5 8.0 8.0 7.0 41.5
Hope Diamonds 9.0 7.0 4.0 2.5 9.0 31.5
Rut & Lut's Ma 4.0 2.0 6.0 2.5 2.0 16.5
Peeping Weazle 2.0 3.0 3.0 6.0 6.0 20.0
Seattle Pilots 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 5.0
Peeping Weazle 7.0 4.0 4.0 5.0 3.0 23.0
Seattle Pilots 2.0 1.0 3.0 1.0 1.0 8.0
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