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Franchise Power Points: 81.5
Cumulative Record: 550-584
Playoff Achievements: Wild Card Berth (S1, S7); Division Title (S2, S3); Division Championship Winner (S1, S2, S3 & S7); League Championship Winner (S1, S3 & S7); World Series Champion (S1, S7)
Best Season Record: Seasons 2, 7 (97-65)
Worst Season Record: Season 6 (48-114)
Franchise History- The San Juan warlords are the proof in Glavine300 that there are many ways to skin a cat. They came in as the #2 overall ranked team but have an overall losing record of 550-584. Jwinner is one of the original owners in Glavine300 and started out strong. In Season 1his team went 93-69 to claim a Wild Card berth and made it all the way to the World Series, defeating the Memphis Mancs, 4 games to 2. In Season 2 they were back at it again but were knocked out of the ALCS by the Las Vegas Dealers. Season 3 saw another playoff run, the Warlords went 96-66 and went to the World Series for a second time, but were defeated by the Arizona Dust Devils. At this point, the tides turned for the Warlords. They had let a lot of players leave for free agency and things just went south. The next three seasons they went 52-110, 67-95 and a pathetic 48-114 respectively. Rumors swirled in the GSPN offices that San Juan was tanking their team in order to get top tier draft picks. Either way, in Season 7 they caught on fire again, winning 97 games and taking their second World Series. (The writers at GSPN also think it noteworthy that since the start of these articles, the Warlords have also won the Season 8 World Series.)
Franchise Outlook- The Warlords are a powerhouse franchise. They have big bats and stellar pitching and it looks as though they will be the team to beat in Glavine300 for the next several years. The pitching staff is headed up perennial Cy Young winner Danny Cummings. There are also some young studs on that staff too including Wayne McCartney and Miguel Castro. The Warlords also have a stellar hitting lineup led by Kirk Dwyer, Shigetoshi Wang, Rolando Diaz and Wilfredo Johnson. Basically, this team is full of studs…and a lot of them are studs that get paid the league minimum. It won’t be until the majority of this team starts making money and jwinner tanks his team again that this squad might be disassembled. When that time comes, maybe someone else in this league will have a chance at winning.
Going to bury this in the comment section, because I don't want to get into a worldwide pissing match about it, but I haven't come anywhere close to tanking in my time in this league. The part that really bothers me is that you suggest that I'll tank again in the future when the time is right. Tanking is illegal. I haven't come anywhere close to tanking by WIS's definitions. I have never once tried to lose a single game. Not once. To the best of my knowledge, I have never pitched someone at 0(0), played anyone out of position, played anyone worse than what amounts to a AAAA player in the big leagues, or even sent out starting pitcher with lower splits than ~ 50,50.
ReplyDeleteAfter season 2, I thought that my guys were getting too old to be competitive. I let almost everyone go to free agency. What a tanker I was! Well guess what, I signed some veteran stopgaps, guys overachieved, and I still made it to the world series in season 3. In hindsight, it was the best thing I could have done to let everyone go after season 2, because they were still just good enough to get something in return for, which wouldn't have happened the following season. Then season 4 comes around. The best players of my franchise are in the lower minor leagues. So that is what I concentrate on, and I go about trying to build players around those guys. Season 4, my team underachieved significantly. I won 52 games while going 8-23 in 1 run games. By expected W-L, I should have won 58 games. Is that tanking? In season 5, I won 67 games. I signed Scott Hoffman as a Free Agent for $5 million. Is that tanking?
To season 6. This is the only season that you could even begin to make any kind of argument for. In season 6, I had 6 core players that you can build a team around that were ML or ML-ready, and several others that needed another year in the minors. Of the 6, 1 was in the ML, 2 were in AAA, and 3 were still in AA or lower. I went back and forth forever trying to decide whether to promote my good players. I actually decided to promote those guys and try to make a run at about 87 wins (which was about the ceiling in my mind). I even made a comment about it in the chat. But a few things happened. That was the season that they just started the advanced mode for GM options where you only have to click it once for the player. Well, before spring training started, I clicked the wrong button and accidentally just flat out released Pat Springer, who was a very good 2B. At almost the same time, I lost out on the top FA that I had targeted and was leading the entire way for in the very last signing cycle. Then, I had one of my young pitchers get injured. So I went from an expected 7 key players to 4 key players very quickly. Of those 4, three of them would have had to make the jump from AA, which I don't like to do because it can hinder ratings growth. So I chose to move those 3 to AAA, under their normal progression and I let the other guy play a 2nd season at AAA so as not to start his clock with a terrible team. At that point, my ML team was horrible because I had been planning on other people at 7 positions. I signed a couple of late FA's during spring training, and made due with what I had. I went 11-28 in one run games and won 48 games on the season.
If anyone still thinks I tanked then so be it. I don't see it.