Immaculate Grid: Show Off Your Useless Baseball Depth Knowledge!
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Cool, congrats. They should do a grid for who used to write for both SI and Sport.
100% I’m sitting here thinking I must have low blood sugar because I can’t come up with any Marlins besides Lowell, Stanton, Renteria and Jazz fucking Chisholm.
Love the rarity score on the summary page, and I love the "Most Popular" chart... but now, how about adding a "Least Popular" chart?
I got Mike Fitzgerald on the Angels/Expos combo for 0.004%, but then I blew it trying to come up with a non Nolan Ryan answer and picked a guy who topped out at 19 wins for the Angels (I assume I don't need to spoiler that on any baseball discussion forum).
I suck at this but I got the Angels 20 game winner. Cubs and Mets were pretty easy too. The achievements are doable. The played for 2 teams questions- I stink.
9 with a rarity score of 32. This game is a reminder that I'm old, since the most facile answers for me mostly come from the 70's.
Congratulations, this was my worst showing yet.
417 rarity score. I have a lot of trouble with expansion teams.
Awesome Jess! Not shocked just a little quicker than I thought it would happen. Onward and upward!
Bottom right square today is strange. The answers add up to 66%. Does the game take into account wrong answers when calculating %?
Thought I had a very well known player for the Tigers/Phillies square. However...
The Athletics and Phillies are, in fact, two different teams
Best rarity score so far for me at 133. I think this is the first time I haven't had at least one of the most popular choices. Never mind, I do.
Really don't know where I pulled Kevin Stocker from. That was the toughest square.
Really don't know where I pulled Kevin Stocker from. That was the toughest square.
I sat there for 5 real life minutes and couldn’t pull the name, kept thinking Elijah Dukes and Natstown, but knew that wasn’t right.
I even like cheating in this, as I will commit to an answer, then look it up to see if I was right before typing it in.
The odd thing has been with the multi-team guys that I will be thinking of someone but it’s someone else immediately obvious to me on a significant year roster with them that actually played for the teams I’m thinking about.
There was a Philly/Detroit one today where I was thinking about the early 2000s Phil’s guessed the wrong guy and when I looked at that roster, immediately was like, “damnit, it was the 2b, not the OF!”
Immaculate Grid 88 9/9:
Couldn't capture image, so I have:
I admit using B-R.com looking up these players.
Couldn't capture image, so I have:
| Aquilino Lopez 0.03% | Matt Stairs 1% | Lou Whitaker 5% |
| Gregg Zaun 0.2% | Jake Diekman 1% | Jeremy Hellickson 5% |
| Jesse Barfield 0.9% | Ryan Howard 62% | Pete Alonso 22% |
| Rarity Score: 98 |
I admit using B-R.com looking up these players.
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Total wipeout today as I went from 2 immaculate grids in a row to a 5. However, I think I got ripped off on one square because it didn't give me credit for Randy Arozarena for ROY for some reason.
I'm also surprised that Al Kaline didn't win ROY and that Greg Luzinski never hit 40 dingers.
I put Whitaker in the top right and it said I was wrong. Then I saw your post and tried again and it worked. I got screwed. Must be the deep state.
Worst effort so far 7/9
I was surprised that Howard was so high (would have thought Schmidt was the obvious answer), and Morris was so low. I wonder if I'm the only one to pick Wockenfuss. For some reason I couldn't think of Arozarena and went with Wander Franco instead. And I thought I picked Piazza for 40 HR/ROY which should have been a correct answer.
I was surprised that Howard was so high (would have thought Schmidt was the obvious answer), and Morris was so low. I wonder if I'm the only one to pick Wockenfuss. For some reason I couldn't think of Arozarena and went with Wander Franco instead. And I thought I picked Piazza for 40 HR/ROY which should have been a correct answer.
7 of 9. I'm horrible at "Played for Both Teams", plus I blew a guess on bottom right...
Guessed Arod first bottom right. Then couldn't think of anyone except Ty Cobb(Wrong Philly team).
Proud of my top left percentage. Only reason I got is was because Joe Coleman was a good friend of my youth hockey coach. He came to one of our games when Toronto was in town and and signed baseballs for all of us. He also pitched in a game while they were in town. I remember watching it.
Proud of my top left percentage. Only reason I got is was because Joe Coleman was a good friend of my youth hockey coach. He came to one of our games when Toronto was in town and and signed baseballs for all of us. He also pitched in a game while they were in town. I remember watching it.
Why are the played for both teams ones so difficult? I can remember who hit 40 homers for the Blue Jays in the 80s and 90s but I can't think of a player who played for two teams. I don't get it.
Elijah Dukes is a great reference too. I spent a lot of dynasty fantasy capital on those guys, and more recently Victor Robles.
Yeah, I tried again in a different browser and it worked for me, so I probably just screwed up the input. D’oh!
Not sure how to post my grid, but 8 of 9 today as I thought Al Kaline won ROY for Detroit and had to backfill that with the Bird, leaving the center TB/Phil square unfilled (which, honestly, it probably would have been in perpetuity anyway). Best pull was a lucky Richie Hebner Det/Phil stab at .04 %.
8/9 with a big ol' gaping hole in the middle but 4 match @Deweys New Stance. Rarity Score-236
Tanyon Sturtze, was my man in the middle. I remembered Jim Thome a little too late.
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I know you'll know what to do. But that is how I'd want it explained to me. if I try any other way I confuse myself.
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I know you'll know what to do. But that is how I'd want it explained to me. if I try any other way I confuse myself.
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This game has a fatal flaw. On numerous occasions I have entered a correct answer and it says it's wrong. For example, in today's grid, 100+ RBI season for the Arizona Diamondbacks. I enter Luis Gonzalez and it says it's wrong. I mean, the guy had 5 100+ seasons with them.
Did you pick the right guy? I think three of them showed so you need to look at the years he played.
The only fatal flaw I’ve encountered is that the game keeps spitting out Diamondbacks and Rockies.
My 1st 9/9! Rarity score of 163.
I really had to dig deep for the SF/COL & I had an inkling for ARI/PIT. I'm certain this'll be my last 9/9. I knew the obscure HOU/PIT because I was very interested in the guy's career.
I really had to dig deep for the SF/COL & I had an inkling for ARI/PIT. I'm certain this'll be my last 9/9. I knew the obscure HOU/PIT because I was very interested in the guy's career.
I wonder what the oldest guy you could find for SF/PIT is
Cuz the Pirates date back to 1901 and the NYG date back to like 1880 or something.
Edit: Pirates actually go back to 1882 and predate the Giants by a year, damn
Cuz the Pirates date back to 1901 and the NYG date back to like 1880 or something.
Edit: Pirates actually go back to 1882 and predate the Giants by a year, damn
Speaking of multiple players with the same name, I was going to pick Alex Gonzalez for an answer the other day, but gave up when I couldn't remember what years the one I was thinking of played... or who the other one was. I know I knew there were two of them and I probably knew the difference in the early 2000s, but otherwise it's just like one guy who bounced around the league for 20 years as far as I can recall.
The oldest I found, thanks to Baseball Reference, is,
Alex McKinnon
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mckinal01.shtml
0.002% at Immaculate Grid
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mckinal01.shtml
0.002% at Immaculate Grid
It gets even more confusing when you start thinking, "Oh, I'm thinking of the Alex Gonzalez who played in the '03 Marlins-Cubs NLCS", until you realize that each of those teams had a shortstop named Alex Gonzalez starting for them.
This game just makes me hate myself for dumb decisions. I have my best friend playing it now, too... I hadn't done today's yet, but this afternoon he texts me that he can't think of a Rockies/Astros guy. I immediately text him back, "Well, the obvious one is that free agent pitcher the Rockies signed in the 90s who was a huge bust". He figured it out with my help and couldn't think of anyone else, so he got 9/9. I just did it and left that spot for last. I got to 8/8 and then decided I could come up with a better answer... I was convinced Eric Young Sr had a stint with the Astros, dammit.
I did something similar, but with someone I could of swore played for AZ and Pitt, trying to get cute for a better score.
8/9, 173 rarity score, couldn't get the Astro/Rockie. I agree with the sentiment upthread, can we cool it with the Diamondbacks/Rays/Rockies/Marlins already? Took me all day to come up with a DBack/Rockie.
Yep, should have said "come up with a 2nd DBack/Rockie" after I had used the first in another square.
