my answer for todays bottom right square had the highest % i've ever seen on this game: 80% of people went with this answer.
Greg Maddux of course
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9/9, rarity score 120. This one was a lot easier for somebody whose baseball brain is stuck in the 70's. Annoying but not surprising that the most popular answer for Yankee/300 game winner is Clemens
I have discovered a few times now the hard way that you really need to be careful that you're putting the answer in the right square. Really nice job BTW on going with The Boomer for the KC/NYY square; I think he spent like two weeks in NY. I was pleased with my Balboni pick but that one is much better.
My first immaculate grid also! As soon as I typed in one of my answers, I immediately knew I put it in the wrong spot...
Luckily I pulled Carlton out of my ass (I was between him and Smoltz after putting Maddux in the bottom left). I struggled on the Dodgers GG square for a while, then just guessed a 90s outfielder who I knew won some hardware and Mondesi was good enough!
The two team ones are killing me. Especially when there's a team that didn't exist during the 80s.
Got my first 8/9 but I’m salty that I guessed Maris for KC/MFY… dude was on the KC Athletics. D’oh. This should have been my first nine (although I would have struggled with KC/Atlanta)
This one was probably the easiest I've tried. Picked the common 300 game winners but found some pretty rare ones for the rest.
7/9 today
Tried to get too cute with the Braves/Royals one (Rafael Ramirez) and the KC GG one (Freddie Patek)
Tried to get too cute with the Braves/Royals one (Rafael Ramirez) and the KC GG one (Freddie Patek)
Yeah, you do. I tried in in another browser and it gave it to me. Thank you, he was my favorite player growing up. I hated to see him in pinstripes.
I am enjoying this game except for one thing: I am terrible at team logos. I've flamed out a couple of times simply because I had the wrong team in mind
Agreed. And I see that a few people went with Brett for GG as we did. I went and checked and he only won 1 in 20 seasons. 1985.
Top left took me forever. Others filled in rather quickly. Nothing earth shattering here. Happy to complete the grid.
They count franchises. So, for example, the Boston Braves, Milwuakee Braves, and Atlanta Braves, are one and the same. So, while a team may not have existed by the exact name in the 80's, a preceding franchise within the same lineage did.
That did me in a couple of time too, especially if the logo changed over time.
I was so annoyed at myself when I put him down for the
Atlanta 300-game winner
I guess today was name the most obvious choice day since I got six of the nine most popular choices (and could have easily gotten a 7th if I was trying for it). Did manage a 0.3% pick though.
Second immaculate grid. I eschewed the obvious 200+ hit season for the Reds and went with a player I really liked growing up, Had to really scratch my head for the 200+ hits for the A's. I was going to go with Ricky Henderson but couldn't pull the trigger. Then it came to me.
Rarity score of 40. I was particularly happy with my Bill Almon pick.
Rarity score of 40. I was particularly happy with my Bill Almon pick.
well we have a new champion today. 95% of the picks for the Reds 200+ hits went to one guy.
After I've taken my 9 guesses, I'll Google the season/team criteria just to see all the guys that fit.
That's how you learn that
That's how you learn that
Al Bumbry had a 200 hit season for the Orioles but Eddie Murray never did
There were at least 2 who could have been used twice if the rules had allowed Miguel Tejada and Dick Allen, the latter being one of my favorite players back in the day.
Nice picture of Darren Bragg. But I'm going to need to remember him. He played for a lot of teams. Great score.
Nice job @Red(s)HawksFan and @SoxJox! Not a good day for me.
Nice job @Red(s)HawksFan and @SoxJox! Not a good day for me.
6/9, horrible job today. I wasted 2 guesses on the A's 200 hits on Rickey and Eddie Collins, although at least I knew then to use Collins on Chisox/A's. And I should have gone with my instincts and used John Denny for Reds/Cards (apologies...just edited to add another inline spoiler)
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Is your Reds/Cards pick the lowest rarity score recorded? I was pleased with my .02% up thread. Another poster got .01% today. But yeesh, that’s a small number.
That's because those Orioles eventually became the Dodgers and would be counted in that franchise. The current Orioles started as the St. Louis Browns, so George Sisler counted for me. Sadly, that was only one of 5 I got today, as I got too cute with a few trying to get a lower rarity score.
That isn't true; the history of the Dodgers goes back to the 1884 American Association, they joined the national league as the Brooklyn Bridegrooms in 1890. The Keeler-era Baltimore Orioles competed from 1882 to 1899 in the American Association and later the National League, but were contracted after the 1899 season.
Two years later, a new Baltimore Orioles team was established in the new American League, but they folded after two seasons. They were replaced in the league by the New York Highlanders, who would become the Yankees in 1913. Sometimes the Keeler-era Orioles are counted as being part of the New York Yankees history, but that is incorrect as well since they were two different teams. As far as I can tell, through the parameters of Immaculate Grid, Keeler could never be an answer, at least for anything team-related, at least for his peak, which was on the old Orioles.
Edit: Looking at this further, this is probably complicated further by the fact that Keeler played for the Dodgers and the New York Highlanders after the original Orioles folded.
FWIW, B-R traces the Keeler O's to the modern O's when you click on the Franchise page. It also traces the St Louis Browns to the modern O's.
They do?
I see two separate pages: Keeler's O's (1882-1899) and the current franchise (born as the Milwaukee Brewers in 1901, moving to St Louis as the Browns from 1902-1953, in Baltimore as the Orioles since).
Not a PB, as I've had a .00007 before with Joey Devine for A's/Braves. Not at all sure what the record low is but it's probably someone Googling like one game appearances for both teams or similar and getting .00001.
But are there other people who are also doing that? There is an art for picking the lowest player possible at this point, with other people attempting to find the lowest common player.
I really really suck at this game since I stopped watching most regular season baseball about 10 years ago but I had some fun ones today
Rarity score: 11. I'll probably never top this. I challenged myseld to put Sox in every square, and came up with 7/9.
Edited to add: Giving myself partial credit for Burnitz, who played in the 1999 All Star Game at Fenway
Edited to add: Giving myself partial credit for Burnitz, who played in the 1999 All Star Game at Fenway
Bad job by me, 7/9. Mostly embarrassed that I screwed up the Sox 40-save square Went with Soup Campbell and Foulke
9/9 but only a 243 rarity.
I had a few second-guesses that would have salvaged a better score, but I wasn't too confident.
Shocked that K-Rod was only 5% for the 40 saves.
I had a few second-guesses that would have salvaged a better score, but I wasn't too confident.
Shocked that K-Rod was only 5% for the 40 saves.
The number of eligible players is surprisingly low. I looked it up on Baseball Almanac afterwards, and I was surprised that I had forgotten about Ugeth U. Urbina, who might have also qualified for the Sox/Marlins square. Reardon was closer just before I started to follow the Sox.