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Post by glasspoet on Dec 5, 2014 18:37:10 GMT -5
TopPro was so greatly successful, I decided to "spin off" a sister-league that did not have such a steep Entry Fee. This remains to this day, the league with the Highest Pay Out per Entry Fee I have ever seen. The stats are a wee bit different than TopPro. The league was originally named TopProJr..
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 5, 2014 19:41:59 GMT -5
2010 -- The league started with small roots -- we had 10 teams, with a 6 team Playoffs.
Regular Season Finish: 1. Los Gigantes 2. Glassbreakers (Commish) 3. Score Lords 4. City of Champions 5. Restore the Roar 6. NY Ninjacats 7. Grand Slam Vet 8. The Comeback Kids 9. Brewers 10. Dark Side
Championship Playoffs Finish: 1. Score Lords 2. Restore the Roar 3. Los Gigantes 4. Glassbreakers 5. City of Champions 6. NY Ninjacats
That is NOT to say the league was as Competitive the 1st year as its become to be famous for! The high win% was barely .550 and the lowest team (that played the whole year) was .469!! It was TRULY Competitive! Score Lords winning the inaugural season wasn't recognized then for What Was to Come! We should have seen the signs!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 5, 2014 20:49:17 GMT -5
2011 -- The league expanded QUICKLY to 18 teams, but kept the 6 team Playoffs. I didn't quite realize it back then -- but this league was FILLED with the Who's Who of GST!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Dtownsluggers 2. Glassbreakers (Commish) 3. GAP Pale Hose 4. City of Champions 5. Tiger Blood 6. Score Lords 7. Shawshank Redempton 8. Long Island 9. Revolver 2011 10. NY Deathstare 11. Queenz Kard Sharks 12. NY Ninjacats 13. WS Champs 14. Felix My Nut Sack 15. Fantasy Guru 16. Cabrera's Cab Company 17. X 18. Porcelain Monkeys
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Tiger Blood 2. Score Lords 3. Dtownsluggers 4. Glassbreakers 5. GAP Pale Hose 6. City of Champions
For some reason this league this year maintains some of my Strongest Memories. That is because it was BRUTAL! So MANY teams would claim the Top Spot of the 3 Divisions at one time or another. Teams rose and faded severely! It was Dtownsluggers Finest Moment to date! He was ferocious! Sadly, like real MLB, winning the Regular Season in a Winner-Take-All league means NOTHING -- its ALL ABOUT THE PLAYOFFS! Tiger Blood rolled through City of Champions, Dtownsluggers, culminating with a Hard-Fought win over Score Lords. JESUS CHRIST! Not many teams can claim THAT performance! Because this league was still considered a PremiumPro league, Tiger Blood got his first taste of the Tournament of Champions (the league is STILL the Alternate League to the Tournament of Champions). His drive to return eventually prompted him to expand into the Upper Leagues and in the process take his place as a Full Blown GST Regular!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 5, 2014 21:08:16 GMT -5
2012 -- This league, with the large expansion and rearrangement of GST, lost its PremiumPro status and had its named changed to Top Dog. A new feature was installed where each week the Biggest Winner would be awarded a Top Dog Award, a 2% discount next year for EACH Top Dog. We had ANOTHER All-Star field this year again!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Score Lords 2. Big Stick 3. Honey Nut Ichiros 4. City of Champions 5. NY Deathstare 6. Tricky Tee 7. GAP Pale Hose 8. Queen Kard Sharks 9. X 10. Glassbreakers (Commish) 11. Tiger Blood 12. Long Island 13. Langley Knights 14. Dtownsluggers 15. Bayside Tigers 16. Icewater 24/7 17. Heilman's Mayonnaise 18. Macon Whoopies
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Score Lords 2. Big Stick 3. Tricky Tee 4. NY Deathstare 5. Honey Nut Ichiros 6. City of Champions
Long before Score Lords started DOMINATING GST, he DOMINATED this league! He became a 2-Time League Champion, this time pulling off the Deadly Double (Regular Season + Playoffs)!! And he did it with a Classic Finals Win over his buddy and main competitor!!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 5, 2014 21:35:01 GMT -5
2013 --- The league expanded to 20 teams! This caused the GST Minimum Rosters to be enforced. 20 teams playing for 6 Playoff Spots, it wasn't getting ANY easier in here!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Big Stick 2. Score Lords 3. Shang Hai Grand 4. 1992 Atlanta Braves 5. Glassbreakers (Commish) 6. Bayside Tigers 7. 4 Wheeled Wonder 8. GAP in my Pale Hose 9. Long Island 10 DC Cubs 11. NY Deathstare 12. Tricky Tee 13. Moon Dog 14. Langley Knights 15. Dtownsluggers 16. Big Red Machince 17. Cards Will Be Great 18. X 19. Drunken Irish 20. Boston Strong
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. 1992 Atlanta Braves 2. Shang Hai Grand 3. Score Lords 4. Big Stick 5. Bayside Tigers 6. Glassbreakers
This was the year of Big Stick's Big Revenge! He DOMINATED this league like it has never been dominated in the Regular Season! In fact not many GST leagues had been this DOMINATED!! Not surprisingly, he won the most TopDogs too! STILL, it was 1992 Atlanta Braves who took the Big Money Championship! This year an Alternative League was needed in the Tournament of Champions, so 1992 Atlanta Braves also got a taste of the Tournament of Champions too! He had gotten the 2nd Most Top Dogs, so he was Well Qualified!
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Post by glasspoet on Oct 28, 2015 15:44:21 GMT -5
2014 -- Once again this league was loaded for bear, both in numbers and quality GMs! The Battle for TopDog was ON!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Big Stick 2. Moon Dog 3. Score Lords 4. Bayside Tigers 5. Drunken Bastard 6. Big Red Machine 7. DC Cubs 8. Long Island Big Dogs 9. Downtownsluggers 10. Tricky Tee 11. Glassbreakers (Commish) 12. Langley Knights 13. Spin Doctors 14. 1992 Atlanta Braves 15. Drunken Irish 16. Batmen 17. Long Island 18. Boston Beards 19. 4 Wheel Wonder 20. Arrogant Bastards Too
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Big Red Machine 2. Big Stick 3. Bayside Tigers 4. Moon Dog 5. Score Lords 6. Drunken Bastaqrds
Consolation Playoff Finish: 7. DC Cubs 8. Long Island Big Dogs 9. Downtownsluggers 10. Tricky Tee 11. Glassbreakers 12. Langley Knights
The Big Boys semi-dominated this league through the season, mainly competing against themselves -- but when it came Clutch Time to Claim the TopDog Title -- it was Big Red Machine, who came out of obscurity to Beat All the Big Boys!! Couldn't have been Prouder!!
Top Win%: .575 Low Win%: .407
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Post by glasspoet on Oct 28, 2015 16:30:33 GMT -5
2015 -- I cannot speak enough of the Level of Competition this league puts together year after year. It certainly looked like another year of Cut-Throat Competition once again, where the Regular Season means nothing -- its ALL about being TopDog! Sadly I would no longer be competing in this league, as my Able Assistant Waterloo Wildcats would be taking over here.
Regular Season Finish: 1. Mr. ice 2. Big Stick 3. Score Lords 4. Spin Doctors 5. Long Island Big Dogs 6. Moon Dog 7. Big Red Machine 8. X 9. Batmen 10. Bayside Tigers 11. Downtownsluggers 12. Long Island Brawlers 13. DC Cubs 14. Drunken Bastards 15. Langley Knights 16. Wreck & Salvage 17. 1992 Atlanta Braves 18. Los Vegas Tigers 19. Waterloo Wildcats (Commish) 20. Arrogant Bastards Too
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Mr. Ice 2. Score Lords 3. Big Stick 4. Spin Doctors 5. Long Island Big Dogs 6. Moon Dog
Consolation Playoff Finish: 7. Downtownsluggers 8. Batmen 9. Big Red Machine 10. X 11. Bayside Tigers 12. Long Island Brawlers
Mr. Ice is the second Team Wonder to come out of the GST Am Ranks! It was interesting to watch him copy Fantasy Guru exactly by using his GST AAA Winnings to enter the 2 Winner Take All Leagues. Both went to the Finals in TopPro, but whereas Fantasy Guru competed well in TopDog before descending into the Lower Levels -- Mr. Ice Dominated this league like it has NEVER been Dominated (this is NOT a league that gets Dominated!)!! This league had some of the CLOSEST Playoff Competitions (Consolation Too!), and Mr. Ice was Sorely Tested -- but Won the Championship in his inaugural year! Now Fantasy Guru went on to GST's Highest Win%, before leaving, in GST History -- Mr. Ice didn't have the Sophomore Season in GST AAA that Fantasy Guru enjoyed, but it will be VERY INTERESTING where he goes from here! Hopefully he will save some of his winnings and Defend His Title!
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Post by glasspoet on Feb 25, 2017 14:52:17 GMT -5
2016 -- Sadly this league slipped back a little, fielding (only) 18 teams. Of course that included most of the Biggest Names in GST -- and WHY NOT, this league does Pay Out the BIGGEST SINGULAR PAYOUT in ALL of FMLB, let alone GST per Entry Fee!! Besides, that only means there is MORE Chance for a Weekly Top Dog Award!
Regular Season Finish: 1. DC Cubs 2. Batmen 3. Montreal Royals 4. Spin Doctors 5. Moon Dog 6. Mr. Ice 7. Big Red Machine 8. Score Lords 9. Drunk Bastards 10. Long Island Brawlers 11. Waterloo Wildcats (Commish) 12. William Trinidad 13. X 14. Bronx Bombers 15. Downtownsluggers 16. Bayside Tigers 17. Need Sum Trades 18. Sam's Team
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. DC Cubs 2. Batmen 3. Mr. Ice 4. Moon Dog 5. Spin Doctors 6. Montreal Royals
Consolation Playoff Finish: 7. Score Lords 8. Big Red Machine 9. Waterloo Wildcats 10. Drunken Bastards 11. Long Island Brawlers 12. William Trinidad
This is year DC Cubs proved all the hype! He had an Outstanding GST Season!!
High Win%: .597 Low Win%: .407
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