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Post by glasspoet on Dec 11, 2014 23:00:32 GMT -5
Who knew how this league would thrive after I had to Cancel the First Season and Refund everybody's money because I couldn't get most of the GMs to Pay their Entry Fee? I Did! I KNEW this league was Destined to be 1 of GST's Most Important Leagues!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 11, 2014 23:26:46 GMT -5
2011 -- We went with 14 Teams our (true) inaugural year, but they were some of the Biggest Names I could round up!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Black Sabathia 2. Velvet Elvis 3. Revolver 2011 4. Longball Larry 5. Astro 6. Glassbreakers (Commish) 7. City of Champions 8. Victorious Secret 9. The Master Rectum 10. Steve Kemp 11. The Blue Taxi 12. #1 13. Tiger Blood 14. Shawshank Redemption
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Black Sabathia 2. City of Champions 3. Longball Larry 4. Glassbreakers 5. Astro 6. Velvet Elvis 7. Revolver 2011 8. Victorious Secret
Velvet Elvis was having a DOMINATING SEASON, and he DOMINATED this league fully, with a Win% well over .600 -- but a funny thing happened in THIS league, well into the season, GST Rookie Black Sabathia took over the league, then barely beat Velvet Elvis at the End. Both ended up dominating the league with practically identical .600 Win%s! Revolver was at .550 Win%, but the REST of us were locked together barely above .500 or under! It was a Wild Ride in at the Finish Line for the rest of us! Black Sabathia had a CLOSE SHAVE with a Tiebreaker in Round 2 with Longball Larry and then had a Battle Royal with City of Champions in the Finals! It was one of the first times a team had won the Deadly Double, especially in a league of this magnitude to boot -- CLOSE AS IT WAS!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 12, 2014 20:17:49 GMT -5
2012 -- We expanded to 16 teams.
Regular Season Finish: 1. Pants on the Mound 2. Steve Kemp 3. Score Lords 4. Longball Larry 5. Astro 6. City of Champions 7. Tiger Blood 8. Drunk Cubs Fan 9. K-Booom 10. Velvet Elvis 11. Victorious Secret 12. Levittown Devils 13. HGH Free Braunies 14. Fear My Rectum Wrath 15. Glassbreakers Commish) 16. Zip Fizz
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Steve Kemp 2. Drunk Cubs Fan 3. Longball Larry 4. Score Lords 5. City of Champions 6. Pants on the Mound 7. Tiger Blood 8. Astro
Pants on the Mound Dominated once again, but not by near as much. To describe just how zany COMPETITIVE the league was heading to the Finish Line, let me tell you the 15th Place Team had a .476 Win%!! And I KNOW that for a FACT -- because it was MY team! Here's another story for you -- K-Booom languished quietly in DEEEP LAST for most of the season, only to go on a Win Streak with some Big Wins out of nowhere. He quickly found himself in the Playoffs, but JUST fell out of the Playoffs on the Final Week! I've never seen ANYTHING like it before or since! Still it was Steve Kemp who won the Championship as just a PART OF the Greatest Season in GST History!!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 12, 2014 20:21:48 GMT -5
2013 -- I guess the word got out -- as we expanded to 20 teams!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Shang Hai Grand 2. Who Has the Runs 3. Victorious Secret 4. City of Champions 5. Arrows 6. Longball Larry 7. KP 8. Mayo II 9. Score Lords 10. Glassbreakers (Commish) 11. Steve Kemp 12. My Sox are Red 13. FDL 14. Drunk Cubs Fan 15. Fafa 16. Levittown Devils 17. Baseball Slooth 18. The Cock Blossoms 19. Hidden Gems 20. 1996 Atlanta Braves
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. KP 2. City of Champions 3. Victorious Secret 4. Shang Hai Grand 5. Arrows 6. Who Has the Runs 7. Longball Larry 8. Mayo II
There was to be NO Domination this year! An AMAZING GST Rookie lost the lead to Victorious Secret on the Next-To-Last Week only to squeak it back right at the Finish Line! 13 Teams had a .500 Win% or better! The 19th Place Team had a Win% of 460!! Total FREE FOR ALL at the End! It was KP who won the Championship though -- he won by Tiebreaker over Victorious Secret in the 2nd Round and then won a BATTLE with City of Champions in the Finals! Man, you need to be one of Big Boys to compete here!
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Post by glasspoet on Dec 12, 2014 20:49:15 GMT -5
2014 -- The league filled up to 20 teams fast and got paid up quickly. We were READY TO GET IT ON!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Kard Sharks 2. Glassbreakers (Commish) 3. Arrows 4. Steve Kemp 5. City of Champions 6. Shang Hai Grand 7. Score Lords 8. KP 9. Victorious Secret 10. The Cock Blossoms 11. Drunk Cubs Fan 12. 1996 Atlanta Braves 13. My Sox are Red 14. Baseball Slooth 15. LIFD 16. KP 17. Who Has the Runs 18. Hey Team CMon Man 19. Levittown Devils 20. Longball Larry
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. City of Champions 2. Glassbreakers 3. Arrows 4. Kard Sharks 5. KP 6. Score Lords 7. Steve Kemp 8. Shang Hai Grand
I had the Best Draft of all my leagues. There was 1 team who I couldn't beat, Arrows, and he looked like he might Run Away. It was not to be, and the Top Spot was Hotly Contested all year. Kard Sharks won the Regular Season by a Nosehair in the End! The 19th Place Team had a Win% of .456, so you can see we had almost a Duplicate Season as last year's Craziness! City of Champions, having maybe his Best Season Ever took it -- winning a Tiebreaker over the Top Rated Team in the 2nd Round, and then destroying my team in the Finals! Another Legendary Win!!
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Post by glasspoet on Nov 1, 2015 22:35:11 GMT -5
2015 -- This league can Demoralize a Lesser Player, but if you Seek COMPETITION -- this is THE League for You! Once again, we had 20 Big Boys READY TO GET IT ON!
Regular Season Finish: 1. Victorious Secret 2. My Sox R Red 3. Longball Larry 4. Big Stick 5. The Cock Blossoms 6. Score Lords 7. Steve Kemp 8. 1996 Atlanta Braves 9. Drunk Cubs Fan 10. Arrows 11. Velvet Elvis 12. Kard Sharks 13. LIFD 14. City of Champions 15. Baseball Slooth 16. Hey Team C'Mon Man 17. Levittown Bandits 18. Glassbreakers (Commish) 19. Reverse Psychology 20. DC Cubs
Campionship Playoff Finish: 1. Steve Kemp 2. Victorious Secret 3. Big Stick 4. Longball Larry 5. The Cock Blossoms 6. My Sox R Red 7. Score Lords 8. 1996 Atlanta Braves
Victorious Secret pulled away by Winning EVERY Weekly Competition. It was pretty late when I tied him, and I felt pretty good (I guess). After that the league reeled him back in, but not enough to actually catch him. For the Rest of Us, it was a Free For All! The 2nd Highest Win% was .550, the 2nd Lowest .454 (18 teams!)! There were SEVEN +.500 Win% in ONE Division!! As Yogi would say, "It wasn't Over until it was Over!"! Still I think Everyone EXPECTED Victorious Secret to Roll Through the Playoffs. He didn't. He won a Tie-breaker in Round 1 over 1996 Atlanta Braves in Round 1, a Hard Fought Close BATTLE with Big Stick in Round 2, but alas he ran into the Team having the Greatest Season EVER by ANYONE in GST ($ wise) -- who beat him in a Squeaker on the Last Night of the Baseball Season!!
High Win%: .590 Low Win%: .436
Holy CRAP!!
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Post by glasspoet on Feb 22, 2017 4:37:33 GMT -5
2016 -- Shockingly this year this league took a Major Step Backwards. At one point it looked like the league would actually collapse, but it is just Too Strong, and we fielded 18 Very Strong Teams.
Regular Season Finish: 1. Titanium Sombrero 2. Big Stick 3. Yellow Cap 4. LI Fire Dogs 5. Kard Sharks 6. Arrows 7. Downtown Sluggers 8. Glassbreakers (Commish) 9. City of Champions 10. Score Lords 11. Victoria Secret 12. Bone Wars 13. Drunk Cubs Fan 14. Steve Kemp 15. My Sox R Red 16. Baseball Slooth 17. The Mike Lansings 18. Reverse Psychology
Championship Playoff Finish: 1. Titanium Sombrero 2. Big Stick 3. Kard Sharks 4. Arrows 5. Yellow Cap 6. LI Fire Dogs 7. Glassbreakers 8. Downtown Sluggers
I was very proud of Downtown Sluggers giving this league a try, and quite surprised and happy that he led, off and on, much of the season before falling to earth near the end. We had some contentiousness between competitors, and I had to use the Message Board Block for the first time in GST history. Still the competition was fierce and Titanium Sombrero, in just his Sophomore Season in GST came out of top. It SURE WASN'T EASY!! After SMOKING my team in the First Round, he BATTLED to a 10-10 Tiebreaker Win over Kard Sharks in the Second Round, and then beat Big Stick in an 11-10 SQUEAKER in the Finals!! Coupled with his TopPro Win, there is no doubt we have a Future GST Powerhouse and Potential Grand Champion in the making!
High Win%: .552 Low Win%: .400
This is one of the All-Time Low Win%s for an 18 team league!
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