The start of the second half for my Jack Bauer Squared team was anything but what was needed. Instead of a push toward that playoff spot, we started 1-7 and tumbled into last place. I had a plan to keep updating that season, but I got busy and the losses piled up and I fell a few series behind.
I may still go back and catch up on that season drifting away, but what had my attention in the sim world over the past week primarily was a series of short drafts for a tournament I’m in the middle of.
Each year a longtime owner named thejuice6 puts on a multi-round tournament that draws so many owners the site puts up prizes in the form of site credits. Juice has a forum just for his tournament because it’s such a big undertaking, and he changes up the details every year.
Round 1 this year included 12 leagues of 24 teams each. Owners could select historical franchises with a particular set of two seasons for each. You had to build your whole roster from those two seasons of your team, plus two drafted free agents. The goal is to qualify your teams for Round 2 and keep moving forward.
I entered seven teams in Round 1, and all of them advanced. I had two reach the World Series, with one winner. So that meant I had seven spots in Round 2, which comprised 10 leagues of 24 teams this time. We drafted from five-year ranges this time, and somehow I ended up with four of my seven teams from the Cleveland Indians franchise history.
All seven of my teams advanced once again, and one had the best regular-season won-loss record of all 10 leagues at 104-58. Alas even that squad was felled in the first round of the playoffs and none of my three playoff teams from the round made a World Series.
But because I kept all seven of my spots, I had to draft in seven of the eight leagues that comprise Round 3. My 104-win team earned me the right to choose any league to take the first pick in, and I hope I chose wisely. This round divided up so that each league included a range of years, and for each year you have to build your roster out of three selected teams.
So here are my seven entries in Round 3 as selected in the draft for each league:
- League 1: 1906 Chicago White Sox / New York Highlanders / Cleveland Naps
- League 2: 1920 Cleveland Indians / Chicago White Sox / New York Yankees
- League 3: No team
- League 4: 1950 Philadelphia Phillies / Brooklyn Dodgers / New York Giants
- League 5: 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers / San Francisco Giants / Pittsburgh Pirates
- League 6: 1985 St. Louis Cardinals / New York Mets / Los Angeles Dodgers
- League 7: 1993 Toronto Blue Jays / Chicago White Sox / New York Yankees
- League 8: 2013 Boston Red Sox / Oakland Athletics / Detroit Tigers
I’ll break down my picks in another post soon.
