New World Rules Proposal

To an amazing collection of owners, 

As mentioned in the world chat, I have been travelling and was able to get the world recruited but not in the best position to address the series of concerns raised. 

Historically, I have been a believer in the Hunter owner community and placed minimal guard rails on ownership believing everyone would operate in the best interest of the world. This has obviously been stretched beyond it's limit and some revised rules need to be implemented. 

I generally prefer a simple set of rules that allowed for discretion but the new set will be a little more black and white. 

I appreciate the owners that set me trade chats with suggestions. 

I propose, that the minimum win requirement be raised to 63W every season, effective S71. 

Effectively setting the floor to avoid 100L seasons. To reward owners who have not pressed the limit of the world win requirement, any owner who has not lost 100 games. They are allowed a 1 season exception down to the 57W (old world rules). 

I view this as fair to the owners who have not abused the existing rules in the past. While not rewarding owners who prompted the need for change and closing the door behind them. 

Also moving forward owners who do not meet the minimum win of 63W, will be put to vote by the league for return the next season.

Finally, for players being egregiously out of position for the purposes of losing. Ie: C in SS or 1b in CF. Or fielding a rotation full of single A pitches,  should it occur for 10 games or more. The team will not be allowed to participate in the following year's rule 5 draft and most set the players selected to 0. 

These issues I will need support in highlighting. 

I know the question will be what is egregious, it will come with discretion and be a know it if I see it situation. This would not apply to a team playing a DH in RF to get a major bat into the lineup for the purposes of attempting to win. This applies to actively making your team worse to suppress your win total. The commish would determine egregious, for reference what occurred last season was egregious.

This is currently a proposal but I am leaning heavily towards it's implementation effective immediately. If possible could owners post comments at the bottom of this post. To leave the world chat for current season issues. 

HOF by the Numbers UPDATE

As we are in  a new HOF voting period, I figured I would update a blog post from 2020 around our composition of the HOF

The HOF currently has 69  members  here are a few key stats

There are 25 pitchers and 44 hitters in the HOF

Of the 25 pitchers ALL of them were starters with the exception of Mel Cortes who pitched as a tandem starter. There are 0 closers or relievers in the Hall.

Of the 44 pitchers here are the position break-down (the position a player played MOST games in his career are used).

1b/DH/LF/RF represent 29 of the 44 hitters, going around the diamond, I've added OPS next to everyone's names I know some have more counting stats which matters but I wanted to add something to provide context around the diamond. Since the last update the only non 1b/DH/LF/RF to join the hall was Hector Peters (2b), Weldon Cooke (2b) & Haywood Lowry (3b)

C: (1) Robinson Rodrigo (.854 OPS)

1b: (13) Lou Stevenson (1.114 OPS), Rich Peters (.969 OPS), David Trinidad (.906 OPS), Ken Sisler (.934 OPS), Matt Buchanan (.978 OPS), Rondell Sandowski (1.026 OPS), Mark Iwamura (.978 OPS), Terrance Wood (.969 OPS), Randy Dickens (.953 OPS), Jonathan Griffin (. 968 OPS) , Dan Petrick (.910 OPS), Cristobal Baerga (.989 OPS), Erubiel Belliard (.977 OPS)

2b: (4) Mendy Clemens (.905 OPS),Glen Peters (.906 OPS), Weldon Cooke (.954 OPS), Hector Peters (.957 OPS)

3b: (5) Angel Bolivar (.899 OPS), Guillermo Sanchez (.922 OPS), Britt Perkins (.922 OPS), Felipe Sosa (.952 OPS), Haywood Lowry (.820 OPS)

SS:  (3) Alan Grimsley (.922 OPS), Eruibel Johnson (.916 OPS), Gary Morton (.850 OPS)

LF: (9) Albert Henley (1.040 OPS), Magglio Javier (1.022 OPS), Braden Cox (.943 OPS), Branch Gardner (1.049 OPS), Michael Bocachica (.903 OPS), Bredan Weekes (1.025 OPS), Kevin Fujikawa (.983 OPS), Brant Rowand (.941 OPS),

CF: (2) Garret Biggio (.969 OPS), Patrick Bynum (.956 OPS)

RF: (5 Yamid Molina (.938 OPS), Frank Zhang (1.151 OPS), Bruce Kaufman (.923 OPS), Ed Burks (.976 OPS), Philip Goodwin (.941 OPS)

DH: (3) Sam Wheeler (.985 OPS), Ty Langston (.951 OPS), Gene Rucker (1.028 OPS)

Hunter All-Time Batting Records

Had some time to kill so was poking around the All-Time Hunter batting records to see if any active players were in the mix and learned that there were quite a few records in play for active players. MOST of the records are the ones at the fringes ie: Most pinch hits. However, there were a couple active players who's names popped up a few times. One at the beginning of his career and another at the end of what will likely be a HOF career. 

Below are all the records where an active player sits in the top 5

All-Time Batting Stats

Caught Stealing

3.  Andrew Holtz (38)- London Calling : 200 (1 away from 2^nd  Frank Zhang and 38 away from 1^st  Branch Gardener)

 

Hitting Streak

3.  Andres Fernadez (30)- Philadelphia Sultans of Swat: 38 (1 away from 1^st place tie Wally Golub and Willie Reagan)

 

Infield Hits

4. Tony Saito (35)- Free Agent: 426 (47 away from 3^rd Albie Cortez)

 

Isolated Power

4.  Enrique Andujar (25)- New York Yankees: .357 (.04 away from 3^rd Lou Stevenson)

 

Number of Pitches Seen

3. Dweezil Ferrell- Free Agent: .382 (.01 away from 2^nd  Bill Lofton and .02 away from 1^st Gregg Cox)

 

On-Base Percentage

5.  Enrique Andujar (25)- New York Yankees: .428 (.09 away from 4^th Roy Christenson)

 

On-Base Plus Slugging

3.  Enrique Andujar (25)- New York Yankees: 1.110 (.04 away from 2^nd  Lou Stevenson apparently Andujar’s nemesis).

 

Pinch Hits

5. Renato Segui (33)- New Britain Yorkies: 133 (2 away from 4^th, 34 away from 1^st Naoto Yosida)

 

Runs

4. Yonder Solarte (37)- Free Agent: 1981 (121 away from 3^rd  Hector Peters)

 

Runs Created per 27 Outs

 4. Enrique Andujar (25)- New York Yankees: 10.54 (Tied for 3^rd, .21 away from Lou Stevenson)

 

 

Sacrifice Hits     

3. Herbert Wilkins (36)- Free Agent: 102 (1 away from 2^nd and 4 away from 1^st Bey Jackson)

 

Secondary Average

2. Enrique Andujar (25)- New York Yankees: .519 (.22 away from 1^st Lou Stevenson)

 

Slugging Percentage

4. Enrique Andujar (25)- New York Yankees: .682 (.03 away from Lonny Iglesias)

 

Stolen Base Percentage

1. Benito Hechavarria (27)- New Britain Yorkies: .974

3. Lastings Paul (34) – Free Agent: .970

 

Triples

2. Yonder Solarte (37)- Free Agent: 137 (2 away from 1^st Cal Newfield)

                            

Owner Review & Trades/World Chat

 All, 

Sorry for the delay was away since Friday with my son for a hockey tournament. I figured a blog post would be a better forum instead of getting it buried in the chat. 

1) Owner Reviews

As per league rules any owners with back to back seasons with more than 105 lossses come up for commissioner review. These reviews have been completed but haven't been publicly posted. As I stated before moving forward any owner reviews will be posted in the chat. With timf as previously stated, at 3-28, he was flagged that he would be in jeopardy of following into a commissioner review. Subsequent to that timf record dramatically improved and did not end up with the first overall pick. As a result I made the decision to allow him to stay. 

At the time several owners reached out to me regarding timf start. Several of the same owners that have been active in the forums. I responded to all trade chats and gave updates on the situation. It was at that point I considered the situation resolved. 

2) Trades and World Chat

Hunter is an extremely active trade world. As a commissioner my stance on trades has always been if there is two willing owners unless there is obvious collusion I never veto a trade. This is because every owner values their players and trades differently. With some recent seasons having over 100 trades there will be more than a few you likely disagree with or become jealous of, I know I do. 

With respect to the world chat the thing I find most confusing and frustrating in relation to the Vancouver-Augusta trade, was the time to discuss the merits of the trade was while it was pending. I know I saw the trade and was jealous of timf for having landed an ace but reviewed the trade and thought I might have offered more but it wasn't a bad trade on the merit then moved on with my day. 

Augusta not assigning the players isn't great but I don't think that creates a scenario to relitigate a trade and start tossing out allegations and questioning the ethics and morals of other owners.

I reached out to carmanjr and he stated this was likely a sign that he needed to move on from HBD because he wasn't invested the way he should be. Bigalric has agreed to return the players but at this point I can't get carmanjr to respond. I also suspect for a potential outgoing owner the bruhaha likely didn't increase his engagement. 

As an owner I am jealous that I didn't get Mench but the time to have the discussion around Mench was the time of trade not a week afterwards. That said, I don't think there was a discussion because timf did give up a lot to get him. 

I welcome conversations about trades while they are pending especially if something seems off, however I do ask that in any conversations owners are respectful of other owners and that other owners may value players differently. 

I always always recommend if you are moving a star to post it in the chat to try and maximize your deal. With that said I know there have been times that players have been posted and have gone for less than what other owners feel they offered. Once again not all GM eyes match. 

If any owners have any concerns on the above please feel free to sitemail or trade chat. 

 

Trader Catfish Hunter

 As many have noticed this season has been an extremely active year for trades within Hunter. However, for those who have been around since the beginning, know that Hunter has always been an active world in relation to trades. 

Whether your selling or buying there is normally an owner willing to facilitate your needs. Below are some fun stats in relation to Hunter's active trade history. 

Hunter started out hot and heavy with deals from day one. Season 1 saw 60 trades and every season had more than 30 deals until Season 23. 

Per Decade of Hunter 

(1-10): Averaged: 53 trades a season

(11-20): Averaged: 45.2 trades a season

(21-30): Averaged: 29.6 trades a season

(31-40): Averaged: 23.1 trades a season (This is our low water decade which would still rate as an above average trade market)

(41-50): Averaged: 33.9 trades 

(51-54 so far): Averaged 33.5 trades

Average ALL seasons: 36.7 trades

The record for most trades in a season league wide was season 10 with (66). The league cracked 60 trades two other times in season 1 (60) and season 7 (61). Since the record setting season 10, the highest season has been (54) in seasons 20, 22 and 45. 

The lowest number of trades made occurred in season 31 with (12). There have only been 9 seasons with less than 20 trades. Most of which occurred during the S31-40 decade (7 times). Not sure what happened to everyone else in that period. I know I became less active. As I call those my lost HBD years (2 children were born)

Thus far this season there has been 41 trades processed or accept, which would rate it has the 24th highest trade season in Hunter History. To crack the top 10, another 10 trades would have to be made.