If there is one thing the Kansas City Bees do more than any other team it is bring new players in by trade, and despite the front office repeatedly declaring this off-season that they want to build cohesion into the roster, GM Jackson just cannot help himself and has once […]
Graphic Scenes – Historical Indices for SSG Baseball
With a new season fast approaching, let’s take stock of what went before. In a hoped for regular series of articles, ‘Graphic Scenes’ will bring all the fun of number crunching to the SSG website! Below are graphs for each year that SSG OOTP baseball has been in existence. These […]
Baltimore’s Free Agency Frolics
With team owner Sean Angelos’s frugal free agent budget all but depleted now is a good time to review the Orioles off-season moves. Baltimore is not in a financial position to attract the big name free agents so it is a case of fiddling around the edges, trying to nab […]
Pitching Pitfalls – A Retrospective of the O’s in 2020
On the first day of June 2020, following a not unusual three game drubbing at the hands of the Blue Jays, Baltimore had a record of 30-30 and were four games back in the wild card race. But, encouragingly, there was a slate of upcoming games, 18 in total, against […]
Deep Draft Dive – A Retrospective of the FOF 2019 Draft
With the 2020 draft rapidly approaching, let’s see if we can put some qualitative analysis on what went down this time last year. Method This deep dive takes each draft pick and rates it based on something called ‘surrounding average’. This is the player’s overall future value compared to that […]