Anyone tried the Immaculate Grid game?

[Moose Milligan]

9/9 71

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Brady Anderson, Mike Boddicker, Gregg Olson

Pedro Martinez, Steve Carlton, Mike Lieberthal

Rob Deer, Mickey Lolich, Casey Mize

Curt Schilling could have filled three boxes but I'm glad I didn't use him.  I couldn't remember if he'd won 20 for Philly or not so I went with Carlton who was a no doubter.

 

[Frobby]

It’s interesting to look at which questions were answered correctly by the most/least people and which answer was most popular.   Yesterday the question answered correctly most often (84%) was Tigers 20 game winner, and least often (54%) was Orioles/Red Sox player.  The most frequently used correct answer was Jim Palmer for O’s 20 game winner at 63%.  I’m surprised Palmer scored so high, but it shows that not that many fans are familiar with the O’s teams of the 60s, 70s and early 80s.

[Moose Milligan]

9/9 82

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Rollie Fingers, Yu Darvish, Randy Jones

Jim Abbott, Ruben Sierra, Ron Guidry

Richie Sexson, Julio Franco, Shane Bieber

 

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, Moose Milligan said:

9/9 82

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Rollie Fingers, Yu Darvish, Randy Jones

Jim Abbott, Ruben Sierra, Ron Guidry

Richie Sexson, Julio Franco, Shane Bieber

 

Nice job.  I could only think of one guy to fill the CLE/MIL and NY/MIL squares, and it was the same guy.  So I took a guess at NY/MIL and failed.  I just blow at these two-team squares.  

[SteveA]

9 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

9/9 82

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Rollie Fingers, Yu Darvish, Randy Jones

Jim Abbott, Ruben Sierra, Ron Guidry

Richie Sexson, Julio Franco, Shane Bieber

 

Good job.   I was 9/9, 106.

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Josh Hader, Nelson Cruz, Randy Jones

Gary Sheffield, Elrod Hendricks, Ron Guidry

Rick Dempsey, Ubaldo Jimenez, Corey Kluber

 

[Frobby]

Sometimes I really hate myself. 

I was cruising to my 2nd lowest score of all time today, and thinking of the long time Red Sox RF, answered 300 HR/Gold Glove “Darrell Evans.”  Changed a would-be score of 13 to a 112.  F!

With the number of careless mistakes I’ve made in the last couple of weeks, it’s a good thing I stopped practicing law a while back!
 

[backwardsk]

10 today. Has to be my personal best. I’m sure there will fluctuation throughout the day. But my All-Star row combined for 0.42.

[Moose Milligan]

9/9 8.  @Frobbyand I thought of the same player, I used him elsewhere though.

I think that's my all time lowest score.

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Terry Pendleton, Steve Finley, Edgar Martinez

Nick Markakis, Dwight Evans, Eddie Murray

Tom Glavine, Gary Carter, Dale Murphy

 

 

[Frobby]

Just now, Moose Milligan said:

9/9 8.  @Frobbyand I thought of the same player, I used him elsewhere though.

I think that's my all time lowest score.

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Terry Pendleton, Steve Finley, Edgar Martinez

Nick Markakis, Dwight Evans, Eddie Murray

Tom Glavine, Gary Carter, Dale Murphy

 

 

I still have a score of 5 to my credit, back on October 28, on a grid even easier than this one.  It really boils down to how easy the grid is, more than how good a day you’re having.  

[Moose Milligan]

I'm about 10 days into my spreadsheet tracking.  I've used 97 different players, so I'm probably going to blow past my theory of using the same 100 players over and over tomorrow.  I still think there's about a core of 50-100 go-to guys that I keep going back to.  I don't know if I'm ever going to use someone like Mike Lieberthal again, unless Phillies first round draft pick shows up again in the future.

I've used Steve Carlton and Eddie Murray three times each, Steve Finley, Brady Anderson, Bobby Bonilla, Juan Gonzalez, Ryne Sandberg, Reggie Sanders two times each.

[Moose Milligan]

3 minutes ago, Frobby said:

I still have a score of 5 to my credit, back on October 28, on a grid even easier than this one.  It really boils down to how easy the grid is, more than how good a day you’re having.  

That's right.  Today looked like one of their Saturday grids.

[Moose Milligan]

9/9 124

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Fred McGriff, Dave Stewart, Charlie O'Brien

Kris Bryant, Jason Giambi, Charles Johnson

LaTroy Hawkins, Terry Steinbach, Brian Harper

Was annoyed that I couldn't think of a more obscure Rockies/Cubs player.

 

[Moose Milligan]

@SteveAI think you can do all Orioles for this one.  I'm going down the lists of possible answers and there are some names that I'm recognizing.  Twins catcher and Jays catcher would probably be the trickiest.

 

 

[SteveA]

27 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

@SteveAI think you can do all Orioles for this one.  I'm going down the lists of possible answers and there are some names that I'm recognizing.  Twins catcher and Jays catcher would probably be the trickiest.

 

 

I hadn't seen this message when I did it a few minutes ago.

I wound up with 9/9, 54 rarity points, and 7 Orioles.   The catchers were easy for me.  I'm kicking myself for the ones I couldn't come up with Orioles for, maybe I should have left it alone for an hour or two and come back to it.   One of my 2 non-Orioles was an "almost-Oriole".

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Marcus Stroman, Mike Bordick, Caleb Joseph

Dexter Fowler, Jack Cust, Austin Wynns

Rich Hill, Don Baylor, RIck Dempsey

 

[SteveA]

2 hours ago, SteveA said:

I hadn't seen this message when I did it a few minutes ago.

I wound up with 9/9, 54 rarity points, and 7 Orioles.   The catchers were easy for me.  I'm kicking myself for the ones I couldn't come up with Orioles for, maybe I should have left it alone for an hour or two and come back to it.   One of my 2 non-Orioles was an "almost-Oriole".

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Marcus Stroman, Mike Bordick, Caleb Joseph

Dexter Fowler, Jack Cust, Austin Wynns

Rich Hill, Don Baylor, RIck Dempsey

 

Not really relevant here, but I got my first ever 9/9 in the NFL Immaculate Grid today.   I look at it daily, usually glance at it, fill a couple squares, and give up because there's no way I'd ever get 9.   I often quit at 3/9 or something like that.   And I rarely spend more than 5 minutes on it.  But today had a Raven row and a 5000 career rushing yards column and those 5 squares were easy to fill.   The other 4 squares were team-team squares and were difficult but I burned some brain cells and was able to pull it off.