Anyone tried the Immaculate Grid game?

[Frobby]

2 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

9/9 53 

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Babe Ruth, Jim Abbott, Gerrit Cole

Adrian Beltre, Julio Franco, Matt Bush

Bill Buckner, Gary Sheffield, Rick Monday

 

Some nice pulls there.  I flunked out on Brewers/Rangers and Brewers/Dodgers, and my answer for LA first rounder drew way too high a score.  

[backwardsk]

4 hours ago, SteveA said:

I'm a day behind.   Finished yesterday's this morning.  9/9, 28, 7 Orioles.  Couldn't come up with an Oriole for KC-center field or Cubs-center field.  

I'll get to today's a bit later.  

Cubs CF, you could use Felix Pie, Rafael Palmeiro, or Jerome Walton. I believe I was able to use all three (can’t remember the first column).

[SteveA]

56 minutes ago, backwardsk said:

Cubs CF, you could use Felix Pie, Rafael Palmeiro, or Jerome Walton. I believe I was able to use all three (can’t remember the first column).

Yeah should have remembered Pie.  I had totally forgotten Jerome Walton ever played for the Orioles.   And it's hard to picture Raffy in CF... although I did use John Lowenstein for Cleveland CF for 0.1%.   I didn't KNOW he played CF but he came up with them as a versatile OF/IF sub so I figred he had a game there at one point or another and was right.

[SteveA]

My lowest score ever:

️ Immaculate Grid 324 9/9:
Rarity: 11
IMMACULATE!



Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com
@immaculategrid x @baseball_ref

And 7 Orioles used!   And the first and probably only time I use a Seattle Pilot to fill a Brewer square!

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COLUMNS:   Red Sox / Brewers / 1st Round Draft Pick

Yankee Row:  Mike Torrez 0.2%, Jim Bouton 2%, Mike Mussina 0.4%

Texas Row:  Koji Uehara 0.8%, Kevin Reimer 0.3%, Will Clark 0.9%

Dodger Row:  Justin Turner 5%, Rick Dempsey 0.3%, Mike Morgan 0.08%

Proud of myself for the Reimer pull.   Kind of surprised some of the rarity scores were so low.   Turner from LA to Boston is a very recent move, usually that kind of guy will be higher than 5%.   The 1st round draft picks seem lower than they should be.   But I'll happily take my 11.

So could I have done all Orioles?   

    Yankees/Brewers -- obviously could have used Dempsey but I put him in LAD/Milw.  Others I could have used:  Chris Dickerson, Jerry Hairston, Latroy Hawkins, Jace Peterson, Jamie Quirk, Mark Reynolds, Lenn Sakata, Steve Barber (another Seattle Pilot), Ricky Bones, Paul Mirabella, Jesse Orosco.  Wow, a TON of Orioles.   None of them has me slapping myself on the forehead and calling myself stupid for not remembering him, though.  All would have been tough pulls.

   Rangers/Brewers -- Yovani Gallardo, Rick Helling, Nelson Cruz, Jordan Lyles, Odell Jones, Gregg Zaun -- yeah, some bad misses there that I am kicking myself for.

Or I could have used Dempsey for Yankees/Brewers and come up with a Dodger/Brewer:   Tommy Davis, Dana Eveland, Jerry Hairston, Cesar Izturis, Jesse Orosco.

Yeah, all Orioles was do-able, but I couldn't pull it off today.

 

Edited February 20 by SteveA

[Frobby]

45 minutes ago, SteveA said:

My lowest score ever:

️ Immaculate Grid 324 9/9:
Rarity: 11
IMMACULATE!



Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com
@immaculategrid x @baseball_ref

And 7 Orioles used!   And the first and probably only time I use a Seattle Pilot to fill a Brewer square!

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COLUMNS:   Red Sox / Brewers / 1st Round Draft Pick

Yankee Row:  Mike Torrez 0.2%, Jim Bouton 2%, Mike Mussina 0.4%

Texas Row:  Koji Uehara 0.8%, Kevin Reimer 0.3%, Will Clark 0.9%

Dodger Row:  Justin Turner 5%, Rick Dempsey 0.3%, Mike Morgan 0.08%

Proud of myself for the Reimer pull.   Kind of surprised some of the rarity scores were so low.   Turner from LA to Boston is a very recent move, usually that kind of guy will be higher than 5%.   The 1st round draft picks seem lower than they should be.   But I'll happily take my 11.

So could I have done all Orioles?   

    Yankees/Brewers -- obviously could have used Dempsey but I put him in LAD/Milw.  Others I could have used:  Chris Dickerson, Jerry Hairston, Latroy Hawkins, Jace Peterson, Jamie Quirk, Mark Reynolds, Lenn Sakata, Steve Barber (another Seattle Pilot), Ricky Bones, Paul Mirabella, Jesse Orosco.  Wow, a TON of Orioles.   None of them has me slapping myself on the forehead and calling myself stupid for not remembering him, though.  All would have been tough pulls.

   Rangers/Brewers -- Yovani Gallardo, Rick Helling, Nelson Cruz, Jordan Lyles, Odell Jones, Gregg Zaun -- yeah, some bad misses there that I am kicking myself for.

Or I could have used Dempsey for Yankees/Brewers and come up with a Dodger/Brewer:   Tommy Davis, Dana Eveland, Jerry Hairston, Cesar Izturis, Jesse Orosco.

Yeah, all Orioles was do-able, but I couldn't pull it off today.

 

That's an amazing performance.   

My five lowest scores are: 5, 17, 19, 25, 33.   The 5 came on what I'd say was the easiest grid ever (10/28/23) and all my answers but one were at 0.5% or below.   Three of my five points came on one answer.

[SteveA]

14 minutes ago, Frobby said:

That's an amazing performance.   

My five lowest scores are: 5, 17, 19, 25, 33.   The 5 came on what I'd say was the easiest grid ever (10/28/23) and all my answers but one were at 0.5% or below.   Three of my five points came on one answer.

Going for Orioles often tends to lower my rarity score.   Pulling Mike Torrez for Red Sox/Yankees, or Rick Dempsey for any combination of Minn/NYY/LAD/Cle/Milw, and it's guaranteed to be a fraction of a percent.   

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5 hours ago, SteveA said:

Yeah should have remembered Pie.  I had totally forgotten Jerome Walton ever played for the Orioles.   And it's hard to picture Raffy in CF... although I did use John Lowenstein for Cleveland CF for 0.1%.   I didn't KNOW he played CF but he came up with them as a versatile OF/IF sub so I figred he had a game there at one point or another and was right.

A few more: Corey Patterson, Dwight Smith, Junior Lake, Lou Montanez, Julio Borbon, Quinten Berry, Ryan Freel.

[Moose Milligan]

Orioles grid today 9/9 89

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Buck Leonard, Jackie Robinson, Cool Papa Bell

Randy Milligan, Leo Gomez, Chito Martinez

John Jaha, Carney Lansford, Coco Crisp

Milligan was .8%, Gomez was .4%, Chito was .08%.

 

[SteveA]

My lack of Negro League knowledge did me in.   Didn't complete the grid.   But I did fill in the bottom two rows with all Orioles who totalled 1.43%.

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Bob Boyd 0.1%, Eddie Murray 0.4%, Tim Raines 0.1%

Mickey Tettleton 0.2%, Wayne Gross 0.6%, Don Baylor 0.03%

 

[Frobby]

9/9, 39 today. 

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Jackie Robinson, Minnie Minoso, Monte Irvin

Tony Muser, Ryan Minor, Curt Motton

Bert Campaneris, Wayne Gross, Don Baylor

Robinson cost me 29 of my 39 points.  I was surprised that Minor got a 2% vote, thought he'd be lower.   All my other O's and A's were under 1%.

 

[backwardsk]

2.25 for the six O’s and A’s squares. 0.55 for the Orioles row.

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3 hours ago, SteveA said:

My lack of Negro League knowledge did me in.   Didn't complete the grid.   But I did fill in the bottom two rows with all Orioles who totalled 1.43%.

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Bob Boyd 0.1%, Eddie Murray 0.4%, Tim Raines 0.1%

Mickey Tettleton 0.2%, Wayne Gross 0.6%, Don Baylor 0.03%

 

I answered an A's question in the wrong column.  And my Negro League answers were fairly common.

O's score was under 1% though!

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Urias Sabo O'Hearn

 

[OsFanSinceThe80s]

02/24: 9/9, 22 score

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Minnie Minoso, Larry Doby, Cool Papa Bell

Jim Traber, Eddie Murray, Larry Sheets

Ken Phelps, Tony Phillips, Bill North

 

Edited February 22 by OsFanSinceThe80s

[Jurczak]

Combined for a .1 on the Os portion. Jeff Manto .04, Scott Moore .02, and Jeff Fiorentino .04. Got a .008 on Casper Wells in the As outfield. Bombed out on the negro leagues and ended up 8/9.

[backwardsk]

34 today. Most of my points were on the Blue Jays 200 game winner.