Anyone tried the Immaculate Grid game?

[nvpacchi]

63 today - tried my hardest to avoid the guy @SteveA mentioned.  Took me 15 minutes and methodically going through the Twins roster today to find a guy

 

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[nvpacchi]

not a great showing today 8 of 9

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tried faithful Earl Averill for Cleveland left fielder, and to my chagrin he played basically all his games as a CF and about a dozen as a RF.  Just went chalk the rest of the way after missing that.

 

 

[Frobby]

I messed up today by guessing that Lastings Milledge had probably played some LF when he was with the Nats.  That was wrong, and my second answer, which I was 100% sure of, got an 0.2% score, so it really was an unforced error.  Like @nvpacchi, I skipped the Hou/Tex box, but could have filled that with a very obvious answer.   

[SteveA]

9/9, 29 points, 6 Orioles.

 

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Gaylord Perry 3%, John Lowenstein 0.4%, Orel Hershiser 4%

Carlos Beltran 4%, Steve Finley 0.3%, Curt Schilling 2%

Vladimir Guerrero 10%, Jeffrey Hammonds 0.2%, Dennis Martinez 6%

• Could have used Lowenstein for Cle/Tex, then Joe Carter for Cle/LF, to get another Oriole into the grid.   But I put Brother Low down for Cle/LF without looking ahead and never could come up with a Cle/Tex Oriole.    In hindsight, there were quite a few Cle/Tex Orioles besides Lowenstein:   Harold Baines, Rich Bauer, Bruce Chen, David Dellucci, Rene Gonzalez, Sam Horn, Tommy Hunter, Mark McLemore, Jim Poole, Arthur Rhodes, Billy Ripken, David Segui, Gene Woodling.   Not sure if I would have gotten any of those guys.
• Looks like I could have used Kevin Mllwood for Cle/2000K.   I never even would have thought of him as a 2000K pitcher, nor do I remember him pitching for Cleveland.   So I wouldn't have gotten that in a million years.
• For Hou/Tex, Orioles I missed:   Bruce Chen, Terry Clark, Scott Feldman, Jordan Lyles, Gregg Zaun.   Kicking myself for not getting Lyles.

So an all Oriole grid was possible but I never would have gotten Millwood.

 

[nvpacchi]

good redemption today - 31.  Old timey teams mixed with rate stats has me frothing at the mouth!

 

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Never would've gotten Alou if my dad hadn't used him about 5x the last few months, forcing me to look at his BBref page and understand his career a bit better.

The Mariners will always be an eternal black hole in my mind.  Can't even believe I pulled Guillen, and I still can't think of a second player that would suffice.

 

 

[SteveA]

Coulda been a great one.

8/9, 124.   I really thought Adam Jones played SS for Seattle, but it was only in their minor league system.   Once he made the majors with them he was just an outfielder.

5 Orioles.

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Michael Jackson 0.4%, Vida Blue 8%, Will Clark 7%.

Willie Horton 4%, Mickey Tettleton 3%, George Kell 0.3%.

MISS, Mike Bordick 2%, Luis Aparicio 0.3%.

 

[Spy Fox]

14 minutes ago, SteveA said:

8/9, 124.   I really thought Adam Jones played SS for Seattle, but it was only in their minor league system.   Once he made the majors with them he was just an outfielder.

I made that exact mistake a few weeks ago trying to be cute getting Orioles in. 

[Jurczak]

9/9 today 57 total. Been struggling lately trying to thread the needle on rarity too much. Today I had nothing below 1% and didn't feel like thinking hard enough to avoid the #1 answer for Atl/NYM. Squeezed 4 Orioles in though.

 

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[SteveA]

8/9, 183.   Once I learned the hard way that Bobby Bo never had 100 RBIs as a Met, and 9/9 was out of reach, I kind of mailed it in and did a couple obvious high % answers for the left column.

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Jorge Soler 2%, Billy Williams 3%, Steve Stone 0.3%

Hank Aaron 34%, Gorman Thomas 6%, Yovani Gallardo 4%

Tom Glavine 33%, MISS, Kris Benson 0.3%

 

[Spy Fox]

40. Four O's and a couple helped with the rarity quite a bit. 

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[Frobby]

Frustrating morning on Super Easy Grid Day.  I blew the 30 HR/200 H question going for a good rarity score.  8/9, 108.  Greedy.

[SteveA]

Similar to Frobby.  8/9, 109.  All Orioles used.  Could have had an all Oriole grid and one of my lowest scores ever... But apparently Tim Raines never had 200 hits.  He topped out in the 190s.

 

[Spy Fox]

I'll join the club because I 8/9'd thinking that Nick Markakis had a 200 hit season. 

This made me take a quick look at how much the 200 hit club has been decreasing over recent decades. There have been four 21st century seasons with zero 200-hit batters-- 2013, 2018, 2021, and 2022. In the 2000s there were typically 5-8 hitters with 200 hits. In the 2010s there were typically 2-4 such hitters. But since 2018, three of the five seasons have had zero. A casualty of the three true outcomes / load management era. Though last year was a bit of a comeback with Acuna, Freeman, and Arraez all reaching 200.

[nvpacchi]

botched Friday's thinking former Oriole great Wade Miley got 10 wins with Milwaukee, alas it was 9 last year.

Redemption today with a 4, probably my best score ever

 

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usually single team is a cheat code cause you just get to pick guys on rookie deals, but the 2k hits and 30+ HRs added a nice wrinkle

 

 

Edited March 31 by nvpacchi

[elextrano8]

This is my best effort ever, with a rarity score of 10. I didn't manage to keep them all 1% or under, though. Six Orioles.

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