Our 109-53 record last season is hard act to follow. Good news is lineup should be mostly the same this season compared to last; bad news is that every other team has improved while we stay mostly same. From a production standpoint, we best in league in defense, no doubt, but closer to average in of...

I have been looking over the team and I think Mumbai might have the best offense in all of UMEBA this season. Their defense is slightly above average (thanks to Hewatt, who is incredible) and their pitching is "decent". Hewatt should end up being the best SS in UMEBA over the next few years --- grea...

It's good to see you posting information about your team, and I am happy to see that you are getting "in" to the experience of being a UMEBA GM. A few other notes that you might not be aware of yet: 1. Team Previews are supposed to be done on teams other than your own. Typically, information about y...

Interesting read. Makes me think we stink. Oh well let’s get the games played see if that’s accurate. I’ve never trusted OOTP overall and potential ratings. No, it doesn't think you "stink": it projects you for 85 wins which is better than last year. You made some nice upgrades in the offseason, bu...

Just like last year, we have best rotation in all of UMEBA (maybe one of best anywhere, even BBA?) At any rate, here we go: S1: 20-yo Owen Geddes , last year win PItcher of Year, lead league in ERA (2.51), K (176), WHIP (1.02), K/9 (8.2) and WAR (6.2) and had "only"15-5 record, return for third seas...

So, like last season, I am doing an "analytical" preview, but also doing it somewhat different from last season. What I am doing is estimating overall WAR based on "expected" WAR for each player on each team's 27-man roster. First, I will show result table, then I will explain what I am doing here. ...

Yep, I also project a possible playoff appearance for Jerusalem this year, and, as Mumbai proved last year, if you can get to the playoffs, anything can happen.

I expect Tripoli and Mumbai will be battling it out for playoff spot.

Interesting that the "too early" predictions have Mumbai winning BANC... nice to start with Bucharest as an underdog for once.

Oh, this is hilarious.... well written!

Pretty good choices, will be fun to watch what you can do with them this year.

I will do a full UMEBA preview that will be done in the same way as last year's, but I going to wait to post until after sim 1 so that I can plug in the "actual" lineups for each team vL, vR instead of my guesses. I know that will cut the PPs that I get but I want to do it right.

So, regarding Mullet, I don't know what happened to him in the offseason. He was an 11 DEF at CF with a 10 outfield range. Over the winter, he lost one point in range, and dropped two points in DEF. This is a 22-year-old we are talking about!

Nice job of cutting salary!

Wow, Wapshot is progressing rapidly... if it were me, I would focus on the third and fourth choices. And even if Wapshot isn't ready now, he might be later in the season after getting some seasoning at AAA.

Abraham Ganz column, Feb. 25, 2046: "Impale: U, ME, Baseball!" The question on everyone's minds is: What's happened to Rafael Mullet in the offseason? Training camp is an exciting time for Bucharest. It is so fun seeing all the returning players, as they go about their routines, and get rid of the r...

So there are two different ways to interpret the "capacity" significance. One is that it could be due to a "ceiling" affect: i.e., teams whose attendance is close to filling up the stadium every (or most) games are of course affected by the capacity. The other is that it could be due to people wanti...

Boy, they look awfully good. Definitely signficantly improved since last season.

Bucharest Chronicle: Introduction for new semi-regular feature, Feb. 20, 2046 Hey, Abraham Ganz here, the sports writer for the Bucharest Chronicle (previously, the Bucharest Times). I wanted to let you know that I will be doing a new semi-regular feature in the sports section called "Impale U,ME,B...

Pretty much. The three impacts that are meaningful are 1) +Fan Interest (7.5 t score), 2) -TktPrice ( - 4.98 t score, 3) +Capacity (3.64 t score). Nothing else is significant. It would be interesting to see how it changes if you only include those three predictors. Capacity is almost as important as...