Laddy Charleston
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:35 pm
@ Recte @AaronWainer @Marko His name finally just came to me when I was reading the Lawrence Columbus LaLoosh HOF thread. I don't even remember what prompted me to try to recall Laddy Charleston, but I do remember that it was like 2 real life years ago and every once in awhile his name would be on the tip of my tongue when thinking about the old GBC. It's been intermittently driving me nuts. Somehow the combination of the letters in Laloosh's name, the fact that he also played for Yellow Springs, and that I was wondering if he deserved the Nebraskas he got (only topped 6 WAR once) finally brought it back.
I'd drafted a clone of him, and I had another guy coming up who was going to be a monster. (Antoine Something-starting-with-an-S or maybe Ambrose. It was from the all horror reference draft I did). The Carolina Coastals were set to dominate the Prime for a decade when it ran out of juice. Oh well.
Fun fact. FPS or BBPro (whatever you want to call it) had pools of players. It didn't create randoms. It spat out blocks of clones. A draft would be made up of 5 to 10 of those blocks. If you played long enough they'd repeat. So every FPS league that ran long enough had a Tavon Weddel, or a Laddy Charleston, or a Glen Groves. So someone had to edit the draft in game if you didn't want it to be obvious who you'd get. But me being me, I got wise. Some of the guys who ran the league just changed the names. But if you could recognize ratings, you could find the whole block. On an old PC i had spreadsheets of who showed up with who. Before I looked them up, I'd try and see how many players I could pick out based on ratings alone. Most years I could find 20 to 30. For the most part, the ratings told you all you needed to know so it didn't matter, but there were some guys who were known trap picks, or known overachievers. When I started running the Prime drafts I edited the players and the ratings as well, so it was less obvious.
But anyway, LADDY FUCKING CHARLESTON.
I'd drafted a clone of him, and I had another guy coming up who was going to be a monster. (Antoine Something-starting-with-an-S or maybe Ambrose. It was from the all horror reference draft I did). The Carolina Coastals were set to dominate the Prime for a decade when it ran out of juice. Oh well.
Fun fact. FPS or BBPro (whatever you want to call it) had pools of players. It didn't create randoms. It spat out blocks of clones. A draft would be made up of 5 to 10 of those blocks. If you played long enough they'd repeat. So every FPS league that ran long enough had a Tavon Weddel, or a Laddy Charleston, or a Glen Groves. So someone had to edit the draft in game if you didn't want it to be obvious who you'd get. But me being me, I got wise. Some of the guys who ran the league just changed the names. But if you could recognize ratings, you could find the whole block. On an old PC i had spreadsheets of who showed up with who. Before I looked them up, I'd try and see how many players I could pick out based on ratings alone. Most years I could find 20 to 30. For the most part, the ratings told you all you needed to know so it didn't matter, but there were some guys who were known trap picks, or known overachievers. When I started running the Prime drafts I edited the players and the ratings as well, so it was less obvious.
But anyway, LADDY FUCKING CHARLESTON.