The Swamp

mister d wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 9:44 pm Does anyone else quit if they miss one?

Or if you confuse the Reds logo for the Indians logo?
Looks like baseball-reference is affiliated now and was upgraded. I also think this might be a younger man's game as my 80s players seem to have a small percentage of guesses

Small % is what you want, no? I assumed a lower score was better because its more unique.

mister d wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 12:09 pm Small % is what you want, no? I assumed a lower score was better because its more unique.

Yes. It’s sorta like SwampCrash. The number at the end is the sum of the percentages of your responses. Wrong responses are a 100 point penalty.

Some of us just want right answers...but yes, getting unique answers is fun. Pretty proud of my 0.1 percent Gary Pettis answer the other day.

I dropped a Pat Listach on the Brewers' 30-steal name over the weekend and was proud of that result.

i think i got a personal low with 0.04% in Tom Burgmeier (Twins/Boston) yesterday - guy's 1976 Twins card just popped into my head. Which is a little weird.

It must skew heavily towards younger players of the game? Eckersley (Cubs/Red Sox) was only 1% which i was surprised at.

Also interesting to find out how spotty my knowledge is in different timeframes - i have this relatively giant blank from ~2006-2015. I'm sure it has nothing to do with having 2 small kids at the time.

That range, give or take, is when I only know the Yankees and the NL because I was in an NL only fantasy league. Since the minor league draft was so important there, I have pretty solid knowledge of guys + drafting team, but was burned on a prospect who didn't debut with their original team yesterday (Murton w/ Boston) and almost again today (Singleton w/ Phillies).

Went 19th Century today.

After playing this for about a week, I realized my weakest area is the Class of 1969 teams (KC, SD, MIL, MTL/WAS).

SC was on at the bar yesterday and they did a whole segment filling out a grid with whoever it was who was on. ESPY day is a slow news day, I guess.

take the stairs today

Puckdoku Game 15 - 9/9:

162 Uniqueness

There's going to be a lot of gimme answers today, but my score today is 28.

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Jose Canseco (2%) / Ben Grieve (1%) / Carl Crawford (8%)
Paul Molitor (12%) /Don Baylor (0.8%) / Ron Coomer (0.5%)
George Bell (8%) / Al Simmons (0.4%) / Willie McCovey (0.1%)

I love this game. It's a daily dose of Remembering Some Guys.

Could not for the life of me get the middle square. Boo.

180 total.

Wild that the high score for the bottom right answer is 10% (at least when I did it) when there are almost 500 possible answers.

I got a list of NFL players in my dropdown.

Got my first grid and a 61.

my strategy in this is very swampcrashesque. rather go safe and big percentage than small percentage and risk a wrong answer

I can't stop thinking of an answer then trying to be more clever and missing. Like is B-Ref suuure Profar never played for Tampa? Really?

there's now a football option from PFref

6/6 on guesses this morning, followed by 0/3.

Me missing Mets/Reds today was inexcusable.

L-Jam3 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 1:40 pm Me missing Mets/Reds today was inexcusable.

Even I can name two

Brontoburglar wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:57 am there's now a football option from PFref

Immaculate Grid 1 9/9:
Rarity: 246
IMMACULATE!



Play at:
https://immaculategrid.com/football
@immaculategrid x @pfref

I hate these games because while I always knew I was a dummy, I know for a fact now I'm dumber than I thought.

Giff wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 3:24 pm I hate these games because while I always knew I was a dummy, I know for a fact now I'm dumber than I thought.

Samesies.

OK, reading the rules would've maybe made me feel a little less dumb. I thought the boxes were a player who achieved that stat for both teams.

Tried the football one that only goes back to 1999 and did OK on that one (7 out of 9).

Ugh. I missed the Phillies-Blue Jays square because I was convinced the late David West started in Toronto. (It was Minnesota.)

I'm better at the statistics squares when there are 5 possible answers than the team-to-team ones where there are 200

Ryan wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 8:24 am I'm better at the statistics squares when there are 5 possible answers than the team-to-team ones where there are 200

This is me.

Today I learned several great players did not have 200 hits in a season. Almost got yesterday's but who the hell knows people who played for the Mariners and Rays.

Ray Buhner
Ichiray
Rayndy Johnson
Adrian Beltray

Harold Raynolds
Raymie Moyer
Lenny Rayndle (complete with blue glove)

Rey Quinones.

I got a 9/9 86 today and that includes a 70 on one guy.

I can usually get 4-5 fairly easily, even with some deep dives (I had 3 on percetners today) but I somehow blanked on the top left corner. 8/9

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Corner was Guardians/Giants

Ryan wrote: ↑Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:50 am I got a 9/9 86 today and that includes a 70 on one guy.

I just got the greatest answer of alltime. After I get my 3 or 4 answers correct, I type in a random name and click down the line until I'm out of guesses to see the correct answer. ROY with a +.300 batting average. My answer had .003%. Not sure if this is too big of a clue, but he won as an AL pitcher, and batted .500 9 years later, with 1 hit in two ABs.

I'm starting to get a little better suited for this. I try to start with the stats line(s) first, because those seem easier to pull out some random guy. Today I did a finger snap when I came up with my final slot in the top right (SD/WAS) with

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Mark Langston.

All stats today and only ended up with 43, primarily due to the 20 in the Marcia slot. Only one <1:

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MVP and HoF Hal Newhouser

I have such a hard time thinking of randos that played for multiple teams