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I'll be 70, this coming summer.  I'm kinda just was wondering, as a newby here, if anybody in my age bracket has got story to tell about "inventing" a home-brewed, table-top, rudimentary baseball game, like my friends and I did, way back in the late 1950s-60s.   Dice?  Playing cards?  Compiling stats?  Even creating team line-ups -- it all was so much different back in those days when information had to be scraped and scratched out of daily/weekly publications (no internet).  It was tedious and time consuming, but SO rewarding.  My pals and I chewed up a lot of rainy days inventing the games, and then we consumed mass quantities of Fritos and Mountain Dew as we played those games.  Great memories.  Got a story to share along those lines?  Just askin'.

Denver 0 7 0 0 -- 7 Arizona 7 10 0 3 -- 20 First Quarter Arizona - McCord 5 pass from McNabb (Gramatica kick), 5:47 Second Quarter Arizona - Gramatica 30 FG, 0:07 Arizona - Hambrick 29 pass from McNabb (Gramatica kick), 8:11 Denver - Porter 17 pass from Griese (Brown kick), 13:12 Third Quarter No scoring Fourth Quarter Arizona - Gramatica 35 FG, 12:06 With this win, Arizona ties Washington for the final playoff spot.  The last game of the season will decide the last playoff spot.  As for Denver, hopefully this game was an anomaly.  They don't need any let up on their way to the playoffs.   ARIZONA WRANGLERS Passing Cmp Att Yds %% TD INT QB1 Donovan McNabb 18 36 210 50.0 2 0 Rushing Att Yds Avg TD Fmb HB1 Deuce McAllister 16 47 2.9 0 0 HB2 Troy Hambrick  7 45 6.4 0 0 HB3 DeShaun Foster 3 17 5.7 0 0 QB1 Donovan McNabb 1 -8 -8.0 0 0 Receiving Rec Yds Avg TD Fmb Trgt WR3 Snoop Minnis 4 52 13.0 0 0 6 WR2 Quentin McCord 4 47 11.8 1 0 9 HB2 Troy Hambrick  2 31 15.5 1 0 2 WR4 Ronald Curry 4 29 7.3 0 0 8 WR1 Darnerien McCants 2 28 14.0 0 0 4 TE1 Todd Heap 2 23 11.5 0 0 3 Defense Tck Sck Int Fmb TD Knk Saf LB1 Larry Foote 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 DT1 Kris Jenkins 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 S2 Mark Roman 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 CB1 Fernando Bryant 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 CB2 David Barrett 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 CB3 Tony Dixon 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 LB2 Dhani Jones 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 S1 Paris Lenon  3 0 0 0 0 0 0 DE2 Courtney Brown 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 CB4 Tod McBride  2 0 0 0 0 0 0 S4 Armon Hatcher 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 DT2 Albert Haynesworth 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 S3 Jason Simmons 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 LB5 Akin Ayodele 0 0 0 0 0 1 0   DENVER GOLD Passing Cmp Att Yds %% TD INT QB1 Brian Griese 19 32 204 59.4 1 1 Rushing Att Yds Avg TD Fmb QB1 Brian Griese 7 18 2.6 0 0 HB1 Kevin Faulk 7 17 2.4 0 0 HB2 Curtis Enis 3 13 4.3 0 0 FB1 Rock Cartwright 1 4 4.0 0 0 Receiving Rec Yds Avg TD Fmb Trgt WR2 Jerry Porter 4 51 12.8 1 0 4 WR1 Brandon Stokley 4 38 9.5 0 0 4 TE2 Alonzo Mayes 1 32 32.0 0 0 1 HB2 Curtis Enis 3 26 8.7 0 0 3 TE1 Desmond Clark 3 19 6.3 0 0 5 WR3 Drew Bennett 1 19 19.0 0 0 4 HB1 Kevin Faulk 1 16 16.0 0 0 3 WR5 Alvis Whitted 1 5 5.0 0 0 1 WR4 Patrick Johnson 1 -2 -2.0 0 0 4 Defense Tck Sck Int Fmb TD Knk Saf CB1 Corey Chavous 10 1 0 0 0 2 0 CB3 Artrell Hawkins 6 0 0 0 0 1 0 CB2 Daylon McCutcheon 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 LB1 Brian Urlacher 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 S1 Tony Parrish 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 S2 Jerry Azumah 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 CB4 Shaunard Harts 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 DE1 Gary Stills 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 LB3 Ed Hartwell 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 DT1 Kelly Gregg 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 DE2 Justin Smith 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 S3 Ralph Brown 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 DT2 Josh Williams 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 LB4 Travian Smith 1 0 0 0 0 0 0  

Bringing this one back from the dead because I think it is a real problem with an easy solution. There are a couple of teams in my LIHL league that have top 2 lines filled with 65+ players. No way this is by design but rather “lucky” as others have posted. Problem being there are so few owners that the early birds get REALLY lucky and it is frustrating being a new owner and seeing there are stacked teams that you can’t compete with. The solution in my mind is to make contracts scale closer with overall instead of however they are scaling now. Remove the “won’t sign with you right now” or at least loosen it up. One guy has a 68 overall forward he signed this year for 33k which is INSANE. That player is firmly in the copper league skill wise and is playing for peanuts in the LIHL. He should be requesting 100-150k based on his skill alone (5-7% of CHL cap). 70 overall should be looking closer to 10% (215k) of CHL cap. This way, you can grab one or two players outside of your league skill, but will break the bank if you sign too many. You have to be more STRATEGIC and less “lucky”. New owners can target one or two great players to build around or go for depth with proper league skill levels.

I did empty my cache. I can now save, but the two-space-move is there. Please fix this up, i'm not the only one who as this problem.