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If you wish to play in a tried-and-true format and create your group proper now, normal leagues (Basic and SSG) are open to the general public 24/7. However if you wish to attempt one thing completely different, Customized leagues – created by clients – are there in abundance.
There are franchise leagues, development leagues, captains leagues, excessive and low wage cap leagues, “rags to riches” leagues, alphabet leagues, fatherland leagues … the chances are restricted solely by your creativeness.
Diamond Thoughts On-line wouldn’t be the identical if the Group didn’t embody a few of the most intelligent and prolific creators of Customized Leagues. We’ll be that includes considered one of these on this house every month.
This month we’re visiting with Bob (wolves1997) Stowell, Commissioner of the long-running Penny Pincher league collection, now in its 66th season.
Inform us one thing about your self: age, occupation, marital standing, the place you reside, and pursuits (other than DMO, after all).
Age 63. Occupation courier part-time for Corewell Well being in Grand Rapids, Michigan. From 1987-2004 I labored in Las Vegas at Bally’s Sportsbook.
Married to Jeri Lyn since March 1987. Have two youngsters Abbie and Adam; each are married now.
I’m a extremely avid sports activities fan. All Detroit groups, so championships are sparse. My spouse likes Michigan State and I like (as my consumer title suggests) Michigan. “Go Blue”!
I like sports activities speak radio, the seaside, our canine, and Horrocks Farm Market milk chocolate small peanut butter cups.
When did you begin enjoying DMO and the way did it first come to your consideration?
I began enjoying Sim baseball method again when it was ESPN Basic baseball. When it moved I performed a bit however then had an enormous hole enjoying. Most likely my children rising up. Dived again in a number of years in the past.
I see that you just play in lots of persevering with leagues, together with the Blind Date and Turbo R2R collection, in addition to your individual Penny Pincher leagues. What do you discover interesting about persevering with leagues?
I like persevering with leagues as a result of it’s principally the identical homeowners. Plus the stats are all saved. It actually helps.
I like the value of turbo and the tempo of 18 video games a day. I’m not the best participant however have a number of titles. This sim has some nice gamers. Charles Liddane, Jeremy Visser, Karim Reyes. If you wish to make nice groups take a look at these homeowners’ groups. I may title extra however the record could be lengthy.
Is there any recommendation you’d give to individuals who haven’t created a Customized League earlier than, however want to give it a attempt?
My recommendation to start out leagues is take a look at what different gamers are doing on the customized league message board. House owners like Jim Mudrock, and Mark Fishman, to call a number of, plus many others. Jim runs nice leagues.Penny Pincher began actually at a low beginning value and we attempt various things every now and then. Generally I do add extra money so it’s not a real “penny pincher” each season.
One time we ran by way of all of the completely different eras. Generally we do franchise. We have now been attempting completely different park concepts. PP#66 is a double captain league and a park one or each performed at. I attempted to search out Corridor of Fame tandems after which we drafted them. We modify different issues up like having pitchers bat on a season ending in zero. We have now tried the runner at second in further innings a number of instances. I feel in PP#65 we tried triples parks. We simply float concepts after which attempt a few of them.
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