*** VD 5 Commentary Thread ***

[johnnya24]

Heyelander is not here, so going to risk hooking up my old hard drive. Not sure what will happen when Windows detects two C drives.

Surely they have thought of this eventuality, he said to himself suspiciously.

[The Feral Slasher]

Heyelander is not here, so going to risk hooking up my old hard drive. Not sure what will happen when Windows detects two C drives.

Surely they have thought of this eventuality, he said to himself suspiciously.

Really, what's the worst thing that could happen ? I guess you let us know in a week or two once everything is working again

[johnnya24]

Awesomo ... so when both hard drives are plugged in it only detects the older installation on the slave slot ... because (sarcasm alert) that is the logical thing to do.

[johnnya24]

So it only works when the primary drive is placed in the slave slot. What sort of ridiculous Marxist logic is this.

[johnnya24]

Didn't have time to install everything, so just went with my originally intended victim. Things were already looking hairy for me in E-ville.

[johnnya24]

As long as you don't stop and grab a glass of water in the middle of typing in your pick

I only just got that reference now ... duh me

[heyelander]

work blow up. I had come up with a pick while I was waiting on something, only to find I had already taken the letter.

Now I need to get this work thing sorted out. Pick up irishly...

[Pogues]

I'm starting to think I'm be stalkVD by Johnny in this draft.

[heyelander]

I think the snapshot page should have blackout letters/decades.

Something like this:

Heye
Hitting
Decade A B C D E F G H I
1870 X
1800 X X X X X X X X X
1890 X
1900 X X X X X X X X X

err... if fucked my my matrix, but hopefully you get the idea.

[heyelander]

It's always such a relief after studying long and hard to figure out a good pick to just say screw it and punt your pick

[heyelander]

Nah, I actually had a purpose for a couple of my picks so far.

[johnnya24]

I think the snapshot page should have blackout letters/decades.

Something like this:

Heye
Hitting
Decade A B C D E F G H I
1870 X
1800 X X X X X X X X X
1890 X
1900 X X X X X X X X X

err... if fucked my my matrix, but hopefully you get the idea.

If someone has an old SS with a working version of the matrix, I can maybe work with that. Otherwise it'd take me an age to figure that out by myself.

[johnnya24]

Why the hell did I pick stupid Heilmann instead of Fisk???? I changed my mind at the last second, mostly because I'm an idiot and I suck at drafting these damn things.


Yes, revo. Fucking argh.

Thought about Fisk when I picked Frisch ... but I had a some strange reasoning for not following through (based on how this draft may play out in the final 1/3) ... also Frisch was higher ranked and allowed me more player pool flexibility. I wasn't sure picking a second catcher at this point would have been all that advantageous.

[The Feral Slasher]

I hope everyone else's brain is bleeding as much as mine is on this draft. I've seen revo looking at the draft thread for a half hour and have a feeling of schadenfreude that he's struggling, too.


This draft is going to be so insane once we hit the teen rounds.

Yeah the first couple rounds I was pretty stressed about figuring it all out. Once you accept the inevitability of this draft screwing you over it is a little better. If I did the calcs right (and assuming uniform player distribution) after 8 rounds I still have 2/3 of my team left to draft but the player pool I can choose from has been cut by more than 80%. And it only gets a lot worse from here on out.

[johnnya24]

I think the snapshot page should have blackout letters/decades.

Something like this:

Heye
Hitting
Decade A B C D E F G H I
1870 X
1800 X X X X X X X X X
1890 X
1900 X X X X X X X X X

err... if fucked my my matrix, but hopefully you get the idea.

I have updated the Snapshot tab with the Letters and Decades selections. It's not a matrix, but it should save you a lot of clicking and going back and forth between tabs.

I have also switched around the Career pitching and BY Hitting so that the Career and BY hitting and pitching now vertical. Easier to read that way.