Cool game to play to test your baseball knowledge

@MarshallFaulk28 said:
Definitely some challenging squares today. I thought I did all right though.

Baseball:

Football:

Hockey:

Wait a minute. Are you saying you got a player who played for SD and the Sox but not a 20 game winner for Houston ? That's wild, you definitely dug deep for that one. But the Houston 20 game winner is a pretty easy one IMO. Either way, nice board brother !

Jeff

@MarshallFaulk28 said:
Definitely some challenging squares today. I thought I did all right though.

Football:

Gary Anderson...you should have told me that one this morning...

@MarshallFaulk28 said:

@76collector said:

@MarshallFaulk28 said:
Definitely some challenging squares today. I thought I did all right though.

Baseball:

Football:

Hockey:

Wait a minute. Are you saying you got a player who played for SD and the Sox but not a 20 game winner for Houston ? That's wild, you definitely dug deep for that one. But the Houston 20 game winner is a pretty easy one IMO. Either way, nice board brother !

Jeff

Thanks! What happened is I tried that Houston 20-game winner one first, and it was wrong. I decided to leave it while trying to think of someone other than Verlander, but by the time I got back to it, I was out of guesses. 😂 Are there any other obvious ones I missed for that box?

James Rodney, my man. If there's ever a chance to use his name then I use it.

Got a very low score in baseball, but football is much tougher especially when there’s no easy stat categories.

@GroceryRackPack said:
the football one was kind of tough...

Amazing baseball grid!

That Bears/Titans square was impossible for me.

Here's mine:

Baseball

Hockey

Football

@MarshallFaulk28 said:

@76collector said:

@MarshallFaulk28 said:
Definitely some challenging squares today. I thought I did all right though.

Baseball:

Football:

Hockey:

Wait a minute. Are you saying you got a player who played for SD and the Sox but not a 20 game winner for Houston ? That's wild, you definitely dug deep for that one. But the Houston 20 game winner is a pretty easy one IMO. Either way, nice board brother !

Jeff

Thanks! What happened is I tried that Houston 20-game winner one first, and it was wrong. I decided to leave it while trying to think of someone other than Verlander, but by the time I got back to it, I was out of guesses. 😂 Are there any other obvious ones I missed for that box?

Nope, Verlander was the obvious one, I think Mike Scott won one too, but I didn't have the guts to guess him, so I went with V.

Missed an easy one in football. Apparently my Brewers knowledge isn’t as strong as it needs to be.

I only had time for football today but did pretty good.

@GroceryRackPack said:

@MarshallFaulk28 said:
I only had time for football today but did pretty good.

not too bad on 8 of your squares...I'm surprised on your 9th pick there...Marshall...

That was the free bingo square. 😂

Ok, I had some time tonight while watching baseball, so I tackled the hockey grid. Finished just in time to see the Jays blow the game in the bottom of the 9th. 😖

I was struggling to fill the bottom middle box until I thought of this:

0.4%

Tough day, got hung up on the bottom right corner, Acuna somehow hasn’t won a Gold Glove and Canseco didn’t either. Mark Grace didn’t hit .300 for the Dbacks which surprised me. Football was rough. Could have easily gotten the Dbacks and Yankees gold gloves of course, but wasted my guesses.

Today's grids:

Baseball:

Football:

Hockey:

I also blew picks on that Cubs .300 hitter!

Baseball:

Hockey - Almost immaculate. Tried Ron Hextall for 300 wins. He apparently finished with 296. 😭

Football:

Baseball:

Football:

Hockey:

@daltex said:
How does one post the results, preferably with the "Spoiler" shield?

@MarshallFaulk28

Oh, you can either add >! In front of whatever you want in the Spoiler tag or highlight the whole block of text and then click “Spoiler” under the dropdown on the formatting bar (the 6th button just to the right of the bullets one).

@daltex said:

@MarshallFaulk28 said:

@daltex said:
How does one post the results, preferably with the "Spoiler" shield?

@MarshallFaulk28

Oh, you can either add >! In front of whatever you want in the Spoiler tag or highlight the whole block of text and then click “Spoiler” under the dropdown on the formatting bar (the 6th button just to the right of the bullets one).

OK, but how does one copy one's results?

You can take a screenshot of your grid from the Immaculate Grid site, and then paste that image into your post here. From there you’d add that spoiler tag to the image URL if you wish.

@daltex said:

@MarshallFaulk28 said:

@daltex said:

@MarshallFaulk28 said:

@daltex said:
How does one post the results, preferably with the "Spoiler" shield?

@MarshallFaulk28

Oh, you can either add >! In front of whatever you want in the Spoiler tag or highlight the whole block of text and then click “Spoiler” under the dropdown on the formatting bar (the 6th button just to the right of the bullets one).

OK, but how does one copy one's results?

You can take a screenshot of your grid from the Immaculate Grid site, and then paste that image into your post here. From there you’d add that spoiler tag to the image URL if you wish.

Oh. I thought you were using something more sophisticated. Seems like Baseball Reference would want to develop something like that.

Yes, true! They should make a one-click share button that automatically creates an image or results and/or posts it on various platforms.

@daltex said:
I didn't cheat exactly, but I pre-checked some of my answers. I doubt I'll ever get a rarity score of 4 ever again!

Wow! 😱 That is an epic rarity score.

It’s way more fun to play legit, try not checking next time. Much more rewarding when you get the obscure ones correct.

One thing to keep in mind is the teams changing: Expos/Nationals, St Louis Browns/Orioles, Senators/Rangers and so on. Opens up years of players you may not have considered. I wish they would find a way to include that in the headers.

It also bothers me that players have to be on the active roster. Everyone knows Johnny U came up on the Steelers practice team for example but it’s not a valid answer.

I'm kind of pressed on time to play today...

@Browns1981 said:
It’s way more fun to play legit, try not checking next time. Much more rewarding when you get the obscure ones correct.

One thing to keep in mind is the teams changing: Expos/Nationals, St Louis Browns/Orioles, Senators/Rangers and so on. Opens up years of players you may not have considered. I wish they would find a way to include that in the headers.

It also bothers me that players have to be on the active roster. Everyone knows Johnny U came up on the Steelers practice team for example but it’s not a valid answer.

Oh, I don't disagree. I was just determined to complete one for once. Once I got the 1984 Tigers, I really didn't want to mess it up. And it's not as though I took credit for it.

And I spent a lot of energy trying to think of Browns who hung around long enough to play for the Angels or Astros before giving up. I ended up filling Angels/Orioles with a HoFer at 1%! The 1972 Traded series did wonders for me.

Football was going well today until I entered Doug Flutie in the wrong box. 🙃

Baseball:

Hockey:

No 3,000 yard season for Bart Starr? I guess I should stay in my lane and pick guys from my era. 🙂

Football:

Baseball:

Hockey: