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Subject: "Odd" Trading and Price Changes Explained Posted by: philliephan - [25459221] Fri, May 12, 17:36 I have discovered the real cause of the "pricing quirks" that have recently been pointed out by Sludge, J, and others. We have assumed all along that the "lemmings" were acting independently and often without method in their selections. We were wrong! I have discovered that there is indeed method behind their apparent madness. How did I discover this? My first clue was the report that Moderator Lou had reported that "managers are trading oddly". "How could that be?" I wondered. On the assumption that all these managers were operating more or less independently, it would seem that by definition most of the managers would in fact trading normally (though perhaps illogically). Perhaps Moderator Lour knew something. This seemed unlikely on the face of it, but I decided to investigate further. Without divulging my methods (as some might doubt their morality), I will say that I have managed to intercept a series of emails and other communications that prove beyond doubt the existence of an enormous group of managers (perhaps nearly half the players in the game) that are in fact in collusion in their trading. This organization, which calls itself the Brigade Opposed (to) RotoGurupies (or BORG) is actually acting as a collective with the single-minded purpose of confusing us! To that end they have devised a series of trading schemes, so bizarre that even typical "lemming" logic cannot explain them. For example they recently had their managers all buy Glavine and Johnson after their starts, thus overriding the sells of the other players in the game. They have even gone so far as to hack into various Gurupie computers and determine the randomly sampled rosters so that they could be excluded from this "odd" trading. In short we face an enemy endowed with extreme cunning. It will take great strength for our culture to survive! | ||||||
| 1 | Mike D ID: 364351212 Fri, May 12, 17:41 |
Gurupies, unite! Beware the BORG. I mentioned this theory in a thread the other day.....can't seem to find it right now......when I do, I'll lik it.....
Mike D out. | |||||
| 2 | Mike D ID: 364351212 Fri, May 12, 17:41 |
Gurupies, unite! Beware the BORG. I mentioned this theory in a thread the other day.....can't seem to find it right now......when I do, I'll link it.....
Mike D out. | |||||
| 3 | Mike D ID: 364351212 Fri, May 12, 17:43 |
Got so excited, I posted twice.
Mike D out. | |||||
| 4 | Harkonnon ID: 4453220 Fri, May 12, 18:01 |
and this usual suspect is rumoured to be Borg 1ofMany
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| 5 | biliruben ID: 5849314 Fri, May 12, 18:04 |
rofl!
"But, but I'm not afraid." "You will be, you will be..." | |||||
| 6 | Harkonnon ID: 4453220 Fri, May 12, 18:08 |
Resistance is futile !
Get ready to be assimilated ! How do you want to assimilated today ? | |||||
| 7 | Twarpy ID: 28438220 Fri, May 12, 18:36 | Hark how do I want to be assimilated? One of those laser things ccoming out of my head might be kind cool:) | |||||
| 8 | Wilma ID: 49435313 Fri, May 12, 18:56 |
Hark - That is too funny!
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| 9 | Ender ID: 13443221 Fri, May 12, 18:59 | Welcome to Borgworld. Strategy is futile. Surrender and be assimilated. | |||||
| 10 | Sludge ID: 20421222 Fri, May 12, 20:20 |
LMAO
This thread, though young, is great. Nothing's better than a good dose of humor. Well, except maybe the forsight not to have Kile tonight. $(#*$@(^! | |||||
| 11 | philliephan ID: 25459221 Sat, May 13, 11:18 |
The email I intercepted today, included "buy Demptser. A medicore game and he won't start again for until Thursday. This will have those Gurupies heads scratching".
Price up 20K! | |||||
| 12 | Mike D ID: 364351212 Sat, May 13, 20:18 | <~~~~~ scratching head | |||||
| 13 | Ender ID: 13443221 Sat, May 13, 20:26 | I have never scratched anything with my head. I have found that my hands do a much better job. | |||||
| 14 | Josie ID: 374331122 Sun, May 14, 12:29 | BUTT- this thread is too funny to fall off the first page. | |||||
| 15 | George Alec Effinger ID: 334283113 Wed, May 31, 13:29 |
I'm new at this game and need some advice. I've just spent the last of my team's budget on Luis Tiant and Rocky Colavito. I've been thinking, though, that I should've gone with a younger starter. Does anyone know when Tiant pitches again?
I hate these learning experiences. Your pal in the Deep South, GAE | |||||
| 16 | Mark L ID: 4444938 Wed, May 31, 13:31 | George - trade Tiant immediately for Old Hoss Radbourne. No rotation necessary, pitches every other day, all CGs. | |||||
| 17 | Ender ID: 52438315 Wed, May 31, 13:40 | Does anyone know when SW will IPO Walter Johnson and @ what price they will do it? I am hoping it will be the minimum 500K, there's no way they would IPO anyone more than 2 mill ;-) | |||||
| 18 | Mark L ID: 4444938 Wed, May 31, 13:46 | The Big Train should indeed be 500K, at age 112. Probably lost a little off that heater by now (but still could throw harder than Doug Jones). | |||||
| 19 | Ref ID: 1845539 Wed, May 31, 13:46 | I can't afford Johnson if he's over 500K because I own the $18 million Satchel Paige. I know he's pretty old, but he used to be really good! | |||||
| 20 | Satchel Paige ID: 25431221 Wed, May 31, 13:58 | Age is a case of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it don't matter. | |||||
| 21 | KB8ers GM ID: 46426221 Wed, May 31, 14:08 |
I was debating on whether to get Jack McDowell or Cy Young.
I eventually decided on Black Jack since he's won a Cy Young Award. The other guy never did. | |||||
| 22 | curly ID: 324531916 Sat, May 19, 16:53 | I remember this thread. helps explain Pedro's price drop or lack of. | |||||
| 23 | The Left Wings ID: 304491918 Sat, May 19, 18:49 | Well, maybe we did beat the BORG last year as the season went on as we saw bigger and bigger Randro price swings. Maybe the growing number of randroers became so great that even the BORG couldn't assimilate. Ah well. Philliephan will be missed again. | |||||
| 24 | SkandalouS ID: 51510712 Thu, Jun 07, 12:11 | Hey, i want to joing this BORG. Someone email me with details, ASAP. Thanx a million, SkandaL | |||||
| 25 | Bodacious Tatahs ID: 39557712 Thu, Jun 07, 12:57 | Too funny. Havent seen a good thread in days before this. Thanks man! | |||||
| 26 | KrazyKoalaBears ID: 17329247 Thu, Jun 07, 13:33 | It should be noted that this thread was from last season. Since then, our friend philliephan has passed away. Those who didn't know him can get a very small taste of his contributions through this thread. | |||||
| 27 | perk9600 ID: 1154714 Thu, Jun 07, 14:04 | This is pretty funny. I wonder how many teams you would need to create to influence price changes in your favor. 10,000, 20,000. real funny stuff here. | |||||
| 28 | KyLe ID: 5556715 Thu, Jun 07, 15:56 | do u have the website? | |||||
| 29 | KyLe ID: 5556715 Thu, Jun 07, 15:59 | haha LMAOROTF | |||||
| 30 | AdRock ID: 45521723 Thu, Jun 07, 23:22 |
Well I think i discovered the leader of this BORG unit. His name? Junior Spivey BORG Master | |||||
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