Terry43

Me too! Lions 2024 redesigned uniforms released - including new-look blue helmet "But the best was saved for last - a show-stopping blue helmet with a black Lion logo on the side and stripes down the middle." "The team’s alternate helmet, which was introduced leading into the 2023 season, now features a black leaping Lion trimmed in silver on the matte blue shell," the team release said. "The leaping Lion is complimented by a black and silver stripe the runs the length of the helmet, as well as a black facemask." With black jerseys! Enjoy the Journey T43. ⚡🏈♾️

I understand what you mean by, a good batch. The Law of Diminishing Returns sets in quickly. The way I get around the Law of Diminishing Returns is to increase the total number of opportunities. Consider the Bell Curve. If the batch is 12 bases then 2 (25%) will be horrible 👎, 2 (25%) will be extraordinary 👍, and 8 (50%) will average 🥱. That means only 2 bases out of 12 might make the team. After a couple drafts the extraordinary bases drop to 1 per dozen bases. That's just my experience over the past decade with ITZ, Buzzball, and Tudor bases. If you increase the total number of bases in the batch to 184 (8 teams with 23 players on a team) then the Bell Curve looks much better. 46 is exactly 25% of 184. So 46 bases will be absolute crap. 👎 46 bases will be exceptional. 👍 And 92 bases are average. 🥱(yawn) The final two teams (23 players on each team) in my draft tournament should be the best 46 bases. I know this because each team has played at least three games and I have the statistics to document success and failure. Don't ask me about why back-to-back championships are so difficult because then I'll have to talk about physics and plastic failure rates. 😃 Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

Sometimes the new pairing plays better. That was the case with all the Javelin bases except TB #20. I had to repaint Javelin #20. I think the other Javelin bases performed better because the Meteor players have about three layers of paint (factory paint [they were originally the Steelers], flat back primer, and Rust-oleum's color shift pink/champaigne). That said, I've also noticed that repainting and the reverse of painting: scraping, also affect the player / base dynamic. I'm not too concerned about my investment of time because the players have the absolute minimal tweaking and minimal paint. The players have numbers only on their backs. I can always use the team boxes for next year's draft, or perhaps replace one boring team (like the Blue Jays) with a more meaningful team like the Trans-Am Javelins or Baja Blast. Some teams have more detail because they use to be a different team. The Pink Panthers use to be the Oakland Raiders and they still have Raider's names on their backs. The Trans-Am Javelins use to be the Christmas Spirit so they still have the shoulder numbers and the wreath image on the front of the jersey. Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

Poimenently! LOL (Daryl, How do you even know how to spell poimenently?) 😃👍 Bases follow a Bell Curve. I bought 300 single-clip bases and I'm looking for the 25% that are Above Expectations, or Excellent Performers in game situations. Some bases — no matter how much they are loved and tweaked — can't be saved. 🗑️ Some bases are money in the bank. 💵🏦💰 The following Javelin players were offered contracts to start for the Meteor Storm. Javelin's #14 Quarterback ➡️ Meteor Quarterback Javelin's #62 Guard / Defensive End ➡️ Meteor Left Tackle Javelin's #52 Right Outside Linebacker (edge rusher) ➡️ Meteor Right Outside Linebacker Javelin's #48 Left Outside Linebacker (edge rusher) ➡️ Meteor Quarterback Javelin's #6 Strong Side Corner ➡️ Meteor Nickel Back Javelin's #12 Free Safety ➡️ Meteor Weak Side Cornerback Javelin's #99 Defensive End ➡️ Meteor Guard / Defensive Tackle Javelin's #20 Tailback ➡️ Meteor Tailback Meteor Storm retained 16 of their original 23 players. Meteor Storm Internal Moves: Meteor TB #31 moved to Halfback. Practice Team: (The Practice Team consists of players that have good credentials but aren't needed by the Meteor Storm. PT players may be picked up by any team.) Javelin's WR / KR #3 9 returns for 310 kick return yards; 7 targets for 141 receiving yards; no touchdowns. Problem: Can't find the End Zone. Javelin's HB #34 +303 rushing yards on 20 carries; 13 carries for -57 yards; 3 touchdowns. Problem: Loses yards on shortage yardage situations. Javelin's TE / KR #87 Javelin's TE #83 Javelin's FB #46 Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

Up next are the Pink Panthers vs. Metallians Once again, the winner will absorb the best players of the loser. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

The Meteor Shower just beat the Trans-Am Javelins and eliminated the Javelins. Elimination means the Meteor Shower receive the best of the Javelin players and the rest of the Trans-Am Javelin players are headed for the oblivion. Meteor cornerback #43 closed out the game with a pick-six. Meteor #43 Pick-Six.mp4 This is the part of the Draft Tournament that I love. These games are analogous to high school games and high school athletes are hopeful they'll get an invitation to try out for a college team. No invitation — No career. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

Buzzball bases are still my favorites. 😃👍 Thanks for posting the brochures. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

Very sorry. I hope that life hasn't thrown you too much of a curve ball. Are you able to get a refund from the hotel? Enjoy the Solitaire Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

Nope. eBay tends to be my Tudor-Con. 😃👍 Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

I heard Liza Minnelli belt out these lyrics when I was a young man and the words are still apt today... "What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play Life is a cabaret, old chum Come to the cabaret." Enjoy the Cabaret. 😃👍 Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

I assumed the idea for passing sticks came from miniature warfare tabletop games. This is a quote from the BoardGameGeek Forum, "Lately there seems to be a trend away from grid maps back to unmarked terrain and the venerable Little Wars ruler, but I'm puzzled about what you do when the measurement is ambiguous, especially as the distance between two minifigs isn't a super well-defined concept to start with (base to base, or head to head, etc..?). A thought that has occured to me (and no doubt others) to avoid disagreement is to have a little grid map for precise movement and ranging, using the terrain board simply as an approximate display to add to the sense of reality, fun, and tactical thinking." Recently I've seen electric football videos where they use spring loaded devices. Remarkably, spring loaded devices go all the way back to 1913 and that little game called Little Wars. H.G. Wells (yes, the science fiction writer) wrote the instruction booklet. Wells references a cannon that, “The beginning of the game of Little War, as we know it, became possible with the invention of the spring breechloader gun. This priceless gift to boyhood appeared somewhen towards the end of the last century, a gun capable of hitting a toy soldier nine times out of ten at a distance of nine yards, It has completely superseded all the spiral-spring and other makes of gun hiterhto used in playroom warfare. These spring breechloaders are made in various sizes and patterns, but the one used in our game is that known in England as the four-point-seven gun. It fires a wooden cylinder about an inch long, and has a screw adjustment for elevation and depression. It is altogther an elegant weapon.” H.G. Wells references the inch-long wooden cylinder in his instruction booklet. "(6) When men are knocked over by a shot they are dead, and as many men are dead as a shot knocks over or causes to be knocked over. But if a shot strikes a man but does not knock him over, he is dead, provided the shot has not already killed a man. But a shot cannot kill more than one man without knocking him over, and if it touches several without oversetting them, only the first touched is dead and the others are not incapacitated. A shot that re-bounds from or glances off any object and touches a man, kills him; it kills him even if it simply rolls to his feet, subject to what has been said in the previous." Note the drawings of the inch-long cylinder hitting a man, or men. Does this remind any coaches of drawings in electric football instructions and rules manuals? Enjoy the Journey T43. ⚡🏈♾️

Thank you. 😃👍 I'm still in the middle of my 2024 Draft. It's time for the BASEMENT games. The next game — Trans-Am Javelins vs Meteor Storm — is an elimination game. The winner of the game acquires the best players of the losing team. I'll use game statistics to make the acquisitions and culling. Enjoy the Journey T43 ⚡🏈♾️

Already voted. Enjoy the Journey T43. ⚡🏈♾️

I don't name my Little Plastic Peeps, and I'm not sure why Coach Shawn and Coach Collins wouldn't name one of their little Plastic Peeps OJ Simpson, but IF I was inclined to name a Little Plastic Peep I would use OJ Simpson's name. I copied this from a Fox News story: "The Bills drafted Simpson as the first overall pick in 1969, a year after he won the Heisman Trophy while playing at USC. He would go on to be League MVP in 1973, and was the league leader in rushing yards multiple times in the 1970s. Simpson played 11 NFL seasons — nine with the Bills, where he became known as “The Juice” with an offensive line known as “The Electric Company,” and two with the San Francisco 49ers. He won four NFL rushing titles, rushed for 11,236 yards in his career, scored 76 touchdowns and played in five Pro Bowls. He was later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. When he retired, Simpson held (or shared) the record for seven different stats, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. At the time of his death, the 76-year-old still held a few of them. During the 14-game 1973 season, Simpson became the first back in the NFL to rush for over 2,000 yards — specifically, he recorded 2,003 yards thanks to a 200-yard game in the last game of the season, according to the Bills. That’s the most of any Bills player on record. In that same season, Simpson recorded an average of 143.1 yards rushing per game, a record that still holds today. Among modern-day players, only Adrian Peterson and Derrick Henry have come close, recording 131.1 yards in 2012, and 126.7 yards in 2020, respectively. Simpson shares another record with Peterson and Henry: the most games with 200 yards or more rushing. All three have recorded six games, but, with Henry still in the league, we could soon see Simpson fall from the top of that podium. Henry is also one big game away from toppling another Simpson record: the most games with 250 yards or more rushing. Simpson has two — a 250-yard game against the New England Patriots in 1973, and a 273-yard game against the Detroit Lions in 1976. In both seasons, Simpson twice had consecutive games in which he surpassed 200 yards rushing, more than any other back has recorded thus far. “I was part of the history of the game,” Simpson said years after his career ended. “If I did nothing else in my life, I’d made my mark.” Amen. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️

I used the past tense... ... because I don't use bumpers anymore. I've posted a video on the Forum where I demonstrate that the shape of the front of the base doesn't make a difference in blocking. In my experience — for receivers — the 'bounce' makes the difference, not the shape. The 'bounce' is when two bases collide they 'bounce' either to the left or to the right. A very strong player causes a very weak player to bounce backwards either to the left or to the right. Therefore, receivers should be very strong so that when the bounce occurs — either to the left or to the right — the receiver pushes past the front corner of the defender's base. A very soft base absorbs the impact kind of like the air bag in a car collision. As you think about electric football remember the little plastic peeps are bouncing up and down and leaning forward. Vibrating resembles running but the physics are different. Enjoy the Journey. T43. ⚡🏈♾️