Anyone Playing Immaculate Grid?

[UMFan83]

https://www.immaculategrid.com/

Fun game I just discovered but seems to have been around for a bit.  Each day there's a 3x3 grid with various qualifiers going down the first column and across the first row.  You have to find a player that matches both qualifiers.

For example, today's grid is: 

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I started last week and it is fun but also surprisingly frustrating.  There's always at least one where I get tunnel vision and ignore a blindingly obvious answer for something obscure.  Like somehow my brain decided that the only Dodger/Cardinal it could find was not *Albert Pujols*, but Jonathan Broxton.

[Andy]

This looks like a tremendously fun time-suck. I can only think of 6 of the 9 spots for the grid you posted. I am really bad at 40-save pitchers because of the inherent transience of relief pitchers.

[UMFan83]

8 minutes ago, Andy said:

This looks like a tremendously fun time-suck. I can only think of 6 of the 9 spots for the grid you posted. I am really bad at 40-save pitchers because of the inherent transience of relief pitchers.

I got 7 of 9 today, also struggled with the 40 save pitchers.  I spent like 5 minutes trying to think of the name of the Orioles closer that Showalter didnt put in during the 2014 Wild Card game even though I clearly know who it is (duh Zach Britton) before I gave up and guessed Jim Johnson and got it right.  Can't believe I forgot about Mark Melancon.  Wasn't even close on a Mariners closer.   Struggled with Rangers/Pirates too before my Cubs infected brain finally gave me Steve Buechelle.

[mul21]

2 hours ago, UMFan83 said:

I got 7 of 9 today, also struggled with the 40 save pitchers.  I spent like 5 minutes trying to think of the name of the Orioles closer that Showalter didnt put in during the 2014 Wild Card game even though I clearly know who it is (duh Zach Britton) before I gave up and guessed Jim Johnson and got it right.  Can't believe I forgot about Mark Melancon.  Wasn't even close on a Mariners closer.   Struggled with Rangers/Pirates too before my Cubs infected brain finally gave me Steve Buechelle.

Same7/9 but I had Randy Myers and couldn't come up with a Mariners closer or the Pirates/Rangers combo.

[cl smooth]

A group of buddies and I have been playing for the past week or so. Love it.

Pro tip: journeymen pitchers can bail you out in case you get stumped. Jesse Orosco, Jose Lima, Edwin Jackson, Rich Hill, LaTroy Hawkins, etc. 

[WrigleyField 22]

I'm as awful as I thought I'd be. But all 5 players I got right were former Cubs, even for the Rangers column. And yes that means I missed ARod for Mariners/Rangers 🤣

[Brock Beauchamp]

I am incapable of recalling people who played for two specific teams. It's just something my brain refuses to do for some reason.

[UMFan83]

5 hours ago, cl smooth said:

A group of buddies and I have been playing for the past week or so. Love it.

Pro tip: journeymen pitchers can bail you out in case you get stumped. Jesse Orosco, Jose Lima, Edwin Jackson, Rich Hill, LaTroy Hawkins, etc. 

Octavio Dotel and Gaylord Perry are 2 other good ones. And for hitters Rickey Henderson and Matt Stairs. 

Edited June 22, 2023 by UMFan83

[Transmogrified Tiger]

5 hours ago, cl smooth said:

A group of buddies and I have been playing for the past week or so. Love it.

Pro tip: journeymen pitchers can bail you out in case you get stumped. Jesse Orosco, Jose Lima, Edwin Jackson, Rich Hill, LaTroy Hawkins, etc. 

Got dang it I mistook Orosco for John Franco the other day and it was driving me nuts that I could not place Orosco's name when my guess was wrong.

[WrigleyField 22]

I can't avoid tunnel thought on this. Whoever the first player on a team I think of I can't move my mind off them, even if they're not applicable at all. 

 

[Nolansomebody]

On 6/21/2023 at 1:30 PM, UMFan83 said:

https://www.immaculategrid.com/

Fun game I just discovered but seems to have been around for a bit.  Each day there's a 3x3 grid with various qualifiers going down the first column and across the first row.  You have to find a player that matches both qualifiers.

For example, today's grid is: 

I am not good at this game as I don't really pay attention to league-wide baseball.

[WrigleyField 22]

your best non Babe Ruth answer for lower right corner today... 

[champaignchris]

5 minutes ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

your best non Babe Ruth answer for lower right corner today... 

i put in Babe Ruth. So I can’t test this, but Fergie Jenkins won 25 games for Texas in 1974, while batting .500. (1 for 2.)

[mul21]

1 hour ago, champaignchris said:

i put in Babe Ruth. So I can’t test this, but Fergie Jenkins won 25 games for Texas in 1974, while batting .500. (1 for 2.)

That works

[UMFan83]

1 hour ago, WrigleyField 22 said:

your best non Babe Ruth answer for lower right corner today... 

The one thing I'm confused at is does the .300 hitter have to qualify for the batting title at .300 to be considered a correct answer?  I'd assume so, but then that reduces the possibilities to only players that pitched and then switched over to hitting full time or vice versa (like Ruth) or pitchers that were so good at hitting that they hit on their off days (which is pretty much just Ohtani).  So I'm not sure!

[mul21]

12 minutes ago, UMFan83 said:

The one thing I'm confused at is does the .300 hitter have to qualify for the batting title at .300 to be considered a correct answer?  I'd assume so, but then that reduces the possibilities to only players that pitched and then switched over to hitting full time or vice versa (like Ruth) or pitchers that were so good at hitting that they hit on their off days (which is pretty much just Ohtani).  So I'm not sure!

I would say no based on Fergie being a correct answer.

[WrigleyField 22]

Yea, even for the one year Babe Ruth did this, 1917, he didn't have enough qualified ABs. I But certainly the fluky dominant AL pitcher going 1 for 2 is one way to get that. 

 

my big baseball stat ned/savant friend gave me Bob Lemon and Wes Ferrell off the cuff too. 

[mul21]

So they don't address career counting stats like hits, Ks, HRs etc. in the rules so I was kind of screwed on the 3,000 Ks ask today until I looked up the list and saw that only 19 pitchers have ever accumulated 3,000 so it's a guys who pitched for the team and at some point got to that number.  Kinda dumb with the way everything else works.

[squally1313]

1 hour ago, mul21 said:

So they don't address career counting stats like hits, Ks, HRs etc. in the rules so I was kind of screwed on the 3,000 Ks ask today until I looked up the list and saw that only 19 pitchers have ever accumulated 3,000 so it's a guys who pitched for the team and at some point got to that number.  Kinda dumb with the way everything else works.

Yeah obviously they are going for simplicity in the presentation but probably need to include some sort of clarification on what you're talking about, and then today in the bottom right corner my buddy put 

Spoiler

Hank Aaron

who played for the team but didn't make the HOF for that team and so it didn't count.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Came through with an 0.05% guess today. I struggle to think of obvious ones most of the time.

[Derwood]

Played for the first time today. Got a 2%'er on the NYY/MIL square. Didn't realize it was 3 strikes and you're out, so I over-guessed one of the categories

[champaignchris]

I wish it would give you the top 3 or 5 answers after your guesses, instead of just the percentage of your guess.  Family Feud style.  

Edited June 26, 2023 by champaignchris

[Transmogrified Tiger]

1 hour ago, Derwood said:

Played for the first time today. Got a 2%'er on the NYY/MIL square. Didn't realize it was 3 strikes and you're out, so I over-guessed one of the categories

It's 9 guesses total, it's called immaculate grid as a nod to an immaculate inning in that regard (I assume).  There's no limit on wrong answers outside of getting 9 total guesses.

[Derwood]

2 minutes ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

It's 9 guesses total, it's called immaculate grid as a nod to an immaculate inning in that regard (I assume).  There's no limit on wrong answers outside of getting 9 total guesses.

Ah. Either way, I got 6/9 before whiffing on the left column.