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Please come back, Art!
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Oct 18, 2012 03:08
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My random captain team might be the worst team i've ever put together.
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Oct 19, 2012 19:53
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You managed to draw possibly the worst captain I've ever seen since I've been playing in that league, because crazy is dumb and doesn't vet captains. I mean, there's a little bit of charm to the league with the risk you could get a sub-par captain, but there's a big difference to a passable one like Kiki Cuyler and the downright poo poo that is Carlos Lee.
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Oct 19, 2012 19:56
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ArtVandelay posted:My random captain team might be the worst team i've ever put together. uhh, we've all been in HBD with you dude
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AlleyViper posted:You managed to draw possibly the worst captain I've ever seen since I've been playing in that league, because crazy is dumb and doesn't vet captains. Haha wow. i wasn't expecting you to defend me.
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If all of my picks sign in Mordecai my draft will of been ok. Nothing great especially with the 3rd overall pick, but I cant help that this draft class had like 3 good players and I only saw 1 of them. Seems like I got a decent DH, a solid RP, a solid SP and possibly a good SS.
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Oct 22, 2012 16:33
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Hahaha my palyer salary is capped out so much that I can't afford the $7k contracts for all my rookies, gently caress me. give me money for AAAAers thanks
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Nerokerubina posted:Hahaha my palyer salary is capped out so much that I can't afford the $7k contracts for all my rookies, gently caress me. give me money for AAAAers thanks I've had that happen before. Ended up waiving all my $3xxk guys in AAA hoping that someone would bite and take one
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Oct 22, 2012 17:06
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Was that when I got Slash Hamels or did you do that some other time?
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AlleyViper posted:Was that when I got Slash Hamels or did you do that some other time? Yeah that was when you got Slash. I also lost two other AAA guys. Andrea Hawkins and Desi Rodriguez, both claimed by Philly. If I had known the other two would have been claimed I would have held on to Slash. Devo fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Oct 24, 2012 |
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Oct 24, 2012 16:19
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So all in all I did not have a bad draft in Mordecai. Round 1 Pick 3  My draft scouting showed him actually hitting SS where as my zero advanced does not. Round1 Pick 24  I believe he has more power than my projections show. Round 1 Pick 33  A solid SP but not Matthews/Gilmore  Round 1 Pick 46  I needed arms in my system. Of course I was one pick away from getting  who went 2nd overall  and I did not see  who when 4th overall 
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Oct 24, 2012 18:15
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:increasingly-growing-stare:
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So I've been messing around with a free OL league just to play with team building and try to get a better feel for SLB. I put together this squad: Were this a full season, I feel like I skimped a bit on PAs and I'm still not sure how to build a good bullpen. I could use some constructive criticism.
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Oct 27, 2012 23:20
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For an OL team, you should only use as many PAs as you need to hit the 4800 minimum with your starting 8 (not your starters + bench, so you can waive your 200k bench scrubs), unless you're doing something like an offense heavy Coors team. That 4800 is more than enough when you factor in AAA player usage. The main thing with OL bullpen building is really just whether or not you're okay using the Reliever Usual Suspects. There are a number of mainstays who are just so drat cheap, and good enough replacements of the super elite relievers, that there's no reason to use the very top of the line guys over them. Kimbrel is an example of a guy who is prohibitively expensive for a fine tuned OL team. Unless you want to go outside the box, an OL bullpen should basically consist of guys like: '15 Tim McCabe, '15 Cy Falkenberg, '18 Roy Mitchell, '24 Babe Adams, '19 Art Nehf, '72 Steve Busby, '92 Rasmussen, '12 Carl Weilman, '80/'81 Andy Rincon, '40 Tiny Bonham, '14 Ernie Shore, '08 Frank Arellanes, '06 Maddux, many Mo years, etc. For example  There are literally dozens more I could name. Basically you could just sort guys in the draft center by ERC# and go down the list adding the cheapest guys by $/IP and you could build an effective bullpen. Obviously you'll want to tailor things to what your team needs, your park, how you like to handle a staff, etc., but by and large you just need the most effective value guys available. The one super expensive guy that's typically worth having is Milacki, since he won't crimp your budget with only 26 innings and because he has the added utility of being a must-win playoff starter. There are some other similar guys (like '70 Vida) but Milacki's the best of the best there.
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I think this is why I like the Goon theme league, because at least the theme gives me something to focus on instead of browsing an endless number of players/seasons. Also what's special about Milacki that you can use him as a spot starter in the playoffs?
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He's basically the best pitcher in the entirety of the sim and can go 8 IP/G. If you absolutely have to win just one game, you start Milacki. Since he only has 26 IP you're pretty much burning him for the remainder of the playoffs but he take the 50/50-ish nature of a typical game and tip it strongly in your favor.
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The other nice thing about Milacki is that he's an absolute lock down closer. If you never get to that point where you're in a do or die elimination game he'll just keep coming out in the 9th inning and shutting the other team down 1-2-3. Open league pitching staffs are pretty drat boring unless you're doing something gimmicky. But there's a reason that guys like '08 Addie, '68 McLain, '92 Rasmussen show up on so many teams. e: And of course when I say that, Milacki blows a playoff save. This is a freaking awesome playoff game by the way
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Oct 28, 2012 00:10
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You can build an entire pitching staff out of the year 1908 without too much trouble, I did it once 
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That was prettymuch the whole idea behind my WISC 100m team. Somehow none of the other 95 teams also thought of 1908.Devo posted:
Joss pinch hitting for Overall 
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foolish_fool posted:That was prettymuch the whole idea behind my WISC 100m team. Somehow none of the other 95 teams also thought of 1908. That was like the first year I thought of, but I couldn't get an offense that I didn't hate.
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foolish_fool posted:Joss pinch hitting for Overall Yeah Sparky is weird sometimes. I haven't looked into that game deeply enough to see who else he had on his bench.
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jeffersonlives posted:That was like the first year I thought of, but I couldn't get an offense that I didn't hate. In a general sense, this is probably why you (and similarly alleyviper) are at the top of the list and I ended up very midfield. I'm really bad at drafting offense e: Overall is a whole lot better hitter than Joss I think in general though? Though I'm not sure which versions these are... foolish_fool fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Oct 28, 2012 |
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Oct 28, 2012 03:15
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Devo posted:Yeah Sparky is weird sometimes. I haven't looked into that game deeply enough to see who else he had on his bench. 13 man pitching staff, so his position players were spent
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I think 1915 is another single-season pitching staff year although I'm just guessing based on a bunch of relievers being from around then
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Is that the dude who enters 2008 Cubs into open leagues with no changes
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Oct 28, 2012 20:53
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At last, an owner i'm actually better than!
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Male. Bi. Unix. posted:Is that the dude who enters 2008 Cubs into open leagues with no changes Judging by the team names of his active teams, no. I only even noticed him because his team is currently on an L30 in the OL my cookie team is in.
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No he's way more interesting in that he waives his entire team two or three times over the course of a season, regardless of performance like check this poo poo out Naturally this results in a bunch of fatigued, terrible players
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Oct 28, 2012 22:20
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I don't understand why you would waste your money like this.
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 That looks like a pretty solid bullpen, yeah? Waterson and Singleton are both great and everyone else but Sammy Scott is average or better. Overall should be an asset for m-  guh
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How is Iwamura the bright spot of that pen
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Here's a thing.
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This is for MBU Crushes
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d. erstad booms one to right center for a touchback
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b. bonds calls for fair catch on d. erstad double to left
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I'm seriously considering setting up an all clones theme league again, just for the hell of it. Who here would be interested in starting it back up?
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Two Man Band: THE RETURN! http://whatifsports.com/forums/Posts.aspx?TopicID=461164&TopicsTimeframe=30
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