Absolutely brutal trying to finish the $120 mil team, at 8+ hours now trying to get something that feels right. Obviously the indicator of a great theme. I'm destined for 75 wins with all the time I'm putting in.

I'll take that as a compliment.  Thanks  (I felt the same way about how much harder it was, than originally anticipated)

I really didn't think that the $120M theme was that difficult....... which means I'll go 40-122!
I had a harder time with the $90M Good, Bad and Ugly theme.

GBU is definitely the most time consuming and, for me, has yielded the most difficult choices.

Posted by ozomatli on 7/2/2015 7:03:00 PM (view original):
GBU is definitely the most time consuming and, for me, has yielded the most difficult choices.

That has been perhaps the easiest for me so far. I knew who I wanted in my rotation and worked the rest of the team around them.

I spent the most time on the $100M cloned team by far.  I made over a dozen different teams before making a final choice.  After going in one direction with the first few GBU teams that I made, I hit on a combination that will hopefully work well.

Just curious about something, Jeff: was it intentional that there are no twist themes this year? Seems like you usually include one.

Is there a waiting list for the 90MM. I absolutely love the theme idea and have a team that looks pretty good.

Sorry, this is a 6-league tournament *everybody plays in all 6 leagues).  And all 96 spots are filled, with a waiting list.

well I finally finished. hell of a time with the 120 mil theme. struggled with the 90 too and on the 5th try, everything clicked. Of course that's what Freddie Prinze probably thought too.

Posted by bighooze on 7/2/2015 2:38:00 PM (view original):
Absolutely brutal trying to finish the $120 mil team, at 8+ hours now trying to get something that feels right. Obviously the indicator of a great theme. I'm destined for 75 wins with all the time I'm putting in.

You sure nailed it. Have spent so much time trying to make this work. The more I tinker, the worse the team looks. Thought I had the pitching staff I wanted but wound up blowing it up. 1st lineup looked okay but when I revised it, I went over the salary cap. I just cannot get this the way I want it no matter what.

I have not even started GBU or Clone yet. Oh boy. Thanks Jeff!

I didn't find the $120M puzzle too difficult in the way I approached putting it together. Of course that means it probably will be my worst performing team. But then I always struggle with the higher cap leagues. The GBU is giving me a headache. It is the last team I need to finish. I currently have 2 open versions in my draft center that I am working on and at one time I had 3. I have changed the teams in each category numerous times that I have lost track of the number of combinations I have tried. Fortunately, for most of those combinations it was apparent I couldn't make a useable team so I moved on quickly. GBU will easily be the team I put the most time on in creating. And I spent a good amount of time putting together the other 5 teams.

I stand corrected. The $90M Good, Bad, Ugly was more difficult for me (since it still is nowhere close to being done) than the $100M and $120M teams, both of which I struggled with.

Good themes should be an outstanding tourney!