I'm pretty sure that most any GM who had Roy Halladay and he was 1-12 with a 6.00 ERA after 82 games and Tim Lincecum was on the waiver wire, would glady dump Halladay for Lincecum.

Besides, i look at it like this:  if I'm losing WITH a particular player, I can't do any worse by dumping him for somebody of similar supposed capabilities.

What is this worth?

Hendrix 1914  7-15  193.3 ip 214 ha 92 bb .377 oobp  1.58 whip  5.45 era

My last 2 seasons he has been great.  I' ve also been having goo luck with Koufax .... I can't get anything from Clemens or Gibson.

Every year or so I read a thread on how Hendrix `14 underperforms expectations.  I've read at least three or four now.  I toss that in FWIW and, absent empirical evidence, boogerlips for one (and zubinsum and dahsdebater for two and three) would probably say not much, but he does seem to elicit more complaints than the usual ace.  Don't read too many threads grousing about Joss, Taylor, Walsh, Johnson, Alexander and other high end pitchers.

Hope I don't duplicate your Gibson experience, rmarshall.  I'm trying to kick my deadballer habit in general and my Joss jones in particular, and Gibson is one of the centerpieces of my liveball teams.

Gibson is overpriced, just like all the other 1968 pitchers - in general the pricing structure for pitchers is pretty good, but guys who normalize extraordinarily poorly still wind up overpriced from their gaudy RL stats.

Posted by mixtroy on 9/19/2011 8:10:00 PM (view original):
Besides, i look at it like this:  if I'm losing WITH a particular player, I can't do any worse by dumping him for somebody of similar supposed capabilities.

You lose 10% of his salary, so you're either getting less back or giving up something else to get an equivalently priced guy back...

Posted by dahsdebater on 9/26/2011 3:37:00 AM (view original):
Gibson is overpriced, just like all the other 1968 pitchers - in general the pricing structure for pitchers is pretty good, but guys who normalize extraordinarily poorly still wind up overpriced from their gaudy RL stats.

Bad news for my Gibson/Tiant teams, huh? 

MLB TV rated the top five pitcher seasons thusly: Pedro Martinez 2000, Walter Johnson 1913, Bob Gibson 1968, Dwight Gooden 1985, Greg Maddux 1995.

But in WIS I think they come out like this: Maddux '95, Martinez 2000, Johnson1913, (tie) Gibson 1968 & Gooden 1985. Of the five, only Maddux's combination of offensive suppression attributes includes strong enough HR repression to offer consistency regardless of stadium or league contexts.

I don't think that Hendrix has some kind of WIS-programmed Federal League handicap. I think he's just not strong enough across the board to be a sure thing in high-cap leagues. I've got Gooden '85 on the same team and he's not doing much better.

I think it's Hendrix's walks that hurts him in high cap leagues, where damn near every hitter has an outrageous normalized OBP.

Suddenly Henrix shows as 29-10 in management center but team record is unchanged

So you told it to show actual stats.  So what?

Posted by mixtroy on 9/19/2011 8:07:00 PM (view original):
I'm pretty sure that most any GM who had Roy Halladay and he was 1-12 with a 6.00 ERA after 82 games and Tim Lincecum was on the waiver wire, would glady dump Halladay for Lincecum.

In RL you don't have to drop anybody to claim someone off the waiver wire.  You have to make a space on the active roster to activate the new guy, but I highly doubt it would be Halladay who got the axe.

If he had the above stats, and you had a chance to get Lincecum if you cut Halladay, I'm pretty sure they would do it.