Struggling with which way to go with a starting staff.  Would appreciate any constructive input or opinions.  Am NOT looking for alternatives to what is shown, as the theme restrictions have led me to these choices and I am not looking for anyone to build my team for me, rather some feedback on which of the two options I have come up with is stronger in your opinion.

Stadium choice is wide open, so if that would affect your choice, any how and why's and/or input onto which stadium(s) would fit the rotation would be gratiously accepted!


OPTION #1
                                                              ERA#     ERC#     OAV#     BB/9#     WHiP+     HR/9     HR/9+
1909  M. Brown (R)           363 IP      1.63        1.74      .212        1.48         139          .03          469   
1917  E. Cicotte (R)          365 IP      1.87        1.81       .213       1.87         136          .05          205
1890  F. Knauss (L)          334 IP      2.80        2.36      .203        3.28         124          .10         184


OPTION #2
                                                             ERA#     ERC#     OAV#     BB/9#     WHiP+     HR/9     HR/9+
1909  C. Mathewson (R)  292 IP     1.42       1.59        .210       1.25        146           .07         188
1972  D. Sutton (R)           285 IP      2.21       1.75       .196        2.09        141          .43          170
1902  B. Bernhard (R)      270 IP      2.24       1.84       .215        1.66        145          .16          150
1942  M. Cooper (R)         294 IP      1.93       2.02       .212        2.17        133          .29          151

Option #1 hands down.  There is a reason why everyone has deadballers in their rotation, right now they are your best bargain.  I always like Petco for my stadium, no matter what theme you are in, it allows you to get less IP and PA.  Less IP and PA required means you can upgrade your whatever IP and PA you had.  Also with deadballers in Pecto, you are going to give up almost no HRs.

I agree with profcake as far as the rotation. These guys do give you the option of using a + HR park if your hitting favors it. I like Riverside for that purpose.

What's the cap?   If it is over 80, I think either is fine but you'll need a minus park for 1b's.   Those OAV's will get hit hard in higher caps.

thanks for the input guys......would still appreciate more if anyone else wants to chime in.

Cap is $140 Million.

I have never been so on the fence about something like this and unable to make a decision!

with a 140 cap - I would definitely go with a park like petco as offenses are bound to be stacked.  

I also agree that option #1 is the way to go.   I know you're not looking for alternatives, however, if you went with a park like petco, you could probably do #2 with only 3 of them - freeing up space to upgrade offense/bullpen -of course it is your team, but just my thoughts.

Posted by pfattkatt on 7/5/2012 9:59:00 PM (view original):
I agree with profcake as far as the rotation. These guys do give you the option of using a + HR park if your hitting favors it. I like Riverside for that purpose.

I assume you must mean "Riverfront"......although Riverside sounds like a really nice retirement community! 

Barry Bonds is from Riverside.  And he's retired.  How about that!

No recommendation, but I do notice that #2 has 79 innings more than #1