Posted by biglenr on 8/9/2012 4:28:00 PM (view original):
No offense, but why?
(1) - You will need to buy more IP to pitch in Coors. If you need 1300 IP for a pitching park, you'll need another 100-150 IP at Coors. That will cost you another $4m for those IP, reducing your salary for hitters.
(2) - You'll be facing a bunch of deadball pitchers. These pitchers TRULY suppress HR's much better than you would think. So you're essentially taking your team strength, and throwing it away.
Assuming that you draft the best team possible, you're giving up 5% of your team to buy extra IP, and you're arming yourself with weapons that will be ineffective.
Essentially, you're bringing a knife to a gun fight. And a small knife at that.
WIS is what it is. It gives the pitchers more ability to stop HR's than it gives hitters the ability to hit HR's. The fatigue model argues for pitching parks. Trying to swim up stream and force the sim to do what you want it to do seems to be a recipe for frustration and a waste of time and money to me.
Of course, it's your time and your money, so you can use it however you want. You didn't ask for advice, but I'd tell you anyway to try to find a HR friendly league... Even something like no players before 1930 would work..
Good luck.
While I think you are right about being in Coors with all park factors being ++, a HR hitting team is not impossible to win with by any means. Some of my most successful teams were heavy HR hitting teams and Deadball pitchers who wouldnt give up the HRs. Sure you face a good amount of dead ball pitchers your self, however you also face a lot of modern guys in OL's too. In a 90 Mil Open league (theme was 90 mil aything goes) I won 114 games and the owners and player selections where alot better than a standard OL and there was a lot of deadball pitchers. I have had heavy HR teams in the 80 M cap too do well with over 90+ wins, however the low caps are harder to balance. That team hit 250-300 hr in AFC and gave up 50-100.
It is not impossible, especially in the regular season. The post season however is much more challenging I've found with the HR teams for reasons listed in other posts, such as singles teams beating your deadballer and running into a few good pitchers who dont give up HR. You often go with deal pitching for your supreme hitting and its hard to win in the playoffs that way and you cant have it both ways at that cap.
I would suggest that if this is the type of team you want to field, you should try to find a 100 mil league as I have found it to be the best success at getting a staff that is reasonable with your high HR guys.