My team, Powa to the Peeps, beat CrazyStengel's Ed Morris team in the 1st round of the TOC. If you look at that team, you have to realize thatCrazy was interested in setting a new wins record with Morris, So, the team itself could have beenbetter, if all you wanted to do was win as many games ( as a team) as you could. I think Morris went something like 62-20 for crazy, short of the record, but I think I could live with a .667 pct., 60 win pitcher.

Wins- the best way to stack wins for Silver King is to pitch him the 5th 6th 7th and 8th innings of every game in relief; a pitcher who enters a game before the end of the 5th inning with a lead, becomes the pitcher of record; while a loss goes to the starter; in this role, Kings IPs should be able to sustain him for 4 innings per game, every game;

Here are the stats on it-
This is only a tactic; you'd still have to draft a good team-
Statistically speaking; if you have a team that wins 100 games out of 162 and you have a pitcher who enters 120 games each to start the 5th; if the teams winning percentage is constant in the games he doesn't throw, the team will have 26 of their 100 wins in games he does not appear in, and 74 wins out of the 120 he does pitch in;
Lets say the pitcher is not Silver King; if it's someone with 300 innings, he should be able to turn in say 2.5 innings per outing; inheriting the first 4 innings of each win plus his own 2.5 leaves an additional 2.5 innings of each game for others in the staff to pick up;
Granting innings 1 thru 9 equality for lead changes, the average is 53 of the 74 wins will belong to this reliever;

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Posted by just4me on 1/13/2012 3:06:00 PM (view original):

...and for the record, I got 100 starts (101 games), and only 787 IP.

A pitcher with 700 + IP, with the 10% bonus comes to 770+. If we figure that the consensus seems to be that around game 110 appearance fatigue kicks in, and since back to back starts kicks in daily fatigue, one strategy (which I am using soon with 1886 Kilroy) is to pitch him 7-8 innings only (NEVER a complete 9) for 110 games. To do this would require:

1)   you have two other starters - I suppose someone here could calculate how to swing three or more, but for me two is easier to figure out - who take turns pitching the day after the 700+ guy, so 700 - Pitcher A, 700+ - Pitcher B  and so on. This way he never pitches back to back and you don't risk losing value by using up his inning earlier than over the max. number of starts he could conceivably pitch, nor do you lose too many IP over the course of the year. All depending on calculating the right pitch count of course.


2) the bullpen exists only for him, but only comes in before the 8th in really disastrous situations 

and


3) the other starters have to pitch complete games even if the heavens fall - so you want guys who completed virtually all of their starts and who combined had around 62 starts and complete games total between them. 

Have I got something wrong? Still no guarantee you will get 100% value from such a pitcher, but I think you get close this way, plus that of your other starters. Haven't fully figured in what happens to the bullpen or exactly who you would want, so I am winging it in my practical team, but you want 220 or so IP from them. 

Or your 700+ starter gets shelled in the first inning of every game and the SIM takes him out anyway and you end up with Boog Powell pitching the last 4 innings.