A 2-4 cycle with all 4 1-run losses, knocks me out of the top 10

Nothing like a schwarze in the PM2 cycle to lighten the mood.

My 120M team has an expected win% based on run differential of .626 so far, but is 3-7 due to already being 2-6 in one run games..............

How about them Studs....

Ty Cobb .195 AVG

Addie Joss 5.79 ERA

I have 2 3-7 teams that I still think are good teams... We'll just have to wait and see....

Something I hadn't paid much attention to before was the catcher's actual fielding percentage. I'd seen OOP catchers put up awful numbers in some strange theme leagues, but anyone who actually played some catcher didn't seem to fare too badly.

But I apparently wasn't paying close enough attention, because Buck Ewing might just be my downfall here. I used the 1892 version to great success on a recent 100M, and when I was searching for catchers for the 90M here his 1887 year popped up because of the lower fielding grade. He had an A- arm, his salary fit, and he looked pretty solid to me.

In fact, when I built the 120M team his name showed up again and I took him a second time. ...

Turns out, he had an .818 fielding percentage as catcher that year, something I hadn't looked at. He. Is. Killing. Me.

In one league he has 12 passed balls and 4 errors in 9 games. In the other, 6 passed balls and 1 error in 7 games. He's giving runs away left and right. He makes up for it some with his bat and he throws out some runners when he doesn't chuck it into center field, I guess. Nothing to do now, though.

Posted by redcped on 6/12/2020 11:13:00 AM (view original):
Something I hadn't paid much attention to before was the catcher's actual fielding percentage. I'd seen OOP catchers put up awful numbers in some strange theme leagues, but anyone who actually played some catcher didn't seem to fare too badly.

But I apparently wasn't paying close enough attention, because Buck Ewing might just be my downfall here. I used the 1892 version to great success on a recent 100M, and when I was searching for catchers for the 90M here his 1887 year popped up because of the lower fielding grade. He had an A- arm, his salary fit, and he looked pretty solid to me.

In fact, when I built the 120M team his name showed up again and I took him a second time. ...

Turns out, he had an .818 fielding percentage as catcher that year, something I hadn't looked at. He. Is. Killing. Me.

In one league he has 12 passed balls and 4 errors in 9 games. In the other, 6 passed balls and 1 error in 7 games. He's giving runs away left and right. He makes up for it some with his bat and he throws out some runners when he doesn't chuck it into center field, I guess. Nothing to do now, though.

I picked 1887 Ewing. I moved him from C to 2B after I saw the .818 FPct. He has five errors at 2B.

I splurged and picked up 1975 Munson for the 90m. Throws out 50% of base stealers with his A+ arm with a respectable .962 fielding %.

I've got '91 Deacon Mcguire. No errors and 1 PB through 10 games. I also have modern pitchers, so that's likely helping as well.

I'd love to know how '02 Odalis Perez (RL 0.99 WHIP, 178 ERC+) has given up 16 runs in 17 innings so far in an $80M league.

I'm not sure what happened but it looks like 4 of my teams suck....

After these last two cycles where I seemingly lost every game by 1-run, I firmly believe I’m only allotted a certain amount of wins per cycle, and now I have too many teams

Posted by tigerrott on 6/12/2020 12:53:00 PM (view original):

Posted by redcped on 6/12/2020 11:13:00 AM (view original):
Something I hadn't paid much attention to before was the catcher's actual fielding percentage. I'd seen OOP catchers put up awful numbers in some strange theme leagues, but anyone who actually played some catcher didn't seem to fare too badly.

But I apparently wasn't paying close enough attention, because Buck Ewing might just be my downfall here. I used the 1892 version to great success on a recent 100M, and when I was searching for catchers for the 90M here his 1887 year popped up because of the lower fielding grade. He had an A- arm, his salary fit, and he looked pretty solid to me.

In fact, when I built the 120M team his name showed up again and I took him a second time. ...

Turns out, he had an .818 fielding percentage as catcher that year, something I hadn't looked at. He. Is. Killing. Me.

In one league he has 12 passed balls and 4 errors in 9 games. In the other, 6 passed balls and 1 error in 7 games. He's giving runs away left and right. He makes up for it some with his bat and he throws out some runners when he doesn't chuck it into center field, I guess. Nothing to do now, though.

I picked 1887 Ewing. I moved him from C to 2B after I saw the .818 FPct. He has five errors at 2B.

I don't have anywhere near enough catcher PA available to move him. I usually don't have that type of flexibility. The plan is the plan.

Posted by redcped on 6/12/2020 11:13:00 AM (view original):
Something I hadn't paid much attention to before was the catcher's actual fielding percentage. I'd seen OOP catchers put up awful numbers in some strange theme leagues, but anyone who actually played some catcher didn't seem to fare too badly.

But I apparently wasn't paying close enough attention, because Buck Ewing might just be my downfall here. I used the 1892 version to great success on a recent 100M, and when I was searching for catchers for the 90M here his 1887 year popped up because of the lower fielding grade. He had an A- arm, his salary fit, and he looked pretty solid to me.

In fact, when I built the 120M team his name showed up again and I took him a second time. ...

Turns out, he had an .818 fielding percentage as catcher that year, something I hadn't looked at. He. Is. Killing. Me.

In one league he has 12 passed balls and 4 errors in 9 games. In the other, 6 passed balls and 1 error in 7 games. He's giving runs away left and right. He makes up for it some with his bat and he throws out some runners when he doesn't chuck it into center field, I guess. Nothing to do now, though.

Position players with a secondary rating of D- at Catcher can make a ton of passed balls. I've used Cap Anson for his hitting until i noticed how many PB he made. More than 1 per game.

Posted by chargingryno on 6/12/2020 12:59:00 PM (view original):
I splurged and picked up 1975 Munson for the 90m. Throws out 50% of base stealers with his A+ arm with a respectable .962 fielding %.

+1 on 75 Munson. I figured he could at least throw out some of the baserunners that reach on an error.