Biggest mistakes made concering a particular player.
 
Here is mine.  Eric Gagne 2003 in WIS should NOT be used as a closer.  He has 80 IP

I've seen too many teams use him as a closer and he ends the season with 40 innings pitch.  What a waste.

When was the last time you saw a Closer pitching 80 IP's in WIS?

You can do it.  I don't know if Gagne can get to 80 because of his ip/g but other guy can do it.

You'll never get full value from pitchers with 75-80 appearances but you can get more. move him into the Setup role every now and then to catch up. getting more key innings is more useful than getting credit for more saves, the only person who cares about saves is his agent. he'll get more innings against key opponents if you manage it right.

rbow,

I wasn't asking for advice.  I was giving it.

Here's another one. 

Babe Ruth is great, but every Babe's years are different.  The park they play best in, and what fielding position they play varies widely.

Having a switch-hitter in bed could be interesting....

Young grasshoppers.  You are learing well.

Stealing Bases is another waste of resources.

Posted by skinndogg on 1/16/2012 7:13:00 PM (view original):

Young grasshoppers.  You are learing well.

Stealing Bases is another waste of resources.

Would you mind explaining this one?  I understand SB become less meaningful as the cap increases, but at $80M OL and below SB are huge.

Depends on who the base runner is. If he was 31-2 in steal attempts, let him try. If his success rate was less than 75%, you're throwing away precious outs, especially in leagues in which most owners draft catchers with A or A+ arms.

If I played live, I'd try to steal now and then for strategic reasons; however, the computer has lousy judgment about stealing, so I set most of my players at 0 for stealing.

The slow thief is a poor thief. He deserves nothing.

prof,

I've found it more beneficial to pay for more AVG#, SLG#'s than SB's. I want my hitters to do their job. Even though Tim Raines may steal you 80 bases, he always seems to get thrown out at the most crucial of moments against catchers with C- arms.

Here's another one.

If you want to win a championship a player needs to stay focused at the task at hand and not be distracted by any resposibilities in the bed. To accomplish this you need to let your spouse see you cut your toenails in your bed, this should take care of any of your manly responsibilities for at least a couple of weeks (this one is for boogerlips, even though he probably needs this advice less than anyone).

Posted by profcake on 1/17/2012 3:18:00 PM (view original):

Posted by skinndogg on 1/16/2012 7:13:00 PM (view original):

Young grasshoppers.  You are learing well.

Stealing Bases is another waste of resources.

Would you mind explaining this one?  I understand SB become less meaningful as the cap increases, but at $80M OL and below SB are huge.

I have found most great OL teams have an element of speed (stolen bases), but I have not seen a great team that went all-in on stolen bases since the last update. 

Range is more important than fielding %.  Especially at 2B, CF, SS , 3B, 1B...hell all positions .  And don't assume speed means range.

Learn well young grasshoppers.