The last update was supposed to address db pitchers by having them drag down their own defense.  If that's not leveling the playing field, maybe the defensive dampening needs to be bumped up a bit.

Join a progressive that doesn't have the years that Joss played....problem solved

Dynamic Pricing...redo salaries based on demand 2X a year. Problem solved. Let the owners determine players salaries...purely market driven.

how often to they change the prices of players?

A team called "Triple Joss" just won the most resent Champs league.

I put together an OL team with the the intention of beating Addie Joss.  Luckily for me, there are a lot of Josses in this league -- 11!  I chose an all-lefty lineup of no-power, high-average hitters and put them in Hilltop Park.  The idea was to peck Joss to death with singles, doubles and triples.

After 49 games, we've faced Joss 8 times.  2 of those were interleague games where I rested my starters (we lost both).  But we won the other 6 games.

Here are Joss' combined stats in those 6 starts (he was 100% every game):

W-L 0-4
38.2 IP
54 hits
16 ER
10 BB
8 SO
3.72 ERA
1.66 WHIP

Joss had only 1 "quality start" against my team, and would have won that game were it not for a closer blowing a save. 

The scores of the games were 6-2, 10-2, 6-1, 4-2, 5-2 and 7-2.

Will update this as the season progresses...

Did you draft really old-time guys to reach base on errors as well?

Kind of a random mix of eras:

Johnny Bassler '22 (L)			100	477	392	0	41	2	.323	.422	.360	4.13M
Mike Kingery '94 (L)			100	480	417	4	41	5	.349	.402	.532	4.23M
Larry Doyle '08 (L)			100	452	397	0	33	17	.308	.354	.398	2.93M
Debs Garms '40 (L)			100	405	376	5	57	3	.355	.395	.500	3.76M
Arky Vaughan '41 (L)			100	460	394	6	38	8	.316	.399	.455	4.01M
Jim Eisenreich '96 (L)			99	373	338	3	41	11	.361	.413	.476	3.24M
Richie Ashburn '54 (L)			100	740	589	1	41	11	.313	.441	.376	7.30M
Mike Donlin '05 (L)			100	716	642	7	80	33	.356	.413	.495	6.82M

FWIW, I went 96-66 and won my division in the recent Champs league, and this was after resting starters the last 15 games. Only 1 player ('75 Gary Carter) was on more than 2 other teams. 1972 Don Sutton was my pitching ace. He pitched 316 innings and went 28-6 2.33/.208/1.05. You CAN put up good teams without all the ubiquitous cookies. People just get lazy and use the same ol' standbys. If you can be creative and come up with a good team with unexpected players, you have the advantage - you know what's coming on their team, but they aren't prepared for yours.

I think I'll try this team again with a few tweaks and see if I can't do even better.

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