brrexkl, was that directed at me or the OP?

Anyone making this attempt could answer. Just looking to find what kind of stick those savings could add to the roster, or how many Quality Sticks.

Thanks!

ML Season 11 Regular Season Batting Stats (Totals)

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	STRK	L STRK
Damion Stock	160	604	101	158	10	6	3	27	67	127	96	4	.262	.338	.313	.651	0	12
Jean Carpenter	156	594	85	153	20	7	26	101	40	76	31	11	.258	.312	.446	.758	0	14
Danny MacFarlane	158	541	69	144	21	4	11	90	63	72	27	16	.266	.343	.381	.723	0	9
Rigo Segui	159	537	94	145	22	7	23	84	93	100	33	19	.270	.386	.466	.851	0	10
Guillermo Seguignol	157	490	79	136	30	3	15	69	44	87	19	18	.278	.342	.443	.785	0	12
Al Amaral	102	421	56	119	10	5	9	62	30	47	38	6	.283	.335	.394	.729	2	7
Aaron Graham	156	421	34	99	19	3	17	60	38	105	1	5	.235	.297	.416	.713	3	6
Rich Taylor	157	338	27	76	2	0	0	23	24	83	9	3	.225	.291	.231	.522	0	6
Benny Machado	84	283	36	71	8	4	5	28	34	64	20	9	.251	.329	.360	.690	4	12
Nick Duffy	147	282	23	77	1	0	1	22	24	52	7	4	.273	.339	.287	.626	2	6
Sergio Hynes	151	272	38	69	9	3	8	34	19	63	18	7	.254	.306	.397	.703	0	6
Abraham O'Leary	139	252	17	61	7	0	7	31	10	50	0	3	.242	.285	.353	.638	1	5
Douglas Cummings	48	142	12	32	3	0	2	9	12	36	1	0	.225	.288	.289	.577	1	4
Vic Nieves #	54	73	6	19	1	0	1	6	7	18	0	3	.260	.329	.315	.644	2	3
Ed Serrano #	39	54	5	11	2	0	0	7	4	7	0	0	.204	.259	.241	.499	0	5
Morris Houston	81	31	3	5	0	0	0	2	1	11	0	1	.161	.188	.161	.349	0	2
D.T. Porzio #	61	30	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	12	0	0	.100	.129	.100	.229	2	2
Alfredo Lecuona	75	29	4	4	0	0	0	0	2	8	0	0	.138	.194	.138	.331	0	1
Walt Washington	11	28	2	6	1	0	1	1	2	9	0	0	.214	.290	.357	.647	3	3
Buddy Lawson	56	26	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	9	0	0	.115	.179	.115	.294	0	1
Rafael Gabriel	52	25	1	2	0	0	0	3	2	8	0	0	.080	.143	.080	.223	0	1
Fernando James	99	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	0	1	.000	.042	.000	.042	0	0
Bobby Joe Hillenbrand	7	17	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	.118	.118	.118	.235	0	1
Brant Tebeau	85	16	2	5	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	.313	.313	.313	.625	3	3
Gary King	75	15	2	5	0	0	1	3	1	5	0	0	.333	.375	.533	.908	1	2
Roy Whiteside	83	14	1	2	0	0	0	3	1	4	0	0	.143	.188	.143	.330	0	1
Jorge Lopez	50	14	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	0	2
Glenn Rosen	59	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	1	1
Aaron Benson #	9	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	3	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	0	0
Hack Stark	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0
Tiny Howell #	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0
Carter Andrews	22	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	1
Bill Mouton	64	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0
Yorvit Cornejo	57	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	1
Jose Telemaco #	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0
Warren Garvin #	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0
Willie Espada	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0
Team Totals	162	5603	698	1416	166	42	130	669	523	1083	304	114	.253	.321	.367	.688	4	14

Season 11 batting totals. Pitchers in bold.

254 pitcher PA out of 6126 total PA, for a total of 4.14% of PA wasted on pitchers.

Pinch hitters (including 2 for 11 from pitchers) went 77 for 343, for a batting average of only .225 (walks seem to be lost in the stats somewhere).

Pitchers, on the other hand,  went a combined 38 for 244, with 10 walks, for a batting average of only .156.  At that same average, they would have gotten 53 hits in 343 pinch hit AB. 

Posted by schuyler101 on 6/28/2010 11:08:00 AM (view original):
So 24 extra hits in 343 ABs?  And i'm guessing a few extra walks and some better baserunning?

Seems like you'd need some better to pinch hitters to pull this off effectively...

Better slugging too, and the numbers are skewed somewhat by two of my pitchers hitting over .300 in limited AB, but yea, if I had decent PH options (I don't, my overall team offense is anemic) it would be worth quite a bit more.

DH/no field catcher types aren't extraordinarily tough to come by, it seems like with time and the right bench this could be a viable strategy...

great work zbrent

Posted by schuyler101 on 6/29/2010 12:53:00 AM (view original):
DH/no field catcher types aren't extraordinarily tough to come by, it seems like with time and the right bench this could be a viable strategy...

great work zbrent

I fear it's been made much more difficult by the recent update.

In using a shotgun to swat a fly by making the minimum PC for SP 40, Admin has potentially made running a 2-man rotation of ~1-2 IP per start a thing of the past. You could do it with 3 or 4 men, but then you lose those roster spots for bullpen pitchers and/or extra quality pinch-hitters.

good zbrent, maybe they're trying to stop your ultimate strategy before it gets off the ground

Posted by schuyler101 on 6/29/2010 4:50:00 PM (view original):
good zbrent, maybe they're trying to stop your ultimate strategy before it gets off the ground

Not according to the ticket exchange I had with them. They called the strategy a "creative solution" and said they loved it.

They just didn't love it enough to both to write some sort of code/program that could kill the 5 PC LH SP (from the ticket: "What we don't want to see is a user intentionally setting a 1A to throw 5 pitches and then have a completely different match-up for the entire game while his opponent is left wondering why he just got screwed over") without also taking out the "creative solution" as well.