I have a user in our league who has no prior history but maintains 7 teams.  He says he is brand new and just has the time to handle all 7.  Kinda curious.  Now in Free Agency he just signed a 37 year old type a pitcher to a 5 year backloaded contract with a no trade clause.  Kind of concerns me that he is going to come in and sign these types of contracts and ditch the team..  I asked him about it and he got defensive, said he was new and I needed to worry about my team and not some alias on the internet.

I outed him as was previously suggested (and then deleted...?)  

		8/4/2010 1:55 PM	I'm not going to respond anymore to your pointless interrogations. No matter what anyone says, you just continue with your paranoid nonsense. Seems you have nothing better to do than policing everyone else's activities. Life is too short to listen to weirdos like you. Block put on all of your messages.

Does nobody else find this strange?

No one likes to be called an alias.  In truth, it's a world problem.  If you're private, it's a really bad idea to let an inexperienced owner with a heavy workload have a team.  If you're public, you get what you get and you'll just have to accept that other owners can make bad signings then dump the team when it's time to pay the piper. 

I agree about having to take what you get in a public world.  I was more concerned that he is a new owner with 7 teams.  Doesnt that seem a little odd?  When I first brought it up I was pretty easy going about it and just said hey did you have a previous account or something.  Then he signs a really bad deal like that and the whole situation doesnt seem right to me... maybe I am being paranoid, which is why I reached out to everyone for their opinion.

True story about having the urge to just dig right in.  I'm in my first venture into HBD and now have three teams. I won't be adding anymore.  There's just no way you can pay attention to all the details you need to when you have a ton of teams.  That's part of the reason I joined HBD.  I love pooling over stats, making moves, etc.  But if you have too many teams, you're just basically on autopilot trying to keep them all afloat.  Like I said, I wouldn't do more than 3, so I have no clue how anyone does 7.

It will get easier when you get to do advanced moves.  But that just makes moving faster.   My head gets cluttered with more than 4.   I'm really a 3 1/2 team type owner. 

3's my limit.  It also helps immensely if the seasons for each team are staggered such that you're not doing things like preparing for three drafts at the same time.  That would blow.

Started with 1, then another.  Then went up to 5.  That was too many.  Settling at 3.  Ditto on the staggering of the three.

I saw a guy earlier with 23!!!!!  How does he do it?

By putting the minors on Auto.   If you're anal, you're checking 6 teams a day with one franchise.    23 is just 4 franchises if SIMMY is running your minors.  That said, I don't know why you'd play the game that way when you need, IMO, to know your minor league talent in order to plan for the future. 

I've had the SIM running my minors so far.  Do most guys not do it that way?

I obviously look over them regularly and evaluate talent, but I certainly wouldn't want to be checking lineup and pitching fatigue at every level three times a day.

I don't know how "most" do it.    I check my minor league pitching most cycles.   I check my minor league line-ups on the weekend.  If you let simmy run it, he might bench someone you see as a player in the future.  It's easy to recognize the studs.   But, IMO, you have to develop the 21st-25th players on your roster too.  They're the guys who'll fill in when needed, give your stars a rest if required and keep your payroll low because they're throwaways once the ask for a million.   Thye're just role players but you need them. 

I just check the pitchers to make sure they're not tired and let the sim run the rest. As long as your real prospects are playing. When I started I played a ton of team too. It was a mistake and I thought I knew everything. I now have 4 or 5 and will stay there unless I picked up a babysit job.