Posted by ozomatli on 11/2/2018 4:07:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bothways on 11/2/2018 4:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jmissirlis on 11/2/2018 3:40:00 PM (view original):
Reluctantly I choose 1970 Johnny Bench $7,689,136.

Now that I have a catcher, I'll speak my peace on the URL thing. I personally don't think doing this provides any advantage whatsoever. Especially in a high salary league like this one, playing a player out of position would always be a major disadvantage, especially catcher and infield. If an owner makes the mistake of getting to a point where there are no catchers available, I don't see a problem letting them start a position player at catcher. In fact, I would love if all of you would play position players at catcher! It really wouldn't be any different than someone choosing a 50 inning $200,000 player as their only catcher and then playing a non-catcher at catcher all season.

This is a fair point, but again, just because a players is drafted out of position this does not mean that player will be played out of position or be compelled to do so. If I could draft my 28 Jimmy Foxx out of position as my C then I would do that but I cannot. I could just draft a random OF in the C spot but still clearly intend to use Foxx's secondary C as my primary catcher without suffering much downside defensively.

I'm confused by this. You can draft 28 Jimmie Foxx in the C spot the normal way.

He doesn't even pop on the search for me. I've always assumed this is because he only has eligible C seasons as a secondary position, but perhaps there's another way to search for secondary position players at one of the primary position spots that I'm unaware of?

Posted by bothways on 11/2/2018 4:29:00 PM (view original):

Posted by ozomatli on 11/2/2018 4:07:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bothways on 11/2/2018 4:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jmissirlis on 11/2/2018 3:40:00 PM (view original):
Reluctantly I choose 1970 Johnny Bench $7,689,136.

Now that I have a catcher, I'll speak my peace on the URL thing. I personally don't think doing this provides any advantage whatsoever. Especially in a high salary league like this one, playing a player out of position would always be a major disadvantage, especially catcher and infield. If an owner makes the mistake of getting to a point where there are no catchers available, I don't see a problem letting them start a position player at catcher. In fact, I would love if all of you would play position players at catcher! It really wouldn't be any different than someone choosing a 50 inning $200,000 player as their only catcher and then playing a non-catcher at catcher all season.

This is a fair point, but again, just because a players is drafted out of position this does not mean that player will be played out of position or be compelled to do so. If I could draft my 28 Jimmy Foxx out of position as my C then I would do that but I cannot. I could just draft a random OF in the C spot but still clearly intend to use Foxx's secondary C as my primary catcher without suffering much downside defensively.

I'm confused by this. You can draft 28 Jimmie Foxx in the C spot the normal way.

He doesn't even pop on the search for me. I've always assumed this is because he only has eligible C seasons as a secondary position, but perhaps there's another way to search for secondary position players at one of the primary position spots that I'm unaware of?

Set Min. Games at C to 0
Check the box for Include Secondary Positions.

I see 9 seasons of Foxx at C that way.

Posted by redcped on 11/2/2018 4:35:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bothways on 11/2/2018 4:29:00 PM (view original):

Posted by ozomatli on 11/2/2018 4:07:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bothways on 11/2/2018 4:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jmissirlis on 11/2/2018 3:40:00 PM (view original):
Reluctantly I choose 1970 Johnny Bench $7,689,136.

Now that I have a catcher, I'll speak my peace on the URL thing. I personally don't think doing this provides any advantage whatsoever. Especially in a high salary league like this one, playing a player out of position would always be a major disadvantage, especially catcher and infield. If an owner makes the mistake of getting to a point where there are no catchers available, I don't see a problem letting them start a position player at catcher. In fact, I would love if all of you would play position players at catcher! It really wouldn't be any different than someone choosing a 50 inning $200,000 player as their only catcher and then playing a non-catcher at catcher all season.

This is a fair point, but again, just because a players is drafted out of position this does not mean that player will be played out of position or be compelled to do so. If I could draft my 28 Jimmy Foxx out of position as my C then I would do that but I cannot. I could just draft a random OF in the C spot but still clearly intend to use Foxx's secondary C as my primary catcher without suffering much downside defensively.

I'm confused by this. You can draft 28 Jimmie Foxx in the C spot the normal way.

He doesn't even pop on the search for me. I've always assumed this is because he only has eligible C seasons as a secondary position, but perhaps there's another way to search for secondary position players at one of the primary position spots that I'm unaware of?

Set Min. Games at C to 0
Check the box for Include Secondary Positions.

I see 9 seasons of Foxx at C that way.

Also make sure you have "Advanced" for the type of Search Interface you are using (located at the bottom of the Search page and save those settings).

Posted by buddhagamer on 11/2/2018 4:39:00 PM (view original):

Posted by redcped on 11/2/2018 4:35:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bothways on 11/2/2018 4:29:00 PM (view original):

Posted by ozomatli on 11/2/2018 4:07:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bothways on 11/2/2018 4:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jmissirlis on 11/2/2018 3:40:00 PM (view original):
Reluctantly I choose 1970 Johnny Bench $7,689,136.

Now that I have a catcher, I'll speak my peace on the URL thing. I personally don't think doing this provides any advantage whatsoever. Especially in a high salary league like this one, playing a player out of position would always be a major disadvantage, especially catcher and infield. If an owner makes the mistake of getting to a point where there are no catchers available, I don't see a problem letting them start a position player at catcher. In fact, I would love if all of you would play position players at catcher! It really wouldn't be any different than someone choosing a 50 inning $200,000 player as their only catcher and then playing a non-catcher at catcher all season.

This is a fair point, but again, just because a players is drafted out of position this does not mean that player will be played out of position or be compelled to do so. If I could draft my 28 Jimmy Foxx out of position as my C then I would do that but I cannot. I could just draft a random OF in the C spot but still clearly intend to use Foxx's secondary C as my primary catcher without suffering much downside defensively.

I'm confused by this. You can draft 28 Jimmie Foxx in the C spot the normal way.

He doesn't even pop on the search for me. I've always assumed this is because he only has eligible C seasons as a secondary position, but perhaps there's another way to search for secondary position players at one of the primary position spots that I'm unaware of?

Set Min. Games at C to 0
Check the box for Include Secondary Positions.

I see 9 seasons of Foxx at C that way.

Also make sure you have "Advanced" for the type of Search Interface you are using (located at the bottom of the Search page and save those settings).

Ha! Well then Foxx was a poor example, and the advanced search option is going to save me a ton of time building teams! This is a great tip, thank you!

bothways, I am seriously impressed that you made Round 2 without using Advanced Search. So many stats aren't even available to search by without it. Kudos

Posted by bothways on 11/2/2018 4:42:00 PM (view original):

Posted by buddhagamer on 11/2/2018 4:39:00 PM (view original):

Posted by redcped on 11/2/2018 4:35:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bothways on 11/2/2018 4:29:00 PM (view original):

Posted by ozomatli on 11/2/2018 4:07:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bothways on 11/2/2018 4:03:00 PM (view original):

Posted by jmissirlis on 11/2/2018 3:40:00 PM (view original):
Reluctantly I choose 1970 Johnny Bench $7,689,136.

Now that I have a catcher, I'll speak my peace on the URL thing. I personally don't think doing this provides any advantage whatsoever. Especially in a high salary league like this one, playing a player out of position would always be a major disadvantage, especially catcher and infield. If an owner makes the mistake of getting to a point where there are no catchers available, I don't see a problem letting them start a position player at catcher. In fact, I would love if all of you would play position players at catcher! It really wouldn't be any different than someone choosing a 50 inning $200,000 player as their only catcher and then playing a non-catcher at catcher all season.

This is a fair point, but again, just because a players is drafted out of position this does not mean that player will be played out of position or be compelled to do so. If I could draft my 28 Jimmy Foxx out of position as my C then I would do that but I cannot. I could just draft a random OF in the C spot but still clearly intend to use Foxx's secondary C as my primary catcher without suffering much downside defensively.

I'm confused by this. You can draft 28 Jimmie Foxx in the C spot the normal way.

He doesn't even pop on the search for me. I've always assumed this is because he only has eligible C seasons as a secondary position, but perhaps there's another way to search for secondary position players at one of the primary position spots that I'm unaware of?

Set Min. Games at C to 0
Check the box for Include Secondary Positions.

I see 9 seasons of Foxx at C that way.

Also make sure you have "Advanced" for the type of Search Interface you are using (located at the bottom of the Search page and save those settings).

Ha! Well then Foxx was a poor example, and the advanced search option is going to save me a ton of time building teams! This is a great tip, thank you!

Wow!! Doing this well in WISC without knowing that is amazing. Look out for Bothways in round 2!

1993 Rickey Henderson

$4,558,370

Posted by ozomatli on 11/2/2018 4:46:00 PM (view original):
bothways, I am seriously impressed that you made Round 2 without using Advanced Search. So many stats aren't even available to search by without it. Kudos

I don't actually see different search categories under Advanced than I do under Normal, only the ability to input your own ranges. I just checked hitters and pitchers and the stats look the same to me. Beginner is obviously very restrictive, but I never even used that. I've only used Advanced on the rare occasion I want to set a custom range.

I'm feeling a little silly asking this now, but what else are you able to do with Advanced that you can't do under Normal?

Oh, I was comparing it to Beginner since I thought that's what the default was (and therefore what bothways would have been using). I see now that Normal has the same stats as Advanced. Still impressed!

(exhales)

1930 Pie Traynor $5,610,161

1925 Max Carey $7,193,179

1910 Eddie Collins $7948432

2014 Jake Arrieta $6,061,566

1915 Benny Kauff $7,618,028