Posted by Jtpsops on 8/30/2019 11:41:00 AM (view original):
red - I tried to find that sweet spot last year and bombed majorly. My $130M team lost 130 games and killed me in the tournament because I only drafted 1250 or so IP. I thought since they were all really high-quality innings and I was in a pitchers park, I could make it work with some micromanaging. I was so wrong. There comes a point where you just need the innings, regardless of quality.
And this is my point, that you and I do our best guessing and then test it out. Sometimes it might work, depending on the league and a variety of factors (the ballparks and owners in your league, for sure).
I would actually propose a test league if we can find enough folks willing to throw away a season's cost. Everyone would use the same park (maybe even the same hitters??) and have the same pitching budget but a different innings total. Maybe you stagger them at intervals of 25 (1100, 1125, 1150, etc.) or something like that.
Then you get at least one set of data correlating pitching performance with innings drafted. It would be a small sample with lots of "noise" but you'd possibly identify the sweet spot range.