I will admit, it's been a while since I've played in one, but I know that bad fatigue (Less than 85%) will kill any chance you have at consistently winning. For a 40 million league, you are going to have to draft players with stats you would normally never dream of taking in an 80 million league. Hitters with .225 .275 .350 lines and pitchers with WHIPs of 1.75 are going to be common, and actually may be very good compared to other players in the league. However, I wouldn't "expect bad pitching stats and hitting stats", as bad hitters will hit bad pitchers better, and bad pitchers will get bad hitters out.
Similarly, there are lots of strategies. If you are used to playing high cap leagues, you may think that guys like 1886 Jim Lillie and 1977 Rob Picciolo are worse than garbage, but they give you lots of PAs for cheap, can hit toward the bottom of your lineup and can let you spend cash on stronger players. Conversely, you can take 3-5 guys in the $3.5 million range and platoon at each other position and hope they carry your offence. On the pitching end, 10-12 100-150 IP under $2 million pitchers may dominate a league like this, or you can go big with starters like 1903 Togie Pittenger and 1888 Lev Shreve and fill in the pen with guys less than $1 mil each. Or, you can draft some 200K garbage guys and run them into the ground to save PAs if injuries are off.
The point is, strategies abound at $40 mil becuase there are no cookie cutter teams. That's the best part about them, you can make it your own. But I would be sure to have enough PAs and IP to not fatigue yourself out of wins.
4/12/2011 11:26 AM (edited)