Goal was 200 plus plays/100 wins. With 199 plus plays in 144 games, should finish w/ between 220 and 230. Need to finish 12-6 for 100 wins. 06gsp is the only owner I've seen w/ 200/100, but I'm sure there have been many others.

Range Rovers	88-56	0.611	-	16	10-0	W10	50-20	38-36	0-0	thunder1008
I Met Cuckoo Christensen	85-59	0.590	3	-	8-2	W1	47-26	38-33	0-0	gbonini
one and done	83-61	0.576	5	-	6-4	W2	48-23	35-38	0-0	cowboys
Tallahassee Tiger Sharks	73-71	0.507	15	-	4-6	L3	38-36	35-35	0-0	karcher

Range Warriors is a better team than Range Rovers. I upgraded the pitching (Patsy Flaherty to Kevin Brown, added George Smith in long relief) and put them in a pitcher's park, which is the graveyard of plus plays. So far only 99 plus plays in 90 games so 200 will be a big stretch.

Range Warriors	63-27	0.700	-	-	8-2	W3	32-15	31-12	0-0	thunder1008
Brew Crew	49-41	0.544	14	-	4-6	L2	25-22	24-19	0-0	redsfive
Rebuffing	43-47	0.478	20	-	9-1	W7	21-25	22-22	0-0	monkberry
Malabar Falcons	41-49	0.456	22	-	3-7	L3	20-26	21-23	0-0	gigrant

The team finished with 205+ plays and an 84-78 record at a $120M cap. Looking at the efforts of other teams here, this team was clearly lower in the OF because the pitching staff threw a lot of groundballs. I can't explain why Speaker and Erstad didn't perform better when playing their other position. Luck does definitely play a role.

The biggest learning was the impact of bad pitching on this effort. The similar team that is currently playing in the $100M cap Arms Race league has 139 + plays in 118 games, on pace for 191. The lineup in that league has Dawson/Carey/Terry replacing Speaker/Cameron/Erstad. But, the pitching is so strong that offense is way down by design which means fewer balls eligible for + plays.

1B: 2002 Erstad 20, 1914 Speaker 8
2B: '33 Critz 40
3B: 2018 Chapman 25
SS: 2007 Tulowitzki 33
LF: Speaker 19, Erstad 1
CF: North 26
RF: Cameron 17
Bench/Pitchers: 16

Goal was 100 wins, 200 plus plays. Coasted to 231 plus plays, fell a little short w/ 97 wins. Won the division, lost in 5 games in the LCS.

Range Rovers	97-65	0.599	-	x	5-5	W2	56-25	41-40	0-0	thunder1008
I Met Cuckoo Christensen	96-66	0.593	1	-	7-3	W1	52-29	44-37	0-0	gbonini
one and done	93-69	0.574	4	-	4-6	L2	55-26	38-43	0-0	cowboys
Tallahassee Tiger Sharks	85-77	0.525	12	-	4-6	L1	42-39	43-38	0-0	karcher

200 of the plus plays came from position players, 31 from pitchers. Max Carey led with 36.

Carey, Max	1921	CF	160	160	1,444.0	477	3	32	0	36	0	.938	2.99
Lofton, Kenny	1992	RF	160	160	1,444.0	339	3	5	1	29	0	.986	2.13
McGee, Willie	1990	LF	160	160	1,444.0	320	2	13	0	26	0	.961	2.01
Foxx, Jimmie	1931	3B	159	159	1,436.0	158	382	39	15	19	0	.933	3.38
Frisch, Frankie	1925	2B	150	150	1,356.0	377	509	47	75	26	3	.950	5.88
Bancroft, Dave	1923	SS	149	149	1,335.0	358	536	74	87	32	0	.924	6.03
Doyle, Jack	1894	1B	146	146	1,314.0	1619	139	22	101	26	0	.988	12.04
Howard, Elston	1959	C	133	132	1,190.0	317	71	9	4	0	0	.977	2.93
Smith, Frank	1909	P	58	0	409.0	13	32	1	1	6	0	.978	.99
Taylor, Jack	1906	P	45	0	316.0	17	21	2	2	8	0	.950	1.08
Flaherty, Patsy	1904	P	41	0	294.7	13	16	0	0	6	0	1.000	.89
Wasson, Stewart (P)	2019	C	28	28	256.0	75	12	3	1	0	0	.967	3.06
Michalak, Luis (P)	2019	1B	15	14	130.0	178	16	3	15	0	0	.985	13.43
Schuster, Bill	1943	SS	14	12	119.0	20	56	6	9	5	0	.927	5.75
Jeremiah, Dirk (P)	2019	2B	11	11	97.0	32	35	1	8	0	0	.985	6.22
Gilmore, Frank	1888	P	20	0	94.0	2	4	0	0	0	1	1.000	.57
Muldoon, Nathaniel (P)	2019	P	54	0	65.3	6	2	0	0	2	0	1.000	1.10
Mathewson, Christy	1916	P	49	0	64.7	6	5	1	1	6	0	.917	1.53
Falkenberg, Cy	1915	P	44	0	53.7	5	1	1	0	1	0	.857	1.01
Mitchell, Roy	1918	P	45	0	52.7	3	3	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.03
Sampson, Chris	2006	P	31	0	37.0	2	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	.73
Douglas, Phil	1915	P	25	0	31.7	0	5	1	1	1	0	.833	1.42
Minor, Daniel (P)	2019	P	23	0	29.7	2	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.21
Carey, Max	1921	LF	2	2	18.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	.50
McGee, Willie	1990	RF	2	2	18.0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	2.00
Lofton, Kenny	1992	CF	2	2	18.0	5	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	2.50
Frisch, Frankie	1925	3B	2	2	18.0	4	5	0	0	0	0	1.000	4.50
Doyle, Jack	1894	C	2	2	16.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.69
Foxx, Jimmie	1931	1B	2	2	16.0	19	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	11.25
Edgin, Josh	2014	P	19	0	13.7	2	1	2	0	0	0	.600	1.98
Schuster, Bill	1943	2B	1	1	9.0	3	2	0	0	1	0	1.000	5.00
Mcgillicotty, Guadalupe (P)	2019	SS	1	1	8.0	2	4	0	2	0	0	1.000	6.75
Beech, Chris (AAA/P)	2019	3B	1	0	8.0	0	4	1	0	0	0	.800	4.50
Howard, Elston	1959	1B	1	0	2.0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	18.00
TEAM TOTALS	--	--	1755	1295	13,158.0	4386	1873	263	323	231	4	.960	--

I just entered a range team for an OL that starts tomorrow morning. I'll post periodically throughout the season. Here's the roster:

Max Carey '21 (S)	CF*	1	100	662	552	7	56	37	.309	.395	.430
Lorenzo Cain '15 (R)	LF*	2	100	604	551	16	72	28	.307	.361	.477
Roger Connor '93 (S)	1B*	3	100	743	628	11	105	24	.305	.413	.450
Jimmie Foxx '31 (R)	3B^	4	100	633	549	30	120	4	.291	.380	.567
Frankie Frisch '25 (S)	2B^	5	100	578	536	11	48	21	.331	.374	.472
Heinie Peitz '02 (R)	C ^	6	100	496	448	1	60	7	.315	.369	.406
Mike Cameron '99 (R)	RF*	7	100	633	539	21	66	38	.256	.357	.469
Dave Bancroft '18 (S)	SS*	8	100	739	658	0	26	11	.265	.338	.319

Waddell, Rube	1904	L	49	49	27	20	0	411.0	1605	329	74	5	98	374	.221	1.04	1.62	16	9	0
Sparks, Tully	1906	R	44	39	20	17	3	336.0	1303	258	80	4	66	121	.211	.97	2.16	11	2	0
McGinnity, Joe	1902	R	23	19	10	10	0	183.0	712	145	42	1	38	80	.219	1.01	2.06	11	0	1
Smith, George	1918	R	10	6	5	1	0	65.0	238	55	17	0	6	23	.249	.96	2.34	3	3	0
Wiltse, Hooks	1915	L	19	3	3	5	5	64.0	241	52	16	1	7	18	.226	.95	2.28	2	1	0
Pape, Larry	1909	R	12	3	2	0	2	63.0	241	49	14	0	13	19	.221	1.00	2.01	5	2	0
Dwyer, Frank	1888	R	6	6	5	1	0	51.0	205	38	6	1	11	20	.198	.98	1.07	0	2	0
Flaherty, Patsy	1899	L	5	4	2	3	0	42.0	168	44	11	0	5	5	.270	1.18	2.31	1	0	0
Hansen, Andy	1951	R	25	0	3	1	0	42.0	165	36	12	4	7	12	.228	1.05	2.54	1	1	0
McFarland, Chappie	1906	R	6	4	2	1	1	41.0	172	36	9	1	9	17	.219	1.10	1.93	0	0	0
Milone, Tommy(AAA)	2018	L	5	4	1	1	0	26.3	118	37	17	7	1	23	.330	1.44	5.81	1	0	0
Ramirez, Neil(AAA)	2019	R	22	1	0	1	0	25.0	112	26	15	7	15	24	.274	1.64	5.40	0	1	0

Well 3 days in and we're 3-0 at home, and 1-5 on the road. We've been shut out a mind scratching 4 times on the road out of 6 games.

The team is 27-14 right now...13-3 at home, 14-11 on the road. Only 37+ plays through 41 games.

Regular Season Fielding SimStats (Totals)
Player	SN	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	+	-	Fld%	RF
Connor, Roger	1893	1B	41	41	377.3	473	35	1	36	4	0	.998	12.12
Bancroft, Dave	1918	SS	41	41	374.3	89	160	11	25	10	0	.958	5.99
Carey, Max	1921	CF	38	38	351.3	106	1	1	0	9	0	.991	2.74
Foxx, Jimmie	1931	3B	36	36	332.3	26	93	8	9	5	0	.937	3.22
Cain, Lorenzo	2015	LF	35	35	322.3	70	0	4	0	2	0	.946	1.95
Frisch, Frankie	1925	2B	34	34	315.3	81	117	6	24	4	0	.971	5.65
Peitz, Heinie	1902	C	31	31	288.3	106	18	6	0	0	0	.954	3.87
Cameron, Mike	1999	RF	25	25	233.3	50	0	1	0	2	0	.980	1.93
Skurkay, Samuel (P)	2019	RF	14	14	126.0	31	0	0	0	1	0	1.000	2.21
Waddell, Rube	1904	P	14	0	109.7	3	8	0	0	0	0	1.000	.90
Sparks, Tully	1906	P	14	0	94.3	8	3	1	0	0	1	.917	1.05
Nix, Harvey (P)	2019	C	10	10	89.0	31	9	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.04
Leary, Arturo (P)	2019	2B	6	6	53.0	20	18	0	3	0	0	1.000	6.45
McGinnity, Joe	1902	P	8	0	52.7	3	4	2	0	0	0	.778	1.20
Banda, Jesus (P)	2019	3B	5	5	45.0	4	14	4	0	0	0	.818	3.60
Skurkay, Samuel (P)	2019	LF	3	3	28.0	9	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	2.89
Cameron, Mike	1999	LF	3	3	27.0	5	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.67
Cameron, Mike	1999	CF	2	2	17.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.06
Lay, Richard (P)	2019	P	5	0	15.7	1	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.72
McFarland, Chappie	1906	P	15	0	14.0	1	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.93
Pape, Larry	1909	P	18	0	14.0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.00
Hensel, Hod (P)	2019	P	4	0	13.3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	.68
Peralta, Joel	2010	P	11	0	11.3	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.59
Smith, George	1918	P	11	0	11.3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	.79
Wiltse, Hooks	1915	P	11	0	11.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.00
Dwyer, Frank	1888	P	11	0	10.7	1	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	2.53
Prusia, Daniel (P)	2019	P	7	0	9.7	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.00
Hansen, Andy	1951	P	11	0	9.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.00
Foxx, Jimmie	1931	RF	1	1	9.0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	4.00
Skurkay, Samuel (P)	2019	CF	1	1	9.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	3.00
Cain, Lorenzo	2015	RF	1	1	9.0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	4.00
Frisch, Frankie	1925	SS	1	0	3.0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	6.00
Rosen, Brock	2019	2B	1	1	9.0	0	4	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.00
Flaherty, Patsy	1899	P	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.00
TEAM TOTALS	--	--	470	328	3,396.0	1132	495	45	100	37	2	.973	--

Surprised you don't have more + plays with that roster, metsmaniac2. Hope you're in a hitters' park to maximize your balls in play. If you're in a pitchers' park you may win more games but you won't do anything special in the + play category.

Posted by thunder1008 on 12/8/2019 11:41:00 PM (view original):
Surprised you don't have more + plays with that roster, metsmaniac2. Hope you're in a hitters' park to maximize your balls in play. If you're in a pitchers' park you may win more games but you won't do anything special in the + play category.

Yup, the team plays in Hilltop. We're very good at home but only a .500 team on the road and seem to struggle in pitchers parks.

Check out my Golden Gloves league. Top 8 + play teams that finish above. 500 advance to the postseason...

MLB126619

We should see lots of 200+ teams

Posted by schwarze on 8/19/2019 10:20:00 AM (view original):
Thanks for posting. I probably have come across this once upon a time, but either didn't read it or completely forgot about it.

Looks like my next open league team will be an attempt to test this theory.

Did you ever try to test this? I would have assumed like most that lower strikeouts provided more opportunities for the plus plays, so I started tinkering with a roster for the Golden Gloves league on that assumption. But reading this now I'm thinking it doesn't matter at all.

More balls in play would seem to provide more chances for your fielders. We're gonna find out some answers...

When I first started playing, I won my only championship in my first or second try(under a different player name)...Now that I know more about how the game works, I over analyze everything and am constantly getting shellacked...This game seems more about algebra or trigonometry than baseball...Should have listened to my parents years ago...Those subjects in school would come in handy in the future...

We’ll back to the drawing board...Great thread fellas...

A few of us reached 170 in Skunk's $120M Quick Start league. Reason for hope of hitting that 200 rung on the ladder...