I built relatively balanced teams, with each team having a theme/strength. Putting your best team in League 2 is the smart move.

Posted by schwarze on 12/31/2018 10:43:00 PM (view original):
I am curious as to how people built their rosters? I purposely made one team better than the other two teams. The second and third team were more leftovers and I filled those in with the later round picks. I also purposely put my best team in League #2.

For example, "My Best Team" (12-3) has the '03 Eric Gagne, '80 J.R.Richard, '07 N.Maddox, '19 Nehf, '85 McGee, '45 Holmes, '36 Dickey, etc.

Did others do that or did everybody try to balance their teams.?

I tried to build mine around players with three really good seasons. Once that was no longer possible, it was mix and match. Once I drafted Davenport, I "knew" I'd need to give him a great defensive team, so that made clarification easier.

Of course, my "best team" (Jack-High) is doing terrible, so there's that...

As others have noted, I started out trying to get guys (especially pitchers) with 3 very good seasons. I soon realized that if I wanted to draft stud relief pitching for a team I would have to punt on the other 2 versions (Cisco Carlos, Norm Charlton, etc.). So in the end I built 2 teams that should be decent and then threw whatever 3rd option was left over onto my "bad" team, the aptly named FUBAR. With so many innings to work with I was able to rest the worst pitching on each team so who knows.

I put my best two teams in leagues 2 & 3, and put my worst team in league 1.

schwarze, I actually saw your team names and figured that was a strategy ploy of some kind, like you had actually named your best team "My Worst Team" just to throw us off.

I've got lots of problems early on but Lefty Gomez is standing out;

• 1931 0 2 8.24 2.03 (YR, W, L, ERA, WHIP)
• 1934 0 4 8.85 2.21
• 1937 2 2 6.84 1.84
• TOT 2 8 7.89 2.01

Surprisingly, my worst team is having unexpected success.

It's early, but I'm expecting these three seasons to bear out for me what I mentioned earlier, that playing high-caps (the same players over and over again) lends itself to a different approach than I tend to like to afford -- more data-systematic and less intuitively fresh. No value judgments, just differences. I could get all universally data-intensive and keep doing them, or if I enjoy them less, then not.

Since the primitive world, life has become evermore left-brained. Anyone have a time machine? (And a great first-aid kit?) ;-`

Started out half-way decent, then the bottom dropped out on me. My teams usually wait until the last quarter of the season to tank but they're doing it really early on now. A combined 6 and 18 in my last eight games with none of my team above or even at .500.

Posted by schwarze on 12/31/2018 10:43:00 PM (view original):
I am curious as to how people built their rosters? I purposely made one team better than the other two teams. The second and third team were more leftovers and I filled those in with the later round picks. I also purposely put my best team in League #2.

For example, "My Best Team" (12-3) has the '03 Eric Gagne, '80 J.R.Richard, '07 N.Maddox, '19 Nehf, '85 McGee, '45 Holmes, '36 Dickey, etc.

Did others do that or did everybody try to balance their teams.?

I put my best team in league 2 as well.

I drafted under the assumption that all 3 parks had to be the same, so that was a small mistake. I still tried to organize the teams as their names suggest - the best team was the team with the most doubles, which I put in a +2B park. I put all the best HR seasons of my guys on one team and put them in a HR park. And then the leftovers are on the 3rd team. I organized the 12 pitcher-seasons I wanted to use as starters and put the most HR-limiting on the HR team, then the better remaining options on the doubles teams and the leftovers on the 3rd team again. Then did basically the same thing with the relievers. I stuck to drafting primarily guys who could play in all 3 leagues, so there isn't a lot of true garbage anywhere and I dumped a lot more resources into my bullpens than my benches.

30 games	PG 1	PG2	PG3	TOTAL
schwarze	20	23	14	57
bheid408	21	18	13	52
pedrocerrano	15	15	22	52
dahsdebater	12	23	15	50
royhobbs09	22	12	16	50
ledfoot	16	16	17	49
ozomatli	18	16	15	49
Chisock	18	15	15	48
reddtrain	19	14	15	48
ArlenWilliam	14	17	16	47
ybjsports	18	15	14	47
nocomm999	15	13	17	45
DoctorKz	14	18	11	43
Donburgh	16	16	11	43
Fusion27s	11	17	15	43
tigerrott	17	11	15	43
calhoop	11	9	19	41
NebHusker	10	17	14	41
shysters3	16	16	9	41
happyhours	11	14	15	40
northof49	8	9	23	40
cholatse	13	12	13	38
thejuice6	12	12	14	38
mllama54	11	12	12	35

Posted by schwarze on 1/1/2019 2:54:00 PM (view original):
Surprisingly, my worst team is having unexpected success.

This is NOT surprising to me. I actually laughed quite loudly when I saw this.

schwarze's worst teams are usually still better than most of my best teams.

My team in league 3 pretty much got my leftover seasons. They are playing like it.

I tried to create three even teams, spreading around players better seasons and giving each team roughly the same amount of quality IPs. Outside of Norm Cash and four RPs who were drafted for 1 season, most of my players better seasons were fairly similar so it wasn't too hard. Sticking Cash and Yaz's best season on team 1 theoretically gave that team my best offense but that hasn't happened yet. Team 3 probably got my best overall pitching since it was the one without Ed Morris and his 650+ IP and as a result got the better bullpen.

It probably took me longer to select stadiums than to arrange the teams. Overall, I thought I ended up with teams whose pitching was probably a bit better than average but whose hitting wasn't. My teams wouldn't give up a lot of HRs, but wouldn't hit many either; my OAV was good but my BA weak. With good OBP and speed, I finally decided on pitcher's parks (Citi, Polo, Polo). If I had known that earlier, I probably could drafted some different/better players in the later rounds as I ended up with more quality IPs than I needed.

Loved the draft but still very surprised with how few players were blacklisted.

0-9 today...

51 games	owner	PG1	PG2	PG3	Total
1	dahsdebater	25	39	29	93
2	schwarze	30	36	24	90
3	royhobbs09	35	25	27	87
4	pedrocerrano	28	26	32	86
5	bheid408	31	28	24	83
6	Chisock	27	28	27	82
7	ledfoot	28	28	25	81
7	ozomatli	26	28	17	81
9	nocomm999	25	20	32	77
9	ybjsports	25	26	26	77
11	shysters3	32	29	15	76
12	ArlenWilliam	24	26	25	75
12	calhoop	25	21	29	75
14	DoctorKz	25	27	22	74
14	Fusion27s	22	27	25	74
14	reddtrain	29	19	26	74
17	happyhours	22	27	23	72
18	NebHusker	17	29	25	71
19	mllama54	18	23	28	69
19	northof49	17	17	35	69
21	thejuice6	24	20	24	68
21	tigerrott	26	18	24	68
23	cholatse	25	21	21	67
23	Donburgh	26	24	17	67

Since that was posted with me in first place I'm 1-5...