I drafted pitching staffs that are difficult to manage for the most part.
In the $130M league, I basically only have 2 true starters in Gibson & '94 Maddux with 3 'spot starters' (101-125 IP each) and '38 Dizzy & '66 Jarvis giving me multiple bullpen innings when needed. (Dizzy will throw 40-45 pitches next game. He'll come out of that can pretty fatigued I suspect and will have to rest for a while afterwards)
My $110M staff only has 3 starters and 2 of them 'only' throw 259 & 272. Not a substantial amount for a 3 man rotation. I don't really have any spot starters in that league, so I have to be careful with pitches/appearance for the whole staff.
My $70M staff has a bunch of guys that can start- but only 2 of them throw more than 200 inning. 1359 total IP has proven to be barely enough given that I've played a ton of extra innings thus far.
My $90M cap has Claude Hendrix & 7 guys (6 potential starters) that throw 100-190 innings each.
My $120M team has 2 garbage mops, which has made things harder to manager than I anticipated.
I have done a decent job managing the variable cap staff, although Gibson is starting at 99% next game. Silver King giving me 8-9 innings every other game is nice.
I've done a decent job managing the staffs overall, but there is definitely no 'set it an forget it' here.
I can't say designing the staffs the way I did was a bad strategy, but it is a stressful strategy.
8/24/2019 8:55 PM (edited)