Posted by ejstockman on 3/29/2020 7:33:00 AM (view original):

Posted by ozomatli on 3/28/2020 10:51:00 PM (view original):
He was taken. Sitemailed

Thanks man, literally been shooting tequila since 5:30 this morning, lol.



1917 Ty Cobb

This is a classic from Taint. Welcome to the Quarantine!

3/28/2020 11:30 PM

Bit slacking today, didn't get shooting until after 9!

I'm a bourbon guy myself. But generally waiting til after lunch to start the drinking...

I don't know exactly how you've done it EJ, but the drafting speed in this league is what I had hoped for in my DEAL leagues! Everyone is so ready for their time, or more aptly, ready whenever they are up! Being used to my DEAL drafts, which pretty much keep to the clock, it has been hard for me to keep up. Resorting to proxy lists is my best way to combat the speed of this draft, but I LOVE IT! Wish the DEAL drafts could be this fast and ahead of the clock!

It is also going to be very interesting to me to see how much more offensive this league is comparted to the DEAL. It seems there are sooooo many more amazing offensive seasons than there are amazing pitching seasons. I shutter to think about someone taking Coors with these offenses and hitting. Should be a TON of 15-12 type games LOL!

Like I already said, this is the PERFECT complement to the DEAL league. Will be VERY interesting!

I'm very interested to see the impact of going for hitting vs going for pitching in the early rounds. Let's look at three teams (the three most extreme that I can see).

schwarze has a line of .357 / .479 / .692 and 0.88 WHIP over 663 IP. So he needs about 800-900 more IP and a catcher.
d_rock97 has a line of .373 / .460 / .668 and 0.94 WHIP over 995 IP. So he needs about 450-550 more IP, half a catcher, and a third baseman.
My team has a line of .371 / .433 / .588 and 0.83 WHIP over 1,236 IP. I still need 200-250 more IP, a catcher, an OF, half a 2B, and half a SS.

It's fair to assume that all of those lines will get a little worse in the second half of the draft (since the best players are gone). The primary differentiator that schwarze and d_rock have is OPS, but most of that comes from the fact that they both took a lot of HR hitters. The primary differentiator that I have is WHIP + more innings already drafted.

I think both are valid approaches. Gonna be a fun season with teams that are this varied.

ozomatli, your strategy should work better than my strategy due to all the pitchers in the league who suppress home runs. And that's usually the approach I take, but I wanted to try something different. Once I went with 21 Ruth with pick #1 (over Silver King), my strategy was determined.

Yep same. Different approach than usual. Unlimited cap, I set my search to Min: 6 2B/100#, Min: 6 HR/100AB#, and Min: AVG+ 130.

Thats why I chose Bagwell, Gehrig, and Jocko after my stud picks of Ruth and Hornsby.

Then I saw my divisions full of Mordecai Browns and Walter Johnsons (why couldn’t the 2018 2019 pitchers be in my division:/ ) and went with Speaker and Seymour to counter those

This is gonna be a CRAZY offensive league! From my experience with $255 mill leagues, the BEST ERA's are usually in the mid to high 4's. Gonna be a LOT of 7.58 and 8.23 ERA's from some VERY good pitchers!

Through 15 rounds, my hitting line is: ..367 .458 .663
While my pitching line is: 1.73 ERA .175 OAV 0.81 WHIP (1296 IP)

Prettu solid, but I bet I don't have a pitcher over 50 IP with an ERA less than 4.00

Posted by amerk1180 on 4/6/2020 3:11:00 AM (view original):
I don't know exactly how you've done it EJ, but the drafting speed in this league is what I had hoped for in my DEAL leagues! Everyone is so ready for their time, or more aptly, ready whenever they are up! Being used to my DEAL drafts, which pretty much keep to the clock, it has been hard for me to keep up. Resorting to proxy lists is my best way to combat the speed of this draft, but I LOVE IT! Wish the DEAL drafts could be this fast and ahead of the clock!

It is also going to be very interesting to me to see how much more offensive this league is comparted to the DEAL. It seems there are sooooo many more amazing offensive seasons than there are amazing pitching seasons. I shutter to think about someone taking Coors with these offenses and hitting. Should be a TON of 15-12 type games LOL!

Like I already said, this is the PERFECT complement to the DEAL league. Will be VERY interesting!

He had the cunning to plan this during a global pandemic! Social distancing makes for quick drafts I'd say :D

Posted by amerk1180 on 4/9/2020 1:29:00 AM (view original):
This is gonna be a CRAZY offensive league! From my experience with $255 mill leagues, the BEST ERA's are usually in the mid to high 4's. Gonna be a LOT of 7.58 and 8.23 ERA's from some VERY good pitchers!

Through 15 rounds, my hitting line is: ..367 .458 .663
While my pitching line is: 1.73 ERA .175 OAV 0.81 WHIP (1296 IP)

Prettu solid, but I bet I don't have a pitcher over 50 IP with an ERA less than 4.00

You guys are wizards. I swear to god I don't know how you all do this! Even if I had a do-over on my terrible first pick and went with super quality innings I don't think I'd be close that WHIP and my slashes are lagging too at .355 / .453 / .654 Incredible.

Am I crashing you party? I fell like I'm crashing your party. One last thing, I literally had a dream last night that whoever was picking before me picked a Lamborghini. And I was all... WTF? Why are you picking a car? So I caught up on the last page of the thread and everyone had decided to switch to a racing league and draft cars instead so I was like **** it and drafted the GT40 with my pick.

Two questions/observations: Why isn't Tom Seaver more highly regarded by WIS? For that matter, why aren't the 1970s players? I often think that the 60s/70s/early 80s were the time when the pool of players was as talented and deep as it ever could be. Baseball was the number 1 sport. Football and basketball hadn't quite gotten to the level they are now. Latin and African American players were fully integrated. Soccer/lacrosse etc weren't diluting the talent base either....

I don't think Seaver normalizes well. He tends to give up HRs. I've had the Reds two legs in a row in sinfonian's Rule V league. I have not protected Seaver in either leg and my Reds won 92 & 93 games, respectively, only to lose in game 7 of the World Series, both times.

For all the talk surrounding his name among all-time greats, I don’t think I’ve ever used him here on the SIM

fwiw, here are the number of players selected for each season through the 19th round...

1885	6	1900	0	1920	5	1940	0	1960	0	1980	2	2000	6
1886	5	1901	3	1921	2	1941	3	1961	3	1981	6	2001	7
1887	2	1902	4	1922	5	1942	1	1962	1	1982	0	2002	4
1888	6	1903	4	1923	8	1943	4	1963	1	1983	1	2003	4
1889	2	1904	4	1924	3	1944	1	1964	2	1984	2	2004	4
1890	1	1905	5	1925	3	1945	0	1965	3	1985	5	2005	3
1891	0	1906	6	1926	1	1946	2	1966	3	1986	5	2006	6
1892	0	1907	3	1927	6	1947	1	1967	1	1987	5	2007	9
1893	2	1908	8	1928	3	1948	3	1968	3	1988	3	2008	6
1894	8	1909	9	1929	3	1949	4	1969	2	1989	1	2009	5
1895	6	1910	6	1930	10	1950	1	1970	1	1990	3	2010	6
1896	5	1911	2	1931	4	1951	3	1971	3	1991	3	2011	4
1897	2	1912	7	1932	2	1952	0	1972	4	1992	2	2012	5
1898	0	1913	3	1933	3	1953	3	1973	1	1993	5	2013	8
1899	3	1914	4	1934	2	1954	2	1974	1	1994	4	2014	11
		1915	7	1935	2	1955	2	1975	1	1995	5	2015	6
		1916	4	1936	3	1956	2	1976	1	1996	4	2016	6
		1917	3	1937	7	1957	3	1977	3	1997	6	2017	10
		1918	7	1938	4	1958	2	1978	1	1998	4	2018	11
		1919	8	1939	2	1959	0	1979	0	1999	9	2019	2

My lineup:

									.380	.469	.610
									.363	.465	.706
									.368	.451	.750
									.376	.530	.847
									.403	.489	.756
									.366	.408	.623
									.377	.429	.559
									.354	.415	.542
									.348	.442	.636