if you go with 1250 there's almost always gonna be the possibility of fatigue issues, or at least the need to run a mop-up or two into the ground to avoid problems elsewhere

speaking of fatigue issues, looks like I shouldn't have checked the use in relief box for my starters in the $80M. Ferdie Schupp just threw 102 pitches in relief in an extra inning loss and now I'm up against it for a while.

Posted by pfan on 6/24/2020 12:06:00 AM (view original):

Posted by Jtpsops on 6/21/2020 7:52:00 PM (view original):
Kenley Jansen is awful. That is all.

jtpsops, you may have had some bad luck with your player, on the plus side, i heard a critic on the radio today say that the new Carly Rae Jepsen album is very good. perhaps that will help.

This is probably the best advice I've ever seen in the WISC forum

My Arrieta in the $140M league has given up multiple runs in all but one start and has an ERA over 5.

I just had my first "schwarze" of the year. Boy that sounds weird.

Actually.... and I'm sure this will anger the sim gods... I had my best overall SIM day that I can ever remember. I currently have 31 active teams (all theme leagues). They went a combined 27-4. One loss was a playoff game where I blew 2-run leads in both the 9th and the 12th innings. My 13 teams in thejuiece's tournament went 12-1.

It's only downhill from here. I expect a 1-5 in the WIS this evening.

11-19 over the last 5 cycles is a solid way to drop straight out of the cage.

Posted by schwarze on 6/24/2020 3:40:00 PM (view original):
Actually.... and I'm sure this will anger the sim gods... I had my best overall SIM day that I can ever remember. I currently have 31 active teams (all theme leagues). They went a combined 27-4. One loss was a playoff game where I blew 2-run leads in both the 9th and the 12th innings. My 13 teams in thejuiece's tournament went 12-1.

It's only downhill from here. I expect a 1-5 in the WIS this evening.

31 teams?!

Silver King update. He's already won 17 games. The team has 32 errors in 47 games with Walter Johnson also starting. Anybody still think he's a punk?

Posted by rbow923 on 6/24/2020 5:00:00 PM (view original):
Silver King update. He's already won 17 games. The team has 32 errors in 47 games with Walter Johnson also starting. Anybody still think he's a punk?

Can I go back in time to the team I started with that had him in there?

Posted by redcped on 6/24/2020 5:20:00 PM (view original):

Posted by rbow923 on 6/24/2020 5:00:00 PM (view original):
Silver King update. He's already won 17 games. The team has 32 errors in 47 games with Walter Johnson also starting. Anybody still think he's a punk?

Can I go back in time to the team I started with that had him in there?

Mine is 4-15 with an ERA over 6, you can have mine.

2nd Schwarze of the tourney. Still not in the cage. Tough crowd. 4 teams in 1st. 2 in last. Ruh roh

Posted by jetscanes on 6/24/2020 6:35:00 PM (view original):

Posted by redcped on 6/24/2020 5:20:00 PM (view original):

Posted by rbow923 on 6/24/2020 5:00:00 PM (view original):
Silver King update. He's already won 17 games. The team has 32 errors in 47 games with Walter Johnson also starting. Anybody still think he's a punk?

Can I go back in time to the team I started with that had him in there?

Mine is 4-15 with an ERA over 6, you can have mine.

Well the two guys I took instead (10 Walsh and 08 Mathewson) are combined 14-13 with ERAs over 4. I think King could have done that just as well, too.

Posted by rbow923 on 6/24/2020 5:00:00 PM (view original):
Silver King update. He's already won 17 games. The team has 32 errors in 47 games with Walter Johnson also starting. Anybody still think he's a punk?

Yep mine has 17 wins as well. I think there's 2 common mistakes I see owners make when they roster Silver King:

Mistake #1: They treat him like any other SP and set his maximum pitch count too low. Silver King should be throwing quite a few complete games, otherwise you can't get even close to his RL IP.

Mistake #2: They allow Sparky to pinch hit or pinch run for Silver King. If Sparky pinch hits or pinch runs for Silver King, he likely won't have gotten anywhere close to the number of pitches he needs to have thrown that game. Since a Silver King team shouldn't have a super deep bullpen, this will likely lead to major fatigue problems in the bullpen.

Some bad luck there, jets.Do you have much A++ range? My Silver isn't much below 4.00 he's winning because he saved me enough dough to draft hitting. Averaging 6.5 runs a game.

Posted by rbow923 on 6/24/2020 5:00:00 PM (view original):
Silver King update. He's already won 17 games. The team has 32 errors in 47 games with Walter Johnson also starting. Anybody still think he's a punk?

I don't recall anyone calling him a punk. Simply that there are reasons (some good reasons by some good owners) that he drafting him comes with some baggage.

As anyone who plays more than one season on here knows, one instance doesn't necessarily prove a point (if there's even a point to be proven...). I will be curiously watching to see how the SK teams end up, he's a great pitcher, and many people love/have no issue with deadballers - but there are reasons why other people prefer to shy away from them. As with anything in the sim, there are ways to negate or compensate for weaknesses teams/players have. You drafted a phenomenal defensive team. So far they've been able to hold onto the ball and your team has been very successful. You can easily look around at other SK teams in this tournament and see teams that haven't been that fortuitous.