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I am thinking of adding Brad Hawpe to a Busch team that may be a little punchless against a Citizen's Bank and Chase Field team which are also in the division.

Any experience with Hawpe in a Pitcher's Park??

Thanks

sponedal


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It's definately not the best place for him.

The straight HR on 8 will help though...He really needs a hitting park.

Looking at who's available, I'm not sure why you'd want Hawpe. Why not do some rejiggering and get Miguel Cabrera?

I'm a little too lazy to do the math, but looks like you have room to upgrade. You don't need Escobar, Kouzmanoff, and S. Green, could probably downgrade Milledge to a cheaper option. Drop K. Rogers and Micah Owings and pick up a .50 S/R. Too much money in your pen. Probably don't need three lefty relievers. Replace Fultz with Linebrink or someone else. Carry ten pitchers.

I wouldn't worry about the hitters parks in your division. Worry about your home games. Your potential order versus righties ain't too shabby:

Polanco
Redman
Granderson
Cabrera
Loney
Raburn
Burke
Vizquel
x (I'd look for a good OB guy and consider using Cabrera at 3b)

Sponedal, I'm in your league so take this for what its worth....
I'm a little suprised no one is using Hawpe... but the league as a whole is slanted toward pitching parks and thats not Hawpe's forte. One Citizens, 3 Chase, and everything else is a pitching friendly park. I'd be suprised if multiple teams score 900 runs.

IMO- Your team look pretty good against righties and adding Hawpe just gives you another guy who should be platooned (Redman,Granderson, Green).

In the pitching friendly parks, look for guys who have 35+ OB chances AND 45+ TB chances BOTH ways.

[quote:49ef563535="socalchiro"]In the pitching friendly parks, look for guys who have 35+ OB chances AND 45+ TB chances BOTH ways.[/quote:49ef563535]

I still dont get quite what those mean and how you determine them, can you expand?

Keith

[quote:d37d7d7dc0="klx22"][quote:d37d7d7dc0="socalchiro"]In the pitching friendly parks, look for guys who have 35+ OB chances AND 45+ TB chances BOTH ways.[/quote:d37d7d7dc0]

I still dont get quite what those mean and how you determine them, can you expand?

Keith[/quote:d37d7d7dc0]

Keith, You don't use the ratings book or disk???

Right from the book:

"a Strat-o-matic dice roll of 7 ( in any column) is worth 6 chances ( out of 36 in each column, for a total of 108 on the hitters card), where a dice roll of 4 or 10 is worth 3 chances and a dice roll of 2 or 12 is worth 1 chance."

Looks like this:

2=1
3=2
4=3
5=4
6=5
7=6
8=5
9=4
10=3
11=2
12=1

For split results, it becomes a fraction depending on the split. a 1-10 split would halve the value. eg. a 1-10 split on a roll of 5 would make the value 2 chances instead of 4.

So basically for OBP chances you would total up the results for every positive OB chance on the card. and that's the number of chances a player has on his card out of 108 to be successful.
Of course that's only the hitters card, but it allows you to compare hitters to each other and decide who has higher OB chances etc.
I KNOW you are in keepers, and I'm tellin ya, the ratings book/disk is invaluble for this stuff as it has all the breakdowns on every player. A MUST have IMHO.

EXCELLENT bathroom reading stuff.

MUST HAVE for any Strat player, period.

[quote:de20a36ca8="socalchiro"]EXCELLENT bathroom reading stuff.

MUST HAVE for any Strat player, period.[/quote:de20a36ca8]

And coincidentaly pre-orders started being taken yesterday for the ratings book.

Go get 'em :wink:

Chri Gomez was freed up. This allowed me to assure some infieldback up and he will play 3B for me with Cabrera at DH against RHP. Cabrera will play 3B against LHP.

So here is where I stand right now.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=153922

Also to echo what the always helpful socal said, the manual and disk, why the heck doesn't it come on a CD, is a great help. Here is the weblink.

http://www.strat-o-matic.com/

sponedal