general ballpark advice

[padrenurgle1]

Hi all,

I'm nearing the end of a live draft for a 10-year long keeper league starting in 2001 (managers from our league, you're welcome to respond too!). In the final round of the draft, we pick our stadium. I have the 2nd pick.

I've generally gone with power teams in homer parks, or with high defense low power teams in pitcher's parks, both to fair success. Interested in what other successful ballpark strategies you managers have developed. The 2001 team I have built is strong but not stellar defense (all 2s with low errors), high OBP, mediocre power, poor speed, expensive starting pitching, very weak bench.

c-Varitek
1b-Dmitri Young
2b-Counsell
ss-Furcal
3b-Cirillo
lf-Hidalgo
cf-Griffey
rf-Nixon
dh-Chipper
sp-Mussina, Miller, Williams, Nomo

Any thoughts? The team I have will morph over time, as we are playing 10 seasons in order and the roster will turn over somewhat.

Basically I'm interested in ballpark wisdom in general.

[coyote303]

I've had success with the 2008 season by going with a lefty-friendly park (Progressive 11/8, 9/6) and loading up on lefties, both hitting and pitching.

You need to keep some balance, of course, or you will be vulnerable to reverse-righties.

I don't claim this to be [b:2cd5f303eb]the[/b:2cd5f303eb] winning strategy for stadiums, but it is an alternative.