Oil Can Boyd
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:31 pmMan I loved watching him pitch as a kid. I put him on my roster for my current 1986 season just so even if I got my butt kicked I could root for one of my childhood heroes. The funny thing is in my 4 man rotation Boyd has given up the most runs, most hits and the most HR's in the entire league while pitching the fewest innings of all my SP's...
Yet he has the most wins on my team lol. This thread has no purpose other than to celebrate the greatness of Oil Can Boyd. The funny thing is this is kind of how I remember him as a player. He scattered hits, and pitched to the score. Oil Can might give up 4 runs in the first and then hang in there for 7 strong innings and end up with a win. I have enjoyed watching him have many outings like that during my Strato season. So many of his outings he gets pounded on early and when it is all said and done he hangs in there for 6+ and has a chance to pick up a win more often than not.
No idea how my 2nd strato season will end but this one has been a blast. My strategy was to get a few high value defenders ( I know I crazy overpaid for Murphy), high OBP at the top and then to put players with large positive clutch ratings despite medium to low salaries in a spot where hopefully clutch comes into play frequently. What I saved on the starting lineup allowed me to spend more on my 4th starter (OIL CAN!!!!) and Lee Smith as an innings eater out of the pen.
Canseco has been brutally awful when I bat him 4th but he hits really well 5th, 6th, or 7th. I haven't had much success with Ward in clutch situations ironically despite his decent overall AVG. Ray Knight has been my star as he has a ton of clutch rating hits batting 5th against LHP during the season. He has won 2 games with grand slams late in ballgames.
On the flip side Tony Gwynn has lost an estimated 30 RBI's due to clutch rating where a hit became an out. I hate how many dice rolls Gwynn has that are negative clutch but I just have to hide Randolph's clutch rating in the leadoff spot plus Randolph BB's so much which really only leaves Gwynn with the option of batting 3rd because his GBA's can't have him in the 2 hole.
I watched a recent episode of Clubhouse Confidential on MBLTV. It was about the best use for closers and the study said that unless the game was a 1 run game it is statistically a waste to use a closer in the 9th and it is statistically more useful to have the reliever in the tougher situation in the 7th or 8th. After watching that episode I switch Quisenberry to the closer role and have used Smith and Franco as my middle man and set-up man. I know you can't do that with the modern versions because of the closer rating but the closer rating doesn't impact the 1986 game.
The show said that having an elite closer pitch the 9th when the lead is 3 runs makes a 2% difference and only a 4% difference in 2 run games. Statistically only in 1 run games in the 9th were they able to establish a real benefit to using an elite closer. I wish Strato had a setting where I could distinguish between the types of save opportunities.
If I could start the season over the only I would really change would be to get rid of Dale Murphy for a cheaper CF and a platoon option for Ray Knight vs RHP. Other than that maybe some minor tweaks but no major regrets. I guess I should have found a way to get a decent late game defensive replacement for Randolph, his errors have been brutal at times.
Not a ton of activity on the forum today so I thought I would ramble. Plus it gets my mind off the Super Bowl (New Englander here).
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Yet he has the most wins on my team lol. This thread has no purpose other than to celebrate the greatness of Oil Can Boyd. The funny thing is this is kind of how I remember him as a player. He scattered hits, and pitched to the score. Oil Can might give up 4 runs in the first and then hang in there for 7 strong innings and end up with a win. I have enjoyed watching him have many outings like that during my Strato season. So many of his outings he gets pounded on early and when it is all said and done he hangs in there for 6+ and has a chance to pick up a win more often than not.
No idea how my 2nd strato season will end but this one has been a blast. My strategy was to get a few high value defenders ( I know I crazy overpaid for Murphy), high OBP at the top and then to put players with large positive clutch ratings despite medium to low salaries in a spot where hopefully clutch comes into play frequently. What I saved on the starting lineup allowed me to spend more on my 4th starter (OIL CAN!!!!) and Lee Smith as an innings eater out of the pen.
Canseco has been brutally awful when I bat him 4th but he hits really well 5th, 6th, or 7th. I haven't had much success with Ward in clutch situations ironically despite his decent overall AVG. Ray Knight has been my star as he has a ton of clutch rating hits batting 5th against LHP during the season. He has won 2 games with grand slams late in ballgames.
On the flip side Tony Gwynn has lost an estimated 30 RBI's due to clutch rating where a hit became an out. I hate how many dice rolls Gwynn has that are negative clutch but I just have to hide Randolph's clutch rating in the leadoff spot plus Randolph BB's so much which really only leaves Gwynn with the option of batting 3rd because his GBA's can't have him in the 2 hole.
I watched a recent episode of Clubhouse Confidential on MBLTV. It was about the best use for closers and the study said that unless the game was a 1 run game it is statistically a waste to use a closer in the 9th and it is statistically more useful to have the reliever in the tougher situation in the 7th or 8th. After watching that episode I switch Quisenberry to the closer role and have used Smith and Franco as my middle man and set-up man. I know you can't do that with the modern versions because of the closer rating but the closer rating doesn't impact the 1986 game.
The show said that having an elite closer pitch the 9th when the lead is 3 runs makes a 2% difference and only a 4% difference in 2 run games. Statistically only in 1 run games in the 9th were they able to establish a real benefit to using an elite closer. I wish Strato had a setting where I could distinguish between the types of save opportunities.
If I could start the season over the only I would really change would be to get rid of Dale Murphy for a cheaper CF and a platoon option for Ray Knight vs RHP. Other than that maybe some minor tweaks but no major regrets. I guess I should have found a way to get a decent late game defensive replacement for Randolph, his errors have been brutal at times.
Not a ton of activity on the forum today so I thought I would ramble. Plus it gets my mind off the Super Bowl (New Englander here).
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