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Has anyone ever used a REALLY, REALLY STRONG bullpen? Like a bunch of really high paid relievers!!!

It's been tried many times, with infrequent success. The problem is efficiency. It's very difficult to get them all enough work to equal their cost.

What about having the guts to try very cheap SP (around 1m each) and put them all on quick hook, then have your expensive RPs come in. I wonder if that would work. I have seen it work in the 80's game.

Won a championship with this cheap SP - expensive BP team.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/team/team_other.html?user_id=592

[quote:b12fd7c951="Frank Zappa Lives!!!"]Won a championship with this cheap SP - expensive BP team.

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I see that you're trying that strategy again in TSN_1643. I'm the Slovak Sluggers.

I'm trying this on [url=http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/team/team_other.html?user_id=3555&stats=sim]one of my Tour teams[/url]. As you can see, the relievers themselves are pitching well, but the starting pitchers are doing so badly as to cancel it out. What I've got there, with two B-grade SP and matchup SP in the other three slots, doesn't really mesh well. I think it'd work well if you had an entire staff of cheapo matchup SP, or maybe three or four mediocre-but-balanced SP where you either match up at one rotation slot or not at all. Loading up on bullpen seems like a natural reaction to all of the starting pitching being snapped up so quickly in drafts. It's tough to stand out from the crowd doing the same exact thing as everyone else.