How is this team flawed?

[Palanion]

I am too close to this team to see the flaws. Ever since the launch of ATG4, I've struggled mightily fielding a winning team; what am I missing?

Bill

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team.html?team_id=333704

[andycummings65]

Bill, I see a that you posted a good link, but it keeps taking me to one of MY teams..........not sure why

[ADRIANGABRIEL]

It should be "user_id," not "team_id."

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team.html?user_id=333704

For $100M, I like a few star hitters, no black holes, solid D, 8/9 inning SP under $8M, value pen.

Also, have you seen my ATG 6 winning percentage? It really sucks.

[PotKettleBlack]

Bad Defense + lopsided rotation?

Round the horn:
McCovey 3e23
Hornsby 2e14
Pags (60%)/Knight(40%): 2e22/3e21
Banks 2e18

Kiner 4e7 (+1)
Griffey 1e7 (-3)
Aaron 2e7 (-2)

Not the worst I've seen, but the infield defense has a lot of errors and no shutdown middle infielder, so that sets you up with a steeper mountain to climb offensively.

Steep curve in pitching dropoff.
Let's see if we can think about this in a different way:
Maddux: God
Tom Williams: A buy side analyst at Lehman Brothers
Higbe: Lawyer who can't find work so works in document review
Faber: Homeless man.
Guy Morton: Homeless stroke victim (only good on one side)

Higbe is miscast as a #2 guy. Tom Williams is overmatched, as is Faber.


It might be better to structure this kind of thing with an artist (rather than God) at the top, a second artist, a value guy, a value homeless man, and a total scrub. Think 7.5, 7, 4, 3, .5.

[gkhd11a]

Mediocre starters and relief
[url]http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=311129[/url]

No starters some relief
[url]http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=299711[/url]

A couple of good starters
[url]http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=338039[/url]

I love Fenway, the stats are fun! I usually look for as much offense as possible and like great CF defense and hitting. I think it is a tough place to win as many incoming teams are not hurt by the park, so you need to make sure to use the park to your advantage as much as possible, I do that by trying to wear out opposing staffs.

As for what is wrong with the team I think
RALPH KINER - would never include him in Fenway. No amount of HR"s makes up for the damage inflicted on your pitching staff.

JOHN MCGRAW - at his price and in Fenway a Mazilli/J ALou platoon would give you nearly the same OBP for 4 million less, allowing a Johnny Bench at catcher instead of the platoon.

ERNIE BANKS - at Fenway I think good defense at SS is critical as to many pitchers get swamped and I think the Kiner/Banks led to the utter disappointment in MADDUX, who needs to be 15-5 not 10-10 for this team to be successful.

I would try to switch Banks for Trammel if possible by trading KINER? Anyone in league interested? If not then I'd Break McGraw down to 2.86 Carew/Shano Collins platoon at the top.

[dukie98]

The biggest problem appears to be that too many lousy pitchers are getting too many innings. Doug Bair has more innings than Wilhelm, and your #3 reliever (Howell) has more innings than #1 and #2 combined. Try playing with the settings to get him Wilhelm as many non-Maddux innings as you can. (I can't tell if you've only had him for part of the season - whenever I click the link to show players not on the roster, it brings me to one of my teams). As it currently stands, you have over 150 innings from sub- $1M pitchers - nearly 20% of all innings that you've pitched.

As a result, you've given up more than 200 more hits than your offense has collected-- that's a tough hole to dig out of, even with your HR advantage. The defense doesn't appear to be erasing a ton of guys on double plays, and opposing runners are able to advance on outs because of the lack of strikeouts.

From an offensive standpoint, it looks like Aaron and McCovey are underachieving, given their slugging percentages and your ballpark. That's more of an indication of bad luck than poor planning, and I would expect them to hit at their regular levels going forward.