I set out to copy a team

[rburgh]

I was in the same Barnstormers league as PillPop's 112 win team. I thought I'd copy his team for the Friday night Frenzy a couple of nights ago, since I wasn't going to have a lot of time to develop a team. His team (in Braves' 20) was:

Joss, Addie (1908)
Pfiester, Jack (1906)
Dean, Dizzy (1934)
Grove, Lefty (1930)
Noyes, Win (1919)
Ryan, Rosy (1921)
Henry, Dutch (1927)
Packard, Gene (1916)
Zoldak, Sam (1945)
Fleming, Bill (1944)
Schalk, Ray (1919)
Pytlak, Frankie (1934)
Connor, Roger (1889)
Huggins, Miller (1912)
Gleason, Kid (1901)
Baker, Frank (1913)
Wallace, Bobby (1902)
Parent, Freddy (1902)
Dougherty, Patsy (1905)
Dimaggio, Joe (1941)
Powell, Jake (1939)
O'Brien, Jack J. (1903)
Heilmann, Harry (1925)
Youngs, Ross (1920)

But I looked at his team, and I decided I could do better than Joss and Pfiester at the top of my rotation with the new cards. So I put in for Joe Wood and Dave McNally. That freed up some cap room, so I looked at Hggins at 2B and decided that the new Stanky was a much better option there.

Then I decided I wanted to try the new Pinson card, so I had a lot of cash available, and I went merrily through his roster making change after change. Finally, I decided that I wanted a little more action than Braves 20 provided, so I switched to Braves 41.

Of course, the AD didn't give me everyone I wanted, and I released one of my spare OF to free up cash for the frenzy. By the time the frenzy was over, I ended up with:

SP - Marichal, Wood, McNally, Glavine 96, and the .50 Ruthven.
RP - McKain 40, Bahnsen, Bobby Bolin, Ed Klieman
C - Frank Duncan and Steve Lake
1B - Connor
2B - Stanky
3B - Red Rolfe
SS - Wagner 09
LF - Joe Jackson 20, Pinson, Dwight Evans
Bench - Samuel, O'Leary, Chico Salmon, Litwhiler, Doc Cramer, Ping Bodie

The league is heavily LH oriented - teams in Shea 71 (Andy Cummings), League 34 (Petro), and Tiger 75 (frank M). There's only one RH oriented ballpark (Comiskey 11, unclerowser). That should explain Marichal, my bullpen, and Dewey Evans in RF.

The league starts tomorrow night, we'll see what happens. Petro is in my division, with an OF of Williams, Duffy, and the new Ruth card. Fortunately for me, though, he doesn't have either Ray Sadecki or Jim Kern, so I have a chance.

[PillPop]

Lookin' good. Next time I'm copying your team! :D

[rburgh]

I used a couple of ideas from your team, and took advantage of some of the new cards. Really, with the new cards dropping monthly, copying teams is a losing idea. There will be somebody better to use in a month or two.

[PillPop]

Plus, there are so many variables: different opponents' parks, caps, DH/no DH, dice rolls, luck, luck, and more luck. :wink: