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Why is this team bad. Am I just doomed to failure no matter what, or is this really a bad team?

ss Wagner
lf Musial
cf J. Dimaggio
3b Brett
rf Simmons
1b Cepeda
dh J. Alou / Blair
c Sanguillen
2b Herr

sp Cicotte, Hughson, Derringer, Ferriss
rp Garber, Tippy

It looks like you are maybe cursed! :lol: :lol:

If you post a link, it is easier to help...is it early in the season?? Where are you playing??

Just looking at those players, I'd be happy to put together a team with those guys! If those guys are struggling for you, it has to be:
1. BAD luck (just crappy rolls of the dice). Given time, it should even out.
2. Poor park choice for your squad.
3. KILLER competition in your division/league. Most likely a $100m league, where everyone can field an awesome lineup.
4. Some combo of 1-3 above.
If it's still early in your season, I definitely would not panic. Other than nitpicking about 2 or 3 guys, or thinking your lineup might be too RH heavy, (are you facing some killer RHs, ala Garcia, for example?) that looks to be a team that should perform well, IMO.

You're not alone lamenting. My group of O Smith, J Robinson, Simmons, Musial, Furillo, Fox, Cochrane and D Dimaggio have blasted out of the gate to the tune of 1-11. :x

So I shouldn't complain about 2-10 huh :(
One team has beaten me 6 times with Lolich, Key and Stewart each starting twice, all 4L pitchers, so my right handed hitters should all be killing them.
Looking at it again, one thing I noticed were 19 errors leading to 25 unearned runs. Honus :evil: is off to a great start with 8 of them and Brett :evil: missed a couple of games and Blair made 4 filling in.
All I can figure is Sporting News doesn't like me, (my last 8 playoff teams are all losers) and it is a hopeless situation. :?

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/atg2/team/team_other.html?user_id=95586

I've taken a look at gave my review some thought. I like quite a few of the players on your team but I would have recommended the following:

a) To dangerous spending the amount of cap on both Brett and Dimaggio. I would have gone with a Dave Henderson and a solid backup against RSP and then used the additional salary to replace J. Alou at DH and Herr at 2B. A solid DH plus a $6 M DH and a $4+M 2B will outperform on the long run the star and minor DH & 2b.

You might also budget to improve Ferris in a $100M league. I like Ferris but at this salary cap I would up that spot to $5.5M.

b) Not sure about Wagner. I've seen it done but I prefer some for of defense at SS. Chapman and Avila to me are a better combo than Wagner and Herr.