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Here are a couple of teams in one of my leagues. Both are 55-41 at this point of the season. Not too shabby, you say? Read on!

Team #1 - playing in Braves Field '20.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=371534

Team #2 - playing in Cleveland Stadium '51

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=371430

On another thread I have posted the dangers of playing in neutral ballparks. If you can believe it, these teams are (at 55-41!) tied for 3rd/4th in their division.

My entry in this horse race is playing in League Park '34. It's currently 57-39:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=370271

And the leader at the 96 game mark, playing in Wrigley '59, checking in with a fine 58-38 mark, is:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=370301

The best record in the rest of the league is 52-44.

Amazing!

None of the above. Don't like any of the four teams for various reasons.

Prefer the two teams with the better records but it would be child's play to craft a 6-7 man starting rotation that would shut those suckers down.

Here's a sample starting staff from one of my current 100M teams in a division with similar lefty and righty centric teams.

Pfiester, Jack (1907) L S8/R5 4 1 0 0 45.0 42 22 16 15 26 7 3.20 1.27 E 6.95M
Hall, Tom (1970) L S7/R4 3 2 0 0 46.0 25 15 13 26 52 4 2.54 1.11 1L 6.88M
Kison, Bruce (1979) R S6/R4 1 3 0 0 34.1 42 22 21 11 21 6 5.50 1.54 5R 3.30M
Hendrix, Claude (1916) R S8/R5 0 2 0 0 6.2 11 12 11 5 3 5 14.84 2.40 E 2.42M
Donald, Atley (1939) R S7/R5 1 1 0 0 16.2 17 7 7 10 10 2 3.78 1.62 E 2.40M
Bennett, Dennis (1967) L S6/R3 2 1 0 0 35.0 35 16 10 12 11 1 2.57 1.34 9L 1.91M
Sutton, Don (1982) R S8 3 3 0 0 30.1 33 22 18 12 29 6 5.34 1.48 9R 1.25M

This staff would throw Pfeister, Hall and Bennett against rburgh's team and Kison, Sutton and either Hendrix or Atley against the Wrigley team. With the 7 man staff I can pretty much ensure that Kison and Bennett don't ever pitch against teams they match poorly. And unlike some of the 40M+ staffs in rburgh's division, this staff is cost effective.

The point of this post, Petro, was that I think it is incredible that four teams from the same division can be that dominant. The four of us are 165-99 outside our division, for a .625 winning percentage. You could probably tweak one, or maybe two or three, teams to nail us, but I doubt you could find enough cheap, lopsided pitchers so that a whole league could get both of us.

Actually, the Pythagorean records suggest that Vinnie has the best team. We'll see. It's a really interesting race. I have 20 teams running, and this is the one I am most interested in.

But I agree with you, there is no such thing as an invincible team, or an unwinnable division.

Team 1 should not have a winning record as its scored less that they've allowed. I like that team the least.


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Looked at it wrong.

PKB, I think you looked at it wrong. All four teams have positive run differentials.