NLD 12

[joethejet]

Hey Niners,

Sent you league email.

Jet

[Ninersphan]

and I responded. Monday's a BAD day to try to get ahold of me. I'm offline from 4:30pm est - about 11pm.

[Ninersphan]

And that's why I didn't want to trade Zambrano :D .

I finally got a Number one pitcher performance out of a Number one starter. Maybe I'll turn it around this NLD season. :o

Typicla NLD though, no sweeps.

[Jeepdriver]

On pace to score 1516 Runs :wink:
Also on pace, however, to give up 1516 Runs :wink:

[doug_tucker10]

some nice football scores in my first 3 games...id also like to thank HAL for doing a decent job managing my first night since i snoozed and missed setting up my team by 15 minutes.

[joethejet]

An inauspicious start for the Shirtheads.

First I, like JG, forgot to set the lineups and rotation. At least I'd set up the strategy portions. <sigh> Wish we would have played each other, that would have be interesting. :)

Then, We lose Beltre for two games in game one and then lose Davanon for 10 and Durazo for 5 in game 3. Ouch.

Luckily we held on to win a game. Our pitching was less than sterling but Silver does have a pretty good hitting teams (when healthy)

Say, did anyone else notice the absolute dearth of moves before/after the deadline last night!?! :shock: I don't think the NLD has EVER been so quiet.

Jet

[qksilver69]

Yeah, I just didn’t see any last-minute moves that would really have made a big difference in my season. I did a lot of within-division sims, and the Giles move was the one with the most upside. My win spread was 83 – 96 with Boone (after about 20 sims of 162 gms vs division opponents) and then went to 83-106 (!) with Giles, so I figured it was worth it to make the switch.

My take on this is that TSN did a much better job this year valuing defense, so the slight difference in Giles’ value over Boone reflects a really killer card vs LHP and the increased injury factor, but the difference from a 1e16 to a 2e22 is not so critical. I turn a few less DPs, but since I had already decided to go with the Jimenez platoon at 2b, I’m only going from a 1 to a 2 in 40-50 gms.

The trade of Torres & Zambrano for Linebrink & Harden helps me marginally, but really that was to compete better with WM/JTJ in their park, as it gives me 2 solid RH SPs in my rotation.

It seems most teams are carrying 2-3 injury guys in this $100M format since you can have great backups. My favorite is at C, where both guys are big injury risks but since only 1 can be injured at a time, I end up getting huge numbers (50+ HRs & 170 + RBI) from the Mauer/Greene tandem...

[joethejet]

Silver,

Thanks for the analysis. Say, how did our team do in your divisional sims?? :)

I'm sure WM or I will get around to posting the JTJ ratings before too long.

I wanted to remind everyone that before you go cutting that high priced starter, come talk to us, maybe we can make a better deal than cutting for you.

Jet

[Jeepdriver]

Jet, I've got yall beat (barely) by $1M or so for least $$ invested in SP.

If I continue to score runs like I have so far, that shouldn't come back to bite me at all. Still way early though.

[qksilver69]

You guys generally were at .500 or just over Joe, as was Hawk. Hawk's team has more upside, you guys are more consistent and have a better home advantage. Penn mostly is a few games under .500, but has the occasional 90 win season, just enough to give him a glimmer of hope I'd say.... :wink: