Wholly Disappointing Strat Year- Halladay Sucked

[cacheese]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2007/team/team_other.html?user_id=24931

I felt that I ran a good team and I gave them a shot to win every night. I had four guys go for basically 90+ RBI, Five guys around 20 HR or more, Carlos Zambrano and Roy Halladay as a great one-two punch for any series, and pretty damn good defense to back them up.

My team just couldn't put it together at the end. With about a month and a half to play- We sat first in our division with a one game lead. We just couldn't do anything after that.

+++++++++++++++QUESTION FOR VETERANS+++++++++++++++++
I enjoy Strat and would like to get better at it.

1) Do you have any suggestions for next year?

2) Ball park changes? ... I ran the basic strategy that I had last year which was good pitching and defense up the middle, with a couple of big bats to put four on the board every night. Just didn't work out.

3) Any idea why Halladay just didn't turn it around? Correction- Why he was absolutely horrendous!

Thanks for the time- See you guys next year!

[cacheese]

I just checked it out too- I had the best fielding at a .987, had the least amount of opponent steals, and had four Gold Glover, and a couple of Silver sluggers.

Just underperformed as a whole unit.

[emm9230]

1 - always get down to the minimum # of players required, in this case, 24 and max out your money to the last dime

2 - don't drop players at a 20% cost after the start of the season if at all possible, figure out your teams weaknesses before the start of the season

3 - set your pitchers cards so your cheaper one-sided relievers don't get so many IP, your more expensive relievers can handle the IP

4 - platoon at least at 1 position with one-sided opposite hitters whose combined totals will be better than one single more expensive player

5 - pick your park first and pick players suited to the park you're going to play in, hitter's parks need more pitching, and vice versa

[thuggis]

Looks like Halladay pitched a ton of innings (280+) for you. My guess would be that he pitched late into a lot of games where he was fatigued, and then gave up some big innings before being pulled.

It might have helped to set him at 7 IP max per start. Just an educated guess . . .

[thuggis]

One other thing I noticed is that all of your SPs are righties. It might help to have some lefties next time. One team is blowing the doors off of everyone else in my league by having a bunch of mid to low-priced SP*'s and just playing matchups every night. That way, if you're weak on one side of the plate, he can completely exploit that every series.

[Valen]

My favorite pitching strategy, a staff full of matchup types. I have fielded 200 mil teams in ATG where I had 3 LH and 3 RH * pitchers so I could guarantee if you were weak against either side I could have 2 of that side against you. Of course that is some extra work to pay attention all the time.