USKL3 chat thread

[braycon]

Ah, I misunderstood your post. I thought you were offering prospect pick for prospect pick, which didn't make sense (that's what I get for trying to read through it quickly at work). But certainly I see the difference between free agents and prospects - makes total sense now. Apparently, I'm due for a pair of reading glasses...

And you're certainly not losing me in terms of negotiating - I understand completely. I tend to be a bit conservative, but trade talks make these leagues fun and, as I've mentioned before, absence of such talks and involvement, totally ruins a league. I've been most impressed with everyone so far - am really looking forward to participating.

Now, why do I say the Strat engine makes things more difficult? The game itself doesn't, but my lack of knowledge does, because I just don't know how the game is going to play yet. I've been watching Diamond-Mind run for the past decade and I'm pretty confident I have a pretty strong handle on that, but I assure you that despite reading through the many threads, posts, and ideas you all have suggested (very graciously, I might add) I really have almost no idea how my team is going to play out and I'm pretty certain from what I have read, it won't be quite like playing Diamond-Mind.

Now, can I talk trade in terms of prospect and free agent picks? Absolutely.

But when we start tossing players into the mix, I'm going to want to have some sense of how Strat treats the players or I am going to be easy prey in trade talks.

Once we get into the season, I'll start to piece it together. Heck, it may take me more than a season to get it all down like I'd like, but I think I can catch on pretty quickly and I'm looking forward to the wheeling and dealing. (I don't have 5, 10, or 15 teams in this format to follow, which limits my trial and error ability, but means I will be focused on this league!)

So again, so far so good. I appreciate all the insight and everyone's effort. I've enjoyed it already and I think it will be money and time well spent.

And...I still have two prospect picks and might be willing to move that second rounder...

[Ninersphan]

Braycon, thanks for explaining what you meant about the engine, now I understand.
I can certainly understand hesitancy when you don't have the "product knowledge" My guess is there will be a lot of activity between season's one and 2, once we see what HAL (the game engine) does to our teams the first time thorugh.

Big thing to keep in mind though, this is first an foremost a DICE (or random number generator) game. There is always a huge element of luck and /or the unknown involved because sometimes the dice take funny bounces. :wink:
Based on what the card probablities are and how we've read them we [i:9eeaa1878a]think[/i:9eeaa1878a] we have a pretty good idea on how our teams will perform, but it doesn't always work out like we thought.

To paraphrase, Strat-o-Matic managers plan, HAL laughs. :wink:

[mwatson392]

are we still on a 3 hour time clock?

[Ninersphan]

Well that was weird, I sent terry another e-mail.

[Ninersphan]

Back on track :D 8-)

[cshannajr]

smitty is up in the prospect/stadium drafts

[blsmith7]

I picked. I just hope Cueto doesn't give up too many longballs, because my choice of park could seriously depress him.

[cshannajr]

nice pick smitty. this cueto's stuff is unbelievable!!! i think he has something like 18 K's in 12 innings or so.

[Ninersphan]

[b:b7253aeae7]Irishjoe[/b:b7253aeae7] is up for stadium and prospect.

[b:b7253aeae7]klx22[/b:b7253aeae7] is up in prospect

[braycon]

Cueto is a very good pick indeed. He was top 3 on my list and I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did. He's off to a great start.