First Forbes Team

[DONALDYORK]

Been on a bit of a slide lately, so I broke down and am trying a Forbes team. Just not sure exactley how to build one....How would Aaron do? I'm thinking he would lose too many of his homers, but then I thought he would also have to play 81 games away from the homerless haven...Bad logic?? little help guys!

[JUMA]

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[Free Radicals]

Hank is good for Forbes . Driving in runs is usually the problem there and Hank can drive them in . He has HOMERUN on his card several times so on those rolls its gone no matter what park . I agree that OBP is very important at Forbes but you must also have a couple guys to drive in the runs .

[The Last Druid]

The only better right fielders are Simmons and Cobb (excluding Ruth). I'd build my team around Aaron anytime.

Here's a Forbes team built around one big banger. The idea seemed to work well. I've had other Forbes winners with less hr's on the whole team than what Mantle had in the season below. I'll include two Griffith teams in this thread as they are functionally the same park for purposes of illustrating this concept.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/atg2/team/team_other.html?user_id=53514

Here's an example in Griffith of the one big hr hitter with the team built around him.
http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/atg2/team/team_other.html?user_id=61246

As a rule I don't like wasting a lot of ball park hr's either. But if you've got Aaron keep him unless you can get Cobb. I actually dropped Aaron for Cobb in a Frenzy last night -- and in a home run park. It was a really tough decision, but the kind you want t be in a position to make. Wondering though if I'll be kicking myself as the season unfolds.

Now here's a Griffith team that was last in the league in hr's with only 54. So the no hr sytle works too.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/atg2/team/team_other.html?user_id=45312

And finally a middle of the road Forbes team, some slight power but nothing around which the team was based.
http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/atg2/team/team_other.html?user_id=45592

The one thing these teams have in common apart from being 0-hr parks -- they all won championships. :)