comment on my team please

[estern]

whoops...
thanks for the help.

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/atg2/team/team_other.html?user_id=104912

[franks1313]

Link doesn't work. missing user ID on the end.

[cplake]

Go to your league stats page and hover your mouse over your team name. Right click the mouse and left click on the item "copy link" from the menu that pops up. Go back to your original post and choose "edit". Then in a blank area right click again and left click on "paste". Your link should show your league ID at the end of the URL. (i.e., ID=12345).

[Free Radicals]

Here's an example of what it should look like . The last numbers will be different of course, because it will be your team .


http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/atg2/team/team_other.html?user_id=71966

[estern]

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[The Last Druid]

I think this team will struggle to win 70 games. Lots of problems.

Starting with the pitching, going low budget on pitching in your park is a common strategy. Ace Ventura, who I haven't seen around lately seems to have this mastered. Nev would also be well placed to comment on this.
I try to have at least one top starter for the playoffs but I believe that this is a minority opinion for bomber parks.

As a general rule you should avoid pitchers who give up alot of ballpark homeruns when playing in a park like yours. Lolich will probably have a very bad year. Richert and Hall lose pretty much all their considerable value in your park. Lamp is a good choice for your park. O'Dell is also OK. But overall you have the wrong guys making up your staff. The premier cheap pitchers for Polo are Speer, Frock, Cvengros. Caldwell is OK but kind of marginal. Pina should be alright as long as you have the right settings on the back of his card as he shouldn't be seeing many lefties.

Your offense should score a lot. But I'm not a fan of Boggs nor of your catching duo. Although if you like Boggs, he is probably well suited to your park as it minimizes his clogging up the base paths with his lack of speed. Greenburg will likely cost you more runs than you'll ever know. I would recommend someone else. Aaron and Musial are certainly keepers and Trammell and Gordon are adequate. Ott tends to underperform for me, so not a big fan there either.

If you can't get May or Parrish at catcher try Ed Bailey. He often hits 50+ hrs for me. I might try to get Campanella with Greenburgs salary and a cheaper left fielder.

I don't want to throw cold water on you or your team. But after you play alot you get an intuitive feel for a well put together team. Unfortunately don't think that this is one.

[estern]

Thanks for the comment. I can't get a feel for this team at all which is why I asked. I know I will score, but I have never had luck putting together a cheap staff.

what makes you think lolich will suffer in this park? I have had him be among the league leaders in hr/9 innings a few times.

[Free Radicals]

I agree with Petrosian ! Your staff will not last long SP or RP .

Greenberg is a slug in the field . You could either replace him with a better fielding but slugging LF or move Musial to LF and get a 1st baseman . Boggs has always dissappointed but alot of managers like him anyways .

[The Last Druid]

He gives up four ballpark hr's against righties which in your park are automatic hr's. So if the opposing batter rolls a result on Lolich's card there are 6.1/108 chances that it will be a homerun. That means if batters only rolled on Lolich's card in 40 starts in your park, figure he gives up 80 hrs. That should put him last in the league on hr pct in nine innings. Problem is half the time the batter rolls on his own card, which will likely lead to even more hr's in your park.

Obviously his numbers shouldn't be that bad as some of the away games he starts will be in pitcher friendly parks against small ball teams. But hopefully you get the picture... he is a potential disaster in home games.