by edgecitytx » Wed May 19, 2010 11:43 am
Flip, you're in a heavily LH park, but you hardly have any LH hitters. Fielder and Ibanez are great for you, but otherwise, you're not taking advantage of your park at all, which explains your home W-L record.
Further, though your division is balanced, the rest of the league is also heavily LH slanted. There are 6 unbalanced LH parks in the league and in each of those you're at a disadvantage.
And worse for you, most of those teams are built for their parks, which means they have an advantage on you both at home and away.
I have great respect for Jet's ratings but in this case I don't think they reflect your true weaknesses.
The first rule of Strat is build a team to fit your park. Then you have to look at the rest of the league.
The beauty of the 80M league is that every team has a weakness somewhere. If you play with top players (and there are at least half a dozen in this league), the game becomes about hiding (or protecting) your weaknesses while exploiting others'.
The Orangemen are able to throw Santana and Martinez without fear at you even in your park in spite of their huge # of LH BP HRs. And normally, RHPs not named Nieve or Baker will struggle in your park, but you make it easy for them.
Anyway, that's my analysis. I don't know if you've read J-Pav's Secret Formula posts, or Marcus Willby's newbie thread, both are full of invaluable information. Whenever my teams are struggling, I reread them and usually there's a clue to where I've veered off the path.
G/L.
edge