A team of all "1s" defensively.

[pkwmati]

[quote:bc758af3f8="ehlekev"]PM, nice team. I think Kaufmann Stadium is one of the key reasons you are doing so well. I was concerned about your OBP, but it's holding strong. Since your guys are getting on base, your speed is causing havoc for the other teams. I was also concerned about having enough RBI guys. With a .292 BA, the merry-go-round is going around and around and scoring some runs. I like the fact that Bourne and Pierre are a couple of your top RBI guys.
The surprising hitting and your superb defense says you are heading to the playoffs! No jinx intended.

Kev[/quote:bc758af3f8]

Thanks, ehlekev. Of course its early so I'm still just cautiously optimistic that we can hold out but it is a lot of fun.

Kaufmann was done by design. I thought I'd have to run to make up for my run scoring weakness and the team has been pretty successful - 133 steals in 66 games, so about 2/per game and a success rate of 73%.

[pkwmati]

Week 4 Update:

Its started to go a little south as we had our first losing week at 10-11, including a 1-8 stretch in the middle of the week. Still in a first place tie. The offense has finally slowed down (17 runs in those 8 losses mentioned above). Still getting the job done in 1-run games (20-13) and perfect in extra innings (8-0). My side experiment of Matt Maloney continues to go well (2-1, 3.37ERA, 1.18WHIP for the week).

This week brings another round thru the division.


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[pkwmati]

Week 5 Update:

Another poor week with a second losing week in a row at 9-12. We've fallen 2 back in the division. Could have been worse as we did get a sweep over the first place team.

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[pkwmati]

Week 7 Update:

Missed last weeks update due to March Madness. But down the stretch we come. With 15 left in the season, four games back in the division, but a 3-game lead for the Wild Card.

As the season comes to a close, the starting pitching didn't perform as well as I had hoped with all the 1s backing them up. Rzepczynski and Maloney are the only two who really over-performed. On the other hand the bullpen has been terrific.

Offensively, the team has been OK, still 10th in runs scored but close enough to 12th that a bad series couold put us there. Runs have been generated the true small ball way - 260 steals (1.76/game).

Hopefully after next weeks Week 8 report, I'll be able to add a playoffs report.

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[tplatypi]

[quote:91d78958f8="joethejet"]Team actually rates pretty well at 2302, ...[/quote:91d78958f8]

Can somebody please imform me about this rating system? 2302? I have been playing for a long time but missed out on this system.

[J-Pav]

[b:06b3ef97cd]tplatypi:[/b:06b3ef97cd]

See this thread:

http://forums.sportingnews.com/viewtopic.php?t=624427

[pkwmati]

Final Update:

Yes, sadly the Zips struggled that last week to a 6-9 finish and missed the playoffs by 1 game at 85-77. The end result was somewhat what I expected, a team that could a least stay within striking distance for most of the season, but not enough run production to get it done in the end.

The way we got there is what was surprising. I was really interested to see how much certain starting pitchers could overperform their cards being in Kaufmann with all ones behind them. And only a couple really did. Rzepczynski was strong all year and Maloney putting up 3.85 ERA and 1.28 WHIP for $0.50 was pleasing but those were my only 2 SPs with sub 4.00 ERAs. I had a better season from Nolasco on an uncapped live draft team, then $80M, all 1s team. That was dissappointing. The bullpen did well, but again Calero at 3.01 ERA and 1.27 WHIP is nothing great considering the factors playing to his advantage.

The offense was better than expected. I intentionally put speed 1s on the team to generate a small ball dynamic and we got 293 steals - a little better than 1.8/game.

It was a fun team to follow. I haven't dug too deeply into the 2010 set yet but maybe I'll give it another go this year.

Thanks to all who followed along and thought this was a little interesting.

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[apolivka]

Yes this was an interesting experiment. Your bullpen was unreal, and probably pitched quite a bit over their heads. Strange that you got such bad performances out of Verlander and Nolasco, however.

Obviously, in retrospect, spending 3 million on Gonzalez and Infante was probably a waste considering they got only about 75 ABs between them. But, you also got pretty lucky with Rolen almost never getting hurt.

But, you could have easily made the playoffs, and you got almost 300 steals, which makes for a fun team to manage. Playing extreme teams like this can be a real blast.

BTW, I think Crawford just tied the '09 steals record with his 97.

[cwalrath]

ATGVI

I have Archer-C-1
O'Neil B.-1B-1
Serrell-2B-1
Marcelle-3B-1
Wilson W.-LF-1
Moreno-CF-1

Red Miller and Maury Wills are 2's. There is only one way to go with all ones. And that is small ball. With the D, get as much speed as you can and then look to batting average. But you WILL NOT score runs. I am at 400 runs and 125 games. But I am at 270 SB as well. The key, the mound. Four starters (Maddux, Walsh, Martinez and Johnson) throwing the heat in Petco '05 and a good Billy Wagner to close when needed. But only 14 saves. As the Fearsome Foursome has 60 CG and 26+ SHO. No need for a bullpen.

You need to have a rotation the opposition cannot get past in a ballpark where seeing eyes go to die and the ability to 'Survivor' your league. Outlast, Out (well) run and Outplay.

[TomSiebert]

Here's a team of all 1's from ATG6, plus it's all guys who played for the Padres at one point in their career. In Petco, no less. Only exception is McCovey, hidden at first base.

Team sucks. Back third of lineup strands a ton of guys. Almost .500 at home, but the road is a b!tch. Any team with power steamrolls us.

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