Team starts out 18-36 Wow!

[Stormcrow2012]

I am in a 100 mil DH league with Royals 1980 for my park. I was thinking of going with a couple of players who have less than 600 PAs including Kenny Lofton 1994 and Eddie Collins (the .365 BA) card that is 7.25 million. Since Collins has a higher injury chance and Lofton can go down for 15 games I was just going to get slightly better backups in the 1.00 million or less range. I figure these cards are greatly discounted in price because of their injury chances and lengths they can get hit with. Is this a poor strategy? I know it is a little risky, because they could go down for 15 games several times, but maybe the cards are a better value, allowing me to spend a bit more on backups. Any insight or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!~

[scorehouse]

get hayes to back up collins. he's cheap and hits for clutch. kevitch seems to be a popular cf backup

[rburgh]

Lots of people like both those cards. Some guys go so far as to use Collins and Honus 1909 as their DP combo. I believe that most 15G injury cards and cards with 2 or more injury rolls are discounted more than the value of the injury.

I had a team with Lofton in CF a while back, and he got a 15 game injury with 21 to go. So I dropped him and added Dom Dimaggio (they're almost an exact salary match with the 20% penalty). Dom played well enough to keep my slim division lead intact.

Petrosian, in particular, seems blissfully unafraid of injury risk.

[honestiago1]

Quit playing this game...now...get out while you can...RUN, DAMNIT! :D

[Stormcrow2012]

Very interesting, thanks for the insight. I was thinking of spending in the million dollar range (or slightly less) on their backups, is that too much to spend on a backup? I was going to look for backups that can also backup my DH and maybe pinch hit and pinch run. But I know the common wisdom is to, not spend too much on backups in salary cap leagues. Any more thoughts or suggestions? Thanks!!!

This is a very kind community. I am addicted to Strat and it is nice to find others who are as well.

One of the things that makes this even better than the CD ROM for Strat is the depth of players and cards to choose from,... and the great GMs. It would cost hundreds if not thousands to buy all these cards from SOM.

I wonder why Mark McGuire has six cards?

[honestiago1]

Actually, McGwire has one card. He's just so huge it takes six to cover his girth (3 for his melon alone).

[scorehouse]

big mac's cards are all different. from balance to injury to fielding

[Stormcrow2012]

Scorehouse wisely pointed out that:[quote:e6a9f76907]big mac's cards are all different. from balance to injury to fielding [/quote:e6a9f76907]


Yeah, but still why does he get so many cards and other players do not? Pete Rose is just one example out of many of guys who could have more cards (if Mac gets 6 of them....)

I am not complaining so much as I am curious. I understand all of Mac's cards are different.

I still think the sheer volume of cards offered is amazing! Thanks Bernie and TSN!

And it will be exciting if Bernie keeps adding 20 new cards every month, what a great idea! How about a better Buddy Bell card?

[Stormcrow2012]

I am bucking the conventional wisdom with this team in a couple of ways. I am going with much more expensive backups at three positions where the starters have a higher injury chance. And I am mixing non asterisk starting pitchers with asterick starting pitchers. We will see how this works for me.

[rburgh]

A number of players with large numbers of cards are refugees from the BTT 80's and BTT 90's game, where you randomly get one of five different cards for each available player, usually (like McGwire) with wildly different performance. Carew comes to mind.