The Secret Formula 2011

[J-Pav]

[b:c91580237c]Key[/b:c91580237c],

I'll be perfectly happy lucking in as the wildcard!

:D

[J-Pav]

We never heard back from [b:9b1e87dcc9]wavygravy[/b:9b1e87dcc9], but here's his independent look at 10 or so pitching staffs on best-record type teams.

[quote:9b1e87dcc9="wavygravy2k"]I did this earlier in the year, so trends may have slightly changed since then.

AVG Pitcher Salary - $29.87M
AVG Starting Pitcher Salary - $19.53M
Teams with * Pitchers - 40/53[/quote:9b1e87dcc9]

[MrHacktastic]

the Secret Formula in Action team is on a good run. Pretty impressive. I actually check it every couple of days because my two teams aren't doing anything exciting right now. One of my teams completely fell apart and the other is just irritating me. Can't believe you shut out a team for an entire series.

[J-Pav]

What comes around...

I usually have 5-10 teams going at any time. Most weeks are win some, lose some. Over an eight week block of time, five of those weeks are treading water, two weeks are winning outrageously, and one week is filled with enough dread that I can barely click open the previous night's scores.

Although the TSF series went well, I had two no-hitters thrown against me last night, one against my tour team and this one:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/league/boxscore.html?group_id=155689&g_id=114

Not sure how it's even mathematically possible. I had 20 rolls on [i:3cd6412a0c]my hitters[/i:3cd6412a0c] cards (Morneau, Holliday, Barajas, Ethier, Beltre, Rasmus, Guerrero, Cano and Sanchez, subbing for an injured Tulo), including a lead-off BP HomeRun 1-16 fly-out by Morneau. The pitcher had eight rolls. The pitcher wasn't Strasburg (he pitched the other no-hitter against me). The pitcher was the $1.70 Barry Enright, pitching for the last place team in our league.

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

[visick]

I hate when that happens JPav... :roll: :roll:

I lost at home last night in the 90's game. Got shutout in the Skydome (righty HR park). I lost to Mike Hampton. (Judging from his season, he's a hard LH) And since I tailored my team to my stadium, I have 8 RH's in my lineup. I "managed" 4 hits off him...

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

visick

[bigmahon]

No-hitter against your Tour team, eh J-Pav? 8-)

[J-Pav]

Ah, yes. Salt in the open wound...

:lol:

[timklucinec]

J-Pav,
You and Jerlins are still "da Men". I always enjoy playing against you guys and wins are even sweeter. I keep striving to get better with your advice. Sometimes I get caught behind the 8-Ball with the luck of the draw, injuries, roll of the dice, dumb choices and Hal's substitutions. But none the less, I still love this game. One of these days I'm going to win a ring. Keep on truckin'!

Tim Klucinec

[J-Pav]

Thx [b:3f8c43ad13]Tim[/b:3f8c43ad13] -

Lots of good managers and good people posting on the boards. Keep playing and learning, the wins will come in due time!

[keyzick]

[quote:4ba279b055="keyzick"][quote:4ba279b055="J-Pav"][b:4ba279b055]Dave[/b:4ba279b055],

That's a great and interesting team. No easy feat scoring that many runs.

Inspired by teams like this and [b:4ba279b055]Detroit-Tiger's[/b:4ba279b055] team in our Tour Semis League, I just had to get me one of those:

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/stratomatic/team/team_other.html?user_id=366329

We shall see...[/quote:4ba279b055]

Since I'm in your division in the semi's, I'm hoping you don't meet the same success! :wink:

OK, ok, maybe enough to be the wildcard...[/quote:4ba279b055]

Well, almost 1/3 of the way through the season. Thanks to a woeful draft (yeah, that's it, can't be MY fault!), I'm limping along at 20-31, and J-Pav is in first, although well within striking distance at 26-25.

On the bright side, I think I have a lot of upside left in the season: I have some hitters WAY underperforming considering the league is definitely skewed towards hitter parks, including my home park Yankee Stadium:

McCann .204/.304/.335
Blanco .241/.321/.326 platoon with Crisp .193/.266/.367
Drew .214/.307/.367

My pitching also has some upside left to it...I knew I didn't have the best staff out there, but didn't expect a 5.25 ERA with a 1.42 WHIP.

Thinking finishing around the .500 mark is my destiny though...if I discounted a 1-10 streak I went through, my mark would stand at 19-21. If I can get some luck going my way, I could finish a few games over .500, which might be enough to win it in a tough division!