Worst team ever? Need help!!

[raiders91sc]

Had a pretty good year in SOM 2005. Can not get the hang of it. This my fourth and only one is over .500. Take a look at this team and give me some ideas and changes I need to make. Any pointers on how 2006 is different then 2005 will help alslo.


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http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/team/team.html

[cummings2]

Wrong link. I'll bump the "how to create team links" thread in a mo

[raiders91sc]

Your Team: Samarra No Luck Donkeys

Manager: brian welch
Record: 6-12 (4th place, West Division)
Initial Salary Cap: 80,000,000
Cash Available: 10,000
Home ballpark: Kauffman Stadium
Team Schedule and Results To release a player into the free agent pool, click on his Salary under the column Release.

During the season, you receive 90% of a player's salary when you release him. No transactions may be made once Game 142 has been played.


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Pitchers (11)
Name T End. W L S BS IP H R ER BB SO HR ERA WHIP BAL Release:
Clemens, Roger R S7* 1 3 0 0 38.0 28 13 12 17 29 2 2.84 1.18 1L 11.28M
Burnett, A.J. R S6* 0 2 0 0 31.0 27 19 18 15 24 1 5.22 1.35 2L 5.20M
Myers, Brett R S6* 1 3 0 0 23.0 19 15 14 9 20 5 5.48 1.22 E 4.08M
Glavine, Tom L S6* 2 1 0 0 26.0 22 6 6 10 10 1 2.08 1.23 4R 3.45M
Eaton, Adam R S6/R3 1 0 0 0 4.2 7 7 7 3 3 0 13.49 2.14 4R .63M
Fuentes, Brian L R1/C6 0 2 1 0 2.1 2 2 2 3 4 1 7.76 2.16 6L 3.03M
Cordero, Francisco R R1/C5 0 0 1 0 5.0 5 1 1 3 5 0 1.80 1.60 2R 2.22M
Walker, Jamie L R1 1 0 0 0 8.2 12 5 5 1 2 0 5.19 1.50 E 1.84M
Guerrier, Matt R R2 0 1 0 0 13.0 14 7 5 3 13 2 3.46 1.31 1R 1.33M
Hawkins, LaTroy R R2/C2 0 0 1 0 6.1 5 0 0 1 5 0 0.00 0.95 6L .80M
Putz, J.J. R R1/C0 0 0 0 0 1.0 1 0 0 2 2 0 0.00 3.03 9R .64M
TOTALS 6 12 3 0 159.0 142 75 70 67 117 12 3.96 1.32

Hitters (13)
Name B P Def AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS E BA OBP SLG BAL Release:
Mauer, Joe L C 2(-2)e4 64 3 15 3 0 2 6 7 12 2 0 0 .234 .310 .375 5R 4.31M
Greene, Todd R C 4(+3)e1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 3L .73M
Sexson, Richie R 1B 3e8 65 6 10 2 0 2 4 11 21 0 1 0 .154 .273 .277 4L 8.46M
Anderson, Marlon L 1B 4e18 33 5 8 2 0 1 3 2 11 3 0 0 .242 .286 .394 4R .56M
Giles, Marcus R 2B 2e14 60 5 15 6 0 0 2 4 11 3 0 2 .250 .318 .350 1R 7.14M
Mueller, Bill S 3B 2e12 61 4 13 4 0 1 7 9 8 0 1 0 .213 .324 .328 1R 3.66M
Cabrera, Orlando R SS 2e8 35 2 10 2 0 0 1 4 3 3 0 0 .286 .359 .343 1R 2.17M
Renteria, Edgar R SS 3e33 38 4 9 2 0 1 2 2 8 0 0 2 .237 .275 .368 3L .98M
Dunn, Adam L LF 4(0)e7 67 5 16 5 0 1 8 8 27 0 0 2 .239 .329 .358 3R 6.16M
Winn, Randy S LF 2(+2)e1 58 11 15 4 0 4 11 6 9 1 0 0 .259 .333 .535 3R 6.04M
Thames, Marcus R LF 4(0)e6 25 3 6 1 0 1 1 2 10 0 0 0 .240 .296 .400 1L .58M
Michaels, Jason I R CF 3(0)e5 32 0 6 1 0 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 .188 .278 .219 2L 4.17M
Logan, Nook S CF 2(+1)e10 14 1 4 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 .286 .286 .500 3L .53M
TOTALS 592 49 128 32 0 14 47 59 134 12 4 6 .216 .293 .341

[raiders91sc]

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/team/team.html

[cummings2]

Nope, the link at the end has to have an id#

I just bumped the creating team links thread, it's in this same foum, very close by.

[raiders91sc]

Thanks

Here it is. Somebody help

http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/baseball/stratomatic/2006/team/team_other.html?user_id=5507

[visick]

The first thing I notice is your 4th most expensive RP has MORE innings pitched than your top 3 guys. What are Guerrier's settings?
Fuentes AND Cordero need to get most of the innings.

Overall, your staff's #'s are kinda high for a division with pitcher's parks in it. I'm assuming you're not getting roles on your cards here, but this will change.

Mauer, while not my 1st. choice, is a good fit for your park. He needs a better platoon than Greene though. Greene is not a good fit for your and your divisional parks.

Sexson, while he does have natural HR power, wouldn't be my 1st. choice for 1B.
Giles is fine as is as is Cabrera and Mueller. Just expect defense from Cabrera though. His offense is limited.

Is Dunn in LF, Winn in CF and Michaels in RF? If so this is probably why you aren't winning. Dunn's no LF and Winn is no CF.

[raiders91sc]

Fuentas and Cordaro are avoid before using before 7th and 1 to 2 innings
plus avoid lefties or righties

walker before 6th/ 1 to 2 in and avoid righte=ies/quick hook

Guerrier before 6th/2 to 3 and avoid lefties/quick hook


Thanks

[visick]

Are your starters on slow hook?

You haven't got a true setup guy for Fuentes or Cordero. Fuentes should be you setup and closer vs. lefties and Cordero should be the same for the righties.

You are paying Fuentes and Cordero the most amount of $ and they have pitched a total of 8 2/3 innings so far. This is NOT cost effective.

[Sknsfan]

I wouldn't be so restrictive on my pitcher settings.

[quote:bed4be241a]Fuentas and Cordaro are avoid before using before 7th and 1 to 2 innings
plus avoid lefties or righties

walker before 6th/ 1 to 2 in and avoid righte=ies/quick hook

Guerrier before 6th/2 to 3 and avoid lefties/quick hook[/quote:bed4be241a]

For starters:
Fuentes, while a 6L is still VERY sharp against righties with lots of Ks on his card. You shouldn't restrict him to avoid righties. Also Cordero while a 2R is still reasonably tight against lefties. (no BPHRs and lots of Ks as well) I wouldn't restrict my top relievers to avoid half of the batters they may be facing. Putz and Hawkins on the other hand should definitely be set to the appropriate avoid Lefty/Righty.

Second:
You shouldn't have to worry about it too much with your starters, but I wouldn't look to restrict so many of my relievers in terms of innings pitched or when they come in. I've had $1 million and lower relievers come in and pitch three or more shutout innings in games running many extra innings. Pitching over thier innings just means they have the [b:bed4be241a]possibility[/b:bed4be241a] of becoming fatigued, it's not a gurantee they will. Also ANY pitcher can become fatigued if they give up a certain number of hits (I think it's three back to back) in one inning. The only major restraint I reccomend is the Mop Up choice. That helps keep a lesser pitcher off the field as much as possible.

Third:
Your starters are pretty good, it looks like Clemens is just having some run support issues, he should come around. The only one I'd look to move is Burnett, I've never seen him perform well for anyone, and I've dropped him twice so far. Don't know who is available but there are some nicer, cheaper *SP out there. I've become a big fan of Radke (especially if you will be facing a decent number of Righty batters)

Lineups:
Both Dunn and Sexon have too many BPHRs for your park (They each have the max no matter whether they are facing lefties or righties)

Between the two of them and Burnett your burning up almost 20 mil that could be better spent for your ball park.

I agree that Mauer is nice for your park but yeah you definitley need a better platoon mate for him who can hit lefties well (Molina maybe).

Are you playing with no DH? If there is a DH I can't quite figure out your outfield/ DH situation. And if there isn't your outfield is probably giving your opponent an extra run or so per game.