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As we near the end of the 2017 card set season and begin looking forward to the 2018 player set in April, I thought I’d throw this out there to help fight back against the There’s Nothing New Under the Sun doldrums that the boards typically enter this time of year.
Back in mid-July, I put together this fairly productive team which lost the Finals:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1491486
Imagine my surprise when I saw this team again in September being managed by someone else:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1496919
As it turned out, mcsoupy had been running an experiment on his own teams. Does replicating an outstanding team result in equal success against 11 different opponents? His results on five previous tries showed that no, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Having exhausted his own teams, he turned to my team shown above.
The results were that this team, like mine, made it to the Finals (but ultimately lost).
In November, and in a coincidence of near hilarity, I ALMOST tried to repeat the repeat, but succumbed to my usual short attention span and moved on to something else, when mcsoupy closed out the league with a three-peat:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1501079
It’s not quite done yet, but there I am once again trailing my own July brainstorm of high groundball A pitchers, this time in the SAME division.
All three teams have +100 pythags and I’m asking myself: so, is this a magic team of some sort?
As for me personally, I usually have more ideas than teams, and so I rarely try to copy my own teams just to see what happens. I do realize that other managers often field very similar (not necessarily identical) teams. So I wonder, do you come up with a core and try and tweak the details in order to find success? What results do you experience trying to do this?
What are your thoughts on “Magic Teams”?
Back in mid-July, I put together this fairly productive team which lost the Finals:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1491486
Imagine my surprise when I saw this team again in September being managed by someone else:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1496919
As it turned out, mcsoupy had been running an experiment on his own teams. Does replicating an outstanding team result in equal success against 11 different opponents? His results on five previous tries showed that no, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Having exhausted his own teams, he turned to my team shown above.
The results were that this team, like mine, made it to the Finals (but ultimately lost).
In November, and in a coincidence of near hilarity, I ALMOST tried to repeat the repeat, but succumbed to my usual short attention span and moved on to something else, when mcsoupy closed out the league with a three-peat:
https://365.strat-o-matic.com/team/1501079
It’s not quite done yet, but there I am once again trailing my own July brainstorm of high groundball A pitchers, this time in the SAME division.
All three teams have +100 pythags and I’m asking myself: so, is this a magic team of some sort?
As for me personally, I usually have more ideas than teams, and so I rarely try to copy my own teams just to see what happens. I do realize that other managers often field very similar (not necessarily identical) teams. So I wonder, do you come up with a core and try and tweak the details in order to find success? What results do you experience trying to do this?
What are your thoughts on “Magic Teams”?